PLAYING TRUANT

 

PLAYING   TRUANT   

Life at large seems to be a game of hide and seek.

The major distinction from the child’s play of this game is that, in life we do not know where to hide and what to seek. But, what we seek readily hides no matter how trivial the item is. There does not seem to be any limit to this pursuit. I do not know if this is the way it happens everywhere or peculiar to India alone. Looking at the whole process of day to day living, what comes to my mind is one of the statements in Murphy’s Law. It says, “If anything can go wrong, it will”. Even if we try to look for serious exceptions to it, the law stays true and valid most of the time. It appears to be the work of destiny that decides your success rate. My calling it a success rate is a calculated expression to convey the idea that even for simple things more than one attempt is required. Look at some of these which would justify the notion of destiny in most things. By a clear plan, we choose a Sunday morning to book for some train accommodation well in time. When you are the fourth on the  queue, the employee peeps through the small gate to tell that the computer booking has come under a seizure and that further bookings would resume only after rectification, which would be unpredictable in terms of time required. Sadly you cannot hang around the place as you have promised your people of an outing. When you try to retrieve your vehicle from the parking slot, the caretaker is hiding. You need to wait for him as he has already taken taken your money promising to return the balance when you come after the work. The person takes his time to return, effectively irritating you. If you try shouting at him, he would demand your tendering the exact amount. It would be a bigger exercise running for minor denominations of money. What else but the day’s fate? 

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