About what?

There have been so many thoughts racing through my mind in the last couple of days, I'm really not sure what the subject should be. 

Thought 1: Recession

I have been hearing endlessly about the slowdown since I landed in New York in January this year. Each time the Federal Chairman gives a worried expression to the media, Wall Street starts sweating in their Italian designer suits, and then that sweat wave ripples across the rest of the world starting with the sun rise on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. My limited learning of Macroeconomics has enlightened me on 3 steps taken during the trough, (i) Rate cuts, (ii) Central Bank pumps back money, (iii) Central bank buys short term debt. I've seen Ben Bernanke backed by the US government (or vice versa) do all three in the course of three financial quarters. What makes me sweat in my jeans and T on Main Street is the economic analyst on news at 6 who says the economies across the world continue to swoon. Then where are the tax payers' dollars? Whom did we bail- out or (to go with a better marketing term) rescue? Is it because the big shots at AIG blew a whopping 440,000 at a resort after the bail out? Yup, please continue to get your manicures and pedicures, we promise to continue paying for them.

Thought 2: The US presidential election

I am head over heels in love with the Obama - Biden ticket, If I could vote, I would vote for them. Why do I love them? a) I like people who give me rationalizations instead of bull crap. b) I haven't seen Obama throwing mulch to deface another presidential candidate during his presidential campaign. c) I would like to see how Obama, who comes across as a very reasonable man, would pull the whole world out of this financial catastrophe. What scares me are words like Ulterior motives, terrorism, how he got there from food stamps to a 1.5 million home at Kenwood? I am a believer in the "everything is for good" motto, and in my mind I pray that no nation sees another 9/11 ever. As for McCain I would like to quote Biden's words lifted from his Vice- Presidential Debate: " John McCain has been dead wrong. I love him. As my mother would say, God love him, but he's been dead wrong on the fundamental issues relating to the conduct of the war. Barack Obama has been right. There are the facts."

Thought 3: I have a dream!

Each time I see Obama at his campaign, the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., reverberate in my mind. I have a dream. I want to see if King's dream is fulfilled. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Thought 4: I am bad at giving directions.

My husband would agree hands down to this statement. Somehow I am extremely challenged when it comes to this facet of existence. I cannot say "to the right" or "to the left", instead I use words and phrases like "here", "there", "that one", "that fly over", "this exit". Rest assured I will never steer a ship even if my whole life depended on it, cause instead of saying "iceberg ahead!" my words would be "iceberg over there", while the ship sinks and the desperate crew looks around to find what I meant by "over there".

Thought 5: I'm a Mac

I used to love PC's and I don't disregard them now. But my husband's Mac has sucked in my soul into itself. Why do I say that, I sometimes think to myself, how does this thing co-ordinate with me so finely. When I used PCs I used to get restless when it didn't respond at the spur of the moment. Use a Mac you'll know the difference instantaneously. I don't care if the whole world uses PCs and criticizes me for this, but hey - I'm a Mac and I don't care about being called a stereotype, or wearing glasses it's all about the user interface and the user experience.

Thought 6: Why do friends change?

I have a lot of friends whom I cherish. My husband asked me a very intriguing question one of these days, "Who is your best friend? Can you define what you mean by calling someone your best friend?". As I said I've had lots of friends and acquaintances till date, If you asked me while I was in school, college or my work place I'm sure at least one name would have popped up over the rest. Those people are still around, but where's that relationship now? I failed to find an answer. There's only one person who I cherish over the rest still. But when I bumped into that one, I found the same person but not the same friendship. I asked to myself why do friends change? 

These and a lot of other casual monologues race through my mind. My thought factory continues its process, it sometimes comes out with junk, sometimes with pearls of wisdom. So what should I pen down? and ...  About what?