Friday, November 23, 2007

Questions for our 'Ears'

What you want to do and what happens are propositions having a probability of 0.5.
If you know the ear-bud seller that I have written about in one of my earlier posts, then you would know how I felt that it was futile to sell on the roads of bangalore.

A couple of days back I was in the auto, waiting at the traffic signal. There came our small girl with her ear-buds. One look at her and my heart melted. I reached out into my pocket, found a 10 rupee note and immediately bought the buds.

Now ever since I have never stopped wondering as to why I did that? Have I encouraged her to sell more on these roads in what probably is, according to my limited business sense, a low revenue, low yield business? Its the age old dielemma that most of us face ... 'should I give alms to the beggar ' dielemma!

I have always been instinctive all my life and thus I guess I will keep on doing such impulsive acts... good as well as bad.. but it would be nice if I could have the ability to figure out the answers to these questions that keep raising

Asking questions is always the easier part.... why do we not answer them once in a while for a change? So many ppl appreciate persons who have a ' questioning attitude '... but I , ironically , am asking a question... "Why is it so fashionable to ask questions ?"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i meant which battallion you belong to!! got a little too excited.. and didn't know how else to get to you so i commented on your post!!

anup menon said...

I was in 13 Gujarat (Boys) Battalion NCC. That is 3 years back when i was in college in Gujarat. :-)