When once there is a thought passing by, which amazed you or grabbed your attention for that moment longer than otherwise, CAPTURE IT. Its an enthralling experience, both while giving words to those chosen few FIRST thoughts and while giving an after thought while reading them later! Whatever it be, just write them. Share what's on your mind...
Saturday, November 21, 2009
When a woman says,'Lets have a discussion honey'.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Vikramaditya Jain
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Seven pounds of courage and intensity
I watched this movie SEVEN POUNDS sometime back and felt sharing my thoughts. By the name of the movie I thought it must be something related to the British currency or some downtrodden man or a beggar ….towards the end of the movie it was wonderfully revealed what the title meant, it was about the human heart which weighs just 7 lbs. The movie tells a lot about how brave and emotionally logical a little part of the body controls everything and that without complaints.
It takes us just seconds and not much effort to hurt a human heart, which by the way on its own way makes the entire human body function for years and thorough tough harsh times. I as a human, am alive because of my heart. There is something special about the rhythm of my heart, it asks me to do illogical unreasonable acts with such ease, it asks me to feel for people around me whom may be I have never met at all and have known only distantly, it makes me cry for the sadness which other creations of god go through, it helps me be amazed by nature beauty and strength, it makes me imagine and fly when I am actually tied down to inabilities and routines of life.
My life hasn’t been remarkable or extraordinary by any sense, not something anyone would be very proud of. I have very limited wants from life. But the fact is that I don’t just wish to just ‘survive’. I wish to ‘live’. I don’t wish to disappoint my heart by not hearing to it most of the time. I might end up being just a no one, might not achieve worldly highs but the only thing I wish for is to somehow be able to help the needy, the ones whose heart is weeping, to not be dishonest to myself, be able to see and feel nature and have the courage to stand up to this wish. While following my wish I might annoy and hurt my most loved ones themselves. The irony is that the people around me, my loved ones who have helped me grow up are the best humans I have ever known. They feel for people, they wish for everyone’s well being, they are courageous enough to not step over others to fulfil worldly temptations. They have faith in me. I love them and they are my strength. Looking at them live each day, I feel blessed. I feel that the world isn't a mean place after all.. that its our responsibility to keep the world a beautiful place for all to witness joy of the soul. Each one is beautiful else the world and life wouldn't have been this beautiful. If nature is beautiful its cause the dead and alive together make it that way.
If we can see the sea, mountain, forest, clouds, river, sun, moon, stars.... the dead... to be beautiful, imagine.... .... how beautiful are you.. the living part of nature.. the living part of my life. I love you. I wish I always do cause until we love ourselves for what we are, how would we love our own efforts.
The very few ways known for attaining satisfaction and peace in life is as I discover slowly is – doing what you feel right and have a craving for. Its about the intention behind the action. If intentions are good life might get back to us with rosy future or the ultimate date of death. There are times when we have to hide the truth but one needs to make sure whether he can carry the weight of that lie. Its not being brave but more of being aware about how others are dependant on you with various dreams, fulfilling those dreams would also bring happiness and peace but is it worth being tied to routines of life.
Lets take out the money factor and imagine life.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
How to minimise the opportunity cost destined for us
I was thinking about how people today have lost the art of trusting in each other. We might all find ourselves fit for the job of a suspicion-ist ! Here's a nice quote I came across today, by Swami Sukhabodhananda, ‘A man was passing through the octroi post with a cycle and a pot full of mud. The octroi inspector inspected the pot, consulted his manual, discovered that mud was not in the schedule for revenue and let the cyclist proceed. The next day the same man came with his cycle and pot of mud and the octori inspector, convinced that something was amiss, inspected the pot and allowed the man to proceed. This happened daily. After the inspector retired, he asked the man what it was that he was smuggling in. The old man said “Cycles”. ’
We like the inspector, indulge in pettiness and miss out on the joys of life, the spirit of challenges and the fun in the simple things. We need to reorganise our lives so that each day we are able to add value in the areas of intimacy, family, work and spiritual life. We are wasting our energies in little unimportant issues which seem to be big and demanding urgent action. Being relaxed is not a crime, infact it helps one keep his mind and body calm. We think better and most importantly we tend to enjoy the little things in life. The only way our mind can help us follow our heart is when we listen to it in the first place and for that we need to believe in it. The education system helps our race to create perfectly suspicious mind and not an inquisitive one. We are taught thoroughly to be suspicious of every situation we face in life, that when things donot follow a set pattern we needed to be worried, we need to make sure that life runs smoothly without any deviation. But isn’t this all a crap theory!
We all know what happens would happen according to the creations of the higher supreme (ie,if you believe in the idea of someone living above you) so why not just ACCEPT things the way they are. Why do we kill our likings and joys to make the wasteful effort of keeping situations on line and plan for the worst! Arnt we loosing the time we could have spent enjoying and loving those changes in life, this newness life gave us and the opportunity to look at. Arnt we loosing the patience to look at the bigger picture instead of mastering the art of focusing on one and trying to preserve or resolve it as per the need be!!
My wish to grow and not just live, would surely bestow loads of trouble but the ‘journey’ would atleast make me happy about the fact that I ‘tried’. That I gave myself a fare chance to be relaxed and happy in my life. (As if following the heart is a criminal offence now-a-days) Lets make the effort to be bindas, and see how happy we and our loved ones around us, start feeling when we value their benefits 1st and our contentment next. Lets just stop worrying too much and start accepting what comes. Be relaxed to enjoy life.