Two Proposals and a Funeral.

well..its been an interesting weekend for sure...over an evening at granville's, i charted out the next academic year at georgia law...two of my friends also got engaged this past saturday...woo hoo! but this was also accompanied by sad news about the loss of "granny"...she was a family friend's mother just over ninety years old....

so today i went to her daughter's house (one of my mom's closest friends) and spent a couple hours just listening to her talk about a number of things...growing up in athens...granny's interesting life full of hardships...the struggles...the joys of simple living...collard greens and buttered beans...ha...i thought i would say some kind words and leave within a few minutes of arriving...but two hours later i was still sittin there with rapt attention...

the conversation was cool because i could really relate to the time we spoke about...a time where people lived a simpler life...a more wholesome life...a more active life...a life that i aspire to in this world today where materialism, money, and degrading values are at every corner...we made an interesting observation - its really hard to come across people who share the same values as us...really hard...i pointed out how lucky i was to have met hema because we see eye to eye on so many things that have to do with one's core principles...i also made an observation that everything in this world comes and goes in cycles...fashion...the stock market...war...and hopefully the way of life...my expectation is that the current generation will see just how degraded and empty society is today and will perhaps raise their children with values that echo those of when granny was growing up...

i also watched i heart huckabees this weekend...which kinda fits into the theme of this weekend...the whole existential conundrum....it was an interesting movie...i kinda saw the ending and its meaning before it happened...but it was still good...i liked the score...

well...thats enough of my musings today...i cooked up some indian food today after a long time so i gotta go...i'm famished...but think about what i said and where you fall in this whole puzzle of a world...laterz...