Thread by @shenoyn

Introspection: From time to time in a guy's life, there comes a moment when he wonders if he hasn't been a bit of an underachiever. I mean, all your friends from school and college are captains of industry and you're having to be nice to the watchman in your sister's building

so that he lets you park your car inside. If you were captain of industry material, you wouldn't be giving him weak, ingratiating smiles. You'd be making him wilt under the power of your gaze. But you can't, and you wonder why. Then the words of Hal Abelson, legendary professor

at MIT (the branch office in Boston, not the real deal in Manipal, attended by the likes of yours truly, @Rajeev_GoI and @satyanadella ), who said "If I've not seen as far as others, it's because giants were standing on my shoulders", run through your head. Just as you're

convincing yourself that the fault is not in yourself but in your stars, you guiltily remember that when your son, an ardent supporter of a football team called Spurs excitedly told you about a young player named Japhet Tanganga, the first thought that rushed through your head

was that when you finally earn a billion dollars, you'd be able to buy the club, get the players to Mumbai for an exhibition match and organize a reception in Walkeshwar only so you could have billboards saying "Banganga welcomes Tanganga". And that little voice in your head

says "no wonder you're not a captain of industry. Banganga welcomes Tanganga it seems!" and you realise, with a twinge of sadness, that it's kind of cosmic justice that you'll never make a billion dollars and buy Spurs