STOP THAT NOISE
It's Diwali again. It comes around pretty quickly doesn't it.
Is it wrong to not enjoy Diwali? Yeah, yeah, festival of lights, love, and ...blah. Play lots of cards, watch lots of fireworks (or lose lots of money and choke in the feckin' pollution).
The beauy, for me, no longer exists. Relatives no longer come around, it's too much of a formality and the traffic sucks. We no longer make long lists of things we need to buy, we're shopping all year round ( I'm just gonna pull out a sari I've never worn). We no longer sit at the gate making flower garlands and designing rangolis. Everything is ready-made in the market. No longer excited about puris and halwa that are made on this day only, we eat puris whenever we want now.
I know you'll argue that I need to get a better attitude and then it will be fun. But I'm enjoying being a grumpy scrooge about it all. I feel scornful and I'm lovin' it. I'd rather go watch Om Shanti Om or Saawariya than sit at home and listen to the neighbors go wild with fireworks.
Speaking of fireworks, the latest marketing trend in fireworks packaging is to splash seductive pictures the likes of Cindy Crawford and Catherine Zeta Jones on the boxes. "It gives the impression that these are international standard firecrackers". Really? Cindy Crawford selling the Flower Pots?
Is it wrong to not enjoy Diwali? Yeah, yeah, festival of lights, love, and ...blah. Play lots of cards, watch lots of fireworks (or lose lots of money and choke in the feckin' pollution).
The beauy, for me, no longer exists. Relatives no longer come around, it's too much of a formality and the traffic sucks. We no longer make long lists of things we need to buy, we're shopping all year round ( I'm just gonna pull out a sari I've never worn). We no longer sit at the gate making flower garlands and designing rangolis. Everything is ready-made in the market. No longer excited about puris and halwa that are made on this day only, we eat puris whenever we want now.
I know you'll argue that I need to get a better attitude and then it will be fun. But I'm enjoying being a grumpy scrooge about it all. I feel scornful and I'm lovin' it. I'd rather go watch Om Shanti Om or Saawariya than sit at home and listen to the neighbors go wild with fireworks.
Speaking of fireworks, the latest marketing trend in fireworks packaging is to splash seductive pictures the likes of Cindy Crawford and Catherine Zeta Jones on the boxes. "It gives the impression that these are international standard firecrackers". Really? Cindy Crawford selling the Flower Pots?
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