A letter to my brother

Well! I understand all your emotions, your anger and your ego. I have been through that phase of my life. You are in your teenage years and it is just tough for you to understand what is life?!!

You have always been a positive person. Abhijeeth is way more stronger, emotionally intelligent and emotionally stronger than me, mom and dad. You have got the traits of humbleness from dad and innocence from mom. All of ous panic like hell in so many situations but you are so calm. And I am 100% sure that this characteristic of yours will help you a lot in future. You have always been a happy go lucky child and you help dad in every thing physically. You are so good to all of our cousins. The best part is you have understood few minute problems of our family with lots of maturity. And that’s great. So basically all the family problems that you have understood at this tender age it took me 20 -22 years! You are very charming also. Like you light up the house. You have got so many good friends for life. Like I did not make any genuine friends. Abhijeeth secured 90% in his boards and that’s a great score.

This is Abhijeeth in Anusha’s words: You are not interested in what you are studying, and you are happy having average grades in your studies. You left a college because you felt you were not suitable enough and you cannot survive in that type of environment. In this case the positive point is that you took a stand, you understood yourself pretty well and luckily you didn’t want to be struck in some shitty college. But the negative point is brother, I hope you don’t back out every situation like this. It clearly shows you won’t be any situation which is tough for you. You won’t even try! The same happened in Sharma’s. But it’s ok. Parents and I are super proud of you. We won’t throw you in any place where you are uncomfortable. We are happy and proud of you. Anyways, Abhi exactly doesn’t know why I should study for IIT? why I need an Eamcet rank? why I need good grades in Intermediate? why should I not use instagram? what life is? How tough life can be? The value of money? what you should do in your childhood to have a safe future? What are my ambitions? What will I do in future? What are marks are important? What profession will be my source of income? Tell me Abhi do you have answers for all these questions? I am guessing it’s a no. But it’s not a problem I was the same. Most of your contemporaries also don’t have the answers for all these questions. And I am completely ok with it. But Abhi I warn you, at this point of life you need to have answers and your perspectives for all these questions. Please start focusing on these questions and try to find answers. If you don’t, then no amount of scoldings and quotes from instagram will help you. You are still very young to understand all this but I feel now is the time and need for you to improve yourself and become mature.

Abhi !!! Life is not that easy. Don’t think less of yourself. You are not that bad as much as our parents portray you! The only problem is you are living in a bubble. Your own bubble of happiness, patrick’s friends, vardhan, his parties, his life. You are happy with all that. But guess what abhijeeth, vardhan was born rich! Let me be frank, he was born rich! He never feared for his exams. He was never forced to give competitive exams. Because his parents own a business. Even if he doesn’t study he can join his dad’s business. His parents have so much money that they can can take of themselves. You told me today right that you want to compare dad and vardhan dad? You know what let’s compare. Comparatively to vardhan’s dad, our dad has very less money, less salary, he has seen the worst life. Look at his clothes. Look at the food he eats. Look at moms sarees. Look at me. They are working fucking hard in the age of 50’s. They are able to afford you a life, where you can sit and chill with vardhana nd his family?!! Be happy for what you have. You know what, dad is 55 years old. How old are vardhans parents? In their 40s enjoying! Having fun! Parties! Rich clothes! Lavish weddings! Fun games! No pressure! big house! No family problems! In contrast our parents? Do they own rich clothes ? NO. Do we have big house? NO. Is any one of their kids settled? NO. Do they have rich food? NO. Do they have great parties? NO. Do they big birthday parties? NO. Does anyone respects them? NO. They can have all these. But no in place of Above all this with all the problems Dad has given us the best life abhijeet! You went to the same school where vardhan went to. If you get CBIT (same as Vardhan), dad will pay 1.5 lakhs same as vardhans dad abhijeeth! You are staying in the same colony as vardhan abhijeeth. What else do you want?!! Whom will you blame for all this? Dad had very less money in the starting of his career. His first salary was 5000 Rs. With that salary he started off and is giving us this life. He had problems in house matter, with moms disease, with my masters expense, with your expenses, with my mental tension of my surgery…. still he is affording us this kind of life. So be grateful. Parents have the right to compare because they have provided us equal amount of education and they are trying their best to give us everything which we like.

The point which I am writing below are only for both of us. Your friends Vardhan, Rakshit and Aditya are completely different. These points don’t imply to them. Everyone’s life is different, everyone is different. But our parents will never understand because they never tried to think about how children are different and their IQ’S are different. This thing has been happening since 2 years (since your 10th class). Almost every single day, parents call me and complain about your studies, not having a proper career path, not exercising, not mature enough and not being ambitious for your exams after 12th. Don’t worry it’s not only you, I was the same. Most of the students are same. And I don’t completely agree with parents! Follow these points may be then you may have peaceful life.

  1. In our case, parents are old. They are restless. So please stop reacting. Just be calm, listen to them and keep quiet. Take positives from what they scold and leave the negatives. This the only option left brother.
  2. Comparison is normal. To be frank. I understand you. My friends parents never compare. I know dad compares a lot. Its in my case also. Every day hea asks, how many subjects did your roommate complete, what about your friends in USA, what about your school friends. I feel bad. But I completely understand them. Because they feel proud when their kids do well. What do you think why is dad always anxious about studies? Because he lives in hell. He is working hard for us. he is giving lakhs and lakhs and lakhs for our studies.
  3. There will come one day when Aditya will join IIT, Vardhan is already in CBIT, Other friend in Srinidhi and if you don’t study well then you will be in some shittiest engineering college in hyderabad. You will regret all this wasted time.
  4. There will surely come a time, when Vardhan and all your other friends will be earning well and you will regret the wasted time.
  5. You will regret very badly about not listening to dad’s scoldings after few days if you don’t study well now.
  6. I know its tough to study for the competitive exams but you need to. I need to also even I hate what I am doing.

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