My friend "Q" once told me, in an attempt to put his recent grief at being dumped for the nth time, his new found feeling of cynicism (as is the case with everybody.. at least till the following day's hangover kick in) for everything worldly, his (albeit sporadic) acceptance of his appearance and his sudden love for being (hypocritically) philosophical (that still pisses me off) into a nutshell, "Life is like one big Soap Opera dude. All melodrama. Only, more boring." (Did I mention he has the alcohol tolerance level of your stereotypical Tam Bram who sipped on a "cutting" thinking it was coke?). He then went on the most inane rant about "Life and its misgivings" that made yours truly wish for a death fit for a "SAW" extra but sugar coated it all with timely interjections of "NANBAEN DA NEE!" meaning "You, are a true friend!", for all the linguistically impaired! THE BASTARD!
Waking up with a seething hangover, I couldn't help but think about what he said. Or in fact how hypocritical he was being, or how wrong-er (I know its wrong! But common! Even you've always wanted to do that!) he could be about the "boring" part. Life is a big SOAP. It is because we want it that way. And for one simple reason! WE ENJOY IT! We just haven't realized it yet.
Why else do we support the "Institution of Marriage" that is supposedly a "celebration of love" but instead turns out to be a celebration of everything that's fulminant, shiny, gaudy, and not even remotely close to the two people actually getting married (apart from the "congratulations!" with the "100 rupee note" in an envelope that has a fake 1 rupee coin stuck on it!)? Why else have SOAPS gained so much popularity, so much that an old lady(supposedly more than 200 years old if you follow the SOAP's genealogy) earned much more than all her generations for just standing at the door "calling out" to her kin? "It's classic escape from reality machan! People need something like that to escape their miserable existence" said a pseudo realist faggot friend of mine. Then why is Reality TV, that is filled with as much melodrama as a Desi's plate inside an Indian restaurant that says "FREE VADAI! ONE HELPING ONLY" being watched as ardently as your average SOAP? Heck I've seen kids fight with their grandmoms for the remote over what to watch - the SOAP or "Roadies"! Or, my personal favorite, why does every graduate student (me included!) write status updates like "GRAD SCUL IS TOUGH! I EVEN FORGOT I HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE", or stay online on Gtalk with his status saying "DND"? Wouldn't it make more sense to not be online at all or not be able to update FB statuses in the first place?
In a nutshell (I do agree I have done as miserable a job as "Q" to put my "ramblings" in a nutshell), life is like one big K3G clusterf@#k. This stage of melodrama, where the characters just keep rolling by, from one plot to the other and the story never seems to end. Where everybody wants to be Shahrukh or Kajol. Where you're the hero, heroine, the villain or the comedian at some point.
If not a "Kudos" this would atleast elicit some foul language! So go on! Get off your asses and comment! Chop Chop!
P.S - The part about the hero and villain was "Q"s idea. THE BASTARD.
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