The Art of Procrastination

dude, are you joking with this stuff? I did not see a satire tag, so I can only assume you are serious. and if so, you're a blooming sociopath.

your writing is not witty, it's disturbing. are you really as narcissistic as your past two articles lead us to believe you are?

or are you just young. really, really terribly young.

hahaha....man...u are bordering on insanity...be careful :-)

same comment as on the other piece. next time choose your tags more wisely. if this is fiction (and there is a fiction tag!), it is surely interesting and I would encourage you to go with it! (if it is a self-narrative it is disturbing and I stand by my above comment)

also, we usually put fiction in the title when we post fiction... see this for an example:
http://desicritics.org/2007/10/18/135226.php

HI DeepakMaini,it was fun reading this piece. You sound like all the kids I know, specially my younger daughter.

I like the bit where you say ' the iPod and the laptop, they are not important.They are there for amusement, not tension.'
That's a good attitude to gadgets.

And as for killing off all the call centre- girl :-))) If only it happened sometime.

kalyani... in light of what just happened in pune, I am not sure jokes about killing off call centre girls is in the best taste

Kalyani: Thanks a lot for reading the piece and commenting on it. My attitude toward gadgets has always been indifferent. They seem to not like me. Usually, either my electronics get stolen or they stop working on their own accord.

smallsquirrel: I agree with you. But I didn't write the piece to pull off any jokes on call centres. And I believe Kalyani, too, didn't mean anything inappropriate along the lines you pointed out. I totally agree to your point that cracking jokes about someone's sorry situation is not in the best taste.

DM:

am procrastinating

(sub my comment on your last piece here in its entirety)

It's ok. I don't mind anyone's procrastinating. I usually don't, if it helps.

deepak... yes I agree she did not mean it, still I was a bit shocked.

keep writing! I will look for your next piece! :)

deepak:

keep writing! I will look for your next piece!

read this for above:

watch out ... if you slip in the next piece you will not know what hit you

(you are welcome)

Temporal: I don't think I understood your last comment. Did you mean: I am forbidden to write on this website? I don't what it means, but it just doesn't sound ok to me. I need edification.

Deepak, you are most welcome to write whatever you choose for Desicritics - temporal is our resident poet and must be understood through the prism of poetry, which is not always a direct view.

I understand it now. I am a little mortified to have raised the furore. I understand poetry but only after my 'celeron' has processed it. I guess everything is fine.

deepak... I think what temporal was referring to is my sharp errr... tongue (?) when it comes to reviewing. that's all.

you did not raise a furor. it is all quite alright. carry on writing and we will react how we will. if nothing else you will both develop a thick skin and receive both good and bad feedback.

temporal... awwwwwwwww, you still upset I caught you in what we shall now refer to as a "macaulay"? LOL!

I don't know, whether procastination might be
genetically inherited or not. I have a that
problem from the very early part of my life.
I never read my school lessons promptly, homework was a big burden. Some of my relatives
told me, " how did you pass each class becasue
you never study".

Even filing the tax each year is procastinated, so I call the CPA for an extention. I am always
cautious to dress well, but my table looks like
it had a small earthquake. My wife gets mad at me for my disorderly looking table, but now she has given up. I am always on time to keep
appointments and to catch a plane. but in certain
other important things of life, I am terribly
delinquent, but there is some overall improvement
as I get old.

deepak:

recall what i wrote on your other thread re: humour and endangered species?

(note to self - use smiley/winky icons - use smiley/winky icons!)

since you are new here comment #11 was to help you understand ss speaks her mind and does not believe in taking prisoners:)

ss:

no, not upset at all...my comment was a serious attempt at humour...next time i will try and make it less serious

;)

I know you don't rattle that easy, temporal!!!
smiles all around! :)

Temporal: I understood what you meant right after I wrote my comment, asking you to enlighten me. And if it's SS hitting, I don't mind taking a hit. I think she makes sense with her comments and I respect her for that. You're my favorite person already. I like reading your comments. They make me think so hard that my hair stand up.

AS Mathews: Thanks for reading the piece and providing your side of the story. I like hearing about 'procrastination.'

SS: I like your lashing tongue. It makes things spicy, and I like spices in my food. I am not averse to strong comments. I enjoy them actually; one of the few things which make me ponder. Thanks for writing.

you sound like a loser with no gf

Kela: What has this to do with gf? Tell me, I want to learn how people draw conclusions like this. It will better my writing. GF?? he he!! I love this comment.

just the fact that you live in a dump and spend hours calling sales reps.Maybe i'm wrong [EDITED]

I can rip your whole family off in one paragraph. And for you, I wish you were man enough to understand the meaning of what is acceptable as a comment. About your comment on my GF, you're lucky that you are not in front of me. I swear I would have told you what it means to provoke someone unnecessarily. But you're lucky that I am not as cheap as you.

If it helps in alleviating your moronic tendencies, read the discussion preceding your comment. THIS IS A SATIRE. SOMETHING WRITTEN FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THINGS BY MOCKING THEM. IT'S A PIECE OF FICTION, WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME.

and welcome to the world of kela... I am sure there is a banana joke in there somewhere, but...

kela... take it easy there fella

I have had enough of this website. I have never experienced personal-bashing of this magnitude. I joined this website to improve on my writing style, not to set standards for people to follow. I don't tell people what do to, or justify right or wrong. I just don't. I am a simple guy who likes to write. Write things; silly sometimes but never offending. If people call writing cheap comments an art of criticism, then I am sorry I don't want it. Comment about the style, the language, the vocabulary, the inner asides, something that can make the author a better writer. Don't just open up a canon and try to bulldoze you way into his head and fuck him. I am sorry but 'criticism' has never been so lowbrow.

deepak:

you are being too kind;)

think

think and write about the bottom line - why is humour and wit on the UNICEF endangered list for india?

i am too be banned again :(

deepak... hey hey ignore kela... once in a blue moon he says something intelligent, but the rest of the time he (pardon my language) shows his ass.

don't let anyone bully you. don't let them discourage you either. take a deep breath, count to 10 (or 100) and take it easy, yaar.

there are trolls everywhere. in this kind of forum you get all kinds. thicken your skin, ignore the people who make no sense and you'll be fine.

#26: Deepak:

"I have never experienced personal-bashing of this magnitude. I joined this website to improve on my writing style, not to set standards for people to follow"

Sadly, criticism is not by invitation. You take what you get, dodge the brickbats, ignore the snide and meaningless trolling and put the constructive criticism to good use. You cannot pay heed to the trolling and ad hominem, dignify it with responses or take it personally...by doing that you are giving the trolls precisely what they want: attention.

Do you write to make your point of view known, to put your thoughts and words in front of people? If so then when you do that you automatically surrender control of how people will interpret and react to those thoughts. That shouldn't bother you. You can defend your ideas but you don not owe it to anybody to defend your personal life. That is nobody's business. When people make comments about your personal life it just tells you that they have run out of logical criticism and are resorting to random brickbats. Thats a compliment.

If you think what you have experienced here is "personal bashing", please take a look at some of the comments on the articles by us, the female authors of this website. We manage to hold our own against the kind of personal attacks that you cannot even begin to imagine. We just ignore them and address only the people who are interested in engaging in dialogue.


Your profile reads: "I am an easy-going ass-kicker"

Well, enough of the easy-going, now kick some ass

:)

look deepak, put it this way... your writing and character development was convincing enough that I thought you (who we now know is not you but a character you have invented) were a sociopath. so hey, I think that is good writing. you evoked feeling, and a bunch of it!

(I'll take that over being bored any day)

listen to aditi... she is a wise, wise woman.

Deepak, you seem to have succeeded at what takes most writers forever - getting over 10 comments and that too on their very first article, kela was riffing on your character as per your story so why take it personally?

Read Aditi's comment carefully, and continue to write.

Incidentally, kela's egregious overstepping of the line has been edited, as it should have been earlier.

Heck some one could just as well get mad with me for something as mundane as gardening. Enjoy man, when we swim with sharks we are bound to get bitten and once in a while we may even get to ride with dolphins- thats what the online world is all about.

Aditi: Thanks a lot for clearing up a lot of things for me. I appreciate your taking time and helping me nail down the rules of the game. I am usually fine with all sorts of comments, but when it comes down to my personal-life my blood starts simmering. Work around me and your kind words have helped me calm down. Thanks a lot. I have started going through your posts, so I will get a better perspective.

Aman: Thanks a lot for the words. I hope I could evoke such responses in the future. I am a little idiosyncratic with my writings, so I might again run into trouble, but it's fun to rattle than to relax.

SS: Thanks a lot for encouraging me. I hope to stay friends with you in the future. I think I have already started to don a different, fresh, thick-skin about comments I receive. It's fun to read how people react to things, though :) it's a learning process, and I all excited to wade through the turbulent times.

Deepti: Sharks and Dolphins, I want to befriend both. Thanks for your words.

Deepak, glad I could help. Of all my posts this following recent one may be of direct relevance for your aggravation resulting from personal attacks:

http://desicritics.org/2007/09/09/133105.php

Also, a suggestion (since you seem open to constructive criticism): I read your article and while the writing itself is very articulate, I personally feel that a more appropriate tag for your article would've been "Fiction" or "Satire". Since the article is tagged "Opinion" people assume you are the character in your post and feel free to wing the brickbats. Just something for future reference.

We look forward to more of your articles on DC! :)

Deepak # 20, procastination is simply postponing
even our urgent duties for another day. When we
attend college or school, we need to study our
lessons on a daily basis, but when we fail to do that and try to study everything at the eve of the examinations, that is pure procrastination.
But even the chronic procrastinators will not
procrastinators in every duty of life, but only
in certain areas of life.

AS Mathew: That's so true.