The Error of My Ways!

Last night after posting a blog I started to read articles on the Economist, New Yorker, etc.

And then I committed a cardinal mistake. I went back on my word and skimmed (that's right, I didn't actually read too much) a blog that I had vowed to myself never ever to read again. BUT... yes a big but...what I once found completely engrossing and almost addictive, I now found boring.That was a relief.

R f R (Realization for R) #1:
What once was, is never what it is now. Everything changes. Perceptions, people, circumstances, contexts, attitudes, everything. Thank God!

R f R # 2:
People are afraid. Are hiding behind masks all the time. And when they come across someone who wears her heart on her sleeve, no one can handle that. They're afraid again. Of seeing a reflection of something that they'd love to be but can't or won't. Masks are 'comfort wear'. Who wants reality when you have Reality TV anyway? So while the world makes faces Kathakali style, yours truly makes faces her style. Say cheeeeeese!

R f R #3:
Probably nothing in life is a co-incidence. It's all premeditated and the Grand Plan that works its way silently and ceaselessly while we try to decipher it all the time. It's time to stop worrying and start living and let the GP do its own thing.

R f R # 4:
It's very depressing to find that the most inane, boring, not well written blogs have readers. I have one intermittent, irregular reader and Irf you don't even comment any more. But hey, I understand. I do.

But Inane Guy doesn't pass by here anymore. Guess he's too busy coping with his steady but inexorbitant ride to the world of just a randovariable going inane.

BUT DAMMIT!!!

R f R # 5:
Holding onto one's innate sense of faith and belief that all things will eventually turn up roses, especially when you feel your world slowly chipping away at that edifice of stability and regular mundane banality called routine life, is life-changing.

It's not happened to me yet. But I'm a WIP (Work in Progress) always.


R f R # 6:
All the friends, all the lovers, all the family, all the relatives, all the books, all the Gods notwithstanding, YOU ARE ALONE!

R f R # 7, 8, 9, etc:

• Never depend on anyone!
• Never take anyone for granted!
• Accept the fact that friends are the ones who'll hurt you most! (Because you care the pain is so immediately palpable)!
• Never have expectations!
• Learn to go for movies, shopping and dinner alone! I have mastered the art of the former 2 and have had lunch alone, but dinner is something I have to muster (the courage) to master.
• However esoteric and knowledgeable you may be, if you are not a decent human being everything comes to nought!
• Despite everything, inspite of all the pain, continue to live the only way you should - openly, fully, completely and always

ONTHEEDGE!

Adios amigos!