Glorious Namesake

Recently I met one of my old friends from school. We had the usual exchange of info as to who is doing what etc etc. When I asked him what he is doing nowadays, his reply was ,”Oh, I am into a very important job.”
“Oh, is it? What job?”
“I work as a senior graphical content representation editor for a reputed magazine.”
“What is this ‘graphical content representation editor’, I mean what work you have to do?”
“You see, I cut, paste, arrange and try my best to make the crap written by those paltry reporters viewable.”
“You mean, you edit the headline stories and news reports?”
“No, no, the lexical editing, I mean the content editing is done by the chief editor and his assistants. I make the articles sizeable, attach them with the photos and put them on a magazine size paper and make it print ready. Did you get that? Leave it. Log heads like you won’t get.”
Well, well, if he would have said it in a simple language that he is a cut and paste DTP artist with a news magazine, there won’t be any difficulty in actually getting what his profession is. But in a bid to make his profession look more important he stated it in the most audacious jargon.
Whatever work we do is important (atleast for the worker). But to make it further sophisticated, people like my friend adopt long nomenclatures for their profession. For instance, the grocery shopkeeper, just imagine, to follow the same track as my friend’s, starts calling himself as Consumable Disburse System Manager!!!! Ridiculous it might sound, but he is not lying about his profession. Similarly the sweeper as ‘garbage collector’(some java programmers might wake up from their slumber), the cook as ‘canteen officer’, the dhobi as ‘the launderer’, even the cobbler can be elevated to the status of ‘a surgeon unto mens’ shoes’!!
See, how the change in the nomenclature change the drudgery of the occupation and assuage the feeling of the deprived? As for me, since at present I am doing nothing, I can call myself as ‘the explorer of the oddities of life’.
What say?

A Real walk to remember

When I watched this film, I felt that all this sacrifice for love,a person changing himself just to see a twinkle in his beloved's eye or a flicker of smile on her beautiful lips-all this does'nt exist in reality,it looks good in stories and are restricted to films and romantic novels only.But when I came across this,my thinking took a U-turn and all the presumptions and thoughts that my all so wordly and logical mind had developed got erased in a moment. Have a look-
21 year old Katie Kirkpatrick Godwin held off her cancer so she could enjoy the happiest day of her life. She had battled her cancer since her starting teen years.But it always returned and ultimately her body stopped responding to medication.She had to use an oxygen tank to breathe, the strong pain in the back broke through the strong morphine dose and her organs were shutting down.Yet all this was not able to stop her from marrying Nick Godwin who loves her from 11th grade.Katie got married on 15th June,2008, five days later she died.This is how love can beat even the toughest sorrows.

Unlikely Believers

(Contributed by Vipin Buckshey in one of Khushwant Singh's columns.)
In a small town in India,a person decided to open a bar right opposite to a temple.The temple and its congregation started a campaign to block the bar from opening, and prayed daily against the business.Work progressed.However,when it was almost complete and was about to open in a few days' time,a strong lightening struck the bar and it was burnt to the ground.The temple folks were rather smug in their outlook after that,till the bar owner sued the temple authorities on the grounds that the temple,through its congregation and prayers,was ultimately responsible for the demise of his bar shop,either through direct or indirect means.
In its reply to court,the temple authorities vehemently denied all responsibility,or any connection that their prayers might have with the bar's demise.As the case made its way to court,the judge looked over the paperwork at the hearing and commented,"I don't know how I'm going to decide this case,but it appears from the papers,we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire temple and its devotees who don't."

What is your take on this issue-please do post your comments on the above situation,this is the face of spirituality in Shining India.