June 24, 2008

When it doesn't rain it snows
Yeah the cookie crumbles but in who's hand?
All things said and all things done
Life is short

Oh I am young but I have aged
Waited long to seize the day
All things said and plenty done
Life's too short

Ooo could this be
Ooo could this be the day I've waited for?

Another door to peek in through
The floor is filthy but the couch is clean
At the end of the day
That's another day gone
Life is short, life is short

Ooo could this be
Ooo could this be the day I've waited for?

Oh I am young but I have aged
Waited long to seize the day
All things said and plenty done
Oh I am young but I have a past
Travelled far to find the start
Yes I am scared and I've been burnt
But life is short

- Life is short, by Butterfly Boucher

This is in words because I don't really know how to put links up for songs on the blog. And I am not bothered enough to figure it out right now. Go listen to this song sometime. It's nice.

June 22, 2008

It was a sweet surrender. The problem - I surrendered just a bit too much. I surrendered more than I had.

And now I am finding it difficult to find myself.

Am I ever going to find myself? Am I ever going to be myself again? Yeah, it happens again and all that. I know. But it needs to be better each time to take you as high and higher. Coz the high that you now know is no longer a high. Relatively. You know what I mean? It's like the limits that we have. Every time, usually at the most unexpected of times, we surpass our limits, go beyond our comfort zones, find new territories and create new boundaries. But what do you do if this limit was the farthest it could get anyway? What do you do if this was the perfect high? It was the limit that you didn't even know existed in your world, or in any other world for that matter. It was the dream limit. The fairytale high. What happens after that?

I know. The theory of hope. The theory that I never even knew the fence that I reached ever existed. And now I think that there is no other fence. But that is exactly what I used to think before I saw this fence. So the whole thing can work the same way again and I can find a new fence, it's not impossible. Blah blah. No matter how whatever I may seem, I am a hopeless optimist at the end of the day, at the bottom of my heart. And somewhere deep down, no matter how much I shun the thought at first thought, I will keep believing that the theory can, and will work again. The optimism that kills. Maybe that is why I keep trying to grab these unattainable deals with these unrealistically high risks, high to the level where the high-risk-high-return theory just plateaus and fails.

Hope is a bad bad thing. It makes you build all these castles in the air, it makes you dream like there is no tomorrow. And then when you finally step into tomorrow and there are no castles and no dreams and no nothing other than the same old, it pains like crazy. The piercing kinda pain. I remember a movie which put forth a theory. It hurts when the dream breaks, so the solution to a hurt-free life is to stop dreaming. I agree with that, 110%. That is probably the most logical solution. But I can't bring myself to stop dreaming, hoping, building my dream castles. Because I am me. So the problem is me. And that is not gonna change ever, the fundamentals never change. Maybe I will just have to keep dreaming, falling, and rising again to dream another dream.

On another note, I love friends. The real friends. There is nothing better than the real friends. And I love my real friends. Here is the thing about the real friends, versus just the friends. You need to fall to rise. The real ones know just how far down you need to fall before they catch you.

June 18, 2008

Charles Dickens once wrote "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."

Very contradictory, right? But tell me, do you relate to it? Coz I do. I absofuckinlutely do. Yeah, I've been watching Sex and the City. The series. In an attempt to figure out what all the hype for the movie is all about. Which I did watch last night. Pretty fine timepass I'd say.

Back to Charles. The good and the bad thing together. You know we have these things. Things which are wrong but feel so right. And then there are the things which are right but just feel so wrong. It's the clash of what we do versus what we should do. And have you ever realized that the more wrong the thing is, the more right it will feel. Which works the other way round too - the right-er a thing, the wrong-er you'll feel doing it. Twisted stuff in the oh so twisted world!

I'm doing it again. And I'm using the 'one life' policy to justify it. Again. I never fail to amaze myself. It just takes one rotten apple to spoil the rest of the basket. It just takes one failed attempt to crush the rest of your tries. It just takes one wrong person to ruin your trust on all the others. It just takes one bad experience to screw up the rest of your life.