The past week I’ve been indulging with my family. A week long holiday followed by evenings spent in movie theatres has become the routine. Well, holidays are the time of indulgence because one has pretty much nothing else to do.

 

Every time I’m outside the periphery of my house I’m onto observing people (and assessing them quite critically!). It’s amazing how much you can decipher of a stranger merely by his conduct in public. There are those ‘won’t catch my eye more than once’ kinds and then there are the more engaging ones. Young girls in their lacy frocks ready to cling onto a teddy bear, young boys looking up at adults willing on to take on the world, women with men holding their hands, men holding hands eyeing you because you’re a girl… the list is endless.

 

I see a gang of girls who can’t stop chattering and giggling and I can’t stop wondering where they get all that enthusiasm from, I see a family complete with mum and dad and kids dining away to glory… I pretty much see the world. And I know with all its complications and ‘oh-my-gods’ life is extremely simple and plain. No matter how great you are or how down trodden you are still matter of the same kind.

 

So now every time I see someone worth assessing I’m planning to pen down something about that person. Lord save you from my radar!