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.
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.
