Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Finding Ways to Escape being A Reserve

What I am about to write is a fable or sort, it could be mythical, it could be a legend, but above all its a story. It is going to be in cryptic code, and its best I express it this way to avoid any form of 'interpolistical' investigation. Its nothing much, just a commentary or sort.

Well, its about a boy who wanted to be deferred from his reservist training, for every strong and healthy man in his country has to serve the nation in after which they have to go through a period of 10 years as a reserve. But this boy, has a million and one things to do in his life, not sure why, but he is just a restless soul.

So he seeked deferment from his beloved school, an art school, he got the letter from the lovely Student Affairs department who gave a 2 line description for his deferment. Well the letter was sent, then it got rejected 4 days before he was called up. So this boy, with all his crazy engagements, got no choice but to apply another letter from his superior, a dean from the Baltic Sea, he is also known as Mimi to some.

Fast forward to his call up day, he arrived at the venue which was printed wrongly on his call-up letter, sprained his thumb while closing the taxi door that cost him 20 bucks travelling from the East to the Northwestern part of the island. All he wanted was to pass the letter to someone so kind, so that he could just get the hell out of that god forsaken place.

But...NO! They made him wait together with all the eager and brave (or maybe not) looking looking men from all walks of life, short and skinny ones, hairy chested, slicked hair or whatever there was.

He waited and waited for about 2 and a half hours, patiently, well finally, his letter got approved but the madness continued, he had to go through this process of waiting. He waited with all the Men with Letters plus Men trying to look sick. He got through the waiting game, then he questioned himself, what was it all about, at the end of the day, its all about debt. To avoid paying this debt, he got to find ways to escape. There is a saying, if one does not want to be in the groove, he got to find his own groove, like a needle in the groove.

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