Do good and good will come to you

Ever since I was a child I am being told everyday that if I do good, good will come to me.. there are different ways of telling this though.. ’karm karo fal ki iccha mat karo’.. ‘neki kar neki paa’.. and many more.. all from the mouths of the pundits in the temples, our beloved grannies, God fearing moms and even some friends who believe in spirituality.. (spirituality seems to be quite in fashion these days.. maybe its time to take your call :) ).. at times I feel that all our religious books are nothing but fables with this ‘do good, have good’ as their moral of the story..

Yesterday I came across a wonderful sms.. it said.. “if you are standing in front of a lion, dont wait there like a dumb arse thinking that he wont pounce upon you just because you have been a vegetarian all your life”.. hehe.. so just because you have not taken anybody elses life till date or you have not harmed anybody does not assure you of being safe always for that matter..

Well.. after i put on my thinking cap yesterday night, I could not but help think about the man who had to confront the lion.. In fact, I was wondering if my vegetarianism was ever going to do me any good.. anyone who believes in 'those' fables and is smart and cult would argue saying that if that man had been really that clean and unadulterated, God would never put him in front of a lion.. hmm.. makes sense naa??

But what I tend to believe is.. its not always that good happens to the good.. its just that, the ‘good’ would consider anything that happens to them as good.. maybe this is what makes them the good... On similar lines.. you doing good in want of good to come back to you leaves you to be no good…

Hmm.. more commendable belief would be.. everthing that happens happens for the good (Remember the Akbar Birbal story where Birbal proved how getting is finger hurt also did him good).. even better one would be ‘ jab jab jo jo hona hai, ho jata hai ‘.. and then it is up to us to find out if it happened for the good or to the good or whatever.. food for thought ??

I take a leave though.. dinner being served for me.. :)

Cheerz to life !!!

Wanna make a style statement?? A recent survey shows that its very simple these days.. You may use anything of your wit, your bank balance, your hi-tech gizmos, your dressing sense, your stand on politics, your humbleness or even your conservatism.. I am often floored by the breed of people who have never given drinking a try but still make it a point to show their stubbornness by claiming that they just don’t want to go for it..

Are you the one who doesn’t drink just because you think you are not supposed to be drinking and not because you don’t want to drink? Are you the one who has never experienced the adrenaline rush so far? Then you better take this with a pinch of salt..

Well.. the only one ground that you may cite for drinking being bad can be 'health and morality concerns'.. Well.. there are a lot of other unhealthy and immoral habits that we people already have succumbed to.. You are no exception buddy !! Watching senseless movies and stupid programs on TV, badmouthing people behind there back, enjoying pervert adult messages, ogling at people of the opposite sex, behaving in a way that would coax people to glue their eyes at you (not always for the good reasons), use of swear words as if it were our mother tongue and many more such unhealthy (some for the mind and some for the body) and immoral things have been our way of life all this while.. So is drinking really that big a deal ??

And now.. My arguments that say drinking is ‘not bad’ (request you to notice that I am not calling it good)..

1. You need to be a man to go for it.. And so if you happen to go for it, stands as a proof that you are a man with the balls..

2. Drinking can make your otherwise forgettable but beautiful and cherishable moments very memorable.. This is so because the possible aftereffects of the party which could be anything from the huge huge bill or you being caught for drunk driving or you having a bad time vomiting or even worst... you having to take the responsibility of carrying your friend back home while you yourself are drunk (incase the friend is so drunk that you have to be the man again).. if you can go around drinking with the other sex., then I need not comment on the probable outcomes.. :) Hmm.. I bet, you will never forget anything of this all through your life..

3. Jokes apart.. the most powerful argument in favour of drinking not being bad in my sense will be.. the bestest bonding that can ever take place between 4 friends can be only over a table of drinks.. Because only when you are drunk will you have lost control over your diplomatic, mean and wicked senses.. making you truly true to your heart and speaking out words that you really mean.. (i have myself witnessed this happen to people.. so I can bet on this..) n I guess everyone will agree with me on the fact that getting to know who is indeed your true friend and who is not can be the best thing that can ever happen to you..

And so if you are someone who is looking for a truly genuine friend from amongst the lot, all you have to do is go for it.. atleast its worth giving a try.. what say??

Hmm.. its something like this.. theres this girl you have always liked and even she loves you.. Both of you have confessed this before everyone and are happily going around.. But theres this ‘line‘ between both of you till you ‘make love’ (more contemporary readers should read it as ‘get married’).. Its just the same here.. You are friends with so many people around you.. but you shall be able to cross the ‘line’ (of friendship) with any one of them only over a bottle of rum or whiskey..

Memories when you threw up like you puked blood or the day when you had to be literally tied up with a rope onto a bike (3 idiots ishtyle) to be taken to your home or had to spend the entire night in some pit on the roadside or the party when the drunk Vice President of your company put his arms around you and complimented you on your choice of the girl of your life (yeah yeah.. he knew it all but kept mum till date).. Worth treasuring naa ??

So if you are the one who wants to make a statement through your abstinence or orthodoxy (obviously, you must not be having any of the other worthy things in your kitty).. if you don’t mind being on this side of the ‘line’.. if you don’t mind being a virgin all your life.. that means, if you have no quest for ecstasy.. then I don’t think you ever need to bow down before the ‘Drinking Gods’..

STATUTORY WARNING: Drinking can be injurious to health. :)