Donkey games people play

I had various eminent people having tea with me. That's why perhaps, they called it High tea. I started this conversation, which goes like this:

"Have you been in this situtation:

'Son, just study for your class 10 exams, then you can enjoy and have fun in life'
After the tenth exams
'Son, just study and do your class 12 board exams well, get into IIT/NIT/some good engineering college and then life will become cool'
After you enter a nice university, the expectations just keep on rising:
'Son, just get good grades, since your CGPA is required for getting a good job. Good grades will get you any job you want.'

'Son, grades are not everything. You have to be overall smart. Prepare well for your interviews and once you get a good job, you can relax, earn loads of money and enjoy life'
Then comes the most frightening one:
'Son, prepare for MBA, nowadays B-schools are where you need to be.'

And then it doesn't stop
'Son, get married by this this age'
'Son, let me see the faces of my grand-kids' and you were left wondering if they were asking you to have a thousand kids.

'Son, become a CEO by 40'
'Son, do something something blah blah'

Sometimes, you feel cheated by this shifting of YOUR goals by others including teachers, parents, peers, friends."

After listening to this, Spencer Johnson screamed at me "Who moved my cheese?"
John Lennon couldn't hide his feelings and had to write a lyric for the situation which goes something like this, "Life is what happens to you, when you are busy making other plans."
And I said:
"We have been treated like donkeys. Imagine a donkey, having a guy (read society) sitting on his back holding a pair of carrots in front of the donkey's mouth using a rod. Now the donkey is motivated to move forward to get the carrot, but he doesn't realize that the carrots just keep on moving forward with him. The donkey, obviously is no physicist to deduce the fact that the carrot has zero relative velocity with respect to him. So he marches on. The man sitting on his back boos, makes funny sounds, motivates the donkey, sometimes kicks him, and the poor donkey keeps on moving without knowing where he is going or where he will end up."

Robert Frost, after being in a silent, thoughtful state all along, had the final say in this conversation:

"Miles to go before I(donkey) sleep."