No Kangaroos in Austria

This is not a post about the ecological imbalance being created by the insensitive and insistent use of natural resources by the human race, the destruction of forests or my receding hairline. We can safely blame all that on the powers above, who are also partly responsible for the absence of Kangaroos in Austria and the Northern Hemisphere being to the North of Southern!

All this apart, the most important questions still find no answers!

The Habit

I had stopped believing in old adages a long time ago. They should fade away with time. But then we humans have this tendency of repeating whatever we've learned during our lifetimes and enforce it on the generations to come. The son must carry the burdens of his father! Why can't one just think for themselves, without the constraint of ensuring that if not all, most around him/her are at least satisfied? We end up caring a lot about things that aren't exactly as important as they appear! Blame it on those old habits which have survived the times despite Darwin's claims.

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To hope is to fear...

You drop random hints,
And she wouldn’t take those.
And then you think and realize,
What the hell, life’s best alone!

But when you sit all by yourself,
The images start flashing in your head.
The holding of hands and the swaying to the music,
And the things eternal, to which these could have led.

So futile it is to imagine things, to dream of days better than the past,
The only sensible thing to do, is enjoy the moment till it lasts.
‘Cause come what may and what may go, since nothing ever stays forever,
Those memories will always ensure, there is hope around, you need whenever.

Just too far away...

With sleepless eyes you look up to the skies,
The ground underneath still white with snow.
And as the sun fills with people the streets,
You wish to a friend you could go!

With a longing to step out of the glass walls,
Forgetting what is lost, discovering that could still be won.
Away from all humanity, into eternal fantasy,
Ignoring there still is work to be done!

And as the reality sets in slowly,
It is a cruel world you find we live in.
Despite the summer sun and all the snow melting,
Your fantasies you realize won't get close enough!

Whatever, Whenever, Wherever

It is odd for a man of my age to sit around idly on a Saturday evening typing random thoughts on his firm-provided laptop, when random chicks are walking by in front of him, all so prettily dressed, all set to party! I shall blame it on the curse. The curse which was only supposed to be a random joke in my friend circle in college, seems now to be the truest prophecy! And sadly it has come true for me, more times than I should have preferred...

What else is a stranger in a strange land supposed to be doing on a Saturday evening when the only reason why he is in this strange land is to work his ass off for the firm which pays him his meager salary and provides him with this laptop. It is surprisingly odd how what you wish for turns out to be not the most desirable situation you would want to end up in. I guess I will only have to outlive the prophecy. What if I was this Asterix reading, Futurama watching, Algorithms discussing, Puzzle solving, socially incapable moron in college? Change is undeniably the most important aspect of life and the evening is still very young!

To you, Mount Royal!

The logical next step is, the end!

"Everything has an expiry date"

A friend keeps accrediting me for coming up with this line! I am not too sure whether I really did blaspheme or was she hallucinating. For sure, I couldn't have ignored the obvious exceptions, but considering the hypothetical situation that I really did slander, my apologies to Bacchus!

Since this isn't a post about single malt or crushed grapes, we shall for the time being disregard the exceptions and move on to things more important than mere merry making...

Some live for money, others for love and still others for even more irrelevant things! But there seems to be a tragic similarity in their attitudes (which my friends in another department would be all too excited to discover), whatever be the ulterior missions they are living out their life times for.

You make your first million! And you start chasing more...

You impress the female you've always had a crush on! You claim to be in love and soon you realize that you ought to be chasing someone else...

"There's a time to live, but isn't it strange that as soon as you are born, you are dying!"

It is not the dream that is exciting. It is the chase, the challenge, that will realize the dream. And once Troy has been won, you start searching for other mythical property to rule over. Some call it greed, others ambition, the fact is that whatever be the reasons, it always is the chase which keeps one going and with it's end is the end of whatever inspired it!