How time passes and life brings diverse things on the platter. I remember the time when I used to come back from School and used to have 2-3 hours for myself alone, when parents were still at work. Every month Maa used to get Nandan & Champak (Kids Magazines), and I used to indulge myself in the colorful world of beautiful Princesses, chivalrous Princes and savage Demons. After sometime, the reading bug grew so powerful that I used to read these magazines within an hour of their delivery.
So later, I started to venture out for other areas which could fulfill my reading needs, so to say. And thus after not too much of an effort, I landed in a amazing room filled with books stack after stack to choose from. So from Tintins to Enid Blyton's Noddy series to Famous Fives & Nancy Drews came another world of stories to the platter. On the way met all the Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances too. And have seen the journey from Harold Robbins to Ayn Rand - all the way. From Action to Love, from History to Sci-Fi, from Comedy to Horror stories to Supernatural, from Religion to scriptures, have read them all. When I look back, it seems I have known so many different people, learnt about their lives and been a part of their queer situations too. And what a fun it is to re-read a book..!! It's like meeting old friends, who you have known from the past and you know what they have went through and how their lives unturned in front of you. Its simply soothing. Bliss.
On the other hand, it has been sometime time now that I have been following different American TV Series also. It started off with the all familiar Friends series which everyone has seen it and loved it... and its oft repeated telecasts of all seasons on all the English General Entertainment channels and the result of watching them all, every time there was a telecast - I not only know the story line of each and every episode but in fact can now lip sync the dialogs too.. Still, the beauty is that I still love the series and can still watch it from any point of any episode from any series at any time. :)
Plus there was this thing to try something new and then as luck would have it, just by chance I got my hands on so many various other TV series - it was like stepping on to a huge pile of dope to someone who is an avid fan of stories... and this was a huge list of series starting from Lost to Prison Break to Alias to 24 to Supernatural at one end and The Big Bang Theory to How I met Your Mother to Two and a Half Men to Mike and Molly to Dharma & Greg to Cybill. This TV watching journey also has been eventful and it is just another way of getting know other people.
Whether it is a book or a TV series, the most impacting have been the ones with strong characters and that throughout the story the characters have been developed and the writers have hung on to the basic traits of the character. The characters have been strong, dynamic, loose, afraid, queer, honest, whimsical or stupid. But have loved them all.
The urge to read more is still growing, but with all the work and so many other contraptions of life, there is still lesser time to do so much that has been on the to-read and to-see list.
So just trying to make some more time, but right now have been utilizing it to write all this stuff down. Recently have not written so much, but this is another bug which is growing by the day or lets say growing by the week or even month, since I last wrote in July sometime. :)
so till next time...
Cheers...!!
- A
