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Coincidences

Hate has 4 letters
so does Love...

Enemies has 7 letters
so does Friends...

Lying has 5
so does Truth...

Negative has 8
so does Positive...

Under has 5
so does Above...

Cry has 3 letters
so does Joy...

Anger has 5 letters
so does Happy...

Right has 5 letters
so does Wrong...

Are they by Coincidences??????

It means Life is like a Double edged Sword,
We should choose the BETTER SIDE OF LIFE...!!
By the way Manmohan has 8 letters and so does Narendra.

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Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.

The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.

Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450F.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.

The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.

Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

A comet's tail always points away from the sun.

The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.


When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.

In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.

Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy .

Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
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An Inspirational Story to improve difficult relationships

A long time ago, a girl named Loveleen got married and went to live with her husband and mother-in-law.
In a very short time, Loveleen found that she couldn't get along with her mother-in-law at all. Their personalities were very different, and Loveleen was angered by many of her mother-in-law's habits. In addition, she criticized Li-Li constantly.
Days passed days, and weeks passed weeks. Loveleen and her mother-in-law never stopped arguing and fighting. But what made the situation even worse was that, according to their tradition, Loveleen had to bow to her mother-in-law and obey her every wish. All the anger and unhappiness in the house was causing the poor husband great distress.
Finally, Loveleen could not stand her mother-in-law's bad temper and dictatorship any longer, and she decided to do something about it.
Loveleen went to see her father's good friend, Mr. Zosan, who sold herbs. She told him the situation and asked if he would give her some poison so that she could solve the problem once and for all. Mr. zosan thought for a while, and finally said, "Loveleen, I will help you solve your problem, but you must listen to me and obey what I tell you."
Loveleen said, "Yes, Mr. Zosan, I will do whatever you tell me to do." Mr. zosan went into the back room, and returned in a few minutes with a package of herbs.
He told Loveleen, "You can't use a quick-acting poison to get rid of your mother-in-law, because that would cause people to become suspicious. Therefore, I have given you a number of herbs that will slowly build up poison in her body. Every other day prepare some delicious meal and put a little of these herbs in her serving. Now, in order to make sure that nobody suspects you when she dies, you must be very careful to act very friendly towards her. Don't argue with her, obey her every wish, and treat her like a queen."
Loveleen was so happy. She thanked Mr. Zosan and hurried home to start her plot of murdering her mother-in-law.
Weeks went by, months went by, and every other day, Loveleen served the specially treated food to her mother-in-law. She remembered what Mr. Zosan had said about avoiding suspicion, so she controlled her temper, obeyed her mother-in-law, and treated her like her own mother. After six months had passed, the whole household had changed.
Loveleen had practiced controlling her temper so much that she found that she almost never got mad or upset. She hadn't had an argument in six months with her mother-in-law, who now seemed much kinder and easier to get along with.
The mother-in-law's attitude toward Loveleen changed, and she began to love Loveleen like her own daughter. She kept telling friends and relatives that Loveleen was the best daughter-in-law one could ever find. Loveleen and her mother-in-law were now treating each other like a real mother and daughter.
Loveleen's husband was very happy to see what was happening.
One day, Loveleen came to see Mr. Zosan and asked for his help again. She said, "Mr. Zosan, please help me to stop the poison from killing my mother-in-law! She's changed into such a nice woman, and I love her like my own mother. I do not want her to die because of the poison I gave her."
Mr. Zosan smiled and nodded his head. "Loveleen, there's nothing to worry about. I never gave you any poison. The herbs I gave you were vitamins to improve her health. The only poison was in your mind and your attitude toward her, but that has been all washed away by the love which you gave to her."
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ASHES TO ASHES DUST TO DUST -4



"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off." Stephen King, Storm of the Century


Coincidence,of late is a word that has become a resident in my mind , for this year seems by coincidence like last year and last year was like the previous year by that i mean,so near and yet so far.Many film offers which seem to be in the bag just slip out and leaves me wondering and pondering if there is a larger unseen force called destiny that i have to contend and reckon with.That is why i started with that quote of stephen king,an author i absolutely love and avidly read.If any of you ever have the time to read a few books,then i would suggest stephen king's IT,INSOMNIA,THE STAND,DOLORES CLAIRBORNE,MISERY,NEEDFUL THINGS,THE SHINING,DEAD ZONE,THE GREEN MILE.I read a lot and have lot of good authors i can suggest,but beware for most of them are action,thrillers,murder mysteries and horror.Love and romance just wont do and seriously i have not seen many men reading novels that women read.Oh,that reminds me of a train trip to bangalore in the shatabdi express and it was during the month of july,sometime in the late 90's.the train was largely empty and i was immersed in this book i was reading by TOM CLANCY,titled WITHOUT REMORSE when i heard this sweet hello and head buried in the book,my ears alerted me that someone was calling out hello.well human nature dictates that we respond to the word hello.Funnily enough in the most scariest scene you can imagine where a lone person enters a dark house and slowly whispers or calls out hello.hello,come on is there no other word or any other way to contact the darkness.If it was me i would boldly say.well,whoever is there,i just want you to know that i have wet and dirtied my pants.so before you kill me or eat me just give me a chance to clean my self and die with dignity.yikes,satish is trying to hang on to dignity even when he is going to die.what choice does one have.Anyway i looked up and tried to see who was calling whom and voila,it was the guy seated opposite me.well at least looked like a guy for it also looked like a girl.well either it was a really ugly looking woman or it was a really effeminate man and i think he had done his nails,i mean painted them.I dont know if any of you women,okay i address you as women for most of your names are that of women.anyway let all women know the fact that for most men,the scariest thing is meeting an effeminate man or encountering a gay guy who swings on the girly side.

Even in a normal situation,most people think twice or thrice before they approach me to talk,make small talk and i know this for people have mentioned this thing about me or should i say this blanket i have wrapped me which loudly warns "AWAS ANJING,AWAS ANJING " and this is more frequent now for i am on the small screen.And imagine me when i am seriously engrossed in a book,now which normal human being would do that and anyway the guy or lady was not normal at least for me and although i largely believe in live and let live.yet encounters like the one i mentioned leave me in a furtive and desperate state and i wish i had mastered a powerful killing curse like " AVADA KEDAVRA" for i really wanted to use it on that being.I thought i would tell him "speaking angrezi no".but then with a huge english novel in my hands and with a rapt expression for two hours,letting out the occasional ahem and chuckle when reading a good scene,that would have been a no go.anyway i put on a cherubic expression and acted as if i didnt know what gay was or what people skills meant and left him wondering if i had come from a place or planet where people were born in solitude and died in solitude.wait a minute,just wait a minute now,isnt that what most people think of me and have been thinking of me for a long time now.From time,from the moments of earliest memories that i can recall now what has fascinated me is my time spent on my own and the willingness to escape from overcrowded places and claustrophobic situations.when i was three or four,just in my shorts and some floral tee,i used to walk my neighbourhood and sometimes sit and watch people come and go.I used to get the occasional pat on my head or query "sati,what are you doing" to which even back then i was a kid,my mind voice was what do you think i am doing and realise i had to suffer fools and their foolish queries.


Please dont get me wrong or think that there is something wrong with me,when i say that i talk to myself.Oh yes i have this wonderful techinque where in i ask myself and make myself a partner in situations that needs counseling.I dont know what kind of defense mechanism it is or it is just that i dont trust humans and their judgements much and believe me i have learnt it the hard way.That there was an entity called GOD and that i could call on him rather than myself was largely unknown to me for until into my early twenties i thought god was somebody or beyond my reach.Luckily now when people find me strange and ask me who i am talking to,i squarely put the blame on him,GOD.Let him bear it for obviously he has strong shoulders.


I dont know,sometimes i really dont know what this whole game of life is or who orchestrated this drama of coming,going and so much sadness and injustice.I guess there is a reason or maybe whoever stated this whole mega serial has forgotten about it and is hard at work somewhere far off,so far away that he cant hear the cries of so many,including me.come on,why cant i cry,now i dont cry like shivaji does or how vivek imitates shivaji " amma,ennamma".oh,oh see the disciple is making fun of his guru.well the guru is gone and may his soul rest in peace.Crying,just tears pouring down our cheeks is not crying but holding back all those tears in a brittle soul is crying.I have felt it and have realised it from a very young age that i am an old soul and a bit of pain and i am okay with it.

As days go,and as pages go with good and postings,i want you all to walk with me and share my experiences as an actor,as a friend or just as a fellow human being and fellow traveller.let us see what we will see and let us try to make sense of all this NAANSENSE called life and GAWD.


lots of love
satish


"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart." Mahatma Gandhi

Edited by s.satishkumar - 11 years ago
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My pick of Illayaraja song this week (the obsession continues...)
Song: Oo Papa Lali
Singer: Mano (Tamil), SPB (Telugu)
Film: Idhayathai Thirudathey (Tamil), Geethanjali (original in Telugu)
Director: Maniratnam
Music: Illayaraja
Year: 1989
Movie trivia:
The 8th directorial venture and the only Telugu film attempted by Maniratnam till now, he took cues from the diary of a Delhi based 11 year old girl who was suffering from terminal cancer. Naming the film and the female lead character after her, Geethanjali had written her thoughts and emotions before she died, which emotionally moved Maniratnam to film it on celluloid.
Geethanjali was a National Award Winner as Best film for providing wholesome entertainment in 1989.
Song trivia:
There are scenes in "Oo Papa Lali" where the main character snuggles like a small kid in the lap of the male protagonist. This scene defines the beauty of warmth and touch between two people uncertain about their destiny and life.

Mani Ratnam's take on the 3 important elements of a human existence which is Life, Love and Death is as fascinating as it can get between these 2 people. Love is seen in its purest form throughout this movie through various characters and how their lives are intertwined with each other.

Shot through the lens of PC Sreeram, Ooty has never looked as beautiful as evidenced here. Most of the scenes were shot with a mist around, giving the romance a more dreamy and poetic effect.
My take:
The song is emotional and heart-warming. The movie is inspiring.
I listen to this song whenever I feel deflated and gloomy and ponder about life.
I'm a Tamilian and I don't understand Telugu, but I found SP Balasubramaniam's original telugu rendition of this song more heart-ripping than the Tamil version...it still makes my eyes watery.
His voice is really the soul of this song.
Best listened to at late in the night or early in the morning or throughout the night
...25 years after its release, this song is still refreshing, soothing to the ears and to the heart...
...it is nostalgic, melodious, painful and blissful all put together...
with due credit to Illayaraja sir.
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ADULT
A person who has stopped growing at both ends
And is now growing in the middle.

BEAUTY PARLOUR
A place where women curl up and dye.

COMMITTEE
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

DUST
Mud with the juice squeezed out.

EGOTIST
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

HANDKERCHIEF
Cold Storage.

INFLATION
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

MOSQUITO
An insect that makes you like flies better.

RAISIN
A grape with a sunburn.

SECRET
Something you tell to one person at a time.

SKELETON
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

TOOTHACHE
The pain that drives you to extraction.

TOMORROW
One of the greatest Labor saving devices of today.

YAWN
An honest opinion openly expressed.




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Why do we do Pradakshina or Parikrama?

Pradakshina (Sanskrit), meaning circumambulation, consists of walking around in a 'circle' as a form of worship in Hindu ceremonies in India. The devotees walk around the garbha griha, the innermost chamber of the shrine housing the temple deity. It is done around sacred fire (Agni), trees and plants as well. Thus Pradakshina is done around Tulsi plant and Peepal tree.Pradakshina or Parikrama is done in pilgrimage centres also.
Pradakshina literally means: to the right (Dakshina means right).So in Pradakshina, one goes to the left hand direction to keep the deity around the
Sanctum Sanctorum on one's right side. Pradakshina is one of the customary aspects of going to a temple. Typically, Pradakshina is done after the completion of traditional worship (pooja) and after paying homage to the deity. Pradakshina is supposed to be done with a meditative mood.


"Pra as an adjective means very much. Pra can also come as a prefix to verbs and take on the meaning of onward, forward. Onward to Dakshinam or south is pradakshina. When one does that, one's right side is facing the deity inside the garbhagraham and the circumambulation is Dakshinacharam or auspicous as recommended by the Veda."
"In the word Pra Da Kshi Na the syllable Pra dispels sin, the syllable,Da bestows what is desired, the syllable,Kshi causes the destruction of Karman and the syllable Na is the bestower of salvation."



Why is pradakshina done only in a clockwise manner?

Hindus go round the sanctum sanctorium in the temples and sometimes the deities in the pujas or yagnas at home in a clockwise direction.. We always assume God is the center of our existence. He also exists everywhere. So when we do Pradakshina or circumambulation, we accept that our actions and thoughts are always centred around God. The center point is always fixed and remains the same at whatever distance we do the pradakshina. So we are reminded of the eternal truth that God is the center of gravity and the main focus of our existence.The world is always rotating around itself on its own axis as well as around the sun. All the planets also rotate on their own axes. This is called rotation and their rotation on their orbits is called revolution. Just like in solar system, the sun is at the center around which the planets rotate, our pradakshinams should be done with god at the center. The Pradakshinam should be done slowly and never in a hurry, Our thoughts and actions must dwell on God.

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ONE LIFE,MANY LOVES

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary." Martin Luther

Come Away With Me" by norah jones

Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song

Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they can't tempt us
With their lies

I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high
So won't you try to come

Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountaintop
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you

And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me



When you listen to Mozarts piano concerto no.20,you realise how many emotions can be invoked and provoked by music.As the opening notes of Beethoven's symphony no.5 thunder and strike you,the fear he must have experienced while he was composing that monumental piece hits and touches your soul.He composed that piece when he realised that he was going deaf and that he would no longer be able to hear what people say about him,good or bad.But then that served him well i guess in my opinion for he flew alone in his mind and music and that started the richest phase of composition in the great masters life.If any of you have seen the tamil horror film PIZZA,there is a beautiful piece played in the background when the hero and heroine have problems and misunderstandings and i think it comes in the first thirty minutes of the film.well people,that piece is by beethoven and his most famous piano sonata,the moonlight sonata.Ah,now you didn't know that did you.well if you have seen superstar's annamalai film,then in that song annamalai,annamalai shot in ooty opens with beethoven's fifth symphony music.


Legally,all of us are married and bound to our spouses,but we carry on with other loves such as music,books and solitary walks.I know many who sacrifice all this for their loved ones and soon there is no love left in their partnership or marriage.Be it mozart,beethoven or ilayaraja,everyone should learn to enjoy music of some kind for it enriches our life and thoughts and also the brain and that has been proven.When plants can respond and grow faster when soft music is played next to them,then you think it won't work on us.

All of us,you,me and everyone are a beautiful composition by nature and everyone carries a song in their soul.Dont ever let anyone tell you different or put you down and never ever lose your individuality for anyones sake.if you lose that,you lose you and that is the end.Sometime during my 2nd std,i started saving 5 and 10 paisa and used that to buy song books of films.Whenever i had a new song book,i used to go sit alone under the guava tree behind the house and sing loudly and out of tune.I think those were some of most happiest moments in my life.me,those few pages of song book,my favourite dog tony and just nature and well i died and went of to heaven.what happened to all those birds in our neighbourhood and why all of them migrated to some distant land can be attributed to my singing prowess and moreover to my voice which sounds like a donkey suffering from piles.


We humans are sentimental people and tend to collect and keep close things and stuff that give us pleasure.Tees,books,old tapes,cds,photos and most importantly people.Let me confess that for my walk in the twilight years i have some great companions.The music part is done and ready and as for as books,i have the fountainhead by ayn rand and the lord of rings by tolkien and lots of stephen king and the earlier works of tom clancy.I have to mention the fountainhead in particular for each time i read it there is something new to learnt or to be aware of.I have read it a dozen times and probably will read it another dozen times.When i am reading a book and when it has really captured me in its pages,i tend to read some important lines again and again and repeat it and also visualising it and living it and acting it out.All that involvement puts me closer to the author and makes me understand better what he is trying to say or convey through his characters.It could be just a book,but dont take it lightly for when it is being written the author goes through all the emotions of his characters and that is something like a woman going through labor pain before delivery.


You know only if you realise that this life as we know has an end will we learn not to take it for granted.We all see death or have attended a funeral or two in our times.but after that momentary sadness,we forget about it and get on doing the same thing and taking everything for granted which i feel is sad and also bad.fill your life with happiness and fill it most importantly with your own self.dont be bent or broken by peer pressure or style.please dont be the sheep or the shepherd and walk your own path.be the song,be the music and even if you are the swallow which has missed its summer,sing loudly about how alive you are and how much you feel.


"...No- but ours is a journey into ourselves, a walk with God every day! Ours is a book that we write, a smile, a love, a tear, a lust, an awakening, a learning, a joy, a laughter, a memory, a dream, a vision, a love, a love, a love and a love. Our life is now. And Heaven is always there, but this life isn't always there, but this life isn't always here. Heaven is always there for us but this life is a gift to us!" C. JoyBell C.

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Sri Maha Periva in his discourse dated: January 19, 1958

Each one of us is fond of certain things in life, and the liking develops into raaga, attachment or affection. When the things or persons we like part from them at the end of life's journey, we are afflicted with grief. Death forcibly separates us from the objects of our attachment, resulting only in grief all round.

When we forcibly pluck an unripe mango, there is weeping(flow of a white juice) both from the stem to which the mango had all along been attached, and also from the mango itself. When the same mango is ripe, it gets automatically separated from the stem and no weeping occurs. Similarly we must develop the capacity to leave this world without regret when death knocks at our doors.

How this is to be achieved is the problem of life. I shall illustrate the answer to this question with a story. Once upon a time a wealthy person was living in the French territory of India. For some reason, he apprehended danger both to his person and to his wealth, were he to continue to live in the French territory. Only a hill separated the French territory from the British territory. If he could manage to transport his wealth, which was in the shape of heavy gold and silver coins, to the top of the hill, safety and security awaited him. But he found that the task of transporting all the silver and gold coins was an impossible one, in the circumstances in which he was placed. He was faced with the situation of leaving behind his immense wealth and escaping only with his life.

At that critical moment, a person with British currency notes accosted him and offered to exchange those noted for the gold and silver coins. The wealthy man converted his entire stock of coins into portable currency notes and crossed over to safety.

Similarly, we should be able to convert all our worldly achievements and resources into the currency Dharma, so that we can carry with us this Dharma, when the call comes to quit this world.

Dharma is acquired through mind, speech and deeds. As both Paapa(sin) and Punya(merit) accompany us after death, we must take care to acquire only Punya. If we nourish in our mind passions like Kaama(desire) and Krodha(anger), we will be acquiring only more and more sins. If we use our speech or power of expression to kindle either Kaama(passion) and Dvesha(hatred), we will be doing harm to others and thereby hindering our own emancipation.

The gift of speech should be employed only for doing good to others and repeating the Lord's name. Similarly our physical strength should be utilised for serving others. Our wealth, barring a portion we are obliged to leave to our children, should be utilised for noble and charitable purposes. In this way, we can convert our material resources and the power of our mind, speech, and body, into Dharma, the currency note of Isvara, which is legal tender in all the worlds under His command, and for all times. Dharma alone protects us in this life and accompanies the soul in its onward march, after it casts off its covering we call body.

The process of developing detachment from objects of affection- changing over from raaga to vairaagya - should start when we are still in the full enjoyment of our senses. When a dispute is compromised, not by the judgement of a court, but by agreement, the parties to the dispute part as friends. Similarly, we must mentally become ripe, as the mango I mentioned earlier, and get ourselves detached from our attachments.

For that purpose we require the grace of Isvara. Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada, in his Sivananda Lahari prayed to Isvara to save him with His grace or mercy(krpayaa paalaya vibho) without minding his disqualifications. Let each of us pray to Isvara to bless us with His grace, for that alone will accompany the soul and be a source of constant strength.

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Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost

"With so much desire I wanted you, and the whole world helped me in getting you.People say that if you love someone with your heart then the whole world tries to get you close to him/her.Today you made me meet my love...thanks...thanks very much.It is said that our life is same as our films where the ending is always happy ending, and if does not happen then the film is still going on." -OM SHANTI OM


One of the oldest friend of mine is mr.subramaniam,and he is going strong on105.He lives with his son mr.venktadri who himself is about 83 or 84 and his daughter-in-law who again is in her late seventies.I lived next to them until last year,when i had to shift and before that i knew them for quite sometime since i was on the same street.I got to know subramaniam better from the small talks we used to exchange while on the beach,where he used to come for his walk,real slow walk and it is just about that time i am into my stretching and cool down routine.This was anywhere between 6.30 and 7.00 a.m.Mr.subramaniam retired from the railways and was a widower at the age of 40.He is not a man given to many words and is concise in his observations and thoughts far from my own persona.Yet we have shared many moments of quiet and times when he suddenly comes up with black and white flashback memories.But largely he does not complain much and goes with the flow in a very slow and methodical way,which could be just the secret to his longevity.About a year back,just before i shifted residence he fell sick and was bedridden.No,nothing serious but a bit of cold and fever.After a few days of not seeing him i asked his son what was wrong and went to see him.I sat with him and spoke to him and we generally kept quiet sharing an breathing the same air and i told him that it was just not the same without seeing him in th morning.Subramaniam quietly laughed and said i am so tired and want to go but he is refusing to call me and i dont know what i have left to do or see.I was stumped for an answer and thought long and hard over it.


One goes about one's lives in segments and nothing changes and the clock is set from the time you are born and more or less till you breathe your last breath.Starting with day and night which more or less dictates ones life unless they are working on a night shift,we follow what our cave dwelling ancestors did,start with light and back home before night.When in school the morning prayer bell was more like a death sentence for after the chorus prayer in different pitches and octaves everyone rushes of to their respective classrooms and teachers from different segments stream in and i used to look at my class schedule and think oh no,maths,oh no physics and more groans like that.Everything is scheduled and dictated by time management.eat,rush of to school or work,finish school or work and rush back to home,sit and stare at the idiots inside the idiot box and eat,probably shit if you have eaten too much and then off to sleep.and again the routing starts once more and the schedule does not end there even when you retire.maybe there is more of eating and sleeping and plenty of staring and farting around and soon you are in the clouds playing the harp with either angels or demons.


Seriously think of the statistics and the capsules your life has been scheduled and you will soon begin to wonder and also ask what the heck,where has my life gone and how much i have left.Nearly one third of an average persons lifetime (average meaning 75 years) is spent sleeping and now add the rest of the stuff we do and you will see where i am getting at.Eating,driving or being driven,waiting in lines,on hold and you are left holding the phone,shaving for men and waxing for women,bathing once or twice a day,brushing teeth,watching tv,reading a good book or just reading a paper or magazine while you wait for your turn at the saloon or in the airport or station,partying with zombies who go and on about their lumia and galaxy mobiles and fruit of the loom underwear from america as if it is going to increase the size of their ahem,southern organs.God let me stop before i and you go mad.So the important question one will think of is good times and sex times.Shit,curse all that sweat and labor for a few hours total in a average persons life and that is it if you are with someone you love ot think hot.Thats it and you wait at the window staring into heavens for some clue of what the whole emotions and commotion was.Well now you can add some great times you spent with loved ones like family,friends and etc and excreta.


Armed with these statistics you wonder how you can better live or enjoy life and i too am now wondering.Life imitates cinema surely and hopefully good cinema.Have you noticed that when you come out of the cinema hall and i am now talking about generally good cinema and all you can remember are a few good scenes.maybe a great action scene, great emotional scene,romantic scene or as it seems a great comedy scene.But rarely do you get to watch a film that leaves you breathless and every scene is awesome and worth talking or blogging about.Life is just like that.funny so many years filled with day filled with hours and minutes and how much of your life do you carry with you or how many good memories is worth carrying and remembering as you take that last breath.well as of now all i can say is fight the good fight and get on with the duty,responsibility and priority.


To be continued
Edited by s.satishkumar - 11 years ago

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