One Life To Live….
Musings about Life…Sometimes all you need to bludgeon you out of your coma is a simple word. You never know when you are awakened by the most unlikely of corners
A off-the-cuff remark which has meanings for you much more than what was intended by the speaker. This mind is a brilliant thing, indeed…
Fresh resolve….battles to be won..demons to be overpowered…gods to be appeased…
Weather
The wind blows through the window
It was the mother nature telling me
There are the rainy days…
The sunny ones will surely follow
I had been looking too long for a sunny day
That I failed to see the rainbow
I failed to see the cloudy faces
I failed to hear the steady rains
The sunshine did arrive one fine day
And I felt on top of the world
Then I realized that there was beauty in the rains
And then I just said a word of thanks
For the weather…
Permanent Address
As I fill up the joining forms in my new job (well…its been a month old now)…but being a startup joining forms are not the highest priority, I come across this multitude of information I am asked to fill.
The first field that gets to me is the field that asks for ‘Religion’….I think its so archaic to ask that question. I strongly do believe that its nobody’s business to ask me that. So I usually leave that field empty but this time I have a good mind to fill in the orkut answer of ‘Religious Humanism’.. 😉
Then I move on…then comes the addresses…Present, Permanent, Daytime, Nightime, etc etc…well actually only the Present and the Permanent Address. The fact that I couldnt really decide what qualifies as a Permanent Address in my case says a lot about my life. It is indeed a strange sort of a place to be and is a rude shock to how much transient this whole thing is turning out to be. The house that I stay in Bangalore may be rented….the ‘I am going home’ home in Kerala no longer really feels like home nor does the city mean much except for the parents…
Sometimes, it is exciting about the possibilities that are still open and at other times, it seems so tiring to be exploring…Maybe I will just blame it all on the chilly weather here in Bangalore….
oh…the form still has only 43 more fields to fill….
A fairy tale
It was the deal of her life.this was worth every bit of it. She had dressed very carefully for the party that would change her life. ‘Lady in Red’ played again and again as if to tell her something. The fancy car took her to her destiny. And this would be the day she would meet her prince. She danced like there was no tomorrow as she felt the world’s eyes on her.
Then her eyes fell on the clock. She put it out of her mind and continued to enjoy the light flirting and the attention she was being given by the prince.
And as the clock chimed for the twelfth time, Cinderella suddenly realized who she was…
Pooh…there again was the pumpkin…and the shoe had gone missing. Suddenly she was back in her aprons….there was no Prince…
She wondered, this wasnt how the fairy tale ended…and she didnt know if she could now go back to the world of ignorance…
I guess, noone told her it was just a tale…
Simplicity
What is existential angst for them?
Life is, i guess, what you make of it….
[Looking at some of my older pictures…suddenly came upon this one…]
This was the entire family trip after something like thousand years where we actually went on an outing which was not a temple or relative’s place….We just landed at this place near Silvassa and as we looked on, these 3 boys jumped on to that bridge….The photo does not give a true estimation of the height of the bridge….it was quite high…..they were oblivious to our existence and jumped from that high bridge into the water….all of us were just left gaping….
Truly…the greatest pleasures in life are the simplest…..
What is the rest of the world even talking about??
If there was a theme that needs to be brought into life at this point, I think its Simplicity…..
Habits
Sometimes all you are looking for, is a habit
A habit of a person….
Habits are yet another symbol of a person….and with lesser the number of symbols to denote a person, it becomes even more difficult to categorize them..
Maybe a person without a habit is too boring for the world…or maybe they are too intriguing..since the world hasnt figured them out yet….
I dont know what the answer is….though…
Ever get the feeling that the system has shut down for much too long and you have forgotten where the power switch was!!!
Yet another day…
The dates on the calendar get crossed out daily..
what would happen suddenly if there are no more dates to cross out…
On the one hand, it seems that the crossing out happens much too quickly….
And on the other, just too many dates to cross out….
(Thank god its a friday…)
Pictures
A picture speaks a thousand words…
But your picture amongst a thousand others
Speaks only to me…
Or so I think…
But then what would life be
If not for the hues of the mind
Across the sky called imagination…
So let the artist paint the picture
Everytime you come along…
Conversations
A kind word and a compliment
A laugh at the inane joke and banter
The light awkwardness
A question showing interest
A subtle term of endearment
The light-hearted messages
A second conversation within this all
A second unsaid conversation
An incomplete conversation
Things go on well without a fear
Until the unsaid remains unsaid…
One Life To Live.... 