I'm in Deep shit nowadays. My exams just finished and i know i'm gonna fail. No this isn't exam anxiety or something, its real. I'm gonna fail coz i gave shit in maths. I don't even get scared nowadays- and that scares me the most. Students like me work on the principal of rockets, we don't get moving untill our ass is on fire. But, recently i've been working more like a candle- my ass is on fire and i get stuck to the ground!
And now exams over and yet life's going bad, real bad. I forgot the last time i got a girl. All my friends (well, almost all) are out socializing and stuff while I’m at home, in front of wiki, sitting on my bony ass, researching bout the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan!
I suck!!!
I met my old old friend that day and he was like me, even more. Deeply scared and frustrated he was making all kinds of bargains and beggings with God. He called it praying. He's a Hindu and he was like "Please god let me pass and i'll Offer you a puja". I asked him, “You seriously pray all the time?". He said, "Well I’m an atheist, but well...um…uh...y'know....."
I caught him there.
It’s not his habit only. Lots of people are like that. They are all like "I'm a fuckin' atheist, i don't believe in god” and stuff, but when they're in some sticky shit, they're all like, "Please God, i've always been a believer, do this one small favour!"
It makes me think about God Himself.
God is mysterious. I guess he's the world’s biggest counselor-cum-lawyer-cum-complaint cell-cum-agony aunt-cum-favour giving mafia boss! I mean that at any second there must be over a million different people doing what they call is prayer, and what I call is trying to make deals or bargains with some Omni-present all powerful being, whom they’ll try to trick later on. Whenever anybody needs something, just dial the mental number, 000-H-E-L-P-M-E-G-O-D. I feel sorry for this God , if he really exists that is. At any point of time, he/she must be baffled by the sheer variety of contradictory requests he gets and how incredibly stupid most of them are! Like some guy in India requests a girlfriend (as if God is a pimp!!), while some kid in Brazil prays that his school test gets cancelled. Some doctor in Norway prays that his patient survives the operation, while some neo-Taliban chief prays for the successful execution of another deadly suicide strike. An Indian and a Pakistani might pray for the victory of their respective teams in the same match. Some rich spoilt U.S bitch wants a new car in her birthday, while a 23 year old woman in drought hit China wants just a little bit of water for her infant son. A German guy prays to get tanned, while a Thai pre-teen girl wants to get fair. A Japanese school kid in the aftermath of an earth quake prays to get spotted amongst the rubble by rescue workers, while a Palestinian 10 yr old kid hiding with a RPG on his shoulders silently prays that he doesn’t get spotted by the surrounding Israeli paramilitary.
It’s a crazy request fest I guess.
So anyone whining about how his job sucks should stop for a second and think about god. God has the worst job in the Universe.
I should add that I’m religious myself. I believe in some higher Being but I don’t call that Being names like Kali or Shiva or Jesus or whatever. I think the universal creator is just out there with a clipboard in his hands observing the experiment called Life.
I really wonder sometimes about God. But you can’t ever in your life know who he/she is. For the time being I guess I’ll just have to be happy with a Charlie Brown style Questin-Answer monologue.-
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask myself, Who is God?
Then out of the darkness a voice replies “None of your business”!”
