March pulls in, money season with double lined registers bowing under the weight of numbers – bespectacled, he sits in his stripped shirt counting even the short change. World over countries deal, in larger numbers, over transactions of guns and opium – their little men in dirty corners bowl over, short-changed, looking for short change.
A little change buys a ticket to Maratha Mandir, where lovers cue to see you, you earn in large numbers from their devotion. That man outside your house has been waiting days, for a little change – but of which kind?
Betrayed and bruised, she turns away from that feeling, short-changed. He never deserved her, but she still hopes for change. Her parent’s line outside court, waiting for their robed advocate, to advocate some change, but the man with the hammer, he’s been paid much more than mere change.
Change, change, change – we need change.
This world where at every step we may be short changed.
Hello Earthlings! 
Its always about where u stand and see a situation. It may look no.9 to u from where u stand. And to me it may look no. 6. Its all about perceptions and reality. of society, their agenda and more importantly the change they want that suits them. Reality could be completely different and contradictory to what one percieves. May be deserving and may be hurtful. May be its just about surrendering to deciet and rejection. May be one is just not looking at a change. Change that throws another diaspora on ones face. And the rigmarole that comes with it. I have learnt that some created situations just deserve a deafening silence that people who matter can hear. And hear it lpud and clear. Rest of them never mattered anyway.
A good read. Keep ot up
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I’ve always wondered about this, dnm, and perhaps you are right. But the thing about perception is this – reality may be whatever, but the way a person perceives it, and convinces himself of it becomes reality for him. If I see it as 6, I’ll have to work with it like that. None of us do know what’s real, anyway. Everything’s labeled by man’s imagination – and your magic word – perception. Remove that, and we have no reality.
People who matter, help point towards reality. Or maybe what they perceive of it.
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Short changed. A Very negative word. Its our false ego that makes us feel short changed by others.if we look at our karma closely, may be one realises that earth is round and it all comes back. At some point we all have to face our bad n treacherous karmas of past.if u observe n analyse, its the result of ur deeds. Change yes. Short changed. No. Its a feeling of remorse which is negative.life is celebration.accept as it comes.n embrace. Nothing happens without a cause n destiny. Change in the way u think is needed. Feeling of short changed is self pity.and a state of mind in some of us.
Highly debatable. As regatds to change.,the whole bhagwat gita is based on ” change is the way of life”. Nothings permanent and nothing is in ur hands.
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An excellent point, Sir. You are right. We work for what we want, and get what we deserve. It is all a karmic cycle. Yet, we are human after all, and feeling Short-changed is often our own recourse.
In today’s world where one person gets an opportunity over another due to contacts, where man roams with smoking gun and sword in his hand, where people are raped without remorse – it is slightly hard to believe wholeheartedly in karma.
In the Gita Arjun was supposed to do his dhrma and fight without thinking about anything. But the aim was to always win. Even though he won, there were many other losses – the mood he was in in the end could be described as him feeling ” short changed”.
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