Thursday, May 15, 2008

My trip to gurgaon and its lesson!

I finally went for the interview in Gurgaon. I got up and finally decided to go. Man that ride am not going to forget in a jiffy. As me and my friend were travelling by bus suddenly what i thought were dark clouds turned out to be duststorm. It was terrible! The whole town was filled with dust and was engulfed with darkness. It was the most scariest natural event that i've ever seen in my life. It was just like the movie "the mummy returns" i saw except that it wasn't a movie but something that was really happening. Coward as i am i started to get panicky and my friend was consolling me. The other passengers were clicking their tongues and i was there desperately trying to call up friends and my sister and inside i was praying so hard.

I started thinking that it was the end of my life and that i may die any moment. I was scared because I didn't wanna die right now, i have so much to live for, i haven't even fulfilled my dreams as yet and above all i thought that if i die right now i would go to hell. One never knows when one would die. Then after some time it was ok but it was still raining heavily (i would prefer rain than duststorm).

Reached the place after some searching and the rickshaws and the auto's tried to cheat us but finally we got an auto who didn't know the place but said that he knew and finally after half an hour of searching we did reach the place. What happened there i won't describe in detail because it was boring but the good thing was that we got free lunch ha ha ha. Then we finished our interview at around 5:30 pm. They said that the result would be out by 28th of May because there were others who were supposed to come also. One of my friend who drives a car was to drop us till sarfdurjung but somehow her car's battery had some rpoblem cos she forgot to turn off the lights in her car and she was so concerned about us cos we don't know how to go north from gurgaon which was no problem for her cos she has her relatives in Gurgaon and she could stay for a night there. But as luck would have it the car finally worked.

On the way back i dozed off and my friend was like "you slept really good, did you know that?". I swear i can sleep anywhere! Finally we reached sarfdurjung, took an auto till central secretariat metro station where one of the male who sits in the counter tried to cheat me of 10 rs. My friend once told me that sometimes they try to cheat you if you're not too careful.

We reached the hostel just in time for dinner-they gave fish and and paneer. When i checked my mail, i got one from the AllWorship Email which went like this.....

FINDING TIME

I knelt to pray but not for long,
I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.

So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty was now done
My soul could rest at ease.

All day long I had no time
To spread a word of cheer
No time to speak of Christ to friends,
They'd laugh at me I'd fear.

No time, no time, too much to do,
That was my constant cry,
No time to give to souls in need
But at last the time, the time to die.

I went before the Lord,
I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
For in his hands God held a book;
It was the book of life.

God looked into his book and said
'Your name I cannot find I once was
going to write it down
But never found the time'

-- Author Unknown

Then i was thinking how i was like that too. I really had no time to touch into my spiritual inner being as i was so filled with this world's chaos and selfishness.

Am supposed to give entrance exam for JNU in International Organization but i don't think i'll give anymore cos I haven't had time to go through the syllabus. I've ahd enough with the exam's and all and i just wanna relax now.

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