Summer.... Development... Blah..Blah...Blah

Hmmm.. Summer has started.... Along with the season, loads of people's life blooms... be it road side tender coconut seller or Siddhartha's coffe day or even Pepsi / coke..... of course, how can one forget Kingfisher :). Its always been interesting rather sad for me to see that people kill the tress and then hunt for the shades. Again the weather experts have warned that this year also the summer would be bad. Yeah.. Yeah.. Cut more trees, drain up the lakes, dig more borewells, build more concrete structures, it's all for the sake of "DEVELOPMENT".

How can you define something called as "development" by doing all these things? Having glass paned buildings is development ? Having Metro at the cost of thousands of oxygen cylinders, a development ? Draining up lakes in the name of property development, a development ? Cutting trees in the dense jungle to make way for an "eco-friendly resorts" !!. Is that a development ? Generating more e-waste and other non-biodegradable waste and do not know what to do with those wastes is development ? Having more money, but less peace, less green, less fresh air, less fresh water, less humanity, less sensitivity, is called development ? What are we heading towards ?

2010 Retrospective & 2011 Expectation

2010 has been a roller coaster ride for me !!!

Heaps of Ups and in-depth downs !!!

But over all, its been a learning year for me. 2010 has made me more tougher, more stable.

Seen through many deaths, births, marriages, fights, clashes, egos, music, plays, lights, shadows, high dosage of emotions, rough weather, smooth breeze, chill wind, in 2010.

Also 2010 has been a year of transformation for me. From what I was in 2009, I moved away from that in 2010. Even though it was a bit of struggle, it was quite a different experience.

Made loads of new friends, met some of the fantastic, beautiful women, handsome men, genius people, wonderful kids who taught me a lot about life, about innocense, which I have lost....

Saw some of the absolute lightning pair of eyes, hunted for those kind of eyes with some others, listened to new formats of music, got emotional through some of the songs, some of the poetries, some of the stories, like a kid.

Wrote couple of articles and got them published in Awadhi blog. Watched good plays.

Watched freinds turning into dirty politicians to the core.

With all these, I still remained a human being, forced myself, not to hurt anyone, be a decent citizen, be a kind of ok husband, a sort of good father, and the basic of all, a good son.

All these in 2010 !!! Need to see what is in store for me in 2011.

I will be optimistic about what is scheduled to come. I will still remain the same Ramesh whom everyone would like to see. I would like to see the same Ramesh to myself, who is emotional, different, eccentric and what not.

Its fine that there will be situations where I pour out my thoughts as if its nobody's business. But I will still make sure that I won't hurt anyone. I will be a good soul in 2011.... That's my commitment to myself.