Universal Foul Play

November has been creatively very productive, therefore just wanted to end it with some introspective, digressional, tangential but spectacular random thought. Unfortunately it rained and the weather turned cold. I am not a sunflower yet but some lights in my head definitely tuned off or dimmed at the least.

That made me thinking why do we worship Sun, sunlight sunrays. Isn’t there an abundance of Stars in galaxy ahem universe? Isn’t our revered sun actually a pretty average middle aged dude whose been predicted to end up as a dwarf. No supernova spectacle or black holes pulsating magic just a meek bow out of the universal play.

And then we can’t stop romanticizing the moon, I asked my teacher once which ones bigger sun or moon and everybody laughed at me. Well I stand by my question did not the relativity experts kept drumming everything can be explained by frame of reference. To me that perfectly circular orange moon against that deep dark sky definitely seemed much larger than the sun which no matter how much I squinted my eyes I could not make out how big it really was.

But moon is just a small satellite which for some reason took to earth and planned to orbit around. Poor guy hanging around all alone, if he had chosen Jupiter or Saturn, it would have enjoyed so much company. So we sent out a couple of man made satellites to give some reality TV view to the lonely guy.

And then there was water who knew it never was blue colored. It froze and rained and even evaporated at times talk about nirvana and cycle of life. Then there were these huge comets essentially humungous ice cubes jetting around with burning tails.

Planets, satellites and comets however different have something in common though. All of them might love spinning but eventually revolve around our middle aged thoroughly average sun.

Here we go again!

Life has become tough! to top usernames and passwords post, it has become my undoing.. I feel what all those one hit wonders felt like, desperate for the recognition and admiration they know they deserved, but cannot pull three aces again and so here is another attempt for the same elusive glory.

So I have decided there shall be no humor, no sarcasm, no pop culture reference just plain random vague thought. As Christina Aguilera said back to basics (darn u pop culture).

Here we go again! Its Business Time

I used to be a poet once long time ago, in a land far far away.. so another sincere shot at poetry.

It all came back to me again,
Sitting on the terrace chatting for hours
Sweating under the ceiling fan for hours and hours
Life was simple with very few worries
Most of them were what would there be
For breakfast, lunch or a la tea time dare I devours
The creative oh so surprisingly bad Hors d'Oeuvres

Walking under the clear dark night
Debating on alien existence
Watching all passing airplanes
Catching glimpse of meteors
Debating, watching, wishing
Political correctness we not knew thee

Days are still the same
Worries still around food
Nights are almost clear
But things have definitely changed
Maybe it’s the tectonic plates
Somebody told me they moved

Sensual Topic (censored stuff!)

So this topic is all about the five senses and more.. Fooled u into reading this topic dint I! [Smirk!], but read on there is something very vaguely moving here. From kindergarten itself we have been taught that there are 5 basic senses. Sense of touch, smell, taste, hearing and sight Most of our experiences regarding these senses can be categorized as pleasant and unpleasant. Predictably enough unpleasant experiences are the ones we retain for longer. Think about it what pops into your mind, last time u burned your hand or last time u touched something soft.
For the most part most of these senses are very transitory (hang in there, as one wise reader suggested this does go OHT at times, what is OHT u ask, ask the wise reader) I mean lets say we see this awesome scenic place, we are wowed by it (ok I will stop generalizing) I am wowed by it but after some time it looses it wowness factor. Eat something delicious first spoon amaaaazing second spoonful amaaazing third one amaazing fourth one amazing (make note the a's are reducing with each spoonful, learned that trick from Hindi movies, subtleness is for suckers!..). So now u know food is amazing so what next. My point is these senses get fatigued very easily and after the initial thrill it looses the wow factor. Yet and I repeat yet! no matter how easily these good senses get fatigued u keep craving for them. For example I had these baked chips during lunch, not bad, ok kinda but still I kept craving for the real stuff even though my mind knows it’s just a transitory feeling followed by grueling hours of workout in the gym but u still keep craving for the good stuff.
That bring me to my next point, (don’t worry the sensual stuff is coming up really soon) there are so many other senses, for instance sense of craving (which emerges anytime you have diet stuff), sense of anticipation(after a good interview), sense of looming(after a bad interview), deja-vu(every time u end up in a deadlock), sense of belonging(every time India wins world cup), sense of squeamishness(every time u see that roach dancing around), sense of epiphany(every time u see any idol program and realize that’s your calling), sense of daydreaming/overconfidence(every time u see any idol program and realize that’s your calling) I can go on and on and on but here is the final bouncer, the mother of all senses, physical and metaphysical ones, Sense of Fulfillment. I believe Sense of Fulfillment is the driving force in life, for instance u keep eating until u feel you are completely full, this fullness has no bearing on how hungry u r it generally depends on the deliciousness of food. How one keeps running from masters of science to masters of business admin only to realize that, they need a sabbatical to explore the world, for fulfillment.
I would like to quote a short story here a man was walking by a field and saw a farmer resting under the tree. Now this guy goes the farmer and asks, Bhai why r u resting why don’t u work, so the farmer asked how will that help. So this guy goes on and says u will have an awesome harvest (Farmer: then what), u will have more money (Farmer: then what), u can buy more fields (Farmer: then what), you'll be a rich guy (Farmer: then what), Arre bhai u can sit aaram se and rest! so the farmer replied and wat else am I doing right now? So there you have it the driver of all senses: Sense of Fulfillment. So those are my sincerest sensual thoughts for the day (and yea this is the sensual part [smirk... smirk]

Life the unfortunate series of contradictions...

So who made plans and implemented them to perfection.. Bravo! you are in the elite group of .01% or maybe I am just feeling too ebullient and its.00000000000(n times) and 1(This nth thing is so ingrained from school)
So anyways back to the topic.. why do plans fail and more importantly why do we make plans when we know the success rate is highly unlikely.. whyare homo sapiens such an eternally optimistic species, we still do wait for buses on time..
Well we do learn and adapt I mean thats the reason we are still not extinct but still even though we may adapt theres this small little hopeful maybe's going through us.. Where does this small and I mean really really small voice unless u r the energizer bunny on a venti caffine high (then it might be audible to the next person) come from..
Once upon a time there was this really bright man and I just wiki'd him his name was Edward Murphy (and u thot u will find nthg informative on this vague blog and yea he was an aerospace engineer) predicted and I quote "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way"Yes he actually quoted that and was quite upset with how it was interpreted by people.
So the version we know if anything can go wrong it will and that does happen most of the time. Smart people try to cover all avenues and what if's and at the end of the day are still baffled with new loopholes or better still holes. Talking about holes.. what an awesome movie.. I reseliently avoided watching this movie for a long time, kids digging holes in a camp just did not sound fun to me.. but on an awefully boring afternoon I gave in watched it and loved it.
So in the end, matter of the fact is life might go downhill and u might start questioning or be reassured that what more worse can happen, thats a jinxed question which shd never be pondered upon coz it will surprise you and not in a good way and then it might go some more downhill and so on until the puzzle fits together and light shines on your head and everybody lives happily ever after. For the rest of us that dream is still there that something spectacular is waiting on the horizon until then we can just live with contradictions and try to cover as many loopholes as we can.. So long..