The aftermath of a bill

 I was relishing my morning/noon baths in super hot water in this freezing Bangalore. (Bangalore does not freeze and never reaches single digit temperature. But for the sake of exaggeration!) And thinking to myself "bechchaneya neerage, hachchalu soapage, kuchchukuchchemba chaliyage, swargakke kichchu hachchenda sarvajna".

That is not a Sanskrit or Latin quote, But our good old kannada poem modified by me. Which translates to something like "Heaven is no comparison to having a very hot water bath in the cold weather". Bangaloreans will agree. 

And don't you worry  about my fluency of multiple languages. We-  the great Indians will be reasonably good in at least 3 languages - Hindi, English and our mother tongue. That makes us smarter than the rest of you, as is evident. 

Thus I have been relishing and cherishing and enjoying this hot bathes. Until we received the monthly electricity bill. The bill showed the consumption to be one and a half times our usual. I was flabbergasted - to exaggerate. Shocked beyond belief.

We obsess over things. Over little things, over large things, or even the fact that there is nothing to obsess about. I may not be at the level of Jerry the Hands of "Boston Legal" TV series. Jerry purrs when he is upset. He hops a little when he is more upset. And he always holds his both hands very close to his legs, as some one has pasted his hand. Hence the name.

I may not be there yet. But I obsess. Now that I have the knowledge of my excessive pleasure in hot water bath is causing our electricity consumption to increase by 50%, I can no longer not cherish it. Not when taking bath. So this bill  threw cold water over my happiness - pun intended.. 

OK, you would have reacted that "it is OK, anyway all these other months I was getting 0 rupees bill - courtesy our state government. In these winter months, I will splurge a little. It's not that we are unable to pay this  bill."

But I am not you. I am good even great in finding any excuse to feel unhappy and miserable.

Hence I will still have hot hot hot water bath, but with regret and unhappiness. 

Like Crane said in Boston Legal "There are only two things abundant on this earth - misery and corn". I agree with the first one.