Showing posts with label Musing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Musing. Show all posts

Monday, March 23, 2009

Boxed-In

There is an immediate feeling of want when one who has succumbed almost his entire life into something is freed. If you could bear with me, imagine being confined in a box for a year. People conditioned you that, that is the life you got to live but deep in your heart it's not. Inside, you could find almost all the material things in the world anyone could crave for.

You thought; No, they thought these things could quench your thirst - but it can't; It turned out to be empty. And, dry as the desert of Arabia. The only relief you've had is a paycheck every end or middle of the month and the consolation of the thought you've eased the need of the people who needed you to be inside the box for quite a long time.

Sometimes, being out of the box would only mean getting inside another box. Only - it's another story, another musing of complains. There really is a requirement of how we should live a life. A need for us to be comfortable; like - accepting things as predestined circumstance.

While there may be lots of things there is, we're only left with few options - to live a life of choice. Choice how we would live our lives along with others we care. Choice how we would make a living amidst the ailing clandestine voices of cravings from inside among other boxes. Choice to depart or not.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Awe to Our Blogging Habit

This is the only addiction difficult as a habit. My craving for musing is fast declining into the maze of my daily activities, the event of the new year, homesickness and my financial well-being into tight spot. My elixir of consciousness has not brewed yet such that my appetite for sleep is once again spoiled by few deep thoughts.

I seized my self into believing that this blog will get me to few Dollar or Dirhams well off. I will have to quit this day job if I'm ever going to be soaked into the blogging business. The habit offers a vial of bliss such that, the obsession of having it monetized spoils it like a boring office work you hoped you're working with the envied Google Company.

Blogging. This has somehow, become a habit difficult to break even if time is - tight. I find comfort in it and is now, an addict to impersonal communication like making love to your spouse a thousand miles away over the cable lines except that you need not to dress off. Imagine the convenience it offers; the vanity press of the poor. A cheap and yet complex place of liberal compositions where technical writing is often ousted. You can be flowery and often careless with bare words so long as you like it. Or, you can be concealing so long as you're cautious. We fear our dignity broken like a glass goblet in the hands of a careless child. A careless revelation.

I'll never be able to publish a book. I prefer short lived lines - musings of some sort. I am an undisciplined writer. A rebel. An anti-novel. I'll slam my head into sleep if I read long lines. Perhaps this has something to do with my daily chores at the office. I hated long and un-indented lines of programming codes such that I'll throw away the job to the ones who started it. To have it commented and readable like a short story. Truly essays can not marry technical writings. This blog is a dump-site for my emotional setbacks. It is never a work.

And like a marriage you're having fights too often, I struggle over the construct of my sentences. The panic over the right use of words caused me seconds of pauses. Such that this bulky thesaurus is an Alamo of literary relief. Like a father guiding his child on its first few steps towards a vast walks in life. Little by little, learning drops like tiny molehills of waters that breaks loose - shaping a land.

Oftentimes, I shielded my efforts with the bullies of pictures but aware that it cheapens my message. With an image, a story can become an encyclopedic composition or more like an adult magazine. Our eyes prefer that which is bare and suggestive but our mind is sometimes corrupt and unrestrained. Sins are committed due to unrestrained judgments. Underestimating the power of the words, we forgot that everything was created with the words of the Creator never with a picture. "... and He sees that it was good", the picture came out later.

 

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas in My Heart

Like the dry winter that makes my fingers numb and clumsy, I succumbed to a three day hiatus of blogging; hopeful that my appetite for musing might come back. There have been many reasons at hand. Like these past three days, I decided to get acquainted with my new equipment. Trying to capture some scenes on my way to work every early in the morning. Good because in some ways, it mend my nostalgia for home. My daughters would want me to come home for Christmas whenever we chatted on the Internet via the Yahoo Messenger.

In a few hours is the Christmas eve. The last season, I was back home vacationing. I remember the days when I held them in my arms to warm against the cold night of the season. And now, this part of the world is even more colder - and I have nobody to hold. Time passes by like minutes and in a few hours is, the Christmas eve.

I always never care if me and my wife only have the ordinary meal to put on the table during the Christmas evening, so long as we are together. ALIKAFOG00015XXWhat could be more special than this? No fancy decorations - just one small Christmas tree on the corner of that almost empty rented house of ours. But, I remember that day my wife was in the rattle for the Christmas dinner. She wanted it all best. She did make all the efforts to make things turn out warm that evening. After all, that was our first Christmas together as a family in a newly rented house. There was just me, my wife and the two small baby girls. I was just observing her; I felt sad nor happy. She was enjoying it. Few months before, she'd been bogging me about us moving out to another house.

That evening, this date, she weeped. We had a plan. I left after a few months for Dubai. So here I am looking all the possibilities and ways to entertain my self while maintaining the comfort by calling them almost everyday now. Hopeful and prayerful about everything in our lives in the days to come.

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