It could be a fear of failure. For example, a fear of failure held me back for many months from leaving my current job, which is not in my line of study and for which I'm overqualified, and moving country to find a job in my line and live in a society better suited to me. So it took me ages to finally give in my 1 month's notice (which I did just 2 weeks ago), despite knowing that I desperately needed the change. And all the time I was procrastinating, I was miserable... despite knowing that my problem was solveable, I couldn't bring myself to solve it. I had an overwhelming feeling (and still do to some degree) that it simply wasn't in my kismat to have anything better. In some sense, I'm also afraid of success, I guess... in that if I manage to climb higher, I have further to fall and therefore more to fear. If that makes sense.
I think in Jagat's case, he already has a complex about his wife doing better than him. That sort of thing can give rise to thoughts of, "What if I take the exams and fail/don't do well enough/don't do as well as her and she upstages me yet again?" Or, Jagat being Jagat, it could be just plain laziness and not wanting to have to work towards it, particularly when he no longer has company because all his friends have graduated. Or just feeling kind of down in the dumps... like, "I can't share my feelings with anyone because I've lost my family's support and my wife won't listen and my friends just laugh at me... if I complete my MS, my wife will still be better than me, my friends will still laugh at me and my family still won't be with me... toh kya faida jab main akela hi rahega? ". I know how hard it can be to get work done when you feel emotionally low or stressed (had to struggle with that a lot in uni), so it could be a factor. I kind of saw myself (at one point in time) in Jagat to some degree when he was jobless and lounging around on the sofa with no motivation before getting the SNG job.
Damn, you've got me feeling all sorry for Jagya now! 😛
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