QuarterLife, Afterworld, YouTube, MySpace..

Do you really need a TV anymore? Real life, Semi professional or semi amateur videos, blogs all these things seem so much more real and interesting than anything I have seen on television.

Any way just a quick blog before I hit the sack.

Found this new series online, seems to be quite cool, check it out if you get the chance, looks like it's about the confused life of our generation. Seems fun and real all at once.


Website : http://www.quarterlife.com/

You Tube Trailer :



Anyway these series, give me something to do online.. :) .. Afterworld a cool concept, if you have not seen it yet check out my previous post on it. It's into Season 3 now..

Rahul

Generations - The Eternal Conflict

Many years ago I drew this picture...

This picture symbolizes the eternal conflict I have with my Dad. Well It's not a picture to say we don't get along. I guess it is one which says we always have different points of view.

As a child, I grew up in awe of my Dad, he is a brilliant man, someone whom anyone can look up to. Seeing my dad come up in his career, well that story is inspirational.

I have never wanted to enter my father's chosen career path, I have not wanted that life, but one thing that I do want to be like him is the work ethic, the way he has come up in life, with his own two hands. I want that for me too. I never really knew what I wanted to do with my life.. Maybe I still don't, But I have now reached a stage where I feel like I enjoy what I do, my job, though it may have it's ups and downs, though it may have the occasional day when I wonder what the hell is this. I really love it, and there is one thing that my dad taught me. Put in an honest day's work, when you put your head on the pillow in the night, if you have you will sleep well.

Over the years as I have grown up. I am in the 24th year of my life. I am no child any more. No one would say that. But some where, at some level, the fear of my father still exists. The eternal need for his approval, wanting to prove to him that I am capable of making something of myself.

Well, I am not sure if I am anywhere close to the goal of proving to him that I am capable, and that I can take good decisions in my life and in my own way be a success one day. But, I feel, I am at a stage where I should be able to talk to him openly about what I feel, what I want from my life, because, at the end of the day it is my life.. I need to live by my choices, Right or Wrong, mine to make.

This fear, so deep seeded that anything I ever wanted to tell my dad was through a letter, I never could speak to him. My weapon has been silence, I have used it so many times in my life, it comes to me too naturally. Silence though is wrong. the Silent form of protest is torture for the ones you love. I guess even though when I put my hand on a keyboard or a pen the words flow through, the conversations that matter never seem to leave my lips.
I'm no child anymore, I'm in love, i have been for many years now, I'm working, I'm a professional, I respect people I work with and I get the same in return as well. But, in front of Dad, I still sometimes feel like a child, and sometimes still throw my silent tantrum.


Well the reason I started writing this blog was to tell myself a few things. I'm not a kid anymore and I should stand up and say what I feel. I respect and admire my Dad a lot for what he has achieved in his life, but that is no reason for me to be scared of him. It's my life, I have to live it, and maybe make some of my own mistakes.

But, this blog has ended up more as a very personal account of my relationship with my father. A man I love, respect and admire, a man I need to learn not to fear, but to trust. I love my dad, I don't say it very often, It's true. This is a really new blog for me, never have I spoken about how I feel when I comes to my parents. They are my world.

Rahul.

Keep 'em Close.

Ever wondered how important friends are? How they impact our lives? What our lives would be without them in it.


I guess we all know the importance of those precious few. Those friends whom we never lose touch with no matter where we go.


What about the rest. The ones you have had a good time with or a short friendship with at some point in your life.. Most of us don't really bother to keep in touch with them too much.

I was really taken aback by my attitude in this regard when one of my friends. He and I have been friends from longer than I can remember, but as time went on our lives took different paths and we lost touch. It did not really matter to me if I knew where he was or how he was doing. But then one day we met for Lunch and I felt,

"Well it's not right, to take any friendship lightly or brush it aside. No matter how close or how far you are, No matter how well or how little you know each other. A friend is a friend is a friend. Even if you don't make an effort to keep in touch, don't push your friends away".


I guess Orkut helps a lot a us in this regard. Helps me atleast say the occasional Hi to a friend I have not met in a while. Or catch up with a close friend I have not had the chance to talk to.. Or to just reminisce with friends I met just a day earlier.


The point is, no matter how.

Friends are important. Keep them close. If nothing else, they can bring a smile to your face.

Rahul...

Pick Me Up..

Over the years, when I've felt really down in the dumps, when I've felt really confused.. Not really sure what life is about or what I'm doing with mine, there has been one song that has lit up my day and brought a smile to my face.

Through these years I have been very possessive about this song. I have let only a few of my close friends and some of my relatives listen to it while I tell them what it means to me. I know that sounds silly. How can you be possessive about a published lyric, a song that's not yours. But this song, is a story of most of our lives. There are parts of this song we can all relate to. I felt today that this is something everyone should listen to a few times in their lives. So what I am doing here is 2 fold.

This is the song :



These are the lyrics (These are from my friends Blog, Natty) :

http://ennangal-ezhuthanal.blogspot.com/2007/10/well-make-it-through.html

If ever you feel down or you feel you don't know where your life is headed, don't fret, all of us go through that from time to time. Me well I feel it quite often.

This song delivers a few truths in a manner that you would actually listen. But my advice. If you really want the most out of this song. SING ALONG. You'll pick up the lyrics on this one faster than you can imagine.

Trust me on this one. This song is a must hear for everyone. At least twice.


Rahul ..