Relative Story: A few days back I got invited to a phone conference of a talk by a very popular spiritual Guru of our times, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudeva of Isha Foundation. Check him out on YouTube. He sort of reminds me of Osho. His delivery of message is a lot like Osho’s – candid! Quite a few of my friends are highly influenced by him.
So during the talk, Sadhguru narrated a story (these are pretty close to his words as I typed it while he spoke):
On a certain night, a lady went to sleep. She had a dream; she saw a hunk of a man staring at her. As he started to come close to her, closer, closer, she could feel his breathe. She trembled! What will you do to me? The man said, well, lady, it is your dream!!!
Moral of the story: Please manage your dreams at least!
Radio influenced reflections while driving:
John Meyer is totally relentless with his “say what you need to say”. Seriously, the radio stations are still not giving up on this song or each time I turn on the radio, there it is. I want an association song for this time. Like you know when you hear some song, you go back to a certain time and place with that song. & I don’t want it to be “say what you need to say”! For instance “dil deewana” from Pardes reminds me of driving down the San Mateo Bridge - sun setting on San Francisco became “dil, deewana, deewana hai yeh dil”… My first trip back to India is connected to the Judwa soundtrack. What a musical masterpiece: “tan tana tan tan tan tara, chalti hai kya nau se barah”. Aaj tak India mein nau se barah ka show dekhne ki hope hai!
Hmmm… I want something absolutely random with a touch of ridiculous to it. Those are the best memory songs. And it has to be Bollywood! Aaahhhhh .. can’t believe; I found it – its perfect all complete with the theatrics of the moment:
Zoobi Doobi Zoobi Doobi Pum Para
Zoobi Doobi Param Pum
Zoobi Doobi Zoobi Doobi
Naache Kyun Pagal Stupid Man!!!
Way to go! Moving on!!!
Weight Fluctuations.
One of the most annoying side effects of emotional issues – weight fluctuation! Its like the moon phases – you gain, you loose, you gain, you loose, you pms, you bloat and get very angry over God knows what!
During the “jab dil hi toot gaya, hum jee kar kya karenge” phase, I inhaled a large tub of Haagen-Dazs dark chocolate ice-cream and I don’t even like ice-cream. I did it because that’s the protocol! Heartbroken girls eat atrocious amounts of ice-cream. I followed it with crazy amount of Cabernet Sauvignon.
Moral of the story: Do NOT mix ice-cream and wine.
Good thing though – I had followed my protocol and was ready to move on to “I am not hungry” phase. Not a bad phase – its helping me reach my ideal weight goal. Every cloud has a silver lining, aye!
Shoe Therapy
I must have realllyyy liked this fellow!
I was devastated to find that buying shoes won’t help. I was in shoe heaven with the Macy’s sale going on. I was right there and came back empty handed. Did not even want to try anything? Usually, the Borns, the Nine Wests, the Steve Maddens, the Bondolinos, the Circas, the Franco Sartos … call me by my first name. But this time they did not even wanna have an eye-contact. What can I say, “dekhi zamane ki yaari, bichadey sabhi baari-baari”. . .
Now I have a permanent room on disappointment-central platform - Kholi # 420!
Friends
I am so grateful to God! I have fabulous friends and they don’t let me forget they are around. I am not allowed to be MIA for too long cuz they hate missing their McChatty express spewing her goofiness on the fly… they are persistent with their texting, leaving vms, emails, facebooking, sending a pigeon,… I suppose you know who your real friends are because they will break down the walls you put up. My weakness is I run; thank God that they don’t let me go too far.
Here I will share my friend philosophy; it’s an exercise I ask people to do once in a while. On one hand count five people who can count on you and on another hand count five people you can count on. If you can fill all the ten fingers, you are doing something right. Because only 2 types of people count:
1) those who believe they can count on you in desperate times (this is tricky because this set may include a few opportunists)
2) those on whom you can count on during adversities.
Generally these set of people overlap, which is a good thing. A 2-way relationship is logical, sensible, hassle free, and a rocking party.
Nostalgia
Gulzar says, “waqt marta nahin”!
True – waqt memories ban kar hamarey mind mein ek parallel universe kai form mein zinda rehta hai.
These days a few friends from childhood have been making rounds in my memories.
Last night, one of the channels was broadcasting Qyamat Se Qyamat Tak. Each time I that movie comes up, I remember Kevin – he was my neighbor, my schoolmate and best friend in eight grade in India. He was an Anglo-Indian with striking resemblance to Aamir Khan (w/ blue eyes). No – I did not have a crush on him. I was true to my love for Aamir Khan. Around Diwali time, while playing, Kevin broke my little patakha bandook and I got so mad at him for that. He tried to hard to apologize but I was such a B*! I feel bad now L … But my best friend knew of my love for Aamir Khan that when the DSOI played QSQT, he surprised me by taking me to watch it. (DSOI played QSQT frequently because that is one of the two movies they had to show)
I wonder how he is doing!
Green Tea
This is just a random sub topic.
Ladies in case you are wondering, drinking Green Tea really works. I can feel the difference in my skin and hair. Girls, feel free to write to me if you want personal confirmation.
Over and out – but not for too long!
2 thoughts:
Really...What has ice cream to do with the heart break & girls ? Wine would have made some sense but chocolate ice cream ? :D
Nikhil - you must know that ice-cream is considered chicken soul for soul for broken hearted women. Really! But mixing wine and ice-cream can easily turn broken-heart to heart-burn (yuck)! ...
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