Daunting Impression!!!

The damned Inadvertent Society.

Well to be diplomatic and politically correct is like the new in thing. No actually that's the only constant which is being followed. Self goodness is the only mantra… achieved at any cost; it’s certainly fine.

                                                                   

They say find a purpose to life and build your life around it… what if that purpose is taken away without giving any prior intimation. Oh well they merely missed on mentioning about what should be done in such unanticipated situations.

Yet another trouble with these stereotypical attitudes is; if any given happening conducts in their favor its meant to be good but if it doesn’t, its out rightly bad. Like do they even for once look beyond this good & bad nonsense and just accept the thing… situation… person or whatever it is just the way it is.

Sure enough; only that which is wanted is heard; not what is actually being said and meant to be. Ignorants be like “If it’s not mellifluous to one’s interest; it’s absolutely unimportant”; forget about reckoning the overall interests.

And then everybody also has ‘n’ number of expectations from all others around having an exception to themselves. Astonishing is the fact that a precise need of getting these mundane expectations complied with is a must… like literally why.

Funny times are when even if not asked for… some or the other chap definitely provides an advice which accordingly is also the apt solution as well.

Best of those supposed solutions said in a typical cliched manner is ‘Let it all go, destiny will take hold of it… it’s all play of each one’s karma’.

It’s more like giving a bland taste to a really spicy / tangy dish of chole-bhature.

With every day passing by, it seems to be a huge detriment in the quality of minds surrounded or may be being developed around and lived in. Ain’t this value decree awkwardly affecting our lifestyles and us particularly very evident? 

Burbling out all of the above at once looks to be haphazard; maybe it is so as well.

Not that this society or people or situations are new to me or anyone else but it does brings way more of perplexed curiosity in me, a lot of it overflowing for now. 

Surprisingly all the citations mentioned is just not enough… and can never be so; there’s always so much more to it, there is definitely so much more in the name of society.

But is there any way out to hold this abundant flow of all sewn up emotions?

While on the other end, to me all of these simply insert a set of copious daunting impressions into my head to fight along.

Ohh well! The main question is that, ‘In the name of letting it all go away; are we skipping over the crux of liveliness?

Or maybe is it all even worth it?

On that note...my words just come out this way:

while simply going with the flow...

life turns down its speed to extreme low!! 

those unsaid dreams come to be  true...

what was real turns into an hue!!

what is it all about this illusion...

is it an anxiety or confusion!!

Just like that.....

I used to think that when I have a nice car and a lot of money I would be happier. Though when I meet hundreds of people with all of it, there isn’t an ounce of felicity in it. Yet the main factor of being happy remains to be missing. 

The gist of it is simple; that if your bank balance outweighs your sense of purpose or your only sense of purpose is to achieve greater bank balance, finding genuine happiness is going be a huge struggle in life.

No one can teach you to be happy but there can be a few thumb rules, which can guide you towards it on your path…

Appreciate what you have; gaining more won’t make you feel good if you aren't happy with what you have right now. Moreover criticizing anything and everything around doesn’t help you grow.

 

Give more than you receive, be it time, money, gifts, love and laughs. When you give someone your best, the best surely comes to you.

Stop worrying about your future! The future is going to happen; you worry today or not, it will anyway happen to you if its meant to. We are all going to die one day, so just don’t wait for that day to happen, let your tomorrow come to you when it has to.

Love your work... your profession, as it will be a big part of your life and you as a person. If you want something then work hard towards it, cause words don't mean anything if not backed by actions. But make sure you are satisfied on your way there. 

Don't practice escapism just because your reality isn't how you imagined it to be. 
Just be real. 

Live in the moment and not in your cell phone, don't video record everything you see, just experience it while it's happening to relive it as a memory forever.

All of it gets more interesting when you enjoy the journey and not simply look out for destinations where you intend to be comfortable. Rather challenge yourself; comfort is merely where you slow down and get bored. 

Between what is said and not meant and what is meant and not said… all the love is lost!! It is always better to have loved and lost than not loved at all. 

Love generously... why hold back!!

In the process you are bound to encounter people who take you and your affection for granted and toss it away but then hurting is merely part and parcel of it.

Just don't stop loving as all this pain is just teaching you a few lessons, which the school textbooks didn't do.  

Don't worry too much of what others are doing or saying or thinking. They can mind their own business. Become a little more bolder in your attitude... Don't mind if people think your being weird or acting crazy... Logon ka kya hai... Aakhir kuch toh log kahenge hi!! 

Shine from the inside out and not outside in, cause it simply doesn’t work the other way round. 

What's in your heart and head shines brighter than what is on your wrist and neck…

The main punch is just that trying to cope up with life in per se, when it’s is not happening your way is better than being unfavorably judgmental. 

Trust yourself; enjoy every second of your TODAY and most importantly just BREATHE IN and BREATHE OUT!!!

Always do remember that…
The moon can shine brighter only when the sun isn’t bright,

Darkness is nothing but absence of light,

To find what’s right and wrong you got to be strong!!

Kyunki kya hai na "Zindagi humesha badi honi chahiye... lambi nahi!!!" just as Mr. Babumoshaaye said someday. 

Aur haan aaj ka gyaani pravachan pura hua ;)

Note: Thank you Chinmay Tambe for being a co-author to this amazing article. 

Searching for...

Quite a few times my heart drenched while searching for your presence even in your absence... 

It's not the time or the distance that matters... but all that what you made me feel was the difference...

Where my destination is... has no meaning cause now the road leading me to it shatters...

That sense of affection found rare... may be still exists in the air... 

Only thing that goes missing is your reverberance... is your reverberance!!

StandStiLL..

The world seems to have ended; yet I haven’t even started;

Too much to think about and sway and there’s equally much to give away!

These drifting emotions of having everything and nothing at the same time awkwardly reverberates the craziness inside me.

This feeling of awkwardness is burdensome enough...

Path which leads ahead is not smooth but rough...

To escape is not the solution I know...

Yet I haven't been left with any other option though!!!

And I wonder why is it that all of this is happening now!
It's been so regular to have  something or the other going on around in my world though today all of it seems to be at standstill...resulting into an unpleasantness.

It's strange but definitely the time to rearrange.
But somehow these words hold no meaning until they are proven to reality.

Ohhh wait for a second... Why am I even thinking so much!!
Somehow my inability for not being able to choose from all the wandering thoughts around me has simply crept into my inept desire.

Its really not the darkness that I fear from but letting the brightness go off and have no one beside....
And It just doesn't ends here; there is this weird noise buzzing around everywhere and at the same time I feel a sheer silence of emptiness inside. 
Don’t know what is this outburst about… is it just me or the world outside or maybe a mere blend of both?

Regardless to mention that a certain sense of impassiveness is there which is like never ending for me.
Its difficult to let it all relinquish as much as it is to persist to stay back... And as always being unstilted I would asked for more and more.

To choose from my own emotions is an intemperate activity to accomplish in itself. 

No matter how indulging this process is; today I want to miss that link of those thoughts and hold this moment for a while; stand by the outdoors, listen to the rhythmic rainfall outside, feel the breeze, watch the sun settle down and stay there until it rises.

Somehow this time during which the sun settles and rises up above again rejuvenates me... as always like a MAGICAL tune played on me.

To really know what this inquisitiveness is yet again a task but all that I could realise is that I can't fight a fact; I need to deal with it. I can't discard myself, I can just get started and be more of it. At the end compromising yourself is never worth it. You are all of it what you have got.

And this realization further evokes a thought in me which is such that; imperfection has it's own charm. To me perfection has rather been stagnant whereas imperfection simply allows me with enough space to grow and be better.

That is what makes me love the imperfection in me or in anything around me. Cause its the only way to seek a higher self.

True that It's only when everything around gets to be dark... You get a chance to shine like a star...!

Expect the unexpected...!!!

It wasn’t like the usual mornings today; at least not in ways I greet my mornings. I broke myself to some expected news unexpectedly. I was taken aback with it as it could change things for me in a lot of ways. All I needed was some peaceful time for myself…to sit and think; but well I forgot for a while that I live in Mumbai. Here for anything that happens to you doesn’t change anything around you.

So I had to get myself up and get ready, finish my daily errands, get going to my work followed by similar activities I do on everyday basis.

Well just like the morning, rest of my day wasn’t good to me either. So finally, in later part of the evening for a good change in my plan I accompanied my mother to some of her workplace. Since she was busy with a few discussions I decided to get back in my car and waited for her until she was done.

While I was fidgeting and playing around with different radio channels in the car, a few minutes later I noticed something odd and repetitive. Every other person walking by the street would join their hands, bow down and pray. Not just one but many people kept doing that and later walked on their respective ways. Its then I realized that my car was parked outside a temple, to which a window was kept open from inside.

It was interesting to observe that hundreds of people passing by the street while walking, driving in their cars, riding over a bike or so would hold on for a few seconds and pray to the God in that temple through that window and then again move ahead. As if everybody, even in their own rush and hurry to reach out to places and finish off things were still trying to spare a few seconds to bow down to the almighty in idea of hope and betterment. 

But there was one man who stood there outside, looking through that small window for more time than usual; he kept on humming something and was praying with extreme intensity and sorrow in his eyes. Weird was a fact that all this while he was standing outside the temple on roadside, wherein instead he could have gone inside and done so.

For once I thought I should ask him why was he standing outside all along but couldn’t disturb him in between his prayers. Rather something provoked me to get out of my own car. I glanced at the sight of the temple insides through the window… and witnessed a beautiful sight; it looked like a window of hopes.

Name it curiosity or what so ever I couldn’t resist myself but simply walked inside the temple and visited the main area. And all I could feel was the calm serenity of the beauty seen through that window from outside. One thought hindered around me was the fact, that if everybody who bowed in front of the window why wouldn’t they visit the temple from inside.

To me the man standing outside and everyone else who just glanced at the temple were unfortunate, enough to have missed the presence of belief in the almighty.

On my way back home, I ingeniously envisaged that in this huge rush of our lives, we are missing onto the essence of everything around us. All we do is just hope for something to happen and forget to believe in ourselves to enact our hopes into actions. Prayers without belief are simply words; they don’t help-out if not backed by actions. To them who accredit their hopes into actions do realize true meaning of faith in the almighty.

And as always I had the happy realization moment to myself and I knew what I had to do. Merely hoping that something or the other should have changed my morning to not make me upset wouldn’t do much; instead I could make the rest of the day work in my favor.

Difficult are not the decision made, but the force that which leads you to enact them… and a final note of the day to myself was that the more I believe in myself the more I will abide the most unexpected from the expected world around.

CHANGES lead by eXpEcTaTiOns…!!!

I recently came across this quote, 

"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed" -- Sylvia Plath.

Which keeps me wondering does it mean to be all by yourself...? Is it even possible..?

When I look at it with a different point of view, to my understanding the author of the quote mentioned above, is trying to say that one can expect only after believing.... and with belief apprehensions surely come hand in hand. So if anything or everything goes wrong it shall conclude with huge disappointments. And it's always easier to deal with the disappointments created by ourselves, but it's hard to deal with the ones created by others.

When this particular thought is taken to a higher level where its noticed that no matter how stringent or flexible the situation is, it’s usually left to each one of us to decide which way to follow:

- the common path which others choose for us in the name of expectations; or 

- the thoroughfare which we unknowingly bump into which is as unexpected as it could be!!

But then how far such pattern of decision making is going to let you outreach yourself or any situation!!!  

Surely there is a lot to do in between of what is already going on and what needs to be done, it's like the grey area lying in between the bLaCk & the wHiTe and that's where you find a way which is meant for you to take every probable liberty to do what you have to do... !!!

For any of us, we can very conveniently analyze/ gaze at other's situations but when someone is a part of a particular live scenario, it requires a lot of determination and strength to live it up and get through.

A way-out from such situation is to understand 'Change'. Although it’s profoundly said that the only thing which remains constant is 'CHANGE', to very much of our surprise is the irony that we all constantly refrain to accept 'Change'. 

The day we start not just expecting more from ourselves than others but also live upto them, we will learn to accept not just the changes around us but also the ones within us.

And then there shall be hope for a day when 'the change' is created by each one of us with no denial to accept it; rather we start expecting from ourselves and not others..!!!