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Well someone i know send me this email and it made me smile cause somewhere it completely described the thoughts and feelings I have been experiencing. :) :) :)

My dear J,
Thanks for your mail and hopefully this one will also put another smile on your face....
You youngsters are a resilient and tough generation....

You are in your twenties or thereabouts.... so maybe this is for you...
Thoughts ... musings.... wonderings about the period of life you are going through...


It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing
that there are many things about yourself
that you didn't know and may not like.

You start feeling insecure
and wonder where you will be in a year or two,
but then get scared
because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing

that people are selfish and that, maybe,
those friends that you thought you were so close to
aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met,
and the people you have lost touch with
are some of the most important ones.
What you don't recognize is
that they are realizing that too,
and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere,
but that they are as confused as you.

You look at your job...

and it is not even close to
what you thought you would be doing,
or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing
that you are going to have to start at the bottom
and that scares you.

Your opinions have gotten stronger.

You see what others are doing
and find yourself judging more than usual
because suddenly you realize
that you have certain boundaries in your life
and are constantly adding things to your list of
what is acceptable and what isn't.
One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure.

You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life.

You feel alone and scared and confused.
Suddenly, change is the enemy
and you try and cling on to the past with dear life,
but soon realize that the past
is drifting further and further away,
and there is nothing to do
but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder

how someone you loved could do such damage to you.
Or you lie in bed and wonder why
you can't meet anyone decent enough
that you want to get to know better.
Or maybe you love someone
but love someone else too
and cannot figure out why you're doing this
because you know that you aren't a bad person.
One night stands and random hook ups
start to look cheap.
Getting wasted and acting like an idiot
starts to look pathetic.
You go through the same emotions and questions over and over,
and talk with your friends about the same topics
because you cannot seem to make a decision.
You worry about loans, money, the future
and making a life for yourself...
and while winning the race would be great,
right now you'd just like to be a contender!

You are in your best of times and the worst of times,

trying as hard as you can
to figure this whole thing out.

It is called the "Quarter-life Crisis."

You could make it the "Quarter-life Challenge" !


You will survive this, for sure... and even more than that! You will come out right on top!
And this will help you all the more through the challenges of "mid-life" and "old" that will come soon enough.
The best is yet to happen. You can make it happen. Start looking forward to that !
It is not a question of just being positive or negative.
It is a question of being real!
"Senior citizen" that I am now, I went through much of all this myself but I did not know at that time what I was going through and what I had to be doing.
Thankfully things have turned out well enough for me, so no regrets....
And yes, for me too, the best is yet to happen.
So I continue looking forward.....
See you whenever...
Take care. Lots of love, T

Current Mood:
warm warm
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Ok i need to become a better persuader otherwise no one is going to answer the psychometrics i am supposed to be administering.....

Dear Lord,

Please help me.

Amen.

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Yesterday while walking home from my evening management class. I saw this lady sitting under a flyover. She was wearing a very dirty torn salwar kameez. There was this thing moving in her lap. At first I thought it was her dupatta then I thought it was rat. IT was her baby. This baby looked really small. Merely skin n bone. With a huge head compared to its non-existant body. The environment was sooo dirty, noisy and filthy. And yesterday wasnt a rainy day. I Felt horrible looking at that child in that lady's lap. Will that child survive? Even if he/ she does survive what is that child's future going to be like. Sleep didnt come easy. Is there something we can do about it.. something i can do. Why dont our policy planners and civic authorities do something. What hope do we bring up children to. Or is our society so grounded in class structure that we do not want others to rise up. I felt guilty wanting better things, more things. Planning my own career.
This is not about me.. it is about sooo many people out there. But then again it is about me as I feel. Ignoring such sights is not easy I have no idea how those is authority do it. And then we talk about  "INDIA SHINING"
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To begin with I do not eavesdrop on conversations that random people at railway stations have. In my defense, it was sooo crowded that i had to hear it irrelevant of my choice.

Now getting to the point. These 3 men, dressed for work, fairly good looking... ok one of them was lk HOTTTT......
they were completely gossiping about some other person, who wasnt there. Giggling and all.
N then they say that 'ONLY WOMEN GOSSIP'..........I rest my case.

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To,
The Horrible person who dashed into me at churchgate station,

I am in a lot of pain due to your actions. Please walk carefully.I forgive you.

- me

Current Location:
India, Mumbai
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feeling ugly is relative!!!!!!!
So is happy, etc.
Current Mood:
thoughtful thoughtful
Current Music:
big girls dont cry = fergie
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my back hurts and I could not feel my arms but it was fun.....Never did i think that a team building activity in a classroom setting would be strenuous.
Current Location:
India, Mumbai
Current Mood:
sore sore
Current Music:
Girls just wanna have fun :)
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Sometimes we do stumble across the nicest things in the most unlikely of places.... I am glad that happened to me :)
Love ya too!!!
Current Mood:
content content
Current Music:
girls just wanna have fun :)
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Well if you do not have work for me... just let me go home......i am super bored.......
n i do not think running google searches for you is something i should be doing as an industrial psychologist intern.
n today i do not have any work at all..........i am sooooooo bored/....any work is better than no work..
Current Location:
cgpl
Current Mood:
bored bored
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I am not sure if I believe in luck. However since almost a year I feel that things tend to get messed up when least expected.
So I had got this internship at a firm in sakinaka n now they do not want me. The person i was talking to yawned on the phone and she was talking to me as if i had made up the whole thing about coming for an interview and getting selected. humiliation was the least of my concern.
however I got a new intern at another firm at churchgate, now all i hope is that they dont revert their decision.

It seems lk no one wants me...something sure is wrong...most ppl tell me that i have confidence issues, i dont think so. if it is true, got to do something about it SOON.or may be the problem is something else about me, or it could be external like recession.
I am going to blame it on RECESSION...

So...

Dear recession,

Please go away.
- me

Current Mood:
hopeful hopeful
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Whiskey Cream + Madagascar Chocolate.....AWESOME!!!!!
Current Location:
home
Current Mood:
cheerful cheerful
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Somethings in the world totally escape my realm of understanding. Seriously, how can people blame a victim of wife-battering? Yeah like she told the husband to come n hit her.
it makes me completely sick and i feel disgusted that i am acquainted with such air-brained humans.
Current Mood:
angry angry
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I do not feel like studying.....I want a break.....I just wanna sleep...
why did i have to join welingkar as well?
Current Mood:
bored bored
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yay my practical exams are over............n they were good...
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I am soooooo happy!!!!!!!
I got an internship at tata power - sed.
And they are offering me an amazing job profile.
the only problem is that it is slightly over an hour away from where i live...
I am not used to travelling that much on an everyday basis so will have to get used to that.

however, i am reallllllyyyyy glad i got it. YAY!!!!!!

Current Location:
home
Current Mood:
ecstatic ecstatic
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Loads of yummy sweet jalebi later i feel sooooooooo happy.
I totally love jalebi and hot ones are to die for.
the sad part is that now i feel totally hyper and alert, which is not good as i need to go to bed in another hour so as to wake up for class in the morning. *sighs*
Current Location:
home
Current Mood:
hyper hyper
Current Music:
sweet child of mine - guns n roses
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I am currently reading 'The Female Eunuch' by Greer. There is a quote by Anne Anastasi in it which reads "From all that has been said, it is apparent that we cannot speak of inferiority and superiority, but only of specific differences in aptitudes and personality between the sexes. These differences are largely the result of cultural and other experiential factors... the overlapping in all psychological characteristics is such that we need to consider men and women as individuals, rather than in terms of group stereotypes."
I have always felt that having different norms for IQ tests (or any other psychometric test) for men n women is ridiculous. this way we are ignoring certain minorities which are part of the population. Also if a test is biased towards men or women it needs to be changed. the items in it need to be revised. Having different norms is not the solution. I even had an argument with a psychology prof. from another university about it. All he said was that the more specific norms the better. I do not get it. Somehere I have always felt that we need to start treating people as individuals. So I totally agree with anastasi.
Current Mood:
blah blah
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ok i have not been online for really long.. so here i am wishing everyone a belated merry christmas n a very happy new year...
Current Mood:
content content
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YAY my MA-I first semester theory exam just got over today.......
this means only 3 semesters more in this awful college.... then i will be find employment (that is a scary thought)...
Current Mood:
awake awake
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALBERT BANDURA!!!!!!!!!!!!
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