the best idiosyncrasies i have some across....................!!

my dad always chews his collar when mom is fighting with him...............
when collars are unavailable, he chews newspapers............whatever it takes to divert attention from this woman who always makes too much sense!!
my grandmother ( one of the many, dont ask the exact genealogical relation) had a habit of climbing down pipes and running away when things at home turned that wee bit uncomfortable.........
a friend ( still pondering over whether or not i should take her name!) pinches anyone at arm's length, whenever she sees chocolate-y things coming her way......cadbury's, you just found yourself a brand ambassador!
my mom's uncle always made sure all communism-opposers went back with a black eye............i would have joined the club, had my mother not come in as my divine intervention!!
an uncle, though i loath to call him that, jumps down on his knees and touches his forehead to the ground whenever a dead person is being carried on a wooden bed or whenever the ubiquitous cow deigns to come within ten feet of his pious self!
my nephew sleeps with his butt in the air, and he couldnt look cuter even if he tried!

If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

‘If’-by Rudyard Kipling
Rome was not built in a day
It takes millennia for mountains to raise their majestic heads.
It takes hundreds of years for history to repeat itself.
It takes two centuries to shrug off foreign invaders.
It takes decades for wars to end
It takes even more to make a name in the corporate battlefield
It takes years to extract sporting revenge.
It takes months for technology to break new ground
It takes days for stock markets to turn upside down
Or for friendships to unravel in surprising ways
A huge amount of time and even more effort is behind all them few inspired moments when dreams to come true,
All those handful of propitious moments, when your future dons new hues.
But the end always justifies the means.
One remembers the splendor of the mountains
One rues the lessons learnt from history
The taste of independence is forever the most satisfying
There never can be better pointers than wars.
Or bigger achievements than success in the corporate sphere.
Revenge never tastes sweeter than when you wait years for it.
Technology changes all equations when it is finally developed.
There are never better opportunities than stock market fluctuations
Or never better investments than tested friendships.
And never a bigger high than your hard work paying off, and your dreams turn into reality.

'If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same'

why this post??......its because i needed motivation.....i needed to infuse some life into my life........i probably will post this a long time after i write this, as is my habit.....but it still holds true, and it always will......
all i wanted to prove to myself is that there is always a happy ending....however long it might take, the end always surprises you, pleasantly too...........or, at least, you make peace with what comes your way.......for some time now, questions have been eating me up.....and answers seem ages away.......i cant for the life of me make peace with myself...........i still cant understand how long it is supposed to take to sit down and have a cup of relaxed tea with myself and my thoughts.......and till i can do that, i consider myself as a 'nowhere'
person...........my mom used to say, the moment you become comfortable, you lose your motive to live..........the very restlessness is supposed to be your driver in life...........interesting, though............
but once, a friend, in quite a tumultous time in his life, looked up and pleaded...'how long do i have to fight??..........how much harder do i have to suffer?......when will this end??.....how will this end?'......although i am quoting him totally out of context, but these funny things called words are the most malleable of them all..............they tend to fit into diametrically different situations.......amen to that!!