Spa(m)sms..

I had just got around to finishing work today morning when the spate of messages from Airtel started. I get a whole round everyday from astrology, to ring tones, cricket news, and new kannada songs(all of it useless, needless to say). And a regular evening call which i have blocked, thanks to the consistency of the numbers used by the nefarious beings at airtel, who by now, i'm convinced, take great pleasure in doing this. I assume they have inane lives and attempt to decrease the angst of being shouted, yelled at and kicked around by their 'superiors'; by taking it out on some other soul. By and large, i think that's one explanation which holds good for most rude people on the road. Of course, some are habitually and temperamentally rude, but if u think of it that way, one wouldn't be able to sympathise with them, and thus feel more angry and bugged with the whole world, resulting in worse days for yourself. Anyway, since sympathy is the worst i can offer to a human being, thus there is some satisfaction in it for me too.

But things could be a lot worse, if these are the machinations of an evil server on airtel which manages this, which i suspect it is. Well, the same reasoning holds good. One cannot sympathise with a chip, so u try and assume that it is a human brain behind all this. At least at the conceptual level. Anyway, suffice it to say that it is rather frustrating to think that there is no way(which i've found) to unsubscribe and since it is the service provider per se who's the culprit, there seems to be nobody to complain to. Was thinking about the general futility of beliefs that life's fair and that one can get our rights, unless u go to a court. Which in itself is a laughable idea, considering the long waiting lists and the fact that I might not even be having the connection when it comes up for hearing. (Wonder if this sort of thing can be tried at a consumer court). Anyway, even the less cynical children grow up thinking that Justice is a joke in india. That seems to be rather dysfunctional, since it is essentially the most important function of the government. Redistribution of resources anyway seems to be done shoddily. And my consultants wonder why we want to get out of the country. Not that we think it is a lot different else where, but few democracies should be worse than this.

deleting them.. (technically called 'learned helplessness')

Osho