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On sunsets

I have always been fascinated by sunsets (maybe because I don’t get to see sunrises that often , being a habitual late riser..!!),and having spent almost all my life in a tropical city blessed with sunshine, I’ve never had a dearth of them. From muted yellows to blazing oranges, I’ve seen many a hue, and I never seem to have enough of them…whenever I happen to have to have a camera close at hand, I rush to get a click of that glorious evening sun which draws to a close yet another day.

Twilight, I think, often has a deep effect on me, as I go into contemplation, sitting and watching the daylight ebb into impending darkness….
It sets the mood to reflect on the day, or more often, the days gone by….
Do some soul searching and ponder about where your life has taken you, and what is in store…
About journeys made and destinations yet to be reached….

It has a calming effect and soothes those harried nerves…

I was just going through my folders and found that in the past two years I had accumulated quite a good number of sunsets that I had captured….the most recent one happening to be in new jersey, where I am now, just about ten days back, in the middle of a pretty cold winter….!
I am posting here some of the snaps I like from my collection…

Writing Revived

I have been wanting to start blogging for a long time , the principal reason being a fear of losing what little writing skills I happen to have….i realise that it has been almost a decade since I’ve stopped writing school essays and compositions and the only kind of writing that I seem to have been doing is exam answers or e-mails….the first, I am hopeless at, and the second, I do rarely and in brief…

Growing up in an age where the need for written communication has greatly been reduced (right from my childhood when the telephone was a modest landline instrument in which you poked your finger into the holes and rotated the dial, to the omnipresent mobile phones which are not merely phones but also radios, cameras, alarms, digital organisers and so much more rolled into one….), you hardly have the need to write anyone letters…I don’t remember when was the last time I stepped into a post office…

Though I do write e-mails, I wonder if it can be called writing, in the actual sense of the word…I think if anyone two generations earlier was asked to read them, they would dismiss it off as meaningless, or think that you would have failed your spelling and grammar lessons in school miserably…all words seem to have a truncated form, and we don’t even seem to have the time and patience to say ‘thanks’or ‘regards’…they have become thnx,(or even tx), and rgds…even ‘you’ has been reduced to ‘u’…u send msgs to ur frnds to wish them b’day, gud nite, gud morn, and they say thx cos they don’t hav time 4 anythin more…u wanna meet 2morw and ur frd says v’ll c abt tht…

Phew…since the likes of above have become perfectly acceptable language , I thought I would really indulge in some writing, before I forget my spellings in good old ‘Queen’s English’ ! I hope to make frequent attempts to pen down( did I say pen? Make it MS Word !) my thoughts, experiences or anything else that catches my fancy…in the hope of salvaging my language and improving my writing skills…