Its 3:30 PM on a lazy Saturday noon. I have enqueued few of my pal songs on the winamp and just wanted to write something. Its long since I have posted anything here so wanted to make up for that. However to be honest, I do not have any idea on what to write. I am hoping as I continue some direction or topic will come up, if you aren’t used to lost and random thoughts, you may want to call it a quit at this point.
Over last five years great deal of things have changed for me and my taste of music is certainly one of them. I hardly knew an English song or singer then and now I know reasonable number of those. Thanks to assorted CDs burnt during late nights of last few months at college, Worldspace and VH1. In the right side tab of this blog, you will see few songs that I have recently come across (Not necessarily new songs) and kind of liked. If you click on the song, it should take you to the lyrics. However a word of caution, most of these lyrics will be abstract and shady. I guess, off late most of the singers (If you exclude hip hop) are singing along less happier lines or may be my antenna for noticing happy songs is tuned out.
Let’s talk about dynamics of two important fellows those have made us what we are and will determine what we will be tomorrow; welcome Mr. Mind and Ms. Heart. Mind is a typical analytical creature who will dissect every little situation and apply all possible models (What-if, what’s in it me, Return on Efforts, time value of decision etc.) to arrive on a risk free, minimal effort, socially acceptable and practical response to the situation, very typical of we guys and so lets give a Mr. prefix. On other hand, Heart has a different way of looking at things. Heart is extremely spontaneous, follows the intuition, believes everything is possible, isn’t scared of expressing the emotions and most importantly, gives a damn to all models followed by Mr. Mind, very typical of girls and so the prefix Ms. Now the problem is that these two fellows do not have a clear demarcation of roles and responsibilities for enabling you to live a hassle free life.
You better do not let your heart drive you on a bad day at work. Heart will say “f*** it, I can’t take this crap, I deserve better, let’s put in papers”. Mind will tell you “where will you go? You don’t even have a resume ready and job market is horrible. Also let’s honestly accept it that you were lucky to get in this job itself. Forget even serving notice period, they will be more than happy to release you with immediate effect. Your monthly fixed costs (House rent and Car EMI) are three times than your current bank balance”. I guess listening to mind is an obviously convenient choice in this case. Take other extreme, you have been asked out on a date that you have daydreamed for months. Mind says “boss, where do you have time, money and energy for all this? Remember she has dumped her last bf because he wasn’t in town on her birthday as he needed to attend an urgent meeting in States. If she dumps you, you will be all around the place being Devdas reloaded, remember what happened to you when that colleague of yours with whom you were still planning to start conversation changed the job. This girl has grown up listening Nirvana and for first twenty years of your life you thought Nirvana is a religious western groups like our ISKON. Plus this girl is not from your caste, she doesn’t even speak Hindi. Will there be any future with her anyway? Your mom will freak-out seeing her” Heart says “you love her and love is blind, who cares about the rest. She has asked you out and you both have amazing chemistry. Your love is taller than erstwhile WTC towers, caste and language can’t be a bar among loving hearts. You can remember all Nirvana lyrics for her and you can make this relationship work because it’s worth it” Now it’s your call to whom you want to listen in this case () but the bigger question is that where do we go from here and how do we live this heart-mind paradox?
Whom should you generally listen to? I guess I will leave you with this thought for now. Have a good weekend.
