The Pursuit of HappYness

The other day I was watching this movie starring Will Smith-The pursuit of happiness. Boy oh boy !! Did I like the movie? Well, needless to say, I loved it...I loved simply everything about..it was so very close to life..real not reel. The problems in our day to day lives were put across so beautifully. A thoughtful movie indeed! But the movie just didnt end within the stipulated 2 hours. It left in a deep contemplative and pensive mood. I started to ponder about things in my life. What I perceive as happiness at a point of time changes completely after sometime. Then everything seems so very vague and lost. It would be needless to say that life makes me follow different dreams...having achieved one, I start in the pursuit of another one. So I am the mortally petrified soul seeking happiness but never contended with whatever she gets. I guess that quite very well sums up my motto..ALL I WANT IS EVERYTHING..tough and practically impossible, aint it? Yeah, even I realise that but then arent dreams the beginning of the reality? They surely are for me. Phew! Looks as if I am suffering from something which could be called "Verbal Diarrhoea".

And guess what, this afternoon I was reading Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie and there I go again. It added on to my reflective splurge into life and happYness. Gawd! Do I need something else now? There is a part in the novel which I really liked..Here it goes!

"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on the rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle."

I fee so much truth in the above written thought. I really do!

depressing and sad

As I posted the previous post, I just realised how depressing I have started to sound in the past couple of months. 2007 has sure been bad for me till now. Is this jus the prelude to something I dread or just what I dread...I fail to comprehend..

I wish...

Its a strange feeling that I am going through. I seem to be having a what-you-would call a normal life but then it sure is incomplete. Things seem vague and meaningless at some point of time. I fail to understand the reason as to why I have this weird feeling but I guess I am yet to delve into the innermost recesses of my mind to figure that out. That sounds complicated, doesnt it? I know that as well. I am basically missing getting the emotions , I feel. Emotions that would drive away all the tensions that i go through day in and out. I wish I could just turn back time and get away to the period when I led a protected life sans all the problems and issues that one can ever come across. I wish I could just get back to Mom and Dad and feel secure as I once was..away from people and the hurt that I was feeling each time I was expecting something from these so-called friends and well-wishers. But then I realise, good ol days are gone and reality transcends onto me in the most cruel manner. I wish... (would continue on this once I am done with the work I do for my bread and butter)

An all time favourite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLp63WBV-Ic

A few good quotes..

Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying and understanding customer needs and creating solutions that deliver satisfaction to the customers, profits to the producers and benefits for the stakeholders.
Philip Kotler

The customer is not a moron. He is your wife.
David Ogilvy

If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying "Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday," that's advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that's promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayor's flower bed, that's publicity. And if you get the mayor to laugh about it, that's public relations. If the town's citizens go the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they'll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus, that's sales.
Unknown

What helps people, helps business.
Leo Burnett

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Will Rogers

few of my favs..

YOU VE GOT MAIL... Roy Orbison

Dream, when you're feeling blueDream, that's the thing to doJust watch the smoke rising rise in the airYou'll find your share of memories there

So dream when the day is throughDream, and they might come trueThings never are as bad as they seemSo dream, dream, dream

CITY OF ANGELS... Goo Goo Dolls

And I'd give up forever to touch you Cause I know that you feel me somehow You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment And all I can breathe is your life Cause sooner or later it's over I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me Cause I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming Or the moment of truth in your lies When everything feels like the movies Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive

And I don't want the world to see me Cause I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am

I don't want the world to see me Cause I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am

Wanderlust

I was back from office and a few social obligations... meeting up a friend even when I barely had the stamina to romp around after my usual hours at the office. Meeting up people when you want to spend sometime alone can be such a pain in the neck. Its not that I detest socializing or something like that...In fact, I am more of a social animal than an introvert as I already might have sounded to be. But then, there are times when I feel the necessity of being all alone..to myself.

As I moved back to my apartment, I wondered what was it that I wanted to do. I realised watching a movie would probably hush off my long-existing issues. I headed for the nearest DVD store and picked up a couple -- Erin Brockovich and New York Waiting. There is a reason for me picking up the first one.. somebody complimented me on having the similar determination and grit as Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich. That sufficed to trigger my interest to watch the movie. And the second one...well, that was something I picked up by my instincts. A romantic affaie..the movie was way ahead of being just another romantic mushy love story. It illuminates the effects of lovesickness and wanderlust. Sad, intense and sensitive- thats what I would say about this flick that I saw.

Even after watching the movie, I really couldnt cheer myself up. Thats when I treated myself to a smoke and some lovely intoxicating music.. I am just imagining myself in what I would call the beginning of a low phase. Hopefully, I get out of this soon.

The Big Bad World..

As I get to my work as every other day, I sit at my workplace basking in the glow of the compliments of the people around me. Now thats something that can be credited to my new makeover...not a major one but certainly a welcome change. I got my hairstyle changed and lo.. there was a downpour of compliments from people I expected and also from people I barely speak to. But at the end of it all, there is something else on my mind.

Are looks all that matters? I presume they do because till date, we still give a glance to someone who is looking great. But no... I am digressing! What I am trying to put across is the notion that looks help people go a long way. Is it true? I sit...I ponder ...and I do think there is an ounce of truth in it , if not a tonne of it! I have seen my classmates using their external beauty and their charms to their advantage during the placement season. Something which is so academia gets a touch of bias based on external features. I dont blame them .. i guess its the fault of the teachers and the corporate people who actually make the students believe that this indeed is the easy way out. I am sure a lot of people will agree with me when I say that making it successfuk isnt anymore just about having good academics only.

I just hope that this doesnt remain the case. For as I learn the games of the corporate world, I realise its a lot more than just talent. I just hope I dont join the bandwagon and move ahead on the basis of my hardwork and talent rather than any other ancillary things.