SOCIAL LAW- I: You are in a rat race even if you don't want to

Rat race!
This is a term that invariably appears in all the dailies and on everyone's lips."Oh I hate this rat race thing",said Mr. Sen to me once.And the next moment he was complaining about how Mr. Gupta was showing off his new sports car.
Yes this is the rat race.When you tend to progress as long as people in your surrounding progresses and also in the fashion that when you are running,you are running neck to neck to your competitors.For example,someone buys a new bike.Now you commute daily by the bus and its comfortable and cheap enough.But now since our friend has bought a bike so must you.This is the rat race.The idea of buying the bike that came in your head was promulgated by the fact that your dear friend bought one thats why and because it was in your needlist or any priority is list.Is it bad! Well you judge yourself!Now since you buy the bike so you would have to bear the expenses of petrol and your actual expenses as compared to the bus would increase many fold.And you would not be able to leave your bike at home because your social status is at stake.

Wait I deviated from the topic: you are in the rat race even if you don't want to!
Thats the topic! Well now if I don't follow the above mentioned rule then I am not in the rat race.If I buy a bike solely on my need then I am justified.! Absolutely true you are at no wrong turns my dear.
But the very concept of rat race is to be ahead of your peers rather than working for your own excellence.So what happens! Now people around you gets jealous of you that you have bought a bike.They would now say all the wrong things about you.A few of them would buy a car to let you down.Fine no problem with this too. But now when people realize that when they tend to put you down and that psychologically it has no effect then they would start to harm you. That is where all the problem starts.
Take another example!Now Manky and Priya top in the exams and in the batch.Lohit is another guy who is average.But he is a far superior guy when it comes to creative thinking and being enterprising.So what happens.If Lohit works on a software product then it would be Manky and Priya who would be having the biggest problem.So they would hamper Lohit's work as much as possible because if he is successful then their superiority is at stake and they can't help it even though Lohit has no such qualms about being superior.It is the rest of the mass who do not think on their feet and follow the toppers blindly that would now tend to believe that there is a power far greater than being topper which is being creative and enterprising.So now Manky and Priya would start bad publicity of Lohit.Now Lohit doesn't care about these things so gives a damn and is more focussed on his work.But Manky and Priya's bad publicity of Lohit fetch them some raunchy supporters who think that if they rally behind Manky and Priya then they would also get a share of the lime light.What the hell do they care whether Lohit produces great work.Its going to bounce off their head in any case and they are not good enough to have any use of it either.Even though Lohit's product would be greatful but in the short run Manky and Priya would prove benefical.Thus starts the great rat race and Lohit is invariably pulled in it.If he is brave enough to fight it off his product shall find existence and he will truely achieve greatness otherwise he dream shall die with the dream.
So what are the solutions to this: wait for my next blog.Its 2.40 and I am feeling sleepy. Moreover I will think of a very fine list of solutions to this.Till then think about it and ponder on your own.
till then
sayonara