Chapter 14

They say that the only thing constant in this world is change. Likewise, the only thing for which Mr. Naman is regular is being not regular in anything. What plans! What plans he makes inside his cocunut like head. His ideas are like pure coconut water - fresh, pure and sweet - but like the water they stay inside his head. And with time the water dries up in coconut. But this is where Mr. Naman differs. His is a brand of regenerative plan machine - plans are formed, kept for some time and then forgotten or replaced by another plan and the cycle continues.

Mr. Naman has been planning to write a book. A book about everyday life of people in Ugar. "I will write something everyday for my book" said Mr. Naman one fine day. The exact time at which Mr. Naman's mind produced this notion was recorded as 8:24pm on that day. It took less than one second for other parts of brain to pass this notion into law and it was put into practice effective immediately. Usually Mr. Naman's minds is quite slow and it likes to take longer intervals to come to a resolution but on matters like these, the decision is unanimous and quick.

Mr. Naman is aware of his brain's quick response to such matters and he had a good debate within himself one day. On one side was the fact that decisions made in haste are mostly wrong and sooner or later they are bound to fail. But on another end was the Malcolm Gladwell's Blink theory saying that no matter how complex the question is, the decision is always made in a blink. Mr. Naman had tried to argue from both sides. The debate is put on hold for the moment and is queued at the back of on-hold debated within Mr. Naman.

Coming back to the current Mr. Naman's resolution, the bill was passed on to the Writing minister to produce something for today. Since it was already 8:28 pm, the Writing minister complained that there is so less time left in the day today to embark the process. So an ordinance was issued that such a task will start from tomorrow. First few days went smooth, then again Mr. Naman's brain's Writing minister started to complain. One can not put a timeline on art and writing is a form of art. Since mediocrity is not acceptable by any standards and it takes time to publish quality work, putting a timeline is waste. But the Discipline minister argued that without a time check, there is no guarantee, the project can go on indefinitely. To which the Writing minister replied that i can publish a whole book within one week but will the Discipline minister be willing to read it. The Discipline minister clearly declined such an offer. So this debate was also queued up in Mr. Naman's list of on-Hold debate queue. In the mean time, the Writing minister was given a free pass (or you can also say bailout ) to write when he feels like.

There were many such other attempts by Mr. Naman to be regular. Simple ones like "I will get up early and watch sunrise everyday", "I will take bath before eating breakfast everyday" and more ambitious ones like "I will finish my newspaper article two days in advance" or like "I will learn to play Sitar basics within one year". Each one of them failed. Some disappointingly (within a week) and others very disappointingly (withing two or three days). There was also one to clear all the pending debates in On-Hold queue but this itself sparked a debate whether to pass such resolution or not and this was put on the queue owing to its larger time needs.