Of Stars and Hyperbole

It's never about the view.
Always about the perspective.
But, nothing truly acquires significance of any kind without a context.

In this trail of thought, along the queues of people trying to get home on the last but one day of the year, the word, star got stuck in my head.

Had some interpretations that caused friction enough to not be sucked into the quick sand of my multitude of muddled mindlessness:

1. Stars- the twinkling types that sometimes you get lucky enough to see in the afternoon sky, a lovely image, with a half washed away painted moon in the light blue sky
2. Stars - stare at the sun long enough peering through fingers with your eyes half closed
3. Stars - actors and their much awaited (by whom and how come) crap
4. Stars in real life, best friends at one stage and strangers at another, what motivates them to become so different from what you remember? Did you also change that much?
5. Christmas Stars - To all the places decorated with the hullabaloo.

Really what's with such blatant marketing?
Restaurants and Cafes playing carols in the last week of Christmas but never do we hear Vakratunda Mahamaya or Aygiri Nandini during the hyperbole of Chaturthi or Dussehra?
Every radio channel celebrating and wishing their listeners
Every brand marketing Christmas ideas, are you really that stupid? Diwali is the biggest most expensive festival in India, or did you think your targeted average middle class consumer is so psyched to spend at the end of the month and end of the year for a holiday that holds no significance except that it is a chutti?
Oh and before I forget, the sales galore everywhere for Christmas and New Year, seriously when did the common man have any money left at the end of the month?
And why would anyone spend so much on clothing that will be locked away in a couple of months or maybe more or did everyone forget that Winter is a short and mostly non existent season in many parts of modern day India?

For the sake of full disclosure, words such as signal, signage, stifle, stupor went in but the nursery rhyme enthusiast in me got stuck with this!