Exploring Love

Its 11 pm in the night, everyone in my home is asleep and as I write these lines, I ponder over a different question that is not related to love. Something thought provoking. Why do we do things? Why do we over and again come and login to Orkut? Why do we create threads? Why do I create polls? All of a sudden, I don’t have justification to my actions. It’s kind of sinking to know you make efforts for things that don’t have any outcome. Someone who walked 10 miles only to reach nowhere, I’m under possession of similar feel. Whatever, I’ve learned, such feelings are momentary and fade as time passes. Ok! Your patience is commendable as you read till here without entertaining any second thoughts to read further. The feeling of sinking, void etc.. were evolutionary products of a poll where I asked Genians ‘What is Love?’ It happens to be genesis for this post. No more nonsense, please read on.

So what is love? A generic term? Something essential for living? Wastage of time? Wastage of money? Time pass? Sex/lust/unholy stuff that we must keep off, simply attraction or something else. These were the options, accompanied by a not so related ‘Kill the poll creator’ option. Unfortunately or fortunately, I was the one who created the poll, hence was ready to sacrifice life. Dumb you! Virtually (One of my professors in engineering pronounced it as Vertually… vir-tually, which sounds funny. Trust me). Voting hasn’t stopped, but most of the active members out there have exercised their franchise to vote.

Here is a snapshot of response.

25% of the respondents feel love is something extremely essential for living. While 21% want the poll creator (I) to be killed. That’s serious lack of concentration. Poll creator getting killed 7 times. Man! Where is the world leading to? 9% of the sect says its wastage of time, money, sex/lust/unholy, time pass or something else that’s not offered to vote on. A mere 6% say its attraction. WHF? Why do all the morons in love banter ‘I’m attracted to him/her’ all the time? If its not attraction then what is it. The respondents fall in 18-30 years category.

Comments by members:

Aditya can’t hold his joy that he took part in a poll and posts a smiley (big smile) as a comment. I’ve heard a phrase; ‘Silence can be virtue, sometimes’ but this ain’t that sometime. B.T.W Aditya clicked everything the poll had to offer. Is he a confused kid?

Diimaan who now sports a weird DP, which I believe is a still form some Hollywood flick says “kill him kill himm…” It seems his adventure with typos shall never end. He wants to kill the poll creator. He used a confused smiley to begin and funny smiley to end his comment. He too seems to be confused.

Aravind who I fondly address as Tiger thinks “Love-Each and every body Has their own Statement......That depends upon their heart and Mind set....Each and every stage of Life.....You Have to Love to live...That's it....”

Jhumki, who is one amid junta that wants poll creator to be killed, reacts to Aravind and says “ARA!!! This is the most difficult question in the entire f***in universe!!” Is it so? Is love so incomprehensible and beyond human limits to answer?

However, if you were to take my opinion, love isn’t that difficult to make-sense-of. To put in the words of Lisa Hoffman "Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." I guess most of the respondents had their loves picture somewhere in back of their mind as they responded, and responded in context of male-female love. There are few others too, which we incessantly ignore like; love for country, love for parents, love for friends. And yes, I do think attraction plays a larger than presumed role in love. Love also makes one tranquility deprived. Now I feel like a love-guru and a feeling of self moronification has sunk in. Its sort of natural alarm that starts tickling when I go beyond my civilized limits. All those greeting cards and novelty companies watch out. Eehhhhh…..


Adios!

Why Did Chicken Cross the Road?

Many of you readers may have come across this question in past, why did chicken cross the road? Few try to find answer to this intriguing question. Few rubbish it instantly. While few others say “This is not a question”, Oh yes! Any thing doesn’t become a question just by adding a question mark at the end of a sentence. Even this argument seems logically sound, and leaves little space for counter questioning. Now you may wonder, this moron should talk about the topic now, and prove the point he intends to, why did chicken…? Have some patience. Sooner or later I would come to the point. I have to. Else I would eventually make an ass out of myself.

I was snarfing one afternoon, and clicked one of the bookmarks on my system. That took me to a website called philosophynow.org. I know few of you may be giggling by now, or smirking at least. Anyways, an article titled ‘Food for Thought: Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens’[1] grabbed my attention. I began to read it. The author mentioned a link[2] as a follow up, which I happen to click. And was pleased to learn how intellects across disciplines and time reacted to the question. From my personal favorite Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Nietzsche, Douglas Adams, and Emily Dickinson to people who I don’t know and don’t care about. While reading, the thought of starting a thread[3] on similar lines popped up my brain. It would be interesting to see how mortals at O.G react to the question. What kind of reaction would they come up with. Who came up with weirdest reply? And a few more unanswered questions. Replies started to pour in. I myself would have reacted a very simple manner, and would reply “May be it had some job on the other side” or “For the sake of fun” nonchalantly.

Here are replies made by Genians.

Jhumki says: “Because chicken wanted to go the other side.”

Shakthi who changes her (yes it’s her) DP (display pic) and DN(name) twice a day for no special reason instead of replying reacts to Jhumki’s reply and says: “no matter y Jhumki’s intellectual”

Shweta one of the smartest (she is) of the lot copy-pastes reactions of few celebrities, politicians which includes few names from the original list of intellects. Though a deviation her post made an interesting read.

Diimaan laughs at Shweta’s post and post: “LoL”

In the mean time I appealed junta not to read Shweta’s post and reply making full use of their mental faculties.

Shakthi uttered in: “to make u ask such stupid questions...”

Nishant too replied: “..to mate on the other side..”

Prabhu, another smart member known for his occasional appearance as much for his witty posts said: "Shweta's answer: The chicken crossed the road, errrrrrrrrrr, i don't get into debate

Bonnya's answer: the chicken crossed and got freedom from the male-chauvanist

Krati: the chicken merely followed (fe)minister of anti-malism, Bonnya

Shakti: the chicken saw parle-G on the other side of the road, tan ke SHAKTI, man ki SHAKTI

Black: It saw the handsome Black on the other side of the road

Gazi: Crossing the road is the only way of reaching the almighty, its written in curan


sab ke baare mein ab likh dunga, tu kal road kaun cross karega ”

His post made Aravind and me laugh. Others were lazy enough not to post their laugh.

Then Prabhu made a incomprehensible post, which including Prabhu cannot make sense of said: “satyamev ghussa dilatey” Anyone who know what it is please contact us. We are ready to pay you for decipher job.

Jhumki, who was enraged at Nishant’s post said: “Nishant: Chickens are Kids!! They dont mate.”
“I think we should let the chichen tell us.. why it crossed the street...”

Aravind dazzled at Jhumki’s post asked: “Who is the chicken out here...?”

Shakthi found some time now and laughed at Prabhu’s post. Also did she ask Prabhu how would diman, Jhumki, tasneem, amit, toney, adi .. etc would react.

Diimaan’s answer was: “chicken crossed teh road to drink teh mutton soup...” Don’t ask me what ‘teh’ is? May be, its fashionable replacement for simple ‘the’.

Shweta reacts to Prabhu’s post: “@Prabhu, hey, i'am not lk that?!. Though u did correctly put in the rite reactions”

Blackie congratulated Prabhu on his path breaking post: "too good prabhu !"

‘Suspicion has no medicine.’ Said some wise man. No one posted this. Adi for some unknown reason suspects that I and Prabhu are Blacks fake. Prejudice, I say. I quickly managed to quote Albert Einstein; “Common Sense is a collection of prejudice acquired at age 18.”

Then came reply from our young member Toney, who said: ”the chicken didn't cross the road... there was a tear in the space time fabric and it got zapped along with all the floatsam and jetsam... and appeared on the other side of the road... it never really crossed the road... ”

“the more the things change, the too much they remain same” Was Prabhu reaction to Adi’s suspicion.

Adi all of a sudden puts in this: “main yaha koi panga toh nahi le raha na ”

Black to popped in and addressed Adi’s concern: “ Im the biggest fake orkut has ever had, im sure about that , im definetly not what im here, and people who've met me in real can validate my claim ”

Diimaan hummed for self satisfaction. And the thread is DEAD now.

I’ve tried to make this post as authentic as possible. Here are the link that inspired me to start the thread and link of the thread itself.

1. Food for Thought: Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens
2. Why Did Chicken Cross the Road ?
3. Thread on Orkut

Adios!

What is Orkut Genie?

I believe, you got to know what O.G is before you gather momentum and ease yourself to read one of the posts on this blog. So O.G is a community on Orkut for like minded people to chill out. We are a small group, but we have fun. BTW O.G was created on 1^st October, 2006 at 2:17pm. Thanks to Orkut for keeping track of all such information. And the owner seems to be Black. Yes! The gentleman likes being called Black. May be out of some dark desire. However it doesn’t bother any of the members (including me). As I write, community home page says currently there are 3588 members. The number has been consistently plunging of late, and is a major concern for one of our younger members called Toney. On a contrary, O.G has attracted new members who are active. O.G is also known for its anti-sanity outlook.

Here, a wide range of topics are discussed. But sex seems to the dominant premise. Genians are also accused of indulging in senseless debates like ‘Who came first, Egg or Chicken?’ How the hell is one gonna justify on internet? Or prove what came first. Above all what difference it makes? Sadly no one appreciates my sanity, which has an insane purpose. May be that’s reason form what I’m doing now. Leg pulling is full time profession of few people at O.G, so be cautious initially. Enter at your own risk, I ain’t accountable for any mishaps. I will try my best to keep you updated with the happenings at or hub. I would like to write more, but mood isn’t favorable.

Adios!