Lo and Behold ! Got the first topic within minutes of creating the blog. I was doing the dishes in the kitchen and my mom was cooking breakfast when she asked me - beta ! We are going to go and celebrate Holi in the community and you are sitting at home- don't you feel alone when such celebrations happen ?
Her concern in genuine after all - Friends of mine, most of them married, are busy with their own coterie and cohorts. Relatives too cannot be there always. What can I do *alone* - so I should get married and find someone to do away with the supposed loneliness. She is partly correct. One does need to celebrate the little occasions in life with someone special - the one who would wait for you when you stop and the whole world passes you by inadvertently or by choice. Sometimes that feeling does take over when you have some 900 contacts in your phone book but no-one to dial in. But its a passing thought which quickly disappears like rain drops on a tin-shed creating chhap chhap and then disappearing into oblivion.
True that the world lives in communities and I love it - the feeling when people come together to create something new, to celebrate together, to listen and share. There is nothing to celebrate individually. What can there be possibly be ? What do you have if others don't ? And even if you have a secret or a visible talent - what use is it if you can't flaunt it!
Happy to be on my own and celebrate my being. There is after all so much to do ! Too selfish to think about someone else right now with 100% dedication. Don't know if this would change. After all I am the Big 3-Oh now !
Hmmm !
