Tum itna jo ro rahi ho...kya gum hai jisko dikha rahi ho???

I was listening to some romantic songs and was blissfully lost in my dreams about him when a strange advertisement shocked me out of my revelry. A certain company was urging every one to participate in a marathon.

Reason?

Health benefits for us? No!! The reason is to support underprivileged children!

My question is how does our running a marathon help the little kids? It’s good for our health and that’s it. We need to stop making up funny excuses like AIDS walk, UNESCO walk…we are just trying to appease our conscience.

Another stupid mass display of grief is the candle light vigil. Honestly are we showing our support or are we having a pyjama party?

Remember the break up party from Love Ajkal??? That is how the world is today. Any thing…even a tragedy is a cause for celebration!!

And yet…

When a certain IPL team had a particularly exuberant party post their tournament win people kept talking about how inappropriate it was to celebrate their win.

When a new mother gushes about her how brilliant her baby is people mock her and say she’s overreacting about her very ordinary child.

Apparently it’s wrong to celebrate personal happiness and wins but somebody else’s woes can be camouflaged into a big party!!!

Please…if we feel sorry for someone or something we should act on it instead of telling the world how deeply saddened we feel.

On the other hand it’s a basic human right to feel happy…let’s not dissect and decide how much celebration is correct when someone is celebrating his/her personal joy.

Extremism is good...extremism is life...

There’s the million dollar question --- if given the chance to choose between intellect and beauty what would you choose???

Then there’s the done-to-death potshot. Based on your answer you’ll be told that it’s because you’ve a shortage of beauty/brains.

But really what would you choose if you had the opportunity to choose between infinite wisdom and breath taking beauty? [Now those of you are answering that “I already have both” should come and participate in the “Reincarnation of Narcissus” contest which I’m planning to arrange.]

But what do the rest of you think?

Case 1: You chose sharp brains

With that amount of intellect in this more or less stupid world you can be assured that you would be the undisputed ruler. And of course you can fool the idiots around you into thinking that you are the prettiest of them all.

End result: You get both.

Case 2: You chose magnificent beauty

With that amount of beauty any one would lose their sense of reasoning when you are around. So you would be the unchallenged ruler. And since your looks have significantly dimmed the wits of your fellow earthlings you would be the most intelligent person too.

End result: You get both.

Do you see the power of extremism?

I believe that we should regularly come out of the middle path and indulge in the all or nothing philosophy. Be it in case of the small things in life like win/loss in a petty board game or the big things in life like love…indulging in extremism gives us supreme satisfaction. Absoluteness has a divine beauty…experience it now. You can always think about being moderate in old age…till then let’s revel in the spirit of youth…let’s be impatient and aim for it all.