Life is a Joy..(Yeah Right!!!)

I just heard my friend got his Labor Certification for Green Card. I am really happy for him?(didn?t u see my fake plastic smile while saying ?Oh really ? Congratulations? while screaming ?Damn? inside my head..).He was elated..that..he got it in six months..(just what I needed to hear..before I break my keyboard..)..while mine is stuck in a black hole called Texas INS for the past two years.

Whoever said ?Life is a bitch? must have been the first candidate who got rejected at 485 stage. Now I know how philosophers are made. You see..now I have to come up with some philosophy to move on?to be nice to him..to be nice to others?so I started wondering things..like??Life is not measured by Labor,GC?its about travelling more..enjoying family..spending time in Hawaii..?..(oh..shut the justifications...u got f****d?just deal with it?than rationalizing). But I guess we can?t move on until we do create a personal philosophy that is filled with great inspirational stories?(basically stories of people who got f****d more than you).So I started looking for some?

Imagine the guy who goes to doctor and the doctor tells him..?I am very sorry..wish u had come last month..you just moved to advanced stage of cancer? or the guy who has a disease with a name that u can?t spell nor say it..and they tell him??this disease can be treated only when ur less than 10yrs old??... I don?t think I am in that deep a hole?but I guess we do live in a world where things get better as time passes by..

Imagine my Grandma, who had to wash clothes , clean the vessels all her life and finally ending up with hip transplant..and today I take more time trying to put the clothes from washer to Dryer..or my 1600$ camcorder I bought a year ago costing just 600 bucks today?or how I missed the internet age by just a few years and the ?possibilities? that come along with it? but..it got me thinking ?Does technological advances mean a better quality of life ? it?s just another flavor to life that wasn?t available before..( who am I kiddin ?..)..

Anyway..i think I can't regret too much about things that are not in my control..and I got enuf stories..and analogies and rationalizations..to move on to my friend?s party happily?knowing that there are other?s who got screwed more than me!


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Uhi Rajeev,
Va, Amrika

Rajeev,

Nice write-up. To your point of what life is measured by, for me the old adage describes it best: Count your life by smiles not tears, count your age by friends not years. Maybe a bit cheesy but that sentiment truly reflects my outllook about life these days.

Regards.

darling rajeev, so what lessons did you learn from this incident..i for one am jealous since you had quite an adventure that i missed...ONLY WHEN YOU FALL WILL YOU LEARN TO RISE- thats what my dad tells me...and belive me...rising from a bottomless pit is another story...(i'm still neck high in the puddle)

Congratulations for having not an ORdinary Life...FATE has better things stored for you!!!!LIVE IT while you can!!

Dear Hushpuppy ji and Captain Haddock,

umm thanks for the sentiments. I tend to like dogs a lot since I grew up with one. Ani puppy is the best part ni. And so, I do like the Captainship material as well.

Cheers & TGIF.

Uhi Rajeev,
VA, Amrika