Bittersweet October

October is my favorite. There is something about it that makes you feel sad and full of life at the same time. It is that mellow month in which everything strips down to its core and show you what it is all about. Somehow, it brings out the rawness of life that no other season can - a perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
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Life is Funny (24)

 Real-life incidents and quotes from the lovely people who are a part of my life :-)

Britney: Did someone call 911 by accident? There is a police officer on the door
Raaji: I don't know, is he cute?
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Jokes can sometimes be nice too - especially if they are funny
-Megan, During public speaking training.
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"If you are a vegetarian, can you still eat animal crackers?"
-point to ponder.
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"Sometimes students fall asleep in my class. I used to bring a long leather whip for these occasions, but after some administrative issues am now obliged to rely solely on public humiliation."
-Political Theory Professor
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Office assistant explaining the old printer to me,
“Paper jams are like snowflakes –- there’s no two alike.”
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Every time I come out of my Spanish class, I thank God for English
-Raajii, struggling with spanish
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Emily: I'm mad.
Raaji: What's the matter?
Emily: I can't see my forehead.
-one drunken night.
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"Why does that have to be there! Couldn't they at least make it padded or something?!"
-Raaji, on cement highway barriers
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In a hotel room, to a male coworker,
Raaji: Soooo, I am checking you out.
Dave: Excuse me?
Raaji: oh,.. umm... out of the room, I mean. I will check you out of the room, I am not leaving just yet. Umm... you  can give me your keys.
[he laughed really hard and needless to say, I was quite embarrassed]
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Shaf: This place is haunted. I dont want to live here alone.
Raaji: Relax, I lived here for quite some time - alone. I made out alright.
Faz: She made out with the Ghost!
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Lover's Music

There is a music that lovers hear. They walk hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and there is always a song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is an echo that rises up from the murmur and shuffle of your own experience and memories.
 

[1] My Sister Says...

I have a little sister. Did I ever tell you that? She is 11 now, and she follows me around whenever she can. She is the most phenomenal kid I have ever come across. She speaks the plain unvarnished truth. She dishes it out in no uncertain terms, with heartfelt emotion coloring each phrase. Here are few of the 'truths' she says...

[for reference, she calls me "Appa" = Big Sister]


"Mom, I do exactly what you want me to do.... *Pauses*... Eventually."
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Raaji: What is my ipod doing on the floor? See, that is why I dont give you my things.
Sister: Appa, I just put it down on the floor so that I dont drop it. Geez, I am taking care of your things.
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"Appa, you are so mean! I swear you have horns under those pretty hair of yours!"

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Quietly laying on the couch for  half an hour or so...
Raaji: Lazy bum, get up and do something.
Sister: I am doing something.
Raaji: And what is that?
Sister: I am thinking! :-)
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Siting on her desk in a deep thought...
Raaji: So, what is going on in the pretty little head of yours?
Sister (touching her head): Its pretty, isn't it?
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Sister: They said there would be a lot of humidibity out today.
Raaji (knowing fully what she meant): The what?
Sister: Humi-di-bity.
Raaji: Humidity?
Sister: Oh yeah, that.
-You should hear her say this word :-P
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Raaji: So if you could change one thing about school, what would you do?
Sister: Burn it down.
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More soon...

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The Lovers

As I sit down with the cup of coffee and look outside through the glass door, I think about how the days of the lush green grass and bright colored roses are numbered - how in just a matter of few weeks, it will all be white once winter sets in. No colors, just white. The thought of winter almost always reminds me of lovers. The lost lovers, somewhere deep inside that white. Perhaps they are still alive, perhaps they are all dead now. These are the lovers who loved and the lovers who never loved. The lovers who loved but were never loved and the lovers who never loved but always loved. I think about those who loved me right and those who loved me wrong. I think about the wrong ones who loved me right and the right ones who never loved at all, perhaps because I was the wrong one.

But if only you'd let me love you....

The hardest lesson I had to learn, and was reminded again is that  love alone is never enough. Its always loving by the right person that matters. They are wrong when they say that love is the best thing that could happen to you, that all you need is love. Its really not about love, it is about The One.  And we blame the emotion all the time. I really do not believe that just-because-someone-doesn't-love you-the-way-we-want-them-to,-doesn't-mean-that-they-don't-love-you-at-all theory. The truth is, we don't care about love, we care about how it makes us feel and if it doesn't feel right, no matter how much the other loves us, it wouldn't matter. How selfish are we.

That's the tragedy - some people will never amount up to that no matter how much they love us and those who amount up to everything seldom love us back.