Time : 10.45pm (IST) (3 July 2018)
Location: 2nd-floor study chamber, Library, IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
This was the scariest moment of this year.
I was busy updating a test case for my project on the laptop.
Then, I relaxed and moved a little back on my chair to sit comfortably.
Suddenly, saw a big scorpion (at least 30 cm in length). I couldn't take the picture of it, was in a hurry to alert everyone. It looked exactly like the one in the picture but was of brownish-white colour.
Would you say I was lucky to be sitting at the corner of my row?
1. High chances to see and make the distance.
2. If not 1, then I will be the first person to get bitten and then.. god knows what can happen!
What was my next step?
I alerted all the students near me to make the distance. Then I went down to call the security guard.
The security guard took a wooden stick ("Laathi" in Hindi) and talked with the library assistant.
Then after 5 minutes, I came with all the authority to the 2nd floor.
The scorpion was already murdered by one of the library assistants.
This short yet "deep and scary" incident makes me think :::
1. How can a scorpion come to the 2nd floor of a library?
2. It got murdered because I alerted everyone. Was there a possibility to save the life of scorpion
and alert everyone?
3. What possible measures can be taken to avoid these incidents?
PS: Yesterday night, it rained heavily.
PS: IIT Madras is highly rich in flora and fauna. Even a national park overlaps with campus area.
What did I learn?
The distance function between life and death depends on many parameters, and in these, some parameters are of high privilege (like scorpion bite! )
You don't know what can happen with your life!
Better to live the present moment at the best and take best precautions wherever possible!
What I need to know?
MEDICAL INSURANCE
Location: 2nd-floor study chamber, Library, IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
This was the scariest moment of this year.
I was busy updating a test case for my project on the laptop.
Then, I relaxed and moved a little back on my chair to sit comfortably.
Suddenly, saw a big scorpion (at least 30 cm in length). I couldn't take the picture of it, was in a hurry to alert everyone. It looked exactly like the one in the picture but was of brownish-white colour.
Would you say I was lucky to be sitting at the corner of my row?
1. High chances to see and make the distance.
2. If not 1, then I will be the first person to get bitten and then.. god knows what can happen!
What was my next step?
I alerted all the students near me to make the distance. Then I went down to call the security guard.
The security guard took a wooden stick ("Laathi" in Hindi) and talked with the library assistant.
Then after 5 minutes, I came with all the authority to the 2nd floor.
The scorpion was already murdered by one of the library assistants.
This short yet "deep and scary" incident makes me think :::
1. How can a scorpion come to the 2nd floor of a library?
2. It got murdered because I alerted everyone. Was there a possibility to save the life of scorpion
and alert everyone?
3. What possible measures can be taken to avoid these incidents?
PS: Yesterday night, it rained heavily.
PS: IIT Madras is highly rich in flora and fauna. Even a national park overlaps with campus area.
What did I learn?
The distance function between life and death depends on many parameters, and in these, some parameters are of high privilege (like scorpion bite! )
You don't know what can happen with your life!
Better to live the present moment at the best and take best precautions wherever possible!
What I need to know?
MEDICAL INSURANCE
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