Wasted afternoon

A wasted afternoon.....

feeling lonesome.....

having stray thoughts,

and having to deal

with heartbreaks....

Am sitting on the fence,

waiting for this moment

to pass......

Smoking is so very uncool!

Smoking is definitely one of the most uncool things.... yet the media is rife with images of smoking youngsters, looking hip and cool, and even the expression 'smoking hot' accompanying them, naturally - as if!

I have myself been a chain smoker since I was in the Ninth Standard, and I can say from personal experience that I curse my ill-fated choice, for having wasted precious moments from my life smoking cigarettes, and much else.

It now feels like having burnt my life in smoke, literally.

Who doesn't like to put on an air of desirability by just trying to look like Robert Pattinson, pressing his lips on a cigarette butt? Or like a screen siren blowing out rings of smoke in the air?

The truth, however, is so very far off, from the portrayals in popular media...... smoking is addictive and smoking kills. It's a slow and painful death, no one knows it better than one who has seen a loved one suffer or die from cancer of the lungs or the throat, or from other serious illnesses that stem from the habit of smoking.

The habit is picked up early. No one gets more lured than the kids, by the images of hip movie-stars and teen idols who are shown smoking in films and on telly. Sometimes, completely needlessly the affirmation gets vitiated in the psyche.

It is one thing to make an actor or an actress smoke in a film as per the demands of the character portrayed, but we are exposed to tabloids and photo-shoots of stars with a cigarette hanging from their lips. A Brad Pitt or a Leonardo DiCaprio pic where the cigarette seems like a fun-accessory.

The demonstrative effect of smoking is probably the highest for the age group of 13 to 26 years. People just love to ape the way their idols and even peers embrace the habit of smoking. By the time most of them realize that it has been a colossal waste health-wise and even in terms of the money spent on smoke, it's too late. Much harm is done already, or they are too deep in the addictive grip of it.

The lusty and lascivious look of Shah Rukh Khan lighting up his smoke may be hard to ignore, but such images should strike a statutory warning bell in one's head if one is conditioned not to fall prey to the images. For that, there needs to be a dissemination of information on the ills of smoking at diverse levels, starting from schools and colleges.

Let the patients and the sufferers speak to the teenagers, to the youth. Merely giving a lip-service curb the practice among the youngsters by printing warning labels and issuing diktats against smoking won't work, unless there is real awareness.

Wasted good looks

Sometimes even good looks can be such a waste.....

I know of many a case where the perfect good looks have either not been matched with a good soul, or with good intent.....

Sometimes, it's the person's false sense of pride or vanity that robs him of the golden nuggets in life.
Sometimes, it is just a vacuum that is left behind when one launders his good looks on the wrong ones, at the wrong places, for the wrong reasons.....

Sweet Angel

For me, the first celebrity whose name appears in my mind when I hear 'sweet angel'.....
is none other than Angelina Jolie!
And the film of hers that haunts me the most is "Gia" (1998), where she plays the model Gia Marie Carangi, who had heavenly looks, yet who was nothing but a wasted life, her precious life ended when she died at the age of 26! What a movie! And what a performance by Angelina!

Happy Republic Day

We, the youth, waste many a moment....

but, at times of duress and crises,

we do heed the clarion call of our motherland,

and join in the passionate upheaval of our nationalist faith

and sentiments.

Though I have termed my blog 'wasted_every_moment', I would like to dedicate this very post to the glory of the Indian Republic, and I appeal to all my friends that they too revive the fervor of nationhood.

Long Live the Republic of India~

Jai Hind!!!
Happy Republic Day!

I hope my fellow countrymen do not see this day as just another holiday, it isn't a day for inaction and passivity.....

let this not be a wasted opportunity.....

it's the perfect time to renew our vows for solidarity, unity and harmony.

pic: courtesy Rang De Basanti

When I........

When I am sad, I feel like crying.

(I rub my eyes......)

When I am proud, I feel like trying.

(I hold my head high.....)

When I feel curious, I want to know.

(I look up, wondering........)

When I'm impatient, I want to go.

(I cross my arms, I tap my feet........)

When I feel angry, I look this way.

(I look in anger.......)

When I feel happy, I smile all day.

(I put up a big smile on my face.......)

When I am puzzled, I make a shrug.

(I shrug my shoulders.......)

When I feel loving,

I want to hug.

(........and I hug myself!)

What a waste!

Regardless of what one feels, or what one does, life can be a colossal waste.
That's what I have been feeling.
Hence this blog.
Starting a whole new process of generating my wasteful(?) thoughts herein.
WELCOME!