Laughable Laugh!

I laugh, smile, smirk and some say - "How cute!". Anything against gravity on our face seems to please most people. I wonder who defined happy and sad and what made "happy" win over "sad"! I am guessing there was a war a zillion years ago between the two and happy face won over sad and in evolution it just took an upward face to prove wellness! ( A long chain of thoughts in my head about the war and how sad lost it, but sparing this post of the imagination)

Since the world is always striving to head towards a happy note, I think its time I add to to it too. I decided to find reasons to be happy also looked for funny things around me. Like someone wise once said, "Unless you look you never realize how much of scarcity there is, of what you seem to want" (Why do I think that the wise someone is me;-) Anyways hence I looked and looked and realized nothing seemed that funny today and my mind or heart or whatever isnt that easy to please! (Another chain of thoughts around what I find funny and how weird that is, again sparing this post). Thus I resorted to reading forwards!! Aah dont they always come to our rescue. But most forwards - "Already Read", "Not funny anymore", or just "Duh!!" I then tried to remember funny things from my past...suddenly I had amnesia of sorts! Eventually I just gave up. I then remembered -"If you dont look too hard, You will find it" (another wise theory again) and that is exactly what I did and decided to write a post instead.

I guess like most shallow things this post also just does not know why it exists. Leaving it behind to remember - " I was once looking for happiness until I decided not to!" Hoping most of you have a happy weekend ahead.

Wonder why?

I wonder why we are not taught to assume our rights.
I wonder why we are not taught to fight.
I wonder why we are not taught to have our own perceptions.
I wonder why we are not taught to think.
I wonder why we need to even be taught!
It just seems so basic so easy and yet so uncommon.

Return from the land of my rising sun

Back from the bay area. Was a hectic two week trip filled with loads of travel, friends and long drives. Finally had Vegan Japanese food and met up with heaps of friends from my past. I also realized that

• I am a straight line and black and white person:-)
• The US continues to be a land filled with constant fear of doing something wrong for me specially cos of my Indian ways.
• There is just so much beauty in catching the rising sun and having black morning coffee.
  
• The consumer market in the US is just too consumer friendly;-)
• Furniture around the world comes with the same set of choices!
• The Economic Crisis has a different feel in the bay area and we Indians are yet untarnished from its effect.
• I did not click any pictures this time.
  
• I always have a good time in SF

I did read the White Tiger on the plane and met interesting, new and refreshing people. My baggage did not make it and apparently it makes no difference to the airline world. I am not jet lagged but zoned out. My apartment is still a week away and it is frustrating!