It had to happen

Soafter much propaganda surounding the impending deletion of my blog, it dawned upon me that i would be performing a hideous disservice to humanity by removing all traces of it from cyberworld.
Believe me,I did not want to give in. I had decided I would be inordinately firm in my stance. For once,I would stick to what I belived in.I would not be swayed by the treacherous emotions of love and devotion(numerous fans - loving me and being devoted to me).
I did not flinch when a group of locals decided to stage a hunger strike outside my house, promising me that they would perish right in front of my eyes if I did not immediately resurrect my blog.
I did not even blink when a group of teeny-boppers swore off video games till I promised them the return of the mighty blog.
The media hounded me and I couldn't step out of my house without tripping over a camera. Journalists and reporters from all the major channels in the world(right from BBC to al-jazeera) swarmed the streets and took to popping out of weirds locations such as bushes and behind poles. It was all rather a crazy period but if sticking to my ideals meant that I had to endure microphones hidden in the toilet paper, so be it.
My relations with my family were strained. My dad had to shove journalists off the car in the morning, endure frosty glares from his colleagues at work and ice cold coffee from his secretary. Needless to say, he wasn't very happy. Each day saw him trudging back home and wearily begging me to start writing the bloody blog again.
Poor thing,I could see he was not made of the same steel as I was. He obviously wasn' t cut out to be another Gandhi. I shrugged off his pleas and shook my sage head. I rather fancy I even had a slight aura around my face. I figure it was inevitable, after all, it is a sign of achieving enlightenment.

My mum had to face steely glances from the assisitants at the local grocery and the prices of cauliflowers and carrots suddenly seemed to shoot up beyond belief. She swears she had to pay 5 times more than what she normally does. She says that soon we will have to resort to eating the grass from our garden (if we could ever manage to shift the journos off it) coz we might not be able to afford the food anymore.
Oh well, if achieving enlightenment means having to sacrifice one's gastronomic delights and subsist on leaves and caterpillars, then so be it. After all, that is what nature intended us to eat. I think it was when I told her this that she made a lunge for me forcing my dad to cling onto her and restrain her. Poor thing, she's obviously never had to stand up for her ideals. It takes more will power that that.

O f course, my sister was affected as well, having to squirm in the back row in her classes while everybody else.including the faculty, regularly threw paper balls at her. She swears she will fail her exams this year because nobody seems willing to mark her papers anymore. She took to collecting the paper balls and bringing them home to fling them on me. She promises that she will rip each and evry single one of my clothes and bags if I don't sit at the computer right now!
Again, if the road to divine intelligence means having to sacrifice my precious precious precious handbags, then so be it. I mean have you ever seen buddha with a handbag (even though it may be the latest most desirable fashion ever) . It just doesn't fit does it? And it probably wouldn't have matched my halo either.
I confess that one almost broke me but I just about managed to restrain myself.

I was nearing breaking point though and it was only when Bin Laden phoned me up and said that he would bomb all the clothes and accessories shops in the world that I broke down. I can tolerate living without my clothes and accessories but I just cannot inflict such torture on the rest of humanity. It would have been downright selfish.I had horrid visons of teeming masses of women flinging themelves into the sea because they couldn't but earriings anymore. It would have been the end of humanity as we know it.

So I gave it up. I sacrificed my ideals, my beliefs and my growing halo for the sake of saving the planet.
and so, here we are. having saved the planet and all that.
Phew!