EXCUSES

I want to succeed despite it all because I am tired of seeing others fail and give excuses.

• Rishiraj

MULTILATERAL STUFF

Nothing is one-sided, not even likes on Facebook, following on Twitter, or insults in real life. -Rishiraj

LESSONS IN FEAR

Gouge out an eye of a person and their other eye would obediently look in the direction that you wish. -Rishiraj

INTELLIGENCE VS INTELLECT

There is a difference between being intelligent and being intellectual. Intellect actually comes at a later stage, and is optional. Intelligence, either you are born with or you aren’t. You can, possibly, sharpen it, but not create it.

For being intellectual being intelligent is a prerequisite. On the other hand, you can be intelligent and apply your intelligence to crime, or even more petty things.

• Rishiraj

AND WHAT IS GOOD, PHAEDRUS…

When you consider a person good in the morning, bad in the evening, good again the next morning, it has little to do with that person. -Rishiraj

NOT ALWAYS

Attraction is not always love, love is not always marriage, marriage is not always kids, kids are not always human beings. Proceed with care.
– Madhuvan Rishiraj

CHANGE

You blame me for changing as a person. Everything changes, my friend. If it didn’t then you would still be urinating on your parents.

-Madhuvan Rishiraj

FRIENDS

Every friend is a lesson. After each betrayal you learn something new. After each stab in the back you learn another reason for trusting no one but yourself. – Madhuvan Rishiraj

REALITY

Do you know what reality is?

If you are not sure there is a simple test to find out. If you close your eyes and can’t reach a point in space/time, an idyll, where you don’t have an ideology, a purpose, a goal, an ambition, a sense of belonging, a name, a past, a future anymore, you are no longer in touch with reality. You need to halt.

–Madhuvan Rishiraj

DRINKING ALCOHOL

Your drinking and my drinking are different. Very different.

Your drinking comes in two versions:

Ordinary-idiot.drinking.version.1. – Drinking with guys shouting random insults at the top of your voice till you vomit or dance around the roads.

Ordinary-idiot.drinking.version.2. – Drinking with guys discussing beauty of some secret crush known by all except her and deciding finally to call her and depending upon your background deciding whether to let her go, abuse her verbally or throw acid on her face upon refusal.

My drinking comes in two versions:

Great-genius.drinking.version.1. – Drinking with men (not guys!) talking about world history, science, news, politics, literature, music and a little bit of our lives.

Great-genius.drinking.version.2. – Drinking alone while writing, playing videogames, reading, listening to music and/or contemplating the nature of Universe.

So, we both drink, but very differently.

– Madhuvan Rishiraj