14th Jan 2008...
Chapter 1: Work Work Work...!
A typical day of my life.. I worked all day at my office, half awake for a while, energized with a coffee, continued my journey as usual turning red flags in the Inbox to green.. and here it comes end of the day at office. I rush to the parking lot, drove at 50mph to reach home.
Chapter 2: Home... Chweet Home!
Friends on TBS... me lazy, lying on the patio chair in the hall.. next Family Guy mini Marathon. 9:00 PM... as usual hungry and as usual lazy to cook... 9:30 PM .. WE HAVE A WINNER! hunger overtakes laziness... rice in microwave, pickles from India, Ghee from Indian store, yogurt from Walmart... Full course happy meal :)
Chapter 3: Phone Phone Phone...
9:40 PM Called my Girlfriend... time passed on...10:00 PM Call from India.. Girlfriend goodnight!.. Mummy Good Morning!.. regular chitchat.. 10:15 PM Rommie from Airport, Pickup at 11:30 Scheduled
Chapter 4: ZzzzZzzZzzzzz.. Alarm(No effect).. Roomie clueless
10:20 PM decided to sleep for half hour to regenerate energy to drive 45 min + 45 min, to and fro to the Airport. Alarm set to 10:30PM(was supposed to wake up)...
10:50 PM Alarm....Snooze...Alarm Snooze...Alarm...Zzzzzzzzzzz finally woke up....eeeek time 1:50 AM... Roomie not home yet.. No Idea what flight, wat terminal... called Roomie... Roomie "Dont worry dude! I am almost home... waited till 1:00 AM and then called a cab"
Chapter 5: Sleepless... Laptop... Buzy!
2:00AM checked Mail from AID Dallas... Project proposal Doc, PPT, 5 videos from Aaajtak. 45 minutes ...all done.. replied mail.
GoodNight everyone.... trying to sleep.... Message from Friend in India "Call Me"..Reliance India call recharged... chitchat 30 minutes.
Chapter 6: Still Sleepless... Early morning good thaughts..
Still trying to sleep... 4:00 AM.. eyes closed.. mind open...cant help :D... thinking of project... "Food for every one!" good thaught... well here it starts
There are millions of people in India sleeping empty stomach with a hope to have breakfast dream to have full course meal!
Me just got in to full time job.. lots of loans.. saving few dollars between paychecks... What difference can an Individual like me can make?...
My Thaught Process:
WHAT CAN I DO??? ... Is there anything that I can do... If not me who?
Well, who and what apart... how? How can some one do anything to bring down the number of hungry?
Oh yeah! nothing can be done overnight... not everything may be done on massive scale.. every thing should start from few which gradually increases to many...
With $100 less from my pay check I may be able to provide breakfast to may be tens of people, one day in a pay check period... This is when I realized... I may not make any difference to the ratio, but, may be, to ones or tens of Individuals at least once in a month.. At last :) came to a conclusion... called up by buddy in India... requested him his Sunday morning lazy sleep.. told him to buy breakfast for at least 100 people from a tiffin center and distribute it all to beggars... well I guess few temples and I am sure he will be done.
Gotta see if I could do any better... few ideas in brain.... yet to be refined. Finally felt good about my self and I guess I can sleep now for an hour till 8:00 AM before rushing to work... Good Day!
