The Longest Journey Ever...

Since I came in the States all my flight journeys have been very eventful. But this one is a winner with no doubt. It all started with my flight from Richmond. I was told at the airport that my flight was canceled and that I would be accommodated in the flight prior to it. So I was happy, I would reach early. But today’s journey wanted to teach me the actual feel of the phrase ‘jor kaa jhatka dhire se lage’. So the flight scheduled to take off 4.15pm took off at 5.30pm. A good 52 minute flight lands on JFK and guess what….. we are stuck in the flight for around 1 hour because of the ground traffic. Finally we reached the terminal gate and got off the flight. I entered JFK and ‘Oh Man’, there were around 400 people in front of me. This was probably my first time in US that I saw so many people at a time. Almost every flight on the display board was either canceled or delayed. I didn’t care. I just knew one thing…… I had to run. I had to run to find my flight. Those who have any idea of JFK…… I ran all the way from Gate 25 to Gate 4 almost a mile of distance with my cabin bag and personal bag. I reached here on time, I did it. But the Captain of the flight couldn’t make it!!!! Yess that is true, the Captain was on the flight to JFK from Atlanta, which got delayed and delayed for ever. So the all ready plane, all the rest of the crew and 130 passengers cannot fly to Mumbai because one man cannot make it to NY from Atlanta!!!!!!!!!! So the flight was delayed from 8.55pm to 10.30pm to 12.45 pm to 10.00am on 24th morning!!! I have done it again, I got myself stuck on JFK overnight……. I did not break my record!!! I am here at 2.59am in the morning writing a post for a blog. I think my flight will take off at 10am today…… I hope so… but still not sure!!! I pray to God this does not happen to even my enemy……. I don’t care of this uncomfortable night on the airport, but do you understand what that means??? It means 15 hours less in India… a delay of 15 hours for the moment I have been dreaming of for last several months!!!
This certainly is my longest journey ever!!

I am happy...

For last several months there was this war going in my mind!!! Does happen periodically...
I like to ask questions and torture myself.
Who am I? What am I doing? Why am I doing, what I do? What should I do now? Where does my life want me to go? What is the purpose of my birth? Who decides it? If it is me who decides it, when will I get that realization? If not, is there any power that is superior than my mind (for me)? Probably not..... What is mind? Just chemical locha???? Just the thinking and memorization pathways I learnt in biochem last semester?? If it is true, what makes individual minds different from one another? Genetics?? 4 nucleotides?? They are 99% similar in all human beings.... so 1% of genome that is 30,000 base pairs/ nucleotides out of 3 million, make all that difference!!! Then this is what I should do, find out the differences in 1% genome. That is what I am doing, I am doing research in human genetics.
I have reached this conclusion and that is why I am happy!!!