This morning, upon glancing at a gigantic hoarding that illustrated the events scheduled to commemorate the stupendous success of DASAVATHARAM[100 days :)], I hastened to realize how dormant I have been with regards to this page. It could be that I have had absolutely nothing to blog about lately or I might have been extremely occupied with myself. The fact that it’s neither makes my ranting blatant.
Mayhem is a dangerous obsession, one that was never on my radar. Sadly, I seem to have started to show its symptoms. At the moment, I am as confused as a chess player unsure of what is happening five moves ahead. However, I am tempted to say I am not alone and for sure mine isn’t any worse than the current global scenario what with the proverbial U.S sub- prime crisis hitting rock bottom with stocks plunging faster than Michael Phelps, its ramifications seen from as far as Papua New Guinea, Andrew Symonds- who did the unpardonable crime of missing the team meeting in favor of fishing and subsequently getting axed, the Nuclear deal impasse or the Nano NO-NO, the list is endless. This isn’t, by any stretch of imagination, to say I belong to this cluster. Hell No. I guess judgment can be made only in retrospect and like the elite, I too am staring down an uncertain path. In modern society people have become stereotyped into saying, thinking and breathing a certain way of life. We are held back from saying what we think because of the social restriction, the rules, etiquette and the built-up inhibitions. Honesty can be as slippery as quicksand. How else can I explain my inability to work through a situation when as much as I try to break the ice with a certain someone, ice becomes iceberg. Maybe it is this brief moment, this philosophical outlook that makes me realize that growing up is the only option. It’s a timely reminder to be grimly realistic & cautiously optimistic.
Meanwhile, life goes on………
3 comments:
Ya indeed mayhem is a dangerous obsession coz it can really create a sudden emptyness in you yet u may feel like the busiest man on earth. Of all the billions of HOMO SAPIEN species ever to have roamed on the surface of this earth, why is it that only this generation Y has to feel so tensed and so confused............
May be growing up is the only solution to this puzzle but it is not the end rather the journey that makes this life worthwhile..........
Well said. Yes, societal pressures can be quite worrisome and there's no real (sure shot) way of escaping them. What's worse is that you can't even ignore them in most cases but when it comes to matters of the heart, I think you must ignore them and go by your instincts. And if your instincts suggest that you should be "grimly realistic & cautiously optimistic", so be it. :)
The best Phelps reference I've heard as of yet :)
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