I'm not quite sure. really
I’m not quite sure what I want to write about…. Never am, really. I was thinking that this reunion with my blog could be likened to a meeting between two long lost lovers at the Arrivals gate at the airport. But it couldn’t, really. I mean… even I don’t know where I’ve been for the last year or so (has it really been THAT long?). I suppose this is like a quick fix, catharsis for the soul every once in a while… when the sheer drudgery of day to day life becomes too much to handle. Anyway, enough of all that.
People don’t think often enough. All of us try to live our lives as fast as we possibly can – work, pubbing, relationships ( actually, its just work and football in Hosur – there isn’t a pub in town I could piss on). Sometimes its good to take it easy, but that may be the Sunday mood talking. The reason I thought I’d have a pop at the blog today was because of the Unifying Moment.
For people who don’t know what I’m on about (all of you), the Unifying Moment takes place quite occasionally, and in a variety of different fields. But it all leads to one thing. And it usually lasts a lot longer than a speech at the Oscars (What’s the limit, five minutes? Imagine what You would do if you won an Oscar).
The rest of this paragraph is optional. We live in a ridiculously, beautifully diverse world. From our perspective, there’s just SO much to do. All the different types of food you can eat (Mexican’s good)… music you can listen to… places you can visit… people you can meet. Of course, we’re all human beings at the end of the day… but like the Indian Elephant and its African counterpart, or the Siberian tiger and his brother in Asia, we’re different. I can tell when I’m rambling. The point I’m trying to make is, we’re all wrapped up in our cocoons… leading generally self-centric lives, more concerned about personal gratification than anything else. I know I am. It takes something pretty momentous to make us snap out of it, even it is only for a little while. That last paragraph was crap. Heck, I warned you.
This is boring.
On a smaller scale, the Unifying Moment takes place in India every time we play Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup. Everyone knows it on. Everyone’s interested in the result. And everyone’s talking about it. It sort of brings us all together in a way. But that’s just in India. If you look at it on a global scale…
1) Richard Nixon… Watergate… Woodward and Bernstein… and Deep Throat (That one’s got porn flick written all over it… not a good porn flick, mind).
2) Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky… A cigar… (Deep Throat ought to have starred in this one)
3) Every single Indian General Elections (Nobody votes… but everyone cares)
4) Princess Diana’s death (don’t tell me you missed Elton John in Westminster Abbey)
5) 9/11. Shocking.
6) The Boxing Day Tsunami. Horrifying.
7) The da Vinci Code. Everyone I know has read this book. Well, almost everyone… you know who you are.
8) The US General Elections. Practically everyone follows these elections because it pretty much decides the state of the world for the next four years. Sad, but true.
9) Liverpool winning the European Cup in 2005. Glorious.
.
.
.
Okay… maybe not that last one.
Of course, we have the sort of unifying events which happen every year or two. Or four.
The Olympic Games. People do follow it. Seriously.
Wimbledon
The US General Elections (sorry, these actually belong down here)
The Football World Cup
Erm… you get the general picture.
New Year’s Day
So what did we cover there… Sports, Politics, Terrorist attacks, Natural Disasters, the calendar, books, and celebrities – told you there was a variety.
Anyway, I’ll stop now. Sorry about that.
People don’t think often enough. All of us try to live our lives as fast as we possibly can – work, pubbing, relationships ( actually, its just work and football in Hosur – there isn’t a pub in town I could piss on). Sometimes its good to take it easy, but that may be the Sunday mood talking. The reason I thought I’d have a pop at the blog today was because of the Unifying Moment.
For people who don’t know what I’m on about (all of you), the Unifying Moment takes place quite occasionally, and in a variety of different fields. But it all leads to one thing. And it usually lasts a lot longer than a speech at the Oscars (What’s the limit, five minutes? Imagine what You would do if you won an Oscar).
The rest of this paragraph is optional. We live in a ridiculously, beautifully diverse world. From our perspective, there’s just SO much to do. All the different types of food you can eat (Mexican’s good)… music you can listen to… places you can visit… people you can meet. Of course, we’re all human beings at the end of the day… but like the Indian Elephant and its African counterpart, or the Siberian tiger and his brother in Asia, we’re different. I can tell when I’m rambling. The point I’m trying to make is, we’re all wrapped up in our cocoons… leading generally self-centric lives, more concerned about personal gratification than anything else. I know I am. It takes something pretty momentous to make us snap out of it, even it is only for a little while. That last paragraph was crap. Heck, I warned you.
This is boring.
On a smaller scale, the Unifying Moment takes place in India every time we play Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup. Everyone knows it on. Everyone’s interested in the result. And everyone’s talking about it. It sort of brings us all together in a way. But that’s just in India. If you look at it on a global scale…
1) Richard Nixon… Watergate… Woodward and Bernstein… and Deep Throat (That one’s got porn flick written all over it… not a good porn flick, mind).
2) Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky… A cigar… (Deep Throat ought to have starred in this one)
3) Every single Indian General Elections (Nobody votes… but everyone cares)
4) Princess Diana’s death (don’t tell me you missed Elton John in Westminster Abbey)
5) 9/11. Shocking.
6) The Boxing Day Tsunami. Horrifying.
7) The da Vinci Code. Everyone I know has read this book. Well, almost everyone… you know who you are.
8) The US General Elections. Practically everyone follows these elections because it pretty much decides the state of the world for the next four years. Sad, but true.
9) Liverpool winning the European Cup in 2005. Glorious.
.
.
.
Okay… maybe not that last one.
Of course, we have the sort of unifying events which happen every year or two. Or four.
The Olympic Games. People do follow it. Seriously.
Wimbledon
The US General Elections (sorry, these actually belong down here)
The Football World Cup
Erm… you get the general picture.
New Year’s Day
So what did we cover there… Sports, Politics, Terrorist attacks, Natural Disasters, the calendar, books, and celebrities – told you there was a variety.
Anyway, I’ll stop now. Sorry about that.
posted by Vishnu @ 5:51 AM
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