Our country is obsessed with counting hours. Everybody asks the topper “How many hours did you study every day” now employees are being asked “how many hours do you work in a week” It shows the socialist mindset. Your one hour is equal to my one hour in a socialist country, as we both are just labouring, we are both blue collar. Hence it becomes a standardised measure of effort. CEOs of IT labour camps can still continue counting hours, as that’s what they export. Nobody asks what did you achieve. They are in the business of maximising hours, not results.

There is a girl I see on my Instagram who posts a vacation picture every 3-4 days with a caption “Much needed break” I really envy that life.

Still reeling from that Bibek Debroy article. Some thoughts: 1) Old age is hard. More so for the (n-1)th generation. The first generation who won’t have a joint family to see them through their old age. These are the elders, who produced kids who excelled, and outgrew their home, so they left. It’s like teaching your kid how to ride a cycle, and when they do it finally, they paddle away, focusing on the road, navigating the potholes & hence not turning back, and you look wistfully, until your smile dries up. 2) Good to be prepared. To have no expectations. But such thoughts of invincibility come when you are fit. God knows when you need someone else to help pass stool. All your dignity, your ego, evaporates that day. Then you just wait. 3) Kids who are away, should call their parents often, and not talk about the past, but talk about the mundane, like you are living in the other room. How was the sabji today, was it good? Did the AC service guy come? To at least pretend you are around, and not an emergency flight away. 4) It’s inevitable. Forget this tweet. Enjoy life.