“...Couldn’t be much more from the heart .... And nothing else matters!”

A musician makes music from the heart. And when you start thinking about how much the music is going to impact your bank accounts, you’re not  a musician anymore, you’re just a wh*re who can be bought for money. And while their marketing managers would continue to make Metallica a success and the dollars would keep flowing in, one thing that those folk can never do is what’s beyond that– the true love of a fan (maybe the band would never understand what that means).

Metallica, by what fans have experienced in the last couple of years, might be a good act, but people go to their shows to listen to some old tunes that were made by a bunch of real musicians who did not care about the money. Whereas now all they care about is “who got what” and “who got it all”.

Unhappy about the backstage arrangements, the band decided not to perform at Delhi, not giving a s**t about what fans feel after they have been waiting for more than 30 years to hear the band live. And to top it all the band did not even have the decency to be present at the stage when an announcement was being made. While the venue was vandalized by some crazy folks (which I think is totally wrong), the band itself was to blame for all the chaos that was caused at the venue and the lives of 25000 people was put at risk.

The money killed the heart, and there was never ever no soul. The band moves on for its next show...and Delhi says..we don’t want you here no more!

In God We Trust, We Trust in God - Do We?

So when we trust in god and believe that whatever happens is for the best; why do we need to keep asking god for materialistic things? And for argument sake, let’s say if god accepts all our wishes to the last line then would he be doing us any good if he also accepts fulfilling what is not good for us? It’s just like a parent agreeing to buy his child a pack of smokes. While it hurts him in the longer run, it may be something that the child would have been asking for because he is fascinated with smoking.

So the question is that if god gives us what we want or what we need? If he was to give us what we asked for, there is always a risk that he may be giving us our pack of smokes while what we actually need is something else. Not always do we understand the ‘mysterious ways’ that he works in, and while we often do not get the things that we wish for, it is possible that it is so because what we wish for is not something that we NEED!

Never expect a straight answer from me because you will never get it!

Tired of explaining to people what sarcasm means! Just weird how sometimes people understand even the most subtle form of mockery and take your most obvious attempt at sarcasm as something that was actually true!

Leave a loose ended statement and you are bound to get a weird comment. Is that such a crime? Just because I comment on something I think is not correct, does it make me THE BAD GUY? Why is sarcasm so hard to understand by people?

“I read!” “I write!” “I am more learned than you”, they would say, but putting what you have read into perspective is what is required!

Ingenious Fools or...

A wise man once said that it was better to have common sense without education than have an education without common sense. Common Sense; something that is not so common; is nothing but the ability to comprehend facts in a logical and informed manner, so as to make a decision which would be correct.

While started off as something based on logic, due to the inherent nature of man/woman being a lazy animal, after a while the commonly used logics are no longer applied and only the hypothesis is used to make further conclusions. Not this is may not be logically correct, but there is no one to check if what was common sense earlier is still common sense and if what you believe to be common sense now is not just a fallacy. And if it be just a fallacy, anything and everything derived from using it as the basis of your logic would in-turn be nothing more than a misleading notion.

What is common about common sense is that it, almost always, is never based on hard evidence and is only the things that we think to be true. For if it was left up to the sense of the commons, the sun and the stars would still be circling a flat earth, and the Church would still be crucifying women for being witches.

Let it be known that common sense is but only the collection of prejudices acquired with age, and while a man may imagine things that are false, he can only understand things that are true; for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Who’s the man?

Cracked open the new bottle of a very fine single malt that I had bought off the reserve stock of a Scottish distillery a couple of months ago. I had been saving it for a special day, and after all your best friend making his engagement announcement would qualify as such an occasion. After a drink or two, out came the turntable with the Frank Sinatra L.P.’s that I had inherited from my uncle and the Cubans that someone had picked up at the duty free. And while the mood was set and everyone wanted to talk about the wedding that was to be, the conversation abruptly moved to the subject of the role of men and women in the household. 

“She’s the man of the house”, someone exclaimed, referring to a friend of mine who had been married for 4 years now. And while some people were amused to see how she had been the dominant one in the relationship and continued the conversation to talk about how decision making was a “man” thing, I wondered if it was really the men of the household who have been making decisions all this while.

The truth is that the notion of the man being the decision maker of the household is so old that instead of recognising that a woman too can be the one to call the shots, a woman who openly determines what to do is called the dominant one and the “man” of the family. But if the same woman influences the decision of the “man” by behind the scene tactics where the man is lead to believe that the decision was actually his, he remains the “man” and the woman remains the “woman”. In either case it was the will of the woman which was being done, in the first case she was open about it and in the second she was the perfect politician.

So the question really is that do you want love or politics in your relationship? If it is politics that you seek, “be the man”; and if it is love that you want then “let the woman be the man!”

Food for thought

Let it be known that common sense is but only the collection of prejudices acquired with age, and while a man may imagine things that are false, he can only understand things that are true; for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding!

The Learners, Not the Learned will Win!

Writing, just for the sake of it, to prove that I am serious about what I am doing. But am I really? Rather is anyone serious about anything at all? Or they are just posers just like me. I am of the opinion that the latter is true. (Music plays in the background )

Who are we kidding with this use of eloquent jargon for every aspect of life or business; the speaker, satisfied after he has bombarded a room full of under-confident people who think that the speaker is obviously someone great because he’s been asked to address them; the people impressed with the speaker’s phenomenal command over his technical lingo; later they all exchange business cards, each one in his mind wondering if the other knows the truth about him.
 

The truth, if someone thinks outside the bounds of their box, is that while the learned is putting on his vulgar display of power, the learners in order to recognise his deception will need to learn the language of the learned first to prove that the learner is more learned than the learned. So in order to prove that you are learned, you need to learn more and that is how the learned becomes a learner and since he is learning he is not learned. Hence the saying – “The learners, not the learned will win.”