Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Analyze this & that II

Last time I visited Parul, she told me that I think too much & feel too hard or criticize things too much at times. I admit, things like doctors making mistakes, political opinions, secularism, people not turning up on time et al are my all time favorites. I am publicly apologizing if I would have ever hurt anybody unintentionally. I think people are who they are for a reason, for the circumstances they are exposed to in life.
However, I have a question, what is wrong with feeling hard about people; situations; just life in general? Why should Indians not turn on time that they promise? What is wrong with having strong opinions (as long as you are not judging people)? What is wrong for eg. with seriously liking Gandhian philosophy or not liking anti-secularist notions? Again, I know it takes all of a kind to make this world. So you need the jumpy-jovial kind, you need the care a damn kind, you need the humanitarian kind, then friends; what is wrong with being my kind? Somewhere down the heart I have always believed that people who have strong opinions are most of the times the ones who have the capacity to bring about a change in the norms of the society. How can you possibly grow intellectually or bring about changes without having opinions or thinking or believing hard in something? What is wrong with having opinions, when it's OK for so many others to not have any? Why should everybody like you? Or again, am I just thinking too much? How else would you like the jumpy/jovial breed unless y’all were not introduced to my kinda log heads!

Monday, February 05, 2007

Black & White

Coffee machine didn’t vend as well as ate the money, packed lunch but forgot to bring it to work, missed my exit & the next exit is after 10 miles, Christmas brownies that I promised at work got burnt, lost the books that I ordered from Amazon, its so cold that even the computer is frozen, lost $200 in blackjack, I missed the last show of guru & saw the first of salaam-e-ishk which turned out to be a disaster, no new messages on orkut, my American airlines flights always get delayed.

Saw a flock of geese on the way to work, although I claim not to; noticed the beautiful sunset, khosla ka ghosla surprisingly turned out a nice movie, mustang gave a mpg of 20 miles/hour, got stopped over for speeding but didn’t get a ticket, got cheetos as well as 45 cents from the vending machine, talked to all of my friends & grandma on the weekend, outwitted Sanjay more than once (we have a mujori contest going on all the time at our place; me being the soul contender!), did excellent in word power section of reader’s digest, Ratan Tata took over Corus & not to forget, COLTS won the superbowl!

For those who know me, I was never the positive person you tell your friends about; but hey I admit it’s not always that bad!!