and they lived pretending ever after...

i think there is a great disease affecting man and womankind...they pretend a lot...couples pretend to love each other when there is nothing left between them...they pretend that everything will be all right, employees pretend to love their jobs because they think they are not worth anything else or they are plain lazy to move their ass and do something about it, people pretend to be friends when they are actually nothing more than acquaintance or a colleague, i wonder why.

i wonder why people find it so hard to face facts and be real. Let me give an example. I love my mother for what she is. She is not a very smart lady and i love her because she is what she is and does not pretend to be smart. I know how she will behave and i like it or not, she will be that way.

So is the case with other people. People who are the way they are, are not liked by people who live by pretense. Idiots, them all. They say something, feel something, do something else. Sheer pain wherever.

If you are not my friend, do not pretend to be. Relax and take it easy. Life is a series of chapters and we are probably just a small chapter and if we are not a match, you will go your way and i will go mine. Whats wrong in that. Do not gimme crap.

About friends, i tell you. Friends are people who think of you, who admire and care. They stay in touch wherever they are, even if not frequently, but you feel their presence. They do not talk in superficial terms. They are real people, at least my friends, although I have very few. I have become brutal with pretense and superficial behavior and I will become even more blunt with time.

Just be what you are, please. I may not like you and you may hate me...but that's okay. we are not a match, as simple as that. Now I am hungry and need to go for dinner...bye

courtesy kunal

I am dedicating this post to Kunal Agrawal, who sent this wonderful mail to the team and I think it is beautiful and worth all the praise for his effort....thanks Kunal, it's efforts like these which make life worth living, in fact it's always the intangibles that matter..productizing them as our professors will tell us, is just to make life more convenient and easy to understand...hope i understand what i have just written...

cheers Kunal..here is his mail..

Dear All,

It was indeed a pleasure being a part of the team irrespective of the outcome. The positive outcome added cream to the cake  Congratulations for that.

Not undermining the efforts of anyone, I would like to recall and thank the following people for their unique contribution that added to the memories that I will cherish:

1. Sheeba for giving me a slap – truly deserved
2. Chidiya – for letting me flirt with her and for her tolerance
3. Amar – for leading the team and pulling it off on the last day
4. Santosh – For the role play and his pleasing the aunty and his unique comments – 2nd bus stop par pahunch gayee, maal lag rahe hai anuty
5. Ameya – for his sweet style of eve teasing – Veeeeeeerrrrrrryyyyyyyy Slow and Decent
6. Divjot – for his words “OUR NGO”
7. Shruti Bidappa – We all know you that are intelligent and creative and got yet another chance to see that through the ad – many thanks
8. Urvashi – For being there till morning and through the entire experience – especially deserted/ troubled look when she was sitting with shruti in the corridors at 4.00 am thinking for 2 hours……………..
9. Pranay – The ad director of the movie and bringing in the unique effect of eve teasing “The fart effect”………..lol
10. Ann Mathews – always sweet and consistent in her contribution and for effective planning exercise with Shruti
11. Arshdeep, Amit, Vaibhav – for their contribution in the brief and the discussion and Arshdeep – giving his piece of mind to Ameya …….
12. Roly & Rachna & Prakash – for briefing us, directing our thoughts from time to time

Cheers,

Kunal Agrawal