Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there...
The classic lyrics of Soul Asylum describes every young aspiring professional in India. or mostly some lost souls who can't figure out their life from one thing or the other. It's like being torn between passion and duty. But if we all start looking long term our present could look like a significant drab, unless we do have ways of making them interesting. the problem possibly lies in the fact that there is a lot of ambition but feet don't move from the ground, like a person affected with paralysis. The young minds work randomly fast, and then the morbid thoughts set in.It's like you want to go a hell lotta places but then you get stuck up, and you don't seem to go anywhere. Like a dizzy ride on a nostalgia plane on a merry go round of past disasters.Funny thing is, runaway trains, is a phase, and lets strike our lights for a phoenix return and get our burning feet right on the desired track.
On a different note:
I was pondering on the recent rape and murder of a British national, Scarlette, who was in Goa, and it is really sad news for something like this to happen to a tourist so young.But it's equally serious for parents to take care of their kids, I being myself from India won't be allowed to go to Goa alone , just to have some fun,or even to figure out things in my head, they rather leave my room alone, than me go to Goa. It's funny how people in foreign countries think that India is friendly, of course it is, i am not denying it at all, but there are definitely strangers. Well, if the tourists do want to come to India, to seek a cultural adventure of a lifetime, they should come in groups,and stick together.Of course people come to Goa for drugs, and booze and the beaches. But they are with their friends, that's the whole point. To be in an alien land and not be with friends, who won't leave you alone for even a bit.
Another case in point is the French traveller Jean Baptiste, who came to India via Dubai, as he was on a travelling spree after he quit his job of web designing to see the world, well it's quite a challenge to do that alone. And You don't do it unless you are made popular by media and the like. It's a sad thing he went missing in Bombay, and what's even more sad is how is it that the Bombay police couldn't discover him? They are said to come second only to Scotland Yard!
Well I hope if anyone has heard of him, or wishes to help his family locate him, visit this site:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au/thorntree/forum.jspa?forumID=16
and this is where you'll get an update:
http://missingjeanbaptistetalleu.blogspot.com/
