This is an old post actually, which I’d deleted in a flurry of emotion (and not just cos it sounds narcissistic)… reposting it, cos well, whats the point of a blog if I start deleting posts…
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Early hours at office, and I’d started my day as usual looking at the latest stock tickers on my portfolio. A penny stock that earned me a lot of dough earlier, was making up for the impropriety of giving me profits, and was now digging away deep into my pockets. As “chotte haath” walked by, perhaps on her way to coffee, I was sporting, not surprisingly, an expression best described as a forlorn grimace.
You can imagine my astonishment when she looked up at me and said – “Whenever I pass this way, I see you smiling away looking at the monitor. Whats going on?”.
Well I’ve frankly had it and cannot explain this anymore… to all those people who apparently see a perpetual smile on my face and wonder what hidden secrets lead to the upturned lips, I apologize for the blasphemy. In spite of that rather well known (but perhaps incorrect) adage about how it takes just 17 muscles to smile as against 53 muscles to frown, I know we live in times where it is almost customary to frown, and smiling is perverse – the not done thing!
Am guilty of syntactical inaccuracy with my non-verbal communication… espc. my grimaces, smirks and such, as a result of which these emotives when displayed upon my aspect tend to resemble a smile. I also apologize for the numerous instances when the emotion painted across my frontispiece is an actual smile – I know it is very inconsiderate of me to sport such an expression in times like these, when each of us is trying to make the best of the stressful, ugly lives and worlds we live in. I apologize also for being the lazy bum that I am and trying to get away with exercising just 17 of my muscles most of the time, when I should be taking up my rightful share and exercising at least 53!
If you have read so far, just have two simple words to culminate my atonement…
Yeah, Right!
(Dan exits left stage, smiling sarcastically…)
