Missed connections

So here I am feeling proud that I had finally managed to remember a meeting schedule, no mean feat for me, and I also reach one minute before the scheduled time.

Voila! People stream in. And you know them. But you know they are not in the team meetings. Finally your manager comes in and politely asks of you if you are in the right meeting.

And you tell her. She asks you to recheck your calendar. And the meeting is standing pretty. Then out of nowhere the application syncs and lo and behold, the meeting disappears. Your manager adds with a smile, 'now you have your half an hour of your life back'.

You make your exit as dignified as possible by wishing everyone a good day. Oh! Microsoft Office! You just made my friday!

Entitlement

We all have our own self worth in our own eyes. We only settle for what we believe is the right price. If we are short changed, there is an undercurrent of unrest. Sometimes though we have to make the wrong compromise so that when an better opportunity comes around, you don't miss, and thus right a wrong. This stems from an innate faith in Karma. What goes around, comes around.

But this compromise, in an elusive attempt at hope, is probably the worst thing we can do. I should know, because I am about to make one. Compromises eat into our self belief and self worth.

Compromises are what keeps the light burning you may say. I ask, at what cost?

We can't have everything at once, unlike what Lenka would like us believe. We will miss out on somethings, lose out a few times, but that is the cost of getting what we want more. You cannot look at the stars and the gentle sunrise and then expect to stay up the entire day. Nor can you hope to see the sun set from a hill top and expect to watch a movie with someone. You may think, if only I managed my time well…

But these are not examples where time management will stand you in good stead. Instead, time management may be the actual culprit who is restricting you from going after what you really want. A compromise is a good start, only if you have a plan. A compromise cannot be the end of a game.

WebRep

currentVote

noRating

noWeight

To a new chapter in life as I know it

You know it is a sad day when you despise your own self. When the person in the mirror is someone you don't easily recognize. When you'd rather run away somewhere, where you could live out the rest of your life in solitude and contentment, in a mockery of how people define peace.

Sadness is unbidden, uncalled for and unwanted to us all, but yet it comes, heeding not your thoughts or actions, for it is an abyss that the conspiracy of the Universe unearths at times to compensate for the pinnacles of happiness. Embrace them both. For one defines who you are and the other strives to bring in a realisation of who you can be.

When I started to write today, I did not have a clear direction of thought, instead I had a mass of roiling fear, a mush of sadness covering my rose colored glasses, with which I look at the world. Hence a lot of things that pours out over the course of the next few days may be incoherent; a bumbling and meandering tomfoolery of short pieces of my soul's outlook that is in constant conflict with the person, I am led to believe, I should be.

So here is to me, putting words to paper, or in this context to a 'web'-page, in the hopes that, I will discover a part of me that I thought I had lost somewhere in the graying back alleys, while I was chasing for the elusive and ephemeral object they called love. Cheers!

Of autoricksaws in Bangalore

Pardon my stuck-uppity-ness, but i believe the name "Bangalore" still suits this city rather than "Bengaluru", because of how American it sounds- more than the latter at least. Besides everything galores here.
Today morning, cold as it was i dressed warmly and prepared to go to my offices. Not owning a personal transport i had to invariably depend on the autorickshaws which throng this city.
And so we start negotiating.
"MG Road", I say.
"150. Its 130 by meter.", he says.
"Its only 110 by meter!"
"But I'll have to come back empty."
"Its the start of the day!"
"okay meter plus 10?"
And i say okay. We both sense that each has done this before. He is looking for a soft target and i am just looking for a fair deal. And another day starts..

Cold January

This morning, as I lay peacufully and bissfully on my bed, i had a difficult time breathing in. One moment I was happy, the next i was barely breathing.

But what can i say, this is how a cold begins. Touching water becomes a big no no..and well the blanket becomes the best friend. So here is to today with my best friend- the blanket.

Strange..stranger..strangest

Sitting here on this toilet seat...oops!..i mean..look at our own comfort levels when it comes to social interactions that broach topics or involve topics which are seen as socially uncomfortable,but are okay when it comes to family.
Hammurabi wrote an almanac of laws, the French defined ettiquette, and now maybe its time we started defining social habits.
With such mind-boggling different social standards of acceptible behavior, its a wonder cross cultural friendships and marriages occur. Maybe it is time when we should start teaching our kids acceptibility, rather than force our own judgements and rigidities down their throat.

A new year's eve...

So, today is January 1st. January 1st, 2012. Sorry, 2013. Oh! I will have to get used to this idea of twenty thirteen now. Life used to be so much simpler back in twenty twelve.

Looks that way. So we survived the long predicted end of the world. There were no meteors causing global destruction (of course there is one passing us close by) and no great flood or weather imbalance.

All in all, it was a nice year. Now come twenty twelve the only thing changing is the punctuality of the people (deteriorating) and our civility (also deteriorating) and our sense of justice (read rape cases,for those who are mediaphobic).

If it hadn't been for one intelligent king in the Roman empire in their good old days, a certain Gaias Julian Caesar, today would not have been a new year's day for us at all. But, my best wishes to you all for this oncoming new year. May you find peace and happiness. May you find joy and success.