Lights,camera n action...
Scene from: You've Got Mail : Joe Fox to Katheleen Kelly
"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!"
It's much more fun to hear Tom Hanks say that! :)
Starbucks is the place for me too, n I won't shy from that! How many times I have stood in front of those try room mirrors making strange faces...putting effort,to decide one over the other...just how I linger on and on and on to choices so often and try so hard to make a "correct" choice. N after having made that "correct" choice....I indulge in PPN....post purchase nu-sense....figuring out just how the other option would have been a better one!
I everyday get up to a complete array of choices I have to make about my life, my career, my future n because I already hate the pressure of choosing the right things....I really feel like going back to sleep again.
Incredible India....We are living in a place where there is immense pressure to make the "correct" decisions at the right times...decisions that aren't good for that infinitesimally small moment ;) , but for a lifetime.
We start as kids....Games or academics...Literary or Sports... Sciences or humanities...Doctor or Engineer...(doctors pls excuse..the choices might seem biased here-on.feel free to add ur dilemmas too) Electronics or Computers...Job or higher studies...MS or MBA...Marketing or Finance...India or abroad...more granular Noida or Bangalore ;) ....not over though...Friends or Boyfriend/Girlfriend...Flirt or love...Kiss or no kiss....Office or Self....Yoga or Gym....Disc or home....Love or arranged....Yell or smile....idle or focus....brownie/nut cookie/cake or marielite....facebook or orkut....semiconductor or software....run or miss....lie or face the end....spend or suffer....console or giggle....appease or blurt....hate or love....budge or dnt budge....punch or kick....in the nose or in the rear....slap or frown....................
My head is spinning already!! I face it on a day-to-day basis and feel so uneasy when given so many choices...Do I have to decide again?Can someone else not take the pain?
I dn't know if any school on this earth has a compulsory subject on decision-making? And I have a choice again.....who could have taught this the best at my school...Juneja mam,Gandhi mam,Dhawan mam or SashiPrabha mam?
I wish this world learns to relax..to forgive..to forget...I wish there is room for late risers too...may be their booty not as rich as that of early birds,but nice enough to make their life worthy too....I wish there is a turning back from every crossroad that we come across n life..not those u-turns that come 10km down when its too late...not those fast expressways that land you in a new city too quickly...but guided turns that can put you back on track incase u took the wrong road...I wish all the choices in life are equally wonderful...no disparity...just a difference telling one from the other!!!
I wish the world has time to accomodate the "not-decided yet" category that I belong to. I wish confused and lost people are given their own time to figure out the puzzle. I wish those who have chosen a wrong road and want to go the other way still can have hope.....I wish all the decisions in life don't become so "ultimate" that the mere pressure of getting past them makes me tick the wrong option.....
Savings...is not just money...let's earn some time...let's earn some the peace...Let's not tower a burden on our shoulders all the time...Let's glorify some mistakes too....Let's exalt in some stupidity....Let's tick some wrong answers and maaro some "re" 's (aka repeats)
Imagine.....u choose a Brownie over an apple n it doesn't have such "eventual" consequences on u...Amazing na.....:)
So can I have my Tall,Low-Fat Cappucino??
Ciao
One just needs to learn from kids on keeping things in overall context. As a small kid, my father would remind me that no problem is big enough for you to worry about it for the rest of your life. And i have found it to be so true.
ReplyDeleteNice compilation I must say!!
ReplyDeleteIts again a "ghisa pita" suggestion, but I would suggest that a person should go upon his instincts and forget about all other metrics.
Yes, you should follow your heart. Maybe some moral guidelines too? Freedom of your choice ends where harm of another person starts, and it is already easier, right? Besides you should write more. To maintain a blog one must be very regular.
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