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a book of ordinary people

Because We have forgotten that we are only ordinary people who are allowed to make mistakes..Normal left us a while back and we didnt even notice!!!
 

Montezuma's Revenge

Monday, February 26, 2007

" Disclaimer : this post will make no sense whatsoever, for the 2-3 people who actually bother to read these stuff, not that any of my posts ever made any sense even to me!!! I have something due tomorrow and am suffering a writer's block due to no good reason.. i am just writing here to break that !!!"


do ordinary people have ordinary stories? if so do those stories have an end to them?? i mean one day they wake up and its nothing but a blank page... end of the book, no not death.. because nobody knows what is death like.. nobody have been through it that is able to tell us about it...
and Isn't death just the beginning?
i am talking about their stories, their lives... the twists, the turns, the plots, the scenes, time, space... is there an end to them? will they find happiness at the end or some sort of resolution??
I mean where they ordinary people ordinary from the day one, or just like rest of us they went through life, made mistakes, got hurt, hurt other people along the way, felt guilty, gave up, fought, got up and put their pieces back together or at least tried and moved on with their lives??
Do ordinary stories have plot line? structure? chapters? are they interesting, boring, brilliant, or....
Are ordinary people happy? optimistic, do they dance?
Do they over deramatize life? do they watch chick flick? does it even matter??
Do they get their answers? do they go through life trying to figure things out?
do they run away from reality? do they day dream?
Do they become jaded after horrible experiences? do they lie, cheat or back stab? do they leave in suburbs and drive minivans?
who are they? are they Happy? do they have lunch with their families at least once a week? do they come from dysfunctional families?
Do they write? i know the answer to this one .. NO, writing is a disease, ordinary people do not have diseases like this, they have health insurance, well the ones who can afford it..
they used preventive measures, they care about themselves.. they don't catch diseases.. even if they do they find a cure for it..
no Ordinary people are not pathological writers..
Do they party hardy? do they enjoy it? do they drink Sake ? is it Wine or Beer or whiskey for them? do they do shots of Vodka or tequila? how many?
Do they take chances? do they trust other people??
M told me one day he has become an ordinary person,.. he gave up on Chaos theory and that tension theory thing and got married,.. i like his wife, she is nice... he said she is ordinary and makes him want to be normal... he said i need to become normal too.. i like them.. i like to be ordinary too.. they are boring in a good way, they are happy relatively speaking.. he said he is worried about finding a job after graduation, she has already found a job...
He said i should stop over analyzing,.,. i should become less liberal, i should become someone like others.. she didn't drink, he was a beer guy. He didn't dance, she liked hip hop music... they didn't have much money... we all hated the automatic toilets and flushes..
He said i remind him of his sister; she figured it one day,,, he said i need to hurry up and figure things out soon,,, he said i am smart enough to do so..
he became normal and we gave up on our long discussions about nothing... none of us miss them..
Did his story come to and end... was he on the last page? the page that has like 3 sentences, the 3 sentences that i could never help but read without finishing the book...
How about me? Is there an end to my story?
am i reading it now? the end..
she grew old and happy in suburbs one way or the other... she gave up on freaks and weirdos and enjoyed being normal ... she was even able to tend to her plants nothing like her mother but she was able not to kill them... she forgave a lot of people including herself and found peace somewhere along the way even though she was from middle east..
she stopped being sarcastic all the time, and never ever took cheap shot at others, she started respecting people and their feelings... She was even able to spend a whole day with her younger sister and didn't even bother to remind her that she needs to learn how to take care of her finances, and calling her irresponsible...
She spent the whole night with her friends in the Mexican restaurant without looking out the window trying to find a way out or staring at the empty seat in front of her, she even wouldn't hope for that seat to be filled again,,, she no longer wanted something that wasn't there at the first place..
She never ever uttered the words :" You will never ever have me.." Cause she finally had herself
And one fall she found enough reason to go back to her city and walk in the streets with her best friend, go to the bookstore and then the pastry shop...
She accepted that she couldn't stop the time and the six of them could never be together the way they used to be... she gave up on her fear of commitment because she might one day lose it all...
That was how she was , she liked to read the ending before she finished the book.. she wanted to know how it ends before she even knew what happens in the middle...

So how does it work? do we all become ordinary somewhere done the line...
or ....
I mean that's it? i know its more than three sentences.. but it ain't that long...

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Way back when i was in Junior high... once during my finals, i started reading this four volume epic Russian masterpiece!!! i tried to get away from it as much as i could, but i wasn't able to do so.. i mean i even ended up reading in my parents room hiding in the walking closet... by the time the exams were finished, i lost my interest in the book... Fifteen years later and i am doing the same thing, i just cant study,,, and i am reading something really stupid, i cant even tell anybody what it is. too embarrassing... and blogging, well that's the icing on the CAKE!!!!
I have also started having an existential crisis... since the last time i talked to my father.. i have come to realize that i live my life to please my parents, unlike my siblings.. Today i decided that I so want to go skiing for the long weekend, but i cant.. Because i have to go visit friends and family all over the Bay area, just because.. I have even invited people over to my place, way too many people and I donno how am i going to fit them there? i have to take my baby cousin to see a movie.. because i want to be the COOL older cousin who they come to when they want to install an Instant messengers despite their parents disapproval. I never had a cool older cousin, they never paid attention to me. I donno why i am trying to make it up to my younger cousins??
I donno why i have to go to south Bay for the Saturday dinner at some Mexican restaurant ( i dont like Mexican food, reminds me of ABgoosht) to sort things out between FRIENDS!! i dont even care, i mean things will sort out in a month or two anyways..
I donno why i dont have to go skiing, and instead hang out with the people who are coming up from SO-Cal and go to Napa Valley with them?? They have car, they can drive why the heck i should take them there??
I donno why i have to go and have dinner with my lovely yet extremely opinionated Aunt (you think i am opinionated wait till you see HER!!!) and explain to her why my sister makes the choices that she makes? I donno, why doesnt she ask her?
i dont even know why i come here and Whine?? who cares? i dont... in real life at the best i am indifferent to pretty much everything....
i am not even sad, depressed or anything.. i am extremely happy and content with my life. And i am even able to direct my anger at the right people, and not hurt the people that i care about for no good reason..
i just read stupid things during my exams.. but that's very normal of me, i am just a weird person... who does weird things!!!

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A model for making ethical decisions

Thursday, February 08, 2007


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"Morality is a set of widely shared beliefs about right and wrong human contact or way of leading a good or bad human life."

I still don't know if I should Blame Catholics for my never ending moral dilemmas, or as my sister says I pretend to be the moral compass of the world just to justify my lack of social skills and my inability to make decisions with my heart instead of my head!!!


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Mocha and Wine

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

I stay up late for various reasons... talking to people, coffee, endless talks with my best friend who lives in the wrong hemisphere, god forbid studying, guests, god forbid reading books, movies...
I am a night person anyways.. i can stay up for no good reason, just like going hungry for no good reason...
but i am not a morning person, in fact i hate getting up from my bed sooner than like around 12 p.m...
but apparently the world does not work around my biological clock..
I have to wake up and leave before 9 am...
i stay up late.... then i wake up kinda early, i am cranky... i drag myself to wherever i am supposed to go..
i resist the coffee up until 2 pm...
by 2 p.m i start seeing blurry and get a huge MOCHA...
the Mocha takes a while to kick in.. and somehow refuses to leave my body....
i go to bed around 11:30 pm.. i stay up until 2 pm.. rolling around..
the next day i have to wake up and leave before 9 am...
then flirt with Asian guys and promise them to have kids with them after menopause, i come
online and start blogging, i even argue on behalf of illegal immigrants and their right to access health care.. some people believe i have to go to Law school one day, when people want someone to Bullshit they just send me up front and i answer the questions that i don't even understand with such confidence that the asshole professor believes that i actually know something...
the other day somone told me that my biggest problem is that i am very confident in myself..
My parents call me and i tell them that i am the happiest person alive, and put my phone on speaker when my dad starts talking and giving me advice for half an hour and go online and chat with other people..
most of the times i wish i was a normal person, who only types with two fingers and lives a normal happy life, and have some actual goals....
my sister told me the other night that she can never figure out what went wrong with me? " i mean you were on the right track when you were 18, what happened??" she thinks i have some sort of genetic defect... she believes i refuse to grow up and be a part of the real world.. i have even told her that i had given up on blogging, i have told her i have changed.. she thinks blogging world is full of pathetic people and losers.. she wants me to break free..
Wine gives me headache, beer makes me happy..
my dad barely drinks beer; he believes its the drink of low lives.. Wine on the other hand, is something that you can smell, you can look through, you can sip , you can enjoy...
i think i am a low life.. i just want to wash everything down...

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Sunday, February 04, 2007

We were all sitting in the lecture hall..
my mom was on the other side, she was pretty young...
me and my older sister were sitting apart...
My baby sister was sitting in front of me next to this boy, they were both really young.. maybe four or five years old... and She was very very happy...
my mom was asking another young mom about the places that she could take her children to...
my baby sister and the little boy were laughing and listening to the lecture, which compromised of my brother and bunch of other geeks discussing their college plans..
My dad was nowhere in the sight...
I still cant get over the fact that my baby sister was so young, and yet in college....
In my dream she was a very happy kid , As a kid she was always very happy
and maybe that's what we have always seen her as JUST a very very happy kid who brought joy and laughter to our lives.
Maybe that's why one day she got fed up, packed and left us . Maybe she was tired of fighting us and our notions..Maybe she wanted us to see her as she was, a grown up, maybe...
I still cant get the dream out of my head... she was a Very happy kid she was barely four or five
But the rest of us were grown ups...

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