little nothings...

Sometimes some moments are really close to your heart. Nothing fancy about them. You just feel like freezing them down the memory line to reheat and savor them at a later time. There was a power cut today and the brother and I not knowing what to do at home decided to go on a looong drive. We dint know where we were headed to. We just kept driving. Picked up a friend S and drove and drove and drove. We stopped at a resort , had a couple of drinks and did nothing. The little that we spoke was random shit recollecting moments of social faux pas and managed to laugh at ourselves. Family, work, future, career, expectations, life everything took a backseat for a while. We just drank and laughed for a long time. On the way back we sang along with the radio until our throats ached. Not that we did something worthwhile, but it just made me realize that how little we need to be happy. I also realized that the brother and I dint spend time together in a long while. Before starting , I a...

Relationships baffle me. And, they complicate life. They end up making the already complex life more complex. F is of the opinion that when we are born with relationships like mum, dad, brother, sister etc, why should we be the choosers of this relationship called 'life partner'. With different pressures from all the directions,the process many a time ends up in an entangled mess and crippled relations that cannot be patched. it makes no sense to me when people end up breaking an X relation to make a Y relation work. And yeah, the broken hearts that cannot be mended and the the million $$$ question is how happy you are at the end of this drama. Methinks , just being born with the 'life partner' relation would purge out so much pain from the world. I have always admired people who stood up for their happiness;people who knew what they want out of life and take the step to make it happen. If X had the guts to fight everyone for what X thought would make him happy, I wou...