creating a life-map

Another day bites the dust

And as I sit in front of this laptop wondering if there's anything that I've added to the day.. I seem to be lost for words.

Yes, I went to work.
But I went to work without driving it myself.
Driven not by a need but the expectation of myself.

The idiot box rants on
It helps distract me.

Yet each and every creation on it was the result of a focus
On characters
On ideas
On a story
On the need to connect with an audience

the moment begs me a question.

What causes inspiration?
What lies at its root?
What makes us go beyond the regular into the expanse which makes us uncomfortable with the present?

I wondered.

Material comforts and luxury aren't the end-all.
They are a factor
A momentary requirement
Not for what they allow on a continuous basis
But for the perceived convenience you can draw from them through their acquisition.

..... tbc

Dissociation

life's been changing
real fast
not mine..
but the expectation of its path has been radically modified
by events extraneous to myself :
Credit markets
Squeezes
Equity markets
bailouts
governments
... they've all been participants in the change

But it still doesn't hit me..
and I don't think it will..
it will take a while.. if the feeling will ever sink in

I would bet against it..
for dissociation from the world been an easy attribute.

but I'm no different from the myriad who walk around..
claiming the credit crunch is affecting them.

Its tricky and partly ironic to know what came first - the crunch or the reaction to it.

It probably helps sell more..
cheaper.. but only for a while

I walked past a shoe-shop in the semi-rustic suburban-environ of Poplar displaying old stock at 'credit crunch prices'

Oxford street - pseudo-Mecca of wearable fashion fell a notch as a fair no. of shops were able to service those on unemployment benefits.

Its unique how the the crisis has turned into a cradle for advertising. The mere fear of the crunch itself may result in people buying to save for a rainy day, thus increasing demand, pushing prices higher and reversing the expectations for the crisis.

yet, we should be more frugal,
Our pockets will be pinched to save.
We shall withdraw lesser cash from ATMs and see it last longer.

The excuse of the credit crunch will be thrown for more frugality in celebration.

Dissociation from the present is difficult, even as we chase tomorrow and run from the past, tho the reverse would seem more pleasant at the current hour.

yet......
dissociate.



Cause it too shall pass.

Heisenberg and Diabetes

I was quite surprised by the analogies that physicists are able to conjure up. I was relatively unaware about my dad's skills in the same. An incident last night brought me face-to-face with a rather rare sense of humour which I had presumed was non-existent.

A friend who is a senior IAS officer remarked that an associate of his told him recently, "When we were young we could eat anything in the world, but damn it! We didn't have the money to eat to our heart's desire. But now, even when I can easily afford all the sweets I want to eat, I'm saddled with diabetes!!"

My father amusedly remarked, "That just reinforces Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. When you have Momentum, you don't have the Position. When you have the Position, you don't have the momentum."