Books can be so liberating. I think so… No disputes on that please. Books can build a Castle of Caress around you, liberating you from the pretense and mockery of everyday life. Try them…
I am an avid reader, and I literally live off books. Reading transports you into a different world; a world that is recklessly creative, magical and imaginative; a world that holds no bounds and knows no boundaries. Bliss…
People often ask me… “Which is the latest book you have read? Or reading??” and I instinctively launch into a tirade about the book, its characters and story line, which is habitually followed by a recommendation to read the book without fail.
Funny, how much I want people to subscribe to this insanity I suffer from. But trust me when I say… when there is no one around, loneliness is that last thing that come to your mind when you have a friend in books.
A child’s growing up years become more memorable with books, and they also are an adolescent’s best source of information and an almost mandatory aid to a retirement life. Then why shed the pleasure when in your 30’s and 40’s. Stall time, recapture memories and re-invigorate life, by doing something, as simple as picking up a book.
I am fan of fiction, Decide your preference (or try everything), Go ahead, drop everything else, and take to reading. You will surely put the book down, only for as much time as it takes to thank me for this blog…
P.S: Please use book-marks. Don’t fold corners of a book’s pages.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Global Gyan for married women!!!
People have umpteen expectations from a marriage. It’s a relationship that binds people together forever, sometimes body and soul, and sometimes is just an obligation and a compromise. Is it worth it??? All the fights, all the pain, the disagreements, the hatred and the exasperation of living with a person who has no idea who you really are.
What does one want from a relationship??? A sense of security, happiness and lots of love, right!!! Sometimes I wonder, is that too much to ask for??? Isn’t that what marriage is supposed to mean, unconditional love, respect and trust for each other. I believed that, and silly me, I still doJ. Someone once told me, marriage is like a bank, you have to deposit as much as you want to withdraw. If you only tend towards withdrawals, you will soon come face to face with an empty bank account, sometimes maybe overdrawn with pending interests J
Sometimes, couples tend to drift apart after a few months of married life, in some cases it takes a few years. I am unable to decide which option is better though J I am happily married (isn’t that an oxymoron??), and me and my partner are sane, sensible individuals who are in love with each other. Well, that looks like a perfect recipe for a wonderful marriage. Often, it proves insufficient. Trust and respect precede love, as a marriage matures, and these feelings cannot be inflicted, they have to earned, on an everyday basis. Tough!!! But that’s life J
Marriage counselors, and these funny anchors on weekly television shows, so easily say “talk it out”. Isn’t that the toughest thing to do in such circumstances??? The lady so freely disbursing advice on TV would probably be battling a thousand relationship demons every day, yet… No hard feelings, she has to do her job J I just wish, she’d do it right J Aaaarghhhh… again I am drifting.
Let’s get things into perspective here. We know very well that your partner loves u, and that you matter to him more than anyone else in this whole wide world. Great J He/she trusts you, and it’s insane, because you sometimes tend to have suspicious thoughts. How can this trust be so unconditional??? The sense of security is there, most of the times. we lose it sometimes, maybe because, we detect a lack of respect sometimes; a tendency to undermine our intelligence, not that I am a genius, but I can manage quite well on the IQ scale. What irks us is their feeling that our opinions are not so keenly thought out, or that we have no idea what we are talking about. What’s worse is they think, that they know better about anything and everything, and their decisions, as opposed to ours, will bear better fruits for our future. Unfair man, totally, terribly unfair J.
But well, how does one go about changing such an attitude??? People have tried everything under the sun from fighting to discussing to convincing to everything, literally everything. Next thing they know, they will be giving up on the relationship, and will get into the obligatory – compromising mode of life. We don’t want that to happen, because, clichéd as it may sound, we cherish this relationship way too much to damage it, even a wee bit. The least one can do is, to listen, to seek each others views and opinions on decisions that have an impact on both lives. That sounds easy to me; I do it all the time J
It isn’t too late yet…
What does one want from a relationship??? A sense of security, happiness and lots of love, right!!! Sometimes I wonder, is that too much to ask for??? Isn’t that what marriage is supposed to mean, unconditional love, respect and trust for each other. I believed that, and silly me, I still doJ. Someone once told me, marriage is like a bank, you have to deposit as much as you want to withdraw. If you only tend towards withdrawals, you will soon come face to face with an empty bank account, sometimes maybe overdrawn with pending interests J
Sometimes, couples tend to drift apart after a few months of married life, in some cases it takes a few years. I am unable to decide which option is better though J I am happily married (isn’t that an oxymoron??), and me and my partner are sane, sensible individuals who are in love with each other. Well, that looks like a perfect recipe for a wonderful marriage. Often, it proves insufficient. Trust and respect precede love, as a marriage matures, and these feelings cannot be inflicted, they have to earned, on an everyday basis. Tough!!! But that’s life J
Marriage counselors, and these funny anchors on weekly television shows, so easily say “talk it out”. Isn’t that the toughest thing to do in such circumstances??? The lady so freely disbursing advice on TV would probably be battling a thousand relationship demons every day, yet… No hard feelings, she has to do her job J I just wish, she’d do it right J Aaaarghhhh… again I am drifting.
Let’s get things into perspective here. We know very well that your partner loves u, and that you matter to him more than anyone else in this whole wide world. Great J He/she trusts you, and it’s insane, because you sometimes tend to have suspicious thoughts. How can this trust be so unconditional??? The sense of security is there, most of the times. we lose it sometimes, maybe because, we detect a lack of respect sometimes; a tendency to undermine our intelligence, not that I am a genius, but I can manage quite well on the IQ scale. What irks us is their feeling that our opinions are not so keenly thought out, or that we have no idea what we are talking about. What’s worse is they think, that they know better about anything and everything, and their decisions, as opposed to ours, will bear better fruits for our future. Unfair man, totally, terribly unfair J.
But well, how does one go about changing such an attitude??? People have tried everything under the sun from fighting to discussing to convincing to everything, literally everything. Next thing they know, they will be giving up on the relationship, and will get into the obligatory – compromising mode of life. We don’t want that to happen, because, clichéd as it may sound, we cherish this relationship way too much to damage it, even a wee bit. The least one can do is, to listen, to seek each others views and opinions on decisions that have an impact on both lives. That sounds easy to me; I do it all the time J
It isn’t too late yet…
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
My first blog...
Well, the concept of blogging has somehow always troubled me. I have never been able to envision people's motivation to pour their hearts out to the rest of the world. Why in heaven's name did people do it, dint they have friends, i reasoned. I have never been a big blog fan and i have often discouraged people from doing it. And, unbeleivable as it may sound, i never bother to read the well publicized blog spat between the two bollywood biggies.
Now i know... Its a wierd sense of accomplishment, one's own blog :)... Difficult to explain in words (go figure... and i am blogging). Get set to read some cool blue blogs, my creative juices are active only when i am going thru' a low phase in life. But now that i have officially launched this ;), i have acquired rights to extend opinions on everything under the sun, from statements on fashion faux-pas to global warming to world economic crisis to my neighbors dog. So get set... and please feel free NOT to comment, am not a big fan of constructive criticism either :D
Now i know... Its a wierd sense of accomplishment, one's own blog :)... Difficult to explain in words (go figure... and i am blogging). Get set to read some cool blue blogs, my creative juices are active only when i am going thru' a low phase in life. But now that i have officially launched this ;), i have acquired rights to extend opinions on everything under the sun, from statements on fashion faux-pas to global warming to world economic crisis to my neighbors dog. So get set... and please feel free NOT to comment, am not a big fan of constructive criticism either :D
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