Instant noodles! Instant coffee! Instant love. Has this bug caught onto you too?
People running around, breaking their heads over getting things done in a jiffy. Spare a moment and you have missed a flight, delayed flight you have missed a meeting, delayed work you have missed a cab! Oops! not a second to stop and breathe, look around and admire. But how long? Weekdays, you are this Robot getting your task done, weekends you are the Zombie trying to catch up lost sleep, and gear up for monday. When will you ever get a life! ?
Then this seeps into your personal love-life. Instant chats, instant messages and instant connectivity, has taken away the beauty and thrill of the long eager wait for that hand-written letter from your love, of the anxious wait to catch a glimpse of him. In this age of instant gratification, you get replica dolls to fill his absence! Now thats really sad. Love is a feeling of the unexpressed, of untold words, of the blissful silence. This cant be filled by the creepy messages that keep beeping at your desk.
No I am not avert to technology.(infact i can't live without my cell-phone!). But I am concerned about the rapid pace of life. Where am I heading too in such a great hurry, that I dont have time to scribble down a small love note for my darling, rather send those mushy electronics bits during travel. Can't we have a day where all these electronics gadgets leave us alone?We go out, and share a few moments of silence with our love without feeling impatient?
Monday, February 25, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Kung-hsi !! It is the Rat year
Welcome to the Year of the Rat. This is how Chinese ushered in their new year.
I happened to research on the history behind the Chinese New Year. The chinese mythology, associates each year in the 12-year cycle to a animal. This year it is the rat year.
According to their astrological calculations, people born in the year 1984, belong to the elementary sign - Rat. "It is an animal associated with aggression, wealth, charm, and order" - says Wiki.
I was born '84. That was when this thought struck, all my friends would also be born around the same year. So all of us belong to the honourable - Class of Rats. Doesn't it justify the Rat race, we've been taking part for in so many years. Every step, every year, has been a rat race, one rat trying to beat the other in order to get ahead. But we forget, we remain a rat at the end of the day, no matter how ahead we try to get in the race. Time to stop and ponder!!
I happened to research on the history behind the Chinese New Year. The chinese mythology, associates each year in the 12-year cycle to a animal. This year it is the rat year.
According to their astrological calculations, people born in the year 1984, belong to the elementary sign - Rat. "It is an animal associated with aggression, wealth, charm, and order" - says Wiki.
I was born '84. That was when this thought struck, all my friends would also be born around the same year. So all of us belong to the honourable - Class of Rats. Doesn't it justify the Rat race, we've been taking part for in so many years. Every step, every year, has been a rat race, one rat trying to beat the other in order to get ahead. But we forget, we remain a rat at the end of the day, no matter how ahead we try to get in the race. Time to stop and ponder!!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Those days...
As i enjoyed the spattering rains...
Cherished the sheeny leaves..
Gazed at the rainbow...
I wondered when the sun wil rise again and take away the rain.
Little did i know, the glistening sun...
Would rise so majestically..
take away those little droplets ...
And those little treasures of beauty..
How i wish the rains are back..
and bring back those sweet memories...
Of innumerable times spent by the window
Amidst love and beauty.
Cherished the sheeny leaves..
Gazed at the rainbow...
I wondered when the sun wil rise again and take away the rain.
Little did i know, the glistening sun...
Would rise so majestically..
take away those little droplets ...
And those little treasures of beauty..
How i wish the rains are back..
and bring back those sweet memories...
Of innumerable times spent by the window
Amidst love and beauty.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Soul says...
Enchanted by its beauty
I continue to dwell in the surreal
With its simplicities and innocence
Times with the one I long befriended
I continue to dwell in the surreal
With its simplicities and innocence
Times with the one I long befriended
The enigma of whom never stops intriguing me
Whose warmth and touch makes me want for more
Very thought of whom makes my heart flutter
As the languorous spell comes to an end,
This enmoured soul now feels the pain
"Was it just a spell that will never return? " it asks….
Why does he make me smile and cry?
Why does he make me love and hate?
Why does he make me want like never before…
And then make shut it off when it comes to the fore ?
And I reason out to the ingenuous soul….
It is a mystical feeling words cant explain
The relationship is beyond real and surreal
I know not if it were love,
But all I know it is the most prized possession I hath…
And I continue to dwell in the surreal….
Me, desires, aspirations and laziness
I am sure you must be wondering that the last word in the title is misplaced. But it isn't. "Dream, dream, dream, till you grow big" - says Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam.
We all dream, we have lots of them, but what happens to them over time, where do they go? Do we keep track and race it till we succeed or do we succumb to circumstances and get blown with the wind?
Why is it that we try to be happy with whatever we get, rather than work for what we want to get? This person in me, has a million dreams. Sometimes I fantasize researching on how to make a million copies of myself, each working on one of my dreams. ( parallel processing at work [:)] )Then I come back to reality, about the sweating required to make those dreams true. Within a second I am back, imagining how a successful me would be. I keep oscillating between the reality and fantasy. Here goes the conflict between the mighty LazyMe and the puny Righteous me...
LazyMe: " Wait and watch, Laziness alone begets wonders and innovation"
RighhteousMe: " Ha ha...:) Just as the several innnovations which are borne and dead in your dreams"
LazyMe: "Who said they are dead?"
RighhteousMe: " Tell me one which has grown?"
LazyMe: " They are still growing...they need time"
RighhteousMe: " Dear, it is time to realise raising them is much more arduous than giving birth. Aint it just like the kids?Fantasies in the initial stage are exciting [;)], but then there is long way once you have kids!! "
LazyMe: "But these zillion dreams are all twirling in my mind..getting ahead is very difficult."
RighhteousMe: " Now you come to the point, if only you allow me to preach, here is what i have to say.....
' True there are million desires, but would they all come true? Fine tune your desires, dream of a few, and see them grow. You will need to put in all that you have to make them reality. Nothing happens without sweat and toil. I am afraid you are falling prey to the image of the MightyMe ( the concoction of your zillion dreams ), and feel burdened that you would fall shot of your expectations, and refuse to make the move at all in the first place. Wake up!! "
LazyMe: "I know I have fallen prey to this huge image of myself which is so intimidating and demanding. But, if I realise that, chase a dream, put my heart and soul into it, will i succeed?"
RighhteousMe: "Alas!!! if only it were always a yes!. Today, as i talk to you about this, i carry the burden of failure of the dearest dream that shattered into splinters a while ago. But i haven't got anything left, except hope. We have to draw ourselves up, create a new dream and purpose for our life.
Arise! Awake! And stop not till you reach! "
PS: It took me a year from the time I wanted to blog to the time I actually wrote my first post. One of my several desires have come true. The LazyME has to learn.
We all dream, we have lots of them, but what happens to them over time, where do they go? Do we keep track and race it till we succeed or do we succumb to circumstances and get blown with the wind?
Why is it that we try to be happy with whatever we get, rather than work for what we want to get? This person in me, has a million dreams. Sometimes I fantasize researching on how to make a million copies of myself, each working on one of my dreams. ( parallel processing at work [:)] )Then I come back to reality, about the sweating required to make those dreams true. Within a second I am back, imagining how a successful me would be. I keep oscillating between the reality and fantasy. Here goes the conflict between the mighty LazyMe and the puny Righteous me...
LazyMe: " Wait and watch, Laziness alone begets wonders and innovation"
RighhteousMe: " Ha ha...:) Just as the several innnovations which are borne and dead in your dreams"
LazyMe: "Who said they are dead?"
RighhteousMe: " Tell me one which has grown?"
LazyMe: " They are still growing...they need time"
RighhteousMe: " Dear, it is time to realise raising them is much more arduous than giving birth. Aint it just like the kids?Fantasies in the initial stage are exciting [;)], but then there is long way once you have kids!! "
LazyMe: "But these zillion dreams are all twirling in my mind..getting ahead is very difficult."
RighhteousMe: " Now you come to the point, if only you allow me to preach, here is what i have to say.....
' True there are million desires, but would they all come true? Fine tune your desires, dream of a few, and see them grow. You will need to put in all that you have to make them reality. Nothing happens without sweat and toil. I am afraid you are falling prey to the image of the MightyMe ( the concoction of your zillion dreams ), and feel burdened that you would fall shot of your expectations, and refuse to make the move at all in the first place. Wake up!! "
LazyMe: "I know I have fallen prey to this huge image of myself which is so intimidating and demanding. But, if I realise that, chase a dream, put my heart and soul into it, will i succeed?"
RighhteousMe: "Alas!!! if only it were always a yes!. Today, as i talk to you about this, i carry the burden of failure of the dearest dream that shattered into splinters a while ago. But i haven't got anything left, except hope. We have to draw ourselves up, create a new dream and purpose for our life.
Arise! Awake! And stop not till you reach! "
PS: It took me a year from the time I wanted to blog to the time I actually wrote my first post. One of my several desires have come true. The LazyME has to learn.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
This mass called brain
I came upon this quote “Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking” - Eninstein.
Strange but true, some times the line between gathering information and gaining knowledge gets so blurred, that you dont realise when you start accumalating data, and enter the 'psuedo' intellectual state. How much of it actually gets ingrained, defines you and your persona is to be seen.I personally feel that more than how much you know, how well you know is important. In this age of information overload, there is a vast ocean to be explored, and we tend to get lost. A Sherlock Holmes instance comes to my mind. Sherlock Holmes was asked, "It is suprising that you have such in-depth knowledge in your field of interest, and just completely unaware of things beyond? ". He replied "I want to use the space in my mind, to store the minutest details of what I need, of what use is unnecessary data other than wasteful mind space".
At the onset, it confused me, as there were several things i wanted to know about, and then there were things i was expected to know about ( and this seems to be a never ending list!!). So what do i save and what not to!! ( i wish my brain had an auto save feature like my blog draft! )
Its time, we realise the limitations of human memory capacity, and store and process what is required.
Strange but true, some times the line between gathering information and gaining knowledge gets so blurred, that you dont realise when you start accumalating data, and enter the 'psuedo' intellectual state. How much of it actually gets ingrained, defines you and your persona is to be seen.I personally feel that more than how much you know, how well you know is important. In this age of information overload, there is a vast ocean to be explored, and we tend to get lost. A Sherlock Holmes instance comes to my mind. Sherlock Holmes was asked, "It is suprising that you have such in-depth knowledge in your field of interest, and just completely unaware of things beyond? ". He replied "I want to use the space in my mind, to store the minutest details of what I need, of what use is unnecessary data other than wasteful mind space".
At the onset, it confused me, as there were several things i wanted to know about, and then there were things i was expected to know about ( and this seems to be a never ending list!!). So what do i save and what not to!! ( i wish my brain had an auto save feature like my blog draft! )
Its time, we realise the limitations of human memory capacity, and store and process what is required.
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