3 Idiots Movie Review

After watching the “3 Idiots”, I felt touched because what Rancho is teaching us is indeed how it should be.

            

I, myself, did not know what I was doing for the first half of my high school life, all I know is that my parents are pushing me to get good grades. They will get my books, which I adore very much and use it as a bribe. If I don’t get this grade, my books won’t be returned to me.

Before all of this bribery, I used to genuinely learn. When I was 9, I would list all the countries I know and draw their flags and list their corresponding capitals without anyone telling me to, I would do it for just the joy of it. After that bribery, I learnt by-the-book, I was too scared to make a mistake because I won’t get my books back and so, I thought if I say what it says exactly from the book, I won’t make a mistake because it’s from the book, nobody  questions the book. I did that for the first two years of my high school, memorizing theories and forcing myself to join clubs and activities that I really don’t want to but I did for my books. During the third year of my high school, I started to feel empty, like I was just a machine, no longer alive, I was not as enthusiastic to learning when I was 9, all that I worked for during those past 2 years were all useless, I just memorized, I can’t even remember them.

All I want now is to regain that enthusiasm when I was 9. For college, my parents let me decide on my course, I picked this course because they told me I would be good in it and it would make me an extrovert (because I’m too much an introvert) but I don’t know if this course is even my interest because after those 2 years of pseudo-learning, I don’t even know where I’m interested in, It’s like I lost a part of myself. Little by little I’m rebuilding myself and hopefully at the end of the term I would be able to determine what I am interested in.

Most of us, students, especially, get their passing marks without really knowing anything about the subject, just like Chatur. We read every page on the book without understanding, we graduate and head off to work with these grades as armour. In conclusion, we “succeed” without actually succeeding.

     

The reason we go to school is to learn and not just to get grades. We read books so that we can learn from it and apply it to our own life.

Grades are just instruments to know what have you learned, they mean nothing, what matters is your understanding, what you have actually learned because in the end, it won’t be your grades who will do the application but you. That’s why I feel bad for those cheaters I’ve seen during high school, they thought they are winning by not doing work and getting good grades when in fact, they are losing in multiple levels, they miss the feeling of getting the grade they deserve, they are just wasting their money on education and the knowledge they can apply in the real world.

There are also people who are stuck in the grade-induced delusion who think to succeed, you must always get the first place and in their pursuit of better grades, they bring people down who might outrank them.

         

Life is not a race to be trampled on because it does not matter which place you get as long as you are content with it. Life is a maze, complicated and you need to use all the resources you can to get out but stroll and enjoy it while finding the way out.