Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Disturbance

Who feels like attending an official meeting right after a big lunch?
And if it happens to be a training..... and if it is about quality..
Having no option, I had to step in. Chicken curry and fish fingers were playing hide-and-seek inside. I wanted to play hide-and-seek as well. But how?
I started thinking about the lunch. It was good. It was heavy. The cook must be very gifted. Will I be ever able to make such good dishes? I started dreaming that I had become a part-time cook. An eternal dream that had come true. I was now sought-after. Accolades were showering on me. Sanjeev Kapoor himself was talking to me the other day. When I used to step into the neat restaurant kitchen, I used to be greeted with silence which follows the respectful glances.
In fact, everything was silent...
... including my training room.
I suddenly became aware that everyone in the room was looking at me. Including the trainer. These are the moments when you don't have words and you just want everyone to look anywhere else. Leave me alone; I want solitude; I want solace...
But they were not to come. Only my foolish blank glances here and there. Why is the trainer smiling?
Silence was broken by the trainer himself: "If you want to sleep, pray do so. But your snoring is disturbing everyone else. I know snoring has no remedy, so can you keep awake for the sake of others?"
Why is he still smiling at me? You mean, I can't sleep in a meeting?