For your eyes only !

 I read the RBI policy today. Nothing new. Nothing much to comment about. So let me talk about something else.

This is for your eyes only!

I had an irritation in my left eye couple of days back. Once others started asking me what had happened to my eye, I decided to go to eye doctor. I was warmly welcomed. The technician carefully dropped into my eyes a few drops of some solution looking through his 7 mm thick spectacles. He asked me to keep my eyes closed for 10 minutes before I could meet the doctor.

As I closed my eyes, my eyes started talking to me:

“Good evening master. First of all let’s thank you for keeping our lids closed while sleeping. Else we would have been working 24X7. But you don’t seem to be applying what you learnt. Don’t you know greens are very good for our health, but you are always fond of masala dosa, masala puri, masala movie and any other masala stuff. That’s why you are forced to bring us here. Last time when we came, the doctor asked us to go through some alphabets at random. You use to write them in such a meaningless way only when you wanted to write bad words. Probably seeing our condition the doctor was trying to convey similar message to you in as many letters and as random as possible.

As you know, we are identical twins. Squarely placed on your face that makes you more handsome. We don’t look each other, in fact we cannot. One way it is good as we are not jealous of what the other is doing otherwise it might result in degradation in our performance. We belong to a family which is purely secular. It doesn’t matter whether our master is a Muslim, Christian or Hindu. We try to serve with the same level of commitment with no bias. People like to distinguish by saying LEFT eye, RIGHT eye. Let’s make it very clear to you, we do not have any preference to either LEFTism or RIGHTism.

  

We always face some screen or other, at times 5.5 inches, at times 14 inch monitor, many a times 42 inch LCD screen. We rarely come across any greenery. How long we can withstand this torture?

We are disappointed yesterday, when you were praying in front of god at the temple. Why did you keep our lids shut? Don’t we also have the right to see the god?

We may be small, but remember Gandhiji had also mentioned about us "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Though we will not be responsible if such an event happens, but we can tell you we are the most vulnerable ones in any physical attack.

This is not blame game, we were helpless, and we did the best we could do. Last week when you were trying to get into the bus, we had processed all the images with high precision and sent to that “brainy head” above us. He was busy doing your arithmetic to compute how much you lost in stock market. It took some time for him to throw that garbage out of memory and load our data. By the time our data was processed and sent your right elbow, it was too late. Your elbow hit one of our brothers residing on the bearded face of the alighting giant from the bus. We felt sorry for our brother, but we did not like the comment made by the giant. “Don’t you have eyes”, how can he ask such a silly question when our brothers on his face, though the right brother had been badly damaged by your elbow, can clearly see us on your face?

We are also greedy. These days who says enough when it is enough? Last evening you did not direct us to those beautiful ladies just because your wife was with you. Of course we are thankful for feasting us on another beautiful bunch when you were alone at your morning walk!

At times we feel we are let down. During your lunch last week at Barbeque nation, we just had a glimpse of those juicy kebabs. Our nosy brother below had a great everlasting aroma and that big mouth fellow below had all the fun, tasting every bit of that kebab. Once we ( your eyes ) were bigger than your stomach, (if you do not know what this phrase means, refer your grammar book, there are many such phrases like this mentioning us where we do not have any role to play at all !), and the spice hit you real hard we were moist that cooled us down a little.

Now we hear google glass is coming with more features. Google is adding prescription frames and new styles of detachable sunglasses to its computerized, internet-connected goggles. We hear it is going to sit at our brow level, higher than where spectacles glasses would go. Wearing it you can surf the web, read your email, share photos on FB. We do understand over engineering pays off occasionally, but you people are adding more and more work to us, as such we are over loaded. You folks seem to be blindly following the proverb "The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can't."

We have a humble request to you. Please maintain us well and keep us healthy. Do donate us to somebody while you die. We do not want to die with you. More over we can serve another master, probably less boring than you. It may pain us a bit. It does not matter, since it extends our life, more importantly another human being can see the world through us. Please make all documentation ready and appraise all stake holders about your wish, so that last minute donation becomes smooth.”

“Open your eyes”, growled the technician. I opened my eyes, asked my eyes to shut up for while as I walked into the doctor’s room.