The story of hurt sentiments

Before anyone comes and sues me for hurting their sentiments by copying their idea, I hereby declare that this post is completely my idea, my views, and my thoughts. In short, it is originality at its best!

I also apologize to all whose sentiments will be hurt after reading this post. Who knows I might get arrested by someone because I have hurt their sentiments! After all creating a ruckus and asking others to apologize on the grounds of their ‘sentiments getting hurt’ is the biggest trend these days.

The other day Mr. XingXoXing’s 2 year old son plucked, by mistake, a bright red rose flower from Mr. YingYoYing’s green garden. I am sorry if you find it difficult to pronounce Mr. XingXoXing and Mr. YingYoYing. Yes I could have chosen some easy to pronounce, earthly names like Mr. Chaddha or Mr. Sharma. But then, you see, I do not want to spend my days and nights waiting and being afraid of the moment Mr. Chaddha or Mr. Sharma will come with all the Indian media (I dare not take their names!), sit on fast unto death outside my home, and force me to apologize. So I chose some Chinese or Japanese names. I know these people have lots of important tasks, other than creating a ruckus on their sentiments getting hurt, to do. And that is why, I guess, they are way far developed than India. But I assure you; Mr. XingXoXing and Mr. YingYoYing belong to India. Anyways where was I? Yeah so, our Indian Mr. XingXoXing’s son plucked a rose from Mr. YingYoYing’s garden. YingYoYing, being Indian, went crazy. His deep and out of the world sentiments were hurt. He lodged an FIR against Mr. XingXoXing and then Mr. XingXoXing was forced to apologize face to face and also on twitter (Today’s fashion you know!).

Later when Mr. XingXoXing’s son WingWoWing grew up to be a director, he directed a movie based on some UVUV community in India. He had done complete research on them, had burned the midnight oil and the movie was a result of his months of hard work. Everything was perfect about the movie: story, cast, crew, dialogues, songs, etc. It was sure to do a good business. But just one fault brought down everything. The mistake was: people of UVUV community were shown to be wearing a 3.755 meter cloth in the movie whereas in reality they wear 3.754 meter! Complete 1cm difference! What next? Sentiments of UVUV community were deeply hurt. They lodged nationwide protests and did not allow the movie to be released anywhere in India. Whole of the media went crazy. All of the time slots were booked only to have discussions on this ‘most important’ topic. UVUV people sat on fast unto death and broke their fast only when WingWoWing apologized publicly and of course on twitter! WingWoWing could not bear the insult and left the profession of director.

A few years later when elections were going on in WingWoWing’s locality, another calamity befell upon him. What happened was WingWoWing expressed on facebook that he does not like the pink color of the symbol of the party contesting for elections in his area. Consequence? Volcanic sentiments of the contesting party were hurt. He was arrested, sent to jail for 6 months and forced to apologize on the national TV; needless to say on twitter too.

Time passed by and our WingWoWing turned 75. He had not received his pension for the last 12 months. He went to pension office to collect his meager pension of Rs. 5000. What he got was just Rs. 2000. He complained to senior officials, waited for another one year. No action took place. Now that his justified sentiments were hurt, he decided to do what was done to him. He sat on a fast unto death motion. None of the media highlighted this issue, no action was taken, and he died within four days. Nobody’s sentiments were hurt, no apologies were made and no one mentioned him on twitter.