The lights are upon you… The drums are rolling… “And the
winner is….” Drum roll, beat, and it’s YOU!!
Let’s face it we have all had this
fantasy. Walking on stage to receive a coveted award... My favourite involves
winning the Nobel prize for literature and medicine at one go. (I’m thinking of
including one for peace as well… I’m getting there, really!) Many boring
lectures, lengthy queues and the omnipresent power cuts have flown by with me
practicing my thank you speech. (I swear, ARR somehow learnt my starting and
used it for his Oscar:/ )
Now, among many other things, I
also believe I am a good psychiatrist, with my favourite (and only) patient,
being me! And the reason I feel that I so enjoy these little interludes and day
dreams, is because they bring to fore the feeling that I’m special. Unique!
Just like every damn person out there! (I also have lot of other fantasies that
bring forth a lot of other stuff, but this may not be the right forum for
those! God, I just realized how dirty that sounds!!) Getting back to the point
at hand.. Wait even that sounds a little dirty! I might also be slightly considered to be a
little bit of a pervert sometimes… It has been said of me, that I can take any
sentence out of context and make it dirty! A talent I share with some close
buddies. Yes, the ones who catch your eyes and laugh out first along with you…
But seriously, I digress! Getting back to my distinctive and matchless
personality…
Lately, I have begun realising how
peculiarly normal I am as a person and how surprisingly similar my life is. It
all began on the first day I was joining a project in my IT company (after an
arduous yet amazingly fun training at Trivandrum).
I did not know the way to the office and like every guy I shirked away from
asking for the route. In Google maps, I trust! Halfway through the journey
though I realized that the maps were not necessary in the slightest, my office
was showing its own way!! No, we didn’t have helpful signs along the way
showing us the direction to take… The signs were the people! Everywhere I went,
every step of the way, there were at least four others wearing the same ID tag
as me! All I needed to do was follow the crowd! So I literally just observed
the people around me and made my way successfully to what was not an office, but
a town by itself! It was that huge!! Maybe it was at that moment when I started
realizing that I was just another IT guy. Look at my life graph till now –
good-at-academics-school-student, engineering college, IT job! All that was
left was: trip to the US,
marriage after becoming coveted US
maaplai and then coming back to India
and complaining about how ‘hawt’ it is! Well I was halfway there, exactly
like all those around me! I hate my job and I look for people like me
and half the company stand behind. I look for aspirant writers and there is an
internal community for such people with thousands of those! I look for
bored-to-death-aspirant-writers, from my college, of my age, and still turn up
with a good crowd!
That was when it hit me! With over
one billion people in India
alone, one in a million just doesn’t cut it anymore! Think about it – if you
are really one in a million, that means there at least a thousand other people
just like you!! (Yes yes… The math is right. I’m an engineering student!) And
that’s only in India!!
Think of how big the world is! We have enough people that bizarre and really
rare probabilities could be realities somewhere out there… And most probably
there would be three or four of those too!! No wonder there is so much crazy shit
happening!
And finding your doppelganger could
actually be a reality! Heck, you and I may even look the same!! All those
movies where random people who look exactly the same (and like the hero), don’t
seem so stupid anymore, huh? Other than the death and gravity defying stunts
(and the unrealistically beautiful women and perfectly synchronized sudden
street dances), all those can actually happen!!
The silver lining to this sudden
loss of my ‘special’ status of course, has been that I find a lot of similar
minded people. And maybe as a group we can form an identity that is unique!
Also, by realizing my non-uniqueness, I’m now unique (the catch-22,
strikes yet again!) If you just went – ‘I have thought
that exact same thing!’; please proceed to go ahead and kill yourself! Dying at
my hands, will not be easy... I will find unique ways to kill you!
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