ANGER HANGOVER

Its been one of those days when everything angers you. You wake up late and miss the gym again. The pigeons coo in the loo even louder than before. The Internet is extremely slow and keeps getting disconnected. All this gets just one emotion out of you.. ANGER.
It can be handled if its just one day of anger. But what do you do if you have an anger hangover. When you slept angry and woke up with more anger because you went to sleep with Hugh Jackman and woke up to find your faithful room mate still wrapped up in her quilt. Angry!

So on a very very angry day I stepped out of my house very very angry.

Angry because i had to reach work early,

Angry because I did not eat lunch,

Angry because I saw that damn auto wallah adjusting his mirror to get the perfect view of my assets.

So the professional part of the day began, drab boring and all boxed up. Like a machine I finished one task after another feeling more and more angry at being so mechanical.

After all this a supremely evil and wicked woman who I refuse to call my boss, calls me and tells me I have done it all wrong! WOW! I AM SO ANGRY! I could kill anyone who crossed my way. The volcano was about to burst, the lava ready to burn anything it touched.

And then my roommate from Pune called. We live in the same city but have not seen each other for over a month now. Of all the places she was coming to see me in my office. Pah! I thought! why here. But still.. yeah! I'll meet my Kamri today (that's what she calls me a Hindi translation of roomie). Like one excited child I sat waiting for her call. I kept smiling at my monitor and am sure he was surprised because am always scowling and growling at him in normal conditions.

The call came and I sprang up from my chair, so excited that i forgot the way out.
Well finally I made it! We hugged each other and at one moment I wanted to cry out aloud. I had never thought I would be so happy to see her. But I was. We did not sit down we just stood and spoke. In those few minutes we caught up a lifetime.

Aah! she really made my day. I did not want her to leave. I told her lets run away on your new bike Shubhe! She laughed and said, you are mad Kamri and that was it! all those moments of anger were doused. I was happy and skipped back to my seat smiled at my monitor and got back to work smiling.

At the end of it all my anger is starting to pile up again.
But am happy! At least all the backlog is gone.

SNATCH IT BACK

Finally I hit the basic funda of life. Am sure when i tell you what it is you will say hah! whats new about it? 30,000 people have hit it before you and have been hitting on it even after you hit it. So for all those who are going to say this to me don't read ahead.. No DON'T!
Now for the rest...

Well I found out how this world and maybe human relations function. Bentham said human beings are hedonistic by nature and of course he is right. That is why we quote him! Coming back to my theory. So we all want pleasure I think happiness is a better word.

So now if we divide this world into two spheres, one is us or you or me.. who want happiness. The other is they, her/him who also want happiness. Now, no one said that our happiness lies in different things. It coincides in some cases it clashes in others.

So now if a add a little bit of Marx to Bentham, you will find that there is dialectics. You want happiness and they want happiness and we take each others happiness. Human existence is all about getting happiness and taking someone elses.

I realised this when someone took away my happiness. Don't ask who. Someone just took it.
It made me angry! I wanted to scream, shout, exclaim! How can he/she take my happiness. Its mine! Since then i have been spending nights scheming and planning how to get my happiness back. Trust me, now that i know it is the crux of human existence i have to get it back.

In case you have also just realised that all the anger within you is because someone has taken away your happiness. Stop reading! go and get it back. Its yours! Run! snatch it back. It is all that matters!

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Are you in the Market?

Have you been sized up, checked out and then told "hmm... you are ready." Have curious aunties seen you from the corner of their eyes and given each other that knowing smile. Though you are the center of attraction, you will not know that you are being evaluated so closely for the Market.
Then out of the blue one day your mother will call you. She will make very formal and hesitant conversations and then.

"Ummm.. achcha, you remember Monster uncle who we met in Delhi?"
"Haan, the one whose son was so full of himself that he could not pick up the chocolate wrapper he threw on the street and put it into a dustbin 2 mins away?"
"Umm... aa.. well his son Devil is almost your age. So we matched your horrorscopes and they seem fine. Why don't you just get in touch with him... see if you like him. There is no harm in talking....."

BANG! thats it. There is a flashing new sign on your forehead now!
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REVIVED FROM THE TRASH CAN

I was going through the list of my unpublished posts and found this really short one. Guess I wrote it when I was fed up with my previous job. Here it goes:

To quit or not to quit is the question. I know Shakespeare just turned 360 degrees in his grave. But then its time we contemporise him a little, or rather remix him.

Coming back to the question.

Why is it so difficult to just leave it?

To stop and then start again.

To act like we are playing a game.

Pause and then choose to restart.

A new day, a new