After a long day at work, I was cribbing to a friend about how I am overworked and underpaid (not paid actually), when he asked me why I was cribbing when I liked what I was doing.
Well, that got me thinking-
Who likes working in hospitals?
Who likes watching patients suffer in agony and cry out in pain? Even worse- when you are the one making them cry out …
Who eagerly awaits the time when you have to talk to anxious relatives, and console them when they are moved to tears.
Who likes saying- he may get better… or not… It may take time… We don’t know when…. Well, it sucks!
It sucks to have questions thrown at you when you don’t have the answers.
It sucks that you have put in more than your best and still it’s not enough.
It sucks that some one your age is just lying there, on that bed, waiting for it to happen.. praying that today might be ‘the day’ when he might start to get his limbs back, start moving, or even start feeling them; when you are prancing around the world…
It sucks that life is just really unfair sometimes, and for people who don’t deserve it; when there are loads of shitty people just living it up!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Sunday, January 6, 2008
The NRI- Non Recognisable Indian :) :)
"It's HOT! I'm getting steamed", said Sam [alias Swaminathan]. These were his first words as he landed at Chennai airport. One would not think that Swaminathan, rather Sam hails from our very own Chennai!
An engineering graduate from a local college here, who later went on to "foreign parts" to continue his studies and did exceedingly well, is now 'flying home' to pay a 'flying visit' to his kith and kin. I, a mere bystander in the entire duration of his visit, was given cause to wonder at the so called terrible and pathetic state of shambles that our country was supposedly in. The pollution, heat, narrow roads, traffic congestion, senseless autodrivers- these were the vices of ours, which gradually became a refrain in the days to come. If Swaminathan had managed to survive and moreover revel in his first 25 years here, why is the same situation 'unbearable' for Sam?
The frequency and the intensity of Sam's complaints and cribbing increased initially frustrating the poor soul at the receiving end, causing him to retaliate in defense, but as with time the complaints took a turn towards the ridiculous, the entire scene just turned comical!
At the end of the day, rather at the end of Sam's visit, one wonders-
Have the luxuries of the West taken precedence over the feeling of belonging one has when in India?
Do the liberal ways of the yonder have a better hold on our 'NRI's when compared to the tradition and culture they have grown up with?
Can pizzas and MacD Burgers replace Home-cooked food.....
An engineering graduate from a local college here, who later went on to "foreign parts" to continue his studies and did exceedingly well, is now 'flying home' to pay a 'flying visit' to his kith and kin. I, a mere bystander in the entire duration of his visit, was given cause to wonder at the so called terrible and pathetic state of shambles that our country was supposedly in. The pollution, heat, narrow roads, traffic congestion, senseless autodrivers- these were the vices of ours, which gradually became a refrain in the days to come. If Swaminathan had managed to survive and moreover revel in his first 25 years here, why is the same situation 'unbearable' for Sam?
The frequency and the intensity of Sam's complaints and cribbing increased initially frustrating the poor soul at the receiving end, causing him to retaliate in defense, but as with time the complaints took a turn towards the ridiculous, the entire scene just turned comical!
At the end of the day, rather at the end of Sam's visit, one wonders-
Have the luxuries of the West taken precedence over the feeling of belonging one has when in India?
Do the liberal ways of the yonder have a better hold on our 'NRI's when compared to the tradition and culture they have grown up with?
Can pizzas and MacD Burgers replace Home-cooked food.....
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