Last three days were bad for me. WBCs were being overwhelmed by foreign invasion and so the system was in a state of emergency. I self-diagnosed the phenomenon as common cold. All the time, I was either sweating from cold or shivering from heat.. Maybe it was the other way around, I can’t seem to recall.
It is said that when you recover from an illness, you’ll be more active. For better or worse, this seems to be true in my case.
Today, I got up at 91 and rushed to office. As a matter of fact, that’s the earliest so far in 20122.
Half my time in office is normally spent in discussions. In retrospect, I guess I was hyperactive today. A colleague wondered how I managed to speak so loudly as to be heard outside an air-tight room.
After office, I went to a retail for buying a formal shirt and ended up purchasing stuff exceeding 150+ GBP, totally forgetting what I intended to buy in the first place. Such a shopping spree is nothing new for me. Once upon a time in Gurgaon, I went to one of the shopping malls for purchasing a lock for my check-in luggage (I was vacating my home and was en route to Bengaluru). When I came out, I was surprised to find that I had purchased a few additional items – 2 shirts, 1 pant, 1 wristwatch, 3 novels, 1 mobile stand and a couple of Axe body sprays3. Apart from the purchase cost, I had to pay the airlines for these extra luggage.
Then onwards to an Asian grocery store and there, I used cash for payment after eons. I whisked out a £20 note4 to pay £2 with a swish and swirl on par with Rajnikanth5, forgot that something called balance amount is applicable when one pays by cash and walked out with a smiling face. The smile morphed into an amalgam of incompatible expressions when the shopkeeper called me back in to give the balance.
AND.. I threw in my views on one of the hot topics of today. My world views are highly influenced by the books I’ve read6 and by self-initiated logical analyses7. For the past few years, I have been excusing myself when people around me started debating social, political, economical, regional and religious topics. Reason: All my logical analysis led to an inevitable conclusion that if I enter a debate where two sides are arguing on such topics, my views would unite them… against me.
Sadly, my analysis was spot on and that’s exactly what happened. So, before I blundered further, I had to make a quick exit by summoning a fit of cough. Later, a few unfortunate entities who missed witnessing the rarest of occurrences expressed their disbelief that I spoke out in a debate on social issues8.
As the day comes to an end, I realize that this kind of hyperactive state may be categorized as conduct unbecoming of an efficient entity such as I. Hence, I resolve myself to get back to my normal self from tomorrow onwards.
Ciao!
1 A.M, mind you.
2 Not my fault your honour– night-out on new year, holiday on 2nd, sick on 3rd, 4th and 5th.
3 Ek lo ek muft offer.
4 This particular £20 note has been lying unattended in my wallet for the past.. 4 months. Why bother when there is a credit card?
5 Honestly, nothing so grandiose. Exaggerated just to add some spice to the post.
6 To understand how serious this can be, refer fellow-blogger’s post A new beginning. Considering that I jumped into the rabbit hole earlier than he did and I’ve covered more distance (Maybe because I’m leaner
), the side-effects mentioned in his post are but a miniscule sample of my case. Worry not, I’m as happy as anyone.
7 A particularly talkative fellow terms it as ‘vittam watching’ (not sure about the translation of vittam, I guess its part of the ceiling), but the term can be misleading.
8 Hmmm. If not for my self-defined boundaries of blogging which strictly prohibits me from writing a post directly involving such topics, I might’ve claimed that I’m brainstorming for my next blog post.
January 7, 2012 at 06:10
ha ha… nothing new abt this activity.. i have witnessed this hyperactivity of u b4 too… i know it wont last long.. but the best part is that u have realised it or rather got enlightened abt it:P