Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Free!! Free!! Free!!

Being an Indian it’s my right to provide free advice. Follow them in all walks of life for best results.

Don’t wait by the door of your life for someone to walk in. Go and sit on the sofa. If someone has to come in through that door they will anyway, if they Don’t you will at least be well rested.

Don’t try to improve your image. It’s like changing someone’s invisible glasses from which they see you. If they Don’t want to change these glasses, you can’t either.

Don’t argue unless you are saving lives. There are many means to get education. If you shove that down someone’s throat when they don’t want it what is the difference between you and schools :D.

Don’t find faults with yourself. Seriously do a task which no one else is doing. Why do something that the whole world is already working on.

Don’t make excuses. It takes the fun out of sitting on a couch if you have to think of reasons why you are not getting up of from it or from spending that money if you have to think of why you are not saving for uncertain tomorrow.

Don’t follow rules. The problem with rules is that if you follow them no one notices, but if you break even one people start questioning, preaching and teaching. Better set expectations upfront.

Don’t take life seriously. Being mature, somber and serious is good, if you are selling insurance.

Don’t just work. Imagine what will your epitaph read “He worked long hours” or “She never took sick days off”. Na. Do something crazy to stay interesting, dead or alive.

Don’t talk sense. Seriously, why you want to think before you speak. You think people are listening to you, they will think after you finish speaking your mind and follow you… huh!! You optimist :P

Friday, July 09, 2010

Use the Abuse

Parents are good... uhhh actually great but they don’t preach and teach perfectly all the time … They were dead wrong when they told you not to abuse.

Abuse is the best way to relieve stress. You don’t even have to say it out loud and be foul-mouth, you can just think it in your head and be a foul-head :) or write it down and be a foul-finger :D … But there is no better feeling then calling an A**H***, an A**H*** even if it’s in your head.

Plus you can come up with your own adjectives and spellings. When I meet a real jerk, I call them a “Jerk with a G“, makes no sense but I express perfectly to my self :)

Don’t feel guilty, people deserve it like a team member who takes your personal number because he is also a friend and then call you for work issues when you are at home. Tell me the best way to express this without “the therapeutic words” yes these are not bad words but help words …

Key words like hate, murder and phrases like “chop and fry” in reference to people and “land mine” in reference to work can be added to the vocabulary to help express the bitter realities of life.

Life is F***ed up and you are s****ed…Its easier to live through the same by admitting :D

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Where is the Honor?

“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”- Leo Buscaglia

Those who read the newspapers regularly would differ, Love is the new death. The surge in the number of cases of family members performing “honor killing” is disturbing, inhumane and reprehensible, very much contrary to the name.

Prejudices and intolerance are expected to blur in the light of education. Family and parents are expected to be the source of unconditional love. Caste and communities are expected to strengthen the society.

Nothing happens as expected. A father kills his daughter for eloping with a lover and not staying married to mismatched man 15 years elder to her. A young journalist smothered by mother for falling in love. A whole community affirms murder of men and women who seek relationships with individuals outside their Gotra. A maternal uncle on TV supports his niece’s murder. Khap, the modern day tyrants exist as groups of incompetent, ill-informed, inconsiderate and intolerant individuals who advocate murders.

For heaven sake, we are civil society where even capital punishment is not given without deliberation in court of law.

It’s irrefutable that our society is full of uneducated literates. Paradox reign supreme. We can converse with stranger in a train with obnoxious familiarity; we can advice strangers in hospital with idiotic authority; we can bond with anyone standing with us to watch cricket match in front to a TV shop; we can compete in class without qualms; we can work and coexist in a society of individuals from different caste and religion; we can admire a movie star or cricketer paying no heed to his/her religion or caste; we can even worship a cow … but we kill our own offspring. This has to be the rock-bottom of rationality.

If we as a nation are moving towards development and growth, I am sure we are taking a long detour because we are not even close.