back again

it has always been difficult for me to develop a habit especially the ones which need me to make any semblance of any effort. i remember a scene in a movie where a character tells the hero that if he had tried harder he could have become a genius. and saying so he opens his bottle of desi whiskey and drinks away to full glory. these days i can identify so well with that scene....

was watching anthony bourdain touring post katrina new orleans...in a chat with a comedian and a bar man he asks how much time it took for him to start joking about the hurricane. he said it took him 2 weeks.... in 2 months he was doing shows only on the hurricane. burdain talked about the time when no one was cracking jokes on 9-11. then finally someone said it after months. no one laughed. but every one was relieved.

will we be able to laugh about 26-11 ever? i guess not. we as a nation take ourselves too seriously. americans kept laughing on 911 and kept on ensuring that no one dared to look at their country for the next 6 years. they kept on laughing about katrina and doing everything to recover their lives which had been so bizzarely taken away from them in that hurricane. people left jobs and started volunteering to rebuild the city. laughing all the while about it all. the twin towers are getting rebuilt to show the world that america will not be pinned down. 9-11 jokes are quite common these days.

we indians will always go silent for a minute every time after mentioning 26-11 and do nothing. we will blame our government for 2 weeks, light candles for 2 days and ostracise anyone who even think about laughing at that day. but thats all that we will do. all of us including me.

frankly i am not sure right or wrong. i feel blocked evry time i try to see any funny side of 26-11. i just cannot. i also do not know what to do. how to contribute. i cannot leave my job just like that.so what do i do? how does one contribute? sitting in another city? and how does one lighten it up and focus on the job at hand?

god knows....or does america....