I absolutely utterly irrevocably abhor mundane.It shrivels my spirit and clips my zeal. I dont know how people do it. For years and years and years of their lives. Wake up - rush for practically everything - run - grab - reach - allow the day to pass you by. Just like that.
And a day of your life is gone. When you didnt create something beautiful. When you did not pause to admire how wonderful the petunia tree in your lane looks today. When you postponed calling a friend. When you did not write. When you did not read. When you did not do something that makes you happy.
I am so whimsically mad of drawings and layouts and lines and papers. I love it but gosh I hate it when you're forced to be creative! Creative cannot be forced. Didnt you mama tell you that?? Hello! More importantly why?! 54 hours a week. Thats suicide. Why the hell would someone prefer to slog like that?!
How do people do it? Oh well they are not people. Yes. They are zombies. I have zombies at work, who come early and leave late, donot take lunch breaks, and almost shove their heads into the haywire lines on the screen to the point that I am sure I could hear a voice from inside the system crying out to shut her down, talk talk and talk into more zombies on phone, and judge me since I happen to have other things that I like to do with my life and time. I secretly smirk. Commoners. What do they know!
In my world there's Neruda. In my world there's a rerun of Friends. In my world there is a book. In my world there is a dreamer. In my world there is a laugh as to how stupid I sometimes am. In my world there is no fear, from anyone. In my world there are words. In my world there is poetry. In my world there is you.
Gah. But you love mundane! For you argue that there is me.Point taken, love. You score brownies! Yay!
For the others, *straight face* how do you do it?!!
p.s : The pic is way off base I know. But 90% of you don't care what pic I put up. So for those who do, its up because I just needed something to cheer this bitchy post up. Didn't help. :(
Yes, I am pissed tonight.
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30 conjurers in all:
would this cheer you up?
And then his father got him a job
And it paid well
But every day it felt the same
Well, his father was really heartbroken
When he quit and changed his last name
The doctor asked him what he was afraid of
Just what was he running from?
He said, "It's not a fear of success, nor of closeness
But of going through life feeling numb"
That's why I love the unknown
I love the unknown
He said he loves the unknown
A song from 'Rocket Science'
and I build castles in the air, for there ain't earth enough to lay the stones. Some say, you dream too much, I say, at least, I dream.
Cheer Up lady,
Blasphemous Aesthete
may be u were pissed off wen u wrote this post but surely this post made my evening..nd ya am not mundane yet as i still am in college but next year i guess wen i have a job and working i guess i will also enter into ur category of mundane..but i personally hope that i dont end up displeasing life on itself..
try checking out my blog and commenting on my posts..would love to hear from u..might ease ur tensions and headaches a bit..am followng u so i guess someday u'll return the favour..!!
www.headacheandtension.blogspot.com
ahem well, i know i am new at the job and all that but then drawing those line and working on the drawing in detail, for HOURS together is like making love to it. and sue me i go in early and get out late. almost always, that is almost a month now. =P
(though it was very different in Bangalore =P)
maybe, over the time i might not like it, i might like it less, or might like it more.
FORCED TO BE CREATIVE ids a sin. period. it is worse than being forced to sleep or wake up.
or eat.
and not a single day goes by when you have not created anything beautiful, carry a sketch pad and a highlighter and doodle it up!!
and your world is like mine, loads of reruns of FRIENDS, not Neruda yet =P, no YOU yet, but then i am too much of a drama queen who is jackasstically clumsy and thus laugh on me all the time =P
and when sometimes it gets a little too tiring or too late, the street leading up to home listens to me sing out loud =P
*. I secretly smirk. Commoners. What do they know!*
and that is called attitude =P
=D
What happened!!! Leave the thoughts of work and zombies at work place only... They are every where and dominating even here in my University... Life is more FUN than this, and I BET you know better... :)
I knw how it feels .... The day whooshes by and you dont have a clue what happened ! .. But i guess, the key lies in not takin life seriously at all ... The day you start doin tht, its finished....
Enjoy your passions.. travel, see the world, read, write.. do watever.. just live :)
Cheers.......
it takes every type to run this world!! If there were no followers, there wouldnt be any leaders..just saying..
To each his own...Thats the beauty of life...Diverse thinking..varied views, different lifestyles..
i appreciate this post.. not for what u wrote. but coz u vent out the frustration.
it'll help. once its out... its gonna be better.
take care and see it this way... it could have been worse.. at least it isn't.
I think something is storming you inside..Relax yaar..
Life is too short,need to enjoy..Guess we abhor mundane things
But life might be too complicated too to try new things..Guess we need to adjust what we have..
Depends on the way we think..
Cheer up..
@ Anshul : That did! Thankyou!! :)
@ Prateek : Good luck.
@ Bhavika : I know about the making love part. When you're into it, it really is like that. I dont dislike my work on the whole, I dislike the whole notion of exhausting oneself to the point of feeling it suck the life out of you.
No doodling for me. Scribbling it is. :)
"Jackassictically clumsy" - thats got me written all over it.
Sisters!!
@ Siku : I will do that. You're right. Life is so much more. :) Thankyou honey!
@ DG : I will. :) Thanks.
@ Sonali : I am sorry but I didnt get you.
@ Alka : Yeah yeah...
@ Deepika : It coulda been worse. Agree.
@ Neeha : I dont think I agree with your funda.
Life might be complicated to try new things??!! Thats a frog-the-well's thinking.
And adjust with what I have?
Never. Not in my books.
when you are pissed go looking for a sparrow
So I had to open your blog in Mozilla. Chrome doesn't allow me to scroll down your blog, that cheap drunk browser!
Anyway, love that paragraph "In my world...". So true. In my world, there is all that and teh world thinks I'm wasting time. What do they know?! :P ;)
I actually don't think the picture is off base. In fact, it's a very example of inputting creativity in mundane lives -- simple pencil, paper and rough hearts, and yet so pretty. :)
Aah yes this always happens to me...its saddening to see the ppl around me live their lives as if they were programmed to do so. The only thing that they can talk of is work! There's no life beyond it...i fail to understand how can ppl be so mundane and archaic?
I can't imagine living a life so dull and boring...i believe there's a life of your own apart from the work u to do to make a living out of it. I sing, i dance, i write, i read, i love....and there's jus so much more to do with life....isn't it!?
I can so relate to this post dear. *Hugs* hope this made u feel better.
I guess its all about how to make time .. I am sure not everyone is in rush ..
I have the same thinks in my life as you mentioned oh yes I keep watching the re runs of friends and sports and games and a bit of work too :) ..
yepp slowly the world is becoming a zombie land where each one is busy in himself/herself ..
and btw nice foto he hehe
Bikram's
Enjoying the small things in life and doing the unexpected thing is what makes us Humans ... true other wise we are Robots (I don't like Zombies :P)
Neruda is a good ... so is trying to write a new piece of code that will improve something, I personally feel that it is hard to judge others .. may be they are enjoying their lives in their own way ...
I can say EXACTLY, I can say LOL. There are very few times when I can say both of them together, but this.
Being in the system I understand what you are going through and don't want to go through.
I felt great because, not me, but someone else, someone as dear a friend as you, have put it up first and I am here to nod. I can say, me too. But would I have really loved to write this? No. Do I feel what you say, Hell yes.
I have August company in November. That is the take home except this well constructed piece, which you do anyway.
=D
I am glad you are an excitable person :-).
I have my own world too :)
The mundane,
I do disdain.
Plain,
Inane.
Sometimes a sprain,
An intrinsic pain.
Detain,
Drain.
this post woke me up and i blogged after long today !! Do check it out :D
You said it so well.
What could I add?
Keep writing!
To be a brain dead zombie to sleepwalk through life, some of us will never submit! :)
Creative people will turn into zombies when under pressure for too long: http://positivesharing.com/2010/02/5-new-rules-of-productivity/
show this to your boss! :)
By the way, about your blog pics, I always squirm and wonder if you put up someone's work without asking them. I would not feel too great to know if I find out someone is using the pics I took without asking me just because they are in public domain! :)
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