Ajeeb daastan ..

No one really believes me when I say planets do affect us and our thoughts and actions. We are made of the same substance as the rest of the universe is, then how can we say that we aren't influenced by the forces of nature? Over the past several centuries we have evolved as humans but by definition we are still made of the same atoms and molecules as the mud on mars or the debris in Saturn's rings. So why is it considered a farce that planetary movement does tell upon a person's mind. Agreed that what exactly the planets do and how they actually influence us has a probablistic base and can be argued upon for eternity thanks to a few individuals who have corrupted the science for their personal gains.. but however it is undeniable that planets have a profound affect on peoples mind and not just the thought process, it influences everything around us .. and what more than a personal experience to make the belief stronger..

It was cold and freezing outside in the morning, and I was cuddled up in the bed, not willing to wake up and get to work when my phone rang.. It was my carpooler telling me that he wont make it to work today so I'd have to go by myself.. I got up reluctantly and packed my stuff and decided to take the train to work.. so I walk to the train station.. A kind lady at the station tells me "The train is not coming..some rails came off the tracks, so they canceled the train " I thought to myself.. "To go or not to go..." I decided to head back home and work from there , when a lone traveler like me turned up at the station and inquired about the train as well .. I could have walked away, but there I was waiting and listening to the very same words that I was told 5 minutes back.. and the traveler turned to me and said "I am driving to work, do you need a ride .." Call it impulse, call it madness, I would not have done the same thing another day, but today was different, I hopped into his SUV and hoped to good Lord that it was the right thing to do.. !

Surprisingly, the ride was very interesting, a good conversation and a decent start for what started out as a bad day.. My ride was only till 3/4ths of the distance .. I thought to myself, well thats not bad, I can make it to work from here, its just a couple of miles away and I knew what bus to take... it can't be that bad.. hmm spoke too soon!

I got off and bid adieu to a new friend, and started to the ticketing machine..and realized that I did not have any change left in my purse.. Thats when the cursing began. After finishing with calling myself all kinds of names I returned to the bus station to see if I could get to ride the bus free with my train ticket. It was purely luck when I got a really nice lady at the customer service - She told me to ride another train to the administrative office and get a token to ride the bus free all day - some compensation of kinds for the train breakdown - having no other choice at hand, this sounded like a really good thing, and besides, whats the worse that can happen ?

So I headed out..rode the train - finally found the building, but it took me eternity to find the entrance!! Geez I thought to myself.. why are buildings so complex here! So after 10 minutes of struggle I finally enter the building and pick up my token and head back to the ticket machine... well maybe it should be re-christened to ticket monster! 'coz it ate up my token and did not give me a ticket!! More cursing.. and this time along with lots of swearing.. coz the weather turned nasty and freezing...But I told myself.. you can do this..I called the customer service lady again and she was sweet enough to give me directions to the next ticketing center..and how to get my token back!

Thanked all stars and with restored faith in humanity, I got a ticket.. only to see the I had just missed the bus!! Cursed all stars above again and waited for half hour in freezing cold, hungry, tired, all I wanted now to see my desk.. not do anything, not think anything.. and I waited and waited.. finally after what seemed like a lifetime.. the bus came.. God was I happy to see the driver..! Got in the bus, thought it was end of my miseries.. I am rescued.. nothing can go wrong now.. Well thankfully nothing very significantly went bad with the bus ride except for a weirdo asking me if I smoked weed.. I was so tired I could as well have said yes.. but well I was not yet insane..so I just smiled and said.."No..not into weed" ..

Came to office and my computer would not log me in.. my work was pending, my brain did not work, people I needed to talk to did not talk to me.. people whom I did not want to talk to talked a lot to me.. spent a whole lot of time just to make things normal again and gosh was it a confusing mess... and I thought to myself what went wrong? where? ... It was 7 in the evening when I reached home .. more tired than I had been in all previous week put together and opened the laptop, still puzzled about what happened throughout the day.. and in the news section of google -I see in bold words - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse.. It struck me like a lightening then, all the weird things happening made perfect sense! - And just for clarification to any skeptical readers - this has happened to me before, and as consistently bad as it was today!!

I sighed ... if penumbral lunar eclipse did this to my day and me..then what on earth am I going to do when its total lunar eclipse!!??