My Pensieve

What a trip home!!! I just had an agenda of visiting my grandmother, watch "Katha Parayumbol" and spend time with my best friend. I reached my mother's place...met everyone and then my cousin says she has no one to take her to the Satyam recruitment exam at Aluva, the following day. I am real fond of her and when her mother called up and said, she shouldn't go if there's no one to take her...she started crying...so I decided to take her back home with me and accompany her to Aluva, the next day!!!! It had been 2 years since I've been to Aluva UC College for a recruitment. It was an ordeal back then...with loooong waits and poor organising. Nothing had changed...the exam scheduled to start at 10, started by 11:30...ended by 1pm. They said the results would be put up within the hour...but "hour" turned out to be 6pm in the evening!!! But to allay my anger and deep annoyance...Shruti had got through the first round. I was happy as I knew it would do her...

My best friend had called me the day before to say that his friendship with a girl he knew in college will be coming to an end soon. Her marriage has been fixed. Of course the friendship will remain, but the intensity will reduce drastically. They were real close,had started liking each other and she depended a lot on him. I've been advising him for a long time now, to slowly reduce the calls and the intensity...this would make the eventual parting a lot bearable. Thankfully, though not completely, he did take my advice and they had slowed down. But inspite of that he was still sounding depressed when he called to tell me that she had asked him to forget everything and the end was in sight.So easy to say...gut wrenching to execute. Girls can get over it quiet fast as they'll have another person in their lives to occupy them...but what about us guys??? Girls take it for granted that we will be ok...but just because we don't show it,doesn't mean it is easy for us...sepera...

Got this as a forward... People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.When you know which one it is , you will know what to do for that person.When someone is in your life for a REASON , it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then , without any wrong doing on your part or at an inconvenient time ,this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on. Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn...

People haven't stopped believing in love. They haven't stopped wanting to be in love. They just don't believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love and falling in love, but they know now that...they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin" --An excerpt from Gregory David Robert's "Shantaram"

The crime rates in his home town had come down drastically.Life had become dull. In search of more exciting game, Spidey comes to India. He places his luggage in a hotel room and starts to walk around the city, with his suit under his clothes, ready to help out anyone in distress. He spent the entire day walking around...but couldn't see any sign of a crime. Not a bank robbery or an assault...not even a puss in the tree to save. It was twilight and he decided to call it a day and go back to his room when he heard a commotion and saw a car speeding away. He could hear screams of "Help me!!!" from inside. This was it!!! He quickly made his way to a dark alley and put on his mask. He was ready!!! He squirted a web onto the nearest building...but he couldn't get air borne...there weren't any tall skyscrapers as there were back home!!! Web slinging was out of the question!!! Climbing the building and following the speeding car on foot would be ridiculous. Spidey didn...