Sultan of Swing!! ;)

it is unbelievable.. it is awesome.. life is come a full circle for me.. barely a week back.. i was mocking kismet.. and here i am today.. feeling like its biggest victim.. (its strange you know.. how we understand life looking back.. but have to live it looking forward!!)

you know what its done to me.. it has compelled me into thinking again and revising my fundas about HIM, karma, and all alike.. i used to be an agnostic.. swinging away more often than swinging towards!!

today.. i was forced to become an extremist.. on the one hand.. i felt there cannot be a God.. if there was one.. this wouldn't have happened to me.. not two years in a row!! (i guess most of you would know what i'm talking about.. if not.. its nothing major.. or so i will realize 5-10 years down the line.. but today.. it was all that i was yearning for, for the past couple of years..)

yea so.. back to the point.. i started thinking.. what just happened was unreal.. it couldn't be happening.. not to me.. there cannot be that SOMEONE who could let this happen..

on the other hand.. i suddenly became scared.. i started thinking that may be there is that SOMEONE.. some one who has been seeing me all this time.. keeping track of all the times that i had denied HIS existence.. and thought.. alright dude.. this is your time.. this is where I show you who is the boss around here.. and what makes it even scarier is that all this coincides with all those attempts by the Sri Lankan tourism dept to showcase their beautiful mountains.. while claiming that they have proof of Ram's existence.. Ravan's mummy.. the land where the battle was fought.. Yea right!! (oops.. here i go again!)..

but then again.. from what is portrayed of HIM.. isn't HE the Big Hearted.. The Ever Forgiving..

and this is precisely why i don't delve into such introspective sprees.. because all it does is.. after having given it such intense thought.. IT BRINGS ME BACK TO SQUARE ONE!! i'm still swinging..!!

just my luck!!

Kismet.. Kismet is a wonderful 6 letter convenience invented by us human beings.. It is something that can discredit your highest of achievements.. and credit you for the worst of your failures..

It is the most effective swab.. it can clean all all the efforts that have gone down the drain.. ("it wasn't in your kismet.. you see!!").. it can also give you an all encompassing excuse for whatever you haven't accomplished.. ("it was never meant to be..")

there is also another wonderful use to it.. it helps you to satiate and provide reason to your jealousy.. ("he didn't really deserve it.. plain simple kismet!!")

so you see.. it is a very flexible funda.. you can mould it your requirements.. and justify whatever you haven't achieved.. or what others have achieved..

it is also a saviour in many a uncomfortable and awkward moments in life.. like when someone close to you.. (or even someone not so close..) tells you about their failures.. there is always that favourite line that can help us escape the situation.. "i'm sure there is something better waiting for you.." or "i'm sure its happened for the best.." or "everything happens for a reason"..

so there you go.. we have just found the perfectly customisable word.. the swiss army knife of english language..

signing off and wishing you all the (good) kismet in the world!

the 361st degree!