LIFE, EXISTENCE AND MORE...

13.7 Billion years old and still a little child. That's the time scale at which the grandeur of this universe is displayed. Despite this knowledge we intend to seek the answer to the ultimate question of "our existence" in a period of mere 400 yrs. Philosopher's and Scholars have spent their lives in search of this holy grail. Methodologies like religion and science have come into existence as a result of this quest, but even these detailed methods have not achieved anything substantial. But in the past few decades a whole new line of thinkers have come up. A set of unique people who can think out of the box, the one's who believe in seeking such answers by mere experience rather than divine intervention and searching within oneself rather than the cosmos. These so called "Rebels" have realized the plight of the human race and here I try to summarize some of their thoughts about our existence.

We exist in something called the Tower of Life, which is a complex network of all the things, animate or inanimate, in this universe. Each thing forms a really tiny part of this tower. In our present state we can never comprehend our position in this tower. It's because we are a part of this tower and thus can't see the structure as a whole. We can't tell how important or useless we are. We might be holding a lot of pieces together in this tower or maybe there is no piece in this entire tower dependent on us. But for sure there is no single piece on which this tower is build. Even if one of the basic pieces is removed the others hold the tower up. The Tower of Life is an elaborate masterpiece where the importance of each of its components is known only after it is removed...

My trip to Singapore

"Good Afternoon ladies and Gentlemen the Kingfisher flight IT3623 from Pune to Chennai has been delayed for 1hr 45Min's and will now depart at 19:20", the words that are still ringing in my head after the horrendous journey last night. This was my 3rd trip to Singapore and before this I had stuck with the old and faithful Air India which I generally board from Mumbai, But this time I decided to fly Kingfisher and Tiger on my way back to Singapore. According to my premonitions, this flight combination would save me a lot of money and would be really comfortable since I would not have to spend 3-4 gruelling hours in a cab from Pune to Mumbai. But sadly I was put through more torture than the 4hr cab journey. The time gap between my Kingfisher flight and Tiger airways flight to Singapore was 3hrs 30Min's. This time lag is sufficient to check out of the domestic terminal and check into the international which is a mere 200 Mt's away. But due to the mismanaged Kingfisher airlines which self proclaims itself to be India's 1st 5 star airline I manged to land on Chennai Airport by 21:15. Throughout the flight the only thought on my mind was to make a dash for the international terminal and somehow make it to the flight to Singapore. After pushing through a huge crowd of commuters I managed to reach the luggage check-out by 21:20. Since I still had not run out of my Bad Luck my baggage was the last one to be to be dispatched, even though my bag had a priority label put by the Kingfisher officials at the Pune Airport. It was nearly 22:05 that I reached the International terminal. After a few requests to the officials at the check-in counter they managed to put me up first at the immigration check, which could have easily taken me an hr and I would have surely missed my flight which was schedule at 23:00. After a quick immigration check and spending around 10 Min's at the security check I finally boarded the flight at around 22:50. In the end, all is well that ends well. Finally I'm in Singapore because of some really considerate officials at the Chennai Airport who were angels in disguise for me on the dreadful night that Kingfisher airlines decided to screw me....