The Most Profound Question.

What is the most profound question you've ever heard? i'd expect it to be a couple of lines atleast.

The most profound set of words i've ever come across is:

Q.     Why?

Ans. Because.

Q.     Why Anything?

Ans. Because Everything 

The Personality of the Road Beings

Who the bloody hell are you?

That question can be trivial and/or one of the most self-examining ever, depending on you.

That search for definition of who we are, and the craving of an identity, the issue of belonging... all these philosophical and though serious... boring things have been pretty much documented by half the pyscologists in the world, and the rest of the literature by lousy indian american writers, that not really what i want to talk about, anyway.

Coming to the Point. Who the bloody hell are you?

Now we can define you in innumerable ways, and put you into little boxes and label you. Race, Class, Creed etc... and you're supposed behave like how the rest in that box behave. These are as things go pretty lousy blocks and are unreliable at best. 

Thing is i thought of a differnt one... box that is... and it is proabably one of the most awesome ways to describe a person(-ality).

The Way you Drive!

i've been pillion to a Number of drivers and all of them have a distinctive style to their driving which co-related to their actual personalities.

Now, the reason i never published this before, is that i never had the Complete picture you know .... all sorts. Today... that happened and now i'm in a position to put forward a theory.

Now lets start with Prashant,

 Drives like a maniac, and nearly got me killed twice.

  

 He drives fast, and looks through to all the short cuts, and irrespective of the cost... just takes 'em. High concentration, low effort.

Next, A guy who i don't talk to anymore.

 Another guy who drives like a maniac, nearly killed a cow. Rammed into a toyota, with a mod  engine.

 this guy... tries new things all the time, never completes anything and crashes before the end.

 pretty much the definition of a guy who tries too hard doing all the wrong things without getting the basics right,

Mr. LuckyStrike

 

 Dude has concetration issues, nearly killed me again. And a two wheeler.

 the dude has concentration issues, and lets say doesnt give a fuck about what baggage got left on the way. 

Me

 i'm a boring, responisble type of driver, i dont exceed 50 dont take risky shortcuts, and therefore never go too far. or put in enough concentration of effort to overtake that one lorry.

and that says pretty much everything about my personality.

Obviously i haven't given you ALL the details, if i did, i'd be stuck with swollen hands for the rest of the week, but trust me on the facts and the correlation.

now the last piece of the jigsaw which completed the picture.

Today i met a Loser.

In every sense of the word.

He was a nice guy. and had come to the driving school for a four wheeler license. 

First thing, he got tricked into giving me a free ride. Then, i get on... and he starts driving.

It was a scooter, been a while since i got onto one of those. An LML Vespa. it had that small seat in the front, you know for the kiddies? So i guessed he had two kids, further investigation of the number plate showed two names written in diff colors, So that one worked.

Then he starts driving. He never crossed 35 kmph on a six lane highway. He stopped for stray motorists to cross. He had issues asking for directions. And he had issues going atleast 3km without stopping to ask for directions.

i was to put it mildly, vexed.

Turns out the guy is 45 and just got promoted to Asst. Manager in a state owned bank. 

He never took a risk, there are So many banks doing predatory hiring and he never went there, he is a semi pushover, which proabably explains his position in the bank. and a TON of things, if there is any person more unremarkable, i'd love to see him... because who i saw today was the perfect output of "The Man".

And another reason why i think my theory rocks is...

Women Can't Drive!

That explains a ton of things. :P

inspiration

Writing without inspiration is pretty pointless, makes you sound like a broken record, or worse like McCain. So, I've been waiting for that particular spark, which has pushed a door open in my head and thus pushed my thoughts into directions that it has hitherto not gone to.

Anyway i got one of those today, and i shall verbalise it.

Eventually.

The Mirror

We've started a Paper in our college, its in its second issue now... and lets say it needs a lot of work a lot of people were involved in its design and fucked it up majorly. And its going to be some task, undoing all that nonsense.

any way... here's the second issue.