Speculations

Shady mornings,

People running on the road like stars in the sky,

Cold wind breezing away, sometimes gruesome sights meet my eye.

A dead rat, heartless crows; garbage in heaps greeting my nose.

But then I see two small kids using a railing as a slide, a cross-necklace trying to hide

Which makes me feel, things are balanced. It’s quite alright.

Eventually, the initial still fades away, the time bomb is dropped.

Before you know it, here comes a cop to control the quotidian traffic,

Buses challenge each other, bustling crowds are engrossed in themselves and don’t bother.

But conversations are interesting, listening is an art

If you listen carefully, you may even see broken hearts </3

Gang members threatening their cult, a married couple having a brawl,

Perhaps even a group of friends arguing “Who did the last foul!”

A loving sister, a ‘samosa’ vendor, the President of India passing by in his entire splendor!

The world moves on though, taking large strides,

Dangerously playing politics and making laws which take the human population for a ride..

Inventing new things, planning to traverse Desert Mars,

When we haven’t even explored our own planet completely so far.

But for me, it’s soon night; I’m moving at my own pace,

Watching cars and the noise dissolve into nothingness!

Just like this time elapses, months melt away,

And Lo Behold! The twelfth ice cube is almost gone from your sorbet >:O

So while I dream on, make outlandish mistakes and get back to my humdrum of a life,

Never drink Pepsi, Thumbs Up or Sprite.

Alcohol is simply out of the question,

Just party hard, have a jam session,

Try and avoid indigestion, also remember the sum of harmonic progression.

Hopefully, once again, we won’t face recession.

Enough speculations, Farewell now.

  

The ending was a bit random, but that’s how I wanted it to be, I guess. *_^

We all live in our own small world in this big sphere we call our planet. Sometimes, time flies by, and you realize that all these years, you have been restricted to that small space itself. Like today, I am (in a way) restricted up to college, yesterday I knew only of school. So in the future, I guess I want to be the one who flies with time.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE, A PRE- HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS! DO SOMETHING CRAZY! :P And if you do, tell me about it!

Kanksha :)

Thanks for reading!

(Two last things. Firstly, I know everyone will drink whatever they want to on the 31^st. I just felt like adding that bit. And then again, I am aware that there is no sum of harmonic progression, before someone begins correcting me.)

It was actually tiny, smaller than my fist!

Gay Sex a criminal offense? Wth.

Just two days ago, the Government of India criminalised gay sex. I can't bring myself to understand why. It's shameful and despicable.

Firstly, I don't know how the Government has the right to decide what we do with our personal life. As long as we are not harming someone physically or emotionally, there shouldn't be a problem, right? And from when did we start letting someone else dictate and tell us who we can or can not love? It's crazy. We should be sanctioned to love whoever we want, elope whoever we want, irrespective of the gender. As long as those two people are nonchalant about it, shouldn't everyone else be indifferent as well?

Yes, agreed that India is a conservative country with its own sacred culture and rules. In a country where the mentality of women staying at home still exists (in some places), where people sum up a boy hanging out with a girl as dating and where people are still not comfortable with PDA, discomfort towards homosexuality is understandable, and pretty much reasonable as well. But the justice's perception of gay marriage as a crime? That isn't. Calling gay sex a "criminal offense" is preposterous. Ten year imprisonment, though, is taking it to a whole new level. Wasn't the court designed to help those who are struggling for rights? A verdict such as this to be announced just a day after Human Rights Day; I'm loving the irony.

Another thing that I was thinking about was how we have separated the society into two groups - transgendered and straight. Is this a subtle approach at making the non-straight group of people feel insecure by implying they are bent? Right now, it's homosexuality, tomorrow it could be mutants and before you know it, aliens will be popping up maybe not from space, but the center of the earth itself. Then what?

I think what we are afraid of, is being different. It scares the daylights out of us when something beyond the understanding of an average human being takes place. Like gay sex which certainly, is not "normal". I think, it's all about perception. Something the Indian Government, which is stuck in the 1800's, still has to get right.

Kanksha :)

Just do it!

Something really creepy happened to me three days ago. It was night, and I was sleeping, as most non-nocturnal creatures do when I suddenly woke up because of a crash. Jumping up to my feet, I went to the window to assess the damage. Except for the car, everyone was safe. It then dawned on me that I had just, co-incidentally, uttered the words car crash in my dream. Thinking about it, I fell asleep. The next morning, that was all I could remember (as I told my mom about the co-incidence). I had no clue what my dream was about, I just remembered that the car crash was deafening and the whole situation had been freaky.

^I didn't really know how to say that. It's just so unbelievable. I just had to be uttering "car crash" in my dream at 1:19 in the morning, didn't I? 

So before I start talking about co-incidences and how the concept of co-incidence is really weird and sometimes even sinister, I think I should move on to happy stuff. 

Breaking news: Aditi finally put on her resurrection wings and wrote a post! Yes Aditi, I'm evil. But I held on to my promise of not sharing your post, so please don't be mad? 

And if you have read her post, I repeat her question. Who are you? Do you do what you do for yourself? Or is it for others? Loads of people think about what other people think of them. They are afraid of being judged, insecure and underrate themselves. It's good to care for people. Caring about what they think just may not be in your best interests! How does it even matter if someone thinks you are crazy for laughing like a maniac, or dancing like there is no end? It's perfectly okay if a boy wants to learn how to cook. No one will hold anything against you if you talk to the "loner" of your class. There isn't any point of trying to uphold a reputation either for the sake of it as it is holding you back from being yourself.

My sister just came back from camp this weekend. She was ecstatic. Is it sad that I was never so happy after I came back from camps? Maybe because I never really opened up to the people I roomed up with, maybe because I was too scared to be free and have fun. My friends would switch on the music channels and dance away while I would just sit and watch them. 

So, like Nike says, Just Do It. Don't think of others. Live your dreams; do what you want. Try to stop judging people too, as I've mentioned before. The same person could be amazing from the inside.

I think I'll give the preacher side of me a break now. Maybe I'll come up with a literary masterpiece the next time! :P 

P(r)eachy as always,

Kanksha ;)

A question though. Is there something that you think I could/should write about? If you have any ideas, you could comment or email them at hilariouslyuseless@gmail.com And thanks for reading! 

Who Am I?

Don't we all love talking about others? Isn't it fun to discuss other people? By discuss, I don't mean criticize or backbite, I simply mean talking about who's how, who's nice, and who's not. But when it actually comes to knowing and analyzing ourself, how good are we at that? For me, answering questions about myself, about my likes and interests, are the most difficult! :P (No, seriously.)

We often point out to how good (or bad :P ) one is at a sport, music, studying, painting, acting, cooking or any other activity. We would also know our own stand in such activities. But do we judge ourself correctly? Do we know where our potential and interest lies? And whether it matches with our personality?

A lot of us our undecided, even after 15 or 16 years of age, as to which career option to choose. This is primarily because we do not know what interests us. "No one knows you better than you know yourself." How much truth does this statement hold?

What I'm trying to say, is that (atleast during teenage), the problem a lot of us face is that we do not know what makes us happy. We lack interest and motivation. One doesn't know what to do in life! I'm not saying this is the case with everyone. Some have clear and defined goals and are working hard to achieve them. But...  the others?

Life is too short. Half our life can't be wasted in knowing and figuring out ourselves. It may be hypocritical of me, but one needs a defined goal in life. One needs motivation, a purpose to live for. Or else, this birth that we've taken, is practically useless.

Okay, now enough philosophy to ponder over.
Just get up, and go, do it! :D

Aditi :)

P.S.: I know its been a long time, very long. :P