Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Lets kill the Buggers

Its past my bedtime , i just  thought id  let you guys know how much im enjoying being back at writing. If  you guys write too just drop in  a comment with a  link and  ill try and  catch up with what  you are writing. Do remember im not looking for official sites  but rather  personal ones , and no pictures  of cats dressed up please.

Right so lets just get a  piece of how i go about blogging currently. Every morning when i get  up  i generally think about what  im going to write  about,  actually a  mini Aha  moment  occurs while i experience  something  or while im thinking about something, but yes a basic tiny two liner  is drafted in my head every morning. Now whether  i get  the  time to write  this idea down , is another thing. So many thoughts have  risen and died within a  span of a  day. At times when i do sit down to write it just doesn't work,  i mean either the ideas weak ,  or boring or just to random for completion ,and then it stays as a  draft very rarely completed. And those might be the days  that die without a  word out.

So what  was bothering me this morning you might ask,  and  i shall lay the  thought before you for  for consumption. I woke up  and all i could think about was negativity. Have  you ever come across people, who just are unpleasant , you meet them once and  thats just about it , you feel depressed and angry, and then you meet them again and  you  are certain its not worth another  meeting.

I have very recently come across one such man ,and  sadly enough its a flatmate. The  nature of the man is such that if you were to give him food  even though hed been hungry for decade, im certain he would find a  way to criticise your cooking, either  the  salt would be  too much for his palate, or he'd complain  that the  food wasn't hot enough. But thats just not it  if it was  just a an overcritical man it would be fine, but whats really loathsome is that  such a  man hides it all behind a  highly inflated sense  of morality and  ooh  the manipulation. I think that's getting a  bit too personal now. But somehow even the notion of such a man just brings about the  worst in me forget about the  actual being.  Everything is not good  enough,  if you suggest a restaurant, and  the  service is slow he would blame  you for it  not directly but He'd comment in such ways and  associate the restaurant with you that  you feel responsible for his misadventure.

 But that's not it either  everything seems so vile for  example this daily conversation that we have which I think is  basically  a gumption trap set  for me every morning. The conversation flows like this and  this usually happens as im dressing up, or having breakfast before leaving for office
Me: Hello Good Morning (im a  good morning person strange  enough)
He: hi so are you going to office  today
Me: (no im getting dressed  for your dads wedding) Haan saab(sir) I have  office  today
He: saab(sir) aaj holiday nahin hai
Me: nahin saab are  you off
He: No but app chutti lele (take a leave today) how much you will work  ,every day, they make you work so hard. (delivered in a sarcastic tone)


I personally felt that  this morning ritual is specifically put in place  to just get me started on the wrong foot. I mean imagine a  day you are  not  really in the mood for work, you know you have an hours commute ahead of you and you aren't really looking forward to it , those days  this  simple conversation can be so difficult. Luckily till date  i haven't had such a day.

Now  take  another statement  , its great fun to have  chicken in front of a  non vegetarian who cant  have chicken that day . Its just plain mean and i just don't get it. I just don't understand the  logic behind it, why would  someone  drive pleasure out of someone else's discomfort. And theres no real animosity here , no hatred  just  plain brotherly love.

Right  you will come  across such people  , my initial reaction was to fight back to give snap responses. Simply shoot from the  hip as it came. As i said before it consumed me and brought out the worst in me. The end  result would usually be an argument. Then i realised that in reality there was no real intent behind his comments, its just that  he'd lived  in such circumstances, or rather  moulded himself in such a  way  that this was now the way he was. I really cant  improve  on him , i  cant change  him no matter  how much i push for it. I have dealt with people  like this before  , iv found it the most difficult to work with them, they are just black holes for energy and  intent , but none the  less  they can be worked. But that's not my point. Basically what im trying to get at is that  no matter  what  happens once you realise that being negative  is a  part of someones nature and that the contempt / gumption trap is not really intentional , then its  easier to  just radiate energy,  enthusiasm and intent and  usually it does rub off even though it might be  for a  limited period of time. Its  like charging someones battery for a  period yes i might not like doing it but that  then im doing it for a  very selfish reason. So i talk big, not  react  now  and life's better .  Another  strategy that i have  found quite useful is clearly pointing  out  negativity / gumption traps,  though id use this selectively. But the  most important  technique is to not take  it seriously and specially not to carry it with you, and that my friend is the  lesson i have learnt over this weekend. It works now , im  not critical i have accepted facts for what they are thats what  makes me what  i am. Clearly its  not entirely out of my system if im blogging about it,  but  believe you me it does help me function better.


1 comment:

aditi said...

Nicely written and described :) could feel connected :)