EYES ON STARS

• Once a poet said: I don't want to leave my shoes behind, for someone will try it on.
• It sounds arrogant that nobody should take his place. There are many who have what they do not deserve and many, who though having talent, slumber in the dark caves of oblivion, forgotten by a tasteless people. "Nallathor veenai seidhe, adhai nalamkeda puzhuthiyil yerivathundo" wrote Bharathi _ and how right he was. To be seen and to have one's talent recognised, self-projection is necessary.
• Old people suffer more from being ignored than from diseases. The world moves on and they stand trying to make sense out of fast-changing situations, and language also.
• Among the youth, self-confidence is sometimes seen as arrogance, but what can one do when one is struggling? To be laughed at is bad but to be scared to death is worse. In such cases they appear arrogant, to survive and win in a competitive world.
• As Oscar Wilde said: All of us are in the gutter, but some of us have our eyes fixed on stars."

BEEN AWAY, INTO DISH

• Am back again. Was away watching all my favourite channels on Dish TV, that's all. 6
• I was deprived of watching Star movies HBO, Animal Planet etc for over three years and when I got the connection, I went on a spree. This greatly cut into my reading and updating my blog. I have to steal time to do this now.
• Without relatives, I grew up on films, books and songs. Almost became addicted to films and books and introverted. I was isolated, because my reading took me far away from those who didn't pore over books and didn't watch my type of films.
• This included most of the people around me. I found I had walked past most people with my nose into books and had reached a place where there were none.
• Sometimes I try to be extroverted with the undesired result that I get branded as being moody.
• Then I stopped fighting my own image. Image is what people think of you: not what you want them to think about you. That is manipulation, a sin worse than being moody.