PARADOXES

I dont know why i keep shouting at walls n only hear my echo in response
I dont know why i keep swimming to meet the horizon and just fatigue on the shore
I dont know why i cling on to the hand of the one who only wants to fly
I dont know why i dream of sleepless nights and cant sleep in peace the whole night
I dont know why it rains on me when the earth is so thirsty and dry

Sometimes I just DONT know WHY??!!

The Daily Rut

10 hours in a day i spend in office, 7 hours sleeping, 2 hours traveling, 2 hour in the gym 1 hour in hygiene and dressing and 2 hours in cooking, cleaning and serving....my day can be broken up so easily!! Its not just me, every other person I know can list out just 5 or 6 different areas where we spend time. Every day is the same monotonous cycle get up, get dressed, get going and we still survive...why?

What gives us this internal motivation to live each day, what is so precious about our existence that we fear death? Life is supposed to be like a journey and death the only destination, so why grow up fast? why save for tomorrow? why dream to achieve heights? y do all thees things and forget to enjoy our present? In the end its all the same, we all reach our destination..the luckier the faster ;)

Lugubrious is my word for the day!!

God forsaken

We populate a sphere full of culture and tradition. In some geographies the fear of the omnipresent is over stated and I happen to live in just such a land. A land of 3,60,003 Gods as Aravind Adiga so candidly points out in his novel "The White Tiger". Religious sentiments set aside, personally the concept of religion and superstition are the same for me. It is quiet difficult to understand if India is a land of Superstition or Religion!!

When one is superstitious he believes in blindly following certain customs to ward off the unmentionable. If you sneeze before starting out of the house its bad luck, if a cat crosses your path things will go amiss, its a good omen to spill boiled milk in a new house yada yada yada....if you carefully notice then the practices in religion are also very similar. A visit to the mandir is mandatory if a new vehicle is bought, Church is an obligation every sunday, We must join our hands in prayer, We must bow in humility, Cover our heads in a religious place etc. I mean who laid all these rules down? or shall i say who laid all these superstitions down?

If i believe in praying standing upside down naked in the confines of my comfortable bed, and doing this i can medidate and get peace then whats the harm? Why is it so important to be a part of a society who would not in anycase survive without the gossip i create!! ;) hence i would say tht after 26 years of existence in this world i have grown up to beleive that religion is nothing but moral policing. We as human beings are vile creatures(robbers) and always require the fear of somebody(cops) to live our life in discpline and that somebody has become religion.

My religion is honesty and happiness, if you can lead a life of honesty bringing hapiness to all around you are a good human being and if God exists she oopss he (another superstition) will be happy that you created your own religion.

Happiness and Honesty till the fingers tap the keyboard again.