While living in a concrete jungle where the rats and the mosquitoes were as common as you would find them in any slum, his mind was disturbed! It was bombarded with a train of unreasonable and irrelevant thoughts to which he seemed have no control at all! He was very uncomfortable because these thoughts had nothing in common with that of the existing world! It was unreasonable to avoid calling it as a mind storm when you may try and explain that mental phenomenon! He searched for the answers, but was only getting increasingly agitated as the days went on! He googled his thoughts, but there was no match available! He tried to contact his best friends over his mobile phone by sending them repeated text messages( it was too expensive to give voice calls to all of them). But most of them did not gave any reply. Some replied him telling that they are too busy and would contact him as soon as they find the right time! He also send countless emails to his contacts by making group emails through his six or so email accounts. But had very few replies and none of them gave him enough consolation! He also had a number of weblogs in different names where he posted his mental concerns regularly but, had very poor readership and the number of comments and suggestions were near to zero!
He went to the sea shore to calm down his mind. The sea had very little to offer him. Those huge waves from the sea joined hands with his roaring mind and they made gigantic waves! They came to attack him and he even thought of an impending tsunami to happen!He had to run away from there to save himself!
Then he went to a desert in search of the mental peace. But his mind was strong enough to trigger the nasty sand storms! They drove him away from there!
His next destination was the snow mountains where he really hoped to have a cool atmosphere! The mountains stayed very calm until he noticed an avalanche approaching him with fury, in the next few minutes! His thoughts send disturbing waves to those mountains to provoke them! He left from there too!
Finally, he thought of going to the forest to gain control over his mind, but abandoned the plan because of fearing the consequences in case his mind would team up with those dangerous predators of the forest!
He had to do the ultimate thing in the end. He copied the thoughts from his mind completelyinto the Internet! It took four hundred and sixty two days, ten hours, thirty seven minutes and fifty eight seconds for him to complete it! He stored them into an open source program where anybody can store up to 25GB of personnel files. He kept the user name and the password very safely with him because he did not want the dangerous thoughts to get out and trouble him again. The files were promptly archived into the cyberspace. There after he had a very normal life.
After five hundred and sixty seven years and ten months later, an Internet research scholar from India accidentally unlocked his user name and password! He could not believe what was in front of his eyes! He actually saw his name and a poor quality digital image of himself in the start of the files. The author was giving him the permission to publish those files to make it public! He could not believe someone who lived five hundred years ago would predict that he will be the first person to find out about those files to give them a life!
The document went online in the universal net and the people across the different planets read them! Everyone enjoyed that amazing work and it soon became one of the huge inter-planetary best seller of all times!
PS : You may be thinking about what was written in those files! Please don't ask me.. I also have no clue about it at all! Unfortunately, my suggestion is that we may have to wait until it gets published and the best way would be to be reborn after another five hundred years of time!
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Lifesaver
"So these are the bad effects that alcohol can bring to our society..!"
The speaker who was the president of the anti alcohol movement in the village concluded his speech.
The public , about a hundred people who gathered in that school auditorium agreed with him primarily because he had convincingly put forward his points against the drinking habit. He portrayed drinking as a social evil that can even kill people prematurely!
"Now, you can tell us about your experiences"He turned towards the audience."It would be great if some of you can share your experiences too."He suggested.
Some of the women came forward and told their sad stories. How they are suffering in this life because of their husband's drinking habits. All of them cried during their speech. The women who occupied the majority of the audience cried along with them!
Kunjappan came to the stage to speak. He was holding a mineral water bottle in his hand." I was going to Trivandrum because my wife was admitted in the Medical College.."He started.
"I was very sad because my wife was going to have an operation that day. I had a couple of 'pegs' before I reach the Kollam KSRTC bus stand. I got into an express which was parked there. I managed to get into a seat which was in the extreme back, on the corner. Then the conductor of the bus announced that the bus may be another 20 minutes late because they had to change the tyre because it was punctured! Then I thought of having one more drink. I left the news paper in the seat and asked the person next to my seat to tell that I will be back soon if someone come for that seat."
The people listened to his speech with curiosity. He drank some water from the bottle, wiped his lips with his hand and continued.."Actually I went for one 'peg' to the nearby Bar, but since I was very sad I must have taken two three..and when I came back to the station, the bus was gone!"
He had another drink from the bottle."
I got another bus after half an hour.
When we reached near Attingal, our bus went very slow and we saw the express on the side of the highway! There was a big crowd assembled there. The bus was hit on it's back by a tanker lorry and the back portion of the bus was completely destroyed. The people sat on the back row, all of them died on the spot!"
The audience sat motionless. Kujappan also became very emotional! He cried!
" If I had not taken that decision to drink that day, I wouldn't have been here to say this story to you, my dear friends..What I am drinking now is not mineral water..it is vodka and sprint..! I will drink if I am sad , I will drink if I am happy..and if I have none of these feelings.. then also I will drink..because this alcohol saved my life..!"
By the time, the president of the anti drinking campaign had asked the mic operator to switch off the microphone, Kunjappan had finished his speech! He drank the last drops from his 'mineral water bottle' and left the stage!
The speaker who was the president of the anti alcohol movement in the village concluded his speech.
The public , about a hundred people who gathered in that school auditorium agreed with him primarily because he had convincingly put forward his points against the drinking habit. He portrayed drinking as a social evil that can even kill people prematurely!
"Now, you can tell us about your experiences"He turned towards the audience."It would be great if some of you can share your experiences too."He suggested.
Some of the women came forward and told their sad stories. How they are suffering in this life because of their husband's drinking habits. All of them cried during their speech. The women who occupied the majority of the audience cried along with them!
Kunjappan came to the stage to speak. He was holding a mineral water bottle in his hand." I was going to Trivandrum because my wife was admitted in the Medical College.."He started.
"I was very sad because my wife was going to have an operation that day. I had a couple of 'pegs' before I reach the Kollam KSRTC bus stand. I got into an express which was parked there. I managed to get into a seat which was in the extreme back, on the corner. Then the conductor of the bus announced that the bus may be another 20 minutes late because they had to change the tyre because it was punctured! Then I thought of having one more drink. I left the news paper in the seat and asked the person next to my seat to tell that I will be back soon if someone come for that seat."
The people listened to his speech with curiosity. He drank some water from the bottle, wiped his lips with his hand and continued.."Actually I went for one 'peg' to the nearby Bar, but since I was very sad I must have taken two three..and when I came back to the station, the bus was gone!"
He had another drink from the bottle."
I got another bus after half an hour.
When we reached near Attingal, our bus went very slow and we saw the express on the side of the highway! There was a big crowd assembled there. The bus was hit on it's back by a tanker lorry and the back portion of the bus was completely destroyed. The people sat on the back row, all of them died on the spot!"
The audience sat motionless. Kujappan also became very emotional! He cried!
" If I had not taken that decision to drink that day, I wouldn't have been here to say this story to you, my dear friends..What I am drinking now is not mineral water..it is vodka and sprint..! I will drink if I am sad , I will drink if I am happy..and if I have none of these feelings.. then also I will drink..because this alcohol saved my life..!"
By the time, the president of the anti drinking campaign had asked the mic operator to switch off the microphone, Kunjappan had finished his speech! He drank the last drops from his 'mineral water bottle' and left the stage!
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