It has been 13 months since I started on this preparation for the UPSC and it seems I have not made much headway. So a lot of people advise me that I should have a back up plan. So what exactly should be my back up plan?
Apart from Academics and a regular job I am a bit lost. So I wonder if I cant be a diplomat what can I be?....
I have been watching a lot of wrestling these days. The Lebanese American wrestler Sabu is my favorite.[1] . One of Sabu’s legendary barbed wire matches was with Tarzan Goto a Japanese wrestler who was just 5’9 in height-my height.
I also recall from the old days IRS the wrestler who was supposed to be a Federal Tax Collector.
So let us put 2 and 2 together. I want to be a diplomat, I love wrestling and there was also a wrestler IRS who was a tax collector.[2]
How about a wrestling career? I could possibly be billed as The Diplomat and come dressed for every match in a suit and tie. So I must have a punchline. Just like Stonecold Steve Austin used to have a punch line, “Why? because Stonecold said so!!” And the Rock had the punchline “If you smellllll what the rock is cooking!!!”, I could possibly have the punchline “Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! Because the Diplomat said so!!!” Since Geography is my optional my finishing move should involve a globe. One of my finishing moves would obviously be my smashing the globe on the opponents head with the Punchline “There shall be no war!!!”
How about my Theme Song? I have zeroed in on two three songs…One could be Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan ……no no no the reference is a rather negative one “You used to sit on a plumed horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese Cat, Now you realize he isn’t as well as that,..After he took from you everything he could steal!”
How about For the Greater good of God by Iron maiden? “Are you a man of peace, a man of holy war? Too many sides to you , don’t know which anymore” No No even this is a negative reference and considering that the reference is to Christian zealots and considering that India is a secular country it just would not do!
Finally I have the option of Choosing a very socially appropriate song and modifying it “We are the world, we are the people” from Live Aid 1985. I could possibly modify the lyrics to “We are the diplomats! We save the people”
And so I teeter on the verge of insanity!
