A Researcher

Every profession has its pros and cons; and research profession is no exception. Perhaps the most important and dominant feature of researcher is the one with which they earn their bread and butter, but saying this in a straight forward manner would make it a very negative profession. Let me rephrase it to make it sounds softer. Any research work is developed by a prior work; through either inspiration taken from that work or pointing out some weaknesses in the existing work, refining, value adding and developing an end product which is (probably) better than the one which is the foundation of this work. Here comes the controversial point I wanted to state earlier. If they do not criticize, they can’t develop, and if they can’t develop, they are finished. Hence the most distinguishing feature of a researcher is to point out (often unnecessarily) mistakes in others be it related to their work, personality, character or whatsoever. A researcher by nature or by profession is bound to pick out every minute point, digging out gratuitously all those things on which they can develop a theory or a model.

There is one important point in the discussion above; if you are a researcher and you do not have this “peculiar trait” in you, you should rather not waste time in this area anymore. If you want to be a researcher, particularly a successful one, make sure that every other word comes out of your mouth brings criticism on the counter-party. For the counter party; I believe it’s a right moment to put a word of advice. Perhaps day-to-day interaction with a researcher is hazardous to your health, career and motivation level. They can “rightly” point out all those personality characteristics in you that can be obstacle in your way to success. The most disappointing point comes is their declaration that you cannot move with your present weaknesses. They would amplify your weaknesses so much that at some point in time, you will start thinking how destiny can be so cruel to put all the weakness in this non-researcher class, blessing your opponent with all the rights, courage and strength such that they can easily judge you on their own set scale.

It is never wise to start an argument with a researcher. The one who starts such argument deserves a death sentence because otherwise he will hang himself from the roof and finish himself with his own hands.

Another dominant feature of a Researcher is their short memory. When it comes together with her “Always Criticizing” nature, then some really cute but annoying incidences happen. One fine Monday you go to office and you will be complemented by her, saying you look nice in red tie. The other week she is at odds with you and she will harshly tell you how horrible you look in the same old tie.

Probably with time, you might go crazy spending more and more time with a researcher. And that brings a very pitiful and afflicted person into the scene; who else, Researcher’s life partner. It is unintelligible that their life was perfect without a husband/wife, but still they chose to ruin the life of a human. From morning till dusk, you will always see them pushing their heads against their sophisticated models (which they develop perfectly matching with their nature), still they chose to get married. They are among those for whom it is said that they only see their kids growing horizontally not vertically. It is because when they leave house, their kids are sleeping and the time they come back from work, they are again sleeping ( Of course, who chooses to work at 1:00am or 2:00 am in the morning and going back again early morning before the sun shows up). Since they rarely comes in contact with the sun, whenever they chooses to expose to sun, it hides behind the clouds and then the clouds are also not behind their friends and they protest in form of loud and scary thunderclap and rain. So the researchers always seem to complain against the harsh weather. This is my personal opinion.

With their own weaknesses, personality traits and everything, world is incomplete without this special class of living beings. They develop and destroy and then develop and then destroy and that’s how sometimes they come up with some solution to a problem. They can surely live without world but world cannot live without them. We need them because we have no choice. They make our world a better place to live in.