The other day I was just outside the branch, taking pictures of Manager and Customer with his new Car, bought by loan sanctioned from us. It's a usual procedure, as the bank is main road and it's usually always in traffic mode, we just made it quick and came back to branch. I came back and opened my PC to prepare post disbursement report and other things. After I clicked picture and was in hurry to enter branch, I noticed a woman was asking people stuck in traffic to buy Cap, Shawl or Umbrella from her, as the rainy season was approaching. For few minutes, I couldn't focus on the work, went back outside and bought an yellow Umbrella from her. It helped me very much the same day because It rained cats and dogs the same day, coincidentally. My kanjus heart thanked God that I got return for my Investment this early. There's a reason I specifically mentioned, yellow Umbrella in the above paragraph, to just give kind of homage or tribute to the series How I Met Your Mother. Few days later, I was going home by walk and stopped by Bajji shop to get some for me and to home. I folded the Umbrella and hanged on the pole and Ordered 3 plates of bajji parcel. In the mean time, two people on a bike stopped near the shop, stole my Umbrella and they were gone in 12 seconds. I couldn't run because one I'm not athletic as I was before, two because It was raining and three because I hadn't paid the bill yet. So, I just gave up and took auto to home one one and half meter, as it was raining and moved on.
The next day I woke up at 5AM, why? I don't know, prepared coffee for myself, watched few songs and after few minutes, I slept again. They say, early morning dreams will become reality, I don't know if that's true, because, now that I'm married, I don't wanna say what are the things that happened in my dreams. Joke joke, wife, joke. I mean to say, there's a difference between daydreaming and dreaming in day. I consider 4AM as day because usually I wake up at that time or usually one hour later. Anything I see in my sub concious thoughts, I call them dreams or dreaming in day. Sometimes, I often sleep in afternoon and very rarely I will wake up with strange dream, that's also dreaming in day. While daydreaming, I refer to dreaming in broad daylight, eyes open, full concious thoughts, but zoned out. Like example, when I saw my engineering ranking, I daydreamed to join Mysore engineering college, settling abroad etc. That all didn't happen, but according to nativity, few things did happen. Now that I have shared all these differences between daydreaming and dreaming in day, let's go back to coffee. After coffee and songs, I felt dizzy and slept again and saw a dream. I was walking from my home, stopped near shuddha ganga water plant, walked some more and suddenly I was at Annapoorna theatre. There I saw my school friend, Harsha with his wife. We talked and had laughter and such and suddenly my friend's wife I saw there wasn't his wife, she was replaced by Yami Gautam. Why? I don't know either. If anything, my subconscious mind should portray Yami Gautam as my wife right? That doesn't make my sense! Just kidding, just kidding, don't send this to my wife, I'm still in my probationary period. That being said, In that dream, as I was talking to my friend Harsha and his wife Yami Gautam, sounds strange, still read on, we heard heavy noises outside the theatre on the road. I thought some actor has arrived to theatre for usual theatre visit, or people were there to see Harsha's wife Yami Gautam and we kept talking. But the crowd started developing into mob and Police Jeep and Tempo Traveller started arriving to the spot. It was at this moment, I knew things were serious in my dream, not just another casual fling where an actress appears in dreams etc. We went to check who it was, and there we saw two people throwing money, steel paatre utensils, bicycle, rice cooker and various other things. And people were trying to grab asuch as they can. Now that I think about it, it's the exact replica of Joker scene from Batman (1989) movie, in which Jack Nicholson as Joker, throws money from parachute balloon or something, but things in my dream were little changed, according to nativity. I didn't rushed to crowd to grab cash or things because again one I'm not athletic as before and two I would be crushed in the crowd. We thought to flee the scene but in the end I saw my yellow umbrella among the things they were distributing. I understand the fact that there's more than one yellow umbrella in the area, that doesn't mean all yellow umbrellas are mine. But the fact that I was able to see yellow umbrella getting distributed to crowd the very next day it was stolen seemed very odd and strange to me. By the time I could I could turn back and see what happened, someone pushed me and someone else stepped on my face and I woke up.
"Aaahhh, Amma" I woke up screaming. I looked around and saw lights were still out, everyone was sleeping in their room and I calmed myself, "That was quite a realistic dream I experienced in a long time, man" uttered softly to myself. Few hours later, while going to work, I was searching for my Umbrella and didn't find it. I asked my mom, "there's no such yellow umbrella in our house, we just have one black umbrella and it's in the other room" she said. I got my mind tripped on or something over a coffee. Damn, what was in it?! I thought to myself, then I realised "it was all my subconscious filmy dream, I should have known it when it had Yami Gautam in it. Sheet man, Sheet, Chalo, let's move on". I thought only half of the dream about theives giving away money and valuable items to public like a Joker scene was dream. But no, the part where they steal that Umbrella was also dream, that was quite tripping. I thought about it a lot for a while, I watched few movies, mostly Shankar movies, especially Gentleman, I couldn't watch it full, but I got the gist of it. And then I realised, I don't have it. It's the Robin Hood Syndrome, one of you might have it, but I think the modern society has corrupted us so much so that we live in a society where honor is a distant memory, Isn't that right, Batman? That's a line from Justice League, Snyder Cut. I was typing something about the Corruption, Organised Crime and other things and the line came swiftly into it, I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. To analyse it, I have asked a question to my friends and colleagues, and the answers were this, that, mixed or some even out of the box. It threw some light on the the problem or should I continue saying it syndrome, because it kinda is. The question I asked is, one day on the way to or from work, someone will steal something valuable from you and any other random day, you'll see the same thief distributing it to random citizens on the city centre and you'll see your precious item is also there among the other valuables he stole from many people. What would you do?
As the name suggests, The Robin Hood Syndrome is kind of a characteristic disease first discovered by me. I know right? To understand it better, you have to know the folklore tale of The Robin Hood. Robin Hood is a character in English literature folklore where he used to steal from riches and distributed it to poor. And the characteristic quality of helping the poor by robbing the rich, I called it syndrome. And hence the name, The Robin Hood Syndrome. The other day I was watching a YouTube animation short and it was very good. Robin Hood distributes the wealth to poor people and all the poor people thank him for his helpfulness and other things. One goes even further and says, Thanks man, I'll be so rich and the animation zooms on to Robin Hood. Because, now he has rob him, as he's rich, so the Robin Hood is now in constant struggle to balance the universe everyone is equally wealthy. It brings us to economic philosophy, If everyone is rich, nobody is and conversely, If everyone is poor, nobody is. It's the direct replica of line from The Incredibles movie. The villain prepares a superhero serum or something and plans to distribute it to the world so everyone will become Superhero and his ulterior motive is achieved, because if everyone is superhero, no-one is.
About the question I asked in earlier paragraph, some were good people, they said, I'll only get whatever the wealth I lost, because I bought was from honesty. Those are good people, they all are from 70s. And then there were few said, I will get whatever possible to get, including the thing I lost. You can see the paradigm shift of morality or character from this because the second answer was from 90s and 2k generation. You can also see it in the generation of people and their choices of lifestyle in it. The people who made Mungaru Male movie blockbuster are not longer watching movies in theatre. Once in a half year or so, they'll watch one and call it. Coming back to The Robin Hood Syndrome, some wouldn't steal anything from anyone but they'll not leave anything of their right to go to an unknown person without a fight. Stealing is wrong and illegal, no question about it. But stealing it donate it to poor creates some grey area of morality. Of course it is wrong, but the purpose of crime and motive behind it creates the ethical Dilemma. It brings us to one last question, what would you do?
