Birthday Blues...

Birthdays were fun in the childhood...they mostly are...back then its all the excitment about greetings and birthday wishes from friends and dear ones...anticipation about the gifts....and the thrill of the cake and the birthday party...It was mostly like that all the way through school and college life...

But as you near the gateway to the thirties club it starts takinga different form...its still not like that I am getting old or starting to worry about wrinkles and grey hair...maybe that will start after about ten or fifteen more years...this period is a very uncertain and full of trepidation...

As you pass variuos milestones in life and leave behind the moments which would never come again (like bunking lectures in college and hanging out with friends)...you begin to realise that life is finite...and though it is not expected to end soon you know it will end and then remember a list of things you need to do before that...its like a personal "ten things to do before you die"...maybe its a career you want to make...a position you want to achieve...or the family you want to have...different for different people...

So now each birthday becomes a milestone...a review meet...you analyze what has been achieved and how far or close are you from your goal...also you plan for the next year or two...identify targets....set deadlines for yourself....and probably ake an action plan...all this not necessarily in a formal drawn out way like corporate boardrooms...but atleast in your mind...so now the Birthday has a whole new meaning...and all thi is important..

But...without forgetting to live the moment...to not miss out on simple joys in life....for the moments gone will never come back....I like the Vodafone's taglines in some hoardings that went up a few years ago in many cities in India ... "Make the Most of Now"

5 Years...

I just realised I am about to complete 5 years of blogging!!! So many things have happened since I first started blogging. I hv tried to put most of my feelings in the blogosphere through poems, essays and stories...blogging still hasn't lost its charm for me...

Grown Ups Anyone??

Today's farce was so ludicrous that I do not have many words to spare for it. All this Shiv Sena daring Rahul Gandhi to step in Mumbai as if the city were its property, Rahul Gandhi carrying out the elaborate drama of travelling in a local train (in a special carraige reserved for him amidst state policemen paid using tax payers money) and our news channels covering the whole thing as if it were the third world war.
Any grown ups in this game of politics? Any one who can talk about inflation, debt, economic downturn and recovery? Any one who cna talk about the upliftment of the underprivileged from the backward regions? Any one talking about energy security or climate change? And any politician capable of coming up with a strategy to face global challenges in the new decade?

The wait is on...