How much does it cost?

As always...this post is also being published late.

Honestly I don’t have any idea, that why did I use this heading for the topic.

 

Maybe you’ll get to know about it, after reading this post.

As I was a high school student, and appeared for my class-12^th examinations this year, I am eagerly waiting for my results which are expected to be declared by last week of May.

 

Exams commenced on 2^nd of March, but as I am a commerce student, my exams started the very next day, i.e., 3^rd March. I wasn’t prepared for these exams [to be very honest] and nothing I expect in my results.

 

My parents always say that life keep on challenging you with new problems on every turn and fighting with those difficulties gets you experienced.

Last two years were too quick for me...with the grace of god, I found very good friends. But what changed my happy ending of school to a sad ending…was the experience of power of ‘money’.

 

According to my family, [money = everything – something]. I had deep faith in these words, but what I experienced last month, shattered my feelings towards the examination pattern...and teachers’ honesty & dignity towards students.

 

7^th March, I was at my accounts’ tutor’s home early morning, as I wanted to clear out some doubts, few other students were also there, for the same reason of course, but one of them had a question paper in his hand..I thought it was last year’s paper...but it wasn’t...it was an accounts question paper, set-2, which was to be attempted by almost a million students all over India after few hours.

I was scared of the accounts exam, because I am not much into my studies from the very beginning of my schooling, and that fellow was the only one smiling there.

Question paper was with him, hardly matters to me...but when he said that that question paper cost him Rs. 3000/-, a feeling of guilt went like a wave through my body, I always knew that ‘money matters’...but I could hardly think that money matters this much.

 

18^th march, day next to my economics exam, I met a friend of mine, a general question anyone will ask during exam days.

I: “hey buddy! How did your exam go?”

He: “Awesome! But it did ‘cost’ me my 500 bucks and a bottle of ‘Antiquity’[it’s a whiskey, for those who don’t know about] to sit behind a nerd!”

I: “Sorry?”

He: “oh c’mon! Don’t act like a child...u know my examination centre...anything can happen over there.”

I: “f**k off!”

 

20^th march, two days before my mathematics exam, I received a phone call from one of my acquaintances, “hey! I’ve got a deal. What about a mathematics question paper for just 1500 bucks, you are my good friend bro, it’s a nice bargain.” he said.

“Thanks for doing me this favor pal, but I am not interested.” was my answer. I was literally broken into pieces at that moment, for the same reason, that retard wanted to ‘buy’ me.

 

22^nd March, it was my b’day, a friend called me up to greet me [his father is a lawyer, *seems pointless here no…*], and the thing next to his greetings was, “hey, do you have any idea where are our answer sheets checked, because if it is in our city itself, my father can help me out big time!”

Me: ”no idea mate, thanks for calling!”

 

According to economics theorem, before Chinese people invented money, ‘Barter system of exchange’ was sustaining, but soon after, money took its place and acted as a common unit of exchange for any commodity you wanted to sell/buy, yes, any commodity; ‘anything’, including your emotions, yourself, and your inner self! :)

 

Your rupees note is basically a promissory note issued by the RBI governor with his signature below the text ‘I promise to pay the bearer the sum of **** rupees.’ I never knew that this promise could be so useful, and is trusted so much that teachers would sell themselves for it.

 

In ancient times, teachers [Gurus] asked for ‘gurudakshina’ as a gratuity in the end of their students’ learning days, they could ask for anything they wanted to, and students couldn’t ignore their demand, actually they never did. It was seen as an honorarium, but what I experienced about present world teachers, was that that they were just greasing their palms, they had no place in their hearts for the sentiments of the students being ditched by their wrong doings,  they had no respect for the dreams that were being broken just because of the greed they are carrying.

 

In the end, to get yourself to the top of the merit list ‘without any hardwork’, following are the equations you can get through:

An economics exam = Rs.500/- + ‘Antiquity’ + a little buttering [as an icing on the cake]

A question paper = Rs. 2600/-(approx.)

 

Sometimes I wonder, What makes people go mad about money? Is this a problem with my country only? ‘Why is that’ everyone think of himself before others? Why money is bigger than anything else? Could these problems be sorted out, if yes, then ‘how much does it cost?’