‘Will do it… later’

I didn’t know my new year resolution was being followed so closely :)

It’s strange how we get in to the habit of procrastinating our actions and gradually our thoughts. It starts with I’ll do this later and goes on to I’ll think about it later. I think procrastination makes you careless. It has made me careless and I have a very strong opinion backing this statement :)

After much deliberation and thought, I finally started reading my next book ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ by Mohsin Hamid. The narrative style is quite different and I’m yet to deside if I’m enjoying it. I’ve noticed a very funny thing regarding the way people develop opinions about films and literature. The more obsucre it is the better and more critcally acclaimed it becomes. When I was in college we had a subject on film appreciation and the films that were the least entertaining and most boring were supposed to be the ‘best.’  ‘The Diary of a Country Priest’ by Rober Bresson won the unanimous vote for being the most “critically acclaimed and artistic of the lot.”  Sorry Bresson!

I’m just putting down random thoughts today somehing you’d probably call ‘musings.’ Sometimes certain phrases in books just stick with you and they say more than the whole book. ‘For you a thousand times over…’ in The Kite Runner is one of my current favourites.  These six words for me are the essence of the book… read it and you’ll know :)

The yellow brick road…

I happened to pick up a copy of the Wizard of Oz at home this time and started reading it. I read two chapters and then came to the one where Dorothy decides to go to the great wizard of Oz because he is the only one who can send her to Kansas. The Munchkins tell her that she should follow the yellow brick road to the city of Oz and the wizard will give her what she wants most in the world. This got me wondering and I felt as if I too was following the ‘yellow brick road.’ But am I clear where it leads to or what I’m going to ask the wizard when I get there?

I think most of us have been  following the yellow brick road in the hope that it will lead us to our destination, to what we want most in life. But somehow the distance just keeps increasing because our aspirations keep changing.

Finally, Dorothy did get to Kansas but I wonder if I ever will because the distance just keeps increasing! Or, am I being greedy? Either way I’m still on the yellow brick road and will be on it for a long time to come :)