Costly lies

Why do we lie?

Sometimes we do it to save our ourselves from some kind of anticipated embarrassment, sometimes to make us look good and sometimes to help someone else. Well somehow you can't escape the truth. These lies are like that boom-rang which we played with in childhood. It comes back to you sometime in the future and stabs you in your ass and what follows is utter embarrassment. So let me get this straight, we lied to avoid embarrassment but what ultimately happened was even worse.

What I feel is even worse than the embarrassment is the trust that is destroyed. Your words become less credible to people who witnessed your matinee show exposing your lies. Trust is something which might take ages to build up but it just takes a split second of stupidity to hamper everything that we created so far.

Sometimes though we are not even conscious of our lies. But I guess that is just a lame defence. We should have the control over what we speak. Lies might glitter up your grandeur and give instant gratification but surely is the long run, there is no going back. Someday or the other you will have to face it. The truth. And that is when you will realize that there is nothing more insulting and devastating than these costly lies.

MI:Ghost Protocol * * *

Ethan Hunt is on a hunt again. And this time around he is on his own as the Impossible Missions Force i.e. IMF has been abolished by the American Government after the Kremlin is bombed during one of their missions. Some other secret agency piggybacks on their communication frequency and it makes Team Ethan the apparent culprit of Kremlin chaos.

As a response to this, the American government initiates the Ghost Protocol wherein Ethan is supposed to work secretly without any help from IMF and if caught, will be arrested with the allegation of terrorist attack on Kremlin. The cinematography and the action sequences filled with ultra-cool technological innovations take the MI series to a altogether different level. The sequences shot inside the Kremlin and the building act in Dubai is just breath taking.

The Indian connection i.e. Anil Kapoor has been given an ephemeral role of a lustful Indian Billionaire who gets ass-kicked all over. But people seemed to be really happy that at least some Indian actor could make it all the way to a mainstream Hollywood movie with Tom Cruise. So much so that some of them proudly clapped out loud.Way to go Anil Bhai! Although it seemed more like a molestation of his grandeur.


The movie is super-paced and cruises all the way towards the end and eventually turns out to be a one-man show. This one of MI, seemed more like a Bond flick, but the sad part was the absence of bond girls. But who the hell cares for a skin-show when you have Tom Cruise pulling off impossible acts defying the very principles of gravity. If you like action, cool gadgets and of course Cruise, then accept the Mission.

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Curse of immortality

Like you and like them,
I also wanted immortality.
Thought it to be the panacea,
for all those fears, and for vulnerability.
Thought it would give omnipotence.

But I was wrong.It's a curse.
Life has meaning in it's dynamism,
and not in the longevity.
And you need no fortune of time,
to pursue your dreams.
One lifetime is ample.

I will be always this.Frozen.
Stagnant, like water of a lake.
But I envy the river.
Her flow and the possibilities.
That's what I miss the most. Possibilities.