some more thoughts as it rains outside!

Loneliness is a state of mind, I have come to learn. We all try and make sense of how to complete ourselves and when we do, I can tell you from experience: it's the only feeling worth living for. We are social animals, I learnt in primary school. Never quite understood how, but then it all makes sense. We all have animal instincts. Every need of ours has a parallel in the animal kingdom. The only one that's markedly different is the need for other people to invest in. Emotionally, spiritually, physically, and to truly realise the meaning of doing these without expectation or reciprocation.
As I wait for the best part of my life to join me here in Singapore, all I can do is get my head down and go to work. And I'd like to think I do a decent job of it. WorldSpace is a good place to work. Play is a great place to work. Play, that's the name of the sports channel I work for on the WorldSpace network (how's that for a plug!), is the sort of place where you get a chance to meet like minded people, with the same passion and the same zest to do the things you want to do. The stuff that excites you when you're a kid. Sure, I may not get to hob nob with Dravid and Agarkar (the few cricketers I feel really comfortable chatting to), but here I am, talking to our listeners out there, about cricket. Giving my opinions, my 'expert' analysis of a situation and getting them to respond, putting our 'experts' like Gaekwad, Hogg, Ranjit Fernando in the spot while I sit smugly in my shorts, sipping my coffee or Milo as the case may be! How cool is that? Who would have thought a overweight, cranky kid from Bandra would be able to wax eloquent on his favourite game for hours on end.
So, life comes full circle. As it has for my significant other and me. We started wanting to immigrate to another country about 10 months back, without really knowing how we were going to go about it. But the answer pretty much fell into our lap. Just like that. So, here I sit in Singapore, about to embark on a journey I can barely contain my excitement for. So, Play might have come as more than a job opportunity, it's perhaps been a life altering change that I hope we can do justice to. That I hope does justice to us. Actually, I know it will.