Prerogative - Not mine !!

Prerogative -
1.
an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.

2.
a right, privilege, etc., limited to a specific person or to persons of a particular category: It was the teacher's prerogative to stop the discussion.

3.
a power, immunity, or the like restricted to a sovereign government or its representative: The royal prerogative exempts the king from taxation.

4.
Obsolete. precedence.
–adjective
5.
having or exercising a prerogative.

6.
pertaining to, characteristic of, or existing by virtue of a prerogative.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pre-">pre-, interrogative ]


I chose this word as my blog title as this is something I have not had for the better part for my life because ever since you start your interaction with the worked outside only very less things are your prerogative …

I am not a person with extraordinary vocabulary infact the first time I heard this word is a funny incident in itself ..

Flashback --- Year (2004 – Feb) – Birla Institute of Technology Mesra Ranchi India --- Pursuing Bachelor of Computer engineering --- Classroom scene --- Fundamentals of Data communication

For those who think the lines above are gibberish I agree to some extent too!!!! I was just trying to align my chain of thought so that I could reenact my past … It was a winter morning and I was in my classroom around 10 am and we had a regular lecture ….. The professor was my all time favorite Abhijit Mustafi, I am yet to meet such an enlightened individual who is still so humble he was almost our age maybe 2 or 3 years senior but he dawned the dress of a professor so well …

Anyways getting back to the topic it so happened that some guy in class was creating a commotion as usual to give a break in the class and to cut short the lecture (the usual scene in almost all colleges ….) it was then that I head this powerful word ..

Abhijit Mustafi said “I am trying to teach here and make a better future for you but if you wish to sit back relax and burn your parents money till it is gone then it is your prerogative not mine …” as usual his words made the classroom silent but this time something new registered in my otherwise sleepy mind somewhere on the 3 seat from last in the class … “Prerogative” what does that mean .. I asked the guy next to me I think it was Suchit Mathur and he said “Whaaaat??” as he was too sleepy to register what happened….anyways I went back and goggled the word and got the same set of data as pasted above and it was then that I felt that this word had something different about it as it sounded so posh and powerful … my big crush over this word was partly coz my professor had used it so aptly and I was sure that he must be having more sharp arrows in his arsenal too ..

It has been 4 years since then but this word still seems to be my favorite firstly it gets you out of really sticky situations in a flash consider this …. “I am trying my best to adjust here but if you want to make life tough for me resulting in the overall productivity of the team going low it is your prerogative isn’t it …” believe me people do take time to grasp what has been said and those few seconds are the saving grace that you desire …..

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