G for Generation & G for Gap

I want to ask all the generations before mine if they felt the same way we do! There's such a huge difference in perspective towards life between me and say, my 'elders'. I wish I could write my dad instead of 'elders', but my ol' man is way too young at heart to be included in the 'elderly'.

For a simple example, I heard SO MUCH of 'do it when you are older' and 'do it when you are grown up' while I was growing up. Today, if I look consider doing a certain thing, the first thing that comes to my mind is 'now or never'. I mean, I have it so clear in my head that there's no tomorrow for doing what one wants to do. (Of course one indulges in procrastination, but that's for things one doesn't like doing.) So if suppose there's a place I want to visit, I must visit it today or tomorrow or at max, this weekend. The 'elders', as I know them, would indulge in a planning process to make a visit to this neighbourhood restaurant, and brood over it for months together, waiting for an occasion to happen! By the end of it, the restaurant would have either shut or well, it would have certainly lost its new-charm.

It is not only about me. I feel that my 15-year-old cousin MUST go for a roadtrip alone with friends, if she wishes to... and I want her to do it NOW! You don't need to be 30 years of age to do that! Every time my friend, who is 25 years old, asks me if she should do this or that the other, I am like... Totally, why wait?

I remember my dad telling me that he wanted to do so many things when he was in his early 20s. (This was part of our conversation when I  told him several years ago that I want to move to Bombay, and he thought I wanted to run away from home to marry someone or something like that!) I, like my natural don't-understand-why-self, had  plainly asked him--Then why didn't you? Well, the answer he gave me was not exactly a reason; I don't remember it now, so I know it was not a solid reason.

While I talk about the 'elders' here, I am in no way trying to say that we are right and they are wrong, or anything like that. But I am simply musing over how I (and a lot of my friends) feel about this issue.

If it is the widely-accepted 'generation gap', then I am sure it happened to our parents too. Or did it not?

Loved watching Highway!

Watching the movie Highway over the weekend was absolute bliss, which of course got ruined with the other watch, Shaadi Ke Side Effects! I am so glad that despite the abrupt planning, being tired and the mild rain, we made it to watch Highway on Saturday night... It's Wednesday evening and I have heard Sooha Saha (a song from the movie) over 10 times each day (since Saturday) and Guddi Patakha equally much! I LOVED the movie, and I think it's far better than director Imtiaz Ali's last, Rockstar.

Somehow, I hate how critics went ahead and wrote average reviews about Highway though (I didn't bother reading about Shaadi Ke Side Effects, waste of time!). Why has it become a fashion to bash movies for no valid reason? Why do people measure all films by the same yardstick? I mean if you were comparing Highway to Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, or Shaadi Ke Side Effects to Three Idiots, OBVIOUSLY you are erring somewhere, right?! Or am I reading something wrong somewhere?

I remember how I had gone to watch Agent Vinod to just pass time with my boyfriend. The movie was totally trashed by reviewers, my friends had Facebook statuses claiming it was the worst movie they ever watched, and the movie was declared a flop. So bad were the sentiments about the film that the cinema hall was nearly empty! And by the time the movie ended... I was wondering, what's wrong with this??? I mean, for an audience that enjoys any crap that's served to them with absolutely no acting and no story and bad music and picturisation, Agent Vinod was a movie that had the two leading stars actually acting, and the music was FAB (Raabata is one of my all time favourite songs), and to top it all up the locations and cinematography was nothing less of breathtaking!

Wonder wtf is happening!

Music!

I wonder if there's anything else in the world that incites the kind of emotions and feelings in humans that music does. That sensation that comes when I play a song on my headphones at a really loud volume, is unparalleled. I can bet with just about anyone that once the music starts flowing through your ears, you may be upset or sad or just generally blah, at least for a moment it'll transport you into this zone of dancing and singing along... and if you're sensible, you will choose to stay there!

Strangely enough, music actually does not have any language! You might think that you won't enjoy songs if you don't understand the lyrics... here are a few links you may try... and I challenge you will fall in love with these songs, even if you don't get a word of them (they're in kannada)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zecRgZYi-kw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxIa5e8y4gk

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anisuthide%20yaako%20indu&sm=3

Feeling philosophic right now!

So what is it that you desire the most in life? Money? Power? Fame? Happiness? Good food? Great travel? Love? None of the earlier? All of the earlier? Something entirely different? ... Or wait, are you the sorts, like me, who just can't figure out what they want the most in life!

While I was trying to find an answer to this 'very philosophic' question the other day, I wondered how is it that so many people know it so naturally that they want 'a red coloured dress with a golden dupatta and copper-coloured peep-toes with it', whereas all I seem to know about my wanting is... 'I want clothes'! (Not to forget mentioning the fact that I don't think such detailed-to-the-T people do any better in looking pretty than I do!!!!)

Then I thought, may be, a simple way to decode a valid and justifiable answer for 'what do I desire most in life' would be in answering 'What is the one thing I could die or kill someone for?"... ummmm.. truth be told, there is a list of things (at least 10 that I can count in one breath right now) for which I could go to the extent of killing somebody. And, there is quite an exhaustive list things for which I could die!

Is there anybody, anybody at all, who lacks clarity on this subject like I do? Anybody who makes statements about what they desire, dream and wish for.. and then secretly wonder, 'what difference would all those things make to me anyway?'.

To me, it seems like I am a victim of ever-shifting internal goal posts! But man, it's alright... I shall tame my senses some day!

Introduction 101

I am definitely not a first time blogger, I just buried five of my previous blogs with over 500 posts combined. Hard as it was (especially to bid adios to my main blog of the past five years) I had been contemplating doing it, because I am in a new phase of my life and there's simply no need to carry skeletons, most of which don't make sense any more, along.

Well, the excitement level is top-of-the-chart today, because (I'm sure like most other active bloggers) I am can't stop thinking about how much joy and fun this new one's going to bring. I am listing out in my head what all I will write about, contemplating if photographs should be added or not, thinking if I am going to write fiction/philosophy/reality. But one thing's straight and sure - I intend to have lots of fun, and hence the "witty" in the blog url. Also, I am not going to stop myself from the "wild" child that I am.

However, it's hard to transport the over-a-dozen followers I had on my last blog, and since I don't want to connect the two, I am going to really have to start from scratch and find new blog-buddies, not to get them to comment on what I write, but to create an ecosystem that's attractive enough for me to want to come back to this space and read-write-think.

BTW, this morning I made a resolution to become absolutely non-judgemental about people. I used to be like that, but I don't know where I lost that skill. But, I am going to gain it back and I am going to become this pure soul with NO negative thoughts about anyone, at least not until they do me any physical harm. (It's gonna be terribly hard because I have flashes of people who I absolutely hate running through my head and I don't think there's anyway I can forgive them... But then, may be I should try forgetting!)