Life is Funny (27)

For your entertainment, here are a few conversations with the wonderful people who are a part of my life... :-) 

I am from here. I speak three languages: English, bad English, and profanity.
-W, during a conversation about languages.
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Emily: needs to learn how to respond to a bitchy co-worker in German...any tips?
Mark: Middle finger?
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While preparing for an interview:
“So after the interview, I will ask them about my price... Oh I mean my salary.”
-Marvin, Keeping it real
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"Hey, do you guys smell that? It smells like burnt fire!!"
-Emily, on flame redundant situations
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"I LOVE honey nut cheerios, I could eat them all day all night and whenever. Boys need to taste like honey nut cheerios.”
-Sera, while eating honey nut cheerios straight out of the box.
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Terry: I have a whole honey dew in my room chilling for three weeks.
Jeremy: Oh, its probably alcoholic by now.
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So this is my little spiel about why you should care... in addition to the fact that, dammit! I control your grades
-Poli Sci Professor, explaining why statistical regression is important.
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23

So here I am, another year older, and somehow inspired today in ways that I have not been in a long time. Just when you think that things can't get any better, they actually do - believe me. And it boggles with your mind because it is too good and you don’t want to mess it up so you keep pretending that nothing changed. But the truth is, things change in an instant: 60 second phone call, one harsh comment, one tender kiss, one silly mistake... and nothing remains the same.  The how and why is beyond me. Change is the greatest mysteries of life.

In one day, you shift a number and all of sudden you are not the same anymore. You are not in the category you were the day before. You are not the kid you still feel like you are, and you are never going to go back to that feeling again.

Its all a game of numbers: how old, how many times, how long, how often, how much. And that’s how life works. You get your numbers right and everything aligns perfectly. You miss one digit and its complete chaos.

Sigh. Here’s to another number that will change soon enough.

World to Come

I arrived twenty minutes early so I walked into the Starbucks on the corner of Lake & Jefferson street to kill some time. As I got myself a hot mocha, I saw a group of South Asian guys sitting in one corner chatting happily. It seemed as if they were out on a lunch break or something. As most South Asian men would, they took a moment to notice me before they went back to talking to each other. I made my way across the room from them and found a single seat by the glass wall.

Once I settled, I took in the grandiose structure of the silver building across the street from me. This was where I was supposed to go and this was where the complete strangers in suits and ties would decide what my future was going to look like. They were going to decide if I were to come to this Starbucks often from then onwards or if this was my last time in this part of the town. They would decide if these streets were going to be my frequent walkways or just random streets that I probably would never come back to. Its funny and scary how sometimes God puts your fate in complete strangers’ hands.

While we are growing up, our parents keep telling us that we could be anything, have anything and do anything. But the truth is, that growing up in nothing more than just figuring out what doors haven’t slammed on our faces yet. So we are eager to grow up, to finish the education, get out of college until we hit a big fat wall of reality. As it turns out, we usually can’t have the things we want. We don’t get to be pretty, or smart or loved only because we want it. We don’t always control our destiny.

But then again, if we want it badly enough, I thought.

And how will I ever know until I get in there and push hard enough? Our biggest fear is not that we are not capable of doing something but that we are so capable that we might not be able to handle it once we get it. It is our courage and not the cowardice that frightens us. We tend to focus on who we are not more than who we are. But the truth is, we are all meant to shine.

With that thought I smiled, threw my half empty coffee cup in the trash can. Eased the crease on my sleek black skirt, and walked towards that building to find out how badly I really wanted it. And if those strangers would really be able to keep it from me if I wanted it badly enough.

"And I want to know what makes your world go round..."

For More: I ROMANTICIZE 

Nearly Lost

I didn't ask for it to be over, but then again, I never asked for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunsets.