What's up, Doc??

Doctors are among those few people who manage to scare any person, regardless of age, caste, religion, gender etc etc.. out of his wits. Here is a list of things that really freak me out when they come out of doctors' lips:

• You need an operation.
• This won't hurt...
• Please complete all your pending work today and report in my office tomorrow morning.
• You are going to have fun at this hospital. I've instructed the nurses to take special care of you.
• Do you have anybody from your family waiting outside for you?
• We are going to try this new treatment technique on you...
• Don't worry, it's not serious..
• You have a week's time.
• You can trust me. My family psychiatrist says I'm cured of my Psychopathy...
• What's that strange swelling on you neck? (pause) Oh it's your head...
• As a kid, I wanted to be a butcher. That job still fascinates me...
• Sorry, I can't help you this time.
• Are you serious? I've never heard these symptoms before...

:D :D Beware... And I never said this is an exhaustive list... :P


Disclaimer: The jokes are so good that some may have stuck to my head and got projected as my idea... No copyright infringement intended... :P

Ambitions, life's reality..

I remember asking my dad every second day what he had wanted to be when he was a child, and he used to reply,"Let me think... When I was young, I really wanted to be a truck driver." I used to ask him, "Why truck? Why not a car?" And he would reply, "trucks look more grand, don't they?" I know now this was a little joke he enjoyed a lot. I still wonder what his ambitions were, and whether he succeeded in becoming what he wanted to that badly as a kid. He never told me.

When I was a second grader, I really desired to be an astronaut. Then, in sixth standard, I realized that to become one, I would need to know more physics than my brain can probably process, and I switched to music. I used to imagine myself on stage playing the Grand Piano in front of a large audience who had paid to come and watch my show. Yeah, great thought. Definitely too good to be true... So then I decided i wanted to be a great scientist, a thought probably inspired by Professor Utonium (Power Puff Girls, people!). There have been several turns in my life, and surely in everybody else's too... Ambitions surely sound lame, but they teach us so much! Almost everything you learn in life comes from an inspiration. The inspiration to achieve something. That something, is always an ambition.

Life, almost never follows a fixed plan. You don't usually get everything you desire. But then it also never stops you from dreaming. Ambitions are those dreams. Dreams give us hope, and everyone who has read the story of Pandora and her Box of Troubles, will second me in saying that hope is what drives us ahead in life... It drives us towards Adhwann, the path ahead....