Friday, September 28, 2007

Maturity...

It is the ability to be able to know/understand your emotions and keep them in check.... Maturity may be shown sometimes in knowing/understanding others emotions and acting accordingly as well.. however the latter matters(should matter) less.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Are we really this insensitive????

The day before.. I was in the office cab on the way back home. Near the JC road traffic junction, there was a Ambulance behind our cab with sirens blazing.. There was a traffic police also at the place, so I thought he would let the people in front of the Ambulance leave so as to make way for it. However, to my surprise.. he was casually walking around talking to people, with absolutely no care at all!!!

As he came next to the cab, I tried to ask him why he was not even letting the Ambulance go. He went away as if he had not heard me at all!!! All vehicles and even the ambulance had to leave at the green in the signal only... I think this is becoming pretty much a normal happening in B'lore.. We really need to be ashamed of ourselves...

Its really funny... Shocking yet true....
Lives not related to us are of no importance/value....

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Automated Responses...

Yesterday I had to call a friend who is currently in US. He works for a company which is headquartered in SFO, CA. I asked him for a number at which I could call him. He gave me the board number and the extension at which he could be reached. Then the fun started.

First, the automated msg informed that, "This number is currently out of service, if you have reached this number by error, then check the number you have dialed and try again :P. If this is the number you needed to reach ... blah blah blah...". So I got back to my friend and asked him if there was any alternate number. There was one and I dialed it. This time I was asked to dial the extension, if I knew.. I dialed in the extension, then was waiting for the phone to ring.. Right then, another automated msg.. "Please enter the first few letters of the persons last name you are trying to reach".... a pause.. "If you do not have the necessary information please hang up"!!!!!! Then another pause and another repeat of this msg.. and then the last automated msg.. "Good Bye!".. and call disconnected!!! First of all, how many is "first few".. what if the person is Indian and all u know abt his name is "only" the first name!

We had to get back to talking in Gtalk :P

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

On a day like today....

A very strange thing happened today. I come by cab most of the days to office and the journey takes roughly around one and a half hour or so. This is a looong time and I get to think about a lot of things.. necessary and absolutely un necessary.

Today(and always :P) while on the way to the office, a lot of things crossed my mind.. A lot of voices, screams of joy, screams of anger.. and more pictures, a smile, a tear and also absolute nothingness and yet feeling so complete. I dunno what I was feeling.. I wanted to sdcream out loud that I dont deserve what I am feeling now. I wanted think, I am lucky enough to have what I have now... Yeah, you get it.. it was total chaos!!

It surprisingly ended up in a.. well, ended up good. I stepped out of the cab in high spirits.. Things which are the way they are.. let them be.. dunno what caused this.. the songs in the FM radio, or India's victory at the TT finals... no idea!!

Things will be missed, things will be liked and nothing will be hated.. however I wont fret.. hopefully :) :D

Monday, September 24, 2007

Decisions....

Decisions need to be taken at every turn of life and at every step, sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously. When you choose to accept someones decisions also u are actually "deciding" to accept it.

Now, when 2 are involved, how fair is it for one person to decide something and stick tot it. If for example the decision is something which is going to be tough on both, both suffer. However, the person taking the decision has the luxury of having thought about things in hand and more importantly the luxury of "deciding" things.. Yeah, I know its forced by situations and nothing can be done about it.. but I will still scream out loud that its unfair!

The worst part is, how much ever one tries to explain the situation to others, one cannot make the other person feel the exact thing which he/she is going through. Its impossible to make others see the things the way you do... That never works. However, again, this should not be used as an excuse for not trying to explain the situation to the people involved.

At the end of the day, you will have to live by decisions of your own and some not your own. You can as well choose to stand and fight on those forced on you... sometimes the fight is useless, and in very few occasions, it might also change things....

You know the irony of life.. An optimist is the one most hurt :)