Thursday, April 21, 2005

The walk of life......

His parents had an arranged marriage, so they had little option but to marry each other..
He was born in 1964, because that was when his parents decided to have him.....
He did not spend his initial life in a big city, because his dad didnt like big cities...
He didnt get educated in any big reputed school, his small town didnt have any...
He wanted to study a particular subject in the famous university in the big city, but he didnt get it because they had a massive quota for locals... so went to a lesser university...
He wanted to go abroad for his masters degree, but realised they laid a big emphasis on his educational pedigree.
He started teaching at the famous university he had wanted to study in, and felt a small victory.
It turned sweeter when he met the woman he wanted to marry, she also taught there...
And more sweeter when she gave birth to their son....
a few months later, the child fell sick, because of food poisoning in his baby food!!
he took leave, but she decided to go because she had already used up a whole lot of hers...since she was in a hurry, he decided to get breakfast from the hotel across the road...... and got killed while crossing the road..........
if he had a different set of parents, who decided to have him earlier, and live in a big city,and send him to an international school there, he might have studied the subject of his choice in the big university, gone abroad, not taught at the big university, nor met his wife, nor had the son who had the bout of food poisoning, and so he wouldnt have to cross the road....
and they say you make your own destiny...
until next time, just enjoy the walk, while it lasts....

15 comments:

Stone said...

..teaching in some University.?..married and also havin a kid??
isn't it too much for a 84 born?
or I missed something (or everything) :-(

Ink Spill said...

Too depressing for a Thursday morning. :-((

manuscrypts said...

garfy: lol, the one that crossed the road.. i resent 'meanie', 'ol' and 'tease'..hehe.. and while i cannot tell u all what its about, i'll just say, you'll catch at least a couple of glimpses of it here in the next few weeks (since this is my customer feedback mechanism ;) ).. and yes, best of luck for your next exam..:)

stone: relax, u have not... now, i could argue and say that it doesnt have to be a story set in 2005, but the first version of the story had a timeline effect also, and i forgot to change the year...i have changed it now, thx man... :)

sanguine said...

*sigh*
jab jab jo jo hona hai ,ab tab so so hota hai

manuscrypts said...

inkz: lol.. too depressing for any morning, i thought.. but since i wrote it, i had to post it.. :)

sanguine: but unfortunately we dont realise it....

NoHairBrain said...

What the fuck!

manuscrypts said...

garfy: only time can tell...:)

NHB: yup, i think i understand.hehe

manuscrypts said...

grinch: actually,a step away...:)

blokes: yup, remember that one... and so long as the teaching is done, nice way indeed..hehe

The Bard said...

wahi hoga jo manzoor-e-khuda hoga!

IdeaSmith said...

Life is such a series of random events and we're miniscule bits of fluff in all of this...do you really think these are logical patterns?

manuscrypts said...

devil: thats quite a controversial statement coming from you ;)

ideasmith: whether we can decipher the pattern or not, there is definitely one, i believe so....
hmm, think about it this way, (with no disrespect to ants..hehe), do you think ants are at a level of intelligence where they can fathom that the earth is round and is in the solar system, which is in the milky way? do they even know they are not comprehending it?? but we humans know about all of that.. if u scale it up, what makes us think that we are even at a level capable of comprehending the patterns that maybe are evident at a higher level of consciousness??..*burp* sorry, that i guess was verbal diaorrhea...:)

Anonymous said...

Should have ordered home delivery...

The Bard said...

wel me and khuda are havin peace talks.
n sinc we cant have cricket matches neithr in heaven nor in hell we try to please each other by complimenting the other on blogs.

manuscrypts said...

sqrl/nt: lol :)

devil: ah, so tell me, wheres his blog?? :)

Pallavi said...

Awww .. thats tragic.. well worded again.. but tragic ... SIGH ...