My friend calls me for a cup of coffee. I refused it for I was deeply involved in my Saturday activity (Alone in Office thinking!)
Most of our professional career is almost spent analyzing one thing “Trends” and predicting what would be the future. In our domain its quite pretty easy for the models are quite established and are not going to deviate much. Except for some cases when you put all the hifi tech terms you learnt to convince people how your technology can exactly predict and control, while on implementation your model would behave exactly opposite. It would be a simple parameter you would have not included in your model that would have created negative response. But feedback is quite not accepted. Similar things happen almost daily in the share market. The Market would rise when you hold shorts expecting the market to fall. Then there would be lot of theories put forward to explain why it did not happen as predicted and would have been predicted if the following blah, blah.. theory was considered.
So I told my friend I was trying to develop a unified theory to model economic behavior that would be the bench mark to predict the market movement. I told him that I did not like to be the like rest of the crowd and would want to achieve something. So my friend told me that is what the whole world thinks, that they are different from the rest of the world. And he said funnily that he had already predicted what my life would be even if I was successful. That I would wear a pair of soda glasses with a dirty face and uncombed hair, that I would walk on the road with head high(coz I am intelligent) and see people as fools for not willing to understand about the world they live, and publish a hundred papers out of which 99 would be thrown back and one would be finally published out of probability and politics, a new theory would be put to this world and there would be a thousand people publishing their papers about the experimental results of that theory, a hundred other soda glass scientists opposing my theory for it does not explain several aspects, and I would spend my lifetime explaining and improving my theory, and all my papers there after would be published for the cause of my name, and I would be so obsessed with my career that my life would be affected, and I would still be happy for I am contributing to this world by sacrificing my life, and one fine day I would be awarded the Nobel for my career achievement after much controversies and because there is no one else, and having achieved what I have dreamt for long I would spend my last days when a new scientist comes up with a new thoery to prove my theory is totally wrong and would be downgraded to philosophy from science status. There would be a thousand publications proving he is right and I’m wrong. At that old age I would sit in my arm chair and I think “Why didn’t I take Coffee with him”
It was so much like what Cypher thinks “Why, oh why didn’t I take the blue pill?…”
It also reminded me “IGNORANCE IS BLISS”. Chalo.. Lets have some Coffee.
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