Rumi Nations

It's ... what, about three hours since India won the Cup. Are we done celebrating yet or are we going to go on and on ... I'm already dreading being around in 2031 when the 20th anniversary of this great win will come around. It's tough to extrapolate how much more sillier the media will get from where they are now and how much more silly their questions will get. I'm sure they will Sachin how he 'felt' back in 2011 when we won the Cup. And I want to say already: come on, give the old man a break, will you? So, I'm ready to move on with my mundane life. What's next? Let's see ... Well, GoDaddy's CEO has shot an elephant and expectedly, PETA is up in arms. He's going to get the Scummiest CEO award from PETA ... apparently a brand new award that PETA has invented just for him. The final death toll is yet to be determined in the grim Japanese earthquake/tsunami. The search continues. And the nuclear meltdown disaster con...

To elaborate on the above, I find it a bit mystifying that we seem to have so much of reserves of ... sympathy perhaps ... for an Elizabeth Taylor. Was she a poor little women who suffered through her life and she deserved better? I think the fact is that she was lucky beyond compare. Perhaps she was the luckiest one in a population of one million. Which is to say, I am counting her as one of the roughly 7,000 luckiest people in the world. Contrast this with the tragedy in Japan. And even more so, other natural disasters of the past few years. Also, the everyday disasters that permeate this world. I consider myself one of the people who enable this situation ... having read three obituaries and seen perhaps a similar number of photo albums of Taylor. But I'm wondering about some psychological or biological/evolutionary explanation as to why this is so. What is it in our make-up that makes us do what we do? Is there some evolutionary advantage to doing this? Or, is it a faul...