Today afternoon, I was telling Aaron that, Aaron am 23 and am now prioritizing relationships above everything in life. And I had the same conversation in the evening, with my engineering friend Balaji, who was dumbstruck and confused after what I had told him. Balaji was legit asking me, “Dan now are you gonna search for your happiness in relationships now?’, “ You used to search for happiness, in varied things before, like Academics, movies, music, and now relationships?’ and I was telling him, “ No it is not like that, am not pursuing relationships to extract happiness from relationships or joy out of people, I love people, but I do not expect love from people. Balaji was telling me this legit looks like the line, Keerthi Suresh says to Ram in the Telugu film Nenu Shailaja, “ I love you, but am not in love with you’
Today me and Josh went to Marine drive, and Josh is a law student, studying in Maharaja college, for a moment I felt like author Jeffrey Archer, and his book “ A prisoner of birth’ that I had read last year, it was written in collaboration with his lawyer friend and a sociologist. As usual Marine drive was littered with couples today also, and we both were discussing about Indian politics and a song from Mohanlal’s Lucifer “ Variga variga sahacharey’ was beaming from my phone. And I could completely envisage an army of people walking behind us, holding read flags with CPI logo.
Josh was telling me this, “ Dan you speak incredibly well, its a natural gift, I reckon that, my another friend who is a social worker, also has this gift of making friends easily and being a cool guy.
Today afternoon, I was telling Aaron, you and me we have this gift of making friends easily, and I think we should not take this for granted.
Josh and me were also talking about intellectual hubs, and how Madras was once an intellectual hub in the 90s, so much so that the birth of southern cinema was in Madras, and the foundations for Telugu cinema were laid there. I was telling Josh, I think kochi is the next intellectual hub of south India.
I think I need a Malayali poet who is willing to translate my works to Malayalam, poet and a writer would be good.