Its Saturday night ,3 am and everybody around me have fallen asleep including the mosquitoes who are now tired tasting my O+ve blood. Mosquitoes have grown intelligent over the years as they have got an idea that am a universal donor. BLOOOD SUCKERSSS!!!!!!!!!
I had nothing to do so opened my laptop and just decided to pour in my thoughts and maintain a soft copy of the same.
Often this thought crosses my mind what if I had not been in IT field?What If not an Engineer ?If I ask my parents they no doubt will answer I would be like another furniture at home which wont serve any purpose.
We always want to do something in life, something different from others , different from people around us but due to family pressure especially in an orthodox middle-class family where every nanosecond is judged by a calendar whether its an auspicious time or Mr.Rahu /Mr.Ketu /Mr. Shani / Mr.Yem is busy spoiling our work. These four characters are the most busiest in my life keeping a watch on me and easily held responsible if things go bad or fail.
What if such orthodox people enter IT field?
What if such people enter the Management?
The client interactions will be based on Panchangam(A calendar at my home which lists auspicious & bad timings in a day) . So if a conference call happens between an IT company and Client the scenario might be like this :
All Characters and events in the scenario are purely fictitious. Any resemblance with either dead or living is purely co-incidental.
Mr. PanjabaKeshan Iyer (project manager) : Mr.Roger, We will be going ahead with the developments but today is Ekadasi, so its not a good day to start.
Mr. Roger (Client): When can u deliver the product for testing?
Mr. PanjabaKeshan Iyer (project manager) : Soon Saar, Will mail u the timelines tomorrow at 6.22 AM as its auspicious time of the day. Our developer Mr. Ramalingam will be performing special archana for the product's long life.
Mr Roger (frustrated) : Please mail me the timelines ASAP !!!!!!!!!!!
the timelines content may be :
Its a 1 day work but since all the developments will be done only during SUBHAMUGURTHA NERAM (auspicious time) after proper GANGA SNANAM (holy bath ) and chanting prayers the total time estimate will be 5 days. As there is a ECLIPSE in between ,strictly on developments will be done that day as the product is more prone to bugs especially when the eclipse happens.
20/07/2009 10 Am To 11 Am Facing east
2 Pm To 4 Pm Facing north
21/07/2009 11.30 Am To 11.45 Am Facing west
3 Pm To 6 Pm Facing south
22/07/2009 Solar Eclipse. No developments this day
23/07/2009 A thursday. Not considered good for fresh developments.We
will Test the existing developments and send a status report
at 5.30 AM.Please perform an archana at your place before
going through the report.
24/07/2009 An auspicipious day. All the major and new developments will
be done this day and the product will be available for testing
before sunset.
Mr. Roger opens up the mail of timelines and fuming with anger calls up the Project Manager and curses himself for getting affiliated with such an IT company.
This was the last thing he would have expected from the project manager who had put in a voice alert:
“Hi.I am PanjabaKeshan Iyer. Please call tomorrow before 9 AM as its Saturday and the company staff will be busy in NAVAGRAHA PUJA.” after 9 AM.
Mr.Roger feels defeated and calls off the project . The IT management makes a study for the cause of failure and the blames Project Lead Mr.Narayana Shastri for sneezing once during drafting timelines email as it is considered as a sign of evil to sneeze just once and then stop .
The scenario ends here .
We often come across such people in our households who being from well-educated, well-qualified background follow all such nonsense to gain success in all walks of life. For them God is like a Project Manager to whom we need to give status updates for every improvement in life. They pray all day and all night wishing to protect them from all bad things, omens etc instead of spending few minutes for thanking him for keeping life busy.
God didn't ask us to chant prayers for hours to communicate with him or spray something on forehead and body as an uniform or donate one's belongings/money/gold etc. People donate money to religious places which have become another business center to invest but fail to understand that , its We, who need money for survival and not the God so why don't we donate it to needy?
What if God himself does the work our way and stops looking upon us during times we believe to be inauspicious?
I believe that its we humans :
Who have the longest life span ,
Who utilize maximum of the available resources,
and its we humans :
Who waste most of our life believing in omens, luck and blind faith.
God evolved us and gave an ability to think, not to follow these omens, but to curb these beliefs still causing taboos. The only way I believe to control these beliefs is to strictly avoid practicing such unwritten laws designed thankfully not documented by some antisocial freak in the name of GOD.
If not our elders ,for whom I feel sorry, but at least our future generations to come would have ample time with open minds free from such taboos thus opening up new avenues for betterment of all.
I am finally feeling sleepy after almost 2 hours of thought-sharing process.
Going off to sleep after my night prayers
THANK YOU GOD FOR KEEPING ME BUSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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