#facepalm

There are times when you are arrogant. There are times when you are wrong. And then come along times, when you are wrong, arrogant, and eventually screwed. The sad part is that by the time you realize that your troubles belong to the third category, you are already too late. You've reached the point of no return. So the only things left to do are

a) Tell yourself that you have learned from your mistakes, and so, you have added another item to your already brimming What-not-to-do-in-life list.

b)See illustration below...

Now, the one thing you should not do is, jump off a cliff. But if someone else does something face-palm-worthy, by all means, throw him/her off a cliff. In all probability, that person is alive because it is illegal to shoot him/her. 

One thing I have realized in the past, and more so in the last half an hour of my life, is that it becomes increasingly painful to live with yourself after you see your mistake. It just becomes more grueling an experience if there is no way to correct the anomaly in your perfect universe. And usually, you do not have access to a time machine to undo your misdoings, as the time machine in your friendly neighborhood is always having the "Engaged" sign on the door, written in blood red.

Let me give you an example...

Suppose you work in a laboratory. It's really late in the night. You're working...You're working....You're working.... and then, you're say to yourself, "Ah, enough work already! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".

So you decide to close everything, shut down all the lab equipment, all the lab's doors and windows, all set to leave! And you leave for the night.

You walk into the night. You've left the autoclave(a big pressure cooker!) switched on. But you don't know that yet. You feel something is fishy. You pause, you turn around, just to go back and re-check if everything was actually buttoned up properly, but then, chuck the thoughts of going all the way back. You reach home, tuck yourself in for the night, or whatever is left of it, and doze off like a baby. A NOISY baby.

Suddenly, you wake up with a start! You look around. It's morning already. But it is not the apocalyptic scene from you thought it would be. No freak-like machines crawling around. And then, realization strikes! You say to yourself...

"My name is not Jack!!"

 And just then, you realize that the autoclave was left switched on the night before. You think of your laboratory. Inside your head, the lab looks like 

 

And your face looks like 

That's a double face-palm. Just saying...

You brave yourself out of your bed, then out of your house, and somehow manage to reach your work place. And it is not the radioactive mess you'd imagined. You go into the lab. No one's come yet (phew!). You go to check the autoclave. Its switch is on (Shit!). But then, you remember that you'd switched off the electricity mains before leaving. And now, you feel like a GENIUS!!! 

You saved the day! If someone were looking at you right this moment, you'd think they are looking at someone looking like this....

 

Meh! So much for vanity. Forgot what it felt like when you woke up?? Already? Good for you! 

Just in case you screw-up, remember, Viagra was invented by accident. I know, so was Cornflakes and Velcro. But again, just saying...