Sometimes, I wonder if we are so caught up in our busy little lives, we so easily forget to laugh at ourselves. We're always running around chasing money and chasing clients, we're so caught up in our lives other than the ones we dreamed of. Our lives at work, and traveling to work, or our lives running errands and keeping things in order. Oh, how easily we lose the plot! How easily we lose sight of our dreams- of our happy homes, our happy families, our zealous ideals, our stardom hopes. We leave it all behind in our race, our routine. We let it all so easily slip past for a tomorrow.
Stop to catch them? Perhaps, there's no easier way than taking sometime to laugh at our madness. Maybe, we take our lives too seriously. Perhaps, we need to watch the things we occupy so much of our lives with, with a funny glass. And, laugh at the things we give so much importance. The meetings, the running about, the stress, financial goals. Or, in my work life for example, the running back to office, the backstabbing, the endless meetings.
Just like Omkar Sane teaches us in his debut novel, "Welcome to Advertising, Now Get Lost!" He takes us through the Indian Advertising world, bit by bit, getting all of us to laugh at it, with it and also at ourselves. Because, you and me we make up a little part of the madness. Even if all we're doing is buying the delicious new Nokia Supernova, just because Priyanka Chopra dresses it good.
Launched on Friday the 19th, by Cyrus Broacha at a gathering of friends, family and mentors, "Welcome to Advertising, Now Get Out', got its first few laughs at the launch. With funny man Broacha, there's little else to expect. Back home, curled up with this beautifully illustrated paperback, it was time to discover.
Discover the darkness in his humour! I began quickly to think our flailing lives, and the laughter we so desperately need. Loudly, I laughed at me. Silly. But then again, a lot less silly than the madness that crowds this Monday.
laughing at yourself. Thanks for reminding me. Laughing is so much better than moping. I love your Monday musings..they are like little fortune cookies, I open them and find precious wisdom in them. Ok ..should have said they are like little oysters with pearls inside ..because you know, the fortune cookies sometimes contain random nonsense
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laughing at yourself. Thanks for reminding me. Laughing is so much better than moping. I love your Monday musings..they are like little fortune cookies, I open them and find precious wisdom in them. Ok ..should have said they are like little oysters with pearls inside ..because you know, the fortune cookies sometimes contain random nonsense