February 14, 2007

wednesday musings..

i always had these noble ideas when I saw suffering people, poverty, children at traffic signal begging for food, which were to this effect - "If I had time in my hands I would definitely do something to help these people, I would change things, I would work so much, I wouldn't let stuff like this happen".
I got placed in December. Jan to March I am completely .. or mostly, free. I have tons of time on my hand. I am also attached to an NGO working for all or most of the above mentioned categories. I didn't do that by choice. Ironically it's part of our MBA . That same MBA that prepares you for a cut throat corporate career and to be selfish, money minded and to only look how to utilize u'r time in ways that will enable you to make even MORE money than you currently are.
So anyway I am supposed to work for this NGO and do whatever they feel like making me do.My noble ideas have disappeared, I don't feel like getting up in the morning and dragging myself to this NGO and it only feels like a burden, like a course Im taking for credit.
I can only decipher that I'm horribly shallow or something and it reminds me of that cliched statement -"the person who changes the world is not the one who says the pond is dirty but the one who cleans up the pond"
so excuse my moral post. I've been feeling just a tad guilty about this whole thing. Quite unlike what my MBA degree prepares me for!