Saturday, November 11, 2006

Murphy's Law : If anything can go wrong, it will.

For few these words are just another college graffiti pinned on the board at college canteen. For few these words are nothing but a textual representation of a cartoonist's creative mind, for few its nonsense.

But for few these words no less than the Gospel. Mantra that steers one's life. Everything in life from ioata to omega is governed by this law without any exception. The most striking thing about this law is that you don't need any vacume chamber with temperature less than 0K (At this temperature metal starts behaving as a superconductor) to prove this law. All you need is you and your damn luck. Nothing else matters.

Elements with similar chemical properties lies under same group in periodic table. Similarily, We all roommates are forced to seriously beilieve in this law. Day by day this belief is transforming into faith and this transformation in not happening for no reasons, check out yourself. Name of the characters have been changed on request.

- X was rushing to office for some presentation to client and had flat tyre. The insult to injury was that he was left helpless in the rain with all the honking of the world behind him.
"Lesson: Nature never leaves a chance to screw you up"

- Y had to literally convince the caretaker of public toilet for almost 15 minutes, that it is no way politically correct to prohbit him from using public facilities in emergency just because he does not have currency-change.
"Lesson 2: Time has total diffrent dimensions on the other side of the door."

- Y is a project lead in a MNC, a geek in real sense, remember periodic table by hard, and a self acclaimed security consultant but all these qualifications are not enough to help him absorb the simple fact that after midnight the date changes. Courtesy Y, he himself and all his fellow friends have been either force to travel on the date when they never intended/planned to or cancel r the iternary all together. "Bonjovi"
"Lesson 3: Never count on Y"

to be continued ......

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Life is full of paradoxes. It is meant to live upto all your spirits, do I ? It is meant to do justice to oneself, do I? It is meant to be driven by one's rule, do I?

A few of us usually discuss about "LIFE" in totality with refrence to all the three possible dimensions (Past, present, and future). Co-incidently these discussions surface up only on weekends. No idea why only weekends? Either may be so called our 'life' gains some cosmic significance on weekends as many God & Goddess in hindu mythology gain importance on particular day of a week (e.g. Shiva on Monday), or does it worth discussing on weekends only?

Discussions - They are nothing but a heavy (8 mg, where 10 mg is the benchmark) dose of laxatives to get away with intellectual constipation primarily caused by reading some self-help gurus novel (best seller in developing countries !!). We discuss and tries to solve the complex equation of life using few real variables (Achievements, failure etc ) and few imaginary variables (satisfaction etc). Guess what, till now after spending a lot of time on weekends we are not able to solve the equation. If we get the solution on the real axis then we are no way near to the solution on imaginary axis, and if we tries to find the solution of the equation on imaginary axis, we are lost on real axis. Are we living in someother's life or are we living in some illusions?

D.H. Lawrenece once said, Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The catalysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little hopes. It is rather hard work there is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We have got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Should we succumb to the catalysm that has happened in past and live a life thats worth discussing only on weekends just for the heck of it?
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