Me And Lucky You

“I and you have got a lot in common
We share all the same problems
Luck, Love and life aren’t on our side
I’m in the wrong place at the wrong time
Always the last one in a long line
Waiting for something which may turn out to be right”

How many times we feel like being the unluckiest person on this planet. How many times you feel like saying "God!! Why always me".. why does it starts raining whenever I forget to wear the raincoat? Why the system goes down the time I reach to the counter? Why the bus comes early when I am on time and comes late when I am early? Why do they change the question pattern when I am giving the exam, why don't I have a girl friend when everyone else has? Why India loses the match whenever I am watching it? Why the left side traffic starts moving when I am on the right and vice versa? Why does the lift goes up when I am about to press it?

Have you been in any of these situations in your life, I am sure you have and I too am not the exception? These things have haunted me from long time to an extent that I felt like if God was going to drop 90 diamonds for 100 people on earth, I will be amongst those 10 who won’t be getting it.

Sometimes these comes in form of embarrassments also, there have been couples of instances in my life where I have liked someone and they have come back saying that we are just friends while the whole world around including me thought it's more than a friendship. You should have learnt the lesson at the first place, one can't be wrong twice, but again it's just me.
There is another form of embarrassment which comes as disguise in blessing. One such case happened when I was working with my previous company, my H1 US visa was filed from my project which was considered only lucky few got. This coincided with my appraisal and I was told that, since I will be getting the ticket to Hollywood (I mean USA), so I need to compromise with my promotion.

It didn't mean much to me as I dreamt of travelling abroad as many of us do. Then something happened which hadn't happen in history of H1 visa, all 65K quota got filled in a day, the US consulate received record 150K applications on very first day. I had less than 50% chance of getting it (not mentioning it as more than 50% chance of not getting it, a B+ve look, you can say half glass filed rather than half empty approach). Anyway our project managed to get 7 out of 10 applied visas, the best success ratio as compared to all other projects in the company. But then I was among those remaining three, remember 90 diamonds mentioned above. Now I was neither with promotion nor having visa. It looked like a game plan, someone didn't want me to get either, and someone above was really not happy with me. Although many of my friends from different projects managed to get it and those who didn't, went to other parts of world (The lucky you class) and I was still here, but again it's just me. I then called it a quit and decided to move on (shifted the company).

That was once such events from list of many, friends used to relate me from character of Saif in movie "Dil Chahta Hai", the guy whose life is too messed up and always lands up in trouble, a guy out of luck. One whose outcome of acts turned out to be quite funny.. remember that Christen character in Goa scene? :-) except that always yelling and dominating girlfriend. That was a torture, isn’t it?

Whatever it is, life has its own way of paying to your deeds, many a times I have desperately been looking for something, but got something else at that place although this didn’t please me as I was too engrossed in getting the thing I had wanted, but nevertheless, my journey till now has some unforgettable moments in it and wish it continues to be so in future also.

Sometime back I had watched a movie called "Just my Luck”, it’s about a girl who is always lucky and has an extremely fortunate life and a boy on the contrary who is followed by bad luck wherever he goes. Then comes that one kiss and the world changes as the lucks are interchanged.
Can one such thing happen in my life?? Still searching for that lucky charm