Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Letter to GOD

My dearest God,

How's life man? I know i just dared to address you, the almighty GOD, as a mere mortal MAN; and asked the omnipotent about his life; but believe me, though I've done it purposefully, its with absolute humility. It is only because, today i DON'T want you to listen to me as the supreme power. But as a fellow human. A commoner who has gone through regular ups n downs of life and not as a ruler who's never tasted defeat. A friend who can guide me in my journey and not as a dictator who molds my life as per his whims n wishes.
Its been such a long time since we last communicated, isn't it? Dunno what exactly transpired and tore apart such a beautiful relationship between you and me. Were they the failures which i faced in life that frustrated me or was it just lethargy? What dude, what?
Apparently i broke up with you sometime in December but it seems you had sealed the fate a few days or even months in advance. Or so i'm forced to believe. That is why from being your favorite son once upon a time i became your least favorite child. Or again that's what i'm forced to believe.
You might be wondering what made me write to you all of a sudden. You have countless children but alas i don't have a similar luxury. So even if you forget a few like me you remain with
(countless-few= countless) but i am left stranded with a null set. Just to let you know am doing engineering, in case you forgot, so kindly excuse me for using a few such terms here and there. But since i'm a hopeless engineer in making, such terms won't be in abundance, so take it easy.
Coming back to the point- what compelled me to write to you. CLOSURE.
But honestly?
Yes.

No.


I don't know.
Somewhere I've been missing you in my life. Somewhere down the heart i want to become your favorite child once again. But then a voice in my mind says, "Agar use hi nahi padi hai toh why do you bother?" In nutshell- its complicated- its complex. And i want a ''human-god" to solve this complex equation.

Tell me dear lord where have i gone wrong? What sin have i committed for which I've been repaying for over 3 years now. I know I've made mistakes. Grave mistakes. Some of them knowingly. In fact most of them knowingly. But they weren't sins, were they? And in case they were, why didn't you slap me there itself, the way you have been slapping me now incessantly? But then i was your favorite child. You kept on rewarding me, irrespective of the fact whether i deserved it or not. Why did you escalate me to such magnificent heights? Only to throw me down later? Why is it that today even my sincerest of the efforts go unrewarded? Have i turned into such a rotten specie that i deserve all this? Or as a friend said, its a phase n you will get used to it. But then i don't want to get used to it. I want it to get over. The golden era surely didn't last this long.
Talking about the golden era, why does the past, my dear past return again n again to haunt me? Or is that i don't deserve a bit of peace of mind too? As if all this wasn't enough, you resend the bitch in my life phir se. Its been 72 hours and i haven't been able to do any productive work. NONE at all. Why is that? Or is it that u are trying to screw me justly citing a valid reason as to ensure that i don't write such crap to u again? I feel low. I feel cheated. I feel used. I feel molested. I feel pathetic. I feel like.............. I've been kissed.........by a dementor (what else can u send) sans my soul. Even the songs which i so dearly used to love are sending me into depression. I really feel as if nothing's gonna be alright. Ha. The fate is sealed it seems.
But is it really GOD?
Tell me. Tell me please. Tell me if even for a while i was a good boy, a good son, a good brother, a good friend, a sincere man. Tell me before i break down. Before i go blind in search of light in this insanely long tunnel. And please i'm not talking of the light coming from the train moving towards me. Show me that u still care for me. Show me that time is the only non-constant entity in this universe. Show me that if winter comes, spring isn't far away. Punish me for my follies, but reward me for my good deeds also. Help me MOVE ON.
Show me that u are GOD n also a human.
SHOW ME. SHOW ME.
I love you.

Sincerely yours,
Your once favorite kid wanting to reclaim his old status
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Being Myself

Hi all...
as i write this post on a chilly, breezy, cloudy...in short a typical winter evening...the 1st thing that comes to my mind is to extend to you, my reader, a very warm and a cosy welcome...
hello again...
it has been a real long time since i created this blog of mine but unfortunately couldn't write anything substantial...
so breaking all shackles, here i am...opening a tiny window of my humongous world, exclusively for you...
honestly, i haven't yet decided what i'm going to write about - but let's see...

accha, let me share with you one incident that happened exactly 3 hours ago...
i was sitting in my Effective Pubic Speaking class when all of a sudden my cell-phone rang...i had apparently forgotten to put the stupid thing in the silent-mode...those of you who know me well might have caught the story...
well my ring-tone isn't any other tune...its a song...you might wonder what's so damn special about it? many people have a sing-tone...to clear your doubts mams and sirs...
my sing-tone isn't any 'ordinary' song...
its one of the biggest hits of 2009...
great!!!
Kambakht Ishq?? Dhan-te-naan??? Tera Hone Laga Hoon???

NO

it goes like 'Mann ka Radio...'
did you laugh just now? or did you just flinch in disgust??
no no, don't get me wrong...i'm not making up any situation but merely restating what happened today in the class...
man that was embarrassing...
however this is not the only incident...in-fact such incidents have happened umpteen number of times...
whenever my phone rings people around me react as if i abused them in the most crude-uncivilized-blatant way...
why do you think it happens? is it the song?? is it really bad? miserable to such an extent that listening to it once makes you feel as if you sinned???
or going the other way round, is the brand that's associated with it is the cause of trouble??
whatever the case is...the fact remains that its sad...
receiving such extreme reactions for a song that's so beautiful in melody, so meaningful lyrically is actually sad...
my dear friend, as i write this post, let me raise a question, one small question...
does following Himesh Reshammiya make me any inferior to what i am had i followed AR Rahman??
or does admiring Himesh Reshammiya taint your 'classy-metropolitan-urban' personality??
well if that's the case, i sympathize with you! i pity your narrow mind! my condolences to your 'classy-urban' living!
living with a bias is certainly not my way of living- even if it makes me any 'less superior' to you...but honestly you can't deny the fact that you do miss on to some of the really beautiful things in life- music for example...
i was always biased against Western-Music till a few months back, when some-one introduced me to the 'real' western music...and i must admit that today i really appreciate the acoustics and the metal and the funk that it has...
i know many people around me, laugh at me when they hear that this bloke actually idol-worships Himesh Reshammiya...
i know that none of my friends actually like Himesh Reshammiya...not even one...
i know how many times i've argued with them to prove that Himesh Reshammiya songs are not a piece of crap, that he remains the only Indian to have performed at the Wembley(though some music 'buffs' don't even know what Wembley is!) in front of CAPACITY crowd, how he remains the only Indian composer after Rahman to have sold more than 15 million tapes, how he remains the only Indian composer to have given 36 chartbusters in a span of 6 months(which remains the unfulfilled dream of any other composer, even Rahman for that matter) and how after all of these and many other virtues Himesh Reshammiya is not a bad artist...
i do feel bad when people around me laugh at me, but not for long...because it is my choice after all...and i'm proud of my choice...i've not done anything wrong...and as long as i'm happy, no one in this big-bad world can make me feel bad or feel low...
Mann ka radio- Bajne de zara!!!

this is perhaps the first article written by me, which is going to be christened after its over
Let it be called 'Being Myself"
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Thank you for being with me...
I won't request you to post in a comment, but would sincerely appreciate if you do that...
Take Care,
Godric...

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Hello...

Hello...assalam walequm...satsri-akaal...salaam...namaste...

thanks a ton for visiting my 1st ever blog...
i was chatting with my friend Gaurav at 3 in the morning one fine day(or morning to be precise) when i was struck with this 'noble' idea of blogging...
there are so many things that happen in one's life...so many issues, one wishes to speak on...well here is the medium...

wishing you a happy reading...

Godric...