We are a moody bunch of people

I suspect my closest friends here to be an extremely moody set of people. I also suspect, that they suspect me to top the list of mood swingers.

Sometimes we are sad without reason, sometimes we are happy without reason. In the worst of our times together(read term 1 and term 2) we were laughing in the midst of seniors and committees making us feel like idiots, profs screwing us with projects, assignments and quizzes, and companies walking over our dreams of getting through them. We sailed through not missing on our long chats specially in exams, singing songs and mocking at one another's incompetencies to sing and remember lyrics. Sporadic walks, star gazing and head banging at insti parties. Whatever... we stole time to do anything we could manage to do in this schedule.

What is amusing is that what happens when we give in to all the pressure and actually start spending more time on our acads, work or any serious activity. For sure, within a week of this 'undesirable' behaviour, we will have wierd look on our faces and status messages to complement the same. On second thoughts, it wudn't actually be a fallout of working hard, it could happen at any random moment. Often this is a virus that infects the others too and all of us would soon be roaming around with long faces the reason for which would be unknown to most. A sample list of Maggu and Maggi's messages at random times is like:

'It ended exactly where it started from...'
'Third in a row'
'Sometimes... its best saying nothing...'
'Les petits mots ont tellement la signification...(small words hold significant meaning)'

If you read them alone, they are almost.. i shudn't say it, but comic- given the seriousness they try to put in a simple digital status. Or at least i hope so, else they are killing me for posting this. The problem is that they want to shout out these statements on the little space they get on our screens, but at the same time conceal what they are for. Is the intent merely to grab attention and keep people guessing to the extent of frustrating them? Yes, i was kinda bugged and still don't understand what is the matter with stating without being ready to explain.

Now starts the fun part. People start to guess the reason for the wierd gtalk status messages.. and considering the possibilities of their contribution to it. For example, my dear friend Maggi always has the most enigmatic messages and when asked the reason for them, she would always quip.. 'generally... for nothing/no one specific'. We sure buy that, don't we? Recently she let 'arrogant personified' be the resting message on our screens. Hmmm... well, i had not been spending much time with my musketeer friends and had few arguments in the little time that i did spend. So i was about 80% sure that i could the the object of that arrogance impression. Theek hai bhai, kya kar sakte hain. Shrug.

I left only 20% doubt that it could be some other story. But after some chance discussion with others around, it turned out that there were too many people waiting to grab their claim to fame for arrogance. Aditi thought that because she had just won another amazing competition, non-intuitively she might have done something to deserve that status. She said 'abhi to maine orkut mein pic bhi nahin lagayi thi trophy ke saath, maine socha rehne deti hun ab'. Gaurav too chipped in saying, since he had got through INDEX, he thought maybe in his ecstasy, he had done something that annoyed Maggi. Wah!! so we were all in our individual wonder worlds speculating whether we had been too arrogant lately.

Obviously, as always, we still don't know who the message was for, but i stopped paying attention to them and uselessly blaming me or anyone else for that matter for them. Now they are a source of.. YouKnowWhat ;)