Updates and confessions.

Recently I had realised that people(I,to be more honest) want the easy way out of everything. I am one of them. We(more suitably I) have had the vaccination of a previleged upbringing that makes us(me,actually) loathe to really endure times that are so shitty,so bad,that you hang in there just because you believe there is a light at the end of your tunnel.And unlike James Hetfield of Metallica,we should believe that it isn't just another freight train coming our way.

I guess that life has generally become so much more easier and convineant for us that we don't want to strech ourselves anymore.What if there is to be another Great Depression coming?How will we deal with it? Will we have the spiritual arsenal to cope?

Which is why I take inspiration in(NOT The Bible or The Bhagvad Gita) the Rocky series of movies,which depicts a 30 year old fighter(played to perfection by Sly Stallone) who fights in seedy clubs at night and works as a loan shark during the day. He isn't smart,but has a stout heart which helps him when he is challenged by the World Heavyweight Champion for the Heavyweight Title bout after the latter's original contender pulls out due to medical reasons. How a down and out 30 year old (whose locker is given to another,more promising boxer in the first half of the movie) trains with the help of his manager Mickey,and prepares himself for the biggest day of his life is depicted with the standard inspirational music and heavy sweat and training sequences that are now cliched. But it is in the fight in the end that your heart goes out to Rocky and you see that all it takes is the heart to hang in there and stay for a while longer in the ring, and give your best shot while trying to duck the opponents fist.

I always knew that Stallone was Rocky,but it was only recently that I discovered that he has written all the scripts of the franchise as well as directed 4 of them. Suddenly the mumbling muscleman became a man who has written a story to stand the test of time.At least in my eyes. What most people do not know is that Stallone himself had about a 100 dollars in his bank account when he wrote the script of the first Rocky movie with a family in tow. So it goes to show that miracles do happen if you work at it long enough.And provided you don't lose heart.

I personally struggle with pessimistic and occasionally fatalistic patterns of thinking and I hope to adopt a more positive,or at least realistic,attitude in the days to come.And I sincerely hope that all you guys do too.

Updates are hard to come buy owing to paucity of time. I suppose I too am slowly becoming more and more immersed in daily goings on that time to ponder is hard to find.(At least,its hard to find time to type my thoughts:-) )

Books....bought a whole lot of them but unfortunately haven't opened a single one. Looks like its going to be only academic books for the next 4 months,as the entrances are coming soon. Now its time to put into practice what I wrote in the paragraphs above:-) Cheeky!!!!

Please discount the whole aversion to pain-themed-first 2 paragraphs if you have streched yourself and achieved something you're proud of. Drop in an e mail to tell me your story. I'd love to hear it!!

Bye-Bye.