Yesterday night, God appeared in my dream, seeking my help. I was very excited but then he was looking worried really. When I asked him what was bothering him so much, he told me that he did not know how to save the Earth, his favourite creation, from the unending problems imposed by Man. He said that he had tried some solutions to instill fear in the mind of man in the name of Global Warming, Climate Change and rising sea levels but there was no change in the state of affairs. He felt that things will come to a grinding halt very soon and he was deeply thinking on how to fix the problem. As a novice “trouble shooting engineer” working for a leading IT firm, I did not take much time in identifying an instant solution to his problem. In extreme cases when nothing seems to work, I shoot the “Bramastra” to my customers - “Please reboot your system” and then I re-install the required applications if required. God roared in to a big laughter listening to my solution. That was when my Mother woke me up as I was getting late for office.
On my way to office, I gave a serious thought to my dream and the solution I proposed. Comparing the Earth to a huge “Server”, as a part of the vast data center (Universe), with large amounts of data (reserves of natural resources) and the living beings to Personal Computers (PCs) of varied configuration (man being the most intelligent and within mankind, disparity being more), connected to it to download necessary data for survival. Ofcourse, the network and the infrastructure are outsourced to God, the third party service provider. May be, that is why mostly he is not reachable. The less intelligent species (Plants, Animals, and Insects) do not congest the network and download only what is required to survive for the day. The most intelligent species, Man, because of his greed, has been drawing more than what is actually needed by him. Some, who have been blessed with a higher configuration and more bandwidth, download as much as possible. There is no willingness to share what has been downloaded with other fellow beings, and the network is always congested, the infrastructure strained, thereby blocking others from downloading what they need. That is why most of the time, the rest are not connected to the server and even if they are connected, the page that they try to reach is not displayed.
Knowing that the data is available eternally and being replenished by the natural system, man still wants to download as much as possible and store them in “his hard-drives”. Sometimes, misquoting survival instincts, he goes to the extent of even abusing and exploiting other’s PCs (malicious attacks) to download resources for him and his family. Suffering from Greed, he is in a hurry to download everything in one single day, rather than replenish his quota as and when needed. The virus of Greed has already spread to almost all the other machines and it is slowly spreading to other servers spread across the data centre (space explorations). May be I should have advised God to see the bigger picture and change his motto to save the data centre and not the server alone! Oh God! Atleast start the task manager immediately. May be this will free up some resources. But then it will only be a fix and not a solution. It is better to reboot!
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