Crossroad

Standing at this crossroad,
Am clueless of the path,
That brought me here,
And also of the one,
I should take.

Standing at this crossroad,
Am filled with regret,
For the wrong turns taken,
And those turns,
That I failed to take.

Standing at this crossroad,
I look at the paths ahead,
All dusty and desolate,
Not a soul in sight,
With wisdom to partake.

Standing at this crossroad,
Realization hits me,
I am truly alone,
The ambiguous cloud that's future,
Is mine to make.

The seven deadly sins or are they….??? -Part I, Envy

I really needed to vent this out, I’ll rather not mention the reasons that have led to this uncharacteristically chucking of personal emotions on my behalf, but I will delve straight into a discussion about the seven deadly sins, namely, “Envy”, “Gluttony”, “Greed”, “Lust”, “Pride”, “Sloth” and “Wrath”.
If you are unaware of their meanings or origin, do not read on! Rather go wiki it.
Here on I’m just going to discuss my views on why the supposedly “deadly sins” are the basic traits of any man, without whom the existence of any civilized society is questionable.
This post is the first one of seven that will deal with the deadly sins, as I see them.
This one deals with envy.
It’s necessary. The hierarchy of society makes for every reason to be envious of someone or the other. A beautiful example is a short story by Jeffery Archer, “The grass is always greener”. I’ll tell it in succinct, it moves as a narrative through the various employees of an organisation, everyone of whom is envious of the next. It begins with the doorkeeper and ends with the firm’s CEO being envious of the same doorkeeper.
Now if you did wiki/google the title, you probably have read Dante’s take on it, “love of one’s own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs.” But oxford dictionary, the ultimate standard of anything English gives it as: “A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another”. There’s a big difference.
It’s totally natural to desire something you do not have. In fact it’s motivating! It spurs you on to try and get what you desire and you do not have. Yes, the realization that you don’t have it but somebody you do not like has it fills you with anger. But isn’t it good to bubble with anger and doing something about it than to live life in a way so demeaning that you do not even care.
Feel free to call me dark and a Satanist but I do not care. There’s no such thing as black and white in today’s world and in this canvass of grey all of us have a few dark shades. So instead of denying them why not embrace them and reap the benefits of the dark side too.
I do not believe in hypocrisy and openly admit of being extremely envious of a people I barely know, yet whose lives have crossed paths with mine. I hate them, and of things they got and have still got! But instead of sitting around brooding about it, I have decided to do something about it. Maybe it’s a bit too late but, in the highly clichéd footsteps of the wise, better late than never.
Just so that people do not take me wrongly I’m not a necromancer, nor am I going to harm them in any way, but all I’m going to do is take crisp and strong steps to achieve all I want and can still get.
Not that I was always like this, it was a demon for me, one that I badly wanted exorcised. But I faced my demon and now have embraced envy and am hoping to turn it in the way I want. Can you?

Of crazies and bull-crap...

I’ve always wanted to write about this. It’s a dream, a passion rather an obsession. The topic that concerns me today is:

The effective use of rhetoric to obscure lack of content or in simpler words, use of total bull-poo to cover up the fact that you have little to offer. If you read any of the dozens of newspapers and magazines, watch the irrelevant 24x7 news channels, you know you’ve come across this. So many times they have nothing of relevance to offer so they pick up something of so tiny importance, its creator has no clue of its existence and they adorn it with frivolous words frolicking around and looking all pretty, and people do actually lap it all up!

Not that I’m condemning such activities. In fact I, myself, am a great plugger of rhetoric. The beauty lies in the stream of colourful yet magnanimous words that adorn a sentence whether its writ plain or spoken with just the appropriate amount of elocution so as to appeal to the heart rather than make an impression on the reader’s/listener’s mind!

Just take for example today’s newspaper, agreed, sec 377’s repeal makes for the headline, but it spanned as many as 6 pages in both the leading national dailies. And if you paid a closer look, nothing substantial you would’ve found! Trust me it was all beautifully written, but the same thing kept appearing in half a dozen moulds.

Perhaps in this post too, nothing of relevance was written, I know not and neither do I care. What I do care about is writing on this topic, ever since my high school English teacher told me that the simple use of rhetoric is insufficient on its own to be consistent enough for a write-up, I’ve always wanted to do this.

As I officially move past the 300 word mark, I assure every literature enthusiast that rhetoric if used effectively can pull off anything you want it to!

Hope it made for a good read, bringing a reminiscent smile to your face without overexerting your brain cells too much. More soon.

Adios

P.S.: This comes here because of the fact that I'm shifting my creativity section of "The sentient soul speaks" here.