ArHI SS: RSVP: The End. 10/April [Complete] - Page 6

Res :) I need to first read all of it from the beginning again. A kid can't absorb all the meanings at a first read. :D Accepted the fact ! Will be back soon.

Reading this is turning out to be an educational experience. I learn about new concepts, paradoxes, and even the occasional French word (ebeniste!). :P

'You had me' at red plump lips! :)

How strange to miss fictional folk, How strange is it to want to meet your Arnav and Khushi? Wonder if they are willing to join us for a friday evening beer at the local pub, hmmm. Well what can I say, it has become difficult to stay unattached and unmoved by your characters, ergo - your writing.

Originally posted by: amaypranay

Wow...this is golden!

Dictionary is in our hands...Intent and words, we confuse them often, what are our intentions and what we say and what we finally do..the end result is nearly what we thought!

If only it could be as simple and life could be a podium where intentions (that are a key point) don't get manipulated by words! And then we blame words..

Khushi wow..you and Mr CEO, have lots to discuss! Maybe during coffee...

They would do much more than coffee. Its unclear as to why they are writing instead of talking.

Unfortunately its not possible not to manipulate words. The contradictions between actions and promises lie with words. Its in context where meaning gets manipulated and mutated into a different entity thus marring what the word truly means. But then again its true with everything in this nature, isn't it? Nothing is really good or bad. They take that behavior from the context they exists in.

Originally posted by: StripePurple

Reading this is turning out to be an educational experience. I learn about new concepts, paradoxes, and even the occasional French word (ebeniste!). :P

K's response to Arnav's 'regression to the mean' comment is telling. About their characters, I mean. He seems to believe that increased systematization has unnecessarily complicated otherwise simple human responses, and she counters that it is the human response to a system which is fraught with complexity and unpredictability. Perhaps both responses, instead of being 'right' or 'wrong', meet each other halfway.

"The difference lies in being an ebeniste and assembling an IKEA product. "

Or perhaps between being an artist and being a critic. One stretches the boundaries of the system, so to speak, and the other strives to evaluate/use the artwork in order to assimilate it into an existing system, even if it means creating new space for it. Until one day no one even realises that the new has become the old, or more correctly, systematic. Yeah, that's the world for you.

A also seems to have a slim romantic streak in there. And gold points to K for the humor. Really, she should make good on that threat and give him a tutorial on erotica. Oh, now I miss this crazy FF with a crazy Khushi which someone left midway. :(

PS: I hereby christen this the most-difficult-to-write-comments-for FF. Uff. I feel safer quoting poetry. :P

PPS: K's novel-reading habits reminded me of my recently finished "The Fault in our Stars". Bawl-worthiest book ever.

PPPS: Re: the signature. Woman,are you trying to recruit people into the Teen Wolf fanclub now? 😳

Nah, not recruiting to TW fan club. :-) I love that dialogue from movie especially the deflection that comes so automatically to Stiles. Given the content am on, seems proper to use that :=)

I am tired of these bawl inducing

Shouldn't this story be more easier to write comments for? The characters are fairly simple and straightforward and they talk most generic stuff possible. More like debate than argument I suppose.

The new becoming the old - happens all the time. Evolution is the best-est example for that. Thus there is always a struggle by a section of society that's happily undergoing the said change. That struggle is what Arnav is going through or has gone through to see the problems with it while Khushi sees the advantages of the said change.
True, Arnav is more romantic than Khushi. That's evident in the way he looks at things or how he articulates.

Maybe aunty Khushi should reply with few lines of erotica as a sample next time :-)

Originally posted by: meera30

This entire exchange between Khushi and Arnav reminded me (pleasantly) of what my former startup partner and I spent hours debating when we were deciding what it is we don't want our organization to be - basically we didnt want it to be the organization we worked for!!

And I have been a Khushi all the way. I don't deny that the system, the processes actually are meant for structure and balance, for the entire group /sect / society to progress at the expense of the individual who heads the design, the one who breaks through the current system,changes the curve and makes that step jump that should be classified rightly as a disruptor except it is more positive than the term implies

And just as I typed the above, I realize that evolution, nature has always taught us only balance. So while I am with Khushi when she raves the system that makes things simpler, pulls the below average up and helps progress for the whole, I cannot help but realize that if it were not about people - those innovators, the above average minds - then the path to the next big leap wouldn't exist. The roles are clear - people to break through and find the "better" and system to ensure that the better permeates to everyone, even those who could never perceive the better in their entire lifetime if left to themselves.

Does the above sound like a rationalization? Maybe it is but I feel insanely better to know that chaos and order must exist together.

GTH - Imagine me giving you a heartfelt hug for writing this and forcing me to think . Some days I feel like my brain is just rotting away. (What has life come to if one must rejoice even a couple of minutes of coherent (??) thought?)

Yes, nature has taught us balance and nature always ensures even with the sudden influx of anomalies because of change, it ensures that they all even out either by absorbing them or completely rejecting the spark of change.
Like how appendix used to be a prominent organ to digest raw hard meat back when we were eating what was in front of us. But civilization happened and the early man learned how to cook. So appendix didn't have much job to do and after several centuries, it just became an unused pouch in lower stomach. Nature normalizes spaces and utilization gradually. (Thank you Grey's Anatomy for yet another lesson.)

You put it perfectly. The said "better" comes and gets absorbed by the system and unknowingly people adapt around it. See how social media has permeated all our lives while only decade ago there were many turning their noses up against it.

Chaos and order always exist side by side in equal proportions. In a situation where one sees chaos other seems to find order in it because in chaos they thrive. Order and chaos become nothing but perceptions :-)

I used to Arnav once upon a time and then I realized Khushi's perspective. It was hard way to realize such a thing and came with a great cost but it was a much needed lesson.

Res