We Indians over do things. Yes we really do. We over do things to such an extend that it irritates the person next to you. Dont believe me? We add too much chili into the curry it turns spicy, we add more than required water to the sambar served at local idli shop, too much masala into the little gossip, politicians overdoing corruption leading to them being caught, too much ‘Kyun Ki’ soaps that irritates at the prime time so on and on and on …

Diwali was also no different. With all the fireworks going around, it reminded me of the worst gas trouble one can have – you feel relived when you do it, but you don’t want to do it again and again, but the only way out is to do it. Oh my God! Crackers; big-small-medium going up bang bang in front of you, behind you, on top of you and say where not – is good for a day; second day – oh not(why) again ; third day – a bad handover of screaming at the top of your voice just to talk to the person next to you – very very bad. See this is what i was referring to as ‘overdoing’.

I was all too confused when the ‘real’ Diwali was – was it thursday/friday/saturday – coz all the time it was bang! bang! bang!. Unfortunately on Sunday night too. There was an on going effort by a group for a cracker free Diwali. First of all what were they thinking. Diwali without crackers?? Hell no!!! But in a way i support that, better to avoid it rather than ending up overdoing it and having an aversion towards it.Come one cant we just do anything at the right level. Leave alone the amount of pollution caused by this out of proportionate celebration.

Many a times its like, we just dont know when to draw the line, or just when to say ‘enough’.