HIGH SPIRIT
Life’s like that…like what..??? eXplored but uneXplained..eXplicit but uneXplicable..Social scientists, across the centuries, have eXtensively took this eXacting task to evaluate what makes a perfect life, but all in vain. From Socrates to Saussure, Marx to Mahatma, Descartes to Derrida, all of them have eXerted some or the other –isms or –logies but nothing eXpansive. But why am I, with an eXiguous amount of intellect, concerned about such a labyrinth? Daring enough to take an eXcursion into such an eXcruating eXercise of eXplaining what eXactly life is.. Actually it’s the mélange of eXhibitionism, individualism and non-conformism in me that makes an attempt to fetter the unfettered. The reason why the most-sought-after-question goes unanswered is that no values and virtues are, throughout the whole range and domain, absolute. Relevant somewhere and totally irrelevant elsewhere. So what I have tried is to trace out an absolute. The work ahead defines parameters and their extent, which are a constant throughout and can endure the test of time and geography. And these are the ideal recipe for a utopian life. I have tried to be very ‘spirit’ualistic in the approach of making of modern Madhushala.
So, how a life should be. These are the prescribed amount of virtues (or vices) one should possess to make it a perfect one.

One should have WEALTH enough to splurge in a good pub whenever he wishes.

One should have HEALTH enough to negate any of the supposed-to-be-evil effects of alcohol.

One should have FRIENDS enough so that when you say ‘cheerz’ its actually a roar.

One should have RELATIONS enough to bail you out after you were caught trying to playing dart on streetlights under the influence of drink.

One should have PAINS enough to drink purposefully to recall the turmoil.

One should have GIRLS enough to propose a new girl when drunk.

One should have COURAGE enough to cry on the shoulder of your friend when drinking coz your gf ditched you.

One should have ARTS enough to win a bet over whether that portrait is Bin Laden or Che Guevara in the pub.

One should have MUSIC enough in you to order the best music in the club and your friends giving hi5 for the same.

One should be GOURMET enough to know that Fish Pakodas don’t go well with vodka.

One should have EXPERIENCE enough to stop your buddy from boozing further as he will surely vomit if.

One should have KNOWLEDGE enough to tell which pub gives you the best ‘happy hours’ and where do we get a ‘Screw Driver’ for free upon ordering 4 ‘Pinnacolada’.


One should have STRENGTH enough to carry your friend on the back coz he is ‘out’ and your bike’s punctured as well.

One should have HONESTY enough to say ‘buddies m done, anything more n u’ll be responsible..’

One should be GENEROUS enough to land the guy in the next table a cigarette as he is run out of it.

One should have INTELLECT enough in him to bore his friends to hell with his gyaan.

One should have SPORTS enough in him to bet a 500 bucks over a pool table in the pub.

One should have SKILLS enough in him to be confident to drive while he is not sure whether Frank Lampard is running after one football or two footballa in the tv.

One should be COOL enough to glorify that you are a drunkard and take pride in saying ‘its khool mahn..’

One should have MATHEMATICS enough to crosscheck that 6 pegs worth 100 buck each amount to 600.

One should have PHSICS enough not to defy gravity, not even after drinking; and that jumping from 5th floor will certainly kill you without any conservatuion of energy.

One should have CHEMISTRY enough in him to estimate the volume of alcohol that will render solid form of tour kidney to liquid. That too spontaneously.

One should have ENGINEERING enough in him to know that this bakwaas was engineered for an engineer like you…

Happy living
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