Change in Perception

Yesterday I was in a corporate hospital to assist my aged in-laws for a regular checkup. It is a huge hospital. The doctor had prescribed an ‘echo’ test for both of them and so we had to wait in the lobby for our turn. The lobby was one huge hall with around 200 chairs fixed to the floor and 2 TVs on either side, put on salient mode. The doctors’ chambers were on both sides of the lobby and on one side it is rooms for conducting various test. All the chairs were occupied and some were forced to wait standing. I offered my chair to an elderly lady and stood beside my in-laws waiting for the sweet nurse to call our names. 

I found that there is so much suffering in the world. Some had problems in their heart. Some with their lungs and some with ailments unheard. There was pain all around. Philosophically, I wondered why should human beings suffer so much? It is so unreasonable that one would enjoy good health and another suffer from disease. I could feel the suffering and realized that it is the result of our stubbornness to follow the rules of life and pain is the direct result of our modern way of life. Pain and suffering are always the proof of one’s own self made mistakes. Be it their habits or their way of life.  I felt very sad for all of them, some of them very old and there are some very young children too, as young as a month old. We normally tend to become philosophical at these times. The pain and suffering around moved me.

My stress busters

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."  - Lee Iacocca

When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take It out on someone, don't take it out on someone you don't know, take it out on someone you know. So that is how you can see and enjoy the result.

I am writing this now because it makes me feel happy that I used this stress-buster on two Saikorians. It brings a chuckle on my face whenever I remember that.

I am daring to put it in the open now because one of them is out of Vizag now and by the time he returns, I will be out of Vizag, and the other has no interest in reading my blog. If by any chance they do get me, you will all know the result, because this will be my last post alive.

It was many years back; I was sitting at home, when I remembered a phone call I'd forgotten to make.

I found the number and dialed it. A man answered, saying "Hello."

I politely said, "This is Ravi. Could I please speak with DS?"

I hate my School and my Teachers