drawing a blank for the title. English. Such a strange language. It’s so literal sometimes and at other times, entirely figurative or metaphorical. Some say that it’s not flexible but I guess they just don’t have a large enough vocabulary to play around with the language.
Kher, i’m bakwasofying. I’m good at that. I’ve developed the skill without knowing that I was developing anything. A lot of our skills are soft and they develop through experience of existing, living yet these soft skills have no weight assigned to them on a resume. You can’t write about a soft skill and expect the resume reviewer to take you seriously. “I can talk my way out of anything”, “I’m resilient and have known myself to bounce back from adversity many a times”, they’ll just look at you funny and off you go.
Anyway, I’m working. I’m not challenged by what I do. It doesn’t even manage to excite me since it became rigmarole to me after a week or so. I am trying my hand at writing but I don’t have a subject matter to write about. My life is boring, so the posts I put up will automatically be boring and therefore will not entertain anyone, let alone myself. I’ll be bored while I write it and I’ll bore the people who read it. Hmm, come to think of isn’t that reason enough to write? To infect the masses with the mania of boredom! Why should I be the one to suffer through this alone? I’ll take you ALL down. Manic laughter follows. Sigh.
A friend of mine is leaving for Canada today. At 11:30 his flight takes off. Inevitably, I’ll be watching the jet or at least I’ll hear it’s engines straining against its own weight, trying to get the big metal whale up into the sky and I wonder what I’ll wonder then. Will it be me wishing that I was on that plane or will it be me wishing him good luck and hoping to see him again some time in the future? I hope for the latter but I expect the former. Withdrawal pangs are still lurking about in the bloody confines of my heart. You see? I too came from Canada (I say that as if Canada is an alien planet) and I’ve been living here in Pakistan for the last 3 months. It’s been hellish, to put it mildly. But I will survive! Then I’ll flourish! And soon after, I shall take over the world! Er yea.
