I hope we also get to pick our powers

Small talk with you better be worth something

Is action any good without the right intention? If I help someone out of obligation and resent doing it, do I still get my karmic credit? I have realized that the only time I help people with stuff is when I can’t get out of it. I wish everyone was well settled so no one would ever need me.

Ironically, I find helping others terribly self-indulgent.

p.s. I should add that by help here I don't mean helping kids in wars or famine; I just mean doing daily favors for people who should have managed on their own in the first place. For kids in war or famine, I don't have the balls. Although I find those people self-indulgent too. But when even God wants people to go to temples and sing his praises everyday, how can we be any better?

Two bright bulbs

Christmas comes early

Q. If you hate your job, when is the best time on it?

A. The month leading up to your last working day.

I finally got the dates for my transition. One more month and then the time to back my words with action. My current assignment in Boston ends July first week, and I move back to India. And then I resign as soon as I get there. I get paid a lot of money for what I do so its fucking insane that I can't wait to give it all up and do nothing for a few months.

And to all my "well-wishers" who keep trying to talk me out of it, back off! You are not me so don't tell me what you would have done if you were me. Just wait for me to regret it all in a couple of months, and then you can gloat secretly but right now, just be envious. That is all I ask of you.

Just wondering

Would Kurt Cobain be the legend he is if he hadn't killed himself? If he had lived, who knows he might have been on "I am a celebrity, get me out of here". Alright may be not that low, but he married Courtney Love.

Death is like the end of a movie; we know what happens till the happy ending but we don't stick around long enough to see the passionately kissing couple at each other's throats in a matter of days. Girl would find out that the guy opposes gay marriage and guy would realize he can't afford the girl's shoes.

From the deep end of the ocean

Everyone has heard about the Air France flight that went missing over Atlantic. I have been following this news, looking at pictures of relatives waiting at the airport for the news about their loved ones. "Loved ones", that is how it is always written. May be they are not looking for their loved ones, but just for people they are responsible for and are actually annoyed at the additional responsibility of filling the forms and showing up at the airport.

For some this event might make them feel a little important; being a part of an international news. Being one of the 228 (or less) families that are directly affected by this. This would be a story they would tell for years. There would be some small details that would get magnified in their memories and would keep getting added to the story. He almost missed his flight. She told me that she was feeling uneasybefore this flight for some reason. He always joked about plane crashes and told me how it was statistically safer than road travel.

Then there are those for whom their world disappeared along with that plane. And no amount of logical explanation will convince them that no one is coming back.

(a part of me wishes I was on that plane - lost never to be found)