My Role models

Am I ready to blog about the theme for this week (42): "If you woke up one morning as your favourite celebrity/personality/role model, who would it be, and what would you do?

Yes I am, thanks to the holiday that I have got today because of incessant rain.

Actually, it is a tough question. Because I have never ever modeled myself on any one. And I do not adore anybody. I have had celebrity figures as my favourites in tennis, cricket, dance, music etc. But they have never been my role models.

It set me off thinking and I think we try to model ourselves from around the people that we live with. Who are the people who affect me? My uncle, my parents and my wife.

If I got up as my Uncle, I would love to imbibe his work ethic but I would definitely treat my employees better.

If I got up as my father, I would love to guide as many doctoral candidates as he has. On the flip side, unlike him, I would not believe everybody.

If I got up as my wife, I would love to exercise the way she does and not worry as much as she does.

All these people have had varying effects on my life and will continue to do so.

Ahem.

 

Week 33 A short story- Read on

Am I ready to blog about the theme for week 33:  The story starts thus

"It was past ten at night. I had finished clearing up after dinner, and locked up for the night. The rest of the family had turned in for an early night. I was looking forward to a hot shower, and then snuggling under the covers for a quiet read before dropping off to sleep.That's when the peal of the door-bell startled me. Who could it be this late at night?”

Such a horrific thought.

How could this happen to me? Why not?

Too many reasons. I don’t have a hot shower as I drop off to sleep. I don’t read a book before I sleep. So did the door bell startle me? Yes it did.

I started getting worried and was wondering who could be at the door at this hour?

Did something go wrong in the neighbour’s house? Was there any theft in the neighborhood? Did somebody steal my car or did a coconut or a mango fall on my car windshield in the parking lot? Was somebody unwell and had they come to call me since the cell phone signals were not reliable? Did somebody leave the gas stove on and was the building engulfed in smoke and somebody was trying to wake me up? Or was it a bold thief who was trying to ring the bell and standing with a knife at the door? Was it someone I had antagonized and was there for revenge?

I was startled by all these thoughts and woke up sweating profusely to realize it was only a dream. I have been startled by dreams so many times and it is always nice to get up in the middle of the night and realize it was only a dream.

What a huge relief!

Here is what I would like to change about myself

Am I ready to blog about the theme for week 40?  

I better be. I am a week late. 

What is the theme? If there was one thing I would like to change about myself, what would that be?

What a question to answer? Every one of us would like to think that we are always right and on the right track.

If this question is posed to my wife about me, the answer that I would imagine that she would give is, “There may be only one thing that I should not change and every thing else should change”. Well I guess, that is what spouses are meant for!

Facts (jokes) apart, What would my answer be to this question? It should border between procrastination and my job.  Procrastination may gain precedence. Given a chance I would like to do everything tomorrow. That is why I am writing this post a week later. There is absolutely nothing, including eating that I would like to do immediately, maybe except sleeping. Well, most of the time I do things only if there is a deadline. Otherwise, I will not complete any project. How I wish that I change myself.

Easier said than done!  And I will go back to procrastinating about the wish to change myself.