Epitaphs
epitaphs try to capture an ocean and present it as a drop.. but while some fail, some even though they dont succeed get etched in our hearts forever.. here are a few i loved reading..
Robert Frost
“I had a lover’s quarrel with the world”
John Donne
“John Donne
Undone.”
Quaniaron Bellthing
“Well this was fun, let’s do it again sometime.”
Werner Heisenberg (the founder of Uncertainity principle)
“He lies here, somewhere.”
(This is a joke about the famous Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which implies that one may not know the position and momentum of a particle simultaneously.)
Kent
“Grim death took me without any warning
I was well at night and dead at nine in the morning”
King Leonidas of Sparta
“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their orders, we lie.”
Dean Martin
“Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime” (the title of one of his songs)
John Laird McCaffery
“John
Free your body and soul
Unfold your powerful wings
Climb up the highest mountains
Kick your feet up in the air
You may now live forever
Or return to this earth
Unless you feel good where you are!
—Missed by your friends”
Osho
“Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990.”
Frank Sinatra
“The best is yet to come.” (the title of one of his songs)
Harold J Story
“Before you jump in here with me,
make sure you bring good memories.
For here they’re all we have to trade,
and where you are is where they’re made.”
Anon
“Tears cannot
Restore her:
Therefore I weep.”
Anon
“Blimey it’s darker than I thought in here.”
anon
“I finished before you in the human race.”
Mel Blanc
“thats all folks”
Gregory Allan Elliot
Don’t waste your short life reading epitaphs like this.
happiness
i’m happy now (yeah its one of those rare moments, lol).. what is the feeling that u get when u watch an innocent child in its mother’s arms, smiling at u, secretly conveying the fact that it has got something new to bite u with if u meddle with it? or when u see that moon full in its grace and glory, big and round, nice and yellow? or when u help an old woman cross the road and she blesses u, while u get reminded of ur long lost grandma? its something that cant be explained or caught in words but only experienced in its purest form….. but it can also be classified as love na? the love u hav efor that child, the love towards the beauty off the moon, the love u had for ur grandmother, to be precise…
yep, such complex emotions, concepts and feelings are so well interconnected that one hardly starts caring abt the main issue(thats happiness) and starts wondering about the extraneous issues involved (such as is it love or the complexity of emotions). thats what makes many a philosophical book boring to read. digressing, there, is an art one uses to its fullest.. lol, i am digressing now..
then the purpose of this post? to remind the reader (thats myself 90% of the time) that one should live such moments to the fullest.. that one shud stop worrying abt whatever extra fittings that an object of happiness comes with.. that one experience the moment like he’d never get it back again.. that one can only be thankful and gratitude is only thing thats left of one who’s truly satisfied..
happy living to u all
the italian
[read with an Italian accent]
One day I’m'a gonna New York to big’a hotel. In’a morning I go to eat’a breakfast. I tell’a waitress I wanna two pisses toast. She bring me one piss. I say you no understand. I wanna to piss on’a my plate. She say you better not piss on’a plate, you son’a ma bitch.
I don’t even know the lady and she call’a me a sonna ma bitch.
Later I go to eat at the big’a restaurant. The waitress brings me a spoon and a knife but no fock. I tell’a her I wanna fock. She tell’a me everyone wanna fock. I tell’a her you no understand. I wanna fock on the table. She say better not fock on the table, you son’a ma bitch.
I don’t even know the lady and she call’a me a sonna ma bitch.
So I go to room’a in’a hotel and there is no sheits on’a my bed. I call’a the manager and tell’a him I wanna sheit. He tell’a me to go to the toilet. I say you no understand. I wanna sheit on’a my bed. He say you better not sheit on’a bed, you son’a ma bitch. I dont even know the man and he call’a me sonna ma bitch.
I go to the checkout and the man at the desk say “Peace on you”. I say piss on you too, you son’a ma bitch.
I gonna go back to Italy
New Year day
the new year day was a cool day for me.. but it had its share of misfirings too. learnt a lot the night befor i slept. the high point was the buffet at the rooftop restaurant at citi centre.
one thing i’d like to write about the place. it was cool, nice, hep and costly beyond reason.. it was as if they were catering a society where money flows like a river. why such extravaganza? one could get the same kinda pleasures elsewhere in chennai at much moderate rates. does one think that spending that much is hep?
what is hep? its a high feeling that one gets when one’s ego is boosted. a thing is hep if its owned by few or by the elite of the society. the question is, is this feeling worth enjoying? any feeling that makes one feel good is obviously worth enjoying. else why would it be there in the first place? makes sense.. but does it have to come at an exhorbitant cost? thats up to an individual to decide.
but i loved the buffet dinner i had there.. i’ve had buffet dinner at fisherman’s cove before, but i enjoyed this one better.
