It's First Love...Just like last one, by Sachin Garg

Before I get lost in the maddening office hours...or more likely the spiral web of laziness, I better get done with the review of the book...this book, definitely has the sequel, one turning up in another two weeks or so...

I was impressed by the way Sachin wrote the earlier novel, in fact I was way more than impressed...so much that I ended up doing something crazy (which only very few know ;) yeah yeah I am back to emoticons too :D ) So this book was picked up with lots of expectations...and yeah, expectations kill a lot of fun, so maybe it wasn't the writer's fault that I really didn't get that engrossed in this one...

Indeed, the novel had it's share of high points, points which hold you to it, tempts you to turn few pages and peek where the part is ending...how it ends...but then, it's a love story...and yeah it has it's own shocking and not so shocking turns (I still believe there ought to be some not-so-complex-with-never-ending-angles love story...there should be a love story where the guy loves the gal, the gal loves the guy, and there is just no one else in between...not even fate/destiny...one non-complex, happy ending is all I wish for) But well, this one isn't that...in fact, there would come a point when you would feel like shouting...

"Goodness, what are you really up to...if you can go to such extremes without being serious about one another, I am just wondering what would you have done in a relationship where you would have been serious since the beginning...."

I guess, I am not good with the taking it light love stories...and I am seriously not good with the stories where one of the main character is all too good (specially when it's a guy...*deep sincere apologies for the gender bias* but that's what it is....) and I am even worse with the stories, where the author goes on the I always did right mode (I mean even the writer is human...he can be wrong, in fact he must be wrong...at least somewhere, aren't we all...for sure I am...so I can't really take an out an out good character!! )

Thankfully though, this one still didn't come to the extreme self-centric level like another recent one I had read...so I still have the hope alive (and very much kicking, for I actually have ordered the next by the author..) In fact, there were a lot of characters in the novel (thankfully), though a lot of them just came or went away abruptly (not so thankfully)

All in all, a decent one...had I not read the previous one by Sachin, and not set expectations, I sure would have liked it way more...A 3/5 from me (not as if I am a real critic...and definitely fingers crossed for next one..)

PS: The editing of the novel should be a little better...that's one issue I always had with the Indian ones...like while reading it, I could easily pick a few grammatical and logical errors...and I actually was surprised at myself..generally I read a novel so quick that I do tend to ignore the mistakes...this one had a couple of very evident ones...

Of Bridges & Burning

There is a quote which I first read ages back...but has always kind of struck as serious and mysterious to me..

"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn"

~ David Russell

Yup, being a Gemini, it always was supposed to be tough for me to take decisions (I know I'm making an excuse by hiding behind sun-signs...but then seriously, never have been good with choices, other than picking up dresses, accessories and so on...) Now, almost quarter a century in this world, it seems like as the days go by, making a choice, sticking to a decision, is even more tougher...

Then they again say, it's better to do n then regret, than never do n regret...but there is still one thing I never would do...I won't let go off people who made a space for themselves in my life, even if for a while....and I am saying made a space because I know myself...I know I don't let people become a part of my life (nothing conscious, I guess that's who I am...I take too long to open, too long to trust...too long to even strike a conversation, not something I see changing in near future...) But still, those who once come in can walk out themselves...but I won't ever let them be in peace....every now n then, there would be me...holding on, touching back...

And even though I know that few people, few relations are better left free...there are things that should be wiped off from the mind, I doubt I would ever do that....you can't live in the past, so I do move ahead...but memories are something to be held close, the good ones as well as the bad...I am not perfect, I made mistakes...some of them really big...it can be a reason for someone to wipe me clear from their lives, but I 'll hold on...I am again human, I have trusted the wrong ones at times...and it did hurt me, but not enough to forget that phase...I can forgive, because I know I err...and it's totally selfish me, I believe in giving second chances (or third, fourth or whatever...), because I hope to get second chances when I mess the first time around, and then again, I am not a good learner, so I might err again..

I can definitely cross a bridge...move ahead...but I can never burn it...it took me long to reach where I am, but it never can be my choice to wipe out the way back...the bridges need to stay, for one day I might have to travel the old path....

They say life comes to a full circle, but just in case life meets a dead end, I want my way back to where it all started from...because I don't know how the ending would be, but it all started very well...and if it's not a happy end, I will cross those bridges again, try my best to reach the beginning, and start all over again...the happy way...

PS: Just realized while looking at the preview, this happens to be a post without any emoticon...OMG !!!(wanted to put the rolling eyes emoticon, but just for a change, let there be just words, someone says I am too good with them [rather sarcastically and not as a praise] )