The 'whr to go' illness...

Couple of days back I woke up with a hangover, I thought, maybe I had overindulged in seeing off the year that just went by or it must be the age playing games. Staggered out of bed with a heavy head. I was actually feeling 'nice' though. After walking around like a zombie for a while I realized that it wasn't as nice as I had felt in the first instance.

Visited a doc who after hearing me out and after a session of diagnosis of making my head follow the snap of his fingers from left to right making me feel like a pup under training, told me gravely that I was suffering from vertigo, I explained patiently to him I didn't know 'where to go' or where I was going and that was a symptom and thats why I was there. He cleared his throat and repeated vertigo and went on to explain that it was all about imbalance of the ear. The happenings around the world that I was hearing over the last weeks were bad enough to throw any sane person off balance.

On reaching home I could hear the strains of music from my daughters room, on quizzing her she told me that the album was from One Direction. Here as I entered directionless with my newly acquired knowledge on what vertigo was, felt my daughter was actually pulling a fast one on me. It was not to be, it was just pure coincidence and this was the name of the new boys in town of the boy band genre. Looks like these boys were better at least as far as their name selection goes in comparison to their predecessors who were more confined to the back streets or the ghettos...some hope I thought, these guys at least have a direction.

Stability is such an overused word these days, be it the economy, politics, business or even life, every one craves for stability and yet a tiny labyrinth and a few milligrams of fluid imbalance in your ear can change the confident swagger to a directionless stagger. We hear day in and day out the importance of so many vital organs and the path breaking innovations in medicine around these organs and very little about tiny little stuffs like the ear labyrinth which are equally important. But guess these are natures little signs to keep you grounded, while you might think you know where to go in life, with a momentary vertigo attack you might not actually!!!