If all the world is a stage and we’re just actors
playing roles, then I need to have a serious talk
with the director about my motivation for this part.

(Braisco)
http://www.humorcorner.com

One day, I’m gonna finally get up enough courage
to actually go skydiving, rather than just
being thrown out of the plane like last time.

(LeMel Hebert-Williams)

Much to my surprise, the old “arrow through
the head” gag resulted in nothing but
compliments at the body piercing parlor.

(Kevin Green)

I was much happier before I
found out that ignorance is bliss.

(Peter Medhurst)

I think a secure profession for
young people is history teacher,
because in the future, there will
be so much more of it to teach.

(Bill Muse)

I could write a whole book on the
problems I’ve faced due to my bad memory,
only thing is I can’t remember most of them.

(Sanjay)

I bet one of the first uses of a time machine
will be to combine it with a microwave
oven, to make food cook even faster.

(David Gunter)

My life sucks so bad my ears
pop just thinkin’ about it.

(Gary Smith)

If I were a lawyer I would be
mad at the other 99% who give
the rest of them a bad name.

(Rick Owen)

Someone should make a car that runs on urine
and has a tube to pee into while driving.
With enough beer, you could make it clear
across the country without stopping.

(Christian Knudstrup)

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A Forwarded Mail And Its Reply

—–Original Message—– For those in their twenty-something's... This puts it all into words perfectly. They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now. You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you. You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and are scared. You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so great after all. You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of what is acceptable and what is not. You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward. You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough to get to know better. You love someone but maybe love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you are not a bad person. One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap and getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision. You worry about loans and money and the future and making a life for yourself and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender! What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your twenty-something friends...Maybe it will help some one feel like they are not alone in the state of confusion that is our post grad. years!!! -----A Reply----- Problem is well defined and I can surely relate to it.. but what about the solution? If you're going to mail it to 20 something friends... I think u better mail the solution too! Probably one solution would be in keeping in touch with spiritualism in some form or the other. It dosent mean u have to give up whatever ur doing and renounce the world. In fact u can continue doing whatever ure doing now, in a better way. To further explain this... in the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna dosent feel like fighting and wants to give up everything and renounce the world and go to some forest. Krishna tells him to stand up and fight. Fighting is a metaphor for our daily activities, in our case probably software development. In fact a lot of things in the Gita made sense after reading the commentry and not just the translation... the five horses drawn by Krishna are our five senses... sight, smell etc. And Arjuna is the body, and Krishna is the Self i.e. the soul. Im telling all this because until I actually started reading the book, I had thought the Gita was just a lot of religious stuff to be read if one considers a career in becoming a pujari or maybe some time after retiring. It turned out to be a very practical guide to daily life!

Ruminations…

If all the world is a stage and we’re just actors
playing roles, then I need to have a serious talk
with the director about my motivation for this part.

(Braisco)
http://www.humorcorner.com

One day, I’m gonna finally get up enough courage
to actually go skydiving, rather than just
being thrown out of the plane like last time.

(LeMel Hebert-Williams)

Much to my surprise, the old “arrow through
the head” gag resulted in nothing but
compliments at the body piercing parlor.

(Kevin Green)

I was much happier before I
found out that ignorance is bliss.

(Peter Medhurst)

I think a secure profession for
young people is history teacher,
because in the future, there will
be so much more of it to teach.

(Bill Muse)

I could write a whole book on the
problems I’ve faced due to my bad memory,
only thing is I can’t remember most of them.

(Sanjay)

I bet one of the first uses of a time machine
will be to combine it with a microwave
oven, to make food cook even faster.

(David Gunter)

My life sucks so bad my ears
pop just thinkin’ about it.

(Gary Smith)

If I were a lawyer I would be
mad at the other 99% who give
the rest of them a bad name.

(Rick Owen)

Someone should make a car that runs on urine
and has a tube to pee into while driving.
With enough beer, you could make it clear
across the country without stopping.

(Christian Knudstrup)

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