Generation Gap

Who's Michael Jackson?

Six Minutes

"He (my brother Lewis ) was told he had six minutes to get out and he would survive,

but he didn't manage and he was killed."

"They said they would give me dinner in six minutes.

It's been six minutes and it hasn't come yet. (Is there any jelly?)"

"I've been having the strangest dreams lately." *pause*

"I was told that when you die it happens in six minutes.

You lie down and in six minutes you die.

I lay down and in five minutes, I was gone.Just like that."

Who told you this?

"Aunt Dora."

"Take me home, I must go now."

Ageing

Cha has had a healthy baby boy- last night at 3:40 am.,a couple hours after his own birthday. He is a father. HE IS A FATHER!!!

Number three () is engaged.

She is divorced.

Racoon thinks he is twenty three years old when he is actually twenty six going on twenty seven! Boy, was he shocked to be three years older in less than a minute!

Do we all think we are younger than what we are? Or are we older than we are?

Maybe, we are just old. Still living a child's life. That is the real joke.

Its been nearly a month since I have been home and I am ready to go back to Bombay and the uncertainity of it all. I love home but not being home is something I have begun to love as well.

Where and when will we find our middle path?

Glimpses of me

is what worries me.

Is that who I am now?

Circled eyes? and a constant frown?

Is the only way from here , down?

It's been a good six months.

The Eigth year.

I am just a mere speck in the universe.

As are you.

And you.

And YOU.

But here we are, pouring rain and red earth. Maximum City to Santa's Land. 2001 to 2009. Then to now. 

FlashflashFlash

Things keep happening. We keep moving. We keep needing. and we keep doing.

Goafest.Campaign.Photographs.Cameras.Lenses.FlashflashFlash. Soundpad.Music.Flash.movies.

It's not stupid.It's me.

Oh, and don't forget to stabilise it from the bottom.

Defined.

Random:Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Chance:A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled.

Serendipity:The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.

Illusion:An erroneous perception of reality.

Random chances give the illusion of serendipity.

Love-less

There is a wedding everyday, these days. It is all about how much money you spent, which wedding was longer, who wore what, who was invited, where they went for their honeymoon- comparisons of the materialistic things. People are getting married fast and all together just in case it goes out of fashion or potential companions run out. Yes, we get these invites all the time- and we think, "How am I going to get out of this one?"

There is a divorce everyday, these days. Cover ups, forced smiles, playing pretend. Just to hide a split up. Our school principals and teachers thought we came up with brilliant reasons for coming late to school. They never knew of the lies we were capable of! Then again, society didn't tear you apart for coming to school fifteen minutes late, but a potential divorce? a broken marriage? Gossip and mean-ness reaches new levels. That isn't my point- not for this post, anyway.

Weddings-divorces-weddings-divorces..... What I want to ask is, where is the love? Or is this a trend? Has it become cool to divorce by the second year of being married? I don't think so. I think, it's okay not to know love - not to love love anymore.

Where are all these thoughts coming from, you wonder? From watching a movie where love transcends everything, from the relationship, from the self- yet it is there right till the end. From a MOVIE! That is the only place love really exists anymore. It is the only place it remains as it was years ago. In real life, people say they are in love, do things you do in love, but tomorrow *poof* it's gone.  That is NOT love. 

I can't believe I am rambling on about "love"- my most hated topic of yesteryear, but also most debated. Cha: you called me a romantic and I fought it, but I guess I am. 

I have been defeated: by love. And I am just trying to stand up for it.