Vegetable

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Our evening bus was rolling with insect speed as usual. With all that dust and smoke the air became so thick it was difficult to even breathe forget about my bus nap. Amidst all this something shiny caught my eyes; on the footpath fresh green vegetables they were so fresh and green I considered requesting the bus driver to hold on while I grab some of them. Silly me drooling over red juicy tomatoes rather than a cute boy walking down same footpath. I’d already started imagining how deliciously delicious my curry would turn out if I use these than those so unfresh things from Reliance fresh. 

What has happened to me? Few years back when I was at home, vegetables always came from the vegetable-box of fridge, and the only job I had to do was to ship them to Mum from our warehouse, that too rarely. The salary was paid in form of Mum made awesome meals. Then one not so fine day I left that job for a job that pays me money. This taught me the complete life cycle of how to convert the money into a delicious food.

1.       Buy vegs
2.       Store extra in fridge
3.       Wash them to cook
4.       Cut
5.       Cook
6.       Eat
7.       Sleep

And now I enjoy shopping vegs as much as I enjoy shopping shoes/clothes/makeup….  On one such weekend trip to Reliance fresh (They stock fresh vegs on weekends only, the golden chance for people like me to stuff our fridge for the whole week!) I was instructing my friend to pick old potatoes (those which come from cold storage) instead of the new ones (comes fresh out of field), the aunty nearby me heard this and asked, ‘Are they better?’  I explained her what my Mum taught me, ‘yes, old potatoes cook quickly’. I recall one such incidence in Hyderabad as well where I was sorting Ridged Gourd so interestingly, that another aunty near me asked how you know which one is good and I repeated my Mum’s words. This is what I’ve become now, nothing gives me more pleasure than the sight of fresh green vegs and how easily Reliance fresh can flatter me with buy one get one on all leafy vegs :D

Unlove

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A heart that loves, eyes that care

A tongue that lies, for good or bad thee only knows

For hundred wrongs, one right is enough

For thousand tears, one smile weights more

Nothing could be more perfect, none was loved more

These sorrows of love never end

Not the lost love, the given-up love

This memory of love haunts always

Forbidden love seems truest…

Dream or nightmare

I really hate dreams, why do I dream when the reality would be as cruel as ever? Why that perfect paradise exists in dream when it’s going to be hell indeed?  That virtual happiness I feel while dream seems most real, what happens when reality takes its turn? Don’t you feel like, damn!  It was only a dream. This reality is real nightmare. Pleasant dreams are to be blamed for making life so unfair.

On the contrary, nightmares I like. They make me realise how worst things can go. When my sleep is broken out of nightmare, how thankful I feel. Sigh! It was just a dream, and wow it’s not going to be real. Thanks heaven, reality is so beautiful. Suddenly a bad dream changes the whole perception of my world. 

But, hey can’t I be left with just what is real? Do I really need a reminder of how awfully worst and how beautifully best life can be? While the reality is going to play safe forever.  Always threatening for worst and always giving false hopes for best. Couldn’t life be as humble?