It was 5:45 in the morning, a chilly December morning. He woke up with a jerk. No it was not due to an alarm, not a physical one at least. As a matter of fact he no more needs an alarm to wake up; his body has been tuned to wake up at a particular time and no matter what he wakes up mechanically at that time.
He grabbed the novel he was reading and got into the loo, he got ready slipped into his attire planned for today and headed towards the mirror. He checked his eyes they were ok, he then checked his biceps not much of flesh there and then he checked his chest, not much of a difference there either, he wished he had a good body, but smiled looking at his small cute tummy. He fastened his waist belt and got into his shoes and started running towards the bus stop.
He usually reaches the bus stop 5 minutes early and waits there for 15 minutes for the bus to come; today as usual he spent the 15 minutes trying to lock his eyes with a girl he likes. The bus has arrived and he barged in and sat in his favorite 2 seater and with a weird inquisitive feeling he waited to see who sits beside him, but before someone could the bus started.
He pulled out the novel he was reading and managed a few pages before he could doze off. He woke up with a jolt. He thought something fell on him, he immediately looked up, there was nothing but the roof of the bus, but why did he think that a coconut fell on him? It hardly took a few seconds for him to realize that there was a person sitting beside him and he hit the persons shoulder and in a few more seconds he also realized that he knew the person. He almost shouted “Hello dude!!!!!”, the guy replied, blabbered something and finally asked the question, the question which he himself has been averting since long, the question which might disturb the peace of even most content soul, the question- “how is life??”. He mechanically told LIFE IS GOOD.
He then started staring at the orange skies of the morning, slowly closed his eyes and then the dramatical cycle wheel started rotating backwards, his thoughts then started traveling back in time, and he was in flash back. The only reason was to find out whether life is good.
The series of events that happened to him for last one year started unfolding. He luckily survived a fatal accident and saved his mobile from the people who tried to save him. He recovered, but lost his mobile a very costly one when it slipped out of his pockets. He smiled and told himself that life is good, because he had a job and he likes the place because all his loved ones live in the city. Within no time his PM calls him and says, you need to go to another city, 1200 kms away from here, business needs you know? After all there are lots of onsite opportunities and growth is faster. He left the city, much to the dismay of his loved ones. After all, Life is good.
Everything increased, his expenses, the distance from his loved ones, the work load, everything increased but his salary. He smiled and said life is good. And one fine day, his PM calls him and says that he was going onsite. He applied for WP and booked his tickets and over the weekend, he has done shopping to the limit his credit cards could allow him to. And then he realizes that the WP got delayed and hence the journey, he cancels the tickets, but finally he flies. He smiled and said Life is good.
Within 2 weeks, he comes to know that he has to fly back to India due to unavoidable circumstances; he obliges flies back along with his three friends. He lands in India, exits the airport only to find out that there are only 3 taxis waiting there. He guessed the missing one shall be his and is true. Just as he tries to get into his friends taxi, his mobile tries to escape the gravity, flies off and suddenly realizes that it cannot esacape and falls back on the gravel with a thud. Never did he know that his mobile has so many parts in it. He collected all of them and spent the rest of the journey assembling the mobile and at the end of the journey he realizes that his keypad was malfunctioning. He smiles and says life is good.
He starts of on his bike to go to the service center and then he realizes that his bike seized as he did not service it for long. He has to leave his bike and mobile in their respective service centers and go back home. And after a few days he does a balance sheet, the total expenses of bike, mobile and credit card bills for onsite travel has well exceeded the savings from his onsite trip. He smiled and said life is good.
Just as he was thinking all these, he started jerking vigorously, he was wondering why, because he was not epileptic. But then he realized that he was approaching office and the bus was going through the wonderful road that leads to the office. Just as his musings are coming back to the present, his phone rang, it was his girl friend, she called and said “hey, I like someone else, thank you very much for everything, sorry, ah” he hung up and smiled. Just as he got down the bus, his phone rung again, he hoped it was his girl friend and hoped that she called up to say that she was joking. But he should be too lucky for that. It was his PM, he reminded him that today is the last day to close the appraisal.
He headed towards the cyber cafĂ© and opened his appraisal, only then did he realize that there are worse things than a girl friend ditching you. He smiles and writes the mandatory comments and closes his appraisal and heads towards the lift. Just as he reached the lift, the lift car’s doors were closed and it left. He smiled and told himself that lifts have no option but to come back and pressed the call button. Just as he waited for the lift car, there was thud, something landed on his head. He reached for it, it was a bag, after close examination he found that it was a bag of shit and after closer examination he found a small tag- MADE IN HEAVEN. Oops, he realized that heavens dropt shit on him again, this was not the first time and every time it happened he hoped it was the last, he smiled and said life is good as he headed towards the staircase as the lift got shut down.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
Nicely written....
I know there are no prices for guessing who the guy is :)
Can almost yourself experience what he is going thru....
but thats life....good or bad....
And its ur life....u definitely have some control over it....if not all.
Keep venting ur frustrations through writing....trust me .....it helps.... :)
I suppose you can say that Merde happens...but that doesn't really help does it?
I can totally empathize with what you are feeling buddy.....I think the best way to deal with this is to make everybody else's life miserable :)
Try doing that...especially with your seniors...it'll be cold comfort....but better than no comfort at all eh ;)
You express your feelings better in words then in real. And obviously when you say...'life is gud', it remind me that everybody here replies saying...'i m fine' but nobody is.
ummm...taking the brand "Pappu Humor" to new heights Bro!!! shit MADE IN HEAVEN was too gud ....
I can only draw one conclusion from the blog...Girl frens are like Cell phones...pretty useful....only till U lose them....
and dont worry if not NOKIA,SAMSUNG will do us a favor!!
Post a Comment