I Wonder - (I)

Sometimes the use of a technology belittles its own purpose. For example- a birthday reminder. What is the message conveyed here? “Closest pal, it is a waste of memory to remember your birthday. So you fill this automated B’day card sender for yourself and it will henceforth wish you good luck even after you die. And don’t forget to treat that as a genuine wish from me” Now that is a true eternal wish from the heart you see. How sweet..

My nephew once asked me to define God. “God is the one who stands above us. He is the all knowing, who guides us through life, giving us advice on what is good and what is not.. He is omnipresent, who is present everywhere around you… where ever you see. Hez like a grandfather full of wisdom who was born a long time back and who has no end.” Said I. and my nephew immediately responded “I have seen god on tv.. hez there everywhere anytime.. telling us about soo mannny good things to buy..” .. he was referring to Amitab Bacchan. Now I need a different definition for God. Can you help me?

It is amazing how the human emotions work. Especially in retrospect, they seem crazy. When we look back and relive the moments we thought were life or death situations, the seriousness we had attached to those events which turned out to be nothing in true sense, we tend to laugh. And when whenever we think of some really good times we have had, we eventually become sad that they are over. In a sense emotions in retrospect elicit the direct opposite effect. Amazing!

“The females attract the males with a scent secreted by her hormones. The males naturally get attracted by that scent and gets drawn towards her subconsciously.” Courtesy – Nat Geo “Dogs in the wild”. But what if the dogs know that the female is faking the scent? For that we should study the homo sapiens. Despite their reduced olfactory senses and the fullest knowledge that the scent is faked, the sexes get attracted towards one another. ..interesting. The point here is that the person could afford to buy one. Nothing more than that.

Worth nearly Rs. 4000 crores, the spurious drug industry is a health hazard says the government. But I feel that there is something more serious than that. It is the doctor’s handwriting. No one can spot six differences between a dying man’s ECG report and a doctor’s prescription. Assuming that the doctor isn’t a quack himself, the chances of one’s survival is totally dependent on the coding and decoding process that happens at the doctor’s and the pharmacist. People hope that the doctors have steady hand during a surgery, while the doctors can’t even hold a pen steadily and write something even remotely resembling the alphabets. Now I understand what “Trust In God” means.