Make Or Break

It takes so much time to make something and just minutes to break it. All that goes into it becomes naught!

That's a sad truth of life. Be it relationships, buildings or a business. Relationships were more on my mind when I thought about writing this post but now that I think more along these lines....it applies to everything in life.

It took minutes to bring the twin towers down. An accident could totally smash to pieces a brand new car. A business gone under becomes impossible to revive. Relationships once broken can never be the same again.

So much effort goes into a relationship. Time, energy, love, affection, and sometimes it all ends with nothing left to show for it. Just a bunch of memories. This is true for every kind of relationship...friends or lovers and sometimes even family. A word, deed, greed or worst, lack of feeling, unravels even the strongest bond.

I wonder why we are so helpless to prevent things like this from happening in a relationship. Is it our fault? For being blind and not seeing what's before our eyes or does it change suddenly.

You can know someone for years and suddenly realize that you don't know the person at all. You don't even like the kind of person he or she has become. You watched it all happen and still didn't see. At that point of enlightenment the thread snaps and that's the end. Gone forever.

Can we do something? Probably not. I'm a fatalist and believe it's all in God's hand. Everything happens for a reason. A lot of you will disagree but that's my personal point of view. So I do my best to make and if God decides to break.......I just go with the flow.

It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

It's a mad mad mad mad world. Everyday around me I see signs of this. "We the people" are actually quiet crazy in our own different ways.

I spend a lot of time observing people around me. Most people love to talk especially about themselves, and boy, can they talk. The more they talk, the clearer it is to see all kinds of kinks in them. They all come tumbling out. Now I am sure I have quite a few of them myself but, the advantage I have over others is that it takes a while for people to figure them out.

A friend and I were recently discussing some of the people we both know....not maliciously.....just generally and were laughing about how strange and quirky people, including ourselves, are.

As I said......it's a mad mad mad mad world :P

PS : This is just a random thought and my intention is not to offend anyone so please take it in the spirit that it has been written. Thanks :)

Jai Hind

Today India celebrates Independence day and I am a proud Indian. So I thought I'd share this song on the blog to mark the day. It's one of my favorite songs from the movie Purab Aur Paschim. Happy Independence Day and Jai Hind.

Rain

Rain.....we get so little of it in Delhi but whenever we do I feel so rejuvenated. Dark sky, thunder and lightening.....awesome.

I've always loved rain ever since I was a little girl. I have some great memories associated with it. Endless times when I went driving, got wet or walked in the rain. Memories that I'll always cherish even as I go on to make new ones every monsoon.

Yesterday it rained....only for an hour or so but my brother and I went up to the terrace and got totally drenched. I was walking around barefoot as the raindrops fell hard and fast. As far as the eye could see it was green and clean and rain.

Of course in just a couple of hours, the sun made his entry back into our lives, mocking our short lived pleasure and leaving us yearning for more rain...

Zindagi

Zindagi...kaisi hai paheli haaye, Kabhi to hansaaye kabhi ye rulaaye, Zindagi.....

Have been humming this song all day....don’t know where it came from and I wasn’t even consciously thinking about it. Suddenly I registered the words and thought to myself....how true!

Life is such a puzzle.....in a span of moments we go from one emotion to another. Take my day today for example...have been like a yoyo, my mood changing moment to moment. I remember feeling a bit lost in the evening for no reason at all. I distracted myself and got into a better frame of mind and then got a work call which totally wound me up again. So many ups and downs which never last.....constantly changing. Zindagi.... :)

PS : For all those who don’t know which song I am talking about.....here it is from Anand.