Of love, careers & reality checks!

Disclaimer: (Beware, this is my grumpy, pessimistic, cynical alter ego speaking)

Love and a career are much like each other!!

You ask me how so??

Well, here goes:

- Both are entered into with much zest, aplomb, dreams, ideals and aspirations!
- Both give us an initial intoxication and a feeling of floating in the air!
- Both have a way of jerking us back to harsh reality!
- They wear us out and make us more mature (if maturity means being unromantic, serious, nerdy and always predictable)
- With time, both turn us into zombies going about our routine, mundane lifestyle sans romance, fun, ideals, worthwhile ambitions with spouses and colleagues who are probably doing the same!

If maturity means accepting reality no matter how bleak it is and going with the flow, I'd rather be immature!!

Wonder if there are Devadases out there who have been disillusioned by their Parvati like careers!!

Reality is a world where muses don't exist...or so it seems to our minds with blinders of constant but false reality checks!!


Prove me wrong!!