Letter to god: Unfinished business...

Dear god,

I am sorry for not being in touch with you lately. As you already know, things on this planet have turned from bad to worse.

When I first came here more than 29 years back, the times were different and the people were good. Submerged with unnatural and superficial gains, the inhabitants of this planet seem to have lost their characteristics amidst their inconsequential trysts with their very conciousness that is now flexible, artificial and devoid of any real integration.

My mission to encompass centuries of knowledge with the empirical learning from earth now faces extinction. Lost in the light of ignorance, I seem to be blissfully unaware of what awaits me and my fate. A very earthly word, fate, seems to have caught on to my daily vocabulary. I use it all the time. I refer to ignorance as light because it is everywhere, and more often than not, it is blinding! After all living in the land of mortals has cast its delirious effects on my individuality and persona. I have started to live like them and have also begun to experience shades of grey, collecting and beginning to understand their psychology and philosophy that is nothing but a reflection of their lack of understanding of the truth and the virtual reality.

Quite interestingly, I have to admit that nothing is lost as of now. This Sunday I went to the Church, presuming I shall find you there, and I did. But I guess there were too many men and women and I think my dissidence prevented me from coming forward to approach you. Your favourite book was actively referred to and various biblical references were being linked and knotted with the life in an average earth day. I am sure you must be happy to see so many people trying to be good! At least I was.

While walking back, Jacob, one of my friends on this planet, narrated me the story of good and evil and how Satan defied your power and separated from the heavens. He also told me how you had left the humans free to make choices to distinguish good from evil. My only contention is, why do you not give them a wee bit more clarity in terms of their objective of existence? It would be great if each of them was somewhat clear in what he or she has to do in his or her menial seven to eight decades of existence on this planet. As of now, they seem to be lost!

Arguably, you are too busy minding your own stuff and do not have ample time to do all of it all by yourself. Nevertheless, this unfinished business of yours seems to be affecting me in a rather adverse manner. I would presume you would know that by now. Why do you not hire extra help? I mean, we have your people down here as well, but most of them are not even close to doing a very good job. I think you need to empower each individual with the same power that you possess, the power of distinguishing good from bad! Give them the focus if not anything else

I must bring it to your notice that if the current scenario continues any longer, I am afraid, all shall be lost and we would be in a rather unchangeable position.

I request that you treat this as urgent.

Hoping to hear from you soon

Warm Regards

Manish

"sometimes it is the same difference"

Things I think I should do

...I would say that in a scenario where one wants to do something and somehow, has been unable to do it, there a two things one can do - Quit or Stay!

People all over this planet are equally divided between the two options.

But since I am someone from outside, I believe somewhat differently. What if "Stay" as an option is exercised for a limited time and then once you have got what you wanted, you decide to call it quits, just in time?

This way you shall do what you wanted to and you also get a chance to catch the bus you would have missed had you decided to stay permanently.

They say life sucks. I agree it does. But it depends on you as a person, what you want your life to suck from you. My life sucks too... but I let it suck what I WANT it to suck.

In a past, not very long ago, when I was working with the DIC, a central headquarters dealing with classified information processing and dealing with cases involving broken trees in the middle of deserts, soiled bedsheets, dirty linen and deflated tractor-tyres, I often came across scenarios where I had to deal with a number of unfinished cases that not only changed me but also taught me the essence of being a true Zakjeturian. People on this planet are almost always caught up in trivial issues and thus fail to concentrate on their prime objective. Thus, when the time comes to deliver, they resort to old techniques like giving a 50% discount or at times even deliver for free (Source: Doneemo's Pizza)

With less than seven days left for project completion, my mind was was still caught up with things like a change of my job, my third divorce, graduation of my 13th kid, the "I" button that was missing on my laptop keyboard and of course, few other things that I cannot discuss and those that are worse than my missing "L" button, sorry... "I" button. The scope creep had set in and I knew that process design was directly related to the design of product and/or service/its service.

"Anyway - I just wanna say, why bother with what happened yesterday... it's not my style I live for the minute, if ya wanna stay young get both feet in it..."

Sorry for that... just something I was listening to while writing right here right now.

So I was saying... discovering the scope creep, I decided to adopt an approach that got me what I wanted to get. But with that, it got me a lotta other things I did not quite like. But that was a trade-off I had to make to achieve what I had set out to. Of course, I made mistakes... BIG ones (Aerosmith). There I was dancing in the dark after achieving what I had set out to.

But at what cost?

My "I" button is still broken!

But as Piyush said on his FB status, Good judgement comes from experience and a lotta of which come from bad judgements...

...I think I am very well experienced!

Excuse me now, I need to go and mend my "L" button... sorry again I mean "I" button!

(Its amazing that I can write complete nonsense at times!)