First Steps

A lot has happened since I returned back to Mumbai. You know that saying about life balancing out everything? It seems to be so true. I managed to get a wonderful project with the downside of spending four hours in travelling. Thankfully, I do not have to face the wrath of rush hour since I leave for office pretty early and arrive home equally late.

This goes without saying that the weekends now have the status of festivals- sacred, brief and highly revered. I am now a miser when it comes to spending time on chores and meeting people, much to the agony of relatives and friends.

Sadly, I am yet to perfect the art of time management considering how pressed for time I usually am. The to-do list is hardly glanced at in the course of the day and as a consequence most of the items remain unchecked.

Oh, did I tell you about the rush of feel-good hormones on seeing the salary arrive in your account? Knowing that you are financially independent is a huge reassurance altogether especially when you have striven for four years to achieve it.

I know my writing might seem a bit haywire but I am pouring my random thoughts together with the hope it makes some sense to you. I believe writing things down is the best way to take stock of your life, it gives you a third-person dimension to your perception about the proceedings of life and may help me chalk out a plan for future. Till then, I shall go with the flow hoping that whatever happens is for the best.

Being Inquisitive

I have always been a very curious person and in my quest for curiosity, I have often treaded lines drawn for privacy purpose but thankfully never been reprimanded for it. For example, I saw a beautiful crystal globe at my friend’s place yesterday similar to the one seen in Om Shanti Om and in no time I was shaking it vigorously to watch the sparkles get agitated and settle down in slow motion. Till I realized that my other seven friends were staring and wondering what I was doing. Of course, the owner didn’t mind, I would have killed her if she would have said anything because she is that close to me. But it did make me determined to curb my inquisitive ways and limit my questions related to academics only because that’s when your questions don’t sound silly or rude. What brought about this change? Even I have been plagued with questions and I couldn’t satisfactorily answer many of them. So in this blog I am going to answer a few questions and even you can ask me questions related to my strange ways, if any. Here it goes-

Q. Why do I wear a watch even while going to sleep?
A. I am obsessed with time and sometimes I tend to get over punctual. I wake up at odd hours and I don’t know if it’s too early or too late. When I check out my cell phone, the light blinds my eyes and they start watering in no time. So I think checking out your watch is a much less stressful option and when it is strapped on to my wrist, I don’t have to scramble and look around for time. I only remove the watch while bathing and I wouldn’t have even done that if my watch was water-resistant. (Do you know Abhishek Bachchan has a shark-resistant watch? It means that even if a shark eats you up, the watch would still be ticking away happily in the shark’s belly, though I don’t think anyone stayed alive to verify this. )

Q. Why is everything owned by me predominantly red?
A. Let me tell you it has got nothing to do with lucky colour logic. I believe red is a colour which stands out amongst the rest and its quite energizing. While my classmates always opted for drab blue and black bags, I always had an eye out for red because not everyone would like to have such a bright colour for their bag. Right now my possessions in red include my bag, hanky and a wardrobe predominantly red. I even tried bullying my parents to paint one wall in my house red but I didn’t succeed and had to be content with a lavender shade.

Q. Why do I shop so much?
A. I get bored very easily and I don’t like to repeat my clothes too often in a week. I never go out with the intention of shopping, it more impulsive wherein I like something on display and pick it up. Owing to my ever-fluctuating weight due to which I oscillate between thin and very thin, I need to change my clothes often because after a few months they turn out to be too loose or too fit.

Q. Why do I blog so infrequently?
A. I was stuck with a dialup connection which was activated on my brother’s cell phone. I had to wait for my brother to be back home from his tuitions so that I could log on. Then there were times when my brother simply refused to hand me the cell because he thought blogging was time pass and unimportant which made me go grrrrr. Anyway, the good news is that I got a cable net connection at a speed of 100kbps which is a blessing. Another reason for few blog posts was that I strictly guard the privacy of people I write about. Not many people are keen to see their names mentioned on the blog and as a result I lose out on interesting posts.

Q. Why do I get so emotional?
A. My moon sign is Pisces. No actually, that’s a very lame excuse but I guess I am full of empathy. It’s like this- Even if my whole house is charred, I would feel really bad for the child crying for her lost doll. I sometimes tend to ignore my own heath while worrying for someone else’s misery. When you can’t do much to help them, I do feel like crying because I am helpless. And of course when a dear one backstabs me, the tears do pour out. The worst part? I don’t cry in front of everyone. I just pull over the sheets at night and weep silent tears. Yeah, I am hyper-emotional!
More questions to come……….