Instead of taking the turn towards my home, I drove straight past and went on a little drive by myself. I had dinner with a few friends from work. This evening I decided to pull myself together and not let anything pull me down. So I was at my best – trying to be all cheerful and fun 
Bangalore streets get quiet and misty in the night. I rolled down my window (which I usually don’t) and changed my music folder from Clapton to songs from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. There’s this extremely beautiful poetry by Farhan Akhtar which mesmerizes me. And for some weird reason, poetry makes a lot more sense when you’re alone. It was a perfect moment – cold breeze, lonely, dim lit streets, Farhan Akhtar’s voice narrating a beautiful poem and I was driving alone. I can’t really translate the whole thing in English but the essence of the poem is that if you are restless, dissatisfied, driven and crazy, you’re alive. Because you have the zest to live life on your own terms.
As I drove past unfamiliar faces in the cold night, there was this moment when I fell in love with life, once again. I don’t have an answer to my emotional state, I don’t have a remedy for my restlessness and there is no right solution to my wrong situation but still, there is this force that draws me towards life, now more than ever. And the fact that this is the only life we have reaffirms my conviction to do whatever I want to. Whatever I can…After all, it’s a crazy little thing called Life.
Ooh, have you heard Michael Buble’s version of ‘Sway’? I love it. Makes me want to dance! And by the way, Michael Buble is awfully good looking and his voice is like magic! Take a look if you haven’t heard it already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG8giVJKQPI
Anyway. I know I will bounce back. I always have. I always will.
