A JerrY MaGuire moment!!

Nope....I didn't have two slices of bad pizza and grow a conscience...and no I am not having a break down which will lead to an eventual break through!! Oh, I should have probably mentioned this before, I am a borderline movie fanatic...so during the course of this blog I will be making alot of obscure and some not so obscure movie references...And also, I have been told on more than one occassion that I need to tone down the sarcasm.....thats not gonna happen, so comprehension of subtle and not so subtle sarcasm will help...But getting back to the reason for this blog, it suddenly dawned on me that I'd like to share some random thoughts....so here goes....

For a while now, I have been wondering why relationships of any kind are so uncertain in today's world...Friendships, for instance, are so short lived these days...Given the gypsy like lifestyle that most of us get thrust into during the course of our careers, when a friend says "Of course, we'll stay in touch," I know it means a couple of phone calls over the next month which slowly becomes once a month, a short conversation on birthdays because too many people are waiting in line...and eventually it becomes an occassional email or scrap at one of those social networking sites... Everytime I ask someone the reason for this... the patented answer is: Life is hectic... (No S**t, sherlock!!)... I am not arguing with that... I, myself, am guilty of using this excuse. But it seems ironic to me that in an age where communication has so many options...we find it hard to have a conversation with that old friend with whom we had a cup of early morning tea everyday in college...or spent countless hours discussing the most irrelevant things...But are now living in different time zones because of the inevitable pursuit for riches!! Guess we live in age of "Out of sight, out of mind..." I know I sound cynical but if you look around, you might see I am not entirely wrong...