Sid, HaPy and GOINy

Columbus discovered on his ship that world is round. Newton's Law of Gravity proved it and gave the scientific backing that discovery needed. But, today there are books written saying “World is Flat”… (okay okay… I promise this will not be yet another boring book review blog). One might wonder what caused this deviation from the findings of Columbus and Newton and writing a book about it. A reason that I would like to quote is “The Information Highway” which is connecting everyone across the globe and also the rate at which data is sent to and fro facilitating the empowerment of the ME.

Bhari words!!! Okay enough of this… Let’s listen to a story.

All characters in the story are fictitious.
Any resemblance to a person living or dead is just co-incidental.

Once upon a time in future there were three friends; Friends for life; Sid, HariPrasad and GOwINdini.

Sid was a very sweet person. He loved cricket, but given an option would always spend time with HariPrasad and GOwINdini. He was very attached to them. He was from the beautiful city of Chandigarh. For work he had come to Mysore.

HariPrasad was a very versatile person. You have a problem. Go to HaPy (That’s what he was called popularly) and you will get the solution for sure.

GOwINdini popularly known GOINy was the heart of this friendship. She was this gregarious person, very lively and colorful. She knew almost everyone around her. She was like the interface of the group to the external world. HaPy and Sid both were in love with GOINy, but for poor Sid, she was more inclined towards HaPy.

Sid was very dependent on both of his friends. He had a job only becoz of HaPy. He talked with others only through GOINy. He never even talked to GOINy directly. He always used to tell HaPy and he would tell her. The level of dependency was unimaginable. He wanted to see a movie with a lady, he had to convey that message through his friends. Seldom did he directly talk to anyone. HaPy and GOINy booked the movie tickets for him, they used to get him reading material, they used to help him publish his blogs and help him find answers to his queries. Specifcally, GOINy was the person who used to help find these answers. Be it transferring money, watching movie, listening to songs, booking travel ticket, paying bills etc etc… For everything Sid was dependent on his friends. He had to, alone he was not that efficient nor did he have the kinda contacts GOINy had. To make matters worse, Sid was hopelessly in love with GOINy. He just couldn’t live without her. But the bad part was, he seldom got time alone with GOINy. Always HaPy was with her. GOINy was more inclined towards HaPy. Whatever the dependency, life was cool and rocking for Sid. He was happy with his friends in his own world.

But fate had a different things prescribed for Sid. The Syzygy of events led to a drastic; draconic in many aspects, change in the setup of Sid’s life. He got a transfer to Mohali so very near to his home. He was happy initially but then when he encountered the moment of truth; it was hard for him not to cry. He had to leave behind his friends; the friends without whom his life was an absolute void. He tried hard to come to terms with this. He couldn’t. But the fourth dimension didn’t give him a chance. He had to go and he did. As far as HaPy and GOINy are concerned they just didn’t mind. It was part of life for them. (Sid is the hero na.. He has to be a bit emotional!!!!)…
Some scenes that happened after Sid left (In order):
#1.
Sid talking to a friend Elan,
Sid: "Arey yaar.. Ely.. I am missing HaPy and GOINy badly yaar. There is no one here with whom I can share things like I used to do with them."
Elan: "Arey.. You should find new friends man"
Sid: "Shut up" and hangs up the phone.

#2.
Sonia comes to meet Sid at his home. Sonia is a crush from Sid's good old college days. Sid is sitting in his home gazing blankly at the window. He is wearing a white kurta and his face is a great contrast with his month old beard. Sonia comes and tries talking to him. Sid sees her, gives her his as usual very charming smile and again stares at the window as if he is talking to somebody.

#3.
Sid goes out with his old friend Amit. They freak out. They go to all the places they usually used to visit during college days. Sid feels something funny, a good something though!!!

#4.
Sid is writing something in a book. His sis asks him what it is. He looks at her, smiles and shows her the new poem he has written. He is cleanly shaved and is wearing a beautiful casual.


#5.
Elan calls up.
Elan: "Sid.. zinda hai?"
Sid: "Abe.. How are you? Me too good man.. My poem got published in the Chandigarh Times man"
Elan:"cooool.... HaPy and GOINy told me"
Sid:" Oh that’s great!!! How are they? I do talk to them, but then the frequency has reduced and I am loving it. Freedom.. Freedom at last from the dependencies"
Elan: "But they are very helpful man"
Sid: "Ya they are. That's why they are my good friends now; not my heart beat, not my breath, not the synergy that keeps my anatomy running"
Elan: "Good man!!! It was great to hear this from you!!! Way to go!!!"
Sid:" Ha Ha Ha...."
...some random conv...
Sid hangs up….
Sonia: "Chale…"
Sid smiles : "Sorry… He had called after a long time. Lets go. Lake jaa rahe hai na?"
Sonia: "hmmm…"

So finally Sid realized that he can live without HaPy and GOINy.
Hero met heroine(s) and lived happily everafter!!!

I hope everyone realizes this in this Flat world dependent so much on HaPys and GOINy. There is life without them. There is so much to life than just the Information Highway!!! World might be called flat for some, but once in a while you need to come back to the beautiful world full of valleys, mountains, deserts with so many different frangrances.
This is my personal view of course. The ultimate decision is left to one's better judgement.

You might be wondering what has Information Highway to do with Sid's friends right...
hmmm... Personification is a beautiful figure of speech!!! You can romanticize with full flourish....

Sid------------------------- Common computer user.
HariPrasad------------------- Computer (HP make)
GOwINdini---------------- GOogle with INternet!!!!

A.Q.

Homo-sapiens have a bad habit of adaptability attached with a hint of inertia. Human beings are very adaptive. They adapt to things and atmosphere very soon. Adaptation here is not necessarily what biologists define though. I mean, a person can add another layer over him/her to adapt to the new environment. Say Eskimos wear a huge fur coat to get protection from cold. They don’t actually grow hair like a bear for protection from cold. That is the physically tangible adaptation; one tangent in the discussion of adaptability. But we are not talking about that.
Man is an animal who has the power of choosing the response to any stimuli whether it is any external or internal mental turmoil. This has led to many things in tandem,

Power and Insecurity
Society and Obligations
Technology and Obesity

to name a few. The last one even though might seem funny is very true. Okay coming back to the adaptability part… Now I am talking about the human being’s mental adaptability quotient and the inertia associated with that. Well, why did I call it a quotient, here is the reason…

Inertia) Adaptability (Quotient
……. (Some factors)
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Prejudices/Compromises

This is how I think the mind handles the adaptability in a new environment or new idea, since we are considering the mental adaptability also.

A person is born in some atmosphere; he/she gets used to that and really adapts himself physically and mentally. Now the adaptability I am talking is the one when he/she moves out of that place which they are already adapted.
Let me give you an example to just show you what I am talking about.

Imagine a corporate training room; computers all around, geeks using them. Geeks are an interesting cult. They are masters of some technology and can talk hours about the same. Now imagine these people attending this training on a technology absolutely unknown to them. Something very new, which they had to learn as the business in which they are needed them to. After all, the bottom line is business!!! Okay let’s not get into that.
The instructor, another geek of course explains some concept, and then as the conventional education system demands; shoots a question at the geeks sitting in her class. One pretty young lady from the crowd gets up and tries to explain the concept. In the process she gives a beautiful analogy between this concept and a similar concept in the technology she is good at!!! The explanation is mind blowing. Everyone who is familiar with that technology is overwhelmed by the answer. You hear mild sounds of Bravo… Bravo… Etiquettes of course stop them from banging the desks!!!

Even though the lady understood the concept that was being explained, she did that only with reference to the existing knowledge that she had. Now do I wish to say that she is wrong? Well, well we are not here to make any judgments. We are just trying to make some sense of things that we see around us. It is important thing that one needs to look at in that example. A person once, he/she gets acquainted with something finds it hard to remove it from his mind when he/she is seeing something similar. A correlation is made with the existing thing in the mind and new “something”. That is a gift of nature bestowed upon us. This gift itself is what I name the INERTIA which defines the ADAPTIBILITY QUOTIENT. This gift can many times prove to be a handicap in learning new things; in adapting to new things.
I cannot make comments on whether it is good or bad in general; but as an individual I think we need to use this gift, this inertia in a good way. When learning something afresh, just concentrate on the new thing in its entirety as an independent thing; as if it has no correlation with anything in your mind. You have the gift to anyway assimilate faster. Now once you are through in understanding the new concept as an independent thing, now try to correlate. I have found the difference in this open way of exploiting the gift of inertia that we have. We can’t take out something out of our mind, but we do posses the power to prioritize. Why not leverage these two beautiful powers viz. The Inertia and The Prioritization; use them in tandem and increase our
A.Q….. Adaptability Quotient!!!!