Ashutosh loved the tea breaks, he took tea breaks between 4.30 to 5.00 PM every day. He along with his colleagues, Mani and Shankar, would go to the road side tea shop and have nice long chats. A break from the fast and hasty IT Company he worked in, they would discussed about everything under the sun and at times above it ;) It looked like it was about to rain but the steady wind delayed the rain, they signaled three "chai" to familiar shop owner and grabbed a packet of wafers.
Mani: "You know I saw a video on face book about the Fibonacci series, made me really wonder about god!"
Shankar: "Yup! Freaky to use Fibonacci series to make unique things, I thought Fibonacci series were used only on viva questions or practicals! :P "
Mani: "Haa haa…! You know it shows how god works from above us"
Ashutosh with smirk on his face: "so that’s how he works? On numbers? :P "
Shankar: "You don't believe in god?"
Ashutosh: "Yup! I do"
Mani: "Then what's with the sarcasm?"
Ashutosh: "I feel that God actually doesn't work! He is just a… just a… you can say viewer or watcher, 99% of things that happens in your life he doesn't control"
Mani: "Dude! He creates human beings!!"
Ashutosh: "Really?! I thought our parents created us :P "
Shankar: "He controls your life; he can change life the way he wants! God is the supreme!"
Ashutosh: "God might be the Supreme but definitely he doesn't control changes in life, it is us who writes our fate"
Mani: "So you don't think God does anything?"
Ashutosh: "Let’s put it other way… Do you all agree that if there is God he exists everywhere?"
Both Shankar and Mani nodded their head in agreement.
Ashutosh: "What I am trying to state is, there is a part of God in every one of us"
Now Mani has a smirk on his face: "Even Osama bin laden?"
Ashutosh: "Yup!"
Shankar: "You have lost your mind!!"
Ashutosh: "As I said 99% of your life is control by you only 1% by God, in that case what I said is perfectly right, Osama choose his path and Gandhi choose his"
Shankar: "You are confusing me!"
Ashutosh: "I am just saying people should stop believing that everything is done by God and start realizing that everything which happens in your life is because of you. People are using God as 'reason' for their actions, if same God created Osama and Gandhi then why the difference?”
Both of them had no answer.
Ashutosh: “I believe there is a part of God in everything, even in the advertisement model you see on the hoarding, call it God, call it x-factor, call it anything you want, but that is what makes everything unique, people should realize that factor is within them, and that factor is just a watcher, whatever you do in life is controlled by you alone! And people who realized it has realized what life is! :) ”
His friends were giving a weird look, Mani: “Are you saying that hoarding there is God?!!”
Ashutosh smiled, he couldn’t stop it, and looks on his friends face were too animated: “Shall we leave?”
Mani: “You know who real God is?”
Ashutosh:“My manager! He controls my life! :( ”
All of them laughed and started walking towards office. Ashutosh took a last glance at the hoarding and entered the office.
The shape on hoarding relaxed: “For few minutes I thought I was caught! Thank the humans!”
“Ennai thoandi nyaanam kanden idhudhaan en katchi” - Kaviarasu Kannadasan
“To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution.” - Joe Cordare
“Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.” -Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852
