what's the big deal in Ph. D anyway??????

so, here i am, minding my own business, ambling through life with no high flown ambitions when.... BAMM... i fall in love... now that may sound like a great thing for those of you jobless people who are actually reading this.... well, yeah.... the passion, the excitement, the security, the stolen moments, the talks, the fights..... yup! sounds like an amazing deal.....
but what happens when its time to get married, you come from different continents, both of you just fresh out of college, with no work experience, parents want you guys to get married soon, you want to get married soon.... but u have absolutely no means to make a living and settle down (unless your rich uncle leaves you with an inheritance)... what do u do then???
ill tell you... apply for a Ph D!!!!! no, i have not gone bonkers as yet! the good thing about this previously unexplored decision is that most often if you get a good enough score, the uni gives you a stipend and if both of you get in, u can live off that for the next three years. this actually gives you three years of being together until u have to come up with a new plan for survival!! smart, ain't i?
this may sound simple enough! but well, nothing in life comes easy! so now you have to write the GRE!!!! U suddenly find that ur stuck with 6000 word vocab to mug up, old dusty math textbooks that have been sitting in the attic since tenth grade and hundreds of university brochures that seem to show a number of statistics that u have no idea about. but well, love does strange things to people.... so people like me, who never take an effort to study, actually cleans up a table and sets all those notes and 5 sharpened 2B pencils to start this herculian task.... bad enough that i have to do math again, but now i have to do 30 sums in 30 minutes.... How does anyone do that? it practically takes me a minute to figure out what the problem is trying to say!
"practice makes perfect", my parents say! so i practice.... (please keep in mind, that im doing this all for love)... speed, distance, time, loss, profit, sales tax, geometry, pie graphs, bar graphs, mode, median, percentage....... i must be the only person in this world to consistently do worse on subsequent tests... but i go on, trudging my way through laws of exponents ..
one evening, a certain aunt comes home and sees me with my hair out of place, pencils strewn on the table and a totally confused expression on my face. she stops to look at me and then asks me.... "why are you doing all this? can't you just get married and work here? what's the big deal about a Ph. D?" i rushed into this long explanation about how people with Ph D's get better jobs, have better opportunities, are better equipped in research, get to specialize in the field of their choice and whole bunch of stuff i don't even remember now!
later that nite, i lie down and think abt what i said.... i dont want a high flown job, i have absolutely no interest in research.. (an by that i mean zilch interest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), i don't even know what i want to specialize in.... what is the big deal about the Ph. D???????
well, back to my initial point..... all for love.... when in doubt, have no options ahead of you, have to get married and make a life for yourself, then go forth my friends..... Apply for Ph. D!!!!


P.S. - by the way, my GRE exam is on 7th June.... anyone who is jobless enough to read this post, please take a moment of and pray that we do well.... your prayers will give us a better chance at a peaceful next three years!