"The road to success is always under construction" again that familiar voice. Yes, the wise man took his position just behind me and wanted to continue with yet another of his evening lectures when I interrupted 'why sir, again our civil engineers at work? why don't they give it to the private sector'. With a smile that was a warning to me, the wise man said 'you dont know what life is. Life is full of uncertainity. It means missing expected things and facing unexpected things'.
I said i could not agree more. In order to please him i said 'Uncertainity is full of my life and the synonym for missing is expectations in my life'. I thought such a sob story will make him move over to more important topics like IPL, O's popularity rating (i am these days extremely careful and just say O, rather than suffering a slip of tongue), the five-days-in-a-row repeat of Rahulji's weak attack, the twists to 2Gs and above all the big boredom of watching any news channel in india (you can watch on Monday morning and then on Friday evening - you would not miss anything).
But the wiseman was in no mood to relent and instead asked me what would i do if i knew the world was coming to an end soon. The wicked me asked 'how soon sir?'. He ignored me like a dirt or bufallo's back and continued ' Each person around you is going to hurt you at some point of time. It is on you to decide what is important, the pain or the person'. It clearly appeared to me that he has gone through a book of quotations and was trying to weave together a philosophical discourse with interconnected quotes. And found in me a gullible listener.
I explained how each of us has learnt to hurt and exploit the otherin life. And when it comes to progress i am so selfless that i allow only my shadow to be ahead of me. Same with everyone. And there ended a session which deprived me of what the book of quotations said about various aspects of human behaviour.
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