Literary review…nah Book update

Well here is an update of the reading I have been doing lately, now this isn’t some Literary review or anything lofty of that sort, just plain letting the world know that I do have some literary pretensions and that I do spend my time in a fruitful manner gaining knowledge ( do I need to ??, we will save that for another day. what say?).

Currently reading ” A walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson ( no girls it isn’t that famous mush movie where they walk in the clouds or a walk they remember ), a lovely travelogue, the dude has a sense of humour all his own, and it almost inspired me to walk atleast 10km this morning , but I guess it will take far greater powers to move me more. Its about Bill’s trek/hike through the Appalachian Trail ( 2,100 miles ) one of the longest man made forest trails meant for eccentric hikers/trekkers.

A Bridge Across Forever- Richard Bach is the second book which I am reading at work yes you heard it right ( when the judge is busy coaxing the big jesus out of some poor schmuck yours truly while waiting for his turn is lost in the ideas of soulmates and such wooly ideas which only occur to one when he/she is barnstorming, that is flying an airplane upside down and doing some pretty heady stuff with airplanes over some barns and fields with the cows admiring you. Well I did read this book many years ago when I was in the 9th grade and now that I am re-reading it, I realise I didnt quite understand what I read then, but did think I looked pretentious cool, a 9th grade kid is reading a title called “A Bridge…..” .  Its a good book with some beautiful ideas and well written, and Mr.Bach is a “Quote Collectors” delight, he gives so many quotable quotes. I slowed down a little bit in my reading of this novel because I did some googling and found that Mr.Bach and his Soulmate are no longer so. Well it seemed a tad disappointing for I assumed “..and they wlived happily ever after” and like all assumptions it turned out to be wrong, and somehow I am glad I was wrong. Ok no more, I sound pretty knowledge about Bach by now.

I will complete them both in due time. My personla defenition of Soulmate…It is that Third Party He/She in a marriage, that someone who makes you think ‘the grass is greener on the otherside of the pasture’.

Profession

As I sit at office on a Sunday morning instead of being in bed, I sometimes get the thought ( these days more often) Lord!! what have I gotten myself into, a profession that demands 24 hours loyalty from you, a profession that is the age old/traditional school of professions where a person does not start off with a bang ( a decent salary ), a profession where years of toil will get you what is called “experience” ( always reminds me of Calvin’s dad telling him about building character ), the gestation period is long…so long i.e when you have the youth and time you toil and when you have the money and fame you continue toil anyway because you can’t do without your daily dose of toil…lol. But, the better part of it is that you don’t have to be perfect in it for you are always ” practising” and the max you could get to be is that you are the “best practitioner” yeah thats it!!. I don’t know how this is viewed , positive or negative depends on how you want to percieve it, in this line of work You are responsible for yourself, if you don’t work you stay hungry ( damn!! wish Bill Gates or some billionaire lost a few cents..), We got all the freedom to do whatever wish to do, take leaves whenever we want to, but like Spidey’s Uncle Ben’s word ring in my ears with a twist though ” With great Freedom comes Great responsibility” , so yeah !! eseentially it means nothing, that Great Freedom. 

Yes so much for my grubmbling/cribbing would you call it that?? do I sound like that, maybe , maybe not. All said and done there are days when I am feeling great and think what I am doing rocks absolutely, there are days when I feel its a Dog’s Life ( not some celebrity pet though ). Yeah!! get on with the visicisitudes of life buddy!! there  can’t be anything half as boring as a perfectly smooth life, in old times when ships said with the wind there was a part in the ocean where the seas became calm,still, and silent and the sun was relentless, those smooth and calm areas were called the Doldrums, which were the most miserably parts of the voyage.

So I guess I will continue my life which is the time spent between a crib session and a party time…hahaha