The Indescribable

Right now, I am sitting on a sofa set with my notebook in my lap, and with my house-mate playing a song from “Tanu weds Manu” (don’t know what he likes in that song – ohh he just changed it to “Toss the Feathers” by “The Corrs”) and with my other house-mate just returning from his comatose state (don’t worry, this happens quite frequently). As I flip through the channels on the TV set in front of me, I bump into live IPL, Sarah Palin’s Alaska (which by the way in my opinion is a lame idea), Koffee with Karan and repeat telecast of Roadies. I also simultaneously read that Sathya Sai Baba has passed away this morning, that my colleague doesn’t really like the MMS on him my house-mate has uploaded on Facebook a few minutes back and that Sachin has turned 38 today.

I am trying to make a sense of why I wrote all that I did above. Some might call it a confused state, but then I wonder that with so much happening around us, isn’t it obvious to get mad? I mean I try to imagine how  our grandparents have lived. Ladies listening to AIR and maybe watching Doordarshan at home along with their daily chores of work, and gents spending a 8 to 5 time in office, calling home sometimes in between from their fixed landline connections. We know that things happened at that time, and continue to happen now as well. But what disturbs me is the convoluted life we live now. We have the power of Google where it takes less than a minute to know everything about anything, and we have mobile phones that don’t let us disconnect from our friends in the US. But, then, has it been able to satisfy all of us? I believe that the craving has gotten wilder, and the stress levels are only increasing. The work appears to be infinite and the horizon is far from being visible.

Why can’t we choose to live a simple life. I mean what will happen if earned a little lesser, if US didn’t want to be the boss of the world, India and Pakistan kept aside their egos and reached a consensus on the Kashmir issue and Qaddafi finally called it a day, became a citizen of his country and allowed democracy to peacefully lead the country from here on. Wouldn’t it be a simpler and a far more peaceful life? To me, the objective of life is unclear and I even fail to understand all the insanity around me. As someone puts it, “We have been hurled on the face of the Earth and we do what we do because we have nothing better to do”.