A tragic tale with a realistic touch

It was a Sunday afternoon & both I and Shirley were in her room talking about some random things. Actually we don’t run out of things to talk about but the afternoon discussion was about the movie ‘Fashion’ by Madhur Bhandarkar. I was kinda literally going gaga over the movie and the actresses who played the lead roles when Shirley started telling me about Gia Carangi, a name that I had never heard in my life. She began telling about the destruction of life & carrier of Gia Carangi, the movie based on her life and about Angelina Jolie’s praiseworthy performance as Gia. She really wanted me to see the movie & know more about 'Gia' before creating hype and hoopla over ‘Fashion’.

The next day was a little hectic but I managed to get some time during the lunch break as I was so curious to read about Gia. I found a few pictures of Gia from a website. Innocent face, seductive and erotic body, I am sure she might have been the photographer’s favorite during her days. But it’s sad that Gia’s life reached nowhere and she ended up as an AIDS victim at the age of 26. Although drug addiction is a hard to defend reason, I felt so sorry for her and her tragic fall. A needy and lonely woman left all alone amid riches that she hardly bothered about! What she wanted is the love and care that she hadn’t received all throughout her life. It’s sad that we most of us take the love, warmth and care that we get for granted whereas life people like Gia end-up longing for love.

After seeing the pictures of Gia, and reading about her sad story I really wanted to see the movie & the way Angelina Jolie has portrayed Gia. Shirley had told me that Angelina Jolie has done quite a great job portraying Gia in the movie. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the CD! So I searched for some clipping of ‘Gia’ in YouTube. I couldn’t see much of Angelina Jolie’s laudable performance as Gia, but could feel the depth of the story. I also found quite a few well written reviews about ‘Gia’ read them one by one.

After reading a few, I should say that the movie literally got stuck in my head. The movie ‘Fashion’ doesn’t have anything praiseworthy when compared to ‘Gia’; and about the models and their rise and fall, I felt ‘Gia’ would be worst that someone can face in her life. In fact it is really hard to see someone who has success safe on her platter plunging down deep in to a ditch so quickly, like what happed to Gia Carangi.

Well, after that short and brief research about the movie and about Gia Carangi I kinda stopped talking about the movie ‘Fashion’! (lol)

Yes! Aims are never meant to be forgotten

I am being haunted by the possible aftermaths of the indolence that I show towards my reading and blogging habits, in the name of my official assignments. I am have a dozen of projects for which I have to provide fixed number of articles daily, and also do other works apart from this, as well as do the necessary repair for the natty contents that I get. And to during write post office hours is just impossible, as worn-out me is worth nothing, as I will be only having the energy to go back to my room and sleep. This process has been going on for quite some time and has almost taken away my reading and writing routines.

Now I feel a sort of vacuum when I look at my blog and books, and want to revive myself and the writer in me. Well, apart from works I think there is another big reason that I should say here, about why I hardly write anything these days. My blog used to be the best place to scribble down my random thoughts and the day-to-day happenings and now Shirley has taken its place. After sharing every bit, I would literally be left with nothing that I need to write here. I often make fun of her saying that she gave me a good friend, but took away the writer in me. Poor girl, in spite of all her personal prpblems, she always with me during my bad times and helped me to get out of it.

Writing has always been my passion and may be due to that I finally ended up as a writer, after being a teacher for almost four plus years. I always looked-upon people who write with utmost respect. Only a very few people can write in a captivating manner, and attract the attention of those who read it. I always wanted to be one among those very few. But somehow I had to take-up a long journey for that, as I had Biology for my PUC & Chemistry for my Graduation, both were never my sincere choices. Finally I ended up in the MA English class, which gave life and blood to my writing ambitions. A degree in Journalism was a bonus, but somehow I couldn’t make a wise use of it in the beginning and ended up as a teacher in a higher secondary school. I won’t say it was a bad job as I had a lot of good times there and loved teaching kids. But somehow it had nothing to do with my writing ambitions.

Roller-coaster life brought me a platform for writing by 2008 when I got a job as a Content Writer in a web solution company. Two years since then I have been writing for most of the projects that our company has done and have also been luck to start a blog of my own, which I think is going pretty fine…. ;) …lol

My writing job has also helped me to learn all the tips and tricks of SEO, about which I never heard of, when I came first. But now, I think I am too much in to my assignments and has almost for forgotten the main aim that I always had in my life. All my official works are going really good but they hardly improve my creativity, as they have more of fixed topics and have certain fixed styles of writing that I need to follow. Or I should say I am bound by certain pre-set rules and regulations. So I have decided to take time to do more of creative writing, and to bring me back towards the road that leads to the fulfillment of my ambitions.