Sometimes, you find success in the least expected place, in the most unexpected of times. At one moment, you are trying to get along with your sucky-sucky life, trudging through whatever troubles comes your way, wishing to the highest of lords to rid you of the misery, and the next moment you are the hero. You become someone who can actually do stuff, achieve things, help people, you show potential. It is moments like these that make you wonder if there is someone there looking after you, after all.
My point is, GET OVER WITH IT PEOPLE., THERE'S NO THING SUCH AS 'SOMEONE' OR 'SOMETHING' LOOKING AFTER YOU, NOT EVEN THE PURPLE-COLORED DUDE WHO LIKES VULTURES AND SEAS AND FRIGGIN BIG SNAKES AND HAS A TERRIBLY RICH WIFE, OKAY? BIG FRIKKIN' DEAL, YEAH?
So I spent three days downloading all kinds of Linux-es. Ubuntu, Mint, Slackware, Fedora, Puppy, you name it. It was eight gigs in all, my laptop was on the entire time. But I did not mind: after all I was doing it for other people, who would be interested in knowing about free and open source software, thereby helping bolstering the open source movement in Nepal. I even made a few slides on why everyone should use Linux as at least a backup, if not the regular operating system. I inserted quotes by the founders, misquoted William from Microsoft, and then put pretty slides together. Then printed a few handouts for those extra-curious ones. Got ready for the Install-Fest 2010 and set off. 12 came and went. 1 came and went even faster. Not a single damn soul was interested in any of the distributions( I had 18, BTW). I did hear a senior telling someone that you cant get viruses on Linux though.
Which was not entirely true. After I finally coaxed(blackmailed, actually) a friend to install Mint 9.10, I discovered her wifi driver was not supported, and the virus from Windows had attacked even Mint. Whenever one went beyond two folders, the entire thing shut down and you were taken back to the desktop. Since we could not connect to the internet because of no wifi, we could not even research on that. One of the saddest days. I had assumed things would just work out, and it'd be happily ever after, but come on, you can't get viruses on linux, right? How on frikkin' earth did I get it then?
And then when I got home, an original Windows 7 DVD in hand, and a determination to install it there and then, I discover the DVD is empty. As empty as a parents' day where attendance is not compulsory.
Therefore, there is no god. Not even Menaka or Urvashi, whom the Jews would call Shiksha goddesses(no relation to 'sex' even though it definitely should have had). Damn this soulless, heartless, meaningless, sexy-goddesses-in-weird-positions-as-shown-in-the-temples-less world.