Obligations

One dear life and thousands of obligations on the poor soul. I don’t think it’s a fair game.

It would be so nice if the people around us could stop telling us how we should live OUR OWN life. Can something that works for one, be applied in general to all when we so nastily claim that we are separate individuals? I think NOT.

In today’s world, instead of opposing we have accepted these obligations as a part of our life even when they irk us the most:
Have got mail, must reply
Have friends, must call all the time
Have a festival, must get religious
Have relatives, must be nice
Have received a favour, must be returned
Have got invite, must accept

I will stop at this as the list is too long and I am sure the above captures the gist of the feeling. We carry these obligations around with us like our appendix – absolutely good for nothing. Someday the crap accumulation will increase to an unendurable level and the removal of the inflamed appendix will be mandatory. That will be a great day for sure.

Sometimes I think William Shakespeare should be re-quoted to say
“All the world's an intrusion, And all the men and women merely cribbers”

clear command ..

Is it common that we sit in front of the computer with some 1000 thoughts and ideas to pen down but the moment we type the first word, the brain instead types the clear command for itself and everything goes blank. Any attempt to retrieve the deleted thoughts gets answered with the error that saving history for unexpected crash not enabled.

I think it happens to me a lot of times, at least it happened the whole of last month. I wanted to write about so many things and by the time I got back home from work, opened a notepad all that happened was an explosion. The ideas escaped some place and all I was left with were bits of the words that i wanted to talk about.. Love .. Obama .. Economy .. Environment .. SRK .. etc etc ...

I can’t even join the bits to make something sensible out of them.

I think I should walk around with a book and pen and start scribbling the moment i think of something. My fellow passengers, teammates, friends, family, strangers etc my get scared looking at my sudden gush to get the book out of my bag and my fanatical writings on them. For a few more posts on the blog, the look on their startled faces will make it quite worthwhile :)

Wow.. Just got one thought back, Happy Birthday Shah Rukh (02Nov)!!