Mr Micawber used to say .....

What with the economy heading toward a recession(?) and all that I was recently reminded of what Mr. Micawber used to say ...

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

But there are so many interesting things to do with those last six shillings !!!

The elusive little .....

Life is good ... pretty good ... Especially today :) Woke up late .. After a marathon of six movies yesterday. Had a great breakfast.

And here I am sitting and looking at the great view from my french windows.

Everything is great.
Everything except for the elusive little that is. The elusive little that will not come except in brief flashes .. rare moments ... only to taunt perhaps ...

The elusive little which is not people .... nor possessions ...
That which has been captured perhaps by philosophers, poets or mystics ...
The elusive little that can be unveiled only in your own heart ... and even to speak of it would jinx it forever ...

Or perhaps it's just imaginary, it exists only in my mind. Perhaps it's just the product of hours of leisure compounded with scores of satisfied and unsatisfied desires ..

Meanwhile here is a great song
http://www.raaga.com/channels/telugu/movie/AD000161.html

An inexplicable peace ...

There are times when an inexplicable peace steals upon us .... for no apparent reason ... and at the most unexpected moments too .... a deep feeling of stillness, calm and rest ... of riding waves of bliss in an ocean of comfort.

These moments are so precious that sometimes I feel that thinking about them even will take away the sweetness and the best thing that can be done is to just BE.

These are the defining moments of life and the only ones worth living for ...

Resolutions .....

Sometimes when things are going good vacation, new year's resolutions, party's all look like a big colossal waste of time ..
At other times when you've been slacking off for a while and have nothing to show, New Year is a good time to make some resolutions ..
Even if you are not going to follow all of them, it's good to make some ... They remain somewhere at the back of your mind and keep reminding you of the "miles to go before you sleep " !
My new year resolutions
1. To become more disciplined - Either you control the mind or it controls you ...
2. Spend more time in solitude - The only single unchangeable goal of any human is to find God. You may word it differently or define God differently but this is only true quest, the final quest that puts an end to all other quests ..
3. Loose weight - It's like in Miss Congeniality where all the beauty pageant participants keep wishing for "world peace ". Sandra Bullock's has to add "world peace" at the end of her speech coz though it's almost impossible it sounds good on paper.