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time and money

there was a time when everything seemed very smooth...but those were the times when there was no tv, no mobile phones, no cars, yet things were nice. there was a certain importance to life away from work. people worked for the stipulated hours and then their time was meant for leisure. but today work seems to be everything. someone calls you at 10 in the night about something at work. you are trying to watch a nice movie in a theatre and some bloody client calls you ten times in the middle of the show. ofcourse you dont answer and then he will accuse you of not picking up his calls. you come back home and are trying to relax over a warm cup of tea and some stupid guy from the project managers office calls you and wants some detials right now for his boss who is having a meeting in bangalore. how do you care? and the details are anyway in the office and you cannot give them now. so you tell him 10 tomorrow morning. he will again call up at ten and ask you have you mailed the details? what do they think they are. a majority of the pwople in the professional world do not understand a very simple thing. if their time is money, then the other person's leisure time is also money for him in a different way and they should better learn to respect that. my leisure gives me better mental and physical health and keeps me away from doctors and medicines. i have heard stories that in some parts of the western world you call a person on a weekend and he promptly reminds you that its his holiday/leisure time and you better call when work hour starts again. when will we learn to behave like that? architects should start telling their clients no to meetings on weekends and late evenings. vendors should learn to tell their customers no to unreasonable demands about fast service. we should all learn to respect each other's leisure time and get the belief out of our minds that money is everything. their is no use of moeny without good health. dont we all agree to it?

Poetic Liscence

they all talk about poetry a lot... everybody seems to be writing some poetry.. but what exactly is poetry? is it just a random expression of thoughts rising in a person's mind in a few incomplete sentences which may or maynot rhyme and with unusual punctuations thrown arbitrarily? or is it something more serious, more complex, that requires a concentrated effort towards forming an entire new set of rules in a standard language.. an expression which is at the same time stylistic and profound.. just thoughts without styel doesnt make poetry.. they are just thoughts... i think... but i am not an expert... jus thinking aloud...

poetry should be something like ogden nash:

a little bit of talcum
is always walcum...

he had written for babies...

or

The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other...

about cows

or

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
In such a fix to be so fertile.

about the turtle

(note the play of language and the brevity of expression)

or like tagore.. but i cannot quote him here coz he wrote in bangla.....

or Dylan probably (both Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas)

"The hunchback in the park
A solitary mister
Propped between trees and water
From the opening of the garden lock
That lets the trees and water enter
Until the Sunday sombre bell at dark."

-Dylan Thomas

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

-Bob Dylan

well i dont know... but these are poets whose poetry can never die....

so next time i think of writing poetry... i would think about learning to write poetry first

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