Post with no beginning, no end, no content - What the *$#@? Who cares !!!!

Started a new post and then abandoned it mid way. Why? Well ... there are many questions that are not answered immediately and this is also one among them. There are certain times when you think that what you are doing is not feeling exactly correct. But then you have only two choices... either continue doing it or stop it immediately.
My friend recently decided to stop doing something that had been doing for quite some time. The friend was convinced that what was doing is correct.. still is... but poor thing, thinks that has lost out on many things due to decision to stop doing that thing. Well, when rot sets in our system, we need to throw it away and stem the decay. So why feel sad for it when you have done the right thing.

We all assume that someone will think or is thinking about me in such and such a manner. Hence we restrict ourselves from thinking of them as people who would understand us. You have thrown out the decay inside you, not your other healthy parts!!! So why degrade the other nice parts as also a part of that decay? What wrong did those parts do to you ?

Also when you are knowing from inside that what you are doing is the right thing, then, there is no need to think of yourself as some victim. You must be able to face God and yourself. If you can do that and justify your actions as being in the larger interests, then you do not need to feel sorry for yourself. I do not feel sorry for myself but I do blame myself for many things that have happened to me. So what? You cannot think that what you did, although it felt right to you, but at the same time felt wrong to the whole of this world is bad! No , that is a wrong assumption.

We all make this mistake of assuming. I make it all the time and I am always ashamed of it. I am trying to improve but in vain. But then why do all other intelligent people also make the same mistake of assuming things and then makin life miserable for themselves. The world is waiting with open arms to embrace the person inside of us. Lets also go ahead and embrace it.... and not waste our time thinking that the world is not supporting us.
As someone said...
"The World Makes Way For The Man/Woman, Who Knows Where He/She is going"

So if you know from inside that what you have done is correct and will benefit all involved .. and will not harm anybody for no fault of theirs, then go ahead and feel happy about it.. God will always be with you... People are all nice... we just need to look at them in a different way... all of us are nice persons... we just need to let our heart see through our eyes and not our brains!!!

Stuck into it , Lips in Synch with the Mind???

Just heard the song "yeh aakhri alvid na ho..." by the Pakistani band Strings. Actually had heard it when it was released, but never really gave it a thought. Now I was just browsing through all my music collection and suddenly found this. Boy oh boy, what a song! The words just hit me.

All of us must have experienced that on some days, we just keep on singing/humming one particular song. sometimes it irritates us that we are just not able to shake it off our own lips. It may be a pathetic song but still we keep humming it for no reason.. Lolz...
That is what happened to me when I was going to another city to meet a very important person. I kept singing this song time and again while preparing to meet that person. Even when the person was walking towards me, I, instead of thinking about what I was going to say or do, I was busy singing this song. I was so irritated with myself ... but still I could not help myself.

After that I suddenly lost touch with this song

Now, Thats The Spirit :-)

" All your life you are told things you cannot do.
All your life they will say you are not good enough or strong enough or talented enough;
They will say you are the wrong height, or the wrong weight or
the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this.
All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly!!
THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until..
All the no's become meaningless.

AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES !!! "

--- Spirit of Nike

My football coach told me this when I was 16 years old and was recovering from a bad ankle injury that threathened my footballing ambitions. I was known for my pace and reading of the game. My whole game was based upon my sudden bursts of pace and the now famous sprint. The injury took away the very same weapon from my armoury. That was a time when I was written off by the football fraternity of Baroda. They were saying you cannot play again as you did before and that my career is over. Only my coach and manager stood by side. Slowly I went on to play football for my club, university and zone. My coach told me these words, not knowing that it will become famous as the nike spirit slogan.

Today also when I am faced with a similar situation, I remember these words again and I wonder.... Does our spirit ever die?

Language doesn't Matter - Words of Love still Touch you !!!

Its Gujarati and its beautiful. Enjoy if you understand the language. I am somehow not ready to translate it myself as I am not confident of doing justice to it. But these are straight from the heart of someone for no one in particular.

Sapno ne ashru me bhinjata joya che,
Gam ma pan hotho ne hasta joya che,
Armaano toh roj ubhraine tuti jaay che,
Chata pan,
Umeedo na sahare, loko ne jivta joya che !

Haji aankhon ma jane farke che koi,
haji meethu sharmai marke che koi,
vikhuta padya toy lage che ghayal,
haji pan rage rag ma sarke che koi!

Ame zindagi ne savari betha,
Tame aavso evu dhari ne beetha,
Fakt tamara ek dil ne jitva,
Ame aakho sansar haari ne betha !

Vishwaas ni ek dori che aa prem,
Yauvan haiyani majburi che aa prem,
Na mano toh kai nathi,
Pan maano toh, Dwarkadhish ni pan kamjori, che aa prem !

This post is not for all of you to read... its just for my own satisfaction... satisfaction that I put my thoughts on paper. ( virtual paper :-)

... of ducks & eagles - A Metaphorical Similie

With reference to my previous post....and all other previous posts... I came across this small quote today, so putting it up here in case you ppl have not read this.

"Don't be a duck. Be an eagle. Ducks quack and complain. Eagles soar above the crowd ."

Nice quote na ... I must implement the learning from this. Though I must admit, I just quack and complain only on my blog. :-) seriously !!!! In real life I have started smiling a lot more and joking about all these small issues that I am faced with. Yes they are all small issues only. I am not that sad a person .. Lolz !!! As if anybody cares... lol... ok ok think about the quote.

Search for my EQ - Search failed !

My amma is coming to meet me, to Bangalore !!! Great news for a person who has been longing for her for such a long long time…I have not seen her for 6 months now.
But why am I not going “Yahoo!!!!!... My amma is coming “ Why?
Somehow I think I do not want her to see me in this shape. I do not want her to meet me like this. She says that she will come and set up my kitchen , so that I do not have to face any trouble setting it up. Why is she doing this to me? Why do all mothers have to be so loving and caring… I do not deserve her love yaar !!! I am sure I will spill out everything I have inside of me to her and she will feel deep sadness at my misery. I am somehow going along this life , recovering and starting to be a bit more happy each day at a time… sometimes sidelining the hurt , sometimes burying it deep inside, sometimes brushing it off with shake of my head and shrug of my shoulders.
In between this process of healing, there she comes, my only solace but ironically also a catalyst to my pain. I do not want to make her stay here miserable by talking to her about my wretched mistakes and hurt. But even if I do not tell her, she will find the melancholy in my eyes.
The whole of the night yesterday and day before I could not sleep thinking of the heavenly figure descending to my city. I have not been able to think of anything that I can do with her here … its also a month of great pressure for meeting our sales targets and already I have a big presentation coming up on Saturday – the day when amma will be leaving Bangalore.
Why did I not call her up for the past two day? Why ? surprising considering the fact that I call her everyday. She has made Gajar ka halwa for me…  I could not stop my eyes from shedding a tear when I heard her over phone saying that she will make my favourite dishes and carry with her for me. She woke up early in the morning to make the halwa, while I was twisting and turning in my bed to catch my forty winks…. Why did I have to get into such a mess? Good parents deserve good sons… why am such an incompetent fool. Why do I share the love that I have in my heart with people who do not even care a shit about true love? Could I not have given that same love to my parents and made them even more happier?
Amma please do not come to this son of yours who has proved to be a disgrace. I am afraid if you come , then I will just leave all this that I have here and come along with you… in short I am afraid that I am becoming a coward !!! 

Longfellow -

From the first time that I read Longfellow, he has left an impression on me. The Village Blacksmith was his first poem that I read in my school text book and like it instantly. What attracts me to Longfellow is the simplicity of the flow of his thoughts. He does not consciously use 'big' words but somehow these 'big' words seem to fit into his poems comfortably. The ideas that he writes about are appealing to me somehow.
The last two stanzas of The Village Blacksmith are the best and that is what I can till date recite by-heart. It goes like this...
"Toiling,--rejoicing,--sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought."


Since then I have read many of his peoms and there is another that is also nice...which again i am reproducing because I simply feel so( I know most of you must have read this).... Today has been a session for reading peoms and so this impulse to post some of the good ones here for all of you nice people to read, appreciate and maybe get hooked to :-)

So here comes from ChutKutWorld, another of his classics... "The Arrow and The Song"

"I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."


Now if you are already a fan of Longfellow then please do share your views here on ChutKut World. If you were not but are liking the above two peoms of his, then again write to me, so that I know that atleast I did something for 'the great poet'. And if you think this is crap and you wasted your time.... well.... your choice of blogs is really refined !! Congratulations !!!( Naaahhhh...!!! Simbbblllllyyyy joking yaar ) :-)