Blank in a blink

I actually have absolutely nothing to write about today. Because nothing happened during the day. Nothing has been happening for quite a few days now, since I left my "job". Now I'm sitting idle at home waiting for things to fall into place and get life back on track. 

Some people have told me that it was a bad idea at this time to quit the job without having anything else in hand. Actually, if you look at it practically they're probably right. But when I made that decision I thought I had something in hand and it's just a matter of time before I get there. I was looking forward to some time off to re-orient myself and relax a bit. Sadly that time period has been delayed without any notice and now I'm kinda stuck in the middle of nowhere. I still don't feel like going back to my earlier job because it was mentally exhausting and suffocating. It had reached a point where I didn't want to go on. Even the thought of it weighs heavily on the mind now. So that option is out of the question. 

Now I just have to wait it out. Patience. 

In the meanwhile I'm going to try and occupy my mind with something. It is pretty hard to do and becomes downright depressing after a while. But I have to try. Sitting idle isn't exactly going to help me in any way. 

I've been doing a bit of reading lately. Newspapers, online articles and yesterday I picked up The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth. I'm reading Forsyth after quite a while now. This one is more present day than any of the others I've read. It revolves around Al-Qaeda and their unimaginable plot to cause destruction of unforseen proportions. There are vivid descriptions of the recent wars and going by what is given in the book, war is a really nasty business. There are many battles which comprise a war, each more barbaric and deathly than the other. Chilling. 

The thing with Islamic terrorism is a misguided and very well-organised approach towards vengeance by a group of fanatical maniacal assholes who consider themselves to be the messengers of the Almighty and protectors of the faith. It is just this small group of people which are controlling the minds of millions of clueless and innocent lives and leading them onto the path of misery and destrution. Islam has many sections, some are liberal and some the extreme opposite for eg. Taliban. It is these extremist sections that are over-running the image of Islam to be a fanatical belief system according to which all other religions are blasphemic. The book has cleared up a lot of misconceptions I had and I'm looking forward to the rest of it. 

That's about all I'm looking forward to right now. The horizon is blank for now.