x: hey whats up?
y: helloooo.. nothing much .. u say.
x: Nothing much here either
x: same old stuff
y: yeah
x: whats new with u
y: I wish, Nothing interesting ya.. lifes boring
y: what else
So thats how 90% of the conversations move around the world between frends. Thats how I talk to some of my closest frends. Thats how I see my life as.. thats how others see their life. Is it really that fuckin uninteresting, routine, mundane?
So ...I was talking about how Television is not completely useless and the 'idiot box' it is perceived as. It taught me 'life's not that bad.. everyone has a story'
(1) EVERY ONE HAS A STORY!
(2) Programs we'd switch off at once arnt as bad as we think them to be.. Watch OPRAH!
(3) People do the CRAZIEST things!
(4) Take INTEREST.. Your life will become INTERESTING! ..
(5) Your LIFE will become Interesting... TAKE Interest!
.. there's a guy in California who was sick of his life. Absolutely mundane and boring.. no content.. no thrill.. no satisfaction.. no highs.. no lows.. only long days filled with 'nothing'. One day talking to someone he gets THE weird Idea (5).. he goes to a phone booth picks up the state directory and calls a random number (3)
A guy picks up, Our guy tells him who he is.. So and so. On being asked to state reason for calling..
he says :" I want you to tell me story of your life " (4)
Random guy says: Are you out of you mind!
he says: No sir, I beleive you have a story of life and I want you to share it with me.
random guy says: you are crazy
he says: you can say that, but I m sure you have a story of your life. please share it with me.
random guy: Listen dude, you look sensible .. thats why I am saying in the politest manner, I don have no story.. stop being crazy and dont waste my time.
he says: Please sir
random guy: why would you be interested in my life, I have had none. I m not rich. It has been least interesting. No pomp and show. Not worth.
he says: thats what I thought about mine, untill I recalled my life and found out I have a great life story.
So after lot of coaxing, random guy agrees..
Findings: included childhood years at a ranch, raising an invalid sister, moving to city, Dull job, giving up dreams for fear and on and on.. (1)
Put in order it could have easily been a Danielle steel (gender changed)
Its a true story (2)
Why I beleive in it so much?
I met one such living story too, accidentally .. in a brief span of 5 min.
me and my friend were travelling on a rickshaw and just like that asked the rickshawpuller where he was from..
In the next 4 mins we found out about how to raise children (which incidentally lots of learned educated people still cant manage), about how he was a wanderer and had travelled around including countries like pakistan just to pursue his dream of knowing more and seeing more.. how to give up meaningless but so called important things in life to get those small things u always wanted, which made a difference to u.
All this from the least wanted, least recognised, Poor to extent of living on streets 'rickshawpuller'
Think about yours, I m already working on mine :)
6 comments:
good one buddy. miss u and miss jaipur:(((((
Inspiring... :)
superb post...liked it immensly
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Really really good post. I can't begin to tell you how right you are.. I'm using your link in a post that I have written soon (when I upload it).
Have you read Shantaram? That's what I liked about the book .. he sees some good, some story in everyone!
I dont know who some ppl here are :) but thanks for ur words! makes me wanna write more, unfortunately lazy bones don't move so easily.
Fuzzy sir, do lemme know abt the link.
Hey!
Good post! I completely agree.. everyone has an interesting life story - the conversation at the start of your post just summarises that on a daily basis people forget how interesting their life has been to date becuase they're caught up in the dull(?) details of daily life..
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