Butterflies and Hurricanes

Hello beautiful cybernauts! How are you all doing today? Today is one of those rare days when everything feels beautiful. It rained some time back and the weather is unbelievable. (I know what you’re thinking. Do I have to mention the weather in each post? Well, shut up. I do, because my mood is directly proportional to it). My happy high-ness is probably hormonal, but I don’t care. I’m listening to ‘Porcupine Tree’ after a long time and god, they’re good.

Since my mood is all rainbows and butterflies and candy cane and unicorns for no apparent reason, let’s talk about happy things. I just enjoyed a four-day long mini-break. No, I didn’t go hiking. I didn’t go to Goa. (That’s probably a good thing because it seemed like half the people in the world were there, and well, I hate crowded beaches). I didn’t go on an adventurous trip. I just chilled. I watched Haider, which is a remarkable and commendable adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. I admire Vishal Bhardwaj for even attempting to make such movies. So much better than the mainstream crap that our film industry doesn’t cease to spew every year.

I also read quite a bit. I finished reading ‘The Illicit Happiness of Other People’ by Manu Joseph. After a long time, I came across a book that fought against my fierce desire to sleep late at night and made me turn page after intriguing page. Reading John Green’s first book ‘Looking for Alaska’ now. Oh, also reading the Bartimaeus trilogy. Finally. I have so many books lined up, it’s not funny.

So, after this much needed and refreshing break, I’m looking forward to working on this new project at work. I feel like I really need to prove to myself more than anyone else, that I can be good at what I’m doing. I want to be an indispensable and important part of my team. I want to be responsible and I want people to feel like they can count on me when it comes to getting something done.

I am totally psyched about going back to campus and meeting all my friends again. The campus! The sunset and the stars and all the familiar spots! I’ll get to wear the black robe and throw my hat in the air and get lot of standard and clichéd photos clicked! I am also looking forward to my cousin’s wedding in December. It is imperative that I look absolutely drop dead gorgeous that day because he is probably the last of my cousins where I would be unmarried. And I want to freak out. Which reminds me, why are all my friends from school and college getting married? We are only 23, so would you PLEASE relax?! They’re all making me nervous. I know my parents are going to be after my life in the coming years. *Sigh* I’m going to turn twenty-friggin-four in a little over a month. These years are flying man, flying. IT IS GOING TO BE TWENTY FIFTEEN! But I’ve decided I won’t whine about it this year. I’ll embrace the fact that I’m growing into a (fine) young woman with grace and maturity. I’m still very young. I can cry when I’m thirty. (By the way, all these books and TV shows about teenage dudes and their teenage problems make me feel like an old hag).

The clouds are still thundering, the breeze is still blowing and Steven Wilson’s fingers are still casting magic in the air. My brain is probably secreting some sort of endorphins which are making me feel so damn ecstatic, but I’m not complaining. It is one of the wonders of the human brain. We are just slaves to it. Might as well succumb to its whims and enjoy.

On an unrelated note, I’m really glad about the people I have in my life. The conversations I’ve had with them. They have shaped the way I am. I just wanted to acknowledge that. I turned out pretty alright, I guess. Life is goooooood, yo. Although I was thinking, what’ll happen to this blog once I’m gone? What will happen to it even when I’m not gone? It’ll stay preserved in time and space, like a prehistoric animal stuck in an iceberg. Unnoticed. Irrelevant. An insignificant, obscure speck in a speck in a speck in a speck.

Anyway, the whole point of this seemingly pointless post is that it does not have a point. I wrote because I was too damn happy to not write one.

I will be back with more good news sometime in the foreseeable future! Till then, don’t forget to be awesome! #nerdfighters

P.S. Listen to Coldplay’s ‘Magic’. So. Good.