Anya's Musings

Even so, my mind is racing with essential questions. Like why these people never seem to get a promotion? After all, they have been solving every case successfully for what, 15 years? Anyways, enough of that. If I open that door, there will be flood.

Ah..now the good part: tea. Two things about this.. (a) I'm actually a coffee person & (b) after all that I can cook, I can't make a cup of tea. True story. And I'm unwell, sort of and I didn't want to drag me to the kitchen and prepare a brown muck that will reflect my mood. So I drink whatever it is that I brought to me. I also don't hate tea...I do enjoy adrak chai. And the fact that its hot, is bliss!

I didn't actually want to eat Maggi Noodles, but there really wasn't anything else to eat at home (apart from pancakes, which I'm bored of). Also, having had put on about 10 kgs, i should anyways food like noodles forever. But I didn't. In my defence, what I was really craving was Big Chill's Blueberry Cheesecake.

I should go now! Just saw a cooking show on TLC! :)

Here goes:

Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took the credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken; women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.

One day, just because they were pressing on for an answer, I said that maybe I'll become an editor or something. Touchwood. Its really not so easy to just get up one morning and become an editor. You need to have an MA in English and be really patient and dedicated and trust me, as easy as it may sound, it isn't. The people who think editing is a cake-walk are generally the people whose works need editing the most. So, anyways, that didn't please either of them. My mother came up with the most fantastical argument against it. She said that its a very "uncertain" job as opposed to MBA or engineering or something. And then she said that this isn't a good idea because she cannot even understand what exactly is it that editors do. However, when I suddenly asked her what exactly is it that management people or engineers do, she couldn't answer that either. She said "Something nice only, otherwise why would everyone do it?".

I understand that this daily drama arises out of love & concern for me by my parents. But it also saddens me to think that at the end of the day, we are all expected to adopt a herd mentality. It is of no importance whether one truly, honestly wants to do a particular thing as long as it pays high and everyone else it doing it.