Socially Challenged Persons

Today, I will introduce to you a special type of people. I like to call them "The Socially Handicapped People" or " The Socially Challenged People" . I don't know how many people can be counted in that category but i am hoping that i am not the only one. Coz it would freak me out !

Ok. Who are these socially challenged people(SCP)?? I will explain with an example. Imagine this situation.

A couple is taking a walk along the road. Girl sees a cockroach and screams. how would a normal guy react? and how would a SCP react?? Lets see...

Girlfriend: blah blah blah...

Normal guy:hmm.... aha.... oh.....

Girlfriend sees a cockroach,screams and holds guys hand.

Normal guy: Sweet heart, don't be afraid. I am there with you naa... I love you!

Girlfriend: I love you too!

i will leave the next scene to your wicked imaginations!

Now the same scenario with our nerdish SCP.

Girl friend: blah blah blah..

SCP:

( Stares blankly at her. nods his head vigoroulsy in an effort to convey to her that he is actually listening)

Girlfriend:

( sees a cockroach,screams and holds the guy's hand)

SCP: (to himself)

Whats wrong with her? Its only a cockroach?? I mean who is afraid of cockroach??

Is she trying to satisfy my male ego by making me feel like i am protecting her?

If the SCP guy is in terminal stage, then instead of wondering to himself, he will let those thoughts out.

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So, i guess you got a hang of what a socially challenged person means. He is a person who dont know how to behave in a social situation. He feels like he is attending a exam when he is in a group. By trying to be funny, he often embarasses himself. He is more comfortable with non living things than living things. Because of this inability he is often mistaken for arrogant,aloof idiot. Well, I am one.

I don't know why. I don't know how to make small talk. My conversation with a typical friend goes like this.

friend: hi

me: hi

friend: hows everything?

me: fine

friend: what else

me: nothing.

friend: hows life?

me: ya fine. every thing is routine.

friend: Um... ok bye

me: ok. bye!

I don't know how people manage to talk for hours on phone. The above conversation is the best i can manage. in fact, one friend accused me that i am not interseted in talking to him. He said that may be he was disturbing me. I told him that theres nothing like taht and i am glad to talk to him. I just dont know what to talk! He got angry and hanged up.

I don't know how to keep relations. I don't know how to keep in touch with old friends.

worse yet, i don't know how to make new friends!

If a person who works in my office and with whom i never talked too much ran into me outside, i dont know what to do .Am i supposed to smile at him and go? or am i supposed to say hi and chat for some time? Am i supposed to ignore him ??

In office, When a co worker is coming straight ahead of me in opposite direction, am i supposed to make eye contact?? am i supposed to mumble some greeting?? can i ignore him??

It all may seem silly to you. May be you are doing all this stuff by reflex so that you are not aware that this kind of problems actually existsBut Thats not the case with me. every minute i am not alone is like a test to me!

I know this post sucks. Never mind. but next time when u see a person suffering with these symtoms of SCP, please dont think he is arrogant. Thats all i am hoping from this post!

Life, Death and The Bucket List

Have u ever wondered when will it all will be over? When will u die? how would it feel to be dead? ( dumb question, i know, but its got a mystic,ironic feel to it.) well. You will certainly ponder about all these questions after watching this movie... "The bucket List".
It refers to a list of to-dos of two terminally ill cancer patients before they die in six months.
I wont dwell into the story but i would recommend u to watch it.
But seeing the movie spurred something in me... i sat calmly and thought for an hour. One question disturbing my mind???
"When u are in deathbed and about to die, what will be the thoughts in ur mind?"
"if your life scrolls before ur eyes, what images that would contain?"

Eventually, i figured out some answers and frankly, they are really disturbing for me.
When u are about to die, you wont remember the movies u watched. No, u wont think about ur favourite hero.
You wont think about the cricket matches u saw on TV. u wont give a damn whether india won the T20 or Test series with Australia...
You wont think about any material pocessions ( sorry if it sounded like a cliche..).
You would only think about ur loved ones. The love u got from others since u was a child.
and the love you gave to others.
You may argue that there is nothing new in this discovery. But personally its painful for me.
coz i realised at that moment that may be i am prioritizing my life in a wrong way.
may be i am giving importance to frivolus things and neglecting important things. I wont dwell into personals and stop here.
I've anther question for u. If u know that u are going to die in a month or so. how would ur attitude towards the world change??
Let me guess....
You will appreciate the small wonders of life.
You will try to love everbody in ur life.
The silly opinions u held against some people won't matter and
some of your adamant beliefs seem unimportant.
You will see the world from a whole new paradigm.
and if u have enough positve attitude,
you will try live every remaining day of your life...
Why do we need a deadline from death to think in this way?
Why cant we do that now?
Before i stop,I will leave you with these questions from the movie.... Think about them...
Have u found joy in your life??
and most importantly
Have u given joy to other people around you??

PISS WORDS

Not too long ago, the biggest worries for mankind were hunger,calamities,death,war etc.. gone are those golden days!
The second most fearful thing after death for me is not public speaking anymore. Its now fear of forgetting passwords.
I may sound like i am exaggerating but just look at the list of passwords i have to remember…
1. My mail account.
2. My office computer
3.My laptop
4.My bank account
5.My Railways website account.
6.My office mail account.
7. My office helpdesk account.
8.My blog account.
9. My ultimatix account(its very complex to explain what it is. Lets just say that is my office website.)
and i didnt even mentioned my multiple email accounts, blog accounts!
“What’s the big deal,loser!” you may ask. “whats the worst thing that can happen?
there are always options like “Did u forget ur password?’”.
Yup. There are. But to me, they look like ” u forget ur password yet again, mudhead! Are you positive that u know the alphabets??”. Its a personal problem.
anywayz that list was not an end for me!
you might observe that the contribution of my office to the above list is quiet significant. its not a coincidence. After all, every company’s primary goal is to torture their employees in new and innovative ways.
(now know why i am a loser…!!)
But my company didnt think this was enough. After what i thought an eternity on bench, i got allocated to a proshit.(it u think i misspelled it, think again!). now i swear i have to remember 10 more passwords which are purely work related and highly confidential and critical. even worse, if i mistype the password for 3 times, the respective account gets locked, and it takes an entire day to sort out the mess.
And in the confidentiality agreement i signed, i am sure that there was a condition in a obscure corner that i am responsible for any kind of information leak from my PC.
So, i live in constant fear of forgetting my passwords or losing them.
The ultimate thing that pisses me off is while i select my passwords.
should be atleast 10 characters
mustn’t be easy to guess
should contain Captial and small letters
must contain Numbers and symbols
must change every week( for my work related passwords)
even u should nt remember it after 10 minutes of distraction
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA………..! Isnt there any simpler way??????????