Life in passing

There’ll be greenery all around, there be uncontaminated waters in rivers and lakes, there will be unpolluted air, there will be new life forms thriving and co-existing in a balanced ecology on earth the planet will be a bright blue dot again visible from far far away in space. The earth will regenerate itself to its nascent state because the earth has all the time in the world. It’s us who do not have much time left, its unfortunate for us the human race that we won’t be around to see the earth in all its beauty like the beauty of a new born and the peaceful look of a child in deep sleep, but it’s not going to be so unfortunate for the earth because only when we have disappeared from the face of this earth will the cleansing process start to slowly but certainly remove all evidence that we were ones here exploiting and abusing all offered to us to us by the earth. As many environmentalists are saying that its not just the 11th hour but its the 11th hour 59th min and 59th sec and soon ...

A friend of mine did a tarot card reading for me sometime back and told me that I have everything I need around me but there is still a void... And then I start to ponder if that’s true and if it is, what am I missing... And the same string of thoughts lead me in another direction that my life is undergoing certain major changes and the kind of changes I’ve been striving for quite a long time and now finally when it’s happening why am I not elated? Why I am not capable of feeling the satisfaction of achieving my goal? Why I am not keenly looking forward going to a completely new place and doing what I was wanting to do for a long time? Life feels dull when you just live, not feeling extreme happiness and sadness (sadness still sticks to me but not the happy moments). I’ve been made to grow up on the concept that nor should you get too excited in happy times and neither get too depressed in sad times. Now as my friend puts it, conceptually it’s something that works well but along t...

Wake up call can be of different form for different people. For few it could be someone close’s death, for some it could be loosing wealth or a huge deal at work or for others going through a near to death experience. But the point is you got to loose something important or your sense of security has to be shaken to be woken up. Why is that a shock always has to the be the eye opener?.... It could be because we need to be jolted from our constant state of running and the momentum or in some case the inertia to catch a breath and take a look around to measure the chaos we are in and the balance we were constantly disturbing till now. So we need the shock for us to arrive at the confrontation point. But on second thoughts I believe life does give subtle hints to get some correction in our lifestyles and attitude towards things but we turn a blind eye towards the faint clues and keep moving towards the course of bigger blunders. And when something goes wrong in a big way we curs...

When you start with a new habit which is good for you or healthy like going for morning walks, not cutting in a conversation or being polite to people you tend to do it very consciously and religiously for no. of days equally proportional to the number of people knowing about the new resolution plus or minus how actively do these people look for opportunities of getting back at you for all the leg pulling that you inflicted on them. And as soon as the habit approaches it shell life you tend to get busy for walks, short on time to completely listen to a single person at a point of time and politeness becomes a sign of weakness suddenly and aggressiveness is the name of the game. So resolutions are more like you looking for a change and putting yourself out there to get a changed perspective just to realize you were doing OK before you decided to take up this extra hassle of leading a healthier life or being a nicer person which you are just not capable of being. Switching topics d...

I think I haven’t seen Sleepless in Seattle but that’s the only movie title I can think of right now, why particularly Sleepless in Seattle could be because its 4 am and I still haven’t been able to sleep or may be because my sister has just come back from Seattle, I am sure she is fast asleep. Seattle is known as the suicide capital of US, just a passing thought. When you are not able to sleep and you are very desperately trying to sleep it’s that time when your brain runs at its maximum sleep speed you get so many passing thoughts, memories of childhood you never knew you remember, you start to think of distant people, people who are not around since very long like just now I remember my Chemistry teacher back in class 9th I guess her name is Simirita. And quite ironically the song playing by my computer right now is “Jaage hai sari raat kuch der sone do” ha ha and next comes Kal ho na ho but kal to already ho gaya . So back to passing thoughts, the problem is that they pass by so...