Abandonment

So I got a feeling that the people back home feel my abandonment has made an impact in their lives which is so life-changing that every living second of my life, they have to make its presence visible or noticeable to me. It comes to my notice that people are trying to make my life miserable by "trying" to make me realize my "jackass" and "selfish" nature. Yes, I know, I have changed. I might have lost track of the last time I verbally or virtually communicated, gesture or oral or typed, with you.

It has been a long couple of months lately and I have learnt a lot about people. How people can hate you and simultaneously respect you at the same time, and vice versa. How hypocritical people can criticize you on your action, which in retrospect is equally their error too.

I know how much you've grumbled on about how I "abandoned" you and "forgotten" about you. Nice way to blame something on someone.

Oh life, thou art a bitch.

This had been a draft for an undisclosed amount of time. I felt like I should have posted it before.

Slumdog Millionaire - The book and the movie

The book is always better than the movie. And I read the book version of a world renowned movie, Slumdog Millionaire - winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Movie. And honestly, the book way better than the movie, albeit it has an entirely different plot; so different that if you were to relate them, they would be like a woman and a diehard gamer - so different but still alike.

The book is called Q&A and the movie, well it is called Slumdog Millionaire. They are based on the same story - a guy from the lowest caste winning a Quiz Show according based his life story. But the movie has several alteration from the book - the story, the names and the question.

In the book, the name of the protagonist is Ram Mohammed Thomas. It was a special name given to him by Father Timothy, the acting father. The name has names from all three regions, to abrogate conflict in the area.

Meanwhile in the movie, the name is Jamal Malik, a muslim born with a parent. Only the mother is shown on screen, though. Jamal has an elder brother called Salim.

To be honest, the book is more thrilling, just like always. People think that the movie is the best, but I'm telling you the book is 100 times better. Or maybe more. And I am pretty sure I'm correct. Just like when I told some people Dubai is still in Asia and there is no language called Indian.

You are judged

You are judged.

Every second of every minute, every minute of every hour, you are judged.

You are judged on your looks, the way you walk, the way you talk, your accent, your smile, your complexion, your skin colour, your attitude, what you wear, the amount of make up you put.

You are judged.

Be it you're the President of the United States's janitor or the doctor providing free operations in Africa, you are judged.

Everyone has an opinion about you, even the lady who glanced at you on the road or that cute girl who you think took no notice of you.

You are judged.

And you cannot say that you don't have bad opinions about someone else. And that is absolutely fine, everyone has a bad opinion on everyone. What's wrong is if you share them with someone else.

It's funny how people remember your mistakes and bad traits instead of all the good and happy things. Funny how people gossip on your mistakes and the times you've screwed up when they hardly talk about the nice things you've done. And how one's opinion on someone can change your opinion on that person.

Funny world we live in, isn't it? We live for perfection; we need everyone to mould into our needs. We require them to be perfect for us, almost like a movie character. If they can't mould into our requirements, we just forget them and probably detest them for not meeting our needs, when we could have altered our requirements.

I might not be making complete sense, It's been a long day for me today and I have been going back and forth some malls. Bottom line is to try and keep your opinions on others to yourself, unless they are like oil to your water, then kill them with kerosene.