3 years later...

Wow...it's been almost 3 years since i've blogged or even penned down a few lines...! So what got me so busy that I didnt write anything...well, i know for sure that the thoughts were always there, just didn't get the time for myself to do it.
hmmm...the past 2 years have been great...got married in 2006, shutteld between Mumbai and Pune, finally got back to Pune last year and it's been good so far :)
There are so many different thoughts that i wana talk about...guess, i'll try and be more regular here from now on...till then, here's to nice 'n relaxed weekend gone by!

Wear and tear

This thought crossed my mind on my way home, after a long day at work and more importantly when the bus I was traveling in hadn’t moved an inch in 30 whole minutes!

What in the world was happening to Bangalore city? The Garden city that it was called 5 years ago…really, was this city as beautiful and clean and “green” as they say it used to be? I’ve been here for a year and I haven’t seen a single Gulmohar tree…the many that used to line the roads so pleasingly…the city I know now is one that lacks basic things like infrastructure, civic amenities, drainage systems…etc etc etc…a city where the roads are more like many potholes put together to fit a jigsaw puzzle…a city where you can see cars at a standstill (in all directions, mind you) on most roads and at all times unfailingly…roads, sorry, potholes flooded with water with the slightest of heavenly showers…did we forget the live electric wires dangling freely on the sidewalk, that oh so sparkle the city alive and stun the ordinary man straight to his heavenly abode!

Is this what we call “wear and tear”?

And what about the people? I always feel that it’s the people that make a place worth living…this is strictly my opinion but I haven’t found the best of people out here! Maybe I haven’t met the right people…maybe there’s a whole bunch of nice folks out there…who knows! I for one surely haven’t known any of them in this city in the past year? I guess, we can easily hold accountable the burdens and stress of working life, the pressures of fast moving careers, and more so the horrors of daily traffic jams for all of this…but then this really ain’t gona change in today’s fast paced world; so does that mean we’re all gone turn out be grumpy, unfriendly and rude!

As I sit here in the bus since the past one-hour and with an hour more to reach home, I have a neck and back ache that is beginning to aggravate again…something I surely did not experience a year ago…is this all there is to our days…rushing from one place to another, getting as much work done today so that we have lesser to do tomorrow (but it never happens anyways)…thinking about our aches and pains all evening…silly worries about our surroundings, the city, our lifestyles and what not…hardly any cheerful moments with a friend and loved one…and the scariest according to me…going to bed without a single nice thought in the day…!!!

Is this what we call a healthy lifestyle?

Or is this ultimately “wear and tear”!!!

Simplicity

A special someone always says “Life is very simple, let’s keep it that way!”

So true and yet somehow a little difficult to follow, ain’t it? But when you try following it even for a few days, you know that it’s simply the easiest way to be happy :)

Mind you, it’s definitely not a cake walk…especially when we’re so prone to cribbing about everything we have and more so, what we don’t in life - our job, the city, our relationships, the weather, the next door neighbour’s dog who barks throughout the night, the amount of work we have pending for tomorrow, etc etc… We’re so used to grumbling and wasting all our energy doing that on a consistent basis that we fail to see all the good that we have in life!

It doesn’t get any better if you keep thinking and brooding about issues, big and small and turn the insignificant ones into the biggest trouble makers of all times!

And that’s exactly what I’m gona do…try to be uncomplicated and clear headed. After all, life’s too short and every single moment counts…and no matter how much we wana turn the clock back, the moment my dear friends has passed!

So, enjoy life…live it up...smell the flowers and definitely, keep it simple!!!

Change

Something happened yesterday that rattled me like nothing has in a long time and I couldn’t figure out then if it was for the better or for worse. It happened so unexpectedly and so honestly, that I couldn’t think straight for a long time after that…but all it took was a flash of a second…a moment of clarity for the thought to sink in! I also know now that it was for the better :)

I discovered or shall I say re-discovered something about me that was dormant for a long time. In that instant of fracas, where we were simply arguing for the sake of it coz we didn’t know how to end the discussion, I disliked myself completely…and in that split second of tension, the person I saw as me was not the one I wanted to be; instead I was turning out to be the exact opposite of that… slowly but surely!

After spending the last 24 hours trying to get over the ambiguity that had overwhelmed me with little or no success, I started writing…first in my mind and later on this post. It helped me clear my head for sure and I’ve never been happier to say the words, “I’m back” and I can with utmost humility say that I like the new me (or is it the old me???!!!). It certainly isn’t the one I saw last night! Whoa, am I glad or what?

finally...i did it! i created my own blog!!! yeah, i know it's quite late in the day but then, it's never too late :)

hi, i'm Blue Ginger...i have been writing on and off and lately, there have been lots of thoughts that i've been wanting to pen down but never really got the time to start doing it!!!

so here i am...more abt me in the posts that shall follow.