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What if this is not 'this' ?

What if I suddenly realized that my life is going as per the script pre-decided by some novelist, and I actually don't have any control over it?

What if my life is nothing but a non-stop uninterrupted TV show, running for 25th consecutive year with me unaware?

Wat if I am actually living a century before, and am actually on my journey to know the future of the world?

What if in reality ghosts are the only things that exist, and humans are merely an illusion ?

What if time was actually not moving in forward direction?

What if on one fine day I find that they are about to demolish the earth to build the inter-galactic superhighway?

What if trees and animals suddenly interchange their roles and vegetarian plants eating only animals, while non vegetarian plants eating both plants and animals?

What if I am suddenly arrested just for imagining these all as I am committing a thoughtcrime ?

Seems like an overdose of fiction and movies!
Am I getting, rather sinking deeper and deeper into this virtual terrritory ?
Or maybe, I am just imagining things!
Or maybe it is a combination of above !
Maybe, I need a break
Damn !
But kab kyun kahan kaise ?
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  1. Anonymous11:35 AM, October 24, 2007

    Guess, you need a break from all the fiction and sci-fic movies ;)
    Just kidding...
    What, why, when, where...there are always so many questions..and most of them remain unanswered..maybe, search for these answers is life...

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  2. Nikesh Rathi3:08 PM, October 24, 2007

    Hmmm ...

    Or maybe ... the answer to all these is more 'escapist' movies !
    ... the answer may be hidden somewhere there !

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  3. Anonymous6:37 PM, October 24, 2007

    Have you gone crazy ?

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  4. Anonymous11:48 AM, October 26, 2007

    Lol! :) After a longggggggggggg time, I felt like I was a kid again, thinking and resolving to solve the mysteries of the world!

    Thanks for taking me back in time! :)

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  5. Nikesh Rathi2:03 PM, October 26, 2007

    ... And who says generating such ideas and resolving to solve mysteries of the world is an exclusive domain of kids! :)

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  6. Anonymous7:47 AM, October 29, 2007

    Hey

    Never said that it was.. :)

    Just that, the more you "mature", the more some things seem plausbile while others dont. Some pragmatists like to believe they have a better view of the world... The so-called "humne duniya dekhi hai"... :)

    Its pragmatism of this sort when you start classifying things that "can" or "can-not" be done, is when you kill that child-like enthusiasm!

    Wat say?

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  7. Nikesh Rathi1:54 PM, October 29, 2007

    Very true!

    "The so-called "humne duniya dekhi hai" sometimes becomes a bottleneck for our imagination!

    I am reminded of a quote by Einstein (once again!!!) -
    "Imagination is more important than knoledge"

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  8. Anonymous9:46 AM, October 30, 2007

    Yeah! Unfortunately not many care about imagination these days!

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