Blogging about nothingness....

Im in a mid life crisis now...
Well im callin it midlife cuz im quite sure with my present lifestyle I wont live beyond 50

I have passed the stage when I used to crave about goin back to campus - sighing and wailing about the good ol days and pretending to be a teeny bopper (its been 6 years since i passed that stage, but somehow i never accepted that fact)

I have KINDA settled down in Singapore. No - it doesnt mean i drink only mineral water when I come to India and am scared of crossing the road. No, I know I have to work and I have to be in an alien country where everyone is less than 5 ft tall for some time. I have resigned... accepted the fate...

Its not like I am forced to do somethin which I dont like. Marketing is my passion. Some ads still bring tears to my eyes... its just the concept of waking up at 8 am, sitting in front of the laptop wearing formals and strategizing on how to sell soap which is somethin which I have resigned to..

Im starting to make friends in office.. hanging out with them more.. Ive stopped becoming broody at office parties thinkin of the good days.. I am settling down..

As I pass through this stage, I see other people coping with the same issues in totally different ways... Let me try to illustrate:

1. The flashback fanatics: Some of them still live in the good ol days.. They had a blast during their college life, had wonderful friends who were great company and looked after them... They got so dependant on those relationships that they are still stuck to it.. These people do not accept the new stage in their lives.. Office work is equivalent to lying down on a bed of coals, getting whipped with a steel rod and getting crucified. Every single day of their lives is filled with complaints and pains of how their work life sucks and comin back home to dream about the good ol days or try their best to catch up with those old relationships... Not realizing that while the world has moved on, they have been left behind in the crowd... They remain strangers in both worllds.. of their youth and their mid life...


2. The Glory Seekers: These are the trained athletes of intellectualdom(if there is such a word) Every since their kindergarten, they have been trained (like the spartans.. watch 300!! ;)) to defeat people with their intellectual capabilities. They have been trained to be braniac machines and this is the big stage for them to prove themselves. The enter the work stage running, trying to prove to their friends, bosses, colleagues, society and themselves that they are the best of the best...

Unfortunately glory is such a relative term... some of them find it elusive and keep on changing jobs, responsibilities etc etc to search for the elusiveness..
Others redifine glory into smaller achievements and remain happy with where they are...

3. The LLTF Energizer bunnies: These are those who lost out on their youth busy in books or living uninteresting lives. They wanna do watever they dreamt of in the past 25 years... So weekends are filled with travels, activities, learning new arts, sports etc etc. They are the energizer bunnies.. weekend is more hectic than weekdays.. Some of them stay on.. and others wither away...

4. The brainwashed zombies: These are the ones who will do watever their master tells them to do.. They followed the rules in school, college and will follow the rules in office. They will be diplomatically correct, analytically precise and personally total zombies... Stay away from them if u dont wanna go nuts...

Now where do i fit in?? hmmm.... i dunno... in fact i dont fit anywhere...
which is why i guess i have a midlife crisis.. duh...

Well ill flow against the stream and see where it leads me... Nature's rules say that i wont reach too far... but ill try nonetheless..

And why did i give the title of my blog like that? well this is the first time i started typing with abolutely no idea what i was writing about.. SO if u guys thought reading this was a waste of time, i am sorry... but i guess in these dull n dreary days, blogging about nothingness seems the best i can do....

have a happy easter!