Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Why?
One of the toughest questions to answer.
Several weeks ago I got a call from a friend who
accidently discovered my now-no-longer-a-secret identity as a
blogger.
When the customary "how do you do's" were exchanged
and done away with I did the unpardonable. Asked him Why?
This friend had recently quit his job that was
positively a source of envy to many. He had a great profile
and if he continued in that job his career graph would
certainly not have witnessed a horizontal or downward
trajectory. The only way to go was up up and away.
So Why? I asked, did he commit the unimaginable
foolishness of throwing it off? His answer stumped me as it
did his boss, so he claims.
Boss: Why are you doing this?
Friend: You see why is difficult to answer.
B: Why?
F: There are at least 150 ways I can answer that but
wont. Why did I take up Journalism as a career and not be a mathematician or rather a musician or rather be a non-violanist and practice on my fiddle. Why did I choose your organisation and not others?
why?....why?....why?....why?....why?....why?....why?....why?..
At the end of the conversation, F told me his boss was so flustred that he told him to wind up the conversation since he thought it was not headed anywhere. "At this rate we can go on having this talk and not reach a solution!"
Boss finally let my friend go, I suspect gladly too.
He didnt want to shoulder the burden of so many whys!

Then there is this... Why?

Patiala, Aug 13 (PTI) Nearly 50 female foetuses were
recovered from a covered pit in the backyard of the private
hospital, located on Patiala-Patran road.
The incident came to light when Pooja, a midwife at the
hospital who was fired recently, approached the Health
Department alleging scores of female foetuses had been aborted
and dumped in hospital's backyard.
Singh, a retired armyman, and Kaur were arrested on
charges of running an illegal female foeticide racket.
Singh, after being remanded to judicial custody, told
reporters that all allegations against them were baseless.
Accusing Pooja of trying to blackmail him, he alleged she
had been pressing him to hand over the plot at the back of the
hospital to her or pay her Rs two lakh.
When he refused she connived with some officials to
frame him and his wife, he alleged.
Singh claimed to be a registered medical practitioner in
Haryana but got his registration transferred to Punjab three
years back when he started the hospital.

Allegations? Someone had been doing the abortions and
dumping the foetuses in the backyard or the well as another
report pointed out. Why?
An act of remorse or of greed. Even though the answer
to that is quite obvious, thousands of questions still remain
unanswered.
What makes man and woman think irrationally? In the
court of law the accused often take tries to shield under
the plea of temporary insanity.
For those few fleeting seconds the difference between
man and animal ceases. Man becomes his own slave, one that is
compelled to carry out base and sensless acts for which he
cannot even be sufficiently remorseful.
Man becomes insane enough to rape his daughter, kill
his unborn child, gouge the eyes of his child to satiate the
appetite of his god.
 
posted by The Friendly Ghost at 1:10 PM |


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