Recurring thoughts of the week

• What’s the deal about Catcher in the Rye huh? I mean it is just a young kid rambling and that’s critically acclaimed? And that’s one of the books of the century? You want rambling? I can give your rambling all day. All through the week. All through my life.

• I am skipping town yet again. I am growing tired of this routine ok? I mean I put my bags, set my house, buy all the nice things that make me feel at home and then there I go- throwing water on the picture i just neatly painted. The worst part is packing. I think I am getting better at it. I used to worry a lot about organizing stuff. Now I just dump them all and see it makes no difference at all.

• The Marketing Myopia lesson came back to me today when I was dealing with the courier guy who slapped a Rs.2500 bill for transporting a carton the size of a monitor box. He justified the price saying diesel charge, insurance, docket charge and the worst packing charges of Rs.300.  Because he brought me a stupid cardboard box and packaging tape. Obviously I showed him the door. You can’t be grateful about paying for some services like petrol, transport, courier etc. The price will never be right for doing this. Must suck to be them.

• I was shopping for books today and I decided to reread Foundation. I was disappointed to find that they had only fresh unread copies. I somehow prefer used books.  I mean new book is all sharp, crisp and snotty and it is sometimes distracting to read. Whereas old books are like chums who let you get on with your life instead of being poky.  Anyway I still bought the new copy of foundation. I mean by conventional wisdom people perhaps never resell Foundation.

• Ok. I didn’t want to reread Foundation. For one, I think it will never be the same again. I mean you should leave magical moments just magical so that you can preserve the awe.

• Sometimes you think you are being mean for hating a person because they act like jerks and they deserve a second chance to be judged fair. But jerks will be jerks and will never understand that. Jerks are jerks because they choose to be so and any amount of time you give them to see their nicer side is simply self-destructive.

Now beat that, Holden Caufield!

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