“My helplessly feverish views on the state of our species and world…short, semi-sweet and to the point…on life, death, international affairs, society, philosophy, human nature and social sports … funny, satirical, hard-hitting, sentimental, uplifting and self-deprecating … in short, a little bit of everything but boring.
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… not to mention a dangerously overlooked one, of which I feel compelled to write in the first person, my thoughts & sentiments on this matter far more feverish and eminently less distant than usual …
Or for that matter artists, writers, chefs, political commentators, spiritual guides and so on and so forth …
… A citation that needs no introduction, and even while William Shakespeare was making metaphorical reference to the transient nature of life, she couldn’t help but find in those words, a striking appositeness to the artificiality …
“No one has the right to tell us what we can and cannot do with our own bodies,” her friends bellowed in near perfect unison, the moment she voiced her ambivalence toward the possibility of the illegalization of abortion in the United States, yet another expression of a fast-growing trend of draconian measures being imposed on people by democratically elected governments and supreme courts …
(“I feel, therefore I am”)
“Me, Me, Me, I, I, I”;
the biggest ever obstacle to a happy life … Not to mention a respectable one, she thought out loud, reflecting upon the various people she knew, herself included, who periodically availed of the services of one or another new age self-help or spiritual ‘guru’ …
… and thus, she woke up with a start, the sounds of “jaldi, jaldi, niklo niklo” (‘quickly, quickly, get out, get out’) ringing wildly in her ears, visions of being forcibly ushered out of two of the holiest temples in India dancing before her eyes, and in their wake, bringing forth a deluge of tears of laughter that emptied her of the last vestiges of existential angst, which she had been struggling to evict for many years …