“Forgive others”; “Love thy neighbor more than yourself till it becomes a practice” or do as kareena kapoor tells, “practice satvik, it has calming effect on your body and soul”. We encounter this soul curry over and over these days, when human mind is programmed to do quite the opposite (as a software engineer, I am destined to use this word). One fine Sunday afternoon; I and my mom went to this posh restaurant in our small Ville. Just like the burgeoning population these days, one gentleman (who somehow could not speak gently), had problems with the menu. He kept on calling the waiter and destroyed the ambience in which we were enjoying our paneer makhanwala; well, the restaurant tried to do something new with Butter paneer and hence changed the name. Anyway, that’s another story. Seemed like this gentleman forgot to order appetizers for his giant family, then didn’t like the plates, got them changed coz his eagle eyes could found one broken and then didn’t find then clean enough and then again for abusing the waiter with slang, we are not allowed to use here. The manager was called and abused as well. Being the subtle souls that we were, we paid our bill and ran off.
Watching TV is a disaster these days though I must appreciate the creativity these guys put in all those ads. We all remember, Asian paints as the peppy punch line goes, “mera walla paint!” or the ever so not so fuzzy Pepsi with “my world, my life, my Pepsi” .We have numerous choices with numerous infinite options which are always ever so confusing. The whole point is, does our world quite allow practicing whatever these mentors and soul gurus tell us to? Making a right decision putting yourself first & then others is all what we are taught since childhood and then as so called “stress” dooms our small lives, we are quite asked to negate whatever we are taught so far.
We are all big aunties yelling at the saari walla to show the color they want, just like the kiddos yelling for the latest shoes or a replica of Euro pass ball. God save the poor fathers!!! You can always see girls asking for a particular hairdo they have seen in the latest dove ad or the peculiar color of nail paint that Uchiha itachi wore in 16th episode of naruto shippuden!, mind you that it’s not just purple it’s the purple. Is a sea of choices redefining our persona as someone unique and portrayed as a kewl icon just like Vj Rannvijay’s formal with shorts look or is it just making us more muddleheaded towards our approach towards anything and everything in life? A recent survey, pointed out the choc-a-bloc lifestyles that promote social networking making people obsessed with simple things like custom messages and profiles which define who you are in a virtual world. Virtual that’s what reality is! Do we need to weigh everything in black and white and make our choices and be so peculiar about everything when in the end it is all the more “stressing”; and not live like ‘Forrest Gump’, so innocent and free to run a thousand miles if he feels like running or is the conceptualization of my world and my life in everything right coz we live alone and we die alone? The question remains…and the answers are still in us and what we think is cool.
Just like khuswant singh adds in his stress mantra, Speak your mind!!!



Cherry
CS IV yr