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the society has told you, and give it no more importance than your own thoughts. You have to
put all of these ideas on one table, and pick what makes sense, regardless of where it came
from- your mind or your country. You have to believe in your reasoning with all your heart
and not be afraid of the fact that everyone else thinks otherwise. If your thoughts are concrete
enough, you will be afraid to follow the norm, not the other way around.

This is where creativity, originality, rationality, and courage meet and mingle in
mind-boggling ways, and you start thinking whether all of these have been the same thing all
along. Oh wait, I’ll stop, I’m going off-topic. So, as I was saying, I’ve loved this newfound
passion of mine, and have decided to drop my EEE degree as it doesn’t make sense in this
context.” “You what?”, harsh is shocked to his core. “Yes, this makes perfect sense. The idea
hit me some time ago, and I just went to the administration today and dropped my degree. I
feel much lighter without it.”

Rahul is astounded. He claps a few times slowly with the look of a person who just witnessed
the Haley’s Comet and says, “Oh, this boy, God take care of him! I don’t know whether
you’re unusually intelligent, a rebel, or just a person who’s been lucky all along!”

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