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The Art of Life"I came, I saw, I wondered..."
May 19 Sattelite Navigation"So what's your true calling then? What is the lord saying to you right now......what does'he' want you to do?"...
Those words still keep ringing in my ear.... I sat there looking at the pastor wishing he would also tell me how to figure out what god wants, but then I guess he would say what I know he would; "keep praying son"...
Prayer is at the end of the day, all we have. People often say the same about 'hope', but I feel we wouldn't have hope if we didn't have prayer. I look at the papers and watch the news and all I hear is '10,000 dead and another 10,000 missing in China, 20,000 dead in Myanmar, suicide bombers having a hey day in our very own country, let alone others. Honestly I feel like a nine pin in a bowling alley, not knowing whether I would be knocked down any second..
But in reality even ninepins are put back up each time they are put down. In fact the chances that they will be put back up is absolute, while their chance of being put down is less. The same reality is true for us too... no matter what happens we will be lifted back up onto our feet...prayer simply reminds us of that fact.
As for knowing what god wants me to do with my life, well I'm still in the process of asking him...
July 01 Chasing CarsThat's it, I have decided that these articles on love have got to stop... seems we mortals have nothing better to do than live our lives wishing we had that 'melancholy music playing in the background', (Anyone watch Grey's anatomy? Remember the song by Snow patrol - chasing cars?)
We all seem to gravitate towards things that tug at our heart strings. I loved the movie 'Man under fire' by Denzel Washington. My favourite part, (hold your breath)... was the part where the little girl is kidnapped in front of his eyes and we, (the audience) never see her again. That scene was heart breaking, painful and it sure pulled at those 'heart strings'...
'Heart strings'... what's with us drama kings and queens? Did all the gods get together one day and decide that it would be fun if mankind was an emotional equivalent to circus clowns at a funeral?
... Maybe that's why Shakespeare's work is eternal; he potrayed humanity's drama better than anyone else. The fact that his work stood the test of time is testimony of our approval. April 27 Reverse Engineering....(musings)Most of us have heard of how, many automobile manufacturers tare down BMWs into small components in a bid to try and match, or at least construct a poor imitation, hoping that their automobiles would turn out to be somewhat close to BMW in their quality of engineering....(or so they fantasize)...In other words, if you use the same ingredients, theoretically one should get a similar result.
My case in point?
Well, I have caught myself doing something akin to this myself the past few months.....(or is it years?)......
I have had many dreams in my life, but non more astute than to find a partner that I am content with. Now, I do know that such a quest is so cliche that it borders on the repulsive, but I do urge you to bare with me...! The last few years have been spent with me trying my utmost to pove the theory that if we find a person who meets certain criteria, 'love would follow'! The problem is that finding people who meet your criteria can prove to be rather difficult.
Eversince I lost my ex girl friend to social pressures, I have been trying my best to re invent love. The only hitch has been the fact that I am 'all alone' in this quest. All my friends and colleagues discourage me by saying that I will never find that person, but I beg to differ.
Is anyone else trying to find real love out there? (Hides behind the wall expecting missiles of spoilt vegetables)
April 23 "Hell hath no fury like a blogger denied!!!"It's time..............!
I have had it with this silence, had it with not being able to write. This is afterall, my favourite pastime! For all you folks out there who bothered, I mean actually cared enough to not give up on me.........I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
First and foremost, I am not dead! Needless to say that, it might as well be that way, since I have been away for so long! It pains me to think that I was forced to stop writing, simply because there weren't enough hours in a day, or enough energy in the human body to permit intellectual thought of any kind whatsoever, with my work and personal life taking its toll.
Since we have the fact that I am not dead, out of the way, I would like to add that I am not married either.....nope, still the same, but not exactly the same as I was before my departure from blog land.
What I have learnt about myself and about life in general, I shall comment on in my upcoming blogs (and yes there will be blogs once again!)
So with that, I guess in a nutshell I could say..............
I AM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! September 09 'Dead man walking'!!This is really getting out of hand! One month between consecutive blogs is just too long by any stretch of the imagination. To say I have not been busy would be less truthful than Mr. Clinton's then infamous words; 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman'. But everyone knows that being busy is never an excuse right?
I feel the only creatures that are ever actually busy are ants. But apart from them, I think the rest of us are merely 'occupied'. I like being 'occupied', it keeps my grey cells active, not to mention my metabolism. I have even made it a point to use the stairs to reach our lunch room, which is right at the top of our work place. Nothing like a good jog up eight flights of stairs to make you feel young again...
What I fear the most however, is that I might have lost my ability to actually be insightful anymore, or at any rate at least 'pseudo insightful'. All the work related thoughts seem to have stripped me of my prowess for 'useful' thought. For some reason I can't get the thought of Superman and the way Kryptonite affects him, out of my mind... 'work the kryptonite for my creative thoughts'.
But I need to get down to work. But this time around 'work' means simply 'visiting my friends from blog land', heaven knows it's been long overdue... July 31 "Ooh isn't the bride too sweet?"I was surprised to hear that there are quite a few famous actors who never watch their own performances. Morgan Freeman is one such person. He says that he never feels comfortable watching himself perform and therefore never watches any of his movies. I found this to be quite fascinating, for in a way, it did 'hit home' even for me.
I have come across many people who don't like to be photographed. Though I don't have any major issues regarding being photographed, I do have certain reservations regarding being filmed. A real 'nightmare' scenario for me is the thought of having to be filmed on my wedding day. Weddings as a whole make me rather apprehensive, but the thought of hundreds of eyes staring at you, commenting about anything they can possibly comment on makes me quite uneasy.
Why can't we just get married in peace these days? Why do we need the whole 'extended Paparazzi family' there too? One thing is for certain, there would be one vacant seat when my friends sit down to watch the wedding clip.
'Mr. Freeman, wherever you may be right now, I feel your pain'. July 23 Uhh...some excuse is better than nothing no?Dear All,
Right then, where were we now? First of all, I need to thank all my Space friends who came in search of me in my absence and trust me on this, when I say that this wasn't some kind of 'twisted scheme' on my part, to try and see whether I would be missed or not, though I must say that I am touched that I wasn't forgotten like every other dead person is a week after his funeral....
My disappearance unfortunately though, wasn't due to something extreme and 'Charlie's Angelish', as that would certainly have been a more interesting read and might possibly have gotten me more sympathy. I have no broken love affairs to report of (not even good ones for that matter), nor was I captured by terrorists with demands that the government would never heed to. I wasn't 'lost' in a plane crash and nor was I a victim of some grave political injustice.
The fact of the matter is, that I was just plain.......well uhh, just plain busy due to my new job. *(Hides behind the couch, expecting a hail of rotten tomatoes to clean him up)
So I come to you begging for your forgiveness for being away for so long and for ignoring everyone of you nice people who have been with me for a long time on this 'journey' that we have all undertaken.
So here's kicking 'busy' up its behind!
Regards,
Your touched Space pal,
Christopher. June 23 My new symbiotic relationshipSplitting headaches, a sore throat, runny nose and a general feeling of ill health, almost overshadowed my first week at my new work place. While I am full of praises for my new employers, I have rather less love for my 'unwelcomed guests'.
The otherwise soothing cold air of our indispensable airconditioning only acted as a catalyst for my cold causing micro rioters. With every breath of cold air that I inhaled I could literally 'hear' those kill joys having a prom night. The end result is that I return home feeling like a poorly embalmed imitation mummy, while 'they' never felt better.
As I sit here with a tissue box close at hand, wishing I could send the germs to the recycle bin, all I can say is that I am quite sure that the germs would have enjoyed the first week at work as much as I did.
One thing is for certain though, only one of us has an appointment letter. I just hope it remains that way... June 13 'So sick of love songs so tired of tears.......'We are all a bunch of drama kings and queens, this I am certain of. I feel that as a species, we seem to gravitate towards emotional highs and lows. We seldom seem to be happy with status quo. We need to have drama, we crave it, search for it, and whenever possible even try to create it. I have been forced to put up with soap operas such as the Bold and the Beautiful for heaven knows how long now! They keep showing one woman sleeping with and then crying over every man on the cast. This has been the main storyline since the soap's conception, ten, fifteen years ago. But the irony is that a lot of females actually watch such soaps passionately. Then you get those cheesy songs on the radio, "I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears" the guy keeps wailing. Normally you might consider such lyrics to be the lyrics of an utterly incurable 'heart and head in the gutter' pessimist, but guess what? Everyone loves it! They air it so many times, that I myself feel like crying along with him. So what gives? If we aren't in love, it seems we should be heart broken and in absolute agony. But why? why can't we just be happy with our lives? Why do we need to be such drama kings and queens? Maybe I should just find myself a pseudo girlfriend to cry over. Heck, that way, I might even learn to like that song.... June 07 Hitler's dream was to become an artist.....I was reading yet another great blog by my buddy Billy, where he mentions very eloquently and aptly that we should always remember our 'ABCs'; i.e. 'Actions Beget Consequences'. He also goes onto say that all actions and consequences are interlinked.
It suddenly dawned to me that in a way, Newton's third law; 'Every action has an equal and opposite reaction', when taken from a society's point of view, could also go some way in shedding light on whether an individual's destiny is 'fixed or flexible'.
Since we have the ability to make our own choices in life, we obviously play a part in our own destiny, i.e. the part that is 'flexible'. But mankind by making collective choices, creates cosnequences, which could result in the part of destiny that isn't in our individual hands, which to each individual is 'fixed'.
Case in point: Santa Claus or 'Saint Nicholas', through his own actions created a destiny of joy and excitement for millions of children henceforth. At the same time, each child has the choice of believing or disbelieving in the legend that is Santa Claus.
Therefore one might say that each individual's destiny is created by others choices interlocked with their own.
Recenly I was extremely lucky to get a job at a top notch firm. Thankfully some bloke made a 'choice' that he would change his job, leaving an opening for myself, which I 'chose' to accept.
And maybe, I should choose to shut up now..... May 26 'Eight Points On My Perfect Lover........Oh Dear!'Well I have been tagged and my friend Saurabh is insistent that I don't take a pass on this one...
Well Saurabh, this one is for you..........You owe me big time bro! :)
1. Cries when she watches Titanic: Her feelings should run deep. She should be someone who appreciates romantic gestures and reciprocates likewise. She should also have depth in her character.
....................Paris Hilton, Pamella Anderson? Thank you very much, but I'd rather be gay.
2. She should treat others well: You can always judge a person by the way they treat people who aren't useful to them. I don't want a girl who treats others like 'used diapers', even if she is nice to me.
3. "Hey honey, TomKat had their baby!": I really would like a girl with some substance and the ability to have a fairly intelligent conversation when it is called for. And no, that doesn't include conversations about Tom Cruise or Scientific birth.
4. Sincere, Open, Honest, self confident, emotionally balanced and Warm: A girl without warmth is like eating cold food........the experience can be rather uninspiring, while a girl who is moody can drive a man to extinction.
5. Physically and emotionally compatible: Translation: Hopefully better in the looks department (for the sake of our kids) and someone who would tolerate my eccentricities (for the sake of myself)
6. Someone who can do the mumbo: My mom says that I used to dance while I was in the womb (I seemed to have lost the ability once I came out..........)
7. "What's for dinner honey?": Well, all my married friends say that it does help if your wife can actually cook.......or at any rate, pretend that she cooked the meal.
8. "It wasn't me..": I don't have the time or inclination to be doing paternity tests..........loyalty to one another is everything.
Ohh.......and did I say she should love me? May 21 "When the crystal ball gazes at you""This is why it doesn't pay to be a the good guy Spiderman, because you always have to do the right thing!.........What are you going to do now? In one hand I have your girl and in the other, I have so many innocent people.......Whom will you save Spiderman??!! Whom???!!" The Green Goblin's 'ecstasy' was never more evident than when he was holding a dangling cable car full of people in one hand and Spidey's sweetheart in the other.
I recall that scene in Spiderman, simply because he (Spidey) was really in a 'soup' right then. But Spiderman being a superhero, he didn't have to choose, all he had to do was to use his super agility and save them all, including the love of his life. Unfortunately, for us mere mortals, this isn't an option; we have to always make choices in life, even when they are extremely hard to make.
I am at a stage in my life where suddenly I am at cross roads and I have a major decision to make regardig my career path. The result of my decision either way, is most certainly going to affect a major part of my future, if not the rest of it.
The only thing I try to remember in situations such as these, is that one thing we can never fight, is our Biology. We will always be who we are deep within and whatever choices we make should always take take that into account, for if not we will forever be restless deep within.
Now, if only I was bitten by a radioactive spider... May 12 Picket FencesI watched a story about a Christian who took it upon himself to live as a Muslim and follow all their traditions, while living among them for thirty days, in order to understand their culture better. The experience had apparently changed the man's outlook in so many ways, for the better......
One of the biggest drawbacks of humankind seems to be the utter lack of empathy towards one another. But 'empathizing' is easier said than done. Norah Vincent became famous for actually living among men while pretending to be a man herself, in order to understand the opposite sex better. She says that she has a whole new respect for men and their ways of communication amongst each other. She also says that she now realizes how hard it is for a man to keep making the 'first move', while constanty opening himself up for rejection.
I once had a lecturer who lived amongst the 'poorest of poor' on the streets, in order to gain a better understanding of what it actually felt like to starve and to not know from where and when the next meal would come from. His experiences later helped him become a famour professor in human Psychology.
Today's biggest problem seems to be the growing lack of tolerance and understanding towards people and cultures that differ from one's own. The ongoing unrest in my own country, the problems between Israel and Palestine since 1948, the initial war on Iraq and its present spiral towards civil war, friction between the West and Iran regarding the use of nuclear energy, are all but symptoms of a greater problem, i.e. the total lack of empathy and 'proper' understanding of the other's point of view.
Arnold Bennet, summed up the need to 'experience' something to really understand its gravity, when she so aptly stated.... "There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have experienced its force it isn't ours. To the cognition of the brain, must be added the experience of the soul"......
Wiser words have seldom been spoken.
May 06 'Oscar The Grouch'I was feeling rather grouchy the whole day. This was not the usual 'me'.....I am usually quite in control of my emotions, but here I was 'jumping' at my mom and dad. I could have been Atilla the nun, without a frock.
I think it had something to do with the fact that my birthday was nearing. Usually one would look forward to a birthday, but this time around it seemed like a date that was going to be the end of my 'citizenship' as a young person, an age where you feel as if you are a 'spy' in a foreign land and you are always in 'disguise', hoping that no one would notice and point a finger at you; "Hey you're that sod who turned 29 yeah?" "Yeah, so what? Piss off!!"
The day didn't start on a good note, when my interviewer pointed his finger at me as if I was an ex-con with a shady past and said "you do know that you are old right? You aren't young anymore"...And this was from a guy who was old enough to need a pacemaker just to stay upright..............or maybe I'm just being harsh....
Maybe I should take heart from the fact that the pope is older than I am and that he's having a 'gala time', or maybe I should be positive and tell myself that I have at least had the privilege to live for 29 years. Or just maybe, like my good friend said to me, I have one whole year more to enjoy my twenties..."Yeeeeeeeeeeeey!!"
I think I'll just keep telling myself that at least my heart isn't running on batteries....
April 30 The Law Of NumbersLife has seldom known to be an experience without its surprises along the way. One of the factors that makes the concept of life so captivating is it's uncertainty and the fact that no one knows what tomorrow might hold.
I have had times where things no matter how hard I tried, ever seemed to fall in place. Then there have been those few times where great things have happened, things I will never forget as long as I live. But once in a blue moon, things happen in a way that makes you wonder if there was a 'ripple' in the 'code of life'....
Four seperate occurrences, all of great significance somehow took place on one day, Thursday the 27th of April, 2006.
I had not had the opportunity to meet my brother's girl friend since they paired up about four months ago. At the same time, another friend of my brother, who became a good friend of mine as well over time, had been begging me to see her and say hello at least once. Due to various reasons out of our control we never did get to meet up. Another long time acquaintance of mine who hadn't spoken to me for over a year due to a huge misunderstanding, became on talking terms again and wanted me to see her when she came down on vacation. I hadn't spoken to her parents or visited their home in almost three years. She was flying back the next day...
It was also the 'assigned day' that I was supposed to speak to a very close 'Space friend' of mine for the very first time, over the phone.
Needless to say, it so happened that I did indeed meet my brother's girl friend, finally get to meet the girl who wanted to see me, drop into the house of the friend I hadn't spoken to in over a year and hear the voice of my Space friend for the very first time, all on the same day, the 27th.
The events of that day still resonate in my mind..........Someone above was clearly playing with the 'remote buttons'. April 27 "Caution: There's a Birthday a foot"Today is a special day in my life as a blogger and as a person, for today is the day that one of blog land's most favourite personalities and friend 'Kelsey' came into this world!
Kelsey has continuously given the blog community wonderful food for thought and many an insightful and enjoyable read at an amazing rate from the time she started blogging. I was fortunate to 'bump into her' by chance, when we both took a personality test and came out with the same results on a fellow blogger's Space.
One look at her Space and I was hooked. She has always had an uncanny knack for being able to come up with topics that are not only entertaining but full of variety and 'mischief', which is a part of her trade mark personality trait. She has also been a sincere friend to many bloggers in blog land, ever ready to give a genuine listening ear to even our most mundane thoughts.
She has been mine and many a blogger's inspiration! May she thrill us with her 'mischief and insights' for many more 'Blogging Millennia'.....
"Happy Birthday Kelsey" From All At Blog Land!! April 23 "Until debt do us part..........."To say that there often is a huge discrepancy between the way most homes handle their Economics and the way organizatons handle theirs is an understatement.
When 'dishes go flying at walls' and 'vases get airborne', it isn't always due to the 'friendly milkman' or the husband's 'over familiarity' with his secretary. Apparently, one of the key issues married couples squabble over is 'money'.
Once a couple gets married and adds kids into the equation, it is all but nearly impossible to keep track of spending. This leaves most couples either living from paycheck to paycheck or in constant debt.
Oprah Winfrey recently held a fabulous discussion called "Debt Diet'. The experts on her panel gave a simple equation to make sure that the home expenditure and saving is in check. Acording to the Debt Diet the monthly expenditure and savings should be distributed as follows:
Housing: 35% (Insurance, Rent, Mortgage, Phone, Other utilities)
Other Living Expenses: 25% (Food, Night outs)
Transport: 15%
Debt: 15%
Savings: 10%
I think it is imperative that anyone planning to get married should know this, though the reality is that young people seldom think about such issues.
As for myself, apart from other things, this equation also taught me an important lesson;
'It pays to stay single'. April 18 "Pieces Of Me"Looking back at my life so far, I recognize many stages of self learning experienced along the way. From the early childhood of being the only child for six years and then getting used to having a younger brother around, from finding my place in my classroom, in terms of average class scores to finding out if the opposite sex would respond positively or negatively towards me as a person, life so far has been a road with quite a few twists and turns.
My best friend and I were both recalling our younger days recently.To this day, one of the most embarrssing moments as teenagers would have to be when my best friend and I both danced with one girl for most of the night. Those were the days when we all felt that not having a date was the equivalent of 'not having a life' and hence we didn't want to be seen on the floor without a partner.
Today all my friends are married and have settled down. Though I have yet to walk down that particular road, thankfully, I seem to have 'found' myself and therefore able to relax and let life and destiny take its course.
Finding out who we really are and how we fit in 'society's jigsaw puzzle' is the starting point to really being able to enjoy life and contribute to its bigger picture.
As for dancing,................ my best friend and I still occasionaly dance with one girl........
i.e. his wife. April 14 'Starry Starry Night'I have forever been fascinated by the mystique and beauty of space. The night sky has always acted like an 'Emergency Exit' from my immediate reality.
I remember staring at the open sky for hours when our country was subjected to non stop powercuts for almost six months, partly due to the lack of rain, but mostly due to bad governance. One of the famous words my best friend's girlfriend used to tell him, would be to look up at a certain star and know that she is looking at it too. I now know that most couples say that to each other, but at the time, it did seem very romantic.
But romance apart, I have often found that just staring at the night sky can really make one feel small and insignificant and by doing so it manages to make us realize that our immediate stresses and worries are actually insignficant in the bigger picture. Furthermore, the night sky, unlike anything else I know, has the presence and awe inspiring ability that somehow makes you believe in a force more powerful than ourselves.
For me, the night sky will always be the 'final bastion', one of the few remaining elements of nature that can still make me stare, with the kind of wonder befitting a child.
April 10 "Dear Diary..."May 12th 1995:
"She came to class today wearing a lovely sea blue dress, her long silky black hair reaching her waistline, her olive complection glistening under the evening sun. I sat down just behind her, the place 'reserved' just for me. All my friends understand, it is an unwritten rule of friendship...'no two friends go for the same girl', rules that aren't meant to be broken,.........The shampoo she uses smelt so divine!"
Just going through my old diary makes me blush and feel rather embarrassed. This is a diary that I used to keep over twelve years ago. I had various accounts of my 'adventures' at my tuition classes, classes that we used to attend after school. The main attraction for me was a girl that took my breath away. She was someone that I had a major crush on....a crush that was quite 'stubborn' and would not go away for many years afterwards.
I eventually never ended up with her, I guess I just wasn't quite her type. Though I will never regret being so soft on her, simply because the experience itself was one of deep learning about the 'travails of the heart'; something although we all experience during sometime of our lives, nevertheless is a special experience, for as we grow up, we become more prone to 'protecting' our feelings.
I have long since stopped keeping a diary where I write my 'sad love stories'. But I am happy that I did keep one at some point in my life, for I feel that life is all about going through various stages, even embarrassing ones.....they all add up to who we are now.
I wonder if she still uses the same shampoo.......... April 05 When the clock keeps ticking..Okay, it is official, I have been going for far too many interviews for it to be a healthy past time. This has made me desperately long for more hours in a day.
Would we actually get more work done if we had more than twenty four hours? Somehow I rather doubt that. I think we will either just find a way to 'stretch' our inactive time or our bosses will find us more work to do with our extra hours.....but most likely, it would be both.
Remember how the hare takes a nap under the tree while the tortoise keeps trundling slowly and beats him to the finish line? Maybe thare is a lesson to be learnt by the tortoise chappy,
'Dont sweat it, but don't stop either'.. March 31 "I will campaign for world peace"Here I was, eating my pretzels and just watching the last few minutes before the final selection of Miss Sri Lanka for Miss Universe on TV.
"Contestant A, what would you do, if you became Miss Sri Lanka?" "Uhh, well I would do my very best to promote peace and harmony"........"Contestant B, what would you do if you won the title of Miss Sri Lanka?" "Hmm, I would make sure there is peace in the land". This made me recall the answers the contestants usually give during the Miss Universe contest. "Miss Venezuela, what would you do if you won the title of Miss Universe?" "I would campaign for world peace"....
This left me scratching my head, why do all the beauty queens say they want world peace? Since they all give similar answers maybe, world peace really should be the biggest priority on everyones' minds? Furthermore, if all beauty queens are chosen for their beauty and their brains, one has to assume that their answers are ones of intellect.
I change the channel; 'Click'.
"Tell us Mr. B, if you become President, what would be the first thing you would do as soon as you assume office?"
"I'll bomb Iraq to pieces and capture Sadham Hussein".
I love watching TV and eating pretzels. March 30 'Things That Make You Go Hmmm'...Life is full of grey areas and ironies. I have always had a tendency to question everything that is suggested by society and my surroundings. But as I have matured I have realized that life isn't always about finding answers but rather, about being in awe about the many mysteries that surround us.
There will forever be things that make us go 'hmmmm' in life..
From the point of view of sustainability of society, 'lies' are an essential component of our daily lives even if they are simply 'white lies'. Our sexual deviations, while they can be reconciled from a logical point of view, will always be ambiguous from an ethical point of view. While we seem to get attracted to others at varying levels and might even give our lives for them, saying 'I Love you', will forever be a challenge. We are intelligent enough to walk on the moon, but seemingly inept to solve world poverty. Though most of us believe that there is only one god, this 'one god' seems to suffer from 'Multiple Personality Disorder', based on the different faiths. Adults can choose to have kids, but kids cannot choose to have 'two' parents.
Ahhh, but how these ironies are often beside the point............................The real irony is that we appear into this world without wanting to and disappear from it, still without wanting to. March 27 "Oh for those curves"I have noticed a rather strange trend in motor car design preferences. While Science can try to explain why we like certain shapes and features among humans, it is rather hard to explain how we perceive beauty in terms of motor car design.
One commonality that I have noticed is that every car that can truly be called a classic in terms of design has one important element in common with each other: 'Curves'.
From the classic Mini, to the Wolkwagon Beetle, the Porsche 911, to the Chevrolet Camaro...every car has a rich array of curves in the right proportions.....and the list just goes on. Uptodate, I cannot think of many cars other than the Lotus Esprit that has stood the test of time with a design sans curves.
Even in terms of human attractiveness, 'curves are where the party is at'. Denims were and still are such a hit, simply because of the way they accentuate the 'rear view' of its wearer. It can even be argued that actresses such as J Lo, and Salma Hayek along with singers such as Kylie Minogue and Beyonce are famous, more for their curves than their talents in the field of entertainment. Women all over the world aspire to have the 'Coke Bottle' shaped figure.
Maybe curves are an implicit sign of sexual maturity, a sign that we mistakenly interpret to be true even in inanimate objects such as motor cars. Or maybe it isn't just a coincidence that we live in a galaxy that is curved, which consists of curved planets with curved orbits.
And just maybe, the fact that arguably the single biggest invention uptodate; 'the wheel', which also happens to be curved....
.........................is just natures way of having a good laugh.
March 23 Addicts R UsMy week started off with me conversing with my lecturer and he mentioned that he doesn't watch TV or listen to the news simply because he wants to follow true Buddhism and be totally 'detached' from all material things in life, since they are a form of addiction....... This made me wonder if all forms of addiction were actually bad for us.
The term addiction is often synonymous with something that is ultimately going to harm us, a form of 'unstoppable attachment to something that gives us short term pleasure while causing long term harm'. All around us, people seem to be victims of some form of addiction.
Even our 'fun addictions' in life, such as shopping and consuming chocolates etc, at times can become a problem, simply because there can be no 'addiction in moderation'........................
But........as in most aspects of life, seldom do we find anything written in pure 'black and white'. There lies the possibility that some forms of addiction might actually be good for us and in certain cases even needed for our survival. Only yesterday, I was telling my close friend that I was addicted to chatting to her and that in this case, there weren't any negative side effects involved. It struck me that maybe, even in other aspects of life, our survival could actually depend on our addictions.
Love is a form of addiction, love keeps us alive, it makes us take care of our loved ones, to the extent that we would happily end our lives to spare theres. Life itself can be construed to be a form of addiction. Once we are born, we are so addicted to being alive, that we will do anything in our power to prevent losing our lives.
So in a way, I guess we are all addicts of something or the other and our 'fate' simply depends on what our addiction is....
........now if I could just find that bar of chocolate..
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