I Believe!

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things which nobody knows if they're true or not. 

I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Tiesto - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. 

I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in India is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. 

I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that Mumbai is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Delhi is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds. 

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with his girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. 

I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. 

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it...

Confusion – A State of Mind!

The word confusion is so dramatic. I met someone recently who tries to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on his face. I encountered it for the first time during my school days when I was not sure which shoes to wear for my friend’s birthday. But obviously the confusion was short lived and I finally decided on one out of the two options. But I never knew that confusion was progressive and directly proportional to age (atleast till 25, something that I have experienced).

The level increased and became more complex when I entered college - a different city, new people and many more such things which made me unsure of what to do and what not. Everyone seemed artificial. I was in a situation where I had to pick the right people with whom I had to spend 3 years of my college and life after that (incase they were worth it); people call it confusion. I met the extremes, people who used to call their family every hour and also people who lived in solitude and never wanted to speak to family or talk about them. Was confused again, what was the right approach?

But never knew that it would be nothing when compared to the confusion that I would have to go through during my career planning. Everything looks glittery, every industry looks potential. Every morning I get up, I think of doing something different, something new. I don’t know if it’s just me, or everyone at this age goes through this.  But this confusion kills me every night and gives me a birth every morning. Off-late, life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual. Hope this mystery gets a solution soon.

Sometimes I go in one direction when I am sure it’s right, and it’s not…. and the next time, I am Confused.

Welcome to the world of Confusion!!