It’s all over baby blue

September 29, 2008 | Filed Under Point of View, Seinfeld 

A little more than 3 months back I started seeing Seinfeld. In chronological order that is. One episode after another, one season after another. 180 episodes later and after seeing them all, I am here writing to you. I have seen them all. Seen them all. I have sat with them in the coffee house listening to their weird conversations, absorbing their quirks and being amused at their ideas.

I have seen them through countless broken relationships and innumerable failures in life and work. I have seen them be nasty to each other, pull each other down, be sarcastic. There is no love between them. No seeming love at the least. But they can’t live without each other. They are very conscious about showing it though. That’s how they choose to be.

So me dedicating a blog entry to them and telling them how much i loved it, will totally not go down well with the gang. Too sentimental it would be.

There’s a scene where all four of them get down from the train and move in different directions. Elaine is the last remaining person and she says, “Bye?”

If you see Seinfeld  like I did, watch it alone. All by yourself. Be the 5th person amongst them. You will realize they will feel real.

Thank you guys, thank you for at least a thousand laughs.

This world makes a lot about faith, religion, spirituality and things like that. It’s all nice and makes you feel hopeful about life and all. But if you analyze it, it all is very artificial. Faith does not liberate you, it makes you dependent. But if there is a God, I am sure he is a funny fellow and I think he enjoys a good joke more than your servility.

Something I learnt over the last few months - ‘keep the humor’ (and not the faith)

Now get on with your life.

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