Nine years ago, at a very similar month of May, I received a call from Bangalore. Some mental family known to me has bought a home, and they wanted me to attend it. The function was only a week away, and I wasn’t ready to go, and I told them straight.

They had a very inferior cognitive level. They were unable to understand one’s privacy and one’s will to travel or not to travel. According to them, if somebody disobeys them, they should be punished, and so they cultivated vengeance in their heart. They trouble me through various means, and finally I was able to eliminate them, thus, now I am having a very great life, with very good people who do have brains.

I call this phenomenon flash functions. Usually when I was young, if some function or something is going to happen in a family, we do know about it months ahead. People weren’t stupid enough to arrange functions and call people in a hurry. People taught about people. People talked with people, and in fact after proper thought and consultation, a function date was fixed. Functions were a good thing. It wasn’t death, where one was dealing with a rotting corpse, so people should attend it at a short notice.

I thought that exceptionally mad family was an anomaly. They had a function which they should have planned for months. Which people should have known. Invitation should have just been a formality. And even that invitation should have been given months ahead, so that people can plan about the transport, about their stay, so on and so forth. But they let their stupidity shine. They showed it to the world that if something doesn’t align with the way they thought, they will behave animalistic and force stuff upon others.

Thankfully till now I haven’t seen evil people like them. But something very similar happened which disturbed me.

A marriage in days

I am consulting for a company and looks like somebody in that company was about to get married. I did receive that invitation in some WhatsApp group and I thought it’ll be a month or two months away. One day my friend reminded me it’s just on the weekend and I couldn’t believe it. The trauma I suffered because of being acquaintance with the stupid family in Bangalore ran through my mind.

Thankfully that function was in Chennai, and it was very near to my home, so I could attend. But of course in my thought ran, ‘are people getting stupid?’ Why they should behave like those evil people even if it is a fraction of a percent. In fact the person who’s getting married is an engineer. He should have a very stable mind. Otherwise, his company is going to be at very great loss. Engineering needs practical thinking. Engineer needs to think about what could fail, and must accept of things if it doesn’t go right. An engineer never forces stuff on others, and never sets impossible deadlines. That’s the job of a project manager, a person who’s kind of mentally retarded and is only useful for driving people.

I attended his marriage reception and thankfully everything went well.

Another invitation

I don’t probe into personal life of others. Even if it’s my life partner. One day there was ringing of bell in my house and there was no one, and so I had to attend it. Someone known to people in my family arrived, and they were handing over some invitation. I tossed it aside because I simply don’t care about others.

But the other day when I was trying to search something, I just moved the invitation and found out, it was just a week away, and I was once again stunned. Here are two different families giving invitation to people just at very short notices. Not the kind of very planned things which I’m used to. I am dealing with two n new families who may not have a very good presence of mind. But thankfully they are not close to me. I could avoid them, insulate myself from their foolishness.

I’m wondering what’s happening to humanity. Are we getting more stupid? Some surveys say humanity’s IQ peaked in nineteen seventies and since then it’s falling steadily. And it falls sharp for people who smoke, drink, so on and so forth. And I don’t know what’s happening around.

At least I know one family in which there is a heavy drinker. So yeah, maybe I’m not so surprised by that family.

May!

One thing that really kind of intrigues me is all these three incidents calling for functions at a very short notice happened around the month of May. And these people don’t give so much time to plan and attend stuff. Of course, they could be mentally retarded. I’m just wondering all these things are some kind of linked or something? I’m not sure.

Plan

I don’t know, it sounds so obvious to me, but if you’re having function in your home or whatever, you need to plan. You need to tell the people in advance so that they can plan. You need to let people plan if you really want them to attend your function with peace of mind. You simply can’t assume that what’s comfortable to you is comfortable to everybody. And you need to have a flexible mind to know that not everybody thinks like you. You need not be foolish enough not to include thought diversity. You need to be cool with people who are not attending your functions.

People need to know care and love doesn’t mean attendance. It is one helping you when you really need help that matters. These things should be so obvious to even a kid who’s kind of eight years old, but I don’t know why adults act as though they have no brains. The world looks really weird to me. I know that cigarette, liquor, drugs all of these are circulated a lot these days, and they spoil human brain. I don’t know if people are consuming tons of it these days? Or are people going around banging their heads every day so that it results in concussions and thus makes one mentally super retarded. I’m not sure.