Return to the Grind

It has been ages since I keyed something here, and there’s no specific reason for it. I guess I started off writing blogs in an effort to showcase my writing talent to the outside world, but when reality sunk in that only the closest of my friends would ever find my writings to be of good quality, it just petered out. Hard reality’s got to be the best critic. It just shows you where you stand in this world, and in times like these, for me, it isn’t always a pleasant one. After all, who’d be happy being covered in mediocrity. Then again, for someone like me who isn’t really willing to shake off the cobwebs of laziness, it becomes rather tedious to come out of it all.

Well, coming to the present, one might wonder why I’m writing again, then. I definitely am wondering it myself. One reason is because one of the 3-4 readers of my blog actually lost the address and has been pestering me for it. Now, even for someone as lazy as me, there’s something called as pride. How would it look if I did send her the address and she did check it up, only to find that it still contains the same old stuff as always? Since she knows me, it won’t actually come as a surprise, but then, I thought ‘why not surprise her and put something there?’ The other reason, which is probably the real one, is that I’ve been thinking of restarting the whole exercise, and this merely acted as the final push. Whatever it is, here I am, sitting in front of my computer, using the BACKSPACE more than anything else, as I try to construct some meaningful sentences.

New Year has arrived, and it has brought its own problems for me. While I had a blast on the New Year’s Eve and went for a day’s trip on 3rd, the excesses of these days finally caught up with me, and now I’m having a headache, sore throat, and a runny nose. I hate headaches. It could be because I rarely get them. No, not even after a night of binge drinking. So, when I finally do get them, it isn’t a very pleasant feeling. As for sore throat and runny nose, we’ve been companions for long. In fact, I’m missing that other friend of mine - wheezing. While the former two friends keep visiting me every second month or so, wheezing makes it a point to visit me during this season. There was a time when we were inseparable, but ever since I started flirting with inhalers, my relationship with wheezing has become rather platonic. Sure, she comes in once in a year, but hardly spends time with me. The thing is, she’s awfully jealous of all those inhalers and can’t just stand them. Even when I stopped seeing one of the inhalers – Budez – wheezing refuses to spend time with me.

Sore throat actually is a sore point between me and my wife. We both feel we are extremely compatible with each other, but there are these very few things in which we can’t agree upon. The treatment for sore throat is a prominent one among them. She is a staunch believer in salt warm water gargles while I am not. Of course, I’ve heard how good those gargles are for sore throat right from a very young age, but I somehow never felt much better gargling water, which was already burning and blistering the whole of my throat, but also which could cause me to spend an entire day on a WC (not welcome, you netizens, but western closet), spraying bile and other yucky stuff around. Our compatability, though, wins at the end in that she makes me do it once while I escape it the next time. Either way, the sore throat goes away only when it feels like going away.