da Rite b@It......

To work , I usually carpool with two of my buddies who live in the same apartment complex. Every morning the chirping starts off to find who reaches on time and one of my best friends (ironically is the one who arrives late everyday) - challenged that - come 2012 he would never be late for our morning carpoolroll call ... three days he did stand by his word and further more surprise , this time from mother nature - it never rained or snowed ;-) the 4th day normalcy returns and my friend did go by his natural instinct - late again ...but this late is for '3 - 5 ' mins and also duly backedup by stories of last minute tag along requests from either of his two sweet kids.... which is quite understandable..what surprises me is the other 'lates', which unfortunately is a majority where there is no reason except the 'Indian Strechable Time' enforcement.. this is where I find myself in a little frenzy and very hard to shrug off my thoughts... So every time I get a new team , one of the statements I make is about being punctual and respecting one another's time..as time is not infinite as our brain wants us to think..its limited & add to it 'one life is all we got' statement - who wouldn't want to utilize it in a better way (that is why our judicial system invented prisons - the worst form of punishment - cutting our time the way others dictate ) ? and better of course depends on each persona's definition of it... Here comes the 'neck' where I am trying to attach the head and the body..thinking a little deep into the IST syndrome and even trying to justify that if not this may be we got multiple janmas/rebirths but unable to convice my mind - my thoughts wandered to the long queue in front of the US embassy for visa , these are the same Indian bodies with the same brains/thoughts standing in queue listening to the local guards meekly and above all "before time - everytime" - Rain or Shine !!! The same family of attentive, disciplined, punctual (not sure if this comes under being punctual as most of the times they are well ahead of the appointment time - if most of them were just punctual there won't be a long winding python Q in front of the embassy gate) >> The same family being totally immune to IST at the embassy gates and losing it after that moment - doesn't seem to be a logical sHiFt. Have seen many guys who take other's time for granted , make them wait - overbook others calendars at their mercy , not be on time consistently .. so who is to be blamed , it is not the system, it is not the mindset, .. it is just the bait .. so BAIT IT RIGHT ....hope this one is written short so that you are not late for your next page read....