Ugh ! Change AGAIN !

Juuust when you thought... Wow ! everything is working ! Juuust when you thought... everything is finally ok and good to go ! Juuust when you thought... everything's gonna be fine from now on ! God was probably thinking... Oh yeah ! Think all you want, but it ain't gonna happen.

Come on, I am not against change or anything. Yeah yeah, I have been used to the quote, " Change is the one permanent thing", "Be the change you wish to see"...blah..blah..blah. Infact I have myself wrote about this so many times on this same blog. But I DO like a little bit of consistency once in a while. Something to lean back on, take rest and then prepare yourself for the next change.

What riles me, is when change happens like so fast, that you never know what hit you ! Like the rug under your legs has been pulled out. THAT is the kind of change, which is a little disturbing. Not that I will not get used it...

Do I have a choice really ?! Change IS the one permanent thing right ??!!

Night Rider

"You drive home at 2 in the night?","Aren't you even a little scared?","How do you do it, I mean, how do you manage to drive so far, that too at this time of the night?", "Isn't that really far, now? Wow you must be brave." ...Rhetoric questions that arise when I tell people I drive back home at 3am and that too on a bike !

But driving through empty streets, dotted with people, the moon following you and the cool breeze on your face (something that is very hard to find in the humid conditions of Chennai) is a blessing in disguise that not many people take the pains to experience. Kind of a Hotel California effect !

At the end of work, returning back home through a crowded, dumped with traffic end-to-end road, as opposed to an empty road with no traffic and freedom to sing at the top of my voice, I would trade the first one for the latter. Any day !

Yeah I know it is unsafe. But isn't everything in life a risk? I am willing to take this one, at the cost of the experiences I get.

So I am signing off now... Getting ready, full gear on !

Adios Amigos !

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Routine !

A bright sunny morning
Birds Chirping
The sound of birds cawing their first Good morning !
The smell of fresh Coffee
The sound of water running everywhere when people take showers..
The jam of traffic
The sweltering heat of the sun as it goes up
A bustling office
People wishing and greeting each other
Work !
A long lunch break
Conversations that lead to nowhere still end up in laughter
Hurried calls or messages and fixed up evening meetings
Mocha !
Aswin, Rehan, Sudhakar, Vijay, Meenakshi, Vinitha, Sandeep
Mindless chatter not knowing what lies for tomorrow, no end in sight, still ending up in us clutching the sides of our tummies
Talk... Laugh... Tease... Bond
Dinner together
Drives... Airport, Twilight, ECR...
Goodbyes and entreaties to meet the next day
Rides back home
An angry mother for being late
Sleep.... Blissful.. Uneventful... Tired... Total.. Deep... Sleep

A routine I desperately miss...with all my heart !!!

Curiosity Killed The Cat ?

Does it really? Coz', interesting conversations with my nephew and niece are the ones that bring to mind this fact - how I have forgotten to be curious and amazed at small things. The time when you questioned every single thing that you do. Not in a wrong way, but how we were curious about the things we did and tried to take apart every machine or toy that came our way. How we felt our way through things without knowing anything, but still never had the fear of the unknown.

Clueless, yet happy. The same doesn't somehow apply when we grow up. As adults, I guess the fear of being an adult, of being responsible, of having to maintain a certain level of sanity, pushes the fear into our hearts and we stop being curious about life. As to what life may lead to. We worry, we fret and fume but fail to explore and are never curious.

Surprising isn't it? How we, the same small people we used to be can grow into such different big people? People say growth is good..

Wonder if it is !

The important thing is not to stop questioning… Never lose a holy curiosity ~ Albert Einstein

The Old Paradigm

That books are the best friends... I would desperately agree... However, I haven't found enough time to spend with this friend of mine.

True... I have never missed something so desperately. I do not find the time, as much as I wanna make it, to read anything at all. The ultimate pleasure of experiencing a new adventure with every page you read, almost living in the different characters, anxiously turning page to page to find out how it ends, is an adrenalin like no compare, something that people who don't read will never know about.

People tell us time and again that there is a lot of knowledge in books. Yeah sure, but forget the knowledge, they are so much fun !!!

IF you don't read... You are missing something.. Trust me !