CIVIL SERVICES

 Today, the Civil Services results are out. 

One thing that strikes me is, the winners are mostly just ordinary folks. Just like us.They won because of their self belief and relentless endurance. 

When I was at Kollam, I had an occasion to interact with an IPS Officer, an ASP, at Visakhapatnam. 

He said the Civil Services offer the best job in India. But for that you need to invest a minimum of four years of your life in it.

Well, as a community, our presence in that field is negligible. If I look at my large  family, none of us are there. I did want to have a go at it. But I did not know how to go about it. There was no one who could guide me. 

I rolled on. 

But, today, people have means to know how to crack the tough selection process. 

Whenever I chance upon the youngsters I make it a point to motivate them to ride this path. 

Unfortunately, the response has always been of disinterest and diffidence.

Why, I can't fathom.

If it's a girl, the parents wish to get her married off at the earliest. If it's a boy, the parents wish to make him  a doctor or an engineer and export him to far off lands.

Apart from that, most of the parents never encourage the children and stifle their desires, openly telling them they are not upto such challenges. The end result is, though the children achieve, they are in reality non achievers not reaching where they could have easily reached.