time pass by aakash seth

written by aakash seth, who joins the writing team for my blog for guest articles, he is one of the guys whose reads a lot and has a very clear cut view on most of the things yet like most of us, he is confused for rtl. this is his first post on my blog.

it is just another morning , it always have been like this. but does it affect anything? everything around me is same – same sun, same light, same people, their routine activities, same food, same vehicles, same rush, everything is same but how does it affect me?

may be just being chained down to routine gives me such a feeling or may be it’s just that i feel pathetic about it as i cannot change things around and do nothing but just curse everything which comes by my way. yawn… then day begin and you see some one on the washbasin, someone running to toilet and the time is just 06:00 am.

oh, not again, why did i wake up so early? what will i do for next few hour (few cuss words just to myself) as everyone is fast asleep. i try to tell myself, come on; just pass the time on bed, don’t get up. cool to know that it’s 08:00 am now, some people have gone somewhere, others are waking up for their turn to join the force to make a difference in this world.

shit, it’s still only 09:00 am, now what do i do? ok, i got the newspaper, same old stuff with new packet. i hate to know money is the only driving force every where but still it serves me better to pass another hour. now i m alone. i am fully awake with eyes wide shut. how to pass time? should i call someone. what is your update? what he is doing? what is your plan for the day, listen to me pal, you can do this in such way and blah blah…

humm some more time(an hour or so) passed. reading something and watching movies make me feel better like an escape from routine and sometimes from reality(which i don’t want to avoid because it is only thing which is not routine) lacking the stock. but i am just not interested into reading and watching movies any more but still to kill time movies are a good thing. it’s sometime around 13:00, precisely 13:30. yippee , i am ready to join the force now (few more curses) .

i quickly get down to basement, start the bike, push the throttle till it can take no more and hit the road, sun is smiling with its full brightness, fuck, not again. i hate traffic jams (good waste of another 15 – 20 min) some 25 min later i find myself removing my sandals and entering the temple of force also known as office (i am not excited to be there but currently best place to kill time )

t314495 – asd@1234 , setha – pass@word123 aakash@123 setha … i have logged in. now what, i start the day by joining the group who are praising some other group of people then joining another group who are cursing some other group. give your expert comment. ya ya, supervisor is up with some task and he wants you just you to do it — what is it? do some monitoring, solve client query, create some thing here and there, do stats gathering for that.

thank god i am busy for some 6-7 hours (just getting out for a puff or a cutting, no, thank you, but i am not hungry). 20:30 or 21:00 everyone has gone only 3 people sitting  in the office and one of them is me. yups, dad call is coming, he likes that i am enjoying my work and same stuff he talks about almost everyday, i feel good, he cares. mum takes the phone next.

mum says hello “khana khaya ki nahi”. ” haan yaar aap hamesha hi khane ke peeche kyo padi rahti ho” i reply (ok, sorry but i lie here about things she wants me to do everyday, which i don’t do everyday), haan ghar pe sab acche hain. here i have also got same queries like “aap kya kar rahi ho?”, “dawai li ki nahi?”, “aaj awaz kuch down si lag rahi hain?”, “kya hua tabiyaat thik hain ki nahi?”; (and here she lies to me nahi beta kuch nahi bas aise hi kuch kaam kar rahe the, so thak gaye hain). in approximately 3 minutes i say bye. i love you mom, dad

and now i pick phone and start calling others who are waiting for my call. yeah, i have got few people who wait for my call at this time as well . here i am the guardian, talking to them – blah blah, same bullshit every time but it makes me feel more happy. now i am fully awake by mind (not by eyes or body ). i get out of office at 10:15. by 10:20 once again my ass is on the bike and as i hit the road at speed of 80-90 kmh on the way to home.

meanwhile, i decide whom to meet or where to go first and do so as soon as i get down from my bike. this is the best time you are sitting and enjoying time with people you like (either face to face or on phone ), though we generally talk about same stuff everyday and pull each other’s legs ,which is pretty much a routine but unlike other routines, i like this routine .

it’s around 01:00 am or 01:30 am, my brain says, hey start making the goodnight calls to everyone or you will be wishing goodnight in their sleep. once again an hour or so on phone. yes, i spent lot of time on mobile, which would be on number one in list of the stuff i hate most. the moon is up in the sky, everybody is down preparing themselves to join the force again in couple of hours and with full energy and being fresh again and now i am not feeling sleepy…

aakash seth, 19 may 2010, 16:00 ist

disclaimer : i would like to point out that all views expressed in this column are those of the writer and i might not totally and necessarily agree with them.  any credit positive or negative must be given to him.