'BLOW' by 'BLOW'

5 Serial blasts in prime locations in Delhi. DAMN!!

Now the tone of lament in the last statement is not just this author expressing his despair at the repeated and seemingly unavoidable acts of fanaticism we are being subject to, but it is also because the author feels a tinge of jealousy creeping in.
Yes, thats right, i am jealous of the people living in the 'BLAST' affected cities. Consider this, living in pune i sort of like to think that i am living in one of the best/biggest/hippest cities in India. But now, after BANGy (pun intended), AH!medabad (again intended), Jaipur and Delhi (couldnt play around with those :( )...believe it or not we Puneites are feeling left out.
It seems to be like a status certification of sorts for cities.What better recognition can you have that you live in a very happening city, than series of blasts engineered by fanatics who claim to be killing their own people in the name of their own God? And in that city what if you live near a place that has witnessed the 'tragedy'! You gotta be counting your lucky stars! (i guess you must be seeing them stars clear enough considering the blast is still ringing in your ears!)I mean i can almost hear a Bangalorean realty broker on the phone saying "Saab ekdum mast area hain Saab, do mahine pehle hi blast hua tha, ekdum market area hain, sab cheez paas mein hain".
Yeah, yeah i know, the righteous ones among you are all, "You wouldnt be saying that if it was you getting you head blown off...." but thats my point exactly. How long can we brood, and fret,and live in fear and be 'alert for unidentified objects lying around public places?' Should one stop living out of the fear of dying? This thing is happening so often that it is as mundane as an AAJ TAK reporter saying "AAJ TAK ka sansani khez khulasa"...
The apathy shown by the government is apalling, 50 people dying in the capital of the country, and the authorities can only say "We suspect that Indian Mujahideen, the hard line faction of SIMI is behind this"....oh yeah right!! You suspect!?? Dude, they sent you an email TELLING YOU THAT...so what else have you got?...zilch..nada..nothing. The blasts are no doubt losing their impact and the shock element. Everytime a bomb went off it evoked an AH! of pity and horror...well, now its  an OH...of cognition and the next time....a YAWN...of "yeah yeah, whats new". After all "tolerance is a great virtue", isn't it?

Sea of life....

There are some occasions in life when a person is moving from one phase to another in his life. This happens when we shift base so to say, for example when we leave college, or shift jobs, or change locations. It implies a change. Who said "change is good?", well no doubts it is, but all the subsidiary stuff that goes alongwith that change is in no way good.

Funny how closely life represents a wave on the beach huh? All the crests represent the points in your life when you thing you are on top of the world, no one can touch you and your blissful existence is above all. You have friends you think you will never leave, a lifestyle you think is the best and dont wanna change. That state of existence seems to last forever and you think the way forward can only be things better, oh! how wrong you are! For soon afterwards follows a trough.

This is the part of your life when you are just going through the motions so to say, just 'living life'. There is the last crest that you keep turning back to look at, and there is this next crest in front of you that keeps beckoning. We are caught between the glorious yesterday and the promising tomorrow. What does one do? We are dying to embrace the next crest in life, but are unable to let go of the last one...it is a dilemna of sorts. What we need to do is learn from our yesterday, and work towards making tomorrow even better than it looks to be. Thats easier said than done. Well thats where we are in life right now friends...but the future beckons lads! We will be atop that crest one day, and that's what keeps us going.

The most important thing to remember is not these crests and inadvertant troughs my friends, but it is that - Like all waves, this one too will eventually fizz out on the sea shore. It will leave behind nothing but markings on the sand only to be washed aside by the next wave. The endeavour will always be to wash furthest upshore so that you make a mark so far ahead that only few others will reach.


p.s Just wrote this article out of a 'flow' without thinking much, hope that you can catch the unstated facts that are present as 'strong undercurrents' throughout the article