Sunday, July 27, 2008

"As a worker at the Engineering Research Building (ERB), I often passed this sign: "TO ERB". One day, I noticed that some philosophical soul had pencilled in: "Is Human, to forgib, divine." "
- "Peterborough" in 'The Daily Telegraph', London, taken from Readers' Digest, June 1984

Now this is an intelligent joke. And it is a joke of longetivity. You will smile every time you hear, for the sheer intelligence of that worker who came up with such a one-liner. And thats why, I love reading this stuff from Readers' Digest, over and over again....

Thursday, July 10, 2008

"Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend,
Somewhere alone in the bitterness,
And I would have stayed up with you all night,
Had I known how to save a life."
-The Fray, 'How To Save A Life'

Its a song thats close to my heart, 'coz I believe that things happen in our lives, that drive people away from us. It might be just a small sentence, or an exclamation, or a just a small action which really puts a strain in your relationship with others. And where you know that, that person is the one you'd have stayed up all night with, just to save him, you've now lost him in the bitterness and you don't even know what you've done wrong.... There are friends I've got now, who were so close to me about two years back; so close that we'd share everything with each other. But now every time I meet them, I have the feeling of having lost them and don't even know what I did to make me feel so, or what they did to make me feel so. But, the feeling's there and quite real..