Well, the title has nothing to do with what follows next. Its just that, its a new addition to my vocab (courtesy: PTV in one of his post). For your ready reference, bete-noire means a detested person; someone or something which is particularly disliked or avoided; an object of aversion. Everyone has someone or something to dislike, it sometime seems that the very own existence of us humans depends on how much or to what extent do we dislike the particular object.
Whatever be the case, it is none of my concerns to get worried about the amount of hate or love that is spread in the world. So far, life has been going good with all its ups and downs. A suitable enough update would be - failed MS, got lucky with Oracle and again back to a failure through CAT so the next is that I am waiting for another success in queue. Life always goes with ups and downs, it somehow has never learned to travel on a widespread plain. After a large bum, I have to settle down and wait for a low rise. Still its been comfortable till now and I hope I won't feel even a bit of motion sickness on my leftover ride... which by the way I think is going to be long enough.
Couple of days back one of my friend told me that I'm so lively and I just repeated the famous Jab We Met dialogue - "Main apni favorite hoon!". But when I wait and think about it, there are lot less people remaining who actually love themselves. Most of us are busy cribbing that the others get more, they have a 'better' good luck than ours, there has been a case of favoritism etc. How many instances have been there where one has not done so? I admit that at a point in my life I was like that too and then one day everything changed. Everything as in everything. It was the day I got my rejection from MS, was dejected (it was my first rejection after all) to the core and the feeling was hopeless and then that almost an hour talk with Dad made me take a whole new perspective towards everything. He just said one thing, if I would have got selected for Nestle which sure was a better lucrative offer than BHEL, you wouldn't have been there thinking about your rejection because I would have been long dead (Nestle was posting in some remote village in Punjab, where at that time terrorism was at its peak and the factory was burnt with all its employees inside) and you would have got a compensation instead of the chocolates you think about. That one sentence made me realize that whatever is happening to me is probably for my own good. I don't say that might be some odd day MS campus in Hyderabad catches fire and I die there but now I don't care how everything goes... I just live through it.
Somehow, that one sentence has changed something within me and has changed my whole perspective turning me into the one who just loves whatever happens - good or bad. Again here Good and Bad are couple of the relative terms that we come across. Its the relativity from person to person that classifies things as good or bad. As they say, Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, similarly I would quote this as Morality lies in the minds of the people. Boozing and fagging might be in for some whereas they are just a no entry territory for others. Similar is the case with pre-marital sex affairs, bribe or prostitution for that matter. Still some don't take things lightly and create a hype over that. Why does this simple fact never cross their mind that their roaming and cuddling around with there boyfriends, or simply having a boyfriend, is considered BAD by some others. Somehow, everyone ends up overlooking these facts and this aspect of theory of relativity.
I am all vella (not yella or della) this semester, the above passages were a part of the gibberish that runs in my mind these days. Pardon me in case it offended you. For now that is it... let me relax and switch over to watching "Music and Lyrics" - a lovely tale of a song writer and a born lyricist! Adieu!
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Alpha as a factor...
Recently, I just happen to come across this fact that how much are guys thinking about the whole concept of alpha-woman. I must admit this whole concept seem to scare the hell out of them. The very fact that today in India, the major power-packed positions are held by women, seem to hurt some aching nerve of men. All they can think about is there nightmare getting true.
There seem to be lots & lots of retaliation against the discrimination, towards women, from guys. Each one of them seem to worry about the day when women will occupy all of the important positions across the globe & will become the string pullers for the men who'll be boiled down to nothing but puppets.
I agree to everything that's said. Given the current situations, where women are supported on the fact that they had been downtrodden since centuries & now its time to give them their rights, the eventual end is definitely this. But... why do no one still looks at what is still going on. The women whom we talk about consists around only say 30% of the complete women population of the country, the rest of the 70% still remains the subdued one... the one who are brought up to get married, run the household, get pregnant, give birth (in fact in many cases... multiple times), raise kids and then grow old and die. These 70% are still being taught how to become good wives and how to please in-laws... I don't say thats bad but then I don't think guys should even get worried... since that divine feminine power still does not have its 70% ready.
In fact, its just still centuries to go till this so very worried about final destination is reached. Why get worried just now... let the generations to come take care about it!
There seem to be lots & lots of retaliation against the discrimination, towards women, from guys. Each one of them seem to worry about the day when women will occupy all of the important positions across the globe & will become the string pullers for the men who'll be boiled down to nothing but puppets.
I agree to everything that's said. Given the current situations, where women are supported on the fact that they had been downtrodden since centuries & now its time to give them their rights, the eventual end is definitely this. But... why do no one still looks at what is still going on. The women whom we talk about consists around only say 30% of the complete women population of the country, the rest of the 70% still remains the subdued one... the one who are brought up to get married, run the household, get pregnant, give birth (in fact in many cases... multiple times), raise kids and then grow old and die. These 70% are still being taught how to become good wives and how to please in-laws... I don't say thats bad but then I don't think guys should even get worried... since that divine feminine power still does not have its 70% ready.
In fact, its just still centuries to go till this so very worried about final destination is reached. Why get worried just now... let the generations to come take care about it!
Friday, August 17, 2007
Musings...
No posts since past one and a half month! I know I might have committed a crime. This is never-never ever a passable or allowable act in the religion called Bloggerism! I'll not make an excuse of being busy or that nothing interesting happened in my LIFE. All I can say is that I was suffering from the conventional and communicative disease of laziness.
The first few words that ring in my ears, when I think about this ailment, are "Aalas Buri Bala Hai!" These age old words of wisdom have been passed down from generation to generation in one or the other way. Kabeer stated it as "Kaal kare so aaj kar, aaj kare so ab! Pal mein parlay hoegi, bahuri karega kab?" But now if someone would wake up and try to look around with open eyes, one would look at a bunch of closed eyes and hear loud snores and a plain chant of "Aaj kare so kaal kar, kaal kare so parson. Itni jaldi kya hai pyaare, abhi pade hain barson!"
Due to this LAZY factor, a new phenomenon is budding up! That is to achieve maximum possible in minimum possible time with minutest of efforts required. This is pretty much proved by the increasing number of reality shows that are populating the TV channels. What on observes is that these reality shows, now in there 2nd or 3rd seasons, are gradually becoming a platform for kids on the block. The average age of contestants is decreasing as the zeal to prove oneself at an early age is increasing tremendously. These little ones of around 16 or 17 years of age have barely achieved puberty and are right there in front of our eyes in all glitteratti and glamorous mode. I sometimes wonder, have I overslept or was I too Lazy to see this! :|
The first few words that ring in my ears, when I think about this ailment, are "Aalas Buri Bala Hai!" These age old words of wisdom have been passed down from generation to generation in one or the other way. Kabeer stated it as "Kaal kare so aaj kar, aaj kare so ab! Pal mein parlay hoegi, bahuri karega kab?" But now if someone would wake up and try to look around with open eyes, one would look at a bunch of closed eyes and hear loud snores and a plain chant of "Aaj kare so kaal kar, kaal kare so parson. Itni jaldi kya hai pyaare, abhi pade hain barson!"
Due to this LAZY factor, a new phenomenon is budding up! That is to achieve maximum possible in minimum possible time with minutest of efforts required. This is pretty much proved by the increasing number of reality shows that are populating the TV channels. What on observes is that these reality shows, now in there 2nd or 3rd seasons, are gradually becoming a platform for kids on the block. The average age of contestants is decreasing as the zeal to prove oneself at an early age is increasing tremendously. These little ones of around 16 or 17 years of age have barely achieved puberty and are right there in front of our eyes in all glitteratti and glamorous mode. I sometimes wonder, have I overslept or was I too Lazy to see this! :|
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