IN SIMPLICITY LIES PROFUNDITY...

before i start tapping the keyboard with stuff that is essentially metaphysics or rather pseudo intellectual in nature(by default and for the purpose of uniformity of the posts on this blog) i would like to ask people, who are into blogging,whether they are populist by any chance. i mean what is the purpose of blogging if no one reads your blog? and in order to do so you ought to create, filter , dilute , modify, fabricate the content in your posts!! so essentially i believe the people who blog are someone like me who are looking for popularity and crying out loud for attention!!! more on this later...

hmmm.. let me begin now. long time ago when i was in class 9th or so and when my sis was in std.11th,she told me about this novel by Charles dickens titled "great expectations". the story dealt with this young, proletariat boys' obsession to be "uncommon" or rather different. somehow i instantly bonded with this character, christened as "pip".from that day onwards i have sub-consciously ( and i must admit unsuccessfully) tried to be different. i have complicated things in my life which, if i had been my usual self, would have been so simple. i realised that i am a person who likes to bask in the limelight, to be appreciated, to be applauded, to be accepted by the crowd and at the same time i have this queer desire to be a lonewolf. in contradictions , so far i have lived my life. this blog i believe is perhaps another reflection of this paradox. on one side i want these random, mindless scribblings to be appreciated by the "crowd"; and at the same time i dish out the same "pseudo intellectual" stuff in order to appear different; not a part of the "coarse and common" crowd.i have failed to understand that why i can't be what i am.i fail to grasp why,this facade of aloofness and profundity that i at times try to adorn myself with, can't be thrown and burnt for good. i simply fail.......
life, i tell you, is meant to be lived simply; to be lived as a human being...

FOR THE LOVE OF"LOVE"

to all those people who were idle and prodigal enough to have gone through my previous posts; and quite unnaturally; expected a barrage of new posts from me; i am sorry!! it was an unintended extended hiatus- unintended i say, because i wanted to write lot of crap but somehow was not being able to do so(thank god for small mercies!!). lets move on,then...
of late i have been thinking...yeah, you read it right.. thinking!! the month is February and all i see is red all around me. they say it is the season of a virulent, contagious disease colloquially called 'love'. and the red does signify the sickness all around us. shops all around were and in some case still flooded with red medicines-heart shaped candy boxes, teddy bears with red ribbons, red wrapping paper, red boxes and red what not; and yes all this makes me see red, literally!! i mean , i have nothing against red; it happens to be my favourite colour; yet for this entire month i abhor anything that is red!
my general angst against red or for that matter against this market of love is purely personal. i am not going to lecture upon the commercialisation of love or for that matter the negative influence of western culture and other such redundant theories.it is purely what i feel( and most importantly this per chance happens to be my blog, so i am at liberty to write whatever i feel like). i do not believe that love comes wrapped in a box of candies or a teddy bear or candles!! it is not something which can be quantised into red packets and disposed and dedicated to anyone at will.i simply detest the fact people who have the faintest idea of what love is all about go gung ho about it.they believe that by uttering three words to someone they think is their beloved and roaming about uselessly and purposelessly and spending sleepless nights on the phone asking how the dinner tasted tonight makes them eligible to be preachers and professors of 'love'. blast them and their already blasted world!!
if i were to be asked what is my definition of love, i think I'll be stumped!! love,i believe,can never be defined. it is beyond the realms of explanation. it is an exalting feeling; it is that state of mind; i believe; that you wake up with every morning believing that things are possible, a ray of hope, an all pervading optimism. the object of your affection is not at all important, it is inconsequential. only the realisation that yes; this is perhaps what love might be is of consequence.this feeling is like a shadow; playing hide and seek with your mind; eluding at times then suddenly swinging in front of your mind. love the feeling; for it is akin to chocolate melting in your mouth,swirling with your tongue; giving you consummate pleasures!! love the feeling; for it is an intoxicant with an unmatched concoction to give you a perfect high.

AN ASYMPTOTIC LIFE......

asymptotes......mathematically speaking a line which touches a curve or its branch at infinity.yet another concept of maths which made no sense to me(my list of absurd mathematical concepts start with "iota".. i mean how come you sit and devise theories for something which is non-existent and yet have the hypocrisy to call it "imaginary"!!). neways , back to asymptotes for now.. it was one of those rare moments of inspiration that i realised that how asymptotic life is!!
ah!! another of those profound statements...i even surprise myself!!

as i was saying, life is so asymptotic....
when i was a kid, i sometimes couldn't understand certain things. my questions were answered with a simple you'll- understand- when- you''ll-grow-up type response.. i am 20 (20.5 to be precise) and yet i don't think that i have understood those very questions.. like why i was ornate with specs for no fault of mine( a congenital defect resulted in me getting bespectacled at the age of 9),or why i failed to achieve what i wanted to,or why things happen to me in a way they do...maybe i need to "grow up" further... it is quite possible that when once again I'll be in this sort of vacant or pensive mood, at some other age ,at some other time and once again i might be ravaged by such abstract thoughts then again I'll pacify myself that maybe i will understand when I'll grow up...
life, you see, is so asymptotic.. trying to catch up or maybe just touch past the curve of existence....

BACK AND HOW!!!

well, it seems that there was some sort of conspiracy on the part of blogger.com for , as it is , i have to start all over again!! so much for conceit and vanity.... the thing is ,that i am back in action. feels good, damn good!!

through these tough times (yeah, not being able to update my blog was a testing time indeed!!) i have been ably supported by my great friend, kedu, who made me believe that there is a popular demand to read my chronicles, though i am not sure why!! kedu(real identity undisclosed, for reasons obvious and even for those that are not!!) will keep featuring in future blogs for he is an imortant "creature" in this zoo called my life.. his antics, though not as flambouyant as mine , will be a pleasure to type out!!

ah!! its late now and since i have contributed my alloted share of e-waste, time to say good night... so here goes.................................GOOD NIGHT!!!

Who is "The One"??

now that i am very much alive and kicking, i mean, blogging, i feel a compulsive urge to write lots of profound stuff, all of which , i can promise, will be very much superficial indeed!!(and it kinda goes with the title of my blog too!!) . so here goes...

i was watching the "matrix" this afternoon and was marvelling at neo's antics, trinity's gorgeously athletic body and Morpheus's' cool glasses when i couldn't stop myself from wondering about the whole concept of "the one". it struck me that this whole concept is deeply rooted in our mythology!!

OK!! so either i have intrigued you or i have made you believe that i am a deranged personality. either way , i know, you'll still read on. given that you have met crazier people and heard even more bizarre theories, i think you guys will give me a chance...

so here goes..

i wrote that the concept of "the one" is rooted in our mythology , and now i will elucideate my point. firstly , let us note down some very general points about "the one", which i again say have been passed down the ages. the most important feature of "the one" is, that his advent is prophecised. next, he is always projected as the saviour or the "messiah". and being the protagonist, he is always the best loooking stud around. now that we know the general traits of
"the one", i shall proceed with my not-so-crazy-after all theory. remember "ramayana"?? yes , the same great hindu epic by saint valmiki!! if you do and even if you don't, the story has it that a prophecy is made to king dashrath that lord vishnu will reincarnate on the earth as his son and he will be "the one" to free the sages from demons' opressions. and as we all can remember very well now(come on ye tubelights, stop blinking) that lord rama was indeed the most handsome stud of his era. so now , do you all agree??? still not convinced... all right here's another story to make believers out of you all..

the most popular god in hindu mythology, lord krishna's life also has very interesting points to offer and to substantiate my theory. king kansa of mathura had dethroned his fsther snd had become the king of mathura. there was a lot of unrest due to his policies and yet again a prophecy was made that his sister, devaki's, eighth offspring will be "the one" who will be his nemesis.
and everybody does know who devaki's eighth son was.. the most charming, romantic and yeah very manipulative and because of all abovesaid, most controversial god of hindu mythology-krishna....

so i have put forward my theory. it is upto you to test its relevance and rationality .by the time you are through with this exercise, i would have:- read another potter book glorifying his scar , watched another star war episode where anakin explores another facet of the "force", gone through another lord of the rings chapter amusing myself at frodo's quest with his destiny..........in short , an attempt to capture the essence of "the one"