Urban Lore of Luck & Life

(Caution : If you see a pattern in the following then do not assume that they have occurred to you immediately. They might have, they might not have, think abt it!)

1.Whenever you are waiting on the bus stop for a bus (what else!), and a jam packed bus comes, then if you somehow get on it then as soon as you buy the ticket, what you would see is another bus going to the same destination coming from behind which is relatively empty. However, if you do not enter into this jam packed bus, then you could spend the next half-hour waiting for an empty bus, but it won't show up.

2.Somehow, whenever you are waiting for a bus, the bus you want to board never seems to stop at the bus stop you are standing on, and when you board that bus, it seems to stop at every bus stop (stops sometimes without a bus stop). That's the On-the-bus-off-the-bus syndrome. Its somewhat similar to the relativity theory.

3.Whenever you think you've got everything under control in life, just then everything is going to get really out of control. And you would be left wondering why you even had that thought.

4.Whenever you think (night time is good for thinking) that a particular person has been really nice to you, or you have really good thoughts about a person and how he/she makes you smile, the following day or the week to come, that person will seriously challenge your opinions, and you would be ultimately forced to have a re-think. I think this law really makes me wonder that should we be forming opinions about people.

5.If you do some work right on the first attempt, people will always think it was easy. Somehow no matter how you made a complex work simple by using common sense, the boss would always seem to favour the person who made the simple work complex with his complete idiocy.

6.On days you would turn up before anyone else in the office, the boss would always arrive late. And on days when you turn up late, you would always find the boss waiting for you!!

7.Somehow people would'nt laugh at your jokes (no matter how good they r), and they would be laughing at pathetic jokes of other people, just cos they seem to have some face value!!

8.(This is not personal at all) Girls would somehow pick up guys on face value, no matter when they open their mouth, you immediately know that I would rather not be in their shoes :)

9.Somehow whenever you think you're gonna start studying seriously, something happens that detours your studying routine such as a family function, or something similar.

Life is grossly unfair, but no body ever said it was gonna be fair! And If I can remember more of such events I swear to keep updating this list!

God, Universe and Whole Lot of Other Nonsense

(I wrote this long back when I was really angry at something, I don't really remember what it was about. But as life proves to be very circular, I ofter wonder if I had seen this tree before and so I dug out this little passage)

Life is a set of completely random events resulting from previous random events. Infact it is such a big chain of random events that it cant be traced to it's roots. The seed, yes, that is what God is.

Every One who has programmed would know that random functions need a seed value to be truly random. Such a seed value should be completely independent for the resultant program to be truly random. For example, time is a random factor.

So, infact if this theory is correct, the there must exist alternative universe for each seed value generated. There must be a universe formed every second or maybe even every millisecond. And it is in this seed value, that the existence of God can be perceived. That is, it is the seed value that would decide what the outcome would be at step 1 or step 100 or step 99999547. That is each step is predetermined once the seed value is determined. And therein lies the element which is populary termed as DESTINY.

If souls are stocked in heaven, I wonder how they are chosen to be sent down to earth at a particular moment. Is a particular inventory method followed, like First in First Out (FIFO) or is it based on some other criterion. Or is that random too.

God has no authority to judge us on the basis of our deeds. This is because if God judges us on the basis of our actions in this mortal realm, then it would be completely unfair, as we are merely participating in the chain of random events triggered long back, and events pre-decided, the course of which we cannot possibly alter as it would disrupt the existence of this very universe. Einstein remarked that - God doesnt play dice with the world. I guess he does, only that the casino is rigged.