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Twilight and What it means to me

All I can see these days is romance. Romance everywhere, presenting itself to me in a variety of forms, popping out at me from unexpected corners. Maybe all this started with my brief stint with the Twilight and The princess diaries. I know it is very childish to swoon and drool over  romance books. But I couldn't help it. When such good stuff gets thrown at you, you cannot turn a blind eye. The way I found myself consumed by the beautiful pages of twilight is so typical. So magical. My cousin came for the summer holidays from the US. I noticed this book lying in her bag. She warned me not to touch anything in her bag. But being the girl I am (an ardent bookaholic), I checked out the book when she went out. And I couldn't put the book down during the rest of the day. Oh... she got quite angry with me. But that's another matter. Thus I got sucked, sucked into the misty and wet town of Forks, sucked into the lives of the most romantic couple I've ever known, sucked into an alien life (I read novels for that purpose alone). That was the beginning of my tryst with unconditional love and of course my love affair with the twilight series.

So what is it about romance that so turns people on?? I wondered. I pondered. I didn't get the answer and probably will never get. But what is it about twilight that makes crazy fans out of boring housewives?? What is it about twilight that caused a kind of sensation it is today?? It is being called the twilight phenomenon these days. What is it that stroke a chord with me??  That is a pretty answerable question. Is it the love between a human girl and a tantalizingly handsome vampire who is supposed to kill the girl because of  thirst but instead falls in love with?? Is it the beautiful and romantic scenes Stephenie Meyer throws them in? Is it the vampires with their impeccable beauty, superior strength and old worldly charms?? Or is it the  adolescent hunks who become cool werewolves?? I believe the answer does not lie in any of the above questions. The answer lies in between the lines of the prized pages of that novel. I admit the lines are all corny and clichéd but there in lies the charm of this worshiped book.  Yes. We love those lines. I love those lines. And I absolutely think that the success of the novel lies in how much it conveys between the lines. Yes yes. The gist of the whole reading between the lines for me in this book is love. Just plain old love. Any love. Every kind of love. And the human weakness. And in this case vampire and werewolf weaknesses too. Not that they have too many weaknesses. Their weakness is love too. See. I'm amazed at how this treasured word pops up everywhere. I realized that  the core of every weakness in that book is thirst (pun intended). The thirst for pure, strong, unconditional, irresistible, irrevocable love.

Oh........ it meant a lot to me (the book I mean). And it does now too. It made me appreciate everything around me more fully. It made me see so much love that I couldn't have possibly seen before. It made me realize the obscene amount of love I could  possess in my veins, in my being. It made me more aware of my emotions. It taught me to be myself and never to run away from who you are. It taught me how to make do magnificently with what little I have. Finally it all comes down to loving myself. I learnt it in the most wonderful manner possible for which I fervently and happily thank my stars.

Cheers to love in this wonderful and extremely beautiful world of our's.

My "quirky" career concerns

I've been thinking of writing for a couple of days. and when I just went to look at my blog page, I fell in love with writing again. I forgot how much I love talking and giving my opinions on everything. So it's summer or do we call it early monsoons? So the basic question after all the "how have you beens"  is "what are you doing in your holidays?" The same question is asked by people ranging from 70 to 10 yrs of age. My standard reply is watching movies, reading books, watching TV and sleeping. But the counter replies are so varied and rich in advice particularly adults' replies. You are wasting your precious time of youth to Can't you do anything productive? to Don't you have any patriotism? Do something for your country and finally to What are you planning to study after B.Sc?. My reply would be just a sheepish smile because I don't want to start a fight with "elder" people as my mom sternly puts it. Oh!!!! I'm a no-nonsense person and a good argument lover. this opportunity is too great to leave. But some things are best unsaid, that is, before the person you want to take a swipe at. So I decided to "take a swipe" behind their backs. This can be very interesting and relieving for me. Here goes.

I'm not wasting my precious youth at all. Instead I'm doing exactly what everyone should do and what these so called adults did at our age - Enjoying every moment of life. As for doing anything productive, I'm doing what is needed to become productive - Studying. Any patriotism?? Who said anything about the country?? Ok, I don't want to stay any where near India but that doesn't mean I'm not patriotic. My idea of patriotism is very different thank you very much. Who said I don't want to do anything for my country. I've a loooooong life ahead and I have a plan. Finally, what am I planning to study after B.Sc? Thats not a question at all. They don't want me to answer. That's a conversation starter in which they will advise me, no convince me, of what's best for me i.e., I should definitely study to write the Indian civil services exam because I can read a book without putting it down for days. Now that's crazy. They don't listen to my repeated protests of I'm interested in doing my Ph.D in chemistry which is dismissed with a wave of a hand. So that person thinks that he has more say in my personal matters just because he is an adult and supposedly "saw the world".

How dare that person sit in my own house and dismiss me? There's no need for other people to confuse me more as I'm confused already because of my varied interests. I wanted to be an archeologist at one point of time. And I have a great interest in fashion which I wanted to pursue in London but I'm warned with a  "It's not a respectable career darling!!!". And I wanted an English degree simply because I love the language. And then I had a small vision of me being a New York times' best-selling author. Let's see,  an Oscar winning actress, a hot-shot business woman, a fashion photographer ................... and I ended up confused and decided I want to become a scientist on the advice of my favorite grand father. I know I did a crazy thing but somehow it felt good, so I went along with it. And now this man comes and tells me I should do something else. Ok, do you readers have any more suggestions?? Bring it on!! It'll do a great help to me. How about  me being a chef??