Life on a flat line
It was almost day in, day out that I was finding the things blanch, I went to office came back in the evening, flipped channels, ate my foot, washed the dishes and mechanically went to bed to wake up the next day to repeat again. And the weekends I don’t know, went into something or the other. My life was going through the normal life sequences of a flat line, I remember reading one of my fellow bloggers mentioning that the life was almost too boring ; and I remarking back, its better then the one compared to many, where they wait for the changes to rest!!
Anyhow my alarm clock rang when I was just hoping to warm up my palms for a blog entry sometime soon, when somebody reminded me; that it was Time "already".
I am not a great fan of classics but now and then I like to read those, and this time I just pulled a blue cover out "Picture of Dorian Gray", I don’t know how many of you have chanced it, but believe me its got some pretty slick one liners that have made me think in unison with myself and seeing my head go up and down in affirmation to its crude yet simple ways.
"The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or a luxury of a regret."
"What a fuss people make about fidelity!.. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.."
"To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one follies"
"The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion.."
"Real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich"
“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
Well its one of those books you should chew and swallow, the first time I read it, I simply gulped it down, more so for passing time, but now I truly am relishing it bit by bite :)
Coming back its not so, that my life was really a flat line, ofcourse life throws some hoops now and then. Hmmmmph. Events are such when one relates it and we are the listener its always something happening to someone else, we nod, we console, but somewhere we deep down we console ourselves as well; that it would never happen to us or never can. That I say is the farce of life. But we shouldn’t take life too seriously, and those little hoops now and then should be taken in a right frame of mind, afterall, with so many variables inter-playing, it’s not too much that once in a while some things do go wrong.
Just few days back I saw Parzania, an art movie about the Gujrat riots, and believe me, it made me shiver down the bones seeing the things out; and like I said in this information age we get to see/ read so many things happening out there we cannot do anything but detach ourselves and listen it out, like a spectator. But there watching the movie, the terror, sobbing, the groveling made me realise that I am better off, with, my life on a flat line.
And those dips in between are simply dips, somehow I am happy; afterall; those were just small ones!!!
(PS: I would be traveling to Germany on a business trip and then Switzerland visiting a friend, so most probably, be ready for some travel logs)
Anyhow my alarm clock rang when I was just hoping to warm up my palms for a blog entry sometime soon, when somebody reminded me; that it was Time "already".
I am not a great fan of classics but now and then I like to read those, and this time I just pulled a blue cover out "Picture of Dorian Gray", I don’t know how many of you have chanced it, but believe me its got some pretty slick one liners that have made me think in unison with myself and seeing my head go up and down in affirmation to its crude yet simple ways.
"The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or a luxury of a regret."
"What a fuss people make about fidelity!.. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.."
"To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one follies"
"The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion.."
"Real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich"
“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
Well its one of those books you should chew and swallow, the first time I read it, I simply gulped it down, more so for passing time, but now I truly am relishing it bit by bite :)
Coming back its not so, that my life was really a flat line, ofcourse life throws some hoops now and then. Hmmmmph. Events are such when one relates it and we are the listener its always something happening to someone else, we nod, we console, but somewhere we deep down we console ourselves as well; that it would never happen to us or never can. That I say is the farce of life. But we shouldn’t take life too seriously, and those little hoops now and then should be taken in a right frame of mind, afterall, with so many variables inter-playing, it’s not too much that once in a while some things do go wrong.
Just few days back I saw Parzania, an art movie about the Gujrat riots, and believe me, it made me shiver down the bones seeing the things out; and like I said in this information age we get to see/ read so many things happening out there we cannot do anything but detach ourselves and listen it out, like a spectator. But there watching the movie, the terror, sobbing, the groveling made me realise that I am better off, with, my life on a flat line.
And those dips in between are simply dips, somehow I am happy; afterall; those were just small ones!!!
(PS: I would be traveling to Germany on a business trip and then Switzerland visiting a friend, so most probably, be ready for some travel logs)
posted by Rebus at 6/02/2007 09:40:00 AM
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