Last week one of my friends was buying a laptop from DELL’s website. DELL gives you the option to customize the laptop i.e if you want a higher RAM, you can do so by paying some extra amount. In short you get a “Made To Order” laptop!... I was wondering what if everything in this world was made-to-order!!!!!... I thought of a few things that I would like to have made-to-order –
1) Girlfriend : last week I was having dinner with one of my friends. She asked me “Dipen, tuje kaisi type ki ladki chaiye life mein?” I said “a cute, sweet, soft-spoken, curly-haired non-gujurati doctor”. She asked “itni saaari ladkiyan chaiye?? Ye sab qualities ek mein milna to bahut mushkil hai J.” Then I wondered if I was asking for a lot! I mean, what if God gives us what we exactly want! What if God gives us an option to have a life-partner who is made-to-order! I think that would be the best possible thing in our life. If such a thing happens then:
a) The number of extra-marital affairs will reduce drastically.
b) There will be lesser number of quarrels over petty matters and that would lead to more happiness in marital life.
c) Kids will be not be exposed to domestic violence.
d) There will be lesser number of suicides, killings over dowry, etc.
2) Parents: A few months ago I had written a blog called as “comparison-syndrome”. That blog had come straight from my heart because I face comparisons day in and day out! Every day my mom keeps saying “uska pagar dekh aur tera pagar dekh…. wo kitna patla hai aur tu kitna mota hai…wo….tu….”…!!! at those times I get so frustrated that in my next birth, I would want to ask God to give me made-to-order parents! I know that you must be feeling ki ye kitna besharam beta hai, but try to be in my shoes and you will understand my point. Taunts, comparisons are OK if they are thrown at you sometimes. If that becomes a habit, then it screws your brain! Don’t you think so?...
3) Job and Salary: As far as job is concerned, I feel that hardly anyone is happy with his/her job and salary. Even if at one time we get a satisfaction in job profile, it is very difficult to get a satisfaction in salary. Jitna bhi mile, kam hi lagega! The increase in salary looks good or satisfying for the first few months. Later on we start sulking again” kya yaaar…pagar hai ki majak hai .hatttt re”..!!!
Friends are what we choose consciously, so I don’t think we need to have friends “made-to-order”. Otherwise, the above mentioned point and few others that I could not think of , made me feel that god should give us an option to have things “made-to-order” in life!!!!
