Friday, 21 September 2012

Making it Personal !

 Try recalling the last time you held grudges against someone who happened to be a beneficiary of something you were vying for.There is high probability that the time was in recent past.No matter what our values are and how rational we might pretend to be,we do not mind hitting them where it hurts. The recipient of this uncalled for 'violent hatred' which suits best to vent your anger in written form, can be anybody ranging from the not so nerd looking guy who made it to your dream college while you kept wondering whether the paper was of Greek language, seeing the omnipresence of symbols from the language. A little more evil could be the guy who not only made it to the college but also stole away your crush. But, most of the times the offence can be imaginary and the recipient 'innocent in all the charges leveled'. But no logic can be a counter-logic that "it was supposed to be a free world & the accused, hands in glove with with the system has trespassed on somebody else's dreams ", and as we all know "trespassers would be prosecuted". And thus, we take it upon ourselves to punish the intruders.

  A vigilant mind keeps looking for opportunities to 'beat them in your own game', given they fall for the trap. The optimist in them or the opportunist as you would believe them to be, would fall for the trap and thus a very good chance for you score it even. Irrespective of  the fact that the addition of  scores of  two quantities of  different systems  into one unit is mathematically unacceptable.'Irrelevant' even in your user friendly 'Tally' or 'Excel',if you want it to be more professional. But who considers maths or mathematical softwares when the mind is enjoying seductive pleasures in deriving unbalanced equations, heavily in our favor. In an attempt to prove our competence we sum up everything available on Our Hand Side equal to the one thing we considered worthy and which unfortunately ended up Their Hand Side.

   This secret desire to prove ourselves leads us to challenge 'geeks and nerds' for friendly cricket matches or 
 any other such thing where they are believed to fail. Playing victim as love to,the result of the game could be to our surprise but it still gives great satisfaction that we tried to make it even. Not only that it gives one more opportunity to hatch an even more sinister conspiracy and finally beat them in the next round of this never finishing tournament of 'us against them'. Probably this fight is as natural as the ones in the Food Chain and gives the world a reason to get up every morning and get going, mine is to win the next game and the next and the one that follows. 

 The feelings seem exaggerated in the light of the analogy and the writer be spared being branded a psychopath.  :-)

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