X+1 Syndrome

[Borrowed from the Internet]

When an Indian professional becomes a 'Non-Resident Indian' in the United States, he soon starts suffering from a strange disease. The symptoms are a fixture of restlessness, anxiety, hope and nostalgia. The virus is a deep inner need to get back home. Like Shakespeare said, "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." 

The medical world has not coined a word for this malady. Strange as it is it could go by a stranger name, the "X + 1" syndrome. [To read this blog fully: http://cs.ucsb.edu/~koc/favs/x+1.html ]

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So why blame only the NRI (Non-Reliable Indians), those who are living in India also exhibit a lot of this X+1 syndrome, which is the topic for this week.

You can easily identify these people who are prone to procrastination – their only sole motto is to postpone anything which can be done tomorrow to day-after-tomorrow or cut a long story short behave like Garfield.

Some of the early symptoms that you are tending to procrastinate are:

Quitting chain smokers: The famous last words of all chain smokers – “This is the last one, I will quit after this”. It applies for all values of x in x=x+1;

Health conscious pot-bellied person: “I am going to start exercises from tomorrow; today is the last jumbo meals which I will have”.

Milkman/Paper Boy: “Sir, you can trust my promptness, you can see it from tomorrow”

Politicians: “This bill will be passed in an effective manner in the next parliament session”

Driving without license guys: “Look sir, take this Rs.100. I promise that I won’t commit this mistake again.”

Backbenchers in College: “If not this semester, there is always the next da machi”

Software Quality Person: “We have incorporated many measures which will help improve the quality of the deliverables from next release”

Software developer: “The team will ensure that we will review the entire code base for any leaks, known defects during the next integration”

Software Manager: “We have always been strictly adhering to the process; will consciously follow the process guidelines with greater focus for the coming projects.”

Delivery Heads: “This is just the beta delivery we shall have it fixed in the final build”

Husband: “I will stop watching cricket from the next series”

Wife: “Watch me from next month, will run this family within the granted budget”