August 2010
7 posts
“To laugh often and love much:
To win respect of intelligent people
And the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vortex
The clock is ticking. For there is only a certain period of time within which I can view a new epoch objectively, before I get wrapped in its vortex and adapt all its idiosyncrasies as the norm. How I love this span and how I despair the follies of my mortal mind.
“A guy can change anything. His face, his home, his family, his girlfriend, his...”
– The Secret in their Eyes
Epochal
I lay down all night, in my dazed state of jetlag, unable to turn off the music playing in my head, in a swirl of thought. I notice that its time span is from yesterday, the first semi-day gone by since I’ve returned, to tomorrow and the day-after unto manana. The sixteen hour long haul across the world feels like teleportation into another world, another life, another me. Time begins all...
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep rolling under the stars”
– On The Road, Jack Kerouac
You know how at the beginning of many movies there’s a narrator who introduces the characters laying forth their idiosyncracies? Or just before the credits roll, he spells out what becomes of them?
And after his whole spiel, he goes, “As for me, I’m just…”. Sometimes enlightened, sometimes content, sometimes with a ‘c’est la vie’, but mostly (a...
“कैसे इश्क से सज गई राहें,
जब से देखी हैं तेरी निगाहें या खुदा,
मैं तो तेरा हो...”
– अल्लाह ही रेहेम, My Name is Khan