Thursday, November 05, 2009

I'm feeling postitve

I missed a step and tore a ligament. Yeah the same one again. One basketball coach used to yell out butter fingers whenever someone let slip a pass they shouldnt have. I now have my own contribution to add to the colourful description of human body parts. Crepe paper ligaments. That tear even on a change in wind direction. Or the flapping of a butterfly's wings. It isnt anywhere as torn as the last time though, so i get away with crepe bandage and no running/jumping/skipping.

So i decided not to be a hero, not to go to work with a limp as if my putting a semi colon was going to save the world. I decided to work from home. I got off to an early start too, before the state electricity board decided to step in. They cut off power for the whole damn day and when asked why, said it was Thursday, like that explained everything and how dumb could one be for asking. So i couldnt work from home, i couldnt entertain myself from home, i certainly couldnt not be at home. The day could have been awful but i had the Big Bang by Simon Singh (who is now my new rock star) for company and of course afternoon sleep. I realized something during the course of the day. Here i am, on an unscheduled leave, and it doesnt bother me, it doesnt affect my work, it doesnt affect anyone else at work or probably anyone else in the world! While it should have made me feel about this big and made question my role in the scheme of things and left me generally depressed, it didnt. People, or at least I, dream of having a life they can take a break from whenever they feel like one and come back to it and for it be like they never left. Or, because i've been reading about spacetime and would like to show off, primarily to the future me, i dream of being light enough to cause minimal distortion in the spacetime around me. So i can walk off to another part of the universe and not have planets plummet into each other or fly off into space. Today, at a very micro level, was about that.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

i like d conclusion :)
n u kno..who will miss u at work...masterji :P

Mohsin said...

we missed u at lunch..
and today we need a bashboard entry too.. :)

vinaya said...

Zarin: Thanks :)
The conclusion caused the post.
Actually, the sprain inspired the conclusion that caused the post.
The previous sprain caused this sprain which inspired the conclusion that caused the post.
And there was a Friday bash that caused the previous sprain that caused this sprain which inspired the conclusion that caused the post.
Long live Friday bashes :D

Mohsin: Kyon, kaka ke liye vote kam pade kya? Phone karna tha or even better, proxy vote daal dena tha!
Yeah. Why are we having to look for entries though? Are people getting un-bashable??

 
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