Thursday, November 10, 2005

Dazed And Confused

Life kind of seems at a standstill for the past few days. The problem isn’t that there’s nothing going on. There’s too much going on. Kind of like a Karan Johar song where a million Farah Khan protégés are dancing in slow motion, and the hero/heroine/best friend are the only ones singing at a normal pace, life around me seems moving at a place slower than it ought to, while I am still frantically trying to keep up.

It might be the weather. There’s a nip in the air, reminding me of late December in India – especially the evenings. The days are much colder, and ‘dressing in layers’ never made more sense. There are less people outside, unlike in the summer where all of Seattle's famed 'outdoor' culture comes to the fore with people jogging, biking and walking their way, soaking up the weather.

Maybe it’s the impending holiday season, and the need for a vacation delayed longer than it should have been. (Ennui at work thankfully hasn’t been a problem, and there’s enough on my plate to keep me at it happily.)

Maybe it’s just a feeling that you aren’t in as much control over your life as you think you are. That all the things you do to seek cheap thrills and that rush of adrenalin, and all the things you do to shake your comfort zones aren’t working. That even after seeing a good chunk of life and interesting and weird times, there are things that still throw you off and confuse the hell out of you. That maybe you aren’t as smart as you thought you were. Especially about things you assumed came to you naturally.


To paraphrase Rushdie,

“There’s more to you Life,
Than meets the blinking eye”

3 comments:

Confluencer said...

thx for visiting. well, how you been and hows the west coast treating ya? and I should say, I wish I was in your position - for me its so much to do so little time. lifes just too short and heck I feel this at 25, dunnoi if I will be sane at 50 (insh'allah)

a standstill will be manna.

Ajay said...

The grass is greener on the other side, innit?

I personally feel it's better this way than the other way around - too much time and nothing to do.

Life in the Pacific NW has been kind.We need to catch up sometime.

Confluencer said...

that we should... call me sometime. unless I get to it before you, but then you know me :-)