Morning Raga

What do you do when you try hard but still can't stop thinking about someone. I liked to think of me as someone in control of his emotions.But I gave up sometime back.

It all sounds so crappy & not-for-me stuff.....But then Ghalibs & Shakespeares didn't waste their lives for nothing.

There's something to it. Honestly!

This is good. Law doesn't seem to be a bad career option anymore.

Sounds like an testosterone pumping hollywood flick name. Only that I star in it. Thanks!, Its not releasing anytime soon.

It was a routine day in office. Our hyperactive E-sat team had organised a blood donation camp here, charging everyone 100 bucks & a bottle of blood for it. I willingly parted with the money but was not too sure about the blood donation part...that is, till I got the call

PYT-"Hello"
Me-"Yeah.."who's it?"
PYT-"Hey Deepak!..Its me A"
Me- "Oh. hi..Yeah!!"
PYT-"Listen, can you come down to the conference room"
Me-"right now?...Why"
PYT-"Oh, we are running short of the blood donation target. Can you donate yours?"
Me-"er...Is it very important..I am not too sure and my doctor had advised....."
PYT-"Oh Puleeez...Pleez. We need it to save our face. Can you"
Me-"humph!...Okay." Hung up.

I was in the make-do bed for 15 minutes after which I received a juice can..& a thanks you note. Very well. I'm done....maybe not.

15 days pass by and I forget about it, then I get a letter from the Rotary club. I don't remember it exactly but here's what it went like

"Dear Sir,

Thanks for blah blah...We have screened your blood for possible abnormalities. Your blood had been tested negative for A, B, C..HIV etc however the screening tests suggest the possibility of presence of HBS Ag virus in your blood. We recommend that you consult any of the below mentioned specialists and go through the required tests to confirm it.

Thanks!
X
Rotary Club"

I cursorily went through it & nearly forgot about it till in the evening I decided to search whatthefug this HBS Ag is. What I found was not so pleasant. HBS Ag is the name of the hepatitis B virus which affects the liver & causes liver cirrhosis. Its lethal and not curable if it passes the initial stages. A little more research brought to notice that it spreads generally through sex & bllod transfers. Its just one of the causes but it is one of the more common ones. Definitely a disease which creates some issues.

Well. The coming weekend I went to a hospital & consulted a doctor & went through some tests. The Results were to be delivered in 4 days.

Its then the feeling sank-in.

I imagined reading the report come out positive & wondered what would happen to all the plans. Suddenly, life acquired a new meaning. Career wasn't so important anymore nor the fancy cars nor the world. I felt like reaching out to everyone I care. And I did. I called up all I hadn't called in a long time. I didn't tell them about the reason but they were all positively surprised. I am normally a private man who doesn't bother to answer back calls let alone calling them. But it wasn't a regular day & priorities had changed. Imagine you being in my position wouldn't yours?

I even thought about how I would go about in the last few years of my life & it wasn't fighting a corporate battle of supremacy. I planned to be with my loved ones to visit places I always wanted to. To see all this earth's beauty before I leave it. Quite philosophical I must say but I am sure you would too.

That's till I got the test result. It was NEGATIVE. Yup, it was very much negative. I didn't believe it in the first go though and got it rechecked at a different hospital and it for sure was.

I would live. Isn't life beautiful as it is? and we consistently tend to measure our life's worth by the no-so-important things the society in general pushes us to measure our worth by. Suddenly life changes & you begin to see beauty in small things you never had time to notice. The mornings are to be watched. the people are not so scheming anymore. and everyone turns good & beautiful.

I am a little changed man now. But I still dream about the big things I plan to do & achieve. Only that I am a more happy man now & I tend to overlook minor things which earlier could ruin my day.

Think about it. Wouldn't yours change too?

Quite a title that makes.Isn't it?....Let me introduce you to Pandit ji before I tell you about my encounter with him.

"Pandit ji" sounds like a dhoti clad man with a patra (book) in a hand and a thick framed pair of specs on. Not anymore. Enter Ajay Sharma, the astrologer of 21st century who works part time on sorting out the intricacies of what the future holds for the confused souls looking for some answer. Well...I am a piscean (yes, I read the daily predictions too) and a dedicated one at that. I spend a fair amount of my work time thinking about when am I going to make it big. Going to an astrologer seemed like a pragmatic answer to the question..or atleast the source of an answer. So I decided to meet one.

Pandit Sharma owns a website for advertising. You fill in your details, fix an appointment and book an hours session to unravel the mysteries.I did the same and got the appointment for a sunday morning.

His office is a room in his house. I was asked to sit there till Pandit ji completes his pooja. TV in the room was showing ESPN with India yet again trying hard to align the bat with the ball line of South africa and failing desperately. Guess they too could do with a session with PanditJi and work out their Shani Dasha nivarana.

Coming back to point. I sat there for about an hour expecting an octogenarian to come and tell me all about that cruise trip I am gonna go on soon and the name of firm which would be waiting for me to come & fill in the VP post in their Wall street office. Except that I was wrong. Yes...the panditji was actually a man in his early thirties wearing a crisp formal white shirt with a black pant and a shimmering upmarket watch ( Tag-huer?..maybe). I was crest fallen. I had already paid for that. Now you obviously don't expect a non-dhoti clad man to know Janampatri from a Dan brown book. But I was already in.

Gentleman..(guess it suits him more than a PanditJi now) started with a sombre look on his face and asked me to furnish my birth details. Reluctantly I obliged. 10 minutes of cosmic mathematical calculations and there it was. My Shani was pretty angry and Rahu was not having a good day either. They both sat in my birth chart at an unfriendly position threatening all the friendly ones to stop working or..... Mangal was sitting good but poor chap was helpless infront of the two giants. Couldn't do a thing for its life. Never mind. Mr Sharma told me about all the bad times?...I've been through lately and blamed the stars for everything. Now I knew why I couldn't get the tickets for Dhoom 2 while all my friends had watched it. Shani guy had done something there too.

Well as the normal course would have it, I was told about the Pooja I had to do to pacify them and get good results. Of-course, I wouldn't have to do it myself. Pandit Ji could happily take the task to himself on my behalf. He's a good soul afterall. I would had to pay just Rs 2100. You don't believe it?..I was shown testimonies of satisfied clients with a business booming back into profit minutes after PanditJi did the honours. Angry me, he never uttered once about the VP position I wanted to know about or the Cruise trip either, hinted at being a little suspicious of his qualifications. Pandit ji blasted. Fearful lest he turns out to be an enlighted one and curses me to be damned forever, I left the place. Only after having parted with Rs 1500 as the consulting fee.

Now that I think of it. Its not bad either. I learned a new profession and am sure VP or not, I could start that as a Part time profession myself. Imagine me sitting grimly and advising pretty young things about the mysteries future holds for them and getting their phone numbers without much effort. Well..that should be fee enough. For me atleast.

So all you guys and Gals (specially)...you need your horoscope analysed to your "satisfaction"..talk to Pandit Verma and for girls...its absolutely free. Coke's on me.

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