Shades of Green

Me to my connection - "I've just graduated and I'm looking for jobs." My connection - "Hope for the best! Jobs are harder to get during this pandemic." This leaves me wondering... Were job hunts in actual fact easier prior to the pandemic? Was procuring a job much seamless than it is today?  2020 was like the sweet candy I had been craving for, all through six years of my study curriculum. Only to discover, the candy had been deceiving me and many others like me with its looks! Urrgh!  Freshers of 2020 are certainly having a bad time and let me not lie, some jolly good time too! ;-) One year back, interviews were mostly dress-up, reach the destination on time, wait for your turn, walk-in, impress the panellists, get rejected, come back home, lament, try again, and the cycle repeats.  Today, it's gotten better. No dress-up! No hassles like having to reach on time! No waiting! Less tension as we don't have to see the million other candidates waiting fo

Envy is 'a human nature' which we reckon to be no more; when in fact the truth is that it legit exists much worse and stronger than ever before. This emotion subsists inside us and all around us. While some people counterbalance for their emotions of envy whenever something delightful happens in their life, another few who cannot contain this emotion within themselves and are always unsatisfied with the unfairness of life; find joy in the destruction and infliction of pain upon others who get better than them in life.  Long back, jealousy could be expressed or articulated by seizing anything the envier wanted or even by resorting to killing. Take the biblical example of Cain and Abel where Cain killed Abel because he could not tolerate his brother. From the legendary story 'Padmaavat', you'll know how Sultan Alauddin Khilji tries to destroy a prosperous Kingdom with the sole aim of pursuing Queen Padmavati. The emotion jealousy could be unleashed and let free even i