Life is smart

A journalist decided to interview me some weeks ago. Permit me to share the excerpts.

Q: How does life appear to you now?
A: I am over the hill and feel life is too smart and born to win.

Q: Why do you say that?
A: Allow me to explain.

Only kicking around wasn’t enough, which I could have anyway had in the world of politics.

Life makes us work in a way we can’t make out that it is making us work solely to keep its own business going. A day comes when life feels our performance isn’t up to the mark. Without batting an eyelid it blows the whistle. Like all creations we ask for our share of what we had been working on. Life turns unbelievably stern. Nothing goes with you, it thunders. In other words, for years it made me work on something that wasn’t mine. And I couldn’t make that out. Now, doesn’t that make life smart?

But we must admit that behind the thunder there is a sense of remarkable impartiality because life’s unclear arrangement applies to all. It isn’t that billionaires will be allowed to carry their stuff or be given a demise holiday.

Yet, blood has been flowing like water over the ownership of land, forest and sea. I remain baffled about our obsession with chasing something that’s not ours.  

Q: Did you want to become an Editor?
A: I enjoy my job. I wanted to become three things. First, I wouldn’t like to confess. Second, a footballer. Third, a politician.

But I realised quite early in life that only love of the game wasn’t enough. One had to possess the skills. Only kicking around wasn’t enough, which I could have anyway had in the world of politics.

I couldn’t join politics because politicians can’t afford to worry about the cost of living.

A good deal of my life was spent at home.

It was the time when I gorged on the writings of some English, French and Russian greats.

Q: Do you think money is important?
A: It is indispensable. It draws all its power from its indispensability. Except health money can take on everything.          

Q: What do you value most?
A: Sound health and relationships.

Q: Which relationships?
A:Parents-children and lovers.

Q: Would like you to elaborate.
A: No, sorry. I would need months. You will run out of words, but my observations would have to be put on hold.

Q: Don’t you want to write a book?
A: I would have written one if I could write like Emily Bronte or Fyodor Dostoevsky or Thomas Hardy or D.H. Lawrence or Albert Camus.