La Vita Bella

Today is a special day for me. Now I am not talking about 59th sorry 60th no no 59th no 60th Offfooo!!! let me do some google .ok 60th anniversary of Indian Independence.

I am talking about how today my friends Ramu and Shamu (name changed) proved that I am dumber than I actually thought I was. Both of them will leave the country within few hours. Ramu for his Masters in Dollar Science from University of Berkley and Shamu for a looooooooooooong term onsite assignment for his client Clean My Shit USA Private Ltd.
When I went to see them off , I saw two shades of happiness on their faces. One obtained from the excitement of their coming US trip and the other obtained from seeing a dumb person who has decided to stay back in India. But they feel sad for Hyderabad though . They are very concerned about this vibrant city. They think that my presence and their absence will seriously effect city‘s intellectual capital . Both were my good old friends and this was the last nail in the coffin of my already dead social circle in Hyderabad. I feel sad that I can’t dream of any such hi-fi foreign ventures coz god has made me too dumb to even think of it.

But hey things are not all that bad. For those, who like me are not gifted with genius, I have some words. Please, don’t get disheartened. Being a poor fish is perfectly normal. Moreover, you don’t have to hide your dumbness. Once people know you are stupid, you are actually in an advantageous position.

Now take my office for example!! When I keep my mouth shut in any technical conversation, people think I am a very good listener who is taking deep interest in learning new concepts. And when I ask too many questions , my boss feels proud about himself having recruited a very curious and research oriented boy. Even when I can’t do anything single handedly and go here and there for help people think I am an excellent team player. I always find people crying that their job is very monotonous and boring. There is nothing to learn at all. Now my old readers(I hope they are still with me) know how much I love my job. I will give the reason now. Work is not boring for me. After all how can things get monotonous when I forget everything I learnt the day before???. I can only thank my dumbness for putting me the in the elite league of people like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Narayan Murthy who love their job.

If we leave work and think otherwise also dumbness is always a blessing in disguise. Now if you are a love-bird but feel that your relationship is not going anywhere, put your logical switch to off and try dumbness, I am sure it will do wonders in bringing your love back to romantic glories. I often observe that whenerver I come up with something weird in any serious conversaion, it is considered that I have a good sense of humor and I am a person who like to take positive part of things..Now who wants to stop people from forming opinions but yup.. full credit goes to my dumbness!!

Like it or not but wise people also love dumbness.To prove it, well.. pick up any person of intellect and I bet he will name either “Dumb and Dumber” or “Forrest Gump” among his favorite movies. A testimony of the fact that foolishness is highly taken even among intellectuals. Actually it requires some brain to appreciate insanity. So when someone says you are stupid!! Don’t read too much into it. He himself might be dumb else how couldn’t he appreciate your dumbness??. For intelligent people stupidity is a very cute thing.

People feel good in my company as not only they have found a person far inferior to them but also a person who quietly listens to their stories of exciting foreign trips, their lectures on bad state of Indian roads, their criticism of Indian politics and their opinions on why India can’t match the US might even in the next 100 years. Sometimes I don’t even understand their intellectual musings but certainly feel happy that at least I satisfied somebody’s ego and made him feel happy.

So the moral of the story is being dumb is pretty Okey. Ok bole to ekdum Okeeeeeey.
Long live Dumbness!!
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Between today also happens to be the happiest day of my wroking life.Our application server is officially out at 00 hrs midnight.My salute to all the 30 dumb Indians who made this a reality..