This happens!

Today, started with the rain.

And, I reached the office without my spectacles.

To start the story (every story has a back story), I forgot my glasses. Neehal was sitting in the passenger seat, while I started to drive. When I reached the end of my street (yes, it wasn’t far), I blurted “Damn! I forgot my glasses.” This was followed by silence and then a half-hearted, “Should we head back”. To which I replied “Nah!”

Now, if only, I could turn back time.. I would be dancing and singing praises to my ancestors. Yes, for making me a God, who had the ability to change time.

Nothing of that happened. This was after all reality. And, in reality, we suck it up and sit on my behinds making the most of things. Humph!

People stared because I was not returning their greeting. Colleagues were muttering because I didn’t see them talking to me while I marched (yes, marched) past them. My so called friends at work even called me names. And, this I suffered while half blind.

Now, it’s not that I am blind. But, I could have been better at spotting and hurling myself out of the way when confronted with the cabinet at the end of my desk. Yes, I do have the makings for a blue and black rugby player. I can’t seem to judge distances and the eye-squinting was becoming funny for some to see. The strain in my eye was reaching its highest level of tolerance. I could have even tolerated ice being shoved down my throat on this even-eskimo-would’nt-rejoice-cold day. Oh, the pleasure of brain freeze would have been a merry dance as compared to this blind daze.

So, here I sit, squinting at the words I type and trying to make the sentences form in my mind before I put it on paper. And, all this while, I can only curse at myself.

And, that’s when it hit me.. I can laugh..

Hey, if you can’t laugh at yourself on this rainy, muggy and oh-it-could-have-been-a-better-day weather, then what can you do, but to say “Damn! Wish I could turn back time”.

Oh! And, did I mention earlier that this is also giving me a hell of a headache.

 

*still squinting while I paste this on my blog*