May 18, 2009
The emotionless brothers
As it happened to be Mr. And Mrs. Jones' wedding anniversary, the couple called me for dinner to make celebrations. I am for a reason unable to pinpoint why but this supper would be a special one to me. It was an ordinary dinner anyone can take with his neighbor. Home made grub, spic and span house and a happy family, a family with three sons. Yes, three sons whose diversified professions made me ponder over a host of things about them. The very moment I sat down at the dining table, I looked at them and gave them a smile, but to my surprise, none of them reacted. This strangely made me feel as if I am sitting in front of three of the world's most uninteresting people. Just after that, Mr. Jones introduced me to his three sons, I was further puzzled. Now the thing that I am still unable to understand is that, the very second he told me about their vocations, my head hassled up with a thought, completely motivated by those emotionless actions of three, that were totally weird. His first son, happened to be one of the Oakland Plumbers ! To me it seemed as if his work was not to mend leaking taps but to collate and set the flow of stupid thoughts jutting out of the mind, as if the particles of H2O, I mean the molecules of water and put them back into the head so that they don’t flow like liquid. The other son, who was an Oakland Electricians seemed so still and sans emotions made me feel that he is the criminal who has damaged the wiring of minds of his two brothers with his various tools such as conduit benders, pliers, wire strippers, drills, ohmmeters, voltmeters, oscilloscopes. An illustration formed in my head the way he must have opened brain, wired it and then plugged it back. Wow! Then comes the last but not least, his third son, one of those renowned Oakland Roofers who show miracles through their work. But I pondered how could this expressionless robot make those eye catchy scriptures on top of the roof. To me it seemed as if he could only set the roof of brains and make them quiet to the sentiments and all, like his. Probably, it’s the emotion that makes the machine being titled as HUMANS….
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