Chaha

A cup of tea
finally

one sip
and before i take the next
an eternity!

Into the steady act of emptying
the cup
i empty myself .

As i feel it trickle down the throat,
i throw my gaze as far as it can go..

then over the fallen leaf i let it fall
hanging uncertain over an unusual shape
drifting mindlessly through the throng

With a deep breath
And an unexplainable sigh of a lover,
i return to the cup for another sip

The cup is long emptied!
But i am here,
Still drinking!

मला आयुष्यात पुढे जायचय!

A brilliant conversation occurred between me and my friend today who has recently moved to the US for higher studies. He was generally blabbering about what all he needs to get done in the coming year and the coming five years and then what he intends to do with that in the future. But suddenly we both ended up saying something so beautiful that both of us just burst into a spontaneous laughter and the conversation took a completely different turn. I have typed out that essential part of the conversation below. Sorry for it being in marathi. But i simply cannot translate something like that without making it completely pointless.

• मला (अमुक-तमुक) करून पुढे जायचय रे

• पुढे कुठे?

• ते माहित नाही. मला बाबांनी आयुष्यात पुढे जायला सांगितलय़ . पुढे exactly कुठे ते नाही सांगितलं. पण तरी मी 'पुढे' चाललोय.

I'm talkin

I'm walkin, yes indeed and I'm talkin bout you and me

I'm hopin that you'll come back to me.

-- Fats Domino, "I'm walkin"

This blog, in a way, is a reaction:

1. to all the people who didn't get my jokes...or found them not funny!
2. to people who thought that something else than what I was saying at that moment that was important.
3. to people who, just as I had started to enjoy myself, told me to get to the point. 
4. to those who embarrassed me by going on talking about things I didn't fully understand. 

Above all, this blog is a loud confession: that I love to talk! I love to chatter away. No, I'm not that extrovert kind who go about making friends with everybody... talking all the time. But I'm a lover of conversation.

From conversations full of awkward silences to conversations that flow like a torrent. Conversations that stumble into completely new and unexplored spaces which are equally breathtaking to both the people. I have to some extent even lived for those moments when both people arrive at the same experience of exhilaration or laughter without too many words. I have always wondered about what possibilities a conversation holds.But I have never been able to explore it to the extreme.

And one last thing, unless any of you have already guessed it, in this blog, in this space, I have given myself the full freedom of being boring. The pressure of saying only interesting things, stifles pure expression... which is such a wonderful thing!