Tired Cliches

Cliches are all over the place. As irritating as I find the existing ones, a new one is born everyday. Like IPL owners telling their players to just go out on the field and enjoy. Yah right! Don't bother winning matches! Anyways, they seem to be enjoying off the field too ;)

The one that I hate the most is "It rocks". Sachin rocks. SRK rocks. Rock rocks. This is probably the most abused word for some time now. I think the only thing that should "rock" is geology ;)

The next one is firang managers from onshore lauding the offshore team when they come over. "We can't express what great work you guys have been doing" is the line. They keep saying it till it starts sounding rhetoric. I so want to tell them to keep their invaluable words of praise with them and show us some money.

This is one has to be the most famous cliches in cricket commentary, made famous by Ravi Shastri. Anything hit flat and hard has to be described as "Woah! That went like a tracer bullet". ugh! I've heard it for almost 2 decades now.

When Tom Cruise said "You complete me" in Jerry Maguire, it was one of those "Awwwww!" lines. But it sounds so corny now. This is what over and inappropriate usage can do to a touchy line.

Politicians have been clicheing (sic) like forever now. "I'll bring change. Power. Water. Jobs. All you need". Its such a trite now that nobody even bothers to tell them so.

All said and done its just impossible to live without them I think. After all "History repeats itself"!

Anywhere But Here

Forrest Gump's momma said ""Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." She might have well been correct.

Sometimes you do not get what you wish for and sometimes you get things you didn't even wish for. And sometimes we are left in the lurch thinking whether you would ever get it or not.

Not everything we wish for can be rationalized. Sometimes we wish for things without any reasoning to it. They are driven by a strange/crazy crave within us. You look deep down inside, but fail to find any answers.

Its not easy to cope with what you get unexpectedly and what you did not get expectedly. You feel like getting outta there. Sometimes you just sit and wish for those magic shoes that would take you anywhere but here.