Midnight Bakwaas Episode 1

"God is watching us... God is watching us... From a distance", sang Bette Midler.

Sitting in my room at midnight I wonder if she really understood the true meaning of the song. Did she really think that God is watching us from a distance. I don't know about her understanding but I do know, if I may dare claim, how God must be feeling watching us from a distance. How much this 'a distance' is for God I know not but I strongly believe that for somebody like God 'a distance' must be measured in at least a few light years. However, sitting in the last row and watching the whole class from there would evoke the same feeling in anybody.

In any classroom just turn your head to the right or left and you would see a sleep stricken soul, sitting in the front row, tormented by the battery of hogwash jabbering but still courageously holding the frontline (both literally and metaphorically). Words are mightier than swords. Never before would you have realized the true power of words than when you see this soldier fight the losing battle against the oncoming charge of words imbued with such a drab and monotonous tone that even elixir of life (coffee) fails to save him from dozing off...doze off he does!

Not everybody is blessed with the same amount of fortitude. You swivel 60 degrees in your chair and somewhere a few levels below you would see another mighty stalwart brought to the state of drooping-eyelids. This soldier is one level above the previous one (both literally and metaphorically) as it doesn't take even five minutes for him to surrender himself to the surging urge of yawning. Despite his immense size he cedes territory to the enemy almost immediately.

Offense is the best defense. Truly believing in this corny saying would be some semi God who, like you, enjoys the privilege of watching people 'from a distance'. At some point during the ordeal when the level of boredom breaches the critical mark, a kind of nuclear fusion reaction spurts out within him and abundant energy in the form of a question is released in the process. Complex reactions result in complex products. The result of this reaction is also so complex that all eyes, even the ones which had gradually shut their lids down, also light up from this effusion.

We can go on and on talking about all the specimen that one gets to see in a classroom but I have learnt something from God...Actually, God is not watching all of us (at least not all the times). God, like investment bankers, focuses only on a few sectors at a time. These days He is focusing on the sector called Indo-China. Therefore, I also focused on a select few. Maybe in the next edition of this midnight bakwaas I'll shift my focus to lesser mortals...