Why I want to be a Writer

Do what you love, love what you do. I guess this sums up why I want to be a copy writer.

Any further justification would be like explaining how much you love some one, where I believe the question itself is wrong? Similarly there is no such thing as why I wanted to be a copy writer or neither am I extremely talented to support my career choice. It is not because I doubt my abilities but realistically I am also aware that you cannot please everyone.

 

That does not mean I am blindly in love with this profession because I could not find anything else. It all started like this…Luckily from my early days I had this knack of doing things with consciousness. Somehow I was always dissatisfied with what I did.

 

Unlike most youth who join a job due to their ignorance or peer pressure or even for monetary gains, I did not tread this path. So I set upon the soul searching quest to know the purpose of my life and so it began. Not finding what I wanted I ran from pillar to post. Being a cynical guy too did not help my cause. All the answers I got from various people, career experts, peers and sometimes my own self were all met with stringent pinch of salt.

 

Finally the moment of epiphany had arrived. Not that I had to make a decision but truly it had happened. It cannot be explained in words it was an experience. I forcibly took upon myself to find my career path. So thus my career choice was not a fluke but a rigorous process that has led me to be a copy writer.

This is Not Fare

As if the potholes, dug roads, and the traffic humdrum was not enough for the bangalorean commuter, especially for those that depend on ‘Public Transport’, they now have to bear the fare demands (pun intended) of the auto drivers and the ever rising prices of the bmtc buses.

Sample this, in Tamil Nadu, though the auto fare is the same, there is a novel mode called the ‘Share Auto’ where you pay five rupees for any destination. All you have to do is to get an auto plying on your route and share the auto with five to six people. Do not worry the autos are also sizeable enough.

Well if you’re a tough bangalorean, one can deal with the situation to an extent by not choosing to yield to unfair demands of the auto drivers. We can choose the buses but the bmtc seems to be in a league of their own. In fact the trend is such that today three people travelling by bus to a 4-5km destination would pay the same total if they went in the auto. And this is just the tip of the ice berg.

Recently I had a trip to Chennai and on my commute there not once did I pay a ticket fare over ten rupees. The maximum I shelled out was eight rupees for over a distance of 40km. With the same amount of eight rupees in Bangalore one would hardly get to travel 8 km.

One can understand that in Bangalore the petrol prices are also bit high compared to Chennai.  So let us take our own ksrtc into consideration. The fare from Kempegowda bus terminal to doddaballapur is 16 rupees which is a distance of 40km. But the ksrtc charges 14 rupees from yelahanka  to doddaballapur which is just 20 km. And if you take a bmtc bus from kempegowda to yelahanka you shell out the same 12 rupees in ordinary buses.

With such high fares one would surely expect some compensation in the form of good service, but again the bmtc falls flat in this regard. In Bangalore the bus frequency reduces drastically after 9pm and after midnight the service is next to nothing even in major city centres.  In tamil nadu there is no dearth of buses even at midnight and even the suburbs have 24/7 bus facility.

Bangalore the high tech city surely scores low on 24/7 accessibility or the tariffs. This is really not fare. Will the concerned authorities learn something from our nearest neighbours  rather than going to high-fi foreign trips to improve the same.