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Does our generation really deserve to have children?

This post only deals with the predicament of working parents. Women keep blogging about these topics but then men care as much. We who love kids as much as those with a big joint family, or which are ably managed by housewives and in rarest of rare cases by house-husbands (I wish I had the courage to become one of them full time) suddenly find that we are giving a raw deal to our kids . The alternatives are quite petrifying . One of the spouse has to quit the job .Or get an ill-trained maid whom you don’t know and just trust your kids in their hand or put the kid at the mercy of a good looking creche and then put your hand to your heart and say “ALL IS WELL”.Else force one of the granny's to stay with you endlessly unless your Dad is retired and you can force him too.(I have been cruelly using this option). In-case the grandmother is working that option too fizzles out. Or send the kid to live with grandparents if they are staying in a different city.

We may convince ourselves that we are giving the kids the best that money can buy but the fact is that what little toddler in your home requires is your time, full time. You may buy better chocolates and better toys than you got all your life but then you won’t be able to convince yourself that the best toy for the Kid that is you is not around to get these plastic stuffs. And there is no way to learn what the kid is going through all day cause when you return home, he always gives you a glorious smile.

And as days pass the kid doesn’t need less of your time and you don’t get any less busy. Of course your last temptation may be to imagine that as time passes the kid will become busy with school and activities. But then you are again banking on outsiders to ensure that your kids learn as much as possible. Where is your role?

I am not even arguing that one of the parents not working is an option in today’s uncertain and money dependent world where each breath requires constant flow of money and each month is laden with all sorts of bills possible.

Unlike the west where playschools and crutch are under strict regulations and any let up on their part can result in severe penalty in India the kind of daycare that is available is at best sloppy.And even if there is a problem they know that you cant sue them for a million bucks like they do in west. So there is no way you can force standards except for the faint possibility of buying standards .

As one of my friends described it, “The situation is scary”.

I would like to know what other parents thinks especially those who have gone through this phase and the kids are like 7-10 years old.

Why I dont matter to the Universe

U are inconsequential, the dinosaurs were inconsequential, the big bang was inconsequential and the big bust will inconsequential. The tigers we are trying to save don’t matter either. Nature didn’t miss us when we were not there and it didn’t miss anything when the tigers were not there. It won’t miss us when we are all long gone .What matters is your own pain and ecstasy in the interim and I know u will bear it or handle it or die of it, in each case it doesn’t hurt the universe .And I tell u whatever good or sins u commit if its according to Gods plans he will not punish you for it either. And if God is just playing some kind if Maya video game with us then  he won’t be bothered with what to do with u once u are dead.

Poem - A Random Goan Sunset

Waging a war against the demons of shiny bright lights

First in the colors of crimson splendor I am born

In pitched battles like those in folk lore

Many a curses and abuses are sworn

The dazzle of bright white light

That steals the calm of nature

Each morning bearing the news of turmoil
Dragging the creeping present to future

The bright Sunshine in shiny white armour

With shining swords and shields at noon

Looks so invincible as the Gods of old Greece

It never looks it will gasp for breath so soon.

And i am full of friends

And I have a group of motley allies

And the gossip is of dread of darkness

And the world is so full of lies

The black dark cloud forming in rage

Against the heat and the fire

That those swords of sunshine unleash

And our fate looks so dire

The tiny proletarian wasp of steam

Gather to form the white summer Cloud

Still shivering and shimmering under the dread

Of the mighty forces of the Sun screaming aloud

And some of those clouds are in mood of a revolution

And they are turning black in rage

My allies take first blow to crumble down as rain

And some of them are put in a Shining Cage

And to mark its victory

Over the heaven and the sea

A seven colour arc of light is fluttered

For the vanquished to see

I am the champion of peace and sleep

And I roar Back with utmost glee

And I strangle The warship of the great enemy

Till it has sunk in the farthest point of the Sea

Burning gaze has lost to the great knights of darkness.

What was a few hours ago

A reign of immense heat and terror

Is now a humbled foe.

I am the Knight of the Darkness

And I am valiant warrior of peace

And with the magic of the starry curtains

I bring it down to the knees

The Practical Guide to Being an Atheist

1.      Religion stinks??? What else do you expect from something that is at least a millennium old?

2.      Belief in God is ok as long as it doesn’t lead you to a stupid Religion.

3.      Don’t fear just because Kapil Sibal is threatening with Blasphemy laws. All religions are blasphemous to each other.

4.      It is belief in stupid practices that people want to impose in name of God. 

5.      Argue against the stupid practices. It is most stupid arguing against God.

6.      Never indulge in an argument with a believer they will always lose.

7.      Believers lose logical arguments on purpose.

8.      The believer rejoices in his ability to believe in spite of all lost arguments.

9.      When they are arguing hard they probably have a stake in checking your patience level.

10.   God is just an excuse for a believer to do what is wants to do. Pray!!!

11.   Recruit only the Religious for sales and marketing. They are good at marketing what doesn’t exist. Think of what they can do if something really exists.

12.   Never be an atheist during festivals. It’s boring.

13.   You may even miss out on Yummies !!!