48: New Year Resolution... ala my way...

Another new year is here... and maybe a new beginning is what people see it as...me? Oh yeah... same to same...

Often people are ready with their New Year resolutions by the time its 1st January... okay I know there can be many who may think what resolutions...?? It’s a childish thing to think of it...!!! Alright point taken and accepted that not all do resolve to do something... and amongst those who do them very few actually follow them...that’s universal truth too!!! But let’s assume for some time that people do make resolutions when New Year starts...

So on similar lines....I have made a resolution this year (first time in mah life...) and which is something that I intend to follow...!!! Now people who follow this blog would know about my fascination with zodiac signs and Librans in particular. Well, why did I mention it here? Because, my resolution has something to do with it...!!! With zodiac signs..??? OMG... does she mean she is gonna learn astrology or something??? (No no... I don’t want to torture my blog visitors more ...don’t worry...). Well it has to do with one particular zodiac sign-Libra and their famous indecisiveness!!!

You have full right to ask me this ... Why is it that I keep on hammering things about Libran indecisiveness without sending out any disclaimer like “no relation to anyone living or dead...” that’s because it has relation to someone living in this goddamn world...and mind you no points for guessing who is he/she since...YOU KNOW HER (yea she is she...)!!!

Okay coming back to my resolution...so what is it that I want to do??

I don’t want to get up every day and spend some eternal 15 minutes time staring at my wardrobe as if every outfit I keep my eyes on is something worth giving a try today... (That does mean I actually have enough clothes that I won’t actually need to buy clothes for next one year at least...) but then it’s not about variety or quantity of clothes which is an issue... but my confusion..!!! Confusion since every outfit seems perfect for the day and I can’t quite decide which one I should wear... ok but the final result is- I almost always tend to wear whatever is easily accessible to my hands at the very top of the heap although I spend eternal 15 minutes admiring all the others ... that also means the one kept at the bottomest bottom of the heap (mera number kab aayega)... never actually gets the chance...(I suddenly feel like a villainous soul who is depriving someone of its food, clothing and shelter...) And the endest end result is I am always late for the office bus.... Aargghh...and I am still figuring out what is the reason for it??? If you could figure it out... let me know.... :P

I don’t want to go to an apparel shop and filter 2 of the dresses, which I may have liked from whole lot of bundle that I may have gone through....then try both of them in the trial room... and get super duper confused as to which I should buy, considering the fact that I am here to buy only one and not 2... And then the end result is- it gives the salesman an opportunity to say a dialogue-“usme kya hai madam... dono le lo...” and then although I am there to buy only one, the possibility of maybe I can buy both if I have liked them, starts taking shape in my grey matter...!!! Okay now if the person who is shopping with me is sound enough to say “c’mon no need of two... I think the blue one is perfect...” (Blue is my favourite color...), then I definitely climb back to my sanity and purchase the blue one..!! So the point is although I know blue is my favourite and it would look good... I get confused between choices... Aarrgghh... I am still figuring out why I take almost always more than 3 hours for shopping??? If you could figure it out... let me know :P

Okay so the main funda is –“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you(in this case ME...) out” (I have kinda copied that line from the FUROBIKER’S TAGLINE...: P:P:P) So I have thought about doing something for this day to day wearing out...


But then why torture Librans here??? It’s because till date I had been in the perpetual mood of accepting the fact - oh its okay for Librans to be indecisive since it’s in their constitution... BUT NOT ANYMORE....!!! That means yes I am Libran....


The eternal Libran (ME...) has made a resolution that no more dwelling in the jungles of confusion... The resolution is to think over possibilities... analyse and take decisions. The resolution is to arrive at the decisions..!!! The resolution is to decide the next day’s outfit the previous night and no more spending 15 minutes of everyday morning life!!! The resolution is to think prior hand which colours I want to shop for and look out for possibilities in that space only...this way it will help to find out things which are necessary than things which are luxuries...this I say because I already have many blue dresses...and frankly I don’t need any more!!!


There is a very famous quote by St. Francis of Assisi- “Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible”. Okay and now I completely want to believe at this moment that there shall come a day when I would be doing that impossible...!!!

And yes I intend to stick to this...!!! Start by taking daily smaller decisions with finesse and there shall come a day when u shall arrive at that bigger something... and that line has already made me to start imagining some bigger decisions like- sitting in IPL auction and thinking of how much to raise my bid for Sachin...(hehehe.. he is my fav player...) and kinds...!!! So you got the drift..!!!!

And now most important how am I gonna track whether I was on track with this resolution...??? I don’t know... I am not gonna keep a data sheet to enter everyday decisions and my successes as I find it very very nerdy!!! Because you don’t need a piece of datasheet to tell you that you were successful or not!!! Because if you were successful ... you will know it, it’s that simple!!!

So maybe follow-on to this post can happen this year end...to declare my success or failure... but till then let me just say it loud and clear... I intend to follow my resolution!!! AMEN ... to that... :D


(Btw...I can also make a resolution to not pull legs of Librans anymore... my legs are already long... :P)

36: His Libran Girlfriend...

“Rip it off… throw it off… I don’t want to deal with it… it makes me go nuts…why can’t for once in life you decide something??? ” and bang hits the door….!!! She noticed that he left the room..!!!!



She pondered …is it that simple? Am I a moron to take so long to decide??? She thought that its time she should think about what she really wants??? But she didn’t know what she was all like? What was her true self…???  What was she really really like??? Alright she thought… good direction to start with…what am I like?



She noted few bullet points:

Sweet

Smiling

Loves arts

Creative

Slightly short tempered…

Balanced person

……..

………

…………

Hell No, this is not a matrimonial ad page…. Alright then… on I go…let me try and make sense….

I don’t want options…I want answers…I don’t want possibilities… I want circumstances…I hate contemplating… I like agreeing…I hate dilemma I like decisions…

Might someone help me do it…I want to learn more…I want to learn it one more time…Powers of decisions… that make you feel satisfied… I want to experience one…

I like balancing… I like peace… the soothing music of rains makes me serene…

The more I share… the more I gain (not weight …: O)…its gives me pleasure beyond words can spare…you start a topic and leave rest to me… then I can take you through all its ups and downs…talk for hours and still say … you know what, there is so much I want to tell you about!!! Talk less listen more... Mom says too… but what to do? Can’t help… the Libran nose can hardly stop poking…

You ask me whether u r fat???? I would say …. Well, best part is u r looking great today… not this diplomatic every time… you do something wrong and ask me whether you were right... I would say you are grown up now… but then, if you coax me further and a honest reply is what you seek….I would say maybe you should reconsider your stand…I won’t call spade a spade…but neither would I call it a magic wand….making justice at each step is what I am born for!!!

Money is important…it gives security and balance….but spending it the way you want, gives meaning to your hard earned money. If I go to mall, Yes I spend…how much? Well never kept a tab of it…dressing to the detail is my forte…accessories, footwear everything should be coordinated… well, yes coordination is my other name!!!

Things happen my way and I am content... planned things take place and I get confident…but when everything seems different…no plan works out…no decision is right… gloominess phases in and my demons surround me. I don’t like them, for they make me weak..I want to knuckle them…kill them…shoot them… but they keep growing stronger…this is the point where I need someone who could see me through this…fortunately  I have people with me…they like me... they adore me.. They love me…they respect me…and life becomes manageable…

You criticize me... and I won’t take it nicely…you explain me and I would admire you throughout my life…I get influenced so don’t  try and shuffle my mind thousand times… you may piss me off that way …

A healthy amalgamation of style and panache…. I can hardly bore you…look in my eyes and you will be mesmerized …look to what I talk and you will be intrigued… they don’t call me party person for anything…they don’t call me live wire for anything…

Get me on an activity and I would be one amongst the buddies…get me to a candle light dinner…and you would see me blushing…get me to a movie theatre and you will have to keep an extra handkerchief ready…

I see dreams…I live them… I make characters that forever live a part of me…some dreams transcend into reality and I am overjoyed…others don’t see light of day …but then who cares …I forget those dreams the moment I wake up…

More than gifts, affection wins me… (Not that I don’t take gifts... of course I love taking them…) but I can sniff the fallacy the moment I look into your eyes…so beware… if you don’t mean it don’t say you love me forget about gift…well I won’t kill you… c’mon who wants to go to jail…but respect once gone is hardly a retake shot!!! Be true to yourself… and I would be all coy in your arms… dreamy to the core …romance is something which you will never have to teach me... have faith and I can move mountains for you… with that dialogue now you know why I am called dreamy and romantic to the core!!!

“Moments are never special... you ought to make them one…” I live by this… walk by this… survive by this…so, don’t worry about surprises there will be plenty… of course they would be pleasant!!! And receiving surprises… well, it’s my favorite past time :)

I love being with people… I need them... my emotional design collapses with desertion and loneliness… I need strong arms that can protect, embrace and hug…I need a smile daily to make believe that things are fine…Don’t worry, I am not that complicated …whatever I ask you to do I would do that 10 times more for you…you ask for promise??? I give you my word..!!! Life is not easy I know…but I try and maintain balance that I am an expert at!!!

At decision making... let me falter sometimes… don’t expect me to take razor sharp and crystal decisions … give me my time and I would come into my own… but it’s okay yaar I just take more time to gather information for that decision…simple!!!

I forever ask God to Give me that power …I need it right now... than any other time in my life….Just once in my life I want to be sure…I want to be certain… I want to be bang on….My decision is right… my decision is fine… let somebody tell me that this is something that was always in my sight...well I know what I want… but far too many routes makes the story long…and I don’t know which route is better… which is clear.. Which one is dear and which one is to fear!!!

Husshhh!!! She said… so this is what I am..!!!! Gosh….. 2 full pages of word document…!!!! Okay so is this really me? Or whatever I wrote before??? But now, I guess bullet points are easy to analyze and help take decision… but what about this description?? Maybe I can ask him... who among these am I? Maybe… It’s high time...!!! Alright….I should only decide…



But then….bullet points…. Yeah maybe…



Naah… the description is bang on….

Aargh!!!! Maybe I should think over this after sometime... or should I directly ask him???

Forget...maybe the answer will pop up just like that...maybe I should go have a coffee and think over this... oh yes I didn't write in description that I love coffee....hmmm that means description is right... hmmm maybe...!!!

So I am indecisive huh!!!!  so he wanted to say that I am indecisive??? Of course not... I can take decisions... maybe coffee first...!!!!









P.S:- no intentions to hurt any Libran person…its one from the series I am writing on zodiacs and the people…so if any coincidence found with any person dead or alive it’s okay.. Be considerate to them….Being Libran is not a joke!!!!

P.S2:- everything here is what I have observed in most of the Librans I have met till date... there can be exceptions....so plz dont search for my head...

33: Give me an answer...

Do you face questions??… Tough ones? …easy ones??… Lighter??...darker??… simpler ones… complex issues???… Almost every type baffles us if we either don’t understand them or we don’t know an answer to them…!!!

Questions like blue or white shirt??? Morning or evening slot for gym??? Normal cheap vegetable vendor or slightly expensive Reliance Fresh??? Normal hair blow dry or permanent straightening?? …. are often simpler and easier to tackle… a bit more pondering over them can easily lead you to an answer or best you might consult someone before arriving at the decision… and lest assured that the decision is one which you are convinced at totally!!!

But then there are questions which catch you off guard!!! Questions which have more than one right answer to it… which makes you to think and think… and wherein you might not come down to any particular answer. Such questions can create havoc in your life and by that I mean that it can bring doom or bloom...You don’t know!!!!

Indeed, we are tested all the time… and life is eventually made in all the answers that we give it back…

Being a true Libran, I am blessed with highest level of indecisiveness that can not only make me one crazy human being but at times also irritates the hell out of others around me. Not able to take a quick decision gets on my nerves like anything. Not wanting to falter in anything and everything and yet making sense out of every decision is just too much to handle.

More often than not, we know answers to life’s most difficult questions beforehand...it’s only that we don’t accept them or wait an eternity in hope of finding a more better solution!!! Believe me; I never succeed in finding that other better solution but I still do the same thing every time!!! Amongst the two best options (answers) available there is always one that is correct as per my mind and the other that is correct as per my soul…and more often than not there is this whole big battlefield that goes on between them…

But now I have made peace with myself in this case...and I think everybody around too, should try my way of arriving at decisions if in any dillema...

What??? Haven’t heard about age old methods huh???

“ Simply toss a coin…wherein one side supports your mind while the other one roots for your heart…and while the coin is in the air…Your soul secretly knows what it wants the decision of coin to be…”
Try it out...!!!

25: The Spicy Ariens....

“That’s my place and dude, be careful next time before sitting on this place again!!”(With aggression which not even Hitler can match)

“You asking me, whether you have put on weight? (With extra surprised look on face)Well… c’mon you were always fat (with straight face and chilling casualness)!!!”

“Guess what I was the first one to finish up the assignment in the class and get it corrected before anyone else…” (The pride literally licking out of the corners of the mouth)

“You can’t even tell me that yes sweetie … I love you!!!!... c’mon, now do something to make me feel important…” (With an air of importance and self praise)

I guess this intro should suffice my title ‘the Spicy Ariens’…

Actually, I haven’t marked the day when I became friends with Aries but life carved such a path for me that, at every juncture, I was greeted by none other than Ariens, and well spicy ones at that!!!

Life has never been same after that… either I am taking orders from them… or sometimes if I try and learn two things from them then maybe I am giving orders as well…

I had a friend in my good old engineering days …well she still is a friend… who is one of those classic cases of true Ariens!!! The day a new assignment was put up on notice board she was always the first to complete it. Now, we engineers are renowned either ways for being Xerox machines … so I never felt any guilt in asking her assignment so that I could chapofy (copy them)..!!! Now this girl, she never said ‘NO’ to me for any assignments in fact she trusted me totally that, I would take good care of her assignments… but then there was always a condition-‘She would first go find the m’ am and get it corrected and then hand it over to me…’ even if it means I have to wait for 3 odd hours to get the assignment in my hand..!!!! (What the ***k is logic behind waiting 3 hours to get the assignment??? I would have very well finished it in 3 hours… but no people… for her it was a question of her being the first or second in getting it corrected…SUCCHHH A LIFE CHANGING DECISION…!!! ) And hence I always helped her in achieving her position and pride while waiting for the assignment to fall in my hands..!! Guys, see I am so adjusting… (Libran working at that…) 

Let’s begin with impressing Ariens:

My cheat tip to shop for Ariens is … try and find anything in color ‘red’... its sure gonna be instant hit!!!  Because red is their color... the Arien color!!! It’s the color of aggression, domination, and love!!!  Today my friend has turned out into a fine person possessing a red car, 75% of her wardrobe is red, red sleep-ons, red osho chappals, and above all red streaks in her hairs..!!! I am out here giving one of the most important tip to all you guys having Aries girlfriend- take her shopping … let her shop of her choice… don’t interfere in her shopping and allow her to take red stuff over and over again…and voila.. You are the best boyfriend in this world!!! Tried and tested formula by her boyfriend... and he totally swears by it..!!!

Now you will ask me- what is difference in Aries girl and any other girl in terms of shopping??? Well, then go ahead and tell her that she is gonna look gorgeous in one of the outfits that is displayed in a shop… and she will leave all her aggressive and dominating threads behind and would coyly slip into the outfit pointed out by you, just to please you. They are stupid mysteries, I am telling you…

Their Aggression:

They are the classic case of hard coconut shell with sweet and soft coconut in it..!!But, it can only be Aries person, where your manager or boss fears you!!! The aggression that they possess, is also visible in their way of talking, walking and even listening…I still remember many names who use to fear talking to her…her gait would resemble a knight straight out of 300 movie, out there to take the revenge and if you wanna explain her something then she will at least give you one hard look in whole of the conversation and you would understand that you owe her your entire life now, for making her to listen you..!!!But this aggression is not bad every time. They are the people, who know how to tackle difficult jerks easily. I could never muster courage to say ‘NO’ to people…since I always believed that , if I have time and doing a particular thing will help someone in some way… then why not go ahead and do it..!!! Of course I was not fool to accommodate such social service in my “Me-Time” but then I would seldom say ‘NO’. But this girl changed all dynamics for me… she taught me few typical tricks of Ariens and people I use them wholesomely today!!! I am happy to say ‘NO’ now..!!!

Their true self:

Try and flatter them with over the limit praises and they would boo you in your face!!! They are empowered with sharpest sniffing mechanism that helps them in easily identifying ‘the fake ‘in this world!!  Another cheat tip-“People don’t ever try false flattery”..!!!They might handle criticism, but false flattery … No, never!!! It’s better to not praise them than praising them too much…but hey that does not mean that they don’t like people praising them… I have already mentioned how much they love feeling important, didn’t I???

Now, calling spade a spade comes naturally to them…so whenever you ask them questions, be ready to listen to the worst ever possible answer!!!So don’t ask them whether you are fat, when you know yourself that yes you are fat. But in spite of all these characteristics they are by far the most dependable people in this world...what with fakeness not in their way of living.

They are the first sign of zodiac, and hence they are like the small child who cries for attention, takes impulsive decisions, is impatient and selfish too!!! The quick tempered Aries often speak out so cruel in anger that they themselves don’t understand the gravity of their speech, and many times when they do its already too late. I often advice to control her (my friend) tongue and her anger… but phew!!! Where is she in mood of listening to others???

Let us praise them atleast now:

Aries are the master when it comes to leadership!!! While others like us were busy gathering information about our final year project…she went ahead and got ourselves registered in India’s prestigious organization Bhabha Atomic Research center(BARC) for the same. Taking initiative and setting on its path comes naturally to them…Also, come any crisis, and the ‘ram’ of Aries stands tall to protect her people, their needs and their concerns. Life is all about action, challenges, spontaneity and mastering on every occasion. On the other hand, make her to wait for anything in life and then be ready to face her wrath. Give her advice out of concern and she will feel that you are a lame to do so coz these people hate advices and more so unwanted ones.…But the same person can cry like baby during climax of movies… on final year farewell party…on gifting her old photograph. Who said these people don’t have heart??? They try and protect their vulnerable side from the world and hence the resistance they show to almost everything and everyone.

Aries and Libra are totally opposite signs and probably that is the reason they gel out so well... each one nullifies the weak point in the other. She is lucky to have me as her best friend… (I love self boasting…) and her boyfriend (a Libran again…) and for all the boyfriends having Aries girlfriend, I am sure she must be their biggest weak point and their strongest one too- all such guys would feel better after reading this line!!! One things Ariens are absolutely paranoid about are 'dates'!!! Not romantic dates ... actual calender dates..!!! Another cheat tip-'never ever forget important dates...'. This is area where we librans fall prey to them... as pointed out by my dear friend darpan...we librans believe in seeing the bigger picture while Ariens thrive on minute details....!!! So if you are libran-Arien  girlfrnd-boyfrnd combo...libran one please try and remember dates and atleast ALL of them..!!! :P

Now I am sure there must be many such Aries incidences which everyone must have experienced in their life… waiting eagerly to listen out from you… (Would soon come up with GEMINI...)

(the pics on the post are taken from internet and are for representational purpose only if anyone has any objections do write in to me... they shall be removed)

( http://verne10.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/the-spicy-ariens/ )