Losers that come around!

What made me come up with a rather uncanny topic is a curriculum vitae of some senior official (please allow me not to name names).

The gentleman had a CV comprising of a variety of divergent job assignments that he had been under taking over a period spanning over three and a half decades (quite a fragment of a life-time, innit?). The educational qualification also displayed the same trend; with a degree in literature another degree of the same level was acquired in Defence and Strategic studies. Just when one is about to declare the situation as interesting, one is hit by the fact that the person under discussion works of the science and technology sector.

How is this case-history of mine relevant to the term I have devised in the title of this blog-entry? Well, the psychologist that I am, I evaluated this case with the no good psychoanalytical skills of mine and drew some conclusions, one of which justifies the title (pardon me if I sound a little judgmental):

1. The gentleman has never during his life-time been able to come to a sound conclusion as to what he is actually interested in. having versatility in interests is a healthy preoccupation, but specializing n one thing and then another and not being able to stick to any hints to a certain lack of commitment.

2. Moss is something the rolling stones of people are unable to gather when they stay vulnerable to suggestions of the people around. The gentleman under consideration here seems to have fallen for every single advice that may have been given to him.

3. Lastly, the gentleman was a come-around-loser. It's high time that I define this self-invented terminology of mine. Based on my observation of students and graduates striving for academic and, in turn, professional excellence, I infer that a lot many of them waste the critical period of their academic life. The reasons can be many and variant. Later at some point of time they feel the need to catch up on the lost years or possible glory. This is where desperate hoarding of degrees and indulging in any job of consequence comes in. The otherwise losers try to make amends and try to make up for the time gone-by. The achievements of these may not be as satisfying as those of winners from the beginning, but they nevertheless require hard work.

Our society is full of such come-around-losers. I personally respect this lot of the society as I believe that is there is something more trying and difficult than being consistent, it has to be 'coming around'.

Cheers to all the come-around-losers of the world.