MOVIES MASTI MAGIC..


I have recently been watching a lot of movies..somehow they have been coming my way..a volvo trip resulted in me begging for some Aspirin since I was subjected to three back-to-back movies..which included a couple by Emraan H..so you can imagine ;)

I watched Shabd sometime back on TV..and simultaneously 'Sex and the City' was also on..so I was flipping channels..and it made me think..

Shabd..has this couple..Sanjay D and Aishwarya R..henceforth referred to as SD and AR..SD is a writer and recently he has been suffering some blocks..AR is a professor in a college..

Since SD is going thru a phase where he is feeling creatively challenged..he tries probing his wife's life for ideas..and he questions her about her beliefs, her joys, her sorrows..her dreams, etc..It turns out that AR is happy and quite content with the life she has..she considers herself to be a very ordinary girl and has no great expectations of life..she has never done anything that she should not have and is not aware of any longing to do anything beyond the ordinary and mundane..she follows conventions..she believes that accepting even a 'Rose' from any man other than her husband (in the context of her being a college prof, 'Rose Day' is being referred to, I guess) is wrong and she believes herself to be completely in love with him..

Cut to 'Sex and the City'..Carrie is unhappy because the man she has been dating..somebody she is very attracted to..someone with who she has great chemistry and compatibilty etc..is not that good in bed..in fact..she describes her first sexual experience with him as 'Silent'..she is extremely disturbed by that fact and wants to work at it..make it better..spice it up..etc etc..normal 'Sex n the City' talk ensues and she does adopt some measures to heat up the action a lil ;)

What made me think was..here is AR..she is obviously not very liberated..she is living with the notion that she has the best life..and she does not want to know any better..the fact remains that she is happy..and there's Carrie..modern woman to the T..very aware of her personal needs, desires and unapologetic about them..but again we cannot escape the fact that she is unhappy..

So my point is..do we expect too much outta life and is that why we are mostly unhappy?

RANDOM MUSINGS OF A LUNATIC

People Part..

Yes..it's the rule of life..people meet and people part..I am very very good at picking up from where we had left..not all that good at never letting go tho..

I like it when a new life starts and everything's new..right from the smell in the air to the local language..the people u really care about never really leave..they might not be around in the same way or with the same frequency..but they are very much there..

I want to keep moving for the rest of my life..I don't think much of settling down..I want to keep seeing new places and meeting new people..The thot of there being some sorta routine in my life is not a pleasant one..

But I have to do that someday? That is what people, and let's face it, my common sense tells me..and lately I have realized that even the thot of some permanency in life need not be such a bad thing..one can keep exploring, growing, learning till the day one dies, in the consistent presence of some like-minded people..who give one the space to realize these dreams and vanquish one's inner demons..

But I have made this promise to myself..I will not settle down till when I absolutely want to myself..I do not believe in compromise...life is too short for that kinda stuff..

I do not blame my parents for being worried sometimes..because I have given them some indication..but they will understand, I am sure..and this is not some genocide I am talking about..it's just about living life my own way..and that's not too much to ask..is it?

A CONTRADICTION


So I am at home now..Infy is done and over with..N I miss office..

I miss the sense of having someplace to go to..and not just any place..a place where some people pay some other people 26.5 dollars for my presence!! LOL!!

I miss the campus and the cubicle, but u know..most of all..I miss the people..some which were part of my life just on the fringes..the people who I met on the bus but nowhere else..the people who sat somewhere around me and exchanged some sporadic smiles with me..the people I met in the washroom from time to time and had those all-too-famous washroom conversations with..the people I met in the canteen at the same time that I used to have lunch..and u get the drift..I miss that life..

But like most other things in life..I miss it because it was there for just the perfect duration of time..and I am glad it's over..