The way I perceive,my life seems to be beset on all sides by ,of all the things, the colour Red.
No matter how much I Reverse Engineer( in our jargon it means ' to try and retrace the series of events to analyse the crisis at hand') I just can't figure out how I imbibed this outlandish penchant.
To start with I had presumed that I like this colour as it was the first thing that came to my mind when the Profound question was asked(what is your favourite colour..?).
Thenon my life started getting ReddeneD like never before.
1)Favourite Football Team: Manchester United(The Red Devil),the first club i knew ( call it divine intervention or blatantly because they are Bloody(Red) Famous......!!!).
p.s.- I would be rebutted citing The Reds(Liverpool).Before you take the pain , I would like to tell you that the Red and the Devil combination got the better of me.Nevertheless Liverpool will evr remain the second most favourite(even in second i'm deprived of colurful soft spots).
2)Favourite F1 Team: Ferrari.......As I grew up racing enticed(c/o rise in adrenaline) me.I enjoyed watching the God of all Motorsports,F1. In those times a German(bearing the name Micheal Schumacher) was known for setting the tracks on fire.Though I never liked him(I like his archrival Mika Hakkinen), I would always attribute(not now anymore...as realisation dawned) his great success to the insuperable Ferrari.That way unknowingly or as the almighty would have it got hooked to Red again.
Until recently i was atleast happy that the racers i liked were from different teams.But now,after Kimi joined Ferrari,F1 to me pitch Red.......!!!!
3)The more I learnt about the governance,politics,et al I realised that deep within me I am a staunch communist with liberal mindframe.And Red is the fundamental ingredient of communism.Yet again I was providentially guided on The(Red) Path.Nonetheless for the countries of this world to sustain the unparalleled growth and all its Sideeffects a right mix of communist ideals is indispensable(just as imperative as ReD chilli is to a spicy indian delicacy). For all you know 'The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. I will strike down with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.-Ezekiel 25.17' . So before this world with all the freedom it enjoyed breeds the aforesaid tyranny, a shepherd must step forward and should have rights enough to guide the lesser mortals.
4) I promised to myself that my first post wont be serious or boring to say the least and hence I wont talk at length about ideals,etc and will stick to simple and ahem..! lighter stuff.
There are scores of incidents in my life where Red proscribed my Right to Choose.Most of them are trivial of the highest order and even if not, they would mean nothing to anyone even if I take the pain to mention them.
As I was about to end,I triumphantly realised the root cause of all the troubles(self implicated) this Red fetish got me into.The reason Red became a part of my life in the first place is because of my HAIR....!!!
From time immemorial.......whereever i go,whoever i meet, people dumbfound me with ONE PROFOUND QUESTION...........Why is your Hair Red?DID you dye it?(Yerr right..!! i'd dye my hair to hit on the girl next door at the age of five...!!!!).Amid trying to explain to people that God was having the time of his life making me The Red Sheep among the herd of Black Sheep, I gave up and upon figuring out that RED Hair or Red for that matter made my life a lot below normal, I started to fight against it (Losing battle as is apparent).
Though I seem to blow it out of proportion one must realise Red is not all that bad either.
Dont forget it flows inside you all over.
Quote For The Day:
Andy Dufresne: [in letter to Red] Remember ReD, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
(From Shawshank Redemption and again the Lord directs me to RED(Morgan Freeman at his best))
Song For The Day:
Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Californication
