Just When I Think I Am Done

A lot of things in our life are almost done, well almost! Life would have been great if they were actually complete. But life’s great other way too, why complain?

It’s like when we study for exams, coming early to college on the exam day, trying to revise stuff from start to end. It’s when you start reaching pages of the end chapters; you feel that you’ve forgotten the earlier chapters. When you take a glance back to do the first ones again, there’s the feeling that something at the end part is not done properly. This happens with me no matter how many times I flip back and forth. Never really think I can say that I’m done.

Then the same thing applies to Projects. They are always in the state of ‘Almost done’. Small thing here and there remaining, that’s it. When you go about completing that thing, you discover that another small task is remaining. Then when this task is complete, just when you feel like dancing around the room, something previously working stops to work. The big smile on your face vanishes. Somehow you get things right. Show it to your professor. He adds something more that he wants out of your circuit, and you’re back to work again.

I don’t ever like to use ‘almost done’ with submissions. At what stage you can be screwed can really not be determined. Almost done submissions for me are submissions not done. They can find mistakes in a perfectly errorfree file. Other way round, files with some experiments missing also sometimes go submitted with a A+. Face value, what else to say. Everybody of us have had so many wonderful submission tales all these years, no description is really needed.

Here’s another different avatar of this ‘almost done’ tag. Sleep..... God really thank the person who added ‘snooze’ to your mobile alarm. You say I’ll wake up in 10 minutes. Another 10 minutes, still sleeping, one more ‘snooze’. You think you are almost done with sleep, suddenly, another temptation and bang! Another ‘snooze’. You have taken a break from studies. 10 minutes you watch IPL, then say one more over and I’ll be back. Another over later, same story. Eventually finally end up watching entire match.

Phone conversation is on, debate on one of the topics has been heated up. Mom meanwhile calls you for dinner. Now the phone discussion is equally important for you. You can’t just cut it for now. You say to mom, ‘a minute please, I’m almost done’. And you’re stuck on the Phone right until everyone else has finished their Dinner.

Almost done reminds me of last year’s formula one. Felipe Massa, the Ferrari guys and trillions of fans all around the world thought they had won it, including the commentators. But some Timo Glock had slowed down and ruined the ‘Almost done’ party to ‘not quite done’ tune. How agonisingly close he was to the title. They say it right when they say; the game is not over until the whistle blows.

This topic is so much close to me. On every occasion when Liverpool is losing, my hand is set on the send button to send message to all my dear Liverpool fans. But some crap happens after 90 minutes, someone scores and I’m left with the message still in the draft mode. Just when I thought Job Done……