The Best Comeback Ever!!!!!

This particular incident happened to me yesterday…………………..

After returning home from my daily morning gym routine, I found a missed call from an unknown number in my phone. I am not in the habit of carrying my phone to the gym due to many reasons, in particular that I do not wish to be disturbed and the gym was a minutes walk away from my place. Normally, I do not bother to call up an unknown number and inquire about its owners identity and purpose of calling me. Its an odd Indian habit of ours to call up on unknown numbers, some of which would be important (which happens rarely!), but otherwise a complete waste of time as most of the unknown numbers are usually spam or belong to ‘dedicated’ telemarketers. I emphasize dedicated here for the simple reason that all telemarketers are sincerely dedicated to irritate the hell out of us either with their hugely nasal overtones or their impeccable sense of wrong timing while making their cold-calls. I was, in this case, expecting a call from the office as I was to appear in the morning shift from my otherwise comfortably placid evening shift. There was an assignment of mine that had to be pushed before deadline, and therefore, I surmised that my bosses had made that call to graciously remind me of my much-needed appearance at the office in a jiffy! However, it turned out, that this number belonged to a rather interesting (otherwise completely idiotic!) chap with whom I would have a ‘firecracker’ of a conversation. The emphasis on firecracker will be subtly explained as follows……

Return To Innocence

Life surely is a funny mystery….We all come into this earth with a purpose, with a special story to share. Some stories are extraordinarily beautiful, but usually they are short; some may be enriching or lacklustre, and they almost go on for a while. We always consider adulthood to be the most important aspect of our lives, for it is the age of responsibility, setting a name for ourselves and so on….but we almost forget the previous chapters of our lives, the most golden part of any story—our childhood.

Do We Really Care?

It is sad to see us so comfy and complacent in our shells,
While the world around us slowly burns to hell,
It is sad to see many lives lost every day, in countries far and away,
In an age where death and genocide are mere numbers on the screen,
What do we care? We just simply shrug and walk away…….

Do we really understand the pains and horrors of war?
Can we truly feel the loss of all that had stood before?
Roads and playgrounds, once filled with sounds of joy and laughter,
Are now fields of flowing red, destruction and terror,
But what does a child’s pleading cries for help mean,
His arms raised towards the heavens, amidst the chaos and the screams,
Do we really care? We are all too busy in our ‘social’ screens…..

Clear blue skies that once were in the past,
Are now laden with rockets and jets soaring fast,
Machines guns rattle, the streets bustle with men and metal,
The shells make them run for cover,
The bullets take them down in twos and threes,
Such being the acts of carnage and violence, in a land that was once free,
But what does this all mean for the rest of the world, to you and to me?
Do we really care? We are just relieved that we are spared free…..

We simply fail to care, we just watch and stare,
See a nation tear itself apart, whole and square,
Our leaders may argue with each other,
Each threatening the other what to do,
While the citizens of the land once free,
Continue to suffer through and through,
Shells and rockets, tears and anguish, misery and sorrow,
For the glorious land and its proud people, such has the way of life become,
In the days that were lived past, and the days that are yet to come,

Are we all truly blind not to see,
A nation torn apart and its people on their knees?
Have we all turned deaf not to hear,
Their cries and pleas, their screams, and their fears?
Have we all stooped so low, in the depths of apathy?
Have we all become so cold, not to show sympathy?
But why should we care? There is nothing in it for you and me….
Why should we really care, we will just agree to disagree….

(Dedicated to the brave people of Syria…)

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Why Do We Fall???

Belated Happy New Year Everybody!!!! May all your troubles last as long as your resolutions!!! ;P ;P 😀 😀 (my apologies, for it was nasty, but then again, so am I!!!). All jokes apart, I do sincerely wish for every blogger and everybody in general to have a safe, prosperous, and a delightful year ahead….

What We Can Learn From Sci-Fi Flicks

Everybody loves a good science fiction flick—the whizzing and flashing of lasers in a fierce battle; the calculated efficiency of droids and machines, friend and foe alike, and their trials and tribulations; colossal starships and their legendary journeys into deep realms of uncharted space; magnificent cities with their towering skyscrapers reaching further and further above toward the zenith like the fabled tower of Babel and gravity-defying vehicles traversing and criss-crossing each other in definite lines above the surface—what more instances can a good sci-fi flick offer that unfailingly grab our attention and still leave more to the imagination???