"QUESTIONS OF LIFE????"

When you are growing you get different questions in different phases of life. Before you start your teen life, you come across questions as "In which class you are???" or the most common & stupid question one can ask a young child "What do you want to become in your life?" ... Few people will ask why this question is stupid, Its stupid because 9 out of 10 children will give you the most obvious reply - "DOCTOR" or "PILOT" & they will give you this answer with so much confidence & excitement that for a moment you'll think he is going to receive his degree tomorrow.

When you become a teenager, the level of questions becomes different and what makes them different and funny is the psyche of the person asking you that question. If it is asked by someone whose child has passed the class in which you are currently in, you can expect a volley of questions mixed with suggestions & sometimes also the answer itself. To take an example, the so called interview with such parents starts like this:
"Hmm, So you are in 9th class right now, how are you finding it.... before you can reply ki uncle, abhi to maine books par se dhool bhi nahi jhadi.... you'll get the reply also- "Its a very tough class, you need to study atleast 5 hrs a day"... Before you can come out of the sudden shock of 5 hrs, you'll get the suggestion also-"Don't take it lightly, this class is going to decide your future"... you constantly nod your head in the fear inducted in your mind by the stupid son of a gun & here comes the main point which was apparently the reason that this one-sided conversation was started in front of everyone present there "My Son is doing his engineering & the reason he could make into this elite engg college was that he took his studies very seriously from 9th class. He scored 85 % in 9th, 92% in 10th ... bla bla bla & everyone present there get to know all the achievements & unwanted data of his genius child". Now before all the mediocre children present there starts disappearing due to embarrasement, you'll get the final suggestion & the most unwanted offer "You must meet him, he'll give you tips on how to schedule your studies & also about the various books which you should study"..... apart from this frequent question which you'll hear in almost every family function or party, you'll get to hear some illogical & embarracing(in front of everyone) questions like "Ohh(looking at everyone else also waiting for their opinion as well), didn't someone told you that you look exactly like your father???" These jokes do irritate but you start thinking about all those naughty neighbour jokes which you can hit at that aunty(these questions are usually asked by the aunties) right now keeping her son in mind... Some flamboyant people will even ask you questions like "Do you have a girlfriend???"or height of stupidity could be "How many girlfriends do you have???" & these questions are asked in front of atleast 10-15 people(including your own family)... & when you have no option but to smile, they'll say "Ye to kitna sharmata hai"...

Now you have even crossed your teenage life & the interview becomes more gruesome.
Questions becomes more like a comment- "Why are you doing this course? It has got no scope".... "Why didn't you gave that exam??, my son cleared it & look now he is settled in life??"
.... "Why are you are working in a BPO??" & they make face as if you have given them the socks which you've been wearing continously for last 2 months.....

No matter how much idiotic, embarracing or even funny these questions are, but if you can tackle & succesfully answer all these questions, atleast you aren't tagged as a loser in our so called Society..

My Pain is my Destiny & I can't avoid it

Mahatma Gandhi taught the world " When ordinary people come together they can do extraordinary things"
And there are few people who have potential more than that of an ordinary person but still they perform below par than an ordinary person. These people are more responsible for the down gradation of society & humanity than people who are actually responsible.
Reason is very simple- A bad guy will always do what he has to do but if the good guy doesn't oppose or counter him then what is the purpose of his life.

There are many people who with hope & glitz in their eyes see you as someone who will not only raise his standard but also theirs. They see the potential in you as the wealth they will cherish for their whole life.
Lord Krishna very rightly said to Arjuna- " If you don't fight to your potential then history will never forgive you for the triumph of evil"
If Lord Rama wouldn't have defeated Ravana then society would have never forgive him as even before killing the Demon he gave everyone a ray of hope that he has come to this world to triumph Good over Bad, Right over Wrong and Justice over Injustice.

The examples mentioned above are of greatest & most honourable men & it would be a sin to compare our self to them. However moral and message remains same even today & the ordinary man who carry more potential than other people also carries the dreams & hopes of people who live their life through him.

When that person of great potential fails to capitalise on it he not only shatter one but umpteen dreams and the pain & agony of those shattered dreams becomes too heavy for his weak shoulders to bear. But now he can't run away from it as all that pain has become his destiny & he can't avoid it.

The Cabbie

Sleeping routine takes a little hit when you are working in a BPO & I know it for a fact coz since last 3 weeks I've been in 3 different shifts. Sometimes I don't even remember when I went to sleep & when I wake up. These days my shift starts at 8:30am but I've still got a hangover of 7:00 am shift so today also I woke up at 4:30am, called transport office & asked them about my pick up time- "Yours is last pick up so cab will come around 7:30am, cabbie will give you a call" someone from the transport informed me. There was plenty of time to catch on my worthless rest, so I again went to sleep & woke up at 6:45am. Then around 7:30am cab came, saw this cabbie first time, his name was Ali( saw his ID hanging at Cab's Rear Mirror). He was in a busy conversation with the rest of staff (2 guys & 1 girl). "Madam Ji, when a cabbie leaves his home every morning, he don't know if he'll come back or not" said The Cabbie. "Oh man, now the whole route I've to heard his boasting" I thought, but before the moment I would have asked him to play the FM or started laughing at his Film Dialogue, everyone else in the cab started chatting & it didn't took me long to figure out that some mishap has occurred. Today at around 3am in the morning, one of my office cab while coming to Delhi from Noida via toll Bridge, got crushed by a truck which was coming from opposite side. Toll Bridge has separate routes for both Delhi to Noida & Noida to Delhi, but that idiot truck driver decided to come to noida via noida to delhi route & that too with his truck's head lights off.... I still can't understand from where he took the U-turn, whatever may be the case, his foolishness resulted in the death of 3 people including cab driver & rest of the staff were also severely injured. Ali told me all this & also that he was coming behind that cab & he took the injured people to the hospital in the same cab in which we were traveling. While talking we reached Toll Bridge, Ali asked- "Should we go through this route?". The Girl in the cab asked him to go ahead without realizing the condition of a person who has just lost a friend at that bridge just a few hours ago. Almost every media channel was present there to sell their story and the cab driver who takes it as an insult to drive slower than 100km/hr on toll bridge was today driving at 30km/hr. We reached office, went to production floor with our trainer around 9:00am (Training period is the only time in BPO when you can enjoy & take the liberty to come late). Manager at production floor was shouting at all advisors to increase the productivity & also saying that the only way to do this is to take OWNERSHIP. The word Ownership reminded me of only one person- Ali, who first took all the injured people to the hospital, then came to do his duty & then sincerely followed staff's order to go via route where just few hours ago he has seen one of the worst day of his life.