Special Local

Hello everyone,

I was going to share good news with all when I started writing this. Then I thought, “Why would you be so much interested that you’ll actually read a whole blog on it?”. So let me just chip in the news...I am getting a new Bike in the coming week...A Royal Enfield. Pretty excited about the whole thing I tell you, been there to the showroom thrice already since it came...even dragged a few friends to it (Now they have swore that they won’t go anywhere with me). But emotions are everywhere. This little piece you are reading is related to excitements.

Things always look so much better till you don't have them. This applies to everything - A small accessory to people. You just can’t resist the “untouchable”! Then after sometime that special something becomes a routine thing...and there we are...fire gone, Lights out. It feels very good when you think about the first times the things are done...your first game, your first appreciation, your first trip, your first night out, your first kiss...so on. Everything seems so magical! After you actually are in it, you start taking everything for granted, like everything is going to be there forever.

The excitements and its ways are changing now. Today to get excited, I am supposed to go out, watch a movie, do some shopping and eat in a fine diner...that’s the way of life. My uncle was happy when he bought his first table with his money. Now he owns a posh bungalow, every excitement every feeling brick by brick. Our priorities have changed; our happiness now depends on people around us. Getting a bigger TV makes us happy now, having a good image makes us happy now, listening to praises makes us happy now...no matter how dark we are deep in our hearts, it’s people who count. No one wants to live alone and be disliked. Everyone wants to be the gem in the eyes of people who roam the streets.

But I don’t want all this. I still remember my first cassette recording, I still smile when I remember the first time I drove a Luna, I still ring with “So?” when I remember the first time I told a girl that I liked her, I still feel magical when I remember the first time I kissed, I still want to choose people like I always have, I still kick strangers and be with my loved ones against them...I want to live like there’s no one to comment.

Special Local...In the world of people, we begin the cycle as the mysterious magician. If you screw up, you still be the magician but if you make it work you get the role of home. It’s like everyone’s out there having fun on the playground. After everyone’s gone, kid comes back home. He has a nice warm dinner waiting for him, a cosy bed upstairs and maybe even a bedtime story. It’s like a permanent structure that will be there. You have to please the people everyday but painting the home once every year seems to do the trick. Be careful though...floors do creak, pipes do leak, doors do crack, wires do spark...homes do fall. Never take your happiness for granted, you’ll end up turning fire to smoke. Don’t keep waiting guys. Live like there is no tomorrow.

Take Care.

Hope and Hope-less

It’s not exactly before midnight...or maybe even close to it. But, my girl is having a night out and I am not invited, so what the hell. Let me share the boredom with you guys, they say sharing helps. And well, being the blog owner has its own advantage. Kidding guys, as if a blog owner is the highest authority on earth. But I am stuck with a stupid movie list and my friend is not even online during daylight saving! She’s probably sleeping with curtains pulled. So, I came in to write the first part about the most volatile thing.

Emotions...that is one crazy sea every sailor fears to sail in. We start the talks at our yacht and we get drifted to some god forsaken island. Then we wonder how we got there and ways to get back home. Wait for help, dive in on your own...once you are at a different island...you are pretty much done. Some lucky ones find the yacht again. Humans and emotions...It’s said that emotion and the ability to express them is what makes us human. But the connections between heart and brain, who is doing the thinking when...or is it just a way to get excuses for out indecisive and volatile thinking...I still get confused with all. We should solve the mystery someday...but not today. Last night I was wondering what makes us weaker...Hope or Fear.

Hope is a feeling that keeps us calm, it tells oneself that everything will turn out just fine. It in a way makes a person do a particular thing.

Fear on the other hand tells oneself to stay away. It makes a person “NOT” do a particular thing.

One thing I always did was to bank on hope. We keep thinking so much that everything will turn out good that we start actually believing in what is not there at present. Hope is one thing that seriously keeps us pinned to the past. One of my best friends always told me “Why do you keep standing in the middle of the road? Move to either side” and I always gave her the same reply “I am waiting to get hit”. I never could. I believed so much in hope that I lost so many wonderful things along the way. So I thought “Hey, Hope is taking all the credits! Let’s do some justice to fear too.”

You know guys; it’s very good to keep up hopes. It will hold your hand in worst times. It will always keep you motivated and energized towards the future. Nobody knows what is out there waiting for you today and fear always kills half of you on the spot. You can’t swim...you won’t go in the water. On the other hand, fear can be a blessing too. You can’t dance...you will a different way to be charming. But I believe that hope takes away one very important thing – Alternative. You will always find ways to do things differently if you fear something. But you would be stuck at one spot if you hope too much.

I was in my college when I realized that something was wrong with good old hope. There was one question I was stuck with while experimenting with alternatives; does hope give us a temporary boost while actually weakening us over the years? Should we really bank on a cheque that might come instead of getting a new job? Angels and Demons, both are powerful; both can ruin you. Why are angels good then?

Small shots of fear always keep us pinned to reality. Hope on the other hand is like a mars bar, it keeps you high till the taste is there. When it’s gone you miss it. I believe we should hope-less and look for alternatives. Make life a roller coaster ride; ups and downs have their own fun.

Twist the emotions people and let me reach a conclusion.

Take care.

Alcohol - A Sweet Addiction

Hi all, how are you doing? Worrying about bank balances or hair problems? What is the planning for tonight? All schedules up-to-date? Let's talk about me in the first line of first blog though. Me, I am a curious man. Everything I see, I need to know the logic behind it. I keep on bugging people till they pull their hair out, but OK let's talk about that some other day. Presently, let me celebrate the final opening of a blog after months of brooding and laziness. So what should we have? Drinks? A toast?

Last night I got an urge to go out and have a drink. Alcohol, it's something that has been consumed since prehistoric times for a variety of dietary, medicinal, religious, and recreational reasons. Now they even use them in hand sanitizers! It is the most widely consumed drink after Water and Tea. But when it comes to consuming alcoholic beverages, it's such a social taboo. I have seen kids sneaking behind elder's backs to get a taste of it. Maybe it is something about the attractiveness of the "Forbidden Fruit" that pulls them into it. I have seen parents who have full confidence on their kids that they won't do it ever. I tell you about mine, no one touches alcohol in my whole family tree. But does that alone make me a non-drinker? And how exactly would you define a Drinker? Me, I am a social drinker. I usually drink when there is some special occasion, when we dance to the tunes in discos, when we want to share, when we need to get light, when we want to get close. But I never understand why we get such urges. I do have my own theories on it. One friend of mine once said "You don't have enough will power. Don't talk about controlling the habit. If you could, you would never have started drinking." People are addicted to shopping, food, etc...But it always "He is just a bit fat", "He's big boned"? Or "She's a diva!". Drink Alcohol and your social ratings will fall faster than the desert temperatures. Be a girl on top of that and boom! You have a deadly combination right there. But then I ask myself, why it happens that way in reality. People are all developed in different ways, according to societies, according to families, according to friends...even according to TV channels.

"Kanpai!", they say we are just looking out for a reason to do it. We see it at marriage functions, festivals, parties...people laughing their heads off, behaving in stupid ways and doing all sort of things. Does drinking make you strong or weak? I like the geeks in a TV series called "The Big Bang theory", each of them has a distinct personality. The same personality changes into something else when they drink. Is it all there in us but we are just bounded by social strings?

Drunkenness, Hangovers, Stupid Behavior...are they really that bad? What is the life that we have? A rat race? The other day while browsing through my Gmail account, one particular status message caught my attention. On digging, I found it to be modified version of a quote by Lily Tomlin. She said "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat". Now mind you, I am not talking in a socially irresponsible way. I accept that one needs to have securities, bank balances, rapport...so on and so forth. But i ask you, how much time are we giving ourselves and our dear ones? The hearts are pumping Competition. A pretty girl says no, you are all pumped up. Isn't it a little better to 'not be you' for a little time and freak out? I mean, yes bad incidents do happen when we see this in a real life scenario. But then no one has stopped using and developing science either. Life is all about probabilities and chances. No one leaves people they literally hate, they are all out there.

Go grab a chance you have today rather than banking on tomorrow. Laugh you head off once in a while compared to following life in suits. Be a little stupid today and go after people rather than being sorry tomorrow. Just not be yourself and make a different memory today rather than flipping a monotonous memory file tomorrow. Variety is the spice of life? Hell yes. Between robots and recklessness, I would certainly choose the latter.

So, Kanpai guys and beautiful ladies (sorry guys, nothing special for us)! I leave this blog to you to twist and turn the opinions. Let's have some fun.

Take Care.