Thekhro Mero
Pfutsero Town
The easiest way to escape the reality of unemployment is to blame another person for it. That said, our state has seen the empirical side of it. Contrary to the popular proverb, “It is easier said than done”, this issue is rather easier done than said. Over the past few years, the State Government has bravely shouldered the accusation and insults hurled at them for failing to provide employment to the general society (and yet no one dares to challenge it face to face). And finally, “unemployment” has come to terms with “inability to attain government service (be it back-door, front-door, or side-door).”
As our generation waste away slowly waiting for the “employed” tag, we forget that we have a life to live (for the record, we were atleast successful in redefining the term “employed” and “unemployed”). Now let us reason together and face the truth face to face. To consider oneself as “unemployed” is just a reflection of one’s own foolishness and cowardice. No one who is in his/her right mind will ever consider himself/herself as unemployed for the fact that unemployment is a self-created thraldom. Unemployment is not a product of social imbalance nor political corruption, rather it is simply a mental delusion and mental illness.
Employment happens only when a person requires another person to do a job which that person has created. And so, the person pays a certain amount to another person to complete the job. Look at it carefully. In the first place, it was the idea that the person come up with, which needed another person to complete it. And as the idea began to grow, more people are needed to finish the job. It was the first idea that required two people to complete it, and later, as the idea began to expand, the idea developed which needed more people to complete it. And so, initially, it was the idea that paved the way for employment which eventually developed into a system (by system I mean, an idea that could generate stable consumers).
To put it bluntly, it is madness to spend half of our lives waiting for an opportunity to be a part of that one particular idea. Why would we, for heavens’ sake, go on chasing a single idea when we can have millions of other ideas that could simply develop into a system? Therefore, it is just madness. We stake our life for the sake of an idea when we can develop our own ideas, completely independent of the former idea of the other person. In other words, a government job is just an idea that is able to generate a lot of consumers (regardless of the quality of the product); an idea that created a giant stable system. And therefore, it is just madness to bargain half or whole of our life, simply to be a part of the giant system that came into being with a single raw idea. And to associate “employment” to a government job (a single idea) is just mental delusion – a mental illness for that matter. It is just unthinkable.
Human being has the capability to think and create independently. To bound that potentiality to a certain idea-develop-system is to abridge our own humanity. We are created to see, experience, learn and develop and not just run after other created things. And that’s why, often, I cannot imagine myself spending half of my life behind a desk filling up papers without having to create something of my own. At the same time it can be a passion for some. Government job is not an end to our “employed” tag; rather it is just one out of the many. We can create and develop ideas and have our own system. Again, it is foolishness to copy someone else’s idea and attempt to generate the same consumers without trying to develop that idea, something that is prevailing in our society at the moment. We are meant to create, not copy!
On the bright side, recently our society has seen a great awakening in the commercial enterprise. People are making ideas come alive and they risked everything to develop that idea (completely independent of the government job). A ray of hope seems to have broken through the plaque of unemployment mentality. And maybe, we are looking at the new race of generation – a generation of creators!
Yet, always remember that we have a Creator who is greater than us and our creations.
