Hypothesis for humanity

[ Statutory Warning : This is only my cooky idea, its utter balderdash if you ask me! So don't try your logical reasoning skills here :) ]


Welcome back folks! To those of you new comers and first timers here, this is me. My blog posts are about my thoughts and all that I generally can blab and blog about!

So I was thinking, Charles Darwin is the father of evolution right? Yes am sure he is. But have we ever wondered what evolution really means? For one, it isn't a cake on the plate. It is what is happening around us. It is us in the future. Thanks to some friends and some oh-so-girly movies, I've just come up with a new idea on evolution!

Today everyone wants to look good. Everyone wants to be better than the person next to him or her. Everyone wants fairer looking skin, sharp noses, botox, liposuction and the works. Well, atleast that's what it looks like. Look at a women's magazine and you see a fair maiden, with you wanting everything she's got. If you're a girl that is! But even men aren't any better. All those abs and 6 packs and muscles and the tza tza tzu. They leave you wondering what steroids you need to get now. If only life wasn't this complicated!

Precisely my point. Here's us, wanting to be someone else, in complete denial of our natural goodness and niceness. There's so much in the market today that will transform you into something you're not. The other day I wanted to get a hair cut and I went to this salon. I came out looking nothing like what I went in (I was a "what" and not a "who" when I went in)! Can't say I didn't like the new look. But how long are we going to play this game of "covet thy hero/heroines looks" ?! I have an idea that would make even God want to rethink things! :)

With the rate of change of looks that's going on, lets look at the relation that is cosmetics vs people. More money means buying more cosmetics. More cosmetics be it beauty products or plastic surgeries, mean a change of appearance. A change of appearance so rampant that everyone looks good. Now if everyone looks good, then their offsprings look equally good provided the new look is nothing like the old look and the new look lasts forever (Call me crazy)!

Stepping foot into this chain of thought, imagine more and more people and their children and grandchildren rely on external treatments to enhance their looks. After all, we do believe in survival of the fittest. So the head-turners win. Everyone says to hell with natural beauty. More people join the ocean of good lookers. Sometime in the future, not one person remains who isn't a victim of artificial beauty. My rather naivete thinking is, one day, long past my age, there will be a time when the earth is ruled by daughters of Lakme and Revlon (and Axe to be politically correct :-) ). Girls will be born with rosy pink cheeks, full red lips, perfectly shaped eyebrows and the rest I leave to your imagination! And guys, well, guys will just be guys!

Anyway, my point is, do we really need to stray away from being who we are? Can evolution really turn us into our own supermodels? Even if we don't see that time and age, I am quite convinced that there will come a day where Lakme and Revlon and all those brands are progressing towards extinction because of what they're doing today. It isn't rocket science to think that way!

Part 2, Long Adue

Ok, I was talking about the fish out of water situation. But I feel better now. I believe that whatever I was feeling while I was writing Part 1 was because of my inflated ego. I couldn't believe people broke my trust and my expectations. I made myself believe that only reason I am in Pune is to make deep friends and all that jazz. I know now, that is not actually who I am. I am a loner, I need my space and I can get clingy at the same time. I can't figure myself out at times, and I expect my friends to do that. That is not fair, so I have decided to just be here to learn what I have to, from my experiences and my mistakes, and mend my ways. I am the first change that I expect to see in the world.
I hang onto some people. I loosen my grip over the others. That's the decision I've made. Ultimately I have to be at peace with myself. So to all you people out there who have trouble with their social lives, I tell you, its best to just be yourself. Don't give yourself a hard time if someone else is not nice to you. Reason it out once, and if there's no solid conclusion, don't bother finding one. Trust me, you're better off than that.

Cheerio!

Clueless in Pune!

I think I am just about to embark on one of those adventure novels that I so love to read myself. What I mean is, I am turning out to be my own adventure novel!

Folks, this is me, in my final year of engineering in Pune, a place far from where my roots are. I write this blog not to reminisce but to just write! I did believe in keeping diaries for a long time, but with the digital onslaught, who bothers much for pen and paper! I can proudly say I do, but its a very sporadic feeling. So I reverted to blogging.

I am a classic case of the agony aunt I keep referring to. I am jilted by very tiny things that don't make up my life. I believe truly in friendship and expectations. But to not have it when you've expected it is something more than just sad. That is my life in Pune. Many of my friends and my parents and brother, have all told me they can sense negativity in my writing. Well, my expression is such that I can only speak of what is happening in my life and not what I would like it to be!

This blog is to all the expectations I've had and not been realized and all the bonds I've shared and broken. Some of you reading it may be a part of it too. I write not to hurt, but to get it out of my system.

Pune began as a new culture, a new world for me. I belong to Kerala which when compared to Pune is like oil and water. We have a conservative and judgmental outlook to many daily affairs. When I landed in Pune, the people, the mindset, the opinions were all so variegated. It was a multicultural existence, these couple of years. I cannot say if I have gelled well with all of them, but I know I have tried and it will take more than four years to be perfect in that sense.

To me, where I think I may have erred is on the comparison between school and college part. That was not needed, and not heeded by any. I kept throwing my illusions of friendship at them and they just swinged it right back at me and I was too shocked to duck!


End of part I...

Watch out for part II, coming soon..