Life is a Joy..(Yeah Right!!!) I just heard my friend got his Labor Certification for Green Card. I am really happy for him?(didn?t u see my fake plastic smile while saying ?Oh really ? Congratulations? while screaming ?Damn? inside my head..).He was elated..that..he got it in six months..(just what I needed to hear..before I break my keyboard..)..while mine is stuck in a black hole called Texas INS for the past two years. Whoever said ?Life is a bitch? must have been the first candidate who got rejected at 485 stage. Now I know how philosophers are made. You see..now I have to come up with some philosophy to move on?to be nice to him..to be nice to others?so I started wondering things..like??Life is not measured by Labor,GC?its about travelling more..enjoying family..spending time in Hawaii..?..(oh..shut the justifications...u got f****d?just deal with it?than rationalizing). But I guess we can?t move on until we do create a personal philosophy that is filled with great inspirational stories?(basically stories of people who got f****d more than you).So I started looking for some? Imagine the guy who goes to doctor and the doctor tells him..?I am very sorry..wish u had come last month..you just moved to advanced stage of cancer? or the guy who has a disease with a name that u can?t spell nor say it..and they tell him??this disease can be treated only when ur less than 10yrs old??... I don?t think I am in that deep a hole?but I guess we do live in a world where things get better as time passes by.. Imagine my Grandma, who had to wash clothes , clean the vessels all her life and finally ending up with hip transplant..and today I take more time trying to put the clothes from washer to Dryer..or my 1600$ camcorder I bought a year ago costing just 600 bucks today?or how I missed the internet age by just a few years and the ?possibilities? that come along with it? but..it got me thinking ?Does technological advances mean a better quality of life ? it?s just another flavor to life that wasn?t available before..( who am I kiddin ?..).. Anyway..i think I can't regret too much about things that are not in my control..and I got enuf stories..and analogies and rationalizations..to move on to my friend?s party happily?knowing that there are other?s who got screwed more than me! Posted by: Uhi Rajeev, Va, Amrika