Excuse the excuses!

I was told sometime back I give far too many excuses. I just wanted to know "Do we really want to know the truth?" Is it that easy to say harsher realities then uttering baseless but acceptable lies?

I mean when your teacher asks you about your homework, we most probably say we did it and left it at home. Will she be okay if i said "I didn't feel like doing it."?

When the excuses seem far more acceptable , then why people beat their breasts about the fact that all we do is give excuses. When truth has no place why ask for it? Why they can't simply accept the excuse or tell us what they need to hear.

Since they neither want to know the truth or hear the lie. I wish it was simpler not this complex. It happens in all the relationships and it happens in the workplace i.e. your job, your school or wherever you are accountable.

They all want to know why? but are we prepared to hear the reason behind it.

It is not just that, when someone asks us how much more time? We simply say 5mins. It does not matter for how long it will actually take. It is ingrained in us. The excuses are our way to being vaguely precise.

All this boils down to one thing, if we can't handle the truth, we shouldn't ask for it. Excuses are there in our lives, to simplify not to complicate because excuse is not an lie. It is a polite of way saying "You don't care, I sure as hell don't. So accept whatever I am saying."

Annoying habits

I have annoying habits. Well i have habits and suddenly i realized they are annoying. Okay they become an annoyance when you dislike the person and I am feeling the same way.

All my life i have endeavoured to be unbiased but somehow when we go forward in life we become biased. We become prejudiced. We become what we did not want to. A hypocrite .

I am too suffering from the same dilemma. I wish it was simple.

Anyways thats not the point. The point is a question in mind. Why when we like a person all their habits seem bearable but when they lose that affection. Even the quirks we love become a nuisance. Sometimes those very habits in questions are ours also.


The annoying habits annoy you so much that you try to stay clear of the person. They start noticing the change and you have no way to explain why the heck you behave that way. It becomes clear that you don't want to be friends with them but your and their social life is so tangled together you have to be friends. The traits you someday loved, become a matter of bitching. Wish there were no annoying habits. Not mine Not theirs. Life is screwed up that way. Wish it was a little more lenient and honest.



I don't think their is a generalised opinion but wish we could or at least i could look beyond that. To treat everyone with some leeway we give ourselves.

A very Long title

Well, I am back for some more jargon.

The long title trend started in India with Durjoy Dutta's novel "Of course I love you...till i find someone better." Now it has become unbearable. Every new writer is aping it mindlessly. Brevity is the key in any business although not while writing but at least in the title.

Why do we need long titles professing love or lust and they are not only unoriginal but cliqued even. Can't we have a short title or even if it is long it should have some meaning. I have read some brilliant novels that had short titles and some really bad ones with a very long title and vice versa.

I am not saying it is a bad practice. I am just saying be original if the story requires it.. make it a long title but if it doesn't don't follow what is in! This is not fashion but writing where creativity matters.

I will say if you are willing to read good books with good long titles try :

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

THE GIRL WITH A DRAGON TATTOO (the whole series)

THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS and many more

Right now i can think of this and if you think of some, do comment.

I would like to read a love story (all the love stories have long titles god know why!) which has a short and concise title and the story is not disclosed on the cover only. Let the reader get intrigued and sometimes short is stupendous. 

Mindless jargon

Mindless Jargon

Jargon is a term that is given to a person who speaks highly technological stuff that no one understands. So here I am speaking mindless and directionless jargon.

I will get straight to the point I am bored and this is a way to kill/ murder time for me. I am not going to make sense one day or today. It would not be a diary entry. It would not be my life. It would be my way of saying who the heck cares what it is.

I had just read The Casual Vacancy By  J.K. Rowling and it took me a week to complete it (my standard time for any book is 1 or maximum 2 days). I did not give up on the novel and read it in small doses.

It was Good or Bad, I have no idea but I DID FINISH it because it was J.K. Rowling's novel. I wish there was a protagonist  there was a theme. There was something on which my attention could hang. There was none yet it did not leave in between. When it got over I had a bitter sweet moment. It was like i left a place which i despised yet it was my hometown . How could you hate it? It was ingrained in you.

You might not love this novel or go for a second read but it portrayed emotions with a rawness that left you wounded with their callousness and apathy. Somehow these characters make you like them.

Do i wish it was harry potter VIII, I do but would i not read this. I don't know. :)

If you do read it just don't think of harry potter and you would not be disappointed.