My Favourite Sin!

Vanity, my favourite sin.*

We meet so many people. So many good souls, proud souls, bad souls, weird souls (mostly), nice souls, etcetra, etcetra.
I've known all of the above and will continue to know.

A friend once told me this (thanks Rashmi), is that a person may not be proud but that does not mean they are not vain! So true! Vanity! A simple girl from a humble background, pretty, does a movie, dumps her boyfriend of many years to be with a popular guy probably half as good looking (Frieda Pinto - Slumdog Millionaire)! A gorgeous guy, leaves his girl, the one that supported his dreams, to screw some ugly lady on P3 (So many, don't make me count. Hello, Tom Cruise!). Hollywood (even Bollywood) divorce 'cause I'm better than you. I"M BETTER THAN YOU!

Strangely, we have the same anatomy, same bio chemistry, same physics to follow and yet we're so different! Where is the difference? It's simple. Vanity! All disastrous relations (man and woman, mother and child, father and child, husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, master and mistress, man and animal, man and God, Bulls and Lakers!) all follow the same pattern - we all feel in some way "I'm better". Even when you get dumped - you think about all the bad things in your head that became true and you were right? Think again - were you right? Did you have the pride to say sorry - knowing you may not be wrong, but it would make things right? Did you have the pride to make that phone call that never happened till an e-mail told you were single? Did you have the pride to tell your parents that their out-dated ideas were not so bad because your salary hike was like charity from the organisation?

Pride - let me say this, is not about standing up for everything you say. Pride - is about changing what you believed (if you were wrong) and never giving up!

Don't mix the two.

Vanity, Definitely my favourite sin.**


P.S. I'm going to say more on this topic soon - and I don't care what you think, cause you don't matter! ;)

*&** Al Pacino in "The Devil's Advocate"

Industrial Waste!

Everybody talks about BPOs as an industry now. So in our industry hiring is like this.. training is like that.. employee benefits are so and so.. remuneration is so-so (really!).. and so on and so forth.

I've been doing this for 5 years now - I've had the chance of meeting the wise and the otherwise, and a lot of people I see, come in the latter category. I would give out specific instances but I'm too pussy for that (you know, with the meltdown and all).
Well I do come up with several terms for them now... some of them -
"My ass is where my mouth should be - so I talk shit all the time"
"I'm too frustrated - so I try to show everybody who is boss" (my wife kicked my ass this morning again - the bitch!)
"I'm too frustrated - so I'll let you walk all over me" (my wife kicked my ass this morning again - I'm beginning to like it!)
"I don't know the pronunciation of 'apparently' - but I like the sound of it and will replace every 'actually' in my sentence with 'ap-rent-ly' - (what does the word mean again???)
"I don't have a clue of what to do - so let me make it difficult for you to understand everthing I say"

INDUSTRIAL WASTE has a whole new meaning!