Well, first of all, lemme thank my wonderful friend!! Brian, thanks a zillion (I dunno if u r reading this) for making me do this….. My first one…. wanted to start with a cute poem. But it all changed when I was watching NDTV last nite while having my dinner. There’s this guy from
Agra who comes to
Delhi in search of a job. He has done his masters in Political Science n was a part time lecturer in some college in
Agra. I seriously don’t understand what made him quit his job n come to
Delhi (of all places under the Sun!) in search of better options!!! I think that was his first mistake. Poor chap runs from pillar to post in search of a good (read decent) job. Doesn’t find one n ends up pulling rickshaws in the national capital!!!! That’s not the end of it. That man speaks impeccable English, is soft spoken n an excellent conversationalist!!! I mean I was shocked… I heard that man talk in English. His English cud easily put many of our call centre agents to shame!! Towards the end of the report the reporter (Ms. Nidhi Razdan) asks “How can fate be so cruel?” Honestly I have never believed in FATE. DESTINY. For me these are just a string of alphabets. Coz I am the sort of person who’ll stop at nothing to do what my mind says is rite. So have never believed in fate n stuff. Have never felt the need! Everybody asks me to believe in DESTINY/FATE. My reply “why should I?”When I went bankrupt, I was told it was my fate. When people who I trusted, departed from me, I was told it was my fate. How cud everything go wrong n how cud we just turnout to be escapists by blaming FATE?? There had to be some reason… After much thought it finally dawned on me that I dint plan my finances wisely. I trusted all wrong people who were using me to wipe their dirty butts. If these mistakes were made by me, cud I make yet another one by not learning my lessons from them?? Cud I afford to make yet another mistake of putting all the blame on the four lettered F word (read FATE)??
Coming back to our over qualified rickshaw walla… may be life is trying to teach him something… may be he’s missing out on the lessons while he’s bickering abt his FATE….
