"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women
merely players..."
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Bearded Philosophy
Bearded Philosophy
Your first day at college, you step into the place, all bright and energetic, your aspirations high and skyward, ready to make a mark, ready to make a difference blah blah blah.. you know where I am getting at, right? Anyways, you’re ready for college life, brimming with confidence, and why shouldn’t you be? You are wearing your most favourite pair of jeans which your mum picked for your 14th birthday. And ofcourse, you are sporting a very flashy moustache and look like the perfect gentleman. Unfortunately, one of your closest machas does the "right" thing, and lets you know that you infact look like a complete dork. It’s more to do with the moustache, he reasons. You have a choice here, break the guy's nose or disfigure your face. You choose the obvious and disfigure your face (and your friend laughs all the way to hell!).
First up, the clean shaven phase. It ofcourse embodies your pathetic attempts at being "cool". Obviously, it doesn’t work and you end up looking totally gay, now that’s a decent way of putting it. The tipping point would come at home, when your granny confuses you with your cousin, a 15 year-old girl!
So you decide to change and rightly so. The next logical leap would be the french beard. Everyone from Sachin to Rajinikanth has sported french beards on his way to stardom, why shouldn’t you? At first, it actually seems to be a pretty good choice but only then you notice that it’s probably the most common thing in the world. It’s not "cool" enough for you.
Then you move on to the goatee. Sure, friends back home would annoyingly tease you with that dumb four-legged creature with pointed ears which just happens to have the same name. But why do you care, you are doing this for yourself, right? right??
Finally you just give up and resort to growing a beard. Smart choice, hardly any upkeep as long as you can bear the itch. Whatever. But then you realize something. Why should you change in the first place? Do people's opinion really matter to you? Is everything we do just a response to things happening around us? How original are we? Or is our supposed ‘originality’ preserved in the responses that we give? Then again, what is originality?
Your first day at college, you step into the place, all bright and energetic, your aspirations high and skyward, ready to make a mark, ready to make a difference blah blah blah.. you know where I am getting at, right? Anyways, you’re ready for college life, brimming with confidence, and why shouldn’t you be? You are wearing your most favourite pair of jeans which your mum picked for your 14th birthday. And ofcourse, you are sporting a very flashy moustache and look like the perfect gentleman. Unfortunately, one of your closest machas does the "right" thing, and lets you know that you infact look like a complete dork. It’s more to do with the moustache, he reasons. You have a choice here, break the guy's nose or disfigure your face. You choose the obvious and disfigure your face (and your friend laughs all the way to hell!).
First up, the clean shaven phase. It ofcourse embodies your pathetic attempts at being "cool". Obviously, it doesn’t work and you end up looking totally gay, now that’s a decent way of putting it. The tipping point would come at home, when your granny confuses you with your cousin, a 15 year-old girl!
So you decide to change and rightly so. The next logical leap would be the french beard. Everyone from Sachin to Rajinikanth has sported french beards on his way to stardom, why shouldn’t you? At first, it actually seems to be a pretty good choice but only then you notice that it’s probably the most common thing in the world. It’s not "cool" enough for you.
Then you move on to the goatee. Sure, friends back home would annoyingly tease you with that dumb four-legged creature with pointed ears which just happens to have the same name. But why do you care, you are doing this for yourself, right? right??
Finally you just give up and resort to growing a beard. Smart choice, hardly any upkeep as long as you can bear the itch. Whatever. But then you realize something. Why should you change in the first place? Do people's opinion really matter to you? Is everything we do just a response to things happening around us? How original are we? Or is our supposed ‘originality’ preserved in the responses that we give? Then again, what is originality?
Labels: Philosophy
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Purpose Of Life
For every man there comes a time in life when,
the sun sets, thoughts linger and memories flood reflecting on life’s journey…
Probably out of a sense of misplaced ideals or a cluttered conscience we tend to search for the inner meaning of our being and introspect if we actually have made a difference in this world of unknowns. How will the world remember us?... Or will they actually remember us? We dwell closer on the much clichéd “purpose of life”.
What is man’s real purpose in this world?
Is he to simply conform to the established order and carry on life’s chores being just a nobody?
Or is he to spread sails, catch the winds and strive to become someone special?
As mundane as the former sounds or as exciting as the latter sounds, the reality is that a large majority of us are pulled to the fore of anything that is already tried and perfected a million times over. ‘Spread sails, catch the winds…’ is an awesome catchphrase, but that is what it will always be… It is inspiring, motivating and refreshing but is it practical? Do we relent to the pressures of the external or do we act solely and wholly based on only OUR conscience? Wouldn’t that be selfish, denying the world of your wit and wisdom and using it purely for your betterment? Wouldn’t your conscience prickle you? Ah that is the beauty of conscience. It can be fooled.period.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Evanescence of Innocence
Remember the time when we were kids, how every moment passed in blissful innocence, how chocolates were the most treasured of God’s creations, how the TV remote was the holy grail of every household, how mom’s cooking was the best in the world (and I must confess still is!!), how teachers words were golden and how Popeye was the most powerful man on earth...
Now days things are a little different… come to think of it a whole lot different….
Well some people call it the exposure to the real world...I would rather call it the evanescence of innocence...
Inspired by a forward I received from a friend of mine..
"I want to go back to that time when "getting high" meant on a "swing",when "mom" was the only "hero",when "dad's shoulders" were the "highest place on Earth",when "worst enemies" were your "siblings",when the only thing that could "hurt" you were "skinned knees", when the only thing "broken" were "your toys" and when "good byes" only meant "till tomorrow"..... THAT WAS LIFE!!
kudos to the author!!
Just wishing life were as simple...
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