The Meena Kumari Syndrome

I've been thinking, about nothing in particular however everything in general. The outlook is rather grim, for some reason. I'm not very clear as to what that reason is. I suspect it is because of self indulgence than any concrete malady. So, now I obviously have to over-analyse it. Goodness, this blog must be the most mixed up collection of pap in the world. Maybe not. Let's not be presumptuous this early in the night. I almost never blog in the morning. That's because I'm almost never up. That doesn't mean that I can't, does it?

Sorrow, pain, misery. 

It has some sort of strange glamour attached to it. The songs that touch us the most are the ones that speak of loss and unrequited emotions. They speak of what could have been. I've heard people talk of migraines as if just the act of suffering a migraine is one of martyrdom that somehow makes them deeper, more intense people. I suffer from it. I used to think it makes me superior to others. Talking about something else; just look at that very astute index of human emotions. So what did you learn from your past relationship? More often than not, never to trust anyone; good people in particular seem to be the most heinous offenders of the heart. Its a not too obtuse way of hinting at a broken heart, a tragedy that lends some texture to life. 

I call it the Meena Kumari Syndrome(MKS). That esteemed lady made a career out of speaking in a low, sad voice and drinking along. I've always laughed at people lost in sorrows of their own making. Laughing on their faces gives them an opportunity to feel misunderstood and the pain just keeps increasing. MKS induces a belief that only morons are happy, that being sad is an intellectual statement. Why though? Why must one be deep and intense? If you are inherently superficial (oxymoron alert), why can't you be like that? Why wear misery like a badge of honour? 

Recently, it looked like a variant of MKS had come to bite me. This particular variety of the disease makes one angst-y and blue for no particular reason and manifests in a huge jump in the number of thoughts whirling around in my brain, till the head wants to explode and the heart wants to take a nap. The only reason that seemed to justify this bout of the blues was that my plan wasn't working out. Which plan, you ask? The Plan. The outline of what life is supposed to be like, the one that I'd worked out at sixteen, which was going horribly awry. All evening I tortured myself and others, being listless and listening to bad music, loitering around the hostel talking to myself. Today I decided that I'd had enough. I wrote down The Plan on a sheet of paper and threw it in the trash. Symbolism, very profound. I don't care, The Plan can take a hike. If I'm gonna be inflicted with MKS, I'm gonna own up to it and not hide behind silly reasons like The Plan. The next time you ask if anything is wrong and I say nothing is wrong and continue to mope anyway, you will know that I'm telling the truth. It is precisely 'nothing' that makes me sad few times a year. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to my music. Some things are sacred. Some things are for the privileged.