High Hopes

Yes you guessed it right. Its "inspired" from one of the most complex song from David Gilmour. The most amazing thing about a good piece of music is its versatility. By versatility I mean the ways one can correlate the song to oneself. We all have "High Hopes"... Hopes for a better and wholesome life, hope for friendship, hope for love, hope for this world and the likes.
        Some say this song is about high hopes... how everyone has high hopes about their lives... how far they go but the regret of not having gotten to where they really wanted to and then "Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us. To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side" .... but still "There's a hunger still unsatisfied Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon Though down this road we've been so many times" we keep looking forward until we die.
         Personally for me, this song means of a past world. Of a world that was beautiful and less complex as opposed to today.
 " The grass was greener
  The light was brighter
  The taste was sweeter
  The nights of wonder
  With friends surrounded
  The dawn mist glowing
  The water flowing
  The endless river
  Forever and ever ..."

But a glimpse of hope for a world as beautiful as it was is envisaged in the lines
 " Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
  To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side...
  Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
  There's a hunger still unsatisfied
  Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
  Though down this road we've been so many time"

This high paced life that we live leaves us with no room for basking the past. Hope there comes some juncture in our lives where the present meets the past and we can grow up again in a beautiful world

" Along the long road and on down the causeway
  Do they still meet there by the cut?"

Lost and (yet to be) found...

“Hello… Is there anybody in there?
 Just nod if can you hear me
 Is there anyone home?
 Come on now I hear you feeling down
 Well I can ease your pain, get you on your feet again…
 I have become comfortably numb…”
Heck! What the hell Mr. Waters (Pink Floyd) sang and rocked them all… An aeonian band, comprising of real connoisseurs of music, to be more specific psychedelic rock music. “If” there is something called GOD, I am sure IT must be XEROX copies of these hallowed souls!!! Anyways this is not about them; it’s about something I feel deep within me.
         How do you realize that you have drifted, strayed from your goals? How do you realize that’s its too late to come back? We all go through these emotions at some point or the other. Lucky are those who have someone who can lend a shoulder… At this juncture of my life I have realized that I am no more what I was before. I have lost myself, probably to the point of no return. Damages cannot be undone! It’s not tangible, not measurable. It’s hard to amass the scattered pieces. Damn! Do I feel like shit? I don’t know how to give vent to this angst, this angst of failure, of a stillborn life. Sometimes I feel let’s just hit and make music, but heck I don’t even have the basics in me. Sometimes a strong feeling of devoting to social cause springs up, but again there are commitments to live up to, expectations are at stake. Actually I was always sure of what I want from my life. But now it all seems to be a farce. It is becoming increasingly difficult to say that what I am doing, the path that I am treading is right for me. It’s like, treading a virgin terrain without Google Map! I wish Google was intelligent enough to let you search your goal in life the moment you click that “I’m feeling Lucky” button.

Social Networking Notworking!!!

There's a Bong song "PRITHIVI" by James whose line goes like this- "Prithibita naaki chhoto hotey hotey, satellite aar cabler haathey,drawing roomey rakha boka bakshotey bondi" which simply means that the world is shrinking itself into the hands of satellite channels and we lay surrendered in front of the idiot box in our drawing rooms. That was few years ago prior to the advent of the in thing known as "Social Networking" (from here on referred to as BLACK HOLE) . Somehow don't you guys think "BLACK HOLES" have added to this. People, I hardly see these days going out in the open. I remember there were times when we friends used to wait eagerly for holidays to have a one on one with another team in the game of cricket. I see those days vanish to oblivion. We the young blood (including moah!), restrict ourselves in front of the LCD monitor only to loiter around in the cyberspace hopping from one "BLACK HOLE" to another. I guess its sort of a peer pressure too. If your footprint is not there in one or most of those famous "BLACKHOLES" you are not cool I guess. But do we realise that sometimes we may be revealing too much  information in these "BLACK HOLES" which can put our lives into jeopardy if fallen into wrong hands. Too much of negativity in air!!! Lets nullify the effect and introspect about the goody goody sides to these "here to stay" "BLACK HOLES". First, and the obvious friends keep in touch with one another and are in constant update of what's happening in each other's lives. Second, any information you want, you just have to put a message into the noticeboards of these "BLACK HOLES" and you get instant answers, faster if you are a damsel, you know what I mean... Well no matter what, hits to these "BLACK HOLES" are increasing exponentially [but of course slower than India's population growth ;-)]. Imagine a world where we stop having conversations one on one and know each other only through tweets and status messages and scraps!!! Oh Crap!