Serendipity

Have you ever noticed how sometimes some things just happen, or not happen. The same goes for me and blogging. All day long words, phrases, topics keep floating in my head, about people, situations, anything that can make a good something to write about…but then it just doesn’t happen.

Guess I’m having a writer’s block right now. It’s good, in a way, Now all those huge, thick, hit-on-your-head-see-stars chem and physics books don’t gather layers of dust like they used to. Having nothing better to do, I apply my precious creative imaginative mind inside my pretty head to actually think about how infinitely large charged metal plates with a dielectric between them behave and how are the properties of diamminechloridomethylamine platinum chloride different from those of tetraamminechloridonitrito-N cobalt chloride. (Yeah, don’t you just love scientific jargon? )

Four long hours, actually six from tomorrow, of coaching classes in our supposed-to-be-summer-holidays doesn’t really make a good background for being able to write happy-happy, non-crabby blog posts.

Friend since the silly days of eighth, Ank, says one day : “Gawd…life has become so complicated ever since we passed class tenth.. I really wish I could enjoy my present…” (Yeah, she’s the type who would much prefer that to all boring phy, chem and math.)

But then, looks like we only have two choices: chill marofy now and suffer later in some tedious boring underpaying job, or slog, slog, slog through the present and shape out a good life for ourselves.

I much prefer the latter.

That flower hanging beyond the fence
So lovely, so perfect
Just what I need
To enhance my dress
For today’s dance.
But I can’t reach it
Somehow it’s too far away
Over the garden fence
For my hand to get it
And there’s dad waiting in the car
For me to come
There’s not enough time
So I’ve got to go without
The flower I so badly want.

It often happens so in life
There are so many things
You want to get
You think you deserve them
Think you really need them
Things you strive for
Would even die for…
But the time to go always comes
You aren’t ever able to have
What you thought would
Enhance your life
You are never able to reach out
And grasp what is tempting you
Because there is no time left
And because these things are
Beyond fences.

A few days ago, two little kids came to spend the day at my place– children of one of my mum’s friends.
Both of them were watching a kids’ channel on the telly, when there came an advisory warning before a certain PG-rated show.

(am translating in English for the sake of the non-Hindi people, if any, who happen to read this.)

The older kid : “See, what’s written on the TV screen —…’Pogo advises that kids should watch the next program alongwith their parents.’..Do you know what that means?”

The younger kid : “Yeah I do. It means that the next program is so good that the kids’ parents should also watch it.”

He spoke sooo innocently, I couldn’t help but laugh.