FOMO
Sick and tired of traffic jams in your city? Hate wasting time in gargantuan queues, being jostled and shoved around? What about having recurring nightmares of achieving nirvana, reaching the pearly gates only to find yourself stuck in a queue behind thousands of people? And now imagine being on Earth, caught in a traffic jam on Mount Everest , the highest mountain in the world. In late May a photograph by a Nepalese mountaineer, showing a serpentine line of climbers extending to the top of Mount Everest on Facebook went viral. My mouth dropped open and my heart began to thump as I saw the overcrowded mountain littered with mountaineers in colourful protective gear. A scary sight indeed. (I thanked God there were people from all over the world on the mountain. Can you picture Indians queuing on the top of Everest, patiently, to achieve and conquer the summit? I can’t! Let’s face it we hate queues; we don’t believe in them and hate following rules. But then that’s ano...