Saturday, October 14, 2006

It's IN THE BAG!!!!!!

Everyone should have what I like to call ‘The Disappointment Bag’. Every now and then, one feels let down, betrayed, or generally unhappy with life. Sometimes you know the reason sometimes you don’t. It also happens that a few days later you see the entire situation in an entirely new dimension, maybe even change your opinion. So how about this, every time you get the feeling, of deceit lurking around, jot it down. Of course it’s entirely personal, so even if you get pissed at someone for no reason, or you blame someone for no fault of theirs, they don’t even need to know and hence ask “what’d I do?, what’s wrong with you?” Plus, you have a list of who’s done what wrong and when, so you can shove it in their face whenever you want. Rather unpleasant, but everyone does it anyway, so why not have a system to it.
But since I don’t want to be “the guy who made us hold on to all our disappointments”, why not have something exactly similar for the moments when you feel happy, say “The Bag of Joy”, (or if it’s a word document like the one I’ve started today “The File of Joy”). Every little thing which brings a smile to your face, a tear in your eye, uncontrollable fits of laughter, ecstatic drunkenness, unbelievable successes, senseless giggles, EVERYTHING…. It goes into the bag/file. Trust me, when you read it again, when you remind someone about it, laugh about it, it’ll be bliss. Don’t you feel happy? And that’s just after reading about it. Think about it… no pressure!

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

This 'title' is DEAD

dead dead dead dead DEAD... well, almost.
This blog is almost dead, gandhigiri is almost dead, science students' interest in life is almost dead, my parents are back home any moment- so i'm almost dead..

It's no secret that at every point of time in your life you need inspiration. you start off with the regular superman, maybe even the desi shaktimaan. As you get a little older, you move on to professional assassins, the men in suits and ties, clinical. then, when you start getting some brains, you admire everything your parents do, want to be like them. later, you look for the successful people- the narayan murthys, steve jobs, bill gates. after some time, you get bored of super stories and you look up to the rebels, the enigmatic ones who always seem to be controversial. and of course at some point of time you fet the push to be "just myself".
well, that more or less sums up my story.. current inspiration: mahmoud ahmadinejad, the president of the islamic republic of iran. why: enigmatic, controversial, standing up for the entire country, the whole jing-bang of things. andddd most importantly, one of his recent interviews, where he says "people of the united states are good people, in fact, people all over the world are good."
Now, that's a view i adhere to, that mostly people do things for a reason. True, very often one might not like what the other person has done, but delve deep, in the end, it probably had something to do with a weak state of mind of your jigri yaar which pissed you off. now you're not going to punish him/her for that, are you? of course this is rather idealistic, and people will insist 'there's no need to be so saintly', but then who can live the perfect life, you're always going to be on some extreme, and i'm on this one!

well, since i'm commenting on the saintliness of all beings alive, i could very easily avoid everyone's favourite bash-up boy, President Bush, and yes i will avoid him, other than saying, he's a diplomat, has to 'foresee' things, for the 'greater benefit' of the american people, which eventually doesn't justify everything, but like i said, BEST avoided.
PS- over the past many months, i've noticed, im writing stuff and making dead sure it's absolutely neutral.. maybe i should be the president of the US, or some country at least.