On Wanting.....

We're flawed because we want so much more,We're ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had....

I couldn't agree with Don Draper more!! I want so many things. I get most of them. But there comes a point when you just " want " things. You don't need them . And that's when you have to draw the line. Do you need to get that Blackberry! Will your life fall apart without it. I don't think so!! What's more after a couple of months you don't even feel the same way about it. We live in this consumerist, materialistic generation wherein you have to compete with everyone to look cool, It doesn't matter if you don't need it. You have to live by the Code.

I was recently having this philosophical talk with S the other day.There was one thing she said, " Whatever you do, never stop thinking!" which really got to me. What does she mean by that. Of course , I think. Don't I? Don't we? Then why do we ignore every single thing in life.Why are we so willing to join the rat pack? Why do we forsake all our values to just get ahead in life? Distraction is the name of the game. We ave movies, celebrities to grab our attention to take our eyes away from the real crux of the matter. We have stopped questioning everything. We just believe. Talk about trust being over-rated! I feel we are losing the very essence of our humanity by refusing to question! Politicians scheme, the Government hides, People deceive and yet we seem to take it. Convenient, isn't it?? 

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day!!! The day when you have to show people how much you love them. I may seem a bit hard on this day. You may say its because of Sour Grapes!! I say it is because I believe Love should be celebrated everyday. Love doesn't have to be shown through gifts and dinner somewhere, Love is shown through the holding of hands, through that kiss on the forehead, through that look which only both of you understand! I may have this dreamy perception of Love and most probably am due for a huge reality check. But I refuse to believe so. It's no point being cynical. It hasn't helped me before. I doubt it will help me now. So I will wait... I will hope... For that certain someone who sort of feels the same way about things like I do. Someone who laughs with me...Shares my burdens.... Is With Me...

Love is like a fairytale. We get to write how it ends!!! It's no one's responsibility to tell you how to live your life. It's your life, Make it beautiful... 

Tread Softly.....

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,  

Enwrought with golden and silver light,  

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths  

Of night and light and the half light,  

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;  

I have spread my dreams under your feet;   

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats has perfectly described the feeling of opening your heart to someone. It shows how vulnerable we are, how badly we need to be protected and how cruel it is when the person who holds your heart in the palm of their hand crushes it.

Dreams!! We all have them. Impossible ones, irrational ones, perfect ones, entertaining ones. Yet how often do they turn into reality? How often do we have the guts to follow them? How often do we believe in them? What is the point of freedom of expression, of speech, of life... when the very basic structure of society is so conservative and rigid. 

                     When are parents going to learn to let go? We ape the West in mostly everything- good and bad- then why aren't children given the right to follow whatever they want? Why is convention better than choice?

Seems the same old teenage-parent dilemma. It may be...

I don't want to become rich. Nor do I want to be famous and well-known. I don't want to be a CEO or the smartest person in the world. All I want is to be understood and judged for myself. All I want is to explore life as I see it. To see the world as I know it. To fall in love as I feel it. I don't want to be told. I just want to be given a right to CHOOSE

So, Tread Softly dear one, you are treading on my dreams......