WHY GETTING INFECTED BY CONJUNCTIVITIS IS ACTUALLY AN AWESOME THING!!

    Well, just yesterday, when i woke up from a deep slumber, looking forward to another day in college, my eye just refused to open. I tried, but it got kinda painful, sticky and watery. With the other eye leading the way, i rushed towards the mirror and with horror, discovered that the concerned eye had diminished in size, the eyelids had swollen, it was blood red and some yellow gook was oozing out. After the initial disgust, the obvious dawned onto me, Well, I had gotten infected with conjunctivitis. Also known as 'madras eyes' in layman's terms.
       Like a normal human being, who doesnt really know much about the illness, i was pretty scared. But then, after further speculation and hours spent with the thing, i kinda realized that hey, this is one rare supposedly 'bad thing' where the advantages FAR overweigh the disadvantages...!!!!
       I'm not saying that getting your eyes red and watery is like, a kickass thing to happen, but here's a list that formulated in my head as i wistfully lay with the eyedrops in well....my eyes...

So here's the thing- WHY GETTING INFECTED BY CONJUNCTIVITIS IS ACTUALLY AN AWESOME THING!!

1.You get the usual sympathies and well wishes and lots of pampering.

2. Bunking class and college are added incentives....I mean, come on!! how can you let other innocent
    people risk getting your dangerous disease by going out in public??? Its practically social service, to say
    the least.

3. No one tells you to do too much work. More than love for the ill and affection, they basically dont want you to go near things cause they fear infection.

4. No more are typical phrases like, "mom leave me alone" heard in the house.....thanks to the fact that mothers are actually too scared to come nearby, and let you be in peace in your own room.

5. Annoying siblings, just like the mothers, also keep away, and trust me, a break from the usual brotherly troubles is like a boon very well deserved.

6. You arent even expected to study...."Its causing strain to my weak, whithering eyes, mum!"....(of course the fact that I'm actually online at the moment means a very contrasting thing)

7. Its as easy to sleep as.....say...to clap your hands or whatever else is easy. Personally, I find it very hard to sleep, but to my obvious delight, these red eyes have actually given me the reward of nice, deep, slumbers whenever i want them. :)

8. You get to sport glamourous glares without looking lame in the cloudiest of weathers.

9. You can just scare people away....one look and poooof!!!

10. And here is the best part of all. Believe me, apart from reddish, watery eyes that become sticky when you wake up and a momentary feeling of grossness when you look at yourself in the mirror, Conjunctivitis is absolutely nothing..i mean, it doesnt even pain!!!
  

 Yup, thats it....as for now. So seriously, next time you see some red eyed bloke acting all cringy.....you know what the TRUTH is!!! And of course, this has kinda led me to believe that yeah, EVERY cloud, however dark, stormy it is DOES have a silver lining. Its upto you to find out the brighter side and turn it into an advantage. :)  

ok God, its time to speak up

Dear God,

                Well, lets begin with the usual pleasantries....so, i hope alls well in heaven and the demons and all are not causing too many problems...:-) We all are pretty fine here on earth...yeah the icecaps are melting and stuff is getting polluted RAPIDLY but yeah...we are taking one day at a time...and just about making it...so now I'm gonna get to the point.

                 Since a very long time, I have been wanting to seek audience with you....for the sole reason that my confused mind is not willing to completely accept your existence and at the same time, deny it. Its groping in the dark....and swaying around for light....its uncertain and unsure...its agnostic. The fact that i am addressing it to Your Almighty means a lot, doesn't it? I wouldn't mind carrying on with the 'agnostic' tag but the self conflict it creates is not exactly desirable. One moment you are arguing with someone and the other you are like, hey..God can be there...and you just keep questioning everything all the time. I want to get it cleared but then again my mind asks for proof...which come on God, isn't really something YOU could boast of. And that makes the whole thing even more difficult. :( I mean, OK...I'll say that yeah i believe in you but then, WHAT do i believe in???

               You may call me lazy but i don't see the point of travelling to crowded temples, standing in HUGE queues that sometimes consist of even a few floors!! We buy a bunch of flowers, a coconut and a li'l packet of pedhas or something and after hours of strangling around with millions of devotees, all we can really hope to get is a momentary glimpse of 'You' before being rudely shoved away by these huge, burly guard-like men. If a temple is what i want to visit, i might as well go sit and reflect in a nice, peaceful temple where the people are few and no one says much...I honestly prefer this calm to that chaos. A quiet garden with beautiful flowers and the distant ringing of a bell to the sticky floors of crowded temples strewn with dead flowers and wilting petals that stick to our bare feet. This is when i actually feel of You as a possibility..that smell of incense sticks coming along with the breeze...it makes me WANT a divine force..someone watching over me....listening to my wishes...planning my life...deciding my fate...its actually a very comforting thought, God..when we feel only our heartfelt prayers will bring good health to our ailing mother...or give us the brains to pass our exams...I suddenly feel in love with my surroundings and feel good about everything.

                And then, I go home and switch on the television. And the news channels are screaming about some terrorist attack....i change the channel and another channel shrieks about a rape victim being killed and the killers roaming around...i am immediately saddened....its the everyday news, i know that...but my thoughts begin to wander towards You....tell me God, if you exist, why is there so much evil? It might be an extremely immature question to ask, I know that but still...why do so many terrorist organizations flourish around the world? Why are so many innocent people ruthlessly murdered at their mercy every year? Just the other day I read about a stampede in a famous temple. Really, God, hundreds of people died there at your doorstep. What happened then? You just let them die? Why do the jihadis still plan and successfully implement their dreams (now realities) of hardcore destruction? Why do rapists and corrupt politicians move around fearlessly and truthful whistle blowers are killed brutally?Why are powerless women regularly beaten up by ruthless chauvinists and no one can really do anything to them?

                Tell me GOD, WHOSE side are YOU on??? What happened to those ambitious ideas like 'victory of good over evil' and 'u reap what you had sown' and 'what goes around come around' ??? Why do they seem like just a far-fetched, fairy tale like thing now? THIS is the reason i don't feel like believing in you...this is the reason my faith dwindles...and trust me, once gone, FAITH is very hard to come...even if its in YOU, God....

(maybe) one of  your subjects....

Swaroopa