Work or (work) out!

Work!!!



Nobody likes to do that, right?




There is something nasty and oh! so unpleasant and tiring about doing the same chore over and over and over, again and again, day after day, year after year….


Even thinking about how many “again” I’ve used makes my eyes become glazed and my brain sluggish!!








So if even thinking about the routine, mundane tasks can cause this absolute flow of fatigue in my brain and body, we can all imagine how “dragging-my-feet-to-work” type jobs really mess with the overall joy of life.








But then again, there are some professions, that give that immense feeling of satisfaction and pleasure  (even if the said pleasure is sordid and sadistic) to the person who’s in the perfunctory “chair”!!




The one profession where you are actually paid to twist, turn, torture someone,
make money out of the grunts, grumbles and gags of that said someone,
AND derive pleasure out of the trips, tears and trysts of the same someone!!












Oh yes!






You guessed correct. I’m talking about those amazingly built, beautifully proportioned and confidently trotting about specimens, who call themselves “Physical trainers”.










There is no soul more sadistic than them and no person more miserable than their “clients”.








They smile when we scream, 
Are satisfied when we black out,
Are happy when we wail,
Consider their job well done when every bone in our bodies scream,
Move with a swag when we wobble on our legs,
Raise the hand in a salute when our shoulders seem to detach themselves from our core,
And just sit back and watch our miseries unfold….






All the while just counting and recounting…
“one……two……three…..
just there, you can do it,
Push, push, push,
And then you’re free!”






What better job-description or job-satisfaction can there be? 
I mean, can these people ever be frustrated?? As all their frustration must be “weighed down” by peace, while watching people grunt and grovel and dance and twirl to their tunes?






And the best part!






They get PAID for driving people nuts,
For feeding people nuts,
For overall blasting everyone’s nuts 
And that’s all in a nutshell!!

From “Hair” to “there”!!

Have you ever noticed how the conversation flits from one topic to another and perches on so many branches during the course of its flight??



We start chatting, or in case of a new acquaintance, making small talk on random topics and just like that we flow from one topic to the next, without even realising that we are doing so!



Just a few days back, I was at a conference and a girl walked upto me and complimented me on my spaghetti hair. Now being a woman, I was of course flattered and happy with the compliment and again, of course, that girl became my bestie for the day! (Because she complimented me, how else!!)



We started chatting. The conversation started with her asking me the secret to my hair and then flitted and flew over various topics….



From favourite shampoo to hairoil (as the starting point of the conversation was all things “hair”),



From favourite actor to movie, (here there was a slight hiccup as she belonged to a different state nd our mother tongue was different),



From music to couture,
Fashion to shades of lipstick,
Cats to dogs (preference),
Health to wealth (how to lose one and gain another),
Boys to men (her age was to ogle boys and mine is to ogle men),
Siblings to friends (I am an only child and she is one half of a twin pair)….




Before we knew it, we realised that we had talked through the whole lunch hour and it was time to head back to our separate groups of colleagues.



We met while passing throughout the day, as we both were at the same venue and everytime, it was as if I knew more about her than my fellow office mates….all thanks to her finding my noodle hair beautiful!




That made me realise that conversation is just a pathway that joins two like-minded people and it can also be a catalyst for breaking the bond between two humans.




Everything that the mind thinks or the heart feels is guided by the tongue. It is just a three inch organ, but it has the strongest presence in the whole body, with the strength to make or break relationships, create unions or cause wars, wreck havoc or bring forth calm!!!



But this is the gift bestowed on only us humans,without which, we are incomplete.
It absolutely has the power to make the mind think about all the topics from “hair” to “there”!!