Friday, February 23, 2007

Heroes and Villains

I love movies...
And I wonder life would be so cool if it was like movies, besides having designer cloths irrespective of your economic status and perfect hair at all times including near-death situation… it will be definite if a person is good or bad. A black/bad person can be identified (though the same doesn’t happen easily in movies, from evil stepmothers to scheming politician all do fine till the climax…) and then you can just deplore them.
For the people who make my life a little more difficult then what it is…in real life… are not bad people, just that they decided not be good with me or giving them some more benefit of doubt, their priorities are different then mine and they are in a position to assert themselves more and not in a mood to be gracious, at times reasonable. And that does not qualify them as villains. .
Heroes in my life are primarily friends, who stand beside me and often support me in my views and life. Helping me realize my dreams, overcome my fears and at times see through the mist of life. Actually honestly, most of the times my hero’s are the people I like, subjectively … without rhyme or reason they just seem worth listening to and worth being with, I am absolutely biased and believe in them...till they prove me wrong.
But my heroes change and at times, very dramatically they exchange positions with my villains and vice versa (this happens seldom). This is as bad as not having a background music score in my life. This gets pretty difficult to live with these constant role reversals, changing screenplay. Almost all the lines and dialogues I rehearse in my head over a coffee or in the shower to deal with the possible situations in my day are never spoken. And like the weather department, most of my predictions on relationships and friendships are bizarre.
I assume, haven proven wrong in my ability to comprehend, analyze and extrapolate; its time when I learn to meet someone without forming an opinion about him or her, without predicting the course of our interactions and without expecting.
Or may be I will stick with writing fiction … that’s the easier way … to have at least some things your way. May be that is the real reason why some people make movies…

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

SFO ... as seen from Golden Gate Bridge

Needs???

There are things that you need to make your life easier. You use terms like essential to luxury and necessity to indulgence for the same. While traveling to San Francisco, the in-flight shopping magazine, listed the products for the needs that I could never thought any one could have.
“The foot tent” removes the direct contact between your foot and the bed-covers so that your tossing and turning does not make the covers go off your bed. The magazine advertised for the water aerator for your feline to the alarm when your mails are delivered. There are stairs for your not so tall pets to climb the bed and a wallet to pop the right card. Why can’t someone just place the cards in the wallet in order? And there was no mist mirrors for your bathroom; I simply wipe the mirror with hands to see my image in case of mist. Also there were cushions with the image of your dog breed to be placed on his/her sofa and not to mention the mechanical mouse to keep your cat active.
I feel like a self sufficient adventurer living in the jungle with limited means to manage my life.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Valentine’s Diwas per Nibandh

aaj valentine divas ke pavan avsar per sab ko meri dheron subhkamnayein.....

aaj ka din badi dhoom dham se bazaaron aur baagichon mein, ghar parivaar se door banaya jaata hai... vigyaan ke chalte aaj kal yeh messengers per bhi manaya jaane laga hai. Ladke ladkiyan, sabhi naye rang-birange kapde pehente hai.

aaj ke din mombatti se roshni ki jaati hai aur chocolate se muah meetha kiya jaata hai

Jin ladke/ladkiyon ke girlfriend/boyfriend nahin hote, vo yeh din badi sadbhavna (sari ladkiyon/ladko ke liye yahi bhavna) ke saath banate hain.

agar mata ji-pita ji range haatho pakad lete hain, to shaam ko ghar mein patakhe bhi phootte hain.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Just a thought...

We are ordinary, made out of contradictions, illogical predictability and obnoxious sensibility.

We are confident until we meet someone we look up to and want to impress. Because then we forget to be ourselves, we try to say what they want to listen and do what they want us to do. And it almost never works.

We are smart until we come across a new situation. In such situation we think a lot and try to map all the situations that we successfully tackled in past. We think of everything from what people will think if we flounder to the unwanted recap of the most embarrassing failure and the most adoring success. So we almost always focus on what we shouldn’t.

We are intelligent and worldly wise until we face the same situation. We tell our friends how to deal with breakups, overcome ego and ignore jerks at work place. And we almost always forget all this gyan when we face life.

We think we are different then the world. But from hating cursive writing as a kid to loving the guy/girl who gives us the least attention in college; from dreading a bad relations to thinking ourselves as underpaid and overexploited at work. We are all same, as if god was too lazy to even make the second stencil.

We all know time changes. But only notice when good times are over.

We know ourselves the best, but we wait for people to say we are good. We work so they can call us good and we struggle to be accepted. Everyone in this world is important and worth listening to except ourselves, how smart is that.

Why should we listen to the world which will call us “self deprecating” or “over confident”, “awesome” or “jerk”, “genius” or “really dumb”, “friend” or “weirdo” ,”ice cool” or “cynical” and nothing in between?