Deal with it, baby!

Thanks to Stephene Meyer and her Twilight Saga, I've quite a bit idea about the vampires and werewolves. In fact, it's the characterization of Edward that keeps me hooked on to this teenage fiction series. I've read only the Twilight book, but have seen it and "New Moon" on the silver screen. Jacob - a werewolf - was least impressive for me, but "werewolf" is the topic of this post.

A once-upon-a-time-friend (how do you refer to a friend when friendship ceases to exist?) used to push me a lot to read non-fiction works. Every time he recommended me a non-fiction book, he got rhetoric, "That reads better than super thriller romantic comedy novel. Do read it." I've been reading quite a bit of technical related works, these days and I bet without any doubts, those are few of the well written books I've read.

One such is Frederick Brooks's essay: "No Silver Bullet." I'd write about this article in my technical blog, but for now a one line summary of this article: Software is the werewolf, which has no silver bullets. I was stumped by the impeccable style of Brooks in carrying the metaphor till the end. Werewolves are characters in folklore, who are humans almost all the time, but when they aren't they turn into wolves. The point here is, something so familiar suddenly turns into a bloody monster. It seems, silver bullets have a magical effect in calming down the werewolves.

Enough of introduction (yeah, all of that was introduction!), I wanna get to the topic now. I was thinking of the same lines of familiar-turn-furious cases in life and ended up with quite a few. But the first prize goes to: TIME.

TIME, they say, is a healer. Though, in most cases, it's like 'operation success, patient dead.' Time also keeps testing the nerves. Why do people dread failure so much? Because a re-attempt means hell lot of time, all over again. We are time-bound. We're nothing but time-bound product. By three weeks, start staring the ceiling fan, by three months, take the first turn, by nine months start walking, by three years go to school, by teenage start dealing with existentialism, by fifteen fall for somebody, by nineteen decide your career, by twenties start your career, by 30's *settle* in life, by 40's plan and save for kids, by 50's make sure your kids *settle* in life, by 60's RETIRE.. and if in any of these, you're not up to the mark, then, that is where TIME becomes the monster. It scares you, it drives you crazy. Look back and the whole of past would be ready to sweep you off as a Tsunami wave.

Past Imperfect. Present Tense. Future Complex.

And alas, are there any silver bullets? No. Yes? Let me know. How about this - "ho sake tho zindagi bitaa do.. pal yeh jo jaane waala hai..."

Moral of the story, any story of a werewolf without silver bullets: Deal with it, baby!