HAIR TODAY

ITS RED!!


Yesterday I took the plunge and accepted the dare my children had posed to me. They had been very keen that I get something done to my hair and get a tattoo. The latter is still in the pipeline and I haven't taken a call on it but the first one is a done deed!
Yes I got red highlights done on my hair. I chose the colour not just because its one of my favourite colours but also because it denotes vibrancy and freshness. Its the colour of energy, its the colour of rejuvenation, its the colour of our life blood, its the colour of positivity and in some cultures including Indian its auspicious.
I am at that stage in my life where I am secure in my status and my positioning - both familial and professional. I have nothing to prove to anyone anymore. Those who matter know me by now. Those who don't - well can't waste any more of my precious time on bringing them to my side. Now is the time for me to internalise my thoughts and externalise my personal goals and run after them.
My hair job is just a reminder to myself that its ok to want certain things in life which might not be widely acceptable and may be going against the expected modes of conduct. As long as I am not advertently harming anyone its good to be ME!
Its time to give a fresh start to old buried dreams with my flaming hair trailing behind!!

                              APOCALYPSE NOW!

The world seems to have reached a turning point where it will seize to exist the way we know it. The last ice age happened 2.6 million years ago. We see it in films and comprehend its severity through recorded, assimilated and collated data. But as I read the newspapers and watch television news a sense of foreboding engulfs me. My deepest fears tell me that we have accelerated the process of another ice age like situation, may be even worse! Indiscriminate exploitation of everything that Earth offers while maintaining a delicate balance achieved over millions of years of transition and evolution has brought us to the brink from where there will be no return. Its like the collision of the fateful Titanic with the iceberg. Moving ahead full throttle it did not get the time to steer clear of the icy obstacle consigning it to its watery grave. We too are now at the brink and I think the speed with which the developing economies want to race ahead and the developed want to be still in the lead we will not be able to brake well in time.

The recent spurt in natural disasters and the manic fluctuation of the climate are signals enough. But majority of us are looking away deliberately in the hope that if we do not look the monster of our own making in the eye it will somehow disappear and it will be business as usual. But sadly this time around it will not just go to sleep, it will turn and plunge the earth into a darkness where living beings will have no place. 

Mother Nature will reset its evolutionary clock and all species will pay the price including us humans. Mr Trump will be long gone by then so his proclamations of climate change hoax would not be countered by the apocalypse which the next generation will surely face.