This is a comment I pushed through (they will never publish these things) a PHP front of a local paper on suicide.
Discipline
should come from Top Down
Let me
give few examples that were recorded in a 3 hour survey in my
sphere of activity.
Time 1
PM.
Site
Teller Machine
Two
girls inside (which is irregular).
I was
behind.
I
waited for 5 minutes.
I wanted
to get the queue to get longer.
My
response abbreviated for public consumption.
To an
old gentlemen (older than me) standing behind me.
I wish
they brought (nana reddak genawan nagana yanna thibuna ne) a bathing
trunk (so that I could have visualized their bare bony figure, if not their
mental make up).
Th last
word, they were simply SELFISH.
Blank
is left here for one to add anymore conglomerations!
As
they came out, I whispered into their ears, in English “get out of this
place, without wasting time of others”.
No eye
contact or no apologies from them.
Time
1.30 PM.
Super Market Queue
I looked for the shortest queue in the supermarket out of three outlets.
I looked for the shortest queue in the supermarket out of three outlets.
A not so respectable young, Buddhist monk with his “Gihi Golaya” came from behind; the monk curtly addressed the counter girl and pushed his Golaya in front of the queue and pushed over to the other side with heavy and disgusting composure.
I
thank myself, I was not the one whose “Human Right” was violated.
I
would have rudely refused him and said “please slow down before
entering Heaven or Nirvana".
What the mighty rush, the monks have?
What the mighty rush, the monks have?
A
priest with any other denomination would not have done this show of
stupid superiority.
To
douse my anger and to keep me entertained with curiosity, I watched
every item that was billed in.
Presto!
There
was a very expensive perfume bottle (not an incense cube) in the lot.
Even
in Ten Meritorious Deeds for our Opaskika Mathawas, perfume is
tabooed for one night when on Dasa Sil.
(Nachcha,
Geetha, Vadhia, Vilupana, Dhassana, Mala, Ghannda, Vilupana was
voltage / voltaging and violating inside, my head by now).
I
watched the guy, in saffron cloth with a laptop in hand and soon
images of me suturing episiotomy wounds (trauma to birth canal) went
one by one in a flash like a MP3 video.
There
would been lot worse porn in the hard disk than I have scene in real life, in my life time, in between the saffron cloth and the laptop enclosure, I figured out, in me, in a
mesmerized stance, not in meditation (one tries to suppress by will
all the sensual inputs and desires in Buddhist Meditation).
If it
that was not enough, the third episode driven me into overdrive in
superhighway.
Time
2.30 PM
Private Bus plying, in an "Ebi Gamana"
In the bus, I quietly reading a book “Clowns in the Left of me, Jokers in the Right by Ranil Senanayake, to wild away the time of one hour of “drive by bus” (just only 5 miles).
In the bus, I quietly reading a book “Clowns in the Left of me, Jokers in the Right by Ranil Senanayake, to wild away the time of one hour of “drive by bus” (just only 5 miles).
There
was a little commotion in the bus.
The
conductor was telling a woman dressed in Kandyan Sari, to step up and in,
from the foot-board, for the third time and the bloody woman said, “I
am a teacher”- that implied she has the right to violate rules in
broad day light-and there were many school children in the bus.
I hit
the roof in a moment of rare insanity.
I told
the conductor “Putha Oya Moda Ganita Awawada Karannta Epa” and
flipped the page back to where my reading was interrupted.
There
was absolute sanity till we reached our destination and the driver
revved up a bit and I had a quiet chat with the conductor and the driver
and thank them profusely for bring me home safely.
I
totally agree with Ranil Senanayake, there are Clowns and Jokers in
this country.
I wish our Ranil an Rosi read this.
A
child committing suicide in not a miracle but a natural thing which
they see every moment of their living life, more often than me.
I do
not want to be an octogenarian in this country.
I wish
I kick the bucket sooner than late.
That
is of course if I do not emigrate.