Why does one feel the need of a thing only after someone else wants it??

You reach office in the morning, check the mails and when you feel everything is settled down you think it’s time to catch up on the daily news stories .

You wander around office searching for the newspaper and after 15  minutes of searching you find the newspaper quietly perched on your colleague’s CPU. You ask him if you can borrow it for a while, His immediate response – “I am reading it”. While its very evident that he wasn’t reading , he may “feel-like” reading it just because you wanted to borrow it.

Same goes with when someone borrows your book/Pen/DVD’s/ Money/Car..

The book which had gathered dust was finally asked by a friend and within days of your friend borrowing it you see an intense desire of asking it back . Why? Because suddenly you feel you need it. You might have million other books in your shelf but it’s that one book which your friend has taken you need. You call your friend, inform that you need it by tomorrow and your friend regrets to inform that it has been taken by some other friend of hers. You request her to track the chain of people whom this book has been passed on to and return the book asap. Within a week your friend rings you “ Hey lets meet at the coffee shop this Sunday noon, I have your book with me “, Me-“Great , c u there”.

You meet this friend on Sunday , she returns your book back. You return back home place the book back in your shelf. The furthest you ever go reading it is till the index.Why? That urge you had for reading this book is gone .But you satisfy your guilt saying you don’t have enough time to read it or similar such excuse.

Another incident which caught my attention was when I saw my friends stock their entire kitchen with liquor on October 1^st.Why?
October 2^nd is a dry day in India on the occasion of Gandhi jayanti .Now my question is why did my friends who rarely drink want to stock up so many liquids?Their reply -“What if we “feel like” drinking today then we will have no place to buy “.

We human beings are silly, weird and incomprehensible creatures.

We want things which we don’t have ,

And forget the ones that we do,

You might have one pretty girlfriend

But you wouldn’t mind your best friend’s too;)

Cheers

Neet