Theory for addicts

Synopsis of my uneventful day (sigh sigh)

11.35 am
British high commissioner is visiting our office today and my project is amongst the ones selected for presentation and my team is required to give a brief . sitting with team preparing a 1-2 min presentation.

12:00 am
My project manager calls up and conveys that no one can leave for lunch till the visit

12:30 pm
grump grump I am hungrryyyyyyy and a protest march is going inside my stomach against the atrocities committed by me->my PM -> her manger

12:57 pm
The firangs have just arrived…………… was suppose to present a summary about my product but these guys turned before my desk to check some other module (grrrrrrrrr)

2:00 pm
I feel like having chewing gum…

“ Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism- Carl Gustav Jung”
In my case its chewing gums.. albeit harmless one...... it’s still an addiction. If I have to rate myself on scale 1 to 10 I will say that I am a very mild addict so…2 would be my number.

Since last one hour I am getting tempted to dash across the street and buy myself couple of them. But as I had promised myself day before yesterday.........yes guys One complete day without CG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Addiction is a very strange……. we all know we are addicted , we all know it’s bad yet we can’t control the temptation. I rose twice from my desk…took my purse and moved towards gate but somehow I managed to resist (so far).

So how do we identify ourselves as addicts? Now here is my theory. You are an one when

1. You think that without that ‘thing’ you cannot think. Reason – I personally feel that without chewing CG I cannot concentrate (like now when I have some work pending but…… grrrrrrr)

2. When u want to have it u just want no matter what. Reason – ethically chewing CG is not good especially when you are talking to someone but I have observed numerous times that people have it in their mouth and still they are giving presentations, conducting meetings etc .(please count me amongst those ppl)

3. Your frequency of having ‘that’ has increased since the last time you remember. Reason- I can finish one complete pack of CG within one day of my office time compared to 1 week earlier.

4. You continue despite the negative consequences. Reason – my throat is certainly not a very healthy one every time when the ‘doze’ increases, my throat warns me by refusing to cooperate while talking ,eating etc

5. You feel guilty about using it (Yes every time sob sob)

Anyways…have you ever wondered if one of those? Addiction can be of various types as there is no hardcore definition. Funny thing is all these addicts are called users i.e. drug user.. Internet user.. just think for some time and u will be surprised that we are addicted to something or the other :) - Ciao

“For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.” - Peter McWilliams

PS feel free to add your inputs to my theory…..or discuss ur addictions (should be fun)

idle thoughts part 1

Looooong time ago , one fine day lazy me thought to do something more constructively than surfing gossips in my idle time so I thought to blog, then again it took lazy me loooooong time to open my account and I was so happy with my ‘achievement’ that I took loooooooooong time to write something not so constructive ……..so here I am…… your very own worry

Well…. I was not sure to use worry….. as my husband calls me vari (he thinks worry makes me worry!!!!) but since time immemorial that my sister christened me with this name I cannot ignore it. There is something about this name which reminds me of my very own original self. There are different inferences of this name my father calls me worry 0 (that is worry not….he is such an optimist) , my husband as I mentioned calls me vari, sis calls me worry, some of my frens call me vary … coming back to the purpose of this blog well…that’s going to be solely dedicated to my ‘idle’ thoughts J so god have mercy on anyone reading this blog

Few warnings before writing further… firstly I have a habit of having too many thoughts simultaneously so incase if u don’t understand a single word don’t feel disheartened. Secondly I am extremely careless with typos, punctuations and grammar so again don’t feel dispirited

Now about the idle thought of the day which is … what kind of news do we expect in newspapers…. before going any further let me tell u origin of my thoughts……I have a habit of going through newspapers in middle of my work (hopefully no one from office reads this ) so last to last week it was sania- shoaib marriage then came the modi-tharoor saga = ‘The great IPL’ controversy and now it’s the phone tapping issue… ( at times I really admire how our media can craft controversy out of nothing…)

Anyways… my point is that do we get these kind of news because we like reading it or we read it because we get it (on the same lines as egg before hen or visa versa). I like reading anything and everything that catches my eye, completely ignoring the value of content. But what about others? I see my husband investing 1 hour (or more) of his entire day reading newspaper (I admit that I don’t like him doing so….ignoring me in favor of ‘IT’ and I plan to forbid any newspapers coming to our house, especially during weekend). In morning the first thing that anyone asks is newspaper…that too after watching ENTIRE news previous day …. Now this surely means we ARE addicted to news papers…but for what? Hopefully I find the answer soon

So…that’s all from me …as of now……………. Next time will find something more boring ciao ..