Loose Change

Driving along on a pleasant evening Looking out at an empty road A rare sight, not often seen! Out comes flying a bottle into my vision Looking around for a spaceship All I detect is a Lancer! To people in the car I venture to ask The originator of the rubbish And set them to task Unrepentant, incomprehensible looks I get greeted with! Utter silence I am left with! Then I watch another scenario unfold! The driver’s side window Comes swooshing down An apology is what I am all set for! I see rubbish flying out again The road before…the divider then!

Mornings are like most mornings for any of us…start slowly and then build it all up to a crescendo…jump onto the bike or hop into the car and speed up. Right up to the time you hit the first traffic jam! Phew! I guess that’s when you slow down and take that first breath. Look around, realize that it’s a different time zone and light effect you are looking at. It was exactly one of those very typical mornings for me today as well. A little more than most, because of my lack of sleep! Driving by on the road, feeling a little sleepy, wishing that it was Sunday rather than Friday. A very blissful zombie like state of existence very hard to describe but very easy to understand :-) Took a turn onto the inner ring road, my usual route to work…and just woke up! In the midst of all that traffic, all that smoke, the continuous haze that seems to hang over the area (maybe its all the negative vibes generated by road rage…OK that’s for another time!) …I suddenly noticed a splash of lavender and li...

These last few days I have been on a perennial high! If you ask me the reason…I have no answer to offer. Would an over used and oft repeated phrase like ‘Just because’ suffice? Maybe, maybe not! Well…I actually got down to analyzing this whole feeling! That’s always a bad idea, but then what the hell! I have never been an advocate of extremely good ideas to begin with! There I go meandering and wandering all over instead of answering my own questions…. and this is when I sat down to make an honest attempt to answer my own question. And boy! Did I come up with some interesting answers! Hang around and prepare to be surprised! Reason 1: I decided to BECOME happy! Sounds like an overblown stuffed shirt leading the ‘heal the world’ scenario? Not really! I really did make that resolve! Reason 2: Close friends and family achieving personal and professional goals. Always a very nice feeling!!! But when they come close on the heels of each other, they really do build up to give you that high...

There I was standing at the signal with the usual eclectic mix of car and two wheeler horns being heard in the background. Happened to turn around and see my colleague standing beside me on the two-wheeler. His hand had very casually rested on the horn, which was blaring away for the whole world to hear. He was of course oblivious to it all…did I forget to mention the fact that he is hearing impaired? Well…he is. By gestures I did manage to get the message across, and the horn did stop honking. Just set me thinking along the lines of the world he regularly inhabits. And which we in these loud times sometimes wish for. Can some of you at least answer these questions which are getting louder and louder in my head with each passing day? What exactly does a loud, blaring horn signify about your personality? - The fact that you are so silent in your other life? - Or does it connote that you are so loud that you need something louder for it to be heard by you? - Or just maybe you are a secre...

Life With all its ups and downs With all its highs and lows With all its curves and throws Takes you on one big ride At times it gives you choices At times you just grab them anyways But always It invites you It tempts you It seduces you It excites you Into living!

Oh there I go again! Wanting to write my stuff and with no clue about what to do. Actually this state of affair is not going to last very long…what with the imminent unemployment looming up close on the horizon. I guess I will actually have days in which I will do nothing than wake up late and do nothing other than read and watch the Travel and Living Channel (Gosh! Was that a change of colour that I noticed in your complexion???) The last month has been extremely eventful to put it mildly. After long months of absolute complete indecisiveness…long hours (at least they feel like it!) spent on the treadmill and the stepper suddenly crystallized it all in my mind! I just knew that I wanted that unemployed tag! Imagine cruising along on the road and someone full of road rage comes up to you and asks – “So? Are you completely jobless?” Your answer rather gleefully can be a YES! Wow! Doesn’t just the thought of subjecting someone to such mindless, needless high automatically qualify you for...