Wednesday, 4 May 2016

My Gaming Affair - Part 1 - How hopeless romantic single guy found his Jake Ryan in the form of video game.

Yes guys, I am writing back again. Been busy with stupid crazy job and my new affair. This time not with a guy but with something else. This new love of my life is video games.



  Wait hold on! Let me explain. I have not turned into that guy who sit all day on couch and play video games. Not yet.  This post is not about me discussing my scores in video games, this post is about how a single romantic gay guy like me found a new excitement in the video games. Till last year I was so naive about video games that I had a wrong impression about them I had an impression that video games are violent, they make you lazy, spoil eyes, spoil health and make you angry person. Not so long ago in my early 20s when I finally accepted myself as gay, I diligently kept myself away from video games. Because back then in India all I would see is angry, aggressive straight guys playing video games where they would play shoot out games, scream out loudly and break the controllers. For newly self accepted gay like me that was a pretty scary thing and I started video games as something straight guy's thing. In those days I did not had gay friends who would play video games. So because of this my first impression of video games became wrong and I started seeing video games as straight guy's thing. If this was less stupid then I came across one more stupidest stupid thought about video games. I got a stupid fear. I thought that playing those shoot out games on consoles will make me straight.


 Don't laugh at me! They have so many gay conversion institutes in USA, my little fear is absolutely less stupid than them. I was not the stupidest guy on earth the day I stumbled upon that thought. Now when I look back I get that it was not fear of becoming straight but the fear of losing awesome gay life and losing love for Patrick Wilson had made me scared.

  So any way, fast forward to year 2015. I was six months post relationship break up, six months old on POF, OK Cupid and still single. In the summer of 2015 on one sweet evening I was in the best buy store. While passing through TV section I saw a guy playing racing game. And there I saw future love of my life. He was broad, powerful and so handsome. His name was XBOX one. I had found my Jake Ryan in the shape of old computer's CPU shaped metal box. I was so amazed to see his graphics and games that I kept looking at him. But suddenly something happened to me, something pulled my shirt and moved me to next isle. And I heard Inner voice.

"Dude, No! You cannot fall for that video game, you are not a teenager, you don't wanna spend your money on that expensive thing. Instead of spending time on playing video games, go to clubs, gym, jogging, spend that time on dating apps to find next good boyfriend." I went home. But that night I was not feeling sleepy something was keeping me awake, image of that console and those video game graphics were constantly coming before my eyes. And then an old memory of gay party came back to me. I was naive 20-21 yrs old. Freshly out of college and newly into gay party scene. I was thousand times cuter back then. That saturday in a party there was a cute muscular guy. He was looking at me, I was looking at a guy behind his ear. He smiled at me, I did not see that. We did not speak, nothing happened that night. 2 years later, I met this awesome guy online. We chatted, I liked his talks, he liked my texts. We started liking each other and then we decided to meet over coffee in cafe. We shared face pictures and yes you are right, this was the same muscular guy who was seeing me that night . I was OK to meet him in cafe but he wasn't. He was offended by that night's behaviour of mine. He found me"rude". He said he smiled at me but I did not. Yes I was fool that night by not noticing this guy's interest in me but definitely I was wise two years later by not telling him that actually I wasn't looking at him but the guy behind him. He took that night's incident like popsicle on sunny afternoon. We did not meet,  nothing happen after that. I had learnt my lesson. I named this lesson as "Cricketer's wicket". That muscular guy had said he was so much into playing cricket (even today also I doubt him on that.)

   Back to 2015's night, I was fearing that this gaming thing should not end like cricketer's wicket.  I had never felt that fear for a guy recently but for that video game console I was feeling it. I really wanted to buy that game and play like that guy playing it in best buy store.
But then again great single gay mind of mine started pushing me for "go out", where I can meet "real people",  do something "real". But wasn't I doing that for years now? After doing all that wasn't I still single? I did not sidelined the idea of being in relationship with handsome guy. No Never! I was always dreaming about boyfriends like I was doing it before but this time my mind was asking for something for myself. Something beyond dating and meeting people but spending some quality time with me. Rather than going on dating websites and pretending like dude from sedan car commercial I wanted to be like 16 years old high school going silly me, I wanted to act free without thinking if that guy is looking at my cute smile, not affraid of ugly tagged pictures on facebook, not so keen about saving hot selfies for POF, not faking American accent, all I was looking for to connect back with that awesome real me.  And I had found that space in video games.

 Finally after all analysis that night I asked myself a question. Since last 10 years I approached many good guys for dating with good intentions. I was never an ugly guy but they had infinite reasons to turn down my proposals and even declined possibility of becoming friends with me. They had some reasons in their minds. May be all of them were looking at guy behind my ear, but now when I have found something interesting which I believe I can become good friend with am I gonna pretend to looking behind the ear of that video game?


 I am a PROUD GAY MAN! I am proud of myself, I take pride in whatever I do, whoever I do that with and that is why now I was gonna buy that new hot video game console and few game DVDs to start gaming with! I was in, I was sold. I had come over stupid fears and reasons and had done something that I liked. Next few days I spent on youtube, forums and stores, doing research and deciding between PS4 and XBX One. It was a tough choice but I chose XBOX One, I found my hands more comfortable on XOne's controller than PS4's. On one sunny Sunday afternoon of May 2015 I had become 21st century's console game playing proud gay man. That old fear of turning non-gay was gone and I was feeling proud in calling myself  GAY GAMER.

Last time I felt this much accomplished when I lost my virginity. I never looked back after that.

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Mystery of unknown future..

Mystery of unknown future or should I say mystery of other side?

I do not know that....

Why I am asking this question? It is beautiful Tuesday morning, I am having off, I woke up early, did my tai chi, was having tea and enjoying this beautiful weather and then he came. Thought of boyfriend. Why I do not have a good boyfriend yet? And this time it hurt me. No No No this is not a simple deal for me. I am a guy in my late twenties, I am gay and to be who I am I have done great sacrifices in my life and now when I am in that stage of life where everything is ok I need not to wait for boyfriend. This is what I think.

 To me, what hurt most about not having boyfriend is not that missing fun or love making but what hurt me most is that he is not in my life. he who I love most in my whole life after god. He the one who is my everything after god and there is nothing in this physical world that can be dearer to me than him. Whose even a one single semi smile can make me jump in the sky, who sing "hey dear" can make my day, by looking whom my eyes will lit like thousand candles, bright, happy and with full of energy. I am waiting for him and he is not coming.

 Don't give me advise. This is not my first rodeo. I have done all that meditation, patience, prayer and problem is, it is not that I cannot do it any more but the real problem is what if I do these things for my whole life and he does not come? I mean I am losing my 20s and the way 20s is almost gone in blink of an eye 30s will also go and I am not gonna get a handsome guy as boyfriend when I will be in my 40s. I will be looking horrible then.

 I did so many things to get a good boyfriend, did 16 somvar vrats of lord Shiva, went to gym, took lots of good snaps, enrolled on every gay dating site, went out an "socialized", meditations, visualizations, visions boards, tell me what I have not done?

All it feels like the time is slipping out of my fist as sea sand.  But then I think from another angle. I think that it is me who thinks like it is me who deserves a good boyfriend and I should receive it but what does universe see it as? What does universe has for me? and when? is it now or years laters? or decade or never? philiosophical angles says "chill" and practical angle says"move your butt". Trapped between these two logic I am simple single gay guy thinking about mystery of unknown future.


Sunday, 7 February 2016

What DaddyHunt's Youtube Series Taught Me About Real Life Love?

I don't know how many of you have seen this latest video on internet which is becoming very popular in gay community. It is a small youtube series done by DADDYHUNT app. It is very adorable, very cute and simple amazing.

It starts with a lead actor moves into new apartment where  he accidentally bumps into a guy who he thinks is a handyman and make him fix his sink faucet. Later when he realizes that that cutie daddy was not handyman but neighbour our lead tries to say thank you to him and that turns into dinner invitation and there starts the story with amazing ups and downs and surprising turns. What happens at the end is no need to say an amazing ending. It is the much needed serving of enjoyable love stories that gays been craving for long time. A total series of duration of around 7 minutes is as addictively magnificent as any Nicholas Parks romantic novel based movie.



 There are three things I learned from this video. They are Love can happen anywhere, any where you can meet our soulmate, you don't know what that simple "Hi" will turn out to be. Second is never take things what they look as, in movie the lead thinks that the super hot cutie daddy is handy man but in real he is not. I don't wanna spoil anything but at the dinner evening lead one more time take things for wrong impression and so the lead's crush take it in hallway when he sees lead with his friend.

Third and most important is not all gay apps are something bad thing to hang out at. In the movie both men meet in real world first but it is that app where they open up to each other and speak the truth and from there their story begins.  These all gay dating apps need not to be used for physical pleasure purpose only. You can make many things there. It is not app that is dirty but the people who hang out there can make it deal or no deal. So stop looking gay dating apps as some online bath house but try to interact with people there. On apps all profiles are with pis full of cute smiles and sexy abs but no body knows how amazing the human behind that pic or no pic could be.

 I really liked this video of DaddyHunt and I really give them a huge round of applause for coming with this helpful message. Keep on DADDYHUNT, we are waiting for more videos.


Good Start Of 2016, but still there is lot to do.

Good morning friends and brothers. With sun shine of hope and joy of freedom I am writing my first post of 2016.



What a wonderful start 2016 has given us! Supreme court has finally shown some soft side and decided to open our appeal. They have finally decided to reconsider the old British law which they are still having in their books even after British left us decades go.  After the great Indian election so many things are happening in India. Everybody is shouting to prove his point right. Pseudo-intellectual are doing no job than crying for everything but they never cried for our rights.

  Any way, I am happy that this new possibility of change will give us one more opportunity to get freedom, freedom to live in our home country without being criminal and being who we are. So I really wish us all all the best and pray that we get justice. But dear friends our fight does not stop here. Verdict of this reopned case will one more time bring us on center stage where every indian will see us, observe us and I am sorry to say but many of them will judge us. So this is our opportunity to make sure that they do not get any wrong impression about us. In this situation every one of us is a gay ambassador to the whole Indian straight world. Our one act of un-intention will either make them kick out their wrong perceptions about LGBT community and open their hearts for gay people or will drag them many years away from accepting homosexuality. So in this delicate condition my dear friends please be humble and act wisely because believe me my friends there are so many homophobes out there who could be looking for that one chance to prove us un ethical, evil, alien, mentally disturbed and uncivilized. Please don't give them any chance. I know we are not gonna do that this time, in fact we are gonna confidently gonna show them our colorful faces and show them that we are also one of them. And who knows may be then they will accept us.

One thing is true that even court makes it legal, our fight will not stop there.

Hope,

Indian Metro GAY :)


Saturday, 24 October 2015

Shifting Phase of My Gay Life!

  It was not long ago when first time I felt this feeling. I found it pretty unusual when friends on facebook of my age were continuously posting pics of their every moment. I (& they) were 26-27 then. But then after a year I started loosing interest in Facebook. AlthoughI had so many rocking weekday events and dates with sexy guys I was just not that much motivated to put every moment of that time on facebook through pictures. And then I dated this handsome guy. Even one pic with that hot guy would had created 100s of likes on my facebook time line but I did not post that. I was having fun with him, romantic dates and hot sex but I just did not felt like posting that part of my life on facebook.

I am not saying that I became discreet or double standard. No! I am still that proud Gay man with brain of teenager. I have lots of things going on in my head. There are so many gay thing that I wanna speak 24 *7 all the time. But these things I cannot speak on facebook because I have family friends and cousins added in my facebook profile and I don't want to come out to them and my parents.  Also, on facebook I cannot say that "OMG! I so much Love Stephen Amell! He has body like hot stud wanna feel like grabbing it!" No!  All I can say there is "It's Sunday again, looking forward to watch Arrow tonight. XXX YYY (that girlfriend of Oliver Queen, I still don't know her name) is gorgeous!" I hate it.

 Even my all gay friends on Facebook keep posting posts like these. They pick some famous action violent movie or tv series in which guy is ok looking and people say gal is HOT and they posts on facebook something that will make people believe that they are big fan of that book, author on what that movie / tv series is based upon and this guy has that high intellectual taste. They could be having that genuine taste but which gay guy would genuinely notice that gal in movie (and then fall for her) if the leading guy is so jaw droopingly, deliciously hot?

 Common guys, gimme break!

All I think when I read their posts is this gif.



And then those lonely  souls who try to fill the emptiness of heart by spending time with their so called close buddies (read as sisters traveling in same boat). Every moment every activity has to be posted on facebook and have these "friends" tagged in it. Why would a gay man between age 25- 29 would constantly feel this urge of posting pics on facebook ? If they spend those evenings dating new guys from apps (apps that they always see as tacky but have their own faceless pics upon) they might meet a wonderful guy.

 The whole purpose of these guys' life is to put every activity on Facebook. So that people will like it and then they will feel complete. I know that everybody love to spend their time the way they want. People feel good when they have like minded people around and with them they can talk about anything but Fcaebook is not place for that. Like I gave example of Stephen Amell above, I cannot post those things on Facebook. But I have Twitter for that. And a fake id. Through which I constantly tweet about my male crushes and ongoing observations of gay life.  I don't get involved so much on facebook and irritate others by trying to prove how cool I am. I rather go out and meet people in person. I meet people from different backgrounds and age. I make friends with them, like real one. This evening I was in a hospital, paying visit tom one of my best friends who has no Facebook profile, he is funny, self proclaimed cinema critic, sommelier and great cook.

 I like this way, I met really cool guys and real men. Like men they show in suits commercial. None of them were on facebook and I got to learn a lot from these alpha males. Their style, their discipline their way of communicating was way different, top-notch and aristocratically adequate. These men are not on facebook, twitter or instagram coz they spend their internet free time surfing stock updated from their blackberries or searching new exercise plan from their iPhones. These are men every one must date once in life. I like hanging out with such gay men now rather than spending time on facebook clicking Like on some pompous, always smiling "friend".

   I like such kind of men now. Smart, calm, balanced. These men are great listeners and share a lot through well crafted small sentences. These men are passionate for their life, devoted to career and health. And this devotion gives some unusual rare charming allure to their personality and aura. These men don't talk on phone, they just text a plan of weekend and when you meet them over beer in patio and they start talking. They are someone like Oliver Queen, Harvey Specter or Bruce Wayne.  I like these kind of friends now.

                       
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 A friend who you can trust, rely upon and talk about anything.  If saying this makes people think that I am old then let them think that. I know that I am not old, I am just maturing. And as long as that chaotic tweets posting teenage brain is concerned I would call it teenage heart.


I am Happy About This New Phase Of My Gay Life :)