Saturday, March 23, 2013

ART: Affordable Retail Therapy


If someone ever tries to sound wise and ask you “Can money buy happiness?” Tell them “Obviously yes!! Never been shopping, bro”

Retail Therapy is a shortcut of happiness. Except two problems, first, filling the house and wardrobe with spontaneous shopping is painful to see every single day, after the high to managing the many colorful bags in your few fingers fades.

Second and bigger problem is that most of us have access to only “sweat money”. It’s not important if you have a lot or very little of “sweat money” but because it’s hard earned money that you know how you earned, when you earned and how much you earned, such money is not easy to spend.  

So how do you “buy” the happiness, without spending money and filling your house and wardrobe with things what will make you cringe after a week.

You google it!!!

Oh I mean google/facebook/pinterest/wish/amazon/zales/tiffany/homegoods/jungle/designemporia/amrapali it …

You can indefinitely and uncontrollably browse for this you need and what you just like looking it, without driving around and being an inconvenience to the sales person breathing down your neck. Type, quantity, quality, need, budget, price, durability, space in house and wardrobe…nothing matters. You can browse on emerald necklaces, patio furniture, swarovski chandelier,rugs  all you want. It is poor man’s/woman’s shopping. The added advantage is definitely transcending continent boundaries so you browse through unlimited number of sarees, kundan jewelry, potli purses, terracotta décor items…. 

It is lame i admit, but works for some of us ...

Saturday, March 16, 2013

No Karma


We all know the concept of Good karma and bad karma. Good karma is better than the bad karma, but there is something even better than the Good karma … No karma.

Doing nothing is the best thing to do. We all dream of an errand-less, responsibility-less and schedule-less day. “Doing nothing” is not being lazy or procrastinating. It’s meditation. It’s out of body experience where you see the hustle-bustle of life from outside.

I don’t know if it’s true, but by description “heaven” is the place where people are peacefully lazing around. There is playing of harp and feeding of grapes and pouring of wine, but outsourced to the contractors (I so hope this is true J ) . The rightful occupants are blessed with doing nothing.  While in hell is where people are boiled, fried, flogged and made to run errands.

May be god created us to do nothing. And like we always mess his good plans, we took upon us ourselves, to do the unholy task of planning, managing and executing unending chores.  Along comes the stress of the pending tasks, the guilt of not getting to them and the worries of their ever increasing number.

It’s time to give up on our damaging instincts of being an executor and embrace the holiness of nothingness and drift in the ultimate happiness …