I am Alive!!!!!

I Am Alive!!!

A second blog post with the same title...but seems to be apt given the current scenario

This post is the excerpt from the series of thoughts that streamed through my mind on my way to work on the day after the blasts at Delhi high court.

The newspaper carried reports of how some people were lucky to have missed being killed by the blast and how someone was unlucky by being early in reaching the court on that particular day....

Suppose one does manage to escape from the terror attacks. But hwo does one surive through the innumerous factors which are out there to attack.. if you survive the terror attacks, then there are natural calamities like earthquakes, floods, tsunamis!!!

If one manages to survive even that, then there are innumerable accidents especially in a city like Mumbai.

The way people travel in the local trains during peak hours is plainly crazy. One has to be really lucky to be coming back home alive. god only knows how many people die each day in rail and road accidents everyday.

Suppose one still survives the accidents and makes it to the next day...

What next...

The Rising inflation flares its hood...
1) Hike in fuel prices: petrol, diesel, cng,lpg, piped gas
2) Food prices escalating. : but farmers still commiting suicde... no improvement or relief in their lives...
3) taxes rising...now perhaps very soon along with educational cess we might even have to shell out a cess for healthcare benefits.. ( Wonder.. healthcare for whom though...wonder how much of the educational cess that we have paid has helped in eradicating illiteracy from our country )

4) Real estate prices rising

5) adding to the woes of rising property prices is the rising interest rates making home loans dearer. So if one dreams of owning a house, it would only remain as a dream or would bleed one till death.


Ok.. so suppose one still manages to fight the above battles... tries to earn money in order to live for one more day... tries to work hard... but s/he has to fight another battle at work.

1) the boss!!! your growth/ happiness/ how much you will earn... all depends on the boss and the boss's perception about you.. no matter whether you work hard/ slog/ die... nothing matters...so you better please your boss...

2) Fight to get a better pay packet.. try to find a better job.. say things which you don't believe ...please people....so that they like you and offer you a job or perhaps give you a good hike in the salary

3) The strike at will contest.... Bus strike, auto strike, taxi strike, motormen strike, truck drivers strike, political strike.. (read enforced 'BANDH').. wonder what will happen the day the Common man decides to go on strike and whether if such a thing will ever happen

But people still survive these slow and silent killers. They still get married and make babies; oblivious to all thats happening around...Maybe thats the only thing which takes their minds off such things...

and perhaps this has lead to the growing business of all the possible babas and matas that we have around offlate. . people just want a way to escape this madness of the world around us. or the ever increasing line of 'Navas''" at lalbaug cha raja or the never seen before crowd at Mount Mary...apart from the innumerous holy places that we have...

Dont know about me.. but our Gods are definately getting richer... ( read the reports on the offerings at the various ganapati pandals in mumbai alone).



So... I guess.. I am just plain lucky to be alive at this moment and to be writing this blog post... :)