14 June 2009

Hamlet in Indian Men

To be or not to be? – A question made Hamlet a tragic hero.
However in real life it is not so. But that is fiction. Facts are never this kind.
To be undecided is not going to make you a martyr.
Why then do we have a narcissistic tendency to procrastinate?
Why do we have cats on the fence, when they could be better off it?

“One of the key reasons for being indecisive”, “is fear of responsibility.”
When you decide then you have to face the consequences.
It is this fear that makes most men avoid taking decisions.
Ironically, men can be great achievers in the professional front, but become withdrawn in the personal side.
This could also be attributed to the mental make-up of men, agrees many psychologists.
Unlike women who prefer to thrash the issue and talk about it ,
why is it that men prefer to internalize things and this `retreat into the cave attitude’
makes them stall rather than go for it.

Traffic Woes...The cry and Crib

Knowing how it is to ride in the traffic and specially if its a very sunny day or day
when its profusely raining and above that if its dark
all the puddle and drains running- awww i'm sure only 2 wheeler riders would know the plight ! more so with all the metro work thats going on...
I don't understand how inconsiderate the 4 wheeler drivers can get! they never allow a 2 wheeler tto over take them :-( even its pouring cats and dogs, Don't they undestand and can't they be a little more considerate and allow the 2 wheelers to get past them - ah! how would they know we are the ones who are getting all drenched on a rainy day or all sweaty on a sunny day..

The days when we are working and when there is an off for other offices it is a true BLISS !
which is very rare..I had very few such days.
This year Ugadi to name one.Ours being a japanese company we were working
wow what a pleasure it was zooming off my pep plus
whooooooooosh !!! so i pretty well understand what Amit goes through commuting
to and fro five days a week..He is from Mumbai and used to traveling in trains say within 4 min
from station to station where even half a minute makes helluva difference..

Well coming to talk about Mumbai infact there is no less traffic I remember the day I was at the airport
to receive Amit.
I had taken a flight from Bangalore and due to flight delay I had reached at midnight 1
and amit reached at 4 from Europe ! I was all waiting without sleep and without my previous day's
dinner(All thanks to Air-India I never liked the taste on flights)
wanted to get back to our home and sleep but !!!! we were stuck at Mahape for solid 2-2 and half hours by the
time we reached home it was 7 and since it was already morning couldnt sleep for long.

But still the emotions involved in giving a surprise to Amit was more than pleasant
when he forgot taking his parents blessing having seen his wife - well this was my in-laws version :-) and i love believing it(Typical wife mmm may i say a typical senti/emotional romantic woman(?))
No offense meant they were happy about the sharing of emotions too.

I guess theres a lot more involved than the just the hustle bustle of the routine traffic..
I see it as more of a pleasure to travel longer when commuting together - what say?

Ah Ah I know now Amit would say the junction
where the vehicles used to jam up was because of the road work that was going on..
but imagine so much of traffic at morning between 4.30 and 6.30 AM.

Hmmm...what ever,but have seen the worst traffic almost everywhere these day be it
BANGALORE or be it MUMBAI or be it anywhere...