Are you awake enough?

A pleasant evening. It was a holiday so had decided to chill out, which I do pretty much my entire semester. Being an audiophile I was testing my brand new headphones streaming brand old songs and singing aloud the crapella version of it, “Like my father’s come to pass, seven years has gone so fast, wake me up when September” just right then a flying saucer like object hit my head. I turned at my mom and said, “let me at least put ‘end’ to the song and why are you throwing dishes on me, dad is sitting right there.” Upon that reply another dish came flying towards me.

Well it is quite obvious to get hit when you are not at all serious about your life and shamelessly singing loudly like a frog infront of an elder who has appointed you to do some work.It is also agreeable ,that being a ‘young-can-do-it-all-grownup’ you are not supposed to laze around especially infront of your parents and especially -especially when you are an engineer! Pretty much everything changes after that “e”-word transits your life to “f”-word. From plumber to mechanic, from fixing that neighbor’s computer to buying and negotiating the tomatoes with vegetable vendor, ” 20Rs ka kidhar bhaiyya, 15 ka rate shuru h” all because you are running low on your pocket money. In a similar fashion, I had got the work-some-save-some-earn-some opportunity.

Old newspapers were to be scrapped. I thudded inside the balcony where they were piling up. Residing on the top floor of the high-rise building, I enjoyed an open view of trees, mountains, lakes and nice abstract art of pigeon shit. I started alienating the by-mistakenly-thrown-notes of the paper where I thought I would pass but I dint. Assorting the papers, thinking how much money I would make out of them, I smirked, when I came across the news of UPA government slamming NDA government for the Union Budget, probably the first person to be profitable because of the Union Budget*literally*

I jolted as I read the word Union Budget; indeed to the economists, business analysts this word meant a huge deal but to me it was a quick time-shift. I mean January lasted for about 3 minutes for me and I am pretty sure I just entirely skipped February. Impetuously I flipped the stack of newspaper and decided to time travel. Swimming my way up in the ocean of stories I surfaced up with some disturbing things which can drown the whole world.

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors” -Plato

Surprisingly two-thousand four hundred and sixteen years later his quote is still trending when I see Donald Trump leading in the presidential elections of the most powerful country in the world. Series of memes and ‘funny Trump’ moments may have surfaced the internet but we have ignored the fact that he has already won three states and is leading the most Super Tuesday states, which is a big deal. Since 1988 every candidate who has won the most states on Super Tuesday went on to become their party’s nominee. So at this point Donald Trump is America’s back mole, it may have seemed harmless a year ago but now that he has gotten frighteningly big, so big that even the secret services are being employed to stop Donald Trump. The reason why he is getting plethora of votes, what his supporters had to say,” I think he is a credible businessman, if he runs the country like he runs the organization I think we will be in good shape.” This sounds felicitous for a moment because of the rich and successful status he has. But because he is rich therefore he knows politics has the same internal logic as I am a vegetarian therefore I know karate. He is currently observed loaning $18million to fund his own campaign. Why would he do that if he is significantly rich and has earned more money than most of us will make in a lifetime? Because the fact is not only did he get multi-million dollars inheritance from his father but he has also lost a huge amount. His own daughter described the state of his finances in one interview,” My father and I were walking down the fifth avenue and there is a homeless person sitting right outside of Trump Towers and I remember my father pointing to him and say that the guy has eight billion dollars more than me.” Explaining how indebted he was.  Whatever we think about Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz at least they know where they stand but Trump’s opinion has been wildly inconsistent. When asked about what he had to defeat ISIS, he simply replied without any hesitation,” We need to take out their families and basically kill all Muslims.” This was the front runner of Republican nomination advocating a war crime, and he might say he was joking or changed his mind but when this racist, unstable, hysterical, himbo will sworn in as President on that day his opinions are going to matter, to US, to us.

And just when we pray that sufferings of America should end; enters North Korea- “Attention, United States of America. This is your final warning before we destroy you completely.”  Kaboom. The not-so Democratic People’s Republic of Korea hash North Korea is one of the most fascinating countries in the world. They live by this weird sort of ideology called “juche” which is the bizarre sort of Marxist-Leninist-Socialist hybrid. North Korea is like that lonely, slightly sociopathic guy at a party who sits in a corner and doesn’t talk to anyone- “hey bro, you enjoying the party? We are doing shots” “Yeah, so am I. Just fired missiles at your house.”  Where South Korea is famous for Gangnam style, North Korea is getting famous for its Bombnam style. Things started getting really serious, when their Supreme leader Kim Jong Un declared that they have been testing hydrogen bomb. The guy is as wacky as his name, known for holding the title of ‘World’s most cruel dictator’; this no DC no Marvel very real supervillain destroys whatever comes his way. It is genuinely worrying that a guy like Kim Jong Un who has no military training is in charge of one of the largest military and nuclear forces in the world. And with that he has a fanatic reputation for shooting people. He had his defence minister executed and shot. Not with a pistol or an AK-47 like normal psychopaths but with an anti-aircraft gun- a weapon designed to attack aircrafts. So he must have shot him because of some serious crime, right? Like treason? corruption?  Spying? Nah.nah.nah. He had him shot because he allegedly fell asleep in Kim Jong Un’s  presence!

It is really scary how much power this guy has an access to. Here is some perspective. North Korea is just over 120,000sq.km in size. That is just slightly smaller than Tamil Nadu. Despite that it is among the top 5 biggest Nuclear powers in the world. They have military strength of close to a 1.5 million soldiers where each knows 1.5 million combat moves. For lot of us Kim Jong Un is just some fat dude we see in newspaper. But he and North Korea are capable of doing some serious damage, which could possibly trigger the next world war.

And we may have diffused one bomb named Rahul Gandhi, there are still many explosives like Tejashwi Yadav- deputy chief minister of Bihar, Kanhaiya Kumar-JNU President, waiting to do a damage. And this should come as a warning to all of us. One half of the human race is at war with the other, which is worse than an attack of flying saucer like objects(U.F.Os) on human beings. This is the time to get serious about your, mine and everyone's life. This is the time to WAKE UP, because the world can end before the September ends. GOOD MORNING!