............ Bucket .........Bucket ........BUCKET........

 When life becomes monotonous and the pep keeps declining We start thinking how to bring back some joy and interest into it ,and involve our self into one of  these  activities: go out on a picnic,see friends,visit the nearest mall , read a book or play game etc,.but still nothing gives us the type of feeling of elation of challenging someone and winning it.

The bigger the bid the more challenging it becomes,to fall inline with, this is the recent activity that has spread more faster than the Ebola virus ,and One item that has become very important and being talked about in the last couple of weeks is the 'bucket', I guess it all started with an awareness campaign for ALS (Amyotropic lateral Sclerosis) a terminal illness that can effect the motor system and gradually make you confined to your wheel chair and cot and than to lead you to your final destination. Its not a new find but an existing illness which at times gets missed for Parkinson cause both are degenerative, progressive and not reversible with medication.

Suddenly people have started worrying about this and a campaign started travelling down the social network sites, WITH A CHALLENGE EITHER TO DONATE 100$ or to down yourself with a bucket of iced water, A real challenge since finding a Bucket in your house or in a departmental store is a very rare sight if you are in a foreign country, I guess some of us who visit foreign countries are into this first level of shock that you should get tuned to the tissue culture and also to the habit of getting into a tub for a bath. Even more challenging to down yourself with an iced water when the temperature down there is touching zero and sub zero,So  people felt it was worth donating 100$ than to under go the torturous act of pouring ice water on ones self,(did people scan and upload the donations made). while others who could not afford to loose 100$ preferred taking the challenge of ice bucket ,the motivation you were promoting a cause,and an indirect thrill

    because you should  upload your video with the water downing scene . this activity with a chained mail nominating(challenging) three more started occupying the social sites and i am not apprehensive with the number of downloads the site may come down too unable to handle the traffic. People from different part of the world started uploading their videos.

I guess there was more of water being downed than donations being paid because it gave people a chance to put up a very impressive bathroom scene which was hither to only seen in movies and always considered more private,which was given a public tag. with the consent of their parents who said I cant afford 100$

instead you take the challenge and for people over here put up in tropical countries sweating out in the humid heat visiting the pleasure of a bucket of ice cold water was heavenly and had the feel of standing down below one of their nonvisted water falls.

Well from media reports its confirmed that the donations  have already crossed 100 million dollars towards ALS Research Foundation, first time to touch such soaring collections and as auxiliary benefits.

 People started purchasing new buckets, cause you can't show up a old used bucket on the video. Buckets of various colors and people with different attires started putting up their posts ,some who were proud enough to show off their Rest rooms were there showing off their luxury, while others preferred Showing off their terraces gardens, lawns and backyards. might be After watching the videos business may start booming for redoing your toilets,ordering new sets of clothes which may be more attractive (thank god no dress code was defined.......... by ALS.)

Now after a month every one of them have started their own campaign of challenging one another  ALS has been forgotten and the word BUCKET has picked up its momentum, (Vallu  poei katti vanthuchu.........)

 Every one have now started their part of bucket challenge ,"Book bucket challenge "GOD alone knows what relevance exists between a book and a bucket and people commenting about the best book,s nice to know that even in the midst of such busy schedules and compelling conditions the habit of reading books does exist they have read nice to see people listing out their favorites might be this would lead into a hurry to purchase more books and read them too, but at the same time sad to see that many of them such as Arthur Hailey, Robin Cook, Sydney Sheldon, Irving Wallace, P.G.Woodehouse, Thomas Hardy, AND MANY MORE ARE MISSED OUT,

while some one else started with rice bucket challenge of giving free rice that too in buckets.

If this is one side of the story, India has started with yet another Bucket Challenge  "RICE BUCKET CHALLENGE" People gifting the the needy with buckets of rice and putting up videos, what  a shame(this is a country that still talks about the qualities of karna who was known for his benevolence,the highlight being that even his others hand never knew what he gave away as charity .)Are our people not flooded with enough of free bees, including rice and why to show ourself in such pathetic conditions.

Looking at all these things i am also motivated to start with a bucket challenge that all of us can really do,why don't we start off with a challenge of washing up a bucket of our dirty linens,you see it might really save a lot of water and power,and if each one of us start off doing this we may really march towards a surplus power driven country.

Well any idea how this 100,Million $ that has gone into ALS foundation would be utilized and what benefits we would derive ? Either directly or indirectly,  Yeah this might be a 100 billion dollar bucket challenge question for which none of us might know the answer.........