If People Were Shapes

Every once in a while, its fun to squint your eyes and look at life and people from a skewed perspective. Studies have shown that most people have an inherent understanding of geometry without having the need to be taught even the most basic principles. After all, we do live in a 3-dimensional world. But enough of that. What would you do if you were asked to describe yourself/others as a shape? I've gotten used to doing that as I go through my day. It doesn't always have to do with the way people look (although that does play a big role in it). In fact, it also has a lot to do with how their personality works. The abrasive ones end up with more edges, the smoother ones end up with less. The more honest or to the point ones get a lot of straight lines, where as the round talkers get more curves :)

This whole people as shapes thing has turned into a major obsession with me. I'm still surprised at the number of shapes I can come up with. Try it sometime, and you'll see how much fun it can be. Especially in boring meetings where you can fill your notepad with sketches of squares, triangles, cubes and pyramids sitting around a table. Although thinking of the shape a person is while talking to them isn't very advisable. There's this girl in the office who has a pointy head and a slightly squeaky voice. In my head she's a cone and I swear I can't talk to her without looking at the top of her head (the pointy part :)). She probably thinks I'm either some sort of freak or too distracted to talk to her. Aside from that though, its all great fun. I spoke to a few friends a few days ago and we came up with some very interesting shapes for each other. Everybody thought, and I agreed, that I am probably an oval. Still can't explain exactly why. Probably has a something to do with my body shape. Or maybe with the fact that I can't really make up my mind about anything.

Bitter Sweet Comedy

Ever notice how all the really good comedies have a bitter person as one of their main characters? Well I have. Let me give you some examples:
Friends: Chandler
Seinfeld: George
Becker: well Becker of course!

Chandler stopped being bitter in Friends after he paired up with Monika, but that when the show went downhill for me (and I know people who'll agree). The only exception I can think of is comedies that are sexual in nature. Coupling, for example and this Hindi comedy that used to air on Zee TV when it first started. Weird I know, but we just seem to enjoy the sour pusses knock the wind out of the goody two shoes. Maybe its because we've all felt like that at one point or another in our lives.

Another thing thats really been bugging me lately is the severe lack of traffic police on Delhi's roads. Anybody else notice that? Where did all the coppers go anyway? Of course, Delhi's traffic, the wild beast that it is, is taking full advantage of this. Nobody seems to care about traffic signals anymore. Earlier, it used to be just the SUV/People carriers, now its everybody! Lane driving never really arrived in this city, probably because most lanes are painted wrong, but the new trend in lawlessness is definitely something new to me. People switch to the wrong side of the road on a heartbeat. Trust me, its not comforting to look at an 8 wheeler heading your way, headlights on high beam, when you THINK you're the one on the right side of the road. Maybe I've just been away too long. I don't know what it is, but to me it certainly looks like that Delhi's becoming more and more cruel as a city.