Time, Times, Tuffy....

Finally, finished watching The Kid. And I know I will still like Bruce Willis at 70, think a shade more too!. The guy is brilliant. Loved the movie too – Richard Bach, the future past and the present interlocking.
Read Marley & Me. These lines I kept rereading....
‘Despite everything, all the disappointments and unmet expectations, Marley had given us a gift, at once priceless and free. He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most of the other pieces fall into place.’
A dog’s just born with it, eh? Tuffy, oh Tuffy boy, you can’t see, can’t hear, arthritis is real bad, but am sure you understand…attachment is so crazy, and we’re so dumb not giving a damn to the Present and knowing that we are living is the best of time, the most wonderful of moments, cursing our lives now and 15 years down thinking, damn, those were wonderful moments 15 years back, everything seemed perfect. Things of real value end of day are not things and at all and great moments that make the best memories are the most commonplace insignificant things….I should get more videotapes of the kids done, N’s ‘Archana’ screams that can be heard down the road, the way S goes ‘ookkuuu’ for his ammamma and the way he cups his mouth forward when he does that, and the way he keeps pointing ‘ooon, ooon’ to anything he wants cos today he can only deal with vowels, and a few consonants like ‘m, p…k, tat’s it’.. soon he’ll start talking, and all this is gone…sometimes although the hours and minutes may seem to not pass at all, the months and years seem to fleet past.. I can’t have imagined way back sitting on the floor doing my Hindi handwriting in class 8, or getting onto that train that would take me away from Chennai to Bangalore that so soon, in a jiffy, I’ll be talking of getting videotapes for the kids done.. am wondering, what the 60 year old me would be doing or saying or thinking right now…considering Anthony Bourdain wouldn’t live so long, maybe Travel and Living is still up and running, will lap up the job!!!