Make no mistake , #YouToo

" You can never clean up, unless you see the garbage and acknowledge it"

This is no ordinary movement, #MeToo India is one of the most iconic social movements in India ever, considering the taboo behind anyone who has suffered sexual assault or rape. Its a huge deal that real people are coming out and not doing this hiding anonymously. 

In my opinion though the problem is extremely deep rooted in the way we think and we must look inwards to understand this appropriately. Rape or assault need not be always be violent, especially when there is a fear of violence( literally and figuratively) in case one reports it. 

I find it extremely disturbing that people want to belittle the many women who are coming out after 5-10 or 20 years, asking why they took so long, these are the same people who might have asked these girls to keep shut for the sake of their careers or safety or just for the sake of the society. I repeat, it takes a lot for a woman to come out against Weinstein or against Alok Nath more so in India, considering how we are.

THE MEN.  

Men are meant to flirt with women folk, and women return the favour when they like to or take the lead at times, thats how the world works,  it could be subtle or in your face and in many cases it is extremely healthy and relaxing and can pump you up and your self confidence. 

Now men and women can come from very different socio-economic backgrounds, Consider a guy, who is brought up in a metropolis, lives in a plush apartment in Gurgaon, has travelled the world and he has this petite girl in office from small town Kanpur or Ludhiana, out to make an impression and break stereotypes. Many such girls might take a lot of crap in form of jokes or comments or "under the belt" jokes in the garb of being “chilled out” and not being a “behenji” , they would do it, because they want to be one with the best in their work or at college, they would suppress a natural desire to implode only because it might appear to be “ too stupid” or an “ over-reaction “ to many.  No one wants to be called “Miss. Uptight”.

Another problem with most of us is, that in the internet age we are very poorly read, and thats why there is a diminishing ability to have some real humour in our communication without going under the belt, and at times we keep getting worse and people laugh the hardest at the dirtiest jokes, the popularity of AIB being a real proof of this. The subtle art of flirting with words, or sarcasm or to use words which don't need you to go south to laugh at, is dying for most of us.  As I said, we are a set of very poorly read people and therefore have no real sense of humour. 

I think somehow we need to let everyone be themselves and not be judged for any of their choices and maybe also try to get sense into what a woman likes and maybe have an alternate point of view and a thought process different to ours.

Chivalry, humour and an ability to hold a conversation are universally known to be greater aphrodisiacs as compared to groping, for sure. 

POWER

Molesting or assaulting juniors at work isn't about sexual gratification, its about a perception of power, the perverted thought process of owning a woman and believing she wants to sleep with you and that you are a 'trophy lay' for her.  

Most professionally succesfull men overestimate themselves when it comes to attracting women, success could have disruptive effects in your head about being a great aphrodisiac for younger women, in some cases it can be true as well.

I agree some women would willingly fall prey to such predators, but most would have to be circumstantially pulled into doing this, and eve if they want to report it late, its fine. 

For the menfolk, who are old and want to fool around with 20 somethings, This ain't a morality comment, best is to do it outside of work, go to a bar, a solo holiday, or just any social hangout place to know your worth. If you cant get it, then buy it, it will be better and will have no impact on your work life and you wont have to mentally and sexually harass people. 

Also go and workout, most of us are out of shape and ugly and mostly unintelligent too, if we want to attract women, being in shape is a good start, it will also keep your head and testosterone in place.  

Lastly , men and women who are creating meme’s on the #MeToo movement, I think there is a serious issue with their ability to think and analyse basic human emotions and  they are now driven by kintergardenish whatsapp groups.  

Also I think we must deal with serial offenders with punishments equivalents of rape offenders. 

PS : There will be collateral damage of a few misreporting , and therefore men and women must not be judged by one off incidents alone.

Lets hope we have a better future

Cristiano Ronaldo : The Man I love to hate

Cristiano Ronaldo : The Man I love to hate

First things first, I am team Messi and team Iniesta and team Xavi and team Ronaldinho. Visca Barca

Many of us who love to hate this bloke, would point out to his smirk on Rooney after he orchestrated the sending off in 2006 World Cup or his sly smile to Nacho after winning a penalty against Spain in the ongoing 2018 World Cup, We can argue that Cristiano did not have to fall on that touch or many other times where he has been accused of “ winning “ penalties.

CR7 as we call him is an extremely divisive personality when it comes to football, He is 33 and many call him a stat paddler, many call him selfish or self centred and at times they call him a cheat for his diving, he is often compared to Leo Messi and depending on which side you are on you consider him far better or far worse than Messi in a debate that can never settle.

Cut back 15 years, Cristiano came from humble background and quickly realized his potential in Manchester United away from his hometown, The ones who saw him found him very attractive to watch, he relied on speed, intelligence, positioning and power, he took the ball from the midfield and could strike right through the opposition’s defence on his own. He realized that he wil need to focus on speed and power continuously as he “ might” not be endowed with the same skill set in terms of football as many others. He was one of the first footballers to have an in-house nutritionist, physical trainer and cook at home and maintained extreme dedication to his body and focussed on attributes that make him better and won all the individual awards and trophies that there are with Man United.

Cut to Real Madrid, a bigger stage, A club going through its decline facing the best club squad ever assembled in Barcelona, Barcelona made a mincemeat of Cristiano’s Madrid initially and he was often written off from the main stream, its when he started to change his focus.

Leo Messi is a very different footballer, relies on gut feel, passing, dribbling and a tremendous vision and works a lot in the midfield, Cristiano realized that slowly his biggest strength has changed from being an attacking winger to the greatest goal scorer the world will ever see. He started spending more and more time in the box, with great results in terms of goals and in terms of assists. Around 2009-2013 era, his numbers and his trophies seemed to pale out against the man who brings out the best in him, he realized that he is getting older and he needs to conserve all his energy to strike the ball into the goal no matter who is the keeper.

Cristiano comes with a tremendous self-belief, he calls himself the best in the world, and focusses on having the confidence to back it, he ensures that when he strikes he is at his effective best no matter who the keeper. People accuse him of being absent in 90% of the game, but it is in his 10% where he creates all the difference. After crossing the age of 30, where many top footballers peak out, he is even more effective . We saw many greats like Ronaldinho, Ronaldo El Fenomeno and even guys like Dennis Bergkamp and Kaka peaked out after the age of 30 many of them due to physical fitness alone.

Cristiano has more self-belief than any other player as per my limited understanding of the game, he backs himself to win each and everytime he is playing no matter what the stage, while you think he is not working hard enough. I have no qualms in quoting that he is the greatest goal scorer of all time and maybe the greatest match winner of all time, I hate him but that’s what is awesome about him.

Lessons in management and Leadership from Cristiano Ronaldo.

1. You only need to concentrate on the goal and not overdo the process or thinking, you might be doing everything right, but it’s the ones who achieve the goal, who win and their teams win. There is no joy in trying hard but in ensuring you score the goals that win you games and boardroom battles. 
2. You don’t need to concentrate on catching up on the strength of others: For many seasons now, Many other players from Messi to Robben to Neymar to KDB to Salah have had great seasons, Ronaldo has not tried to catch up with any of them in terms of what those players do in terms of their special skill set with the ball or being the creative geniuses for their teams, he knows his role and he only wants that even if that means getting overshadowed temporarily.
3. You do rely on a good team but when things get tough it takes a real leader to take it on the chin, case in point being Madrid where Ronaldo gets serviced like a Guest at Ritz Carlton and on the other side Portugal where he works far harder and has pulled them out of the well more than even the great Figo.
4.  Backing yourself when no one else does: CR7 has a terrible record in free kicks at Madrid, but he took such an important one against Spain and we all knew that he was so sure he will score. At the age of 33 to score the scissor kick against the great Juve defence is not something most footballers will do, but Cristiano backs himself as a leader always should, half the battle is won with self belief
5. Failiures are fine: Cristiano and Madrid struggled for 3 years to win their first league despite the galaxy of stars and was under the shadow of Messi, but he kept going on and on and finally in the last 4-5 years they have dominated so much in many ways more than Messi ever has.
6.  Winning at any cost, within the rules of the game: Cristiano wins smart penalties like the win against England, it might be against the shallow “ Sportsman Spirit” concept, but then winning is more important and winning brings immortality and sportsman spirit brings you likes on Facebook alone.
7. Conserve your energies to use it on your best body blow : He aint getting younger, so he doesnt want to waste his energies on tracking back to defend or to press the opposition, All of us need to know our strengths , conserve our energies to do our specialty and not try to do everything ourselves especially when we operate in teams. We just waste too much energies and not get results .
8. Arrogance sucks, only if you arent upto the level you think you are at.
9. Fitness is extremely important, it can make you efficient in whatever you do, in sport and in life overall and it al

      I admire Cristiano more than any other footballer who hasnt played for Barcelona it has to be said, despite his follies and his arrogance and he is a lesson in football for any youngster and for anyone who wants to be successful in any thing one pursues.

Lets get back to some real Gossip, shall we

 

While I was reading an article in the HT today on how internet/ social media conversations are changing the way communicate and how that has taken over the real conversations and and as to how big a hole that we have dug doing this. A few years back I wrote about the Bane of the internet in form of collective outrage, here is the link.( http://rohitmohan1.blogspot.com/2014/08/outrage-eous-bane-of-internet.html)

This following thought process is in continuation to the context, which is slightly more relevant today, I am quoting many examples cited in the HT article , shall edit and give credit to the writer in due course.

“ In-person One on One communication is 25% about words ,

and 75% about expressions and body language”

 Imtiaz Ali

Today we have less time although we communicate more and with more people, sometimes to thump one’s own chest, sometimes to make a point of view to many people at once and most times just for some relevance and attention from more and more people some who matter and most who do not.

Social media communication has had a degenerative impact on our language and articulation, mostly written and also on oral interactions which are losing relevance. There are different words used for slightly different forms of expressions and they can be conveniently clubbed with words like “ troll “ “ LOL” “OMG”  " LMAO" " SMH" which are universal and often can be typed quickly on the big phone screens and importantly are acceptable responses to a galaxy of sentences or questions from the other side.

To add to it, there is often an emoticon attached next to any sentence one types to ensure that the composer of the text is also able to communicate the “ tone “ of the message via the emoticon, a rude statement with an eye wink is meant to be taken as a joke or sarcasm, without an emoticon, you could still take the words on face value. Read this para again. 

Many in old school purists would favor  precise expressions of thoughts ,  so “ Intimidated”  and “ Infuriated” are completely different expressions which the internet generation can generalize using the term “ trolled” for both expressions mentioned here,  and “ Angered” and “ Exasperated” are very similar words which are used in almost identical contexts . This is true for any language.

Its not just about the precision of words and expression, In person communication also entails learning others point of view, as we often don’t antagonize anyone sitting in front of you as easily in comparison to us antagonizing the same person on a Whats-app group or Facebook chat as we care less about backlash, sometimes we hope for it.

Humans cant possibly maintain a social life with as many people as we do, we often end up cluttering our lives because we communicate with so many people, we see random contacts uploading holiday pics and get enraged with our lives and finances, and end up commenting on a status of a friend we have not met in 25 years just because he wrote something anti-Modi and its our duty to prove them right. We have to wish random people on their birthdays on whatsapp groups, just to confirm to some sort of unwritten ordinance of a whatsapp group, rather than wishing the same person directly, if that person matters enough. The point is that we have too much clutter in our lives to think about the things that matter to us and the real friends that do.

In some ways the old school get-together and gossip over tea or beer is the best way to communicate and to get close with friends and family. You might have 100’s of whatsapp groups and thousands of friends on Facebook but the friends that matter are the ones that you call to chat and make efforts to meet and not necessarily “check-in” with when you meet. 

Inglorious Bastards

INGLORIOUS BASTARDS

The five lives we live.

Read carefully, it could be one of us. 

PS: Spare me for the colors.

Life 1 : Real Life person for Family & friends.

Life 2 : Real Life person for work

Life 3 : whatsapp version of one’s self, whatever we do on whatsapp.

Life 4: projected image of one’s self on social media and internet

Life 5: Ideal image of one’s self that we want to be or try to be.

0600 hrs :

L-1 & L-5 : getting up in the morning, cuddling up with the son.

L-2 & L4 : Taking updates from the global markets, and wondering what will happen today getting help from reuters and Bloomberg apps on your 128 GB Iphone 7.

L-3: Taking stock of all whatsapp groups overnight, checking out statuses, responding to multiple posts.

L-5: Going for a run

L3 & L4 : updating people that you have run so others can burn if they have not, you ran only 3, but say you ran atleast 5, I mean who runs 3 km.

0800 hrs

L-1: breakfast for the day

L-2: Attempting to read the pink papers alongside to say all the smart things when you meet clients or colleagues today.

L-2: pretending to be busy to talk to anyone as you are running late and not interested concentrating on the news.

L-4: You get a birthday reminder of an old flame, and you wish right there and hope you get a response

L-5: You promise your son that you will take him swimming in the evening, its summers afterall and I can come back early.

L-5: Been a while, you promise your wife a dinner at her favourite Chinese joint, you have not even celebrated your anniversary properly.

0900 hrs

L-2 Login to work concalls, on Bluetooth so you can use the phone for the internet simultaneously

L-3 & L-2: Markets opened, you take stock of the opening trades, interact with others on whatsapp on how markets will pan out, you are proud you are member of 8 groups like it. You thump chest on one of your recommendations

L-3 : Gossiping on the college groups cracking some jokes, sharing links from one group to another making use of time in traffic.

L-2  : give some unsolicited advice on the markets and handling clients to colleagues and attempt cracking jokes

1100 hrs

L-2  & L4 : client calls and emails, in between you realize you have not paid your bills, you do it and then you get a facebook notification of a friend traveling to US and forget traveling the bill.

L-4: You login to makemytrip to see how much it costs to get a ticket to NY and find it expensive, you like friend’s photos in New York.

L-2 & L-4 : You get frantic calls from a client about some errand you missed, you make an excuse and see that the birthday wishes you made to your ex-flame in the morning is liked by her and responded with a thanks, You spend the next 45 min to figure a good text to respond to her “ thanks “ , but end up with responding with a “ smiley “ and “ Thmbs Up” , you check out her DP and remember the good times together.

1200 hrs

L-2 & L-4 : Meeting clients, on the way would make more calls to clients but end up getting on the facebook group debate on the debate on Army’s atrocities in Kashmir. You put down some 18 -30 year olds and feel awesome about it, and forget about the client phone calls you had to make, anyways make them in the evening when you think clients will be free.

L-3 : Plan for lunch with ex colleagues on whatsapp, you say yes, while you carrying your lunch from home, discuss the venue for lunch for the next 45 min, while the markets are tumbling because of Bank of Japan announcements.

L-4 : You have a look at what happened on the internet and make a note of informing clients about the sudden fall.

1300 hrs

L-1 & L-4 : You postpone your meetings by 30 min to accommodate friends and eat at a fancy place, clicking pics of your food to instagram later, you I phone 7 camera is awesome and you swell your chest with pride with all the appreciation on Instagram with all the alerts.

L-3 : debate starts off on your school group about your re-union, and you aggressively pitch for goa, you start recommending ideas and prices, spend an hour convincing your friends.

L-2: Your client calls up, you are late for your deliverable, you promise it will be done by tonight, you go for another meeting, back by the night

1530 hrs

L-3 : Intelligent conversations in one group are posted as your own in another so you seem smarter, good time to recommend stocks you think.

L2 & L3: Recommend stocks to your clients to be bought tomorrow, with some rationale on whatsapp, easy to talk to many clients in one go, most clients respond with an ok at best, they prefer a call , but you don’t have the time to

L-1 : You call for green tea in office and chat with colleagues over it and in no time spend one hour in petty office politics

L-4 : Your ex flame that you wished on birthday says “ where is my gift ? “ You spend 30 min to figure as to how to write something very smart and ultimately write a stupid “ A coffee with me “ is your gift, you make a fool of yourself and you know it, you are upset.

1700

L-2 Client is now furious, You promise him a detailed analysis of his portfolio, which he wants since the morning, you spend 1 hour making it, and are still not even half way through. You crib about the lack of support.

L-4: You get a notification on the amazon sale, you think about buying the under armour t-shirt for running , but end up buying some cufflinks and shoes for 10 k, you did not even need them.

1800 hrs

L-1 while your colleagues are leaving, they ask you to join them for a drink, you think the client wont call in the night anyways, shall, finish at home tonight.

1900 hrs

L-1 Drinks at a microbrewery, You promise only one or two, but they are playing some Pink Floyd and you end up having 4 drinks and tikkas and pizzas and mutton, bill 4 k per head.

L-4 Lots of pics for snapchat and drink pics for facebook.

L-1 Your wife calls up to check for swim for the son or for the dinner, you mention that you have too much work and have a team outing you cant escape, but feel guilty so think about leaving early from drinks.

2000 hrs

L-5 You head home and since you have not kept your words, you show more excitement towards everything and offer to take everyone for dinner if not a swim and offer to take your son swimming the next day.

L1 & L5 : You say that you had too much work and are really tired, your wife offers to order food at home, and you say that’s a great idea, she compromises on her wish for an outing to Monk for this, but then you promise to take her out soon.

L-5 : You are nice to your wife, offer to make her a drink maybe and sweet talk her to believing that you are really busy

2200 hrs

L-2 : You have dinner and start the work for the client, realize he has sent a stinker on sms, you are too tired to do it with all the drink and food, you reply to him that there was a system error and you would do it tomorrow. Client says ok

L-4 : You check out facebook to see what anyone else is doing , and get into a heated debate on Dhoni vs Gilchrist on a Cricket group that you are on, you take data out of google and wiki and win the argument which lasted for one hour and had its fair share of hate and outrage.

L-2 : You send some work related mails late, so everyone thinks you working harder.

0000 hrs

L-1 You finally go to sleep by reading a Micheal Lewis book , liars Poker, read for 10 min.

L-4 You make a quote from Liars Poker as your status update

L-3 You also send the same quote on your various whatsapp groups

L-5: You decide you will not waste as much time tomorrow onwards and try to sleep

Next day  GO BACK TO TOP

Many of us live atleast 5 different lives each day, destroying relationships, friendships, work life, fitness everything and in a quest to do so much, we end up doing nothing.

I have taken an example of a man who is in my profession but it could be anyone, social media interference of some 500-700 people that we are engaged with at all times are increasingly killing each one of those lives and there is a feeling of time passing too quickly for all of us and all of us feeling very tired.

Those filtered faces on Instagram, those shared jokes and links on whatsapp groups do more damage than Nicotine, alcohol or marijuana could ever do, it is an addiction worse than caffeine and cocaine.

Go Goa Gone , Memories for a lifetime

There are some memories you wanna frame and put them up in your living room or your Facebook walls or your Instagram filters and then there are memories which you don't need to, they are engraved so deep in your hearts ,  you will take them to grave with you.

Flashback 1996-98: Shy , Introvert, Fat, unsuccessful guy in school surrounded by some really really good set of people as friends, that was me, I loved them all despite only being with them for 3 years, remember those years so well. I was pathetic in studies and unpopular socially and after school did not really keep in touch with most, who went ahead in life.

Cut to 2008. Thanks to Facebook I got in touch with my school friends from Army School Secunderabad ( greatest school in the world in our times) , but on an open platform we could just smile looking at each others photos and families. Honestly it felt awesome to see most of us, now 10 year older and heavier.

Cut to 2015: WhatsApp , the greatest invention since the wheel, made us into a class once again, we were all back in school trying to talk to everyone and I can never thank my friends Santosh , Praveen and Shweta enough for putting us back in school with this platform, these three were the most social and likable people in our class.

Then came an unreal plan for a re-union in December, I said yes instantly, not knowing if anyone would be happy to see me in real as a lot has changed since school. We decided on Goa, suited everyone and in December, it is the place to be in.

I never expressed it, but I counted days till I could reach Goa in December, got my tickets fixed in July itself. I was excited.

My whatsapp conversations with friends ensured that except for some of us, I think everyone else was a sweetheart.

Cut to December 2015: I was nervous to meet everyone, the first guy I met was Mukesh, the hero , he came and hugged me and I hugged back and smiled with maybe teary eyes, i wasn't sure what sort of a person he was, but he took not even 30 sec to prove why he rules our hearts then and now.

I stayed alone that night at Palolem on day 1, one day before everyone else arrived, I needed it and reached the Stain Glass Cottage, where we had to stay from 11 th at  3 PM and met everyone.

Santosh looked just the same, Praveen warm as ever, Shweta the queen of our school and Sreesha who I was the happiest to meet up with, hugged them all. Also met Shveta Jaggi who wasnt in our class but was so warm that I never felt like it, and Vishnu who is old friends with Santosh and Mukesh but had left school before class X, cute guy, a lot like me, family driven and vegetarian .

We had no agenda and thats where a sea-food lunch at Zee Pob made sense, they had all sorts of marine life, and we all took off from where we left, it was broken, we were extremely comfortable with each other, beer for 30 bucks really helped. Went to the beach and chilled out.

Spent the evening having some more sea food at a local shack at Colva. Had some KING FISH and KING FISHERS.

Day 3 : Defining day of our lives.

I went for a 5 km trail run and realized that Vishnu, Praveen , Santosh and Shveta were chatting up all night, having multiple rounds of tea in the process . Gosh I missed it, poor guys chatted up till 6 and got up at 9, or was it poor me to have missed out on all the fun at night.

We all lazed around a bit and finally headed to Arambol, heard too much about it, settled into a temporary shack called Horizon where we got the coziest corner one could get and that too with a comfortable ground seating , Me and Mukesh headed to the sea, Santosh joined, we really enjoyed the sea and beers and food in repeat afternoon became evening and in came our darling Unnati, who thinks she is hot, but I was so happy to see her, although I met her once in 2009 in Delhi. She had got some retarded cup cakes for us, the cup cakes were extraordinary, never had anything better, the fact that our friend baked it, made it taste even better. We played some mad beach volleyball donning our flat abs and some insane amount of selfies and photos.

The shack had till then set-up seating outdoors that the sun was down, and we chilled and laughed there to our hearts content. We chilled for hours what felt like minutes, these guys are so funny , and we would have stayed on unless we had plans to go to the Arpora Night market.

Before I forget, While we reached Arambol in 2 hours with me and Mukesh sitting on the back, Vishnu and Shweta on the front, Shweta had some heated conversations on phone which we just joked about and had a laughed hearing them, probably beer or the company had cracked us. 

Well Arpora Night market was a chilled out place, where we met Richie, a guy I dont remember, but that did not stop him from being himself, we chilled for hours, laughed, danced , tanked up and had some crazy pizzas till about 2 AM and then thought about returning home, which was some 2 hours away,  We let Sreesha and Unnati drive and slept like babies, realized they had lost way a couple of times but enjoyed our way out of it too.

Shweta by the way had a more happening late night journey back with Vishnu and Richie. ( EVIL SMILE)

We reached home at 4:30 and realized no point in sleeping, so we just chilled and roasted each other all night. No one slept a minute, with Richie continuously threatening to, but we did not sleep eventually.

Praveen then did something really sweet, I appreciate it a lot from the bottom of my heart, he made small slam books for everyone, in which we will all record personal messages for each other individually, so for Santosh all of us will write a message in one book. The best was reserved for the last, but my handwriting sucked, while my thoughts did not. The messages my friends had for me, were so freakin sweet, I was overwhelmed by their reactions.

We all had to leave that morning, and expressed our love for each other, I felt happy when Santosh and Sreesha said in person that they were happy to see me, I felt awesome, I obviously felt happy to see my old friends but to see them open in front of us, was phenomenal.

Unnati was staying back, i was in half mind to stay back a couple of days and chill with her, such a sweetheart she is, but my gorgeous wife and son were too much a temptation to resist, although i want to chill with her sometime soon.

Unnati treated us to beer and Pizzas before we left and there ended one of the greatest weekends I have ever spent. 

I would never forget our chai obsession and Shveta's obsession with the Chai song.

I would never forget, how i exposed my greatest weaknesses in front of Shweta, and for her to respect me for that despite being who she is.

I would never forget that I could make my friends smile and laugh in those days.

I would never forget, what this meant for each one of us and it was perfect, way better than we expected it to be.

I love you all, there is more madness left and we still dont know who is Tanya Ghosal.

Life TAMASHA

I just loved Tamasha and that’s because the film speaks for each one of us as per our understanding.I think the movie is the best film I have seen in a while, I have been thinking about it for a bit and I have downloaded all our songs, especially “ Safarnama” which is so freakin meaningful. It gave me goosebumps.

  We are all “ LIVING “ our lives but not really .

Today my thoughts while I am at home, at work, driving, running or even taking a shower are broadly around how I should complete my monthly sales numbers, how I should fund my next holiday which I want to be in Barcelona, How I should purchase my next car or watch, how I should get Kabir ( my son) admitted in the fanciest school in the world and while the variables might change for different people, the fact that our needs are pretty materialistic and mundane and give us happiness only momentarily.

And how is that really different from what I was doing last year or even five years back or ten years back !!!! ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………BAM,  it is not.

Life really is a race and each one of us is really judgmental about what they have, and it is more materialistic than what could ever be, sometimes even competing with my colleagues and friends can give me a temporary feeling of self fulfillment and achievement but can that really last and last a lifetime ??

Real life is !!!!! well Real life and we have to pay our bills unless we are born with a silver spoon and have an option to explore yourself properly.

 Just think about it, life is really a painting competition in which we have a blank sheet of paper and we can draw/ paint or sketch all that we want, the problem though is that I am sitting in a room full of people who are doing the same thing,  drawing something that looks good and they are vigorously drawing it, So we panic and start drawing what they are drawing, as they seem to know what they really want, and we try and copy them and maybe make it better than what they are doing. We could have drawn a sketch, but end up attempting an shabby oil painting.

Imagination is dead really, for most of us that is, we are in the rat race and although we make good money have a good laugh, but we don’t have a great life, as this is so monotonous and is not self fulfilling at all  but for the temporary sense of happiness.

Think about it once again, we remember so many details of our childhood and even our college( Speaking for most of us) , we don’t remember last year of our lives as well as we remember maybe the 15^th year of our life or even the 10^th year of your life or your college.

How do we get back our life ???? Or can we even get it. The fact is we cant, but can get close and lets try hard to.

What does a Long distance runner really think while running ??

Lighter take on thoughts in a runner's mind while running long distance, mostly practice runs

·         This is not worth it, completely not worth it, I should have gone for the cards party last night.

·         Gosh am I turning darker in skin color?

·         My knee, there is pain, cant last another kilometer can it ?

·         Why am I doing this? What have I ever achieved by doing this.

·         Oh shucks, I forgot to wear the deodorant , now what

·         I am sure every other work-out is more fun than this boring routine, I need to make it sound cooler.

·         “ Kattapa ne Bahubali ko kyun Maara”

·         I really wanna have paranthas for breakfast today, or should I ?

·         Whats wrong in doing two kilometers less than last week.

·         It’s the toughest run, last week the weather was better.

·         I need better running gear, man those other guys look so good and run like demons. Someone get me better shoes, jerseys, socks.

·         I need a break now, maybe another 500 mts

·         A little slower won’t harm anyone puff puff.

·         Shucks I forgot Vaseline, now for rashes.

·         Gosh I should have started earlier, too much sun too early.

·      Cyclists are losers, running is the real thing. Harley gang is just fat men with money making noise.

·         Should have only had one drink last night, not worth the lethargy or the hangover, Laphroig was great nevertheless. 

·         “ A “ lost weight doing only Yoga, maybe its time I change,

·         I need better running shoes, shorts, socks, jerseys.

·         We should migrate to a country with better roads and lesser pollution, but who will hire me there L

·         Gosh I hate street dogs, why does no body do anything for it?

·         Hey those guys are running all wrong, wrong posture.

·         I think I need a leak.

·         Is Nike the app for me or should I try strava.

·         Oh look at that gorgeous girl from our condominium, time to increase the speed.

·         But seriously “ Kattapa ne Bahubali ko kyun Mara”