Condition Serious Hai! - Bhai

I recollect a meeting of Alumni of my Engineering College a couple of years back. Though some of us met after many years there were seriousness on faces. The tags on their shirts indicated their name so that in spite of the fact that people and faces changed seriousness evades the way seeing the name tag and people start communicating. Some did and some did not. The agenda included introduction of self to the rest – this was a more serious affair where some of the members spoke about their career growth, how they worked in some MNC’s and their positions at the end of the career. Serious matters on targets and time schedules for the budgets that we have all seen through – but was this the time to speak about such serious things? I being the organizer looked at my old friend Bala to the stage, by-passing the sequence of introduction list. Bala came up held the mike and told a story when he arrived in the then Bombay with his University Engineering Degree from Kerala. He said - “That was my first travel in the BEST bus and came the conductor and asked him in Hindi/Marathi something he could not understand. But a keen watcher he had watched others answering when conductor enquired to them with his characteristic style. Answering the bus conductor Bala told “Balasubramaniam”. And conductor laughed and then in his broken English said “Enkai GO?” Bala understood the fool he made himself of in giving his name when asked for the destination for that day’s travel? Bala remembered the scenario when the woman on his side said “Prabhadevi” the man in front told “Haji Ali”, the good looking lady said “Annie Besant ” and the fat lady on the side said –“Mahalaxmi” None who followed were serious as the previous ones – life is simple, yar! Don’t take anything Serious – After all none of us have any control in anything that happens around us forget about what can happen to us the next moment.