Christmas!

Christmas is here! Apparently in a few places, it no longer is! A large number of organisations in Europe have banned decorations & Christmas parties on the fear of offending employees from minority religions.
There has been widespread derision at what is perceived as political correctness carried too far. At the same time, it has surprised many that firms are very serious about this move and they see a genuine need for such curtailment. All in all...not too much holiday spirit to share.

Christmas is here too! Imagine my surprise when I walked into office (MNC company in India) only to find a very detailed Nativity scene set out - complete with white cotton wool for snow (I am not sure Bethlehem ever had snow). Inside the reception area a large Christmas tree ringed with loads of gilt paper, bells, stars and what not. Every floor had some sort of decoration or posters announcing Christmas parties!Curioser and curioser, wouldn't you say?

The instinctive reaction is to pat ourselves on the back and say "Look at the blundering West...they have no clue how to handle multiple religions. Look how tolerant we are!". Stop..pause...tap your left foot..scratch your nose...reconsider. Maybe we are being too smug...how come we don't have any Iftar parties - as good an excuse as any to stuff our faces. Maybe it is that we are too secure in being a majority Hindu country that we are able to toss a few paltry, overt gestures of tolerance to communities that rarely represent a threat. I mean, "Id Mubarak" doesn't quite have the jolly ring of "Merry Christmas...Ho Ho!", does it?

Cocoon

Depressives - don't like being happy. They like to think they are unhappy so that they can continue being unhappy.I think im depressed...terminally.

To hide would be the best thing to do...stay away from reality...be wrapped in cotton wool (pink preferrably) and sleep away the years...not wake up at all...or maybe wake up when the world as I know it is over... everybody familiar is no more and there are no chains...nothing to hold onto... everything is new...maybe then I will find peace...innocence...freshness.

I am jaded...tired...my soul (atleast thats what I would like to call it) seems stretched thin...brain's stopped working... theres this cosmic lethargy that seeps through everything I do... I'm heavy...burdened...by my own failures...weak.

Flesh...claws at me...choices...ephemeral...pleasures momentary...regrets everlasting.
Skin...deep...peeling off... blood... hormones... confusion.. rage... helplessness... mediocrity... death... peace...the sea...