Stay Thirsty! Stay Famished!- Waterbottle Exaggeration
Stay Thirsty! Stay Famished!- Waterbottle
Exaggeration
Read Part I before you continue...
My
great chemistry teacher once said – “You may answer many how's and what's but you
cannot answer many why's!” So this is a difficult thing to proceed and especially
with a taboo topic (even within couples). I have to come up with a reverse
allegorical exaggeration to explain few everyday seconds in our human lives by
using water and bottles.
Imagine you ate huge amounts of salt and you slowly become thirsty. You are dry-thirsty, your tongues are cracking, you are panting and you can feel the dusty dryness on your throats and you do not drink water. Once you are thirsty, people give you a bottle full of water and ask you to carry it around but you are forbidden from drinking from it or any water for that matter. You follow this rule, not for few minutes, few hours, days, weeks or months but for years at least a decade. You only do empty swallows merely imagining you are drinking from a waterfall for the next 15 years. You’ve been brought up to believe that drinking water before marriage without a life partner is the worst thing in life. You too choose this suffering in the hope that when you actually get to drink the water with your partner both can enjoy it together without limits. But do not forget that you are thirsty every second of every hour, every day for more than a decade.
But that is not the only pain you have to endure. People will start walking up to you and say – “You are selfish to want to drink water in the first place! Since it is a bad need / want that is unhealthy for this society.” You begin to wonder at this preaching and its validity all the while being thirsty. Just to revolt, you might entertain the idea of drinking the water with someone else but sooner you might wonder if my future water bottle partner would like the idea of me having drunk the water already. You debate about this problem within your mind your entire adolescent period (present v/s future) and unable to decide without knowing how your future water-sharer will react, you take a safe dangerous position – you remain THIRSTY.
If this is not enough, society imposes more verbal rules as you grow –
a)
You
are not allowed to talk about thirst. No questioning, nothing!
b)
You
are not allowed to talk about drinking water either (without waiting for others)
because that is not the fucking point of being thirsty
c)
You
are not to mention about the thirst in a public place because suddenly all the
thirsty people will blame they are actually not thirsty but you made them feel
thirsty by mentioning either "thirst" or "water" or worse
you “polluted” the whole environment with your water!
Once
your questioning and speaking rights have been silenced, the philosophical
folks jump in with their explanation for human thirst.
a)
Why
cannot I drink water with anyone else who is thirsty? -> They will say it is
not about your thirst / water but it’s about the availability limit of the
water which makes us to come up with these rules.
b)
Sometimes
they will say this is not ordinary water - if you drink it once your thirst may
only increase more.
c)
If
you drink it with more than one - it will contaminate the water and you may get
a disease as well
Fine,
you slowly outlast your thirst every day inch by inch and one day you find your
pair (marriage!) with a water bottle.
After so
many such days of trying to figure a safe way to taste the water you suddenly
end up with that one person who is authorized to relieve you of your thirst. If
you are happy, meaning you are a good example of real life Mr. & Mrs.
Focker, its fine! But what iffffff (just for some psychotic fun J)–
a)
Both
of your bottles do not match in size (doesn’t matter whose is bigger)
b)
Your
partner is not thirsty enough like you are. The partner needs just a sip and
you’ve been thirsty for so long and so much thirsty that even a waterfall down
your throat is not good enough
c)
Makes
you feel guilty for being thirsty with the same reasons you’ve been brought up
since your moment of puberty
d)
Brag
to their friends about drinking water with you just twice a week. Shouldn’t it
be a daily activity? an everyday chores for both of you? I hope there is a
conversation like this one day between a husband and a wife after a fight ->
Wife – “Don’t show your anger on food! Let’s eat.” Husband – “Don’t show your
anger on water! Let’s drink :P”
e)
OR
OR OR – both are so equally bloody thirsty and both your jug of water dries up!
What
do you guys do when this is the norm? We search for answers wherever we find.
We become multi-talented just to make us forget that thirst. We scare, fight,
compete, invent, stay awake, pray and do a whole basket of nonsense to make
ourselves forget the thirst which runs as an invisible thread process behind
all our actions. We drool on like this for maybe couple of more decades and
most of us will die without their thirst quenched for sustainable amount of
time and still trying to safeguard the stupid jug of water for the moment we
can drink it with the ONE.
We
are fighting against the thirst, a millennia of un-evolving traditions,
illogical non solution oriented society and of course an entire generation
where even watching free flowing water is scarce and illegal compared to
bottled overpriced packaged water which is illegal to possess in few regions of
the world... even the places it is legal to possess you have the tradition of
ONE to follow and the ONE may charge you very dearly for dreaming about water.
Worse, half of them are not at all thirsty but after taking two sips with you,
they say Look I had water for you and with you only so beware you stick to your
ONE rule no matter how thirsty you are. After all this they are called as the
side which sacrificed and men are the thirsty mindless heartless zombies. But
you should know few of us don’t care about anything after a while and they just
go ahead and drink water no matter the source and no matter the company. But
many of us, just die of a thirst - a feeling by then we realize has neutralized
our senses to urge us to drink, a forgotten feeling gone numb.
Women
are oblivion to this sacrifice we make. Funnily no one seems to care about our
thirst nor our sacrifice: D. Worse, slowly the water and thirst have been
categorized into a guilty pleasure from a basic human need and if we do not
wake up, who knows it might even be slowly turned into a legal punishable act
of the severest kind (It is already so by my college rules!). It is been looked
upon as a polluting commodity similar to a plastic bag that everyone uses but
no one talks about and everyone wishes it decomposes sooner. Will the situation
change if we convert this plastic into a multi useful, instant bio degradable, natural
fertilizer and make it cheap? Will the controlling people let us do that? It is
a wild guess!
But
until then spare some thought for your poor husbands ;-). With a thirst similar
to the sucking power of a blackhole, they show such a control on their
feelings. They work, protect, serve, solve issues and sometimes help you out in
kitchen as well and despite all this no songs are written by his kids for him
but rather to his wife! You only see Mom songs and poems everywhere - माँ मेरी माँ प्यारी माँ Mumma OR காலையில் தினமும் கண் விழித்தாள் (I start my day with
this song: p)
Even then, he will fight with his kids stating –“my mom is better than your mom!
Boo!” and starts dreaming about his MOM song (his dad is nowhere in his
thoughts!)
Motherhood
though is the greater gift for sure, has its limitations as well. I mean, men
restrain their thirst with their controlling switch. Women too have a similar switch
to switch ON/OFF love. Yes, women have the capability to love and care
infinitely but under the blanket of motherhood you see most of them preserve
this gift for their families ALONE and are obsessed about it. I mean women
sometimes are so lost many times that they misuse their superpower to separate
their husbands from his friends, parents, passion and duty to this society.
They preserve and over care for their kids at the cost of others’ kids,
families and lives. Their self-obsession has no limits (here self refers to her
family). Is it the only way motherhood can be showered effectively and
efficiently? I wish there are better examples in our lives.
At
least at the end, I need to tell why men and women like sex so much? Here is a
cool TED talk that gives you a simple and brilliant answer. Enjoy folks!
In
addition, how do guys value all the above things? Below is a summarized graphical
representation of things I couldn’t put into proper words so I drew what was in
my mind.
In case you are not able to connect to the graph, consider this –
a)
Graph
represents Value / Worth of different people / aspects. It does not mean his
priorities nor his thoughts or actions. (For eg. If a bitter lover seeks him
for help at the same time his friend seeks a help, he may or may not help his
friend. But the value for his friend in his mind might always be above his
bitter lover)
b)
Judge
a man by his friends is the rule here. Everything revolves around how he values
friendship. Everything is above / below that. If he doesn’t value good friends,
the chance is he wouldn’t value you greatly either.
c)
Dislike
girls – Normally experienced by guys during their school / college days. Especially
when they are not able to handle the selfish mean ones.
d)
Due
to graph overcrowding, couldn’t afford to represent few things like – Parents, Religion,
Money, Passion, etc
Decipher
the rest yourself! Until then - Stay Thirsty! Stay Famished!
To
be continued…
Read Part 3 here
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Bye.
Mopper.
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