We think. That’s normal. But in our everyday life, most of the things that we come across go unnoticed to the conscious self and we tend to not bother our engaged mind with thinking about those things. Those things, however, are captured by the subconscious and are stored in a remote corner of your memory which gets randomly accessed at some random point of time in your future life. Now that could be the root cause for deja vu but talking about the scientific or spiritual reasons of deja vu is not in the scope of this post. I would just try to bring into notice some of our normal everyday life experiences that I thought are interesting.
Now tell me, how common is it for us to stand on the road side and bargain with an autowallah, when he proposes a rate which is 5 or 10 rupees more than what can be considered as normal, and simultaneously give a facial expression as if we, individually, have been asked by the world bank to repay all of the Indian external long term debt. This behavior seems contradictory when contrasted with the situation when we go for treats and parties and don’t bother to spend more than 100 bucks on a single bowl of soup. I wonder what we would do if there was an autowallah in place of the waiter in the restaurant. I would rather leave the question open for you to think upon.
The second thing that seemed interesting to me deals with those small (or large) pharmaceutical shop(s) nearby the hospitals or clinics you visit to have your eyes or your tummy or your back ache treated. We are all familiar with the beautiful handwriting doctors use to “treat” our eyes with after the real treatment (This is one of the many unresolved mysteries for me yet: Why do all the doctors in this whole damn world have such interesting handwritings!! In case this is not a mystery for you, please let me know about it). The doc would prescribe to you some medicines and will dictate the same to you in a quick way leaving you completely or partially shocked and the moment you come out of his room, holding the medical slip in your sweaty hands and trying to memorize what your savior inside just blabbered, you would feel helpless. With great disappointment, you go to the nearest medicine shop and there you find something which you came to the hospital for in the first place. That is relief. After you let the medical bill go into the hands of the shopkeeper and he convincingly starts describing about the medicines, and when should they be consumed by you, and what that medicine actually does, you start feeling relaxed and I sometimes think that this is where the actual “treatment” starts. Just a thought.
Let us come to some shouting now. There is a fairly large and decently famous temple near my house. So whenever, if at all, I need to refill my religious bank account with some spirituality, all I need to do is slide the curtains of my window to one side and let my eyes wander in and around the temple. But some days ago, even this small need of having to look towards the temple was taken away from me because of some religious event that was being held in the temple. They were chanting (read shouting) the mantras and all the so called holy things that are supposed to cleanse one’s soul which, normally, must be a brilliant thing to do but there was one small problem: They were doing it a little louder than they should. All I could do was to listen to (read bear) the religious proceedings and wonder: Are really making the environment more peaceful?
There is one last thing that struck my mind recently while I was reading a friend’s new blog. The tagline of his blog is random thoughts. Now this happens very frequently (wanna read the title of this post again?). Whenever we try to describe our thoughts we tend to use “random” more often than any other adjective. The question that rings a bell in my head is: Ain’t all our thoughts random?
So that’s all for now. Live. Love. Laugh. Eat a lot. :-)
P.S. - I don’t intend to hurt anybody’s sentiments - religious or financial. These are my thoughts and if they happen to be contrary to your thoughts, then lets just respect the right to express one’s opinions and not get hurt with what others say.