Thursday, September 24, 2009
Plea for ideas
I am currently battling a big, huge, large block that is threatening to kill this blog. I have discarded at least 8 drafts and am sure I will discard more. Whatever I write seems like the worst kind of rubbish and bores me to death. To force myself out of this I have decided to write about anything that you ask me to write about. Give me a topic/ ask me a question/point me to something that interests you/all of the above. Anything is welcome!! Just leave me a comment. Mail me or call me. Thanks!
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something on music! lets have a scene where a mellifluous voice is heard singing from somewhere atop a terrace! ;)
music for sure ! Western music that you & I are crazy of.Come on put on your thinking cap & make it really mind blowing !!!
Mind blowing... hmm. Tough one. Are we crazy about it? really?
Yes. The blog surfer longs to know the musical taste that earthlings have! You guys are famous down the galaxy for the outstanding patterns you make out of air..Music you call it yes it is music.Western,classical ..umph do I know any more? You must know! Bring'em on!! ofcourse add to it your individualism..hmm I love ice creams!
@ Nanda and anon-e-mus
Thanks!
@Mr Surfer
Thanks! Earthlings, patterns, music, individualism, icecreams.. hmm. Interesting. Very interesting. Do you have music where you come from? (Where ever that is!)
hmm.. i know exactly how u feel..
I m sometimes so lost.. that i ll even feel like shutting down my blog! (I can't imagine me without my blog!)
ok.. try this..
open your window.. keep looking at the people who walk on the road.. any one.. raamu shaamu- chunni- ,unni.. whoever that may be.. keep looking at them.. see what they r doing.. it's my strong belief that there is a story inside each individual..
i shall tell you a personal experience.. read no further if r feeling bored of this "advice":
see.. the place i get down from bus- there is a beggar who "owns" a tiny corner near the bus-stand. In total rags- u could find all the dirt in this entire universe on him. Exactly at the time i get down, a fat lady comes in there with a garbage bad and puts in inside the trash can n leaves.. this beggar- as though he was waiting for her since morning, rushes to the trash tin and starts rummaging through it to see if it has any food! it's not a good sight to see.. bt truth is sometimes- no.. most time stranger than fiction! so.. he starts eating off the trash- mad with hunger then- drenched with animal pleasure!
first i used to think- what a poor/horrid life he must lead.. having to eat off the trash! i felt sorry for him.. i had been seeing this everyday.. so one day, i got a buscuit packet from a nearby store.. n placed it near him as he was sleeping..
that evening, when i had got off the bus, i saw this beggar, sitting in his usual spot- waiting for the lady.. bt the buscuit packet lay beside him- untouched!
andas soon as she had come, he rushed towards the trash tin, rummaging through it for food- eating out of it- as though it contained some elixir of life itself!
strange, isn't it? I could not think why, though! may be, i thought, he was saving the buscuit for the dinner.. so, i stood there, looking at him, just out of curiosity- to know what he was going to do with it.. as a person, i need not have done that. but a creative sould in me- urged me to stay there.. it was giving me something interesting to write about!
he finished eating off the trash. he went back to his spot. then, there was this starving little dog, that came by.. he started throwing away all the buscuits to the dog..!
the next day, I got a buscuit packet again- this time, he was awake. I extended it to him. he refused to get it!
I stood- transfixed, looking at him for a few seconds..! i said- give it to the dog if u don't need..he said- "do it yourself"!
sounded rude.. but i couldn't help it.. i had to smile! I had never met such a character before! as a person- i couldnt like him.. but as a writer- i just loved him!
he was so used to eating off the trash- that he doesnt even likes having better things!? well.. i dont know how is is that his mind works.. but all that i can say- his story, made my day!
Try it.. i m sure, you'd find someone interesting too!
Hi Matangi
Thanks for that amazing story. What a character!!
You are right about every individual being a story, I believe so too. It is not that there is a lack of stories with me right now. It is just that I hate everything that I write! :-/
Your story was inspirational. Thanks!
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