Friday, May 30, 2008

Of Creativity

This is something that i have always wondered about.
What IS creativity?
Is it some special genius that only the select few have?
Or is it a path not all choose to take, in-spite of the fact that all have access to it?
Or is it like those out of the ordinary clubs that only the elite can join? (which means it is totally over-rated!)

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Of the much discussed about...

Ok, I know i have already written extensively about this. But I cant help it, people just keep amazing me with their theories and ideas.

This is about the whole women's Lib thing. Having reached an age when other "more conventional" women would be sporting large bellies, the talk of marriage keeps popping up (thankfully not with my folks yet!). People getting married, just the thought and my throat closes up. I dont really know if i am sad and clogged with tears or it's a stroke. But that's the case. The whole concept of marriage still doesn't actually make sense to me. Why does one have to be legally bound to someone else if they have already decided they want to be together. I mean i get that u r already together and not planning to be with someone else and all that. But what it seems to me is that, this is a way of scaring those adulterous spouses with groping hands. And THAT idea is just stupid. If the person is not committed and has not respect for the partner, why would anyone want to spend a lifetime with him/her. If it's jus for the perks that institutions provide for married couples, i understand, but romance does not really figure here does it? Then comes the hassle of the divorce and alimony. The great geniuses of our time invented the prenup. But it still doesn't work for the adulterers and the murderers. So what is the point of this whole ball and chain concept? I am still waiting for the day, light shines on me and i say Eureka! or i do the psychedelic yawn or my throat explodes.

With this picture in mind let's move on, shall we? Women as a clan, have always believed in marriage. And with the passage of time, have added new clauses to the legal contract and have managed to find new unbelievably smart loopholes in it. Here's a trivia that jus proves how smart women are. Did you know that the prenup was used in the 1900's to transfer a woman's possessions to the husband after the wedding and now it is used to protect their wealth from their gold diggers of husbands. Albeit this holds true for a husband as well but if you look at it, it still works out better for the fairer.

But some offsprings of this fair, smart clan, play the exact part of dumb blondes that I can do nothing but stand open mouthed and That is quite a picture. What i guess has happened is that, there are so many new ideas floating around that they are confused. One: being that women are equal partners, two: women can be independent and don't Need men and three: the husband is the provider. These being the 3 main thought flows, ladies trying to be too smart, want to have the cake, eat it and also want more delivered to them regularly for free. I gotta say, That is ambitious. But sadly that remains just that, an ambition. How can any woman be independent, but depend on the spouse for material things and not get dominated by him( if it sounds arguable, know that this is an adaptation on my previous post on the same topic)? Plus, why would anyone want something like that? But surprisingly people do and i jus don't know wat to tell them.