Running in a Circle

Seldom do we realize that life is more or less like a sprint track. We are running in a circle, not for a day not for a month but for the entire stay on this third rock from the Sun. Most of the things we do, repeat themselves, right from the food items we eat, to the clothes we wear, to the things we do. I think it was a movie in which they say ‘on a long enough timeline you are bound to die’. I would say on a ‘long enough time line everything is bound to repeat’. I present you the vicious circle of life.

I will want to shed some light on something very common to us that has been so ingrained that we don’t even see it as a circle - The Week.

Monday -

6:00 AM Beep Beep Beep....Snooze

7:00 AM Beep Beep Beep....Snooze

7:58 AM Damn why did the alarm not ring

8:00 AM Beep Beep Beep....

The inevitable Monday morning, the sun is not bright enough (cause the blinds are closed), the bath is not warm, feels like we did not sleep long enough (watching movies all night). Getting ready is a big mess, finally you think you are done but realize you have forgotten to shave. You return, finish up everything and come to the work place.

This is when you have a slight glimmer of hope, that your manager is also a human. Nope...not a chance. There he is the goliath of a figure ever so dedicatedly sitting in front of his desk...you mutter to yourself “perfect I am late and he is not”. The day drags on as you slip into the mountains of work that piles on your desk...you begin to vaccilate through thoughts in and out as to how you ended up here.

Damn i forgot to type in the weekly review.

Tuesday -

Oh God the weekend is still 3 days away, Tuesday i believe is more or less a day of recuperation. We pick up the spoils of the collision from Monday and try to make the best of it, we seems to think we are back in the groove, we seem to console ourselves by chanting the mantra of confidence - oh yeah the week is going to be a breeze

4:30 PM Another half an hour to go

4:32 PM Beep...Meeting from 5 to 6 PM

aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.....

Wednesday -

The late evening meeting lets us know that we have to deliver an impossible piece of code this Friday, the breeze slowly turns into a hurricane, destroying all the movie plans in its path. A slow grim engulfs all the people in the team as though the world is destined to collide with the Sun and nothing else matters.

3:30 AM Click..Click...and Click there its done I can now test everything and have it ready for review tomorrow.

Thursday -

Team Leader: (shrugged shoulders with a blatant look) Doesn’t work! Get back on it!

Om: I swear it was working yesterday (it is last night) night, i don’t know what went wrong i will get it to work. i will have a look into it. Well I guess after that I can find the cure for cancer.

4:00 AM There it is done.

Firday -

Om:Ya i have finally got it to work you can review it,

Asst Manager: actually the Manager is off looks like he has a cold, so it can wait till Monday, thanks for the work we appreciate it.

Om: (Thinking to himself; What the deuce? Worked my arse off, only for the deadline to be postponed…..life is so cruel…..lets go of all the frustration with a sigh).

Asst Manager: (noticing the sigh; ?????????)

3:00 PM 2 hours for the weekend.

Pending tasks for the weekend

Have to do the laundry from Tuesday, groceries from Wednesday, Bank visit from Thursday, Family Guy, American Dad, Sleep from 3 days, 1000 phone calls…..

Saturday , Sunday-

Now lets see, its here…..the small trinket of pleasure, u know the feeling, when u wait for a moment for all eternity. It does happen but, it turns out to be just that, a moment. Ends a million times as quickly as it starts. The good thing though is all this is ready to repeat, like an ipod stuck on repeat.

Monday -

6:00 AM Beep Beep Beep....Snooze

7:00 AM Beep Beep Beep....Snooze

7:58 AM Shit why did the alarm not ring

8:00 AM Beep Beep Beep....

…..and so the wheel of life spins furiously ever so slightly spinning unto itself, consequently ending in oblivion and that my friends is - Running in a circle.