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There are few other options that came into my mind. Coffee always works wonders..you know..! If you want to be lazy as well as you want to wipe out that accumulating guilt, one choice you could make is, become an atheist. Or, take the easiest way, assume that god always forgive you, let whatever be the mistake you do. If you read it carefully, you will notice that, the latter option is the one that more than 50% of the people choose. Man, you should have s#@$ loads of crap in your head to make such an assumption. Think of it in this way, a guy ties you to a pole, makes you immobile, then burns logs and logs of perfume sticks, loads and loads of wax candles and oil wicks in front of your face, and allows all the ashes to accumulate around you, and more importantly gives you no food, yea make you starve..!! and then suddenly one day realizes that you are in a deep s@#$ and leaves you free and assumes that you will forgive him. Dont say you will. If that is the case I assume that you are one big worthless dumbass. When that guy leaves you free, you wont even bother to eat, but search for gas and lighter to burn him alive, wont you..?? Now imagine GODS in your position. So, realizing this, I went to the corner one more time, and tried to have a small conversation with GOD, not to ask for forgiveness, but in a graduate student's language asked for more time. Always remember this: when a grad student says give me some time, I will try working on it, that means I am not doing it. But god is not a grad student, hence he might not understand these fundas.

I explained him my situation, he felt bad for my bored, tired and figure less (read it girl less) graduate life (I literally loathed him that moment, even though he said he felt bad for me, at no point of time, as a god he assured me that he will  try to "figure" out the problem. At that very instant I felt that, this self-centered fellow is very much a fit candidate to be in that deep shit). The whole day passed without much incidents, as my room mate was out of town, I was trying to figure out things which I can do to avoid getting bored, although traveling alone to theatre to watch a movie or to a coffee shop didnt seem a colorful option. The next day was no different from the previous day except for one that I woke up pretty much early to go for gym. The day again passed with very less incidents, going out for lunch, watching a boring movie in TNT, and solving some sudoku puzzles. At around 6 PM I realized that I am bored to death. I am done for the day regarding my research work, and I am no way in a mood to read books. I came to a conclusion that I need some job, some work to keep myself engaged. I roamed around the house, putting things in order and suddenly the corner came into my focus. Out of bloom, cleaning became a good time pass.

I went to the cleaning rack, identified cleaning reagents, scrubs etc, and went to the shelf to collect the idols, but not before making those guys clear that, I am doing this just out of shear boredom and not because that I am scared of their vengence. Self respect is always very important you see..!! whether it be the Gods or the humans that who stand in front of you.

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A few weeks back, when I was doing my regular visit to the corner of my room, after taking my bath, something unusual happened. Fine let me do a clarification before your weird imagination jumps up to any conclusion. In the corner of my room, near my wardrobe is a small tray that basically acts as a shack for the photos/statues of the gods (whom I believein - lets put it this way at this point of time). Suddenly, one of the god spoke to me, he said, "guess you clean your house every time you invite some one, or everytime some one leaves your house after staying for a few days or a few weeks, but did you ever think that you should clean my surroundings?, fine I may be the god, I can do these things in a matter of second, atleast thats what you guys believe, but at this point you should atleast consider me as a mere non living object that needs a few drops of soap solution and water." With all those burnt ashes of perfume sticks, drops of oil at various places, and a layer of dust on his face - including his eyes, for a second I felt really bad for that guy. So I promised him that I do feel bad for his situation and I will try to find some time in my busy graduate life to work on this issue. He patiently waited for a week,. Again one fine morning during my corner visit, I heard a few hissing sounds. And to be frank I assumed that to be my roommate's snoring sound. But then I realised that the origin of the sound is from that tiny piece in the corner of that shelf. And as usual he again reminded me of his poor situation, and again I promised him in a way very similar to a politician, that all his problems will be solved when he votes for me. Vote here means I should have a peaceful group meeting on that day. And like a true citizen he kept his promise and like a true politician I did not. Days went, but nothing changed, with piles of dust on his face, stomach and legs etc., etc., and with scores of oily dust in his surroundings, I realized that the wrath of him on me is very near. The tray was becoming a place for all possible divine communicable diseases.

It was a peaceful saturday morning, but after a minute I realized that it  was saturday afternoon. Com'on, student life, you are allowed to make these mistakes! With a coffee in my hand I was roaming around the house, yea, I know its just 2 rooms, but men in thinking mode always walk while sipping their (morning) coffee. And suddenly I realized that there is very less space to walk, not because that the rooms are small, but that stuffs are now establishing the rights for their surface area more than never before. It is very similar to this eerie thought where, you sit in this big, empty marble floored hall with no lights, and suddenly you realize that your legs are pulled apart by those wild snakes and giant creepers which is creeping into the hall out of no where. OK ..OK..its not so bad, but I just thought that this imagination would help me dramatize the situation. So with this impending doom shadowing on me, I realized that the GODS ARE ANGRY. I could hear my soul shouting at me, mouthing some really filthy stuffs. It was very clear. It was do or die situation. Make a hot, steamy, bubble bath for the gods or get ready to sail for the Noah's Ark.

Cont..!

Earth quakes, Tsunamis, Volcano, Flood...! Millions killed. Huh Most of it directly or indirectly are man made furies. Of course man/ man made media, takes in to account all these disasters, it just stews in his mind for few weeks or maximum a few months and then dies very similar to himself. In the mean time, disasters provide ways for man to show his sympathy, his charitable gesture to the so called weaklings who are now supposed to be in the mercy of the so called safe men. The devleoped countries plays diplomacy, dumps its waste products sorry provides help, some countries magnanimoulsy accepts and some rejects it, may be a prestigious issue. And lets not forget its man who create the problem, he identifies ways to solve the problem, but he doesnt want the problem to be solved too fast and too quick. May be at one stage man may get tired. Tired of fighting nature, tired of fighting the so called furies of earth. As soon as a disaster strucks, his media says "Nature's fury", "Mother earth's wrath on her child", but I dont know why he doesnt do the same when he drill the earth for tons of oil, he calls it Oil exploration, he doesnt say "oh my god..Mother earth Bleeds". Something fuzzy, I cant even see thru the glass in front of me, but I am trying to.

Is Nature or earth trying hard to find a balance? Or it just got too bored with us ! If earth as astronomers says, is a very a tiny speck in the kingdom of Universe, then mankind as a whole is considered negligible. But our environment, our habits always puts Man in front of everyone as if he is the supreme being of the Universe. But in another perspective, as the Film Matrix puts it, is man a virus, as he just exploits the nature, exhausts it and then moves to another place and multiply. I donno. But I am sure I dont want myself to branded as a virus.

In the middle of the 19th century, Darwin suggested the theory of natural selection. So by his theory, nature is always under control, Natures always balances it. Nature at the end is always correct. Is Darwin Correct ?In my perspective he may be correct. If the black and white moths selection was governed by the man made Industrial revolution, is man not indirectly governed by another man made product? Are Selfishness and Greediness acting as a tool for Natural selection? I guess so.

I guess I can call it a frenzy day..!..not because that some one poured a truck load of work on me..but for the fact that I wasnt ready for the work tossed upon me. Man...!..so dis-organised..! Sometimes it kinda sucks to see the folders in my laptop having all things that are not necessary...! and at the other time I literally suffocate on seeing the clothes from my laundry scattered on my bed creating a nasty bleach smell out of it. The simple act of postponement is what that makes me the most laziest person in this world.  Just having a decent funding, makes a person that lethargic that he dont have any problems swiping his credit card in the library to pay fines, just because that he didnt return a watched DVD, or a text book for which he would have been reminded humpty number of times. The thin line that demarcates lethargy from self sufficiency is completely invisible to me.

So let me take some time quoting the day's events. As soon as I woke up, my mouth, my heart and my soul didnt forget to curse tha nature for being so wicked and cunning for I have to do a 15 minute walk in this 7 inch snow. But as usual Mr. lazy quickly helped me find out the news that the class is cancelled. So this in turn provided ample time for another 2 hour sleep. After this the usual trauma of me getting ready for going to my office unfolded and this finally resulted in me walking on the snow dunes, with shoes sinking in slushy mushy wet particles which in turn sends a cold wave deep into your nerve. And mother nature being highly genorous in whatever she gives, provided ample supply of wind which literally makes you feel so numb that you donno where your head exists. And after all this ordeal, with god given confidence to survive I reach my lab and there again Mr. lazy creeps in. I did all research in all big news websites and finally landed upon my mailbox just to find my professor mailing me back one of my thesis chapter with a big chunk of corrections. Man I forgot the fact that he was on vacation, but I guess even in vacation, a professor doesnt forget that they have students. And now the mail reads, that not only that I read all those corrections and make necessary changes, but that he wants that chapter mailed to him by the next day, as he may not have any access to computers after that during his travel. Wow, hats off to his sincerity. Now, very sincerely I went and gave printouts of the whole corrected document, just to find that the printer is in a different lab for which i dont have keys. With 100 pages printed and landed on the inaccesable printer, me started hopping from floor to floor in search of the lab assistant and finally found that he is on leave. Wait, all doesnt end there. the whole building was amazingly silent which my cell phone doesnt like at all. So it started ringing with a un known number written on it, which I promptly attended just to find that my other professor who has gone to a conference needs 2 powerpoint presentations to be done and mailed to him in the next 6 hours which he had forgotton completely.

Huh...It just keeps on comin..and I couldnt stop. Fate always likes me the most. But who knows that it likes me in a sadest way. And now my disorganised laptop did its duty( I am blaming my laptop now as if it disorganises and shuffles all the files itself, periodically). I know that my slides for one paper already exists but I donno the place where it sleeps. Within seconds I have numerous folders and windows opened in front of me and was travelling from one to another. With misplaced irritation that is slowly creeping my mind,  I donno whether i am closing and opening the correct folders. Man... this is the position where a man hates himself and here I am doing the same. And finally i landed upon the correct document made necessary changes and mailed him the first powerpoint file. Within no time, my stomach started growling and I ran to my house to grab some food stepping over the white dunes. The whole remaining day went on me making the second presentation and mailing him. In the mean time I found another lab guy, caught hold of him to help me open the lab. I grabbed my thesis papers and started working the whole evening.

Finally I found out one thing, whenever life wants to give me something, it doesnt give me, but it floods me and whenver it wants to take something, it doesnt take it, but scrapes it, licks it and finally wipes it out, off me. ..leaving a big sigh behind, on my face..!