Complicated thoughts in a simple mind

Lately, I have been apprehensive about keeping myself updated with the current affairs. Every time that I try accessing any source of information, I come across a lot of crap. There is one basic issue and n number of people beating around the bush. With every "Faking News" being treated as a true incident, I don't think there's anything more left for Indians to become the stupidest that they could be. Today, Every person connects himself with some cult and blames the other for not following his ideologies. There had been a lot of hue and cry some years back when Aamir Khan had said that India was growing intolerant. I had not seen any flaw in his statement then, I don't see any flaw in his statement now. If I utter a single statement against the ongoing system of our society, I am questioned on my patriotism and made to see Pakistan and Middle East countries dealing with anarchy and how people are not given freedom to do anything. I am made to realize how blessed

The title of the post itself reflects its content. Looking at a five years younger me, I had never thought back then, there would be a day when I actually question Bollywood gyaan on love and romance. Being fed the staple diet of Yash Raj Films, Dharma Productions and Rajshree Productions to name a few, all my life for 25 damn years, all the formula of romance was kind of programmed into me.. I also wonder how did  I unprogramme myself. Well, I guess, a dose of reality was sufficient for that. Today, I feel sick of even thinking how my brain had been designed to imagine the illusion and create a masterpiece romantic out of me.. When I had a brush with the reality, I realized : There's no "happily ever after" funda in life : Life is a sinusoidal curve. You get to live the ups and downs of every emotion everyday. You might love a person to the extreme at one moment, but that doesn't guarantee that you would not have negative emotions for him Saavan Barse Ghab

Like every year, I have been going gaga  over my birthday from the past few weeks and this time I guess, even more. Well its not every year that you turn 30. I have been on an emotional roller coaster ride, being overwhelmed thing about how I am about to complete 3 decades of my life, and being depressed over how worthless has my life been, the very next moment. My situation presently closely resembles to that of the FRIENDS Episode "The One in Which They All Turn 30". Seeing my age as 29 years for the last time on a railway ticket made me sad. I wanted to be 29 till further announcement, but again was lured by the idea of turning 30 and then 31 and then 32 and so on..I want to be 16 forever, but also be a wine that turns better when older... I must say life's never been so confusing !!! I feel excited thinking of having spent almost 30 years being alive. Not that I can remember them all, but I have anecdotes from the elders to support the fact that I exist beyond