You must have known persons, who remain hard
core positive come what may. Similarly, as opposed to this, world is full of
people who are fiercely negative. They are constantly talking about the end of
the world. In my college, when the Professor asked us what career we want to
choose when we grow up. I said “I want to become a teacher”. A classmate of
mine came to me and declared ‘teacher’s life is useless to say the least’. I
wondered why he said so. Upon inquiring he supplemented his statement with
another heart-breaking statement “Whole life he is playing around with calcium
carbonate (chalk)”. I remember his prediction word by word. When I met him
recently in our college reunion, I came to know he had become a lawyer. I am
certain if I would have said I wanted to become a lawyer he would have
discouraged me with full force. However, I did a stint as a professor in the
Academy of Indian Railways at Vadodara.
Such (negative) people
always have the negative virus flowing in their veins. They can off hand offer
you ten reasons to not to get your house painted in whatever month/season you
intend to do it. When it comes to matrimonial alliances, they are the worst
people to have around. For example, they can object how the bride-to-be would
travel for her job daily. You try to convince them these days cabs are there;
they would retort how can she travel alone in the cab. You do not know these
cab drivers; they are nothing but full-time criminals and only part time
drivers. So, it is not practical and safe. This alliance has no future
whatsoever. When everything else fails they are sure of this deadly weapon in
their arsenal, “the girl is a Leo while the boy is a Sagittarius. They are not
meant to be together. Stars don’t favour such a matrimonial alliance and worst
awaits both of them”. These people spread so much of negativity in their
household that slowly people stop visiting and socializing with them. It suits
them. Worst recipient of their negativity is their own family members. They
have no option. An uncle of ours despite his son having secured very high marks
was admitted to not-so-good college but nearest their home, that is just across
the road. Distance being the only criterion. As if this was not enough, he
would stand wait for his son at his side of the road like a worried and nervous
prospective father outside the maternity ward.
When their college trip was going to Simla he came up with scores of
risks in going to Simla such as Simla is not for we the plain dwellers of
Delhi, the sheer winds of hills are so strong, Dillwalas are not used to, the
climate is so unpredictable that you are bound to fall sick, it is so freezing
cold that won’t suit we Dilliwalas last but not the least the terrain is so
precarious and dangerous at every step that you will feel you are walking on
Delhi road while it may suddenly have so many highs and lows that you are bound
to slip again and again.
They are
the type of people, even when offered the office of President can come up with
reasons rendering Presidentship as not so good a preposition. Delhi has lot of
pollution, the climate is miserable, there is lots of traffic in Delhi, you
cannot enjoy Golgappas at roadside stall. You will always be surrounded by
security men, not a private moment for yourself to go to Karol Bagh for
shopping from sale. Imagine! is this a job worth taking up where you cannot eat
or move around as per your heart. Last but not the least, President House is
too mammoth a palace. Such buildings are the favourite haunting adda of evil
spirits. Spirits of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy are often sighted night
walking in White House. Even if you do not believe in spirits the House is so
big that you will be living constantly under the shadow of fear. During night
you will have company of witches and during the day security men will surround
you. You never know you may get hit by a bullet mistakenly fired by some over
enthusiastic security men. You know how these days actors are getting hit by
their own guns. Today it is abhinetas tom it may well be netas”
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