L has gone to Versailles. She hasn't written from there and I try to imagine how she must be doing there, alone. I felt uneasy this time after meeting her, like her sadness had rubbed on to me. I know some of the things that must be playing on her mind but I would've been glad to hear it from her. My limitation is that I find it very hard to put direct questions and she's my dearest friend and I know that she doesn't need my questions. She came to see me around 10 on a weekday and was forthright that she wanted to have me all alone; no children. I couldn't help smiling. But she went away after an hour and hugged and kissed me on the cheeks and I almost cried on the road.
Coming to think of it, she's always been vocal that women should work but this time when I told her I was going to quit in October, she was very glad. She would've submitted her thesis by then...
I finished Maugham's Christmas Holiday and because I had watched Chameli just some days ago, Charley Mason felt like an extension of Aman Kapoor. But the problem with people like Aman or Charley is that we become greedy with them, we turn snobbish at them. It's not enough if they are good-natured. Do they really have depth in their feelings? Most probably not. It's just that they are born or bred to be good. It's in their nature, like some birth defect and they can't help it. So you'll find that people with shades of grey or even black become more acceptable because those are acquired qualities, hard-earned even(nobody is born with them!) and you become fascinated with them. So stray acts of kindness from them will be remembered much more than everyday-goodness in other people.
I just looked it up in Google and was amused to find that the movie version was a more 'believable' one.
Work is picking up and expectations seem sky-high and I'm coping with it by watching lots of movies.
Anu's advice to me to avoid coughing - "Reduce talking, Aayi. If you really can't help it, speak in your mind!"
Coming to think of it, she's always been vocal that women should work but this time when I told her I was going to quit in October, she was very glad. She would've submitted her thesis by then...
I finished Maugham's Christmas Holiday and because I had watched Chameli just some days ago, Charley Mason felt like an extension of Aman Kapoor. But the problem with people like Aman or Charley is that we become greedy with them, we turn snobbish at them. It's not enough if they are good-natured. Do they really have depth in their feelings? Most probably not. It's just that they are born or bred to be good. It's in their nature, like some birth defect and they can't help it. So you'll find that people with shades of grey or even black become more acceptable because those are acquired qualities, hard-earned even(nobody is born with them!) and you become fascinated with them. So stray acts of kindness from them will be remembered much more than everyday-goodness in other people.
I just looked it up in Google and was amused to find that the movie version was a more 'believable' one.
Work is picking up and expectations seem sky-high and I'm coping with it by watching lots of movies.
Anu's advice to me to avoid coughing - "Reduce talking, Aayi. If you really can't help it, speak in your mind!"
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