EVER THOUGHT WHY - PART I

Sometimes back, on Twitter, I started a new string called 'Ever Thought Why'. The idea was to marvel at commonplace things and why do they happen the way you do. Here are some:

• People who claim to be the most virtuous are often the worst?

• Memories that you thought you had buried forever resurrect when you least expect them?

• People who bring most happiness to you also hurt you the most?

• Clouds make lovely shapes in the sky but these shapes vanish the moment you start to identify them?

• It is easier to forgive others but very difficult to forgive yourself?

• When buses and trains meet with accidents infants and small children often survive?

• Life seems longer at times and shorter at others?

• Thoughts that used to make you happy at one time, make you sad now?

• You fume, fret and toil to get something but finally you get it without too much of effort?

• A stashed away note, poem or story gives more joy on being re-found than when you originally read it?

• Scorching sun lasts the whole day but that enchanting sunset over the sea gets over even before you start admiring it?

• When you are closest to solving a problem it is exactly the time when the distractions are the most?

• People have little time to listen to your problems; but, can talk for hours about their own?

• The music of younger generation will always be annoying to the older generation?

• Thirty years appear a long time when you look ahead but appear so short when you look back?

• Butterflies are so beautiful but they never sit at the same place for any length of time?

• When you have Time and Money you no longer have the Inclination?

• Some days are longer than others that pass off so quickly?

• Those we place on high pedestal often slip to the lowest levels?

• Money is never enough!

• We easily forget the things we want to remember but find hard to forget those we want to?

• Most people prevaricate and come up with exalted theories when faced with the truth and facts?

• Green grass rushes in more memories than the best plants and trees?

• There is no higher feelig than Love but many a times it also makes you feel at your lowest?

• The 'Possibility' of a thing occurs to us when we say "It’s not possible"?

• When you finally come to the end you discover it is another beginning?

• Life's always talked about as behind us whereas it is what lies ahead; where one is going is more important than where one was.

• It takes many things to make a person happy but it takes very little to make him sad?

• Things never work unless we make them work?

• It is easier to give advice than to follow it?

• A towel should ever get dirty?

• We resolve not to see another Bollywood movie or to see a Cricket match but we always do?

• When one makes up one's mind never to repeat a mistake one is not given another chance?

• We call a person very interesting? Well, simply because he is a good listener?

• People are bad when they cannot keep their word; but, when you break a promise it was unreasonable demand to start with?

• Love too needs to be nurtured and cannot be left to itself to grow and become stronger?

• Tears and rain have the same ingredient but the former is really more precious?

• One can be totally alone amongst friends too; conversely, totally crowded by just one person around?

• It requires courage to do things right away but cowardice to keep postponing it?

• It always starts with a bang but ends with a whimper?

• The words "next time" do not quite bring out the sincere intention but sound more as an excuse?