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If there are days that are more chaotic than Mondays, then they’ve got to be Fridays. General mayhem , every possible crisis , the most impossible deadlines and yet the world still seems to be crashing around you – while you are fire-fighting at 9 PM in office. Only , so that your weekend is spent at peace.
But on some days like today , in a strange way life gives you a little breather and your phone konks off in the middle of the day , while your charger is still where you kept it day before – right next to your bed-side!
And then , you realise as you sip on ginger tea and chat/mail with people – who would otherwise be making frantic calls to you all day through to check , or double-check or confirm or whatever other reasons that they may have. Fridays aren’t too bad , when you needn’t carry your phone around everywhere , all day.
Some one just asked me which phone I would recommend to any one . And as some one whose used Motorola , Blackberry , Samsung and also experimented with HTC – I would say – don’t get a phone at all. send postcards instead?
What a wonderful world it is , without the cacophony of constant calls!
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Nope , I am not going to give in as yet. The 100 day project is far from being abandoned. The will and determination are as strong as ever . If only I could get the time and the resources. Never realised a crashed laptop could affect your life so much when it comes to making a plan and sticking to it!
So , post a dilli – darshan , a junk – food binge , catching the special screening of the latest Harry Potter flick , finalising a trip to the city that always brings a smile to my face – Jaipur & getting over with my second round of pitching to the idea shortlisting panel – Day 2 ,3 & 4 – can be safely designated as – Happy Days!
But lets not get school-girlish about the whole deal by writing a day by day account of it . Infact , there have been so many things I ve been wishing to blog about. Sometimes I don’t feel the need – or infact it is too late and i lose my grip over these thoughts running in my head – coz I can’t get my hands on a laptop to draft a post.But the other day I got into this huge-ish debate on ‘The reality of reality TV ‘ .
I am not fan of Big Boss and trash like that on prime time entertainment channels . They do have their audience – and I practically live with avid watchers of such stuff myself. All I wonder is , where do we draw the line? or is there a line at all that remains when it comes to social behaviour?
I have always maintained that every one should have a right to choose , and it truly applies to the kind of media we soak in. But having said that – even if i have the intelligence to choose what i want to watch and what i don’t . There could be a lot of others , who perhaps consume media with the understanding that it in a queer way reflects the real world. But then do the rules apply here too? I am not quite sure. So when a certain lady , who throws around abuses and bull-dozes into conversations in the most abhorring manner – actually generates mass interest – I feel cheated. I may not like it , so I may not watch it . But does everyone who sits in front on the idiot box during the family dinner time – understand it , apply it ? Sometimes its better to cripple someone’s right to choose ‘right now’, when it could mean a better ‘later’.
At the cost of sounding an old relic , am all game for censorship of prime time television. I do believe there are a lot of parents who arent responsible enough to decide what their children should watch and what they shouldnt. There also are a lot of responsible adults who watch what they watch and interpret ‘every social behaviour’ being played on their screen as acceptable.
Wait till you see the way people at our colony have started to fight for parking space in the middle of the night. The suppressed anger that generations after generations has been quite there but never let out , is today finding renewed vigour and every possible channel.
So , its high time there are some people who review the content on the popular media and help people apply ‘parental control’ . Censorship isnt a word that goes down well with a lot of liberal minds , but isnt controlled environment a basis of a more civil set up?
Seriously , driving on the road without random strangers showing me the finger – just coz I over took them , would make me quite happy!
…..Far from it infact. The forces of nature were literally coming together to test my will from the start of the day . And I thought they’ll probably save those tactics for later. Nope , they werent wasting their time. So I woke upto not 1 but TWO flat tyres , got stuck in a massive jam to land quite late in office – in the middle of the Monday Mayhem!
But then , like the proverbial silver lining in the dark murky clouds that were hovering over my professional life – Got to make my first pitch ( for my idea that made it to an internal shortlist ) and I couldnt contain my enthusiasm! It was shortlived though. Coz all it took was 5 minutes of head nodding and my two hours of chasing ( yes! for this too .. hmm .. but I am not complaining.. as yet) .
Anyway .. so that was the happy story of the day .. other than ofcourse the special invite ( I wish I could write that in Big Bold letters) to Harry Potter screening for wednesday . Now the chance to walk the red carpet.. alrite alrite am exaggerating .. certainly adds up to a good day 1.
So am I doing well?
Nope, hopefully its not one those fad diets that I plan to take up only to eventually drift off out of sheer boredom. Or so I think. I’ve realized over that past few months (well actually years, but then I wouldn’t really admit that to myself quite yet) that I am transforming into the ‘un-happiest’ version of myself. And that’s beyond the sulking over traffic jams or my constant struggle to get rid of some x kgs that I really need to! Come to think of it, the last time I wrote (which makes me happy) about being happy – was when I won this contest on chillibreeze! Now that’s umm, not a happy thought, I’d say.
My constant effort to try new stuff , change things around me and taking huge chances while I do that ( which more often than not backfire ) are all after all to seek true happiness . And isn’t that what drives every one – who’s married or single, working or backpacking, taking a holiday or shopping their bank-balance to nill?
So over this weekend, as I was trying to figure the ‘ways in which I could be happier’ I realized – those answers were quite easy to figure out. But the larger question is would getting a new hair cut , or a some new clothes or even going away for a weekend to some place exotic or serene – make me happy in the real sense of the word?
So that’s the larger question. And that would need some time to answer! So I set myself on a journey of finding true happiness – in 100 days.
Now it might sound gimmicky, this chosen number – and well there was no logic really that was applied to zero in on it too. There’s this 100 heroes project girl – I so admire and yes, I came across this other person who’s taking a 100 day crash course towards becoming an editor. But all it takes some times is pure maths to discover some ‘strange connections’ in the most bizarre situations in life.
100 days from today would begin yet another new year. Just in time – I would say. So what’s in store? Am I going to start writing more often? Yes , I will. And am I going to finally triumph over the larger issues in life ( like move away from the radar of someone’s misguided ire, don’t know / can’t say or finally win over the constant battle with the bulge – or perhaps learn to live with it! Maybe) and would there be like a structure or format to it? A daily happiness-quotient say? hmm.Lots of questions to answer. But only one thought as I start this journey- this one’s going to be an honest attempt.
So let’s get down to work. 100 days to true happiness!
