Adios 2012

I came here alone, and so shall I exit, just the same way, following my selfish sole path, chosen by me, but obviously judged by my peers.
When most of life's questions are answered, it feels like one has reached a stable mental state. However, my very silly brain thought that was a long lived phase, and was foolish enough to exclaim, " It feels good that life is finally calm". Who knew, that the very next minute, a whole new tornado would come, sweeping away all that I had finally managed to save after it's visit. Movies feel better than reality since they are limited to the screen,& if life were to become so dramatic today, most of us would feel suicidal at being called a 'star celeb'. As of today, simplicity seems to be the most beautiful thing in existence, the most pure and sweet way of going about all things big and small. Rather than beating about the bush, coming to the point seems to be a much better option.
  We can run, and we may try to hide, but if we are being sought, not even by a multitude but a mere one man army, we shall be found. As a sudden turn of events may seem to challenge your strengths at the highest level of judgement, life just doesn't stop. We live in nothing, but a well scripted theatrical performance, directed by none other than our great Almighty. We are nothing but performers, expressing through ourselves, the moves defined by the higher puppeteer. So even as we smile, dance, cry, fall and hurt ourselves, we should not give up, not so soon at least, for the Puppeteer's story is a little different. The play is yet to be finished, and the characters must not give up hope so soon. Let us once again pause for a moment of a guiltless breath, and resume our acts as friends and lovers, or maybe just nothing. Since the show must go on, so must we. If we are being sought, let us be found, for we must have been 'lost' to begin with.
   Was that how it all began? Was that what proved to be the triggering of a bullet shot so loud and hard, that it shattered almost everyone it touched? If so, then let's just be glad that we are still alive and not dead, we are still 'feeling' and can still skip a heartbeat if required & that we are still standing, even though it may seem we have surrendered. The skies may be filled with waving white flags, symbols of hopes and dreams being given up on, but my little guiding light is still shining, for trust me, the sky has not limited my soaring soul, not yet at least.

A Case of 'C.S.A.'

For the channel surfing addicts ( CSAs), this goes out to you!

Many a times in life, we come across a moment, where the most calm of all the calms, the most balanced of all the balanced and the most indifferent of all indifferent wish that they had a remote control to have a certain aspect of the moment to be altered. This could vary from pitch, volume, zoom, a total change of channel or maybe even a complete shutdown.

Sometimes, it may happen that we may want to keep changing channels in Life, since nothing interesting seems to catch the attention of the preoccupied sub conscious mind. We keep switching channels, and nothing, not even any alteration, seems to make things better. Well, it is here, that some people choose to switch the television set and walk away, while the others keep switching, pausing, pondering in a rather disoriented but persistent manner, to continue on their quest for something worth viewing. It may sometimes seem that the channels are being repeated, but they still continue, bound to make it happen, and bound to find what they seek.

For these highly lovable and mighty Channel surfers, the prize soon arrives when the goal is met, after crossing that extra mile, which most had chosen to abandon, sometime in the past. Once the goal is met, it is sheer success in which the bravest of all braves, most energetic of all energetic and most pleasing of all the pleasing ones drown and enjoy a moment of glory and glee. The picture on screen seems to appear highly satisfying; the clouds of bleakness seem to clear out to give rise to a bright and shiny picture.

Then we come back to Life, back to reality, and put down the remote, for sometimes, we need to look closely and see that reel and real are different. The Moment spoken of before now makes no sense at all, and is perfectly nonsensical, if I may say so. What lies in there, right in front of us, may not be our first choice, may not be the one we hoped; wished or waited for, but sometimes, it is exactly what we need. We just don’t realise it since we are so caught up with being what we really are not, something which is not calm, not balanced and not indifferent.

Do we really want to be someone who we are not? We are each blessed with a unique quality and an exclusive personality, and if we believe we can defy it or change it, well then we must make peace with the fact that the others might do the same as well. Learn to respect yourself for the others to respect you just the same way, that’s all!

P.S.-  I’m a fellow C.S.A. myself, so peace out homies, we shall happily continue the addictive cycle.

Welcome to the 'Mind Games' 2012

For my bros tryin' to 'act' like hoes ! Peace out, <3 for all!

Sometimes we as human beings forget what our mind, the one and only human mind is capable of. We err and we forget some basic laws of rules, the ones of nature, and the ones we had set for ourselves some time back to help us cope with reality.

The people who think they can very well indulge in and savor  a well crafted mind game, they are often not realizing what they are doing , since they think they are obviously the better ones in this battle which to them, was like a concluded argument to begin with. Their over confidence fills them with such an air of supremacy that it blocks out the most necessary oxygen of clear vision and ration, which may unfortunately lead to a fall.

We can only hope, pray, wish, fight for or believe in the fact that we don’t, we never will and we never should. It is here again, where memory fails us, as we err again as humans, only to be forgiven by Divine. If we are meant’ to fall, we most definitely will, and not even us ourselves can stop the Higher Plan from going ahead, for it is moving towards an ultimate state of happiness and bliss.

So if you do want to play a game , a little different from most, just remember, what you are in for, and that all games, be it physical or mental, involve moves from both sides. So if you do fall, just be prepared for it. And if you truly believe that none but one, the one being you, is capable of playing as well as you, then remember it’s nothing, but a mere game, where friends can turn foes, and foes can turn friends at any point of time. So if your mind and you suddenly begin to act against each other, where there is no space for reason to exist, it’s time to clear out the pollution, and let the flow of logic and ease be free. If you have met a challenger, no matter, who it is, rise to the occasion, for it’s time to wage a war again. The players might keep changing, but the game remains the same.

My 'Plea'

The most brilliant of stories set aside,

by the most ridiculous of laws, we do abide.

A thousand beautiful smiles, meant to hide

sighing with faint cries of hope to chide.

Society for the girl child, as of now, 22^nd of December 2012, is all that the aforesaid reeks of.

Even as I sit enjoying a beautiful, bright and safe morning today, I cannot help but hear the soft yet crystal clear sounds of fear, echoing within me. I am so much, but do I need to be afraid today, if I am a girl? If that is what the society is trying to make me understand, then I very well got the point, and now wish to call truce.

An argument doesn’t really have a purpose, until and unless it has a justified cause, which makes it very important, not only to the persons involved, but also to the people around. However, if either of the parties has already concluded, then the whole point of the argument is lost, hence making the argument highly silly and irrelevant to begin with.

With those words, I now begin my plea ! I am a girl, maybe not a child, and hence I fear the society has given me a reason to be scared today. There are not many times, when we, as women, stop in our daily routines, just to think and contemplate. We are so busy today, that it is hard enough to take out time for a moment of mere merriment, which we fondly call gossip, leave alone finding time to simply sit down and ponder. As far as my life goes, it’s just been competing for the much sought after position of Flash’s successor. ‘Time’ has indeed been flying, and trust me when I say that. Today however, I felt that the time for ‘fight’ over ‘flight’ had come, and hence I sat down for a moment of peace. I am not a person who gets scared easily, but if I am scared today, I have the ‘right’ to question why?

Fortune indeed favours the bold, and that is my weapon against my enemy. The ruling Government of my country may not have given me a reason to be afraid, but it seems like the fairer sex seems to think they are most definitely higher than any Authority. I do not have any comments on that, since now I am a third party, but if as a girl, I am afraid today because a boy is physically stronger, I will question every single person around, why? Opposites attract, and it may be so that ‘Lady Luck’ is favouring someone a little more, but if today’s times are about winning favours, then we, as the fairer sex, know that we do not stop down to that level. We have been labelled to be gossip mongers, and now we shall take the exact same label and slap back with it. If you want us to talk, we shall now talk, and be grateful for we’ve waited for this opportunity, all this while!!!

Let's get down to Business

One has probably heard many a people say this to someone, ‘let’s get down to business’. I quite often assumed it must be about a business deal or a transaction taking place, but today it just seems like it might have been said in other contexts as well.

Business generally revolves around give and take, which holds true in an n number of contexts as well. Two parties meeting, reaching a common consensus, and finally managing to strike an agreeable deal, is what successful business is about. The deal seems ‘perfect’, when the parties smile, and indulge in an honest and confirming handshake, which is generally the final sealing of the deal. From there on, it seems like the deal is fair, since both of them seem to be reflecting a common thought pattern, and appear to be at the same level, only to move ahead with time, and work together towards a common target.

Well it’s time to get down to business now. We come across several people in our day to day lives, and most of them carefully and fortunately manage to merge in the background. We carry on with our daily lives, still breathing, still moving, and still functional basically, but somehow somewhere, deep down inside, there is a void, which most of us try to fill. These voids may vary from conscious to sub conscious, since we tend to forget who we are at times. If however, somewhere at the back of our minds, we have remembered, and not let go, we keep trying to fill it, with something or the other. What we are actually looking for is a ‘replacement’, which implies a change of party on the opposite side, which means that the whole deal we were working for has changed. Now everything involved in the deal must be fresh, and new and with a better strategy. Now a new party comes in the picture, which is just so different and has absolutely different gives and takes to be performed with.  The people who catch our attention in our day to day lives are somewhat like the ‘party’ that I speak of. Out of all the people, who pass us by every single day, some suddenly seem to catch the fanciful eye, which has now found something, worth paying attention to. These are generally the people, who have or will receive a compliment saying that they ‘command attention’, ‘inspire awe’ and ‘eloquently express’. The very unstable and now open eye then chooses to bestow the beauty upon the chosen object of affection, by the beholder himself, since Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. If the beholder finds the beauty worth his attention, he says to himself, “It’s time to get down to business”, where he now begins to work towards making the deal happen. 

The 'Right' Choices

Life is full of choices, waiting at every nook and corner of life, peeping and peering, waiting excitedly for us to arrive and greet it. Before reacting to the stimulus that these choices cause, we need to know, choice is a ‘gift’ which our Almighty has given us humans. The freedom to choose is just that, a ‘freedom’ since our Almighty believes in us to make the right ones. And even if we make the wrong ones, since it is human to err, our Almighty loves us so much, that she/ he doesn’t punish us, she/he forgives, since it is Divine to forgive.

All the teachers which I consider good as of today are the ones who’ve always encouraged questions. Sometimes students at school level are afraid to ask questions, even though their understanding of the concept might not be very clear. These are the times; when they are letting their emotion ‘fear’ cloud their judgement. If you are asking the questions, with the right reason, you will always be answered. As a kid, I used to sometimes nod my head because of the fear of being tagged as ‘dumb’ even if I had not understood the question, since my peers had all understood what I hadn’t. Today I have thankfully grown out of that ‘Herd Mentality’, commonly known as Peer Pressure, and I understand how wrong it can be to let just emotions rule you without even giving your instincts a chance, without even believing in the plan. As an adult, I will ‘choose’ not to make the mistakes which I did as a kid, since I have grown out of that stage.

Sometimes, we feel we have gone horribly wrong, and  we ‘choose’ to call our wrong decisions ‘mistakes’, because we think that is the right name for them. However, we like a child, forget another Law of Nature here, or something which Jawaharlal Nehru, a lover of all children, had taught us. “It is only a mistake if you choose to repeat it”. If you see it the first time, and make the needed corrections, it is not an error any more. However, if you consciously ‘choose’ to repeat the same things, the Almighty’s love for us is so infinite, that he/she will let us go ahead with it, since he/she believes in us. But before we proceed, he/she will make sure that we know what we are getting into, we are fully aware of the consequences which may or may not come with the chosen path and this time, the choice is a purely conscious one, as opposed to the last time. If the choices work out, then the Almighty stands tall like a proud parent, and if the choices go wrong, the Almighty only loves us enough to help us gain the strength needed to deal with the situation. The Almighty does not punish, the Almighty just loves, with an open mind and an open heart, and the Almighty’s love never ceases to exist, since ‘love’ is the strongest of all emotions.

 The plans that we have for ourselves might not work out, but it’s because there is a better plan for us, all of ‘us’ humans. It might not be very clear to us when our plans fail, but once we are ready to see it, we will see it. We don’t have to ‘love’ the plan, we just have to trust it, since the plan works based on what we ‘need’ and not what we ‘want’. There are a lot of questions which arise in the human mind, which is perfectly healthy since asking questions helps us to improve our understanding of concepts and ideas. If we keep an open mind, we will find our answers more easily and we will accept them with a little more ease as opposed to closed minds. So we don’t have to be afraid of choosing, it is one of God’s infinite beautiful gifts to us.

To make it easier for you, I can suggest what question you need to answer first, before beginning your journey on the path of choices and intriguing questions. There will always be choices-Faith or Worry, Belief or Doubt, rudeness over politeness, anger or serenity, happiness or satisfaction.  You may begin by asking, “Am I a believer or am I not?”.  I do not say Faith over Worry, since it is your ‘personal’ choice to make. The difference between ‘or’ and ‘over’ is ‘VE’, which is us (we), and hence it is our own journey which is differently beautiful for all of us ‘humans’.