Thursday, March 20, 2008

What if..??

The question which has no answer is one that starts with a "what if ..". Why you ask ..? well simply because there is no end to the subsequent what if's that can be thrown at you once you start answering. Don't believe me ..? well can't blame ya .. the first time I realised this fact, I was certain this model or theory as I like to call it.. could not be sustained... but it has...

Let's try a fictional conversation..

Dad: ... and the prince and princess lived happily ever after..
Son: I didn't like the story.. tell me another...!!
Dad: Why didn't you like it ? I've grown up listening to this story...
Son: It feels wrong somehow, there are a lot many unanswered questions...
Dad: like..?
Son: The part where the prince kills the rakshasha seems wrong.. (observe) what if the rakshasha had special powers that made him invincible.
Dad: well.. for that he had to do tapasya and ask for a boon from the Gods and he had not.
Son: what if he had done tapasya and you didn't know about it..?
Dad: It is possible, but the prince would have known about it from his gupt suchaks and would have done a tapasya himself to ask for a boon for a power to kill rakshashas like him.
Son: what if he had done tapasya and the God's had told him that it would be unfair to the rakshasha who had come before him for the invincibility boon and that being a God he could not be unfair to anyone.
Dad: The prince could say that the God was being unfair to him and maybe went to a higher God to ask for the boon.
Son: what if the higher God was also on the rakshashas side because he had taken a boon from the higher God not to allow the prince to take such a boon.
Dad: He would have gone to the head God Indra and asked for justice
Son: what if the lower God convinced the Head God not to give the boon because then he would have to be unfair to the rakshasha and put the prince in jail
Dad: that is presposterous ...!! why would they do that . Lord Brahma would never allow that.
Son: what if they mixed sleeping potion in Lord Brahma's afternoon tea and while he would be sleeping put the prince in jail.
Dad: I give up.. what do you finally want ..??
Son: I think the story should have a different ending. what if the prince was locked up in the heaven jail. The God's order the princess to either goto jail or become a daasi. The rakshasha , who was secretly in love with the princess, on hearing her plight becomes enraged and attacks heaven. He kills all the evil God's, rescues the prince and the princess and brings them to earth.
Dad: and the prince and princess lives happily ever after ..??
Son: No .. I was thinking .. what if.. the princess owes rakshasha one and finds that in the events that had happened, the rakshasha was her knight in shining armour, the one she was waiting for, and she leaves the prince and goes with the rakshasha..
Dad: so the rakshasha and the princess live happily ever after ..??
Son: No .. what if the prince now says that the princess was originally his and she should marry him and challenges the rakshasha to a fight till death with the winner taking the princess. The princess and the rakshasha agrees .. Their fight goes on for 40 days and 40 nights in storms, winter cold, the summer heat and the torrential rain and finally the prince manages to kill the rakshasha...
Dad: so now finally the prince and princess live happily ever after ..?? ( the frustration beyon dhis control, his hair standing up and his eyes narrowed on the son)
Son: Yes ... but what if ...


( Dad jumps out of the window ...)

p.s. "what if's.." are not good for health (of others) , if you have to consume them due to unavoidable circumstances (like these) please consume in mild doses or if possible take a minimum break of 4 hrs between two doses. Too high a dose can be fatal. Keep away from children, hazardous for adults in the hands of children below 8 years. Class H(I/J.. whatever) drug. Manufactured by: Hell Pharmaceuticals. side effects low doses: baldness (from pulling out hair), wrinkles (on your forehead due to immense tension and frustration), choking ( on your food.. do not consume it while having food) side effects high doses : only end result ...


I started of with an intention to write something else and wrote something else and now that Ive written something else, I am not going to write again or delete this something else for something else. So please forgive me for writing this something else instead of something else that I was trying to write initially.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

How to be the perfect partner..

I found these videos while stumbling on the net.. I think some you might find it interesting and even worth a few laughs


How To Be The Perfect Girlfriend


How To Be The Perfect Boyfriend


What are you greedy for ..?


My result LOVE

Seemingly I can't get enough when it comes to Love..

This is what they had to say about me ..

You've got butterflies in your stomach, you can't stop smiling, and you could swear that you're the luckiest person in the world. Sound familiar? It could only be one thing — love! And no matter how much you've got, it probably feels like you will never get enough, right? From smoldering crushes to even cuddlier dates, you're the kind of person who loves to want and feel wanted.

Money can't buy love, but that doesn't stop you from working to get it. Caring and affectionate, you know there's no such thing as too much. And while you might be a little sappy or sentimental now and again, there's no way anyone's going to fault you for having your heart in the right place. After all, you know what they say — the best way to get love is to give it. So go out there and get what you want!


Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Which Book are you ..?

The creators of this quiz say that there are 64 different outcomes. Go check it out and let me know your results.


You're A Prayer for Owen Meany!
by John Irving

Despite humble and perhaps literally small beginnings, you inspire faith in almost everyone you know. You are an agent of higher powers, and you manifest this fact in mysterious and loud ways. A sense of destiny pervades your every waking moment, and you prepare with great detail for destiny fulfilled. When you speak, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS!


Take the Book Quiz

Friday, March 07, 2008

In search of Nirvana..

A bit of philosophy anyone??

This is when you and I were say 10 years old.. there were always some questions in your mind which you thought about, which your mind couldn't simplify enough to get a satisfactory answer. You tried and tried to figure out the one logic which would set it all into place, but it simply didn't exist.You went upto your best friend and casually asked him the question, as if it were the most simple question in the world and you just happened to forget the answer but unfortunately he too was completely foxed by the simpleness of the question and you were disappointed in the dumb friends you had made, who couldn't answer such a simple question.But that is life and you always look for a better person to lead you to nirvana. So, hesitantly you go to your teacher and ask him/her the question, who incidentally you thought was the most intelligent being on the planet,but alas, you were devastated by the fact that he couldn't give an answer to a question which you initially thought was pretty dumb to ask him. Still, in search of a guru to lead you on in life, you go upto your dad, he is innocently sipping away at his tea with a newspaper or a remote in his hand, in short he is completely unaware of the question you had in mind for him, you wanted the surprise to be total, you knew he sidestepped most of your questions with the skill of a pro and like a veteran always managed to leave you speechless and escape, until you realised that you had been fooled. You had always respected him for that though, but today was important, he had to answer. So, when he was the least aware, you sprung the question... The startled expression on his face, the look of a deer trapped,was priceless, but you knew he was very calm and composed on the inside and quick on his feet; you were prepared. But before you had a chance to block all the exits, he managed to escape from under you, while you there speechless again.There was only one more person you could goto.Mind you, it was no easy task having the great person answer your questions. The only questions answered were the questions that were considered fit to be answered. The enlightened one had powers beyond comprehension, guardian of many life's most intimate secrets and the solver of the many "unforgivables" that you might have faced. She was .."Mother". So you muster up all your courage and approach her, she is working, you stand your ground waiting for her to finish. She asks you whats bothering you, you shake your head and wait for her to finish. After she's done with the stressful work only she can manage, you go upto her, put your head on her lap and ask her if she would answer the one question that has been haunting you, which noone around you has been able to answer. Your part done, you wait with baited breath, how she would respond. Your eyes judging her every expression for a hint what she was thinking. Atlast she declared, that she would answer it. Your joy knew no bounds and you got up in an upright position, to face her as someone worthy. You clear your throat, as if you are going to start a speech, but right then you choke. You think what if the question is deemed unfit and you are not allowed to ask another question ever...!! But this question is as important as ever, you console yourself, a risk is required for every great deed, your mind is placated, your heart is not and it beats furiously within. You finally ask the question ...


"why do we have a pair of everything, two eyes, two lips, two hands, two legs, two ears, but only 1 nose...?"


Life is not as complicated as we make it to be, some of the lifes most complicated questions are the ones asked simply. The innocent mind unaware of the complexities conjures up images and questions which our multi dimensionally enabled "adult" mind is unable to comprehend or answer. Somehow I feel that the age old saying "Ignorance is bliss" holds true even in the highly competitive I-know-more-than-you world of today, the age of ignorance is the age of innocence and one where we experience true bliss and enlightenment in the true sense of the word. Like sometimes saying nothing at all is equivalent to saying the whole world, similarly knowing nothing is sometimes equal to knowing everything.

What is philosophy I ask of you?? Its just a few arrongant good for nothings getting together and saying that their pfaff is beyond your intelligence. If you just look beyond the words, pfaff is all you will get.

Live easy.. live truly...!!
Enjoy

Saturday, March 01, 2008

"The Ladies Privilege"

According to a western legend, Leap years, "common" as they might be, have certain traditions and legends associated with them. This is because leap years are seen as unusual events that disturb the otherwise orderly progression of days/months/years, and thus certain beliefs have been attached to them. (One constant in the realm of folklore and superstition is that out-of-the-ordinary events are deemed to have out-of-the-ordinary consequences or properties.) Leap years, according to folk tradition, were the only times when women could propose marriage to men, with this Leap year belief often termed "The Ladies' Privilege". Yet even within this hypothesis there was disagreement as to how far it went — a great many of those who encountered this custom did not see it as applicable throughout the length of a leap year, but only to the extra day itself; that is, only to February 29.

The origins of "The Ladies' Privilege" are not definitively known, but one posited beginning set in Ireland had St. Bridget complaining to St. Patrick about women not being able to ask the men they fancied to marry them. According to the folktale, he offered the opportunity at a seven-year interval, and she bargained him down to four. (If this tale is true, it's no wonder St. Patrick took to putting the run on snakes, because he sure wasn't doing well against women.)

Though everyone loves a good folktale, the beginning of this custom more likely has to do with February 29 being perceived as a day that does not properly belong on the calendar and thus as a period when the ordinary rules of conduct do not apply.

In earlier days of Western society, relations between the sexes were far more formal and scripted, with each gender being expected to adhere to its assigned roles. When it came to proposing marriage, men did the asking and women did the accepting or declining — the other way around would have been unthinkable. Thus a leap year reversal of this ordinary state of things would be seen as "normal" so to speak.

Unlike in earlier times, there is now no societal prohibition against women being the ones to ask on bended knee. Custom, however, still continues to favor men doing the proposing, but its happening the other way around is no longer seen as shocking or as a challenge to the right
way of things. Its just remains to be seen how we evolve as a society and whether we Men will be able to retain the right to propose to girls or be relegated to proposing on just the 29th February. Life usually comes a full circle and evolves in cycles .. I hope in this particular situation it proves to be an exception..

There are somethings money can't buy .. for everything else..


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