Shopping exercise

This could be another reason for not joining a gym and shopping instead..
We pay money in the gym so we can sweat out guts out and exercise, we spend money so we can get to use those machines..
So spending money in gym give us: a)machines to use. b) exercise.
But when we shop, it gives us: a)whatever things we buy b)Happiness, utter bliss c)exercise. All sort of exercise. Struggle out of clothes, struggle into new ones. walk in new shoes. struggle to get to the right pair of earrings. goes back and forth on the streets. Bargaining. The excitement, and increased heartbeats on seeing the perfect dress, no amount of running in the gym can match this.. :D :D
OK exaggerated enough, but isn't shopping much better than the gym? we not only get to exercise with all that walking around for hours together and various body movements, including pushing and shoving (LOL!) but also get whatever it is that we buy.. ;)
Just another reason (but a seemingly sensible one) for not joining gym.. ;)

Meno-pause

Seasons change, and so does the earth, to reflect them..
So if we think of these seasons to be the moods of nature, then we'll have to appreciate nature for having been so stable with her moods!
But observing the recent changes in her moods, can we say that nature is going through menopause? and if so we have to start being very careful.. Moods can get more violent, trust me, its not safe fooling around with someone whose moods change like so..
Especially when the earth dances to her tune.. and when we are so dependent on her..
About time we start being very careful, and giving in to her moody demands, if we want to survive and reach a calm end..

Lighter view

i read somewhere once "life becomes much easier once you admit theres a part of you that likes to be miserable". but do we let that part take complete control of life? some events, in fact a LOT of events recently made me ponder over this. It becomes a weird cycle, you become miserable, and then more miserable thinking that you are miserable! and then all the essence of being you is sucked out, and all that is left is a heap of misery.. its very difficult to wriggle out of it, and a very high possibility that it might follow. so better not get into something we can't get out of right? and hence lets take the lighter view.. :)

Temptation

I bring you seemingly strange children of my un-ceasing thoughts..

(Read also: Seduction)

Temption and seduction are related. But i think we got the equation the wrong way around. Generally people think sedcution leads to temptation, but i believe temptation is born before seduction can lead it on.. Seduction is but a catalyst in helping the temptation reach its destination.. Seduction cannot nurture something that does not exist.. It is born after and for temptation, it nurtures temptation and also thrives on it.. :)

So do we really give in to sedcution or are we only blaming it for doing what we are tempated to do? :)

Road Crossing

Saw people crossing the road. Not that it happens rarely, but with me constantly putting my bike through its pace, though there no much left to explore of its pace now, rarely notice the way people crossing the road, ready to give up their lives right in under the front tyre of my bike. But yesterday i noticed and observed them much closely. Normally we just keep cursing the way people walk on roads or cross them, if you are a driver. So what i wondered yesterday is can we possibly understand things about someone's personality based on the way he crosses a street? Well, normally we do judge them, but thats superficial. Can their manner tell us in a matters of seconds about how that person is at work, or maybe how he lives life generally? I guess it should be pretty simple. Yesterday i saw a girl who started off from one end of the road, look and there were no vehicles coming from the right side so she started walking and even though she had not reached the divider, she did not look at that side again, and just concentrate on the other direction! i mean what if some vehicle had come from the right side before she reached the divider? Must be a very common occurance this, but could it tell us something about how this girl might be? I thought maybe taking up a tas but not completeling it before taking up another one? Apologies for being too judgemental and unfair even maybe about some random girl i don't even rememebr properly. But just a something that made me think there are so many things that tell us so many things about people, but we only choose to concentrate on a few things.
Atleast for me its about time i expand my horizon about what i gather from people's behaviour.

External or internal?

Sometimes its nice to relate our happiness or sorrow to things external to us. Though it is anything but true.. Wonder how many people are able to deal with the fact that the things and people that surround us are not actually the reason behind anything that we feel? That our sorrow and happiness and any other feelings (see also: seduction) are our own and not attributable to any external things. I get very scared n restless when this realisation hits me.. and it happens quite often. I feel that if these things all that we see cannot make me happy or sad or make me do nething else then what am i alive for? if everything comes from within myself then what is the point of having this physical world around me? why am i still here? But even after this fear and realisation hits me, it does not take the life out of me, so i have to deal with staying alive.. and then its good to have some anchor outside of myself to live for.. Though nothing seems to be that alluring once this realisation hits, but i cannot let go of the material world completely owing to the extreme fear..
I had some how managed to create an illusion for myself about many things, and though i know those things do not hold true in the larger scheme of things, i have to be material at some level. To rid myself of the fear and utter emptiness.. And then when i think of the humans that i live for, i understand that like me they too are going to be void of the material world, and hence they themselves are not material, i understand the connections and then the fear of losing them ebbs aways.. I find my buoy.. What is yours? within yourself or is it outside?

Seduction

Seduction is not skin deep, it goes much further inside.
It toys with the ego, and plays with the very essence of the being.
It comes from within and fools the holder and it makes us believe that it was the object that seduced.