Talkin' Talk

You know I get a weird kind of writer's block if I ever conceive anyone is goin to read what I'm writing which is weird in itself because I love to blow my own trumpet.Not ostentatiously. Readers and lovers of 'Pride and Prejudice' may remember a remark by Mr. Darcy "Humility is an indirect boast". Okay, I know that's not exactly what he said but well, that's what he meant, right? So coming back to the point....I love to extract praises from unsuspecting acquaintances by downplaying my very few achievements with a wave of hand and a very delicate but polite smile. Ah the pleasures of manipulating people! Now please don't think too ill of me. We all have to have ways to amuse ourselves..
Talking of amusements ...What's with this post-modern-new-age-rebellia of 'my life sucks' that's as omnipresent as.....Whatever.
I have depressing moments..really frustrating times; and I do scream and rave and rant at myself for putting myself in that particular situation, coz lets face it, our lives are really and truly a reflection of us. I don't buy concepts of fate and destiny. You are what you want to be. Really. Now this reminds me of nother gem I picked up :
" There are two great rules of life. The general rule and the particular rule.The first is that eveyone can , in the end , get what he wants if he only tries.The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the above rule."
I do not wish to contradict myself ! This is true only if you have unrealistic expectations from your life. And alas we do!!
So don't you think this means a change-of-point-of-view is in order?
I could be down in the deepest dumps and in just little while all ready to take life by its horns. Allow me to quote yet another line of prose:
"It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh-I really think that requires spirit."
What do you say?

Get Set Go

Seriously , I've never done this before. And for someone who prefers to keep his mouth shut most of the time for no particular reason at all , it's a weird feeling.
So anyone who's been really good friends with me knows that I 'm not really all that quiet. Yeah, I do let my tongue down! But its like a typical network with different rights to each user, you know... I have acquaintances who think I'm a deep thinker who hasn't rolled his tongue since whatever.. yet others know that I've been infected with the foot-in-mouth disease ever since I started to speak.