Garbled Coherence

Song & Notion -  Where Does The Good Go I hoard.  I lug. And eventually, I tire. About a year ago today, my life traveled across the Atlantic ocean for over two months and finally reached my home in Mumbai in an unbroken, unharmed condition. My life meaning my stuff stuffed in two large boxes (Ok fine, and a suitcase too!). And this was after I myself had traveled back with three fully-loaded suitcases in my last trip from the US, after having wrapped my life up. And let it also be known that the final trip was after having already dumped the first load of my things in two bags in my penultimate trip from the US to India. The final piece of information I would like to add hither is that NONE of all this stuff included any utensils or furniture. So it must be clear to you by now that I come with a lot of baggage. A complete cliche´, I know, but it's true - literally and figuratively. It's quite embarrassing that after living the life of a consultant ...

Notion - For cities have a soul Song - While You Were Sleeping - Love theme 15 messages, 13 shares and about 20 forwards overall on different social media. The polar vortex of Chicago created a vortex of people's interest for my thoughts and feelings about it. I found it endearing that people were being thoughtful and considerate. It was after all a bitter sweet reminder that I am not in Chicago. The sweet part was that I knew I had chosen to leave on my own accord and I had bid a beautiful farewell to the city in my very own personal way. The bitter part wasn't that I am now in the chaos, that is Mumbai - but it was that I am not in Chicago. It's been a month since I did the unthinkable, the unspeakable - I moved back home despite of not having a visa issue or not losing a job. And the even further unheard and unthinkable of changing my lifestyle from that of a US corporate professional to that of a (proud and happy) not-for-profit employee. So the polar vortex sort...

Notion - For we all owe it to ourselves Song - Steer by Missy Higgins I have never been a fan of the terms quarter-life crisis or mid-life crisis. Sure there is a logic and empirical backing to the establishment of these terms and it makes perfect sense to call them so, but I get hung up on the numerical aspect of it. For if this one is my quarter-life crisis then it would be followed by a panic attack as my mind would calculate my full life to be of 120 years of age. And that would be very unsettling. But keeping all this mindless chatter and rambling aside, let me try to steer my way back to what I actually wanted to talk about. Yes. Steer. I got introduced to Missy Higgins' soulful singing through Brothers and Sisters. No surprises there as most of my music findings are thanks to series and movies and other random encounters (and isn't that how music should always be found? Randomly!). I used to listen to Steer so often that I never thought back then that I would...

Notion - For I turned thirty! Song - Vienna(Billy Joel) The year 2017 began with a single rumbling murmur - this is the year you will turn thirty. Thirtieth birthday.  Hmm. I wasn't hazed or dazed by it to be honest. I 'hmm'ed at that thought quite matter-of-factly through January, February and March. I would feign a sense of anxiety now and then just to assuage others' inquiry. Come April, I still found myself to be of a soundly hinged mind so I decided to seed some anxiety by setting some goals to be achieved before the D-day. It was almost May end and I realized that my quintessential lack of discipline to attain set goals had not had the desired effect on my eerie calmness.  I let it go. I turned thirty. I could very well stop here for that's all I have to say about turning thirty. But it has been brought to my attention that this moment seemingly is a life changing milestone. So I decided to honor it in my own way. I love my birthday. Unapologe...