Red Signal!!!

Travelling for hours on the Delhi Roads, made me think about these immovable items which keep standing 24*7 and provide selfless service to each one of us. Most of the times, we abuse, hate and just show our anger to them but they will still blink and smile at us. Lot to learn from them.

Here goes something in their own words.

I am the same thing which makes you finish your talks when I start blinking.

I am the same thing which makes you either stop or pick up the speed on the roads.

I am the same thing which comes in your life on and off. Sometimes, you welcome me with open hands, but otherwise you just shove off and hate me the most.

Could you guess by now? Who am I?

Very Right...I am the Red Signal.

I am sure; you all have encountered me in your life at some or the other point of time in actual or in literal terms. Maybe everyday and in every important decision or phase of your life.

Starting with the Contests, you see me always coming third in the end after my sisters Green and Yellow. I take care of my sisters and let them come before me. But I have seen people, sometimes, praying for me to come fast or late depending on their readiness with the subject. They love me if I come as per their wish and hate me if they are disqualified coz. of me. I am sorry.

Getting on to my Road friends whom I meet everyday rushing from here and there. I am almost deaf coz. of your honking and now I have migraine coz. of you, but nobody takes care or even thinks once before honking or flying across me.

I still have no issues with all this and I am ready to face it but, the point which I want to share with you is, I get in dilemma standing there with my sisters. Some of you are in hurry and want my Green Signal Sister to come fast but on the other hand who are either updating their Facebook status or buying the red rose at that point, want me to keep blinking for some more time.

Whom should I listen?? Now, if I keep blinking, one of you will start using some lovely words for me and if I allow my sister to start blinking, the other friend of mine will either hit somebody and will have to update his FB via hell or heaven or will be slapped by his girlfriend for not getting the rose. What and where is my mistake? But, please understand me, it’s not in my hand to either keep or stop blinking. I am completely controlled by some rules, similar to the way your life is controlled.

Standing there all day and night, I have seen all types of emotions of yours ---> smiles, laughter, cries, sadness, anger, shouts, abuses, everything and all at the same time. As is said, life is big circle and all these fillings are fillers here and there, but we all have to live and enjoy this life along with these fillers. My dear friends, I am of the same color which is the sign of both love and anger. I just follow the changes of your emotions. Sometimes, some of you get drunk, hit me. You and your car goes for repairs, but nobody even feels anything for me. I still keep standing there, smiling and blinking. Sometimes, I feel I am the licensed eve teaser who teases each one of you day and night and no policeman ever says anything to me, instead look forward for my winks.

But, as you sometimes either love or hate me depending on the situation. I just wish, you don’t have any pre-conceived notion of either feeling for me.

If this is the not the case for me, then why are you so judgemental for certain things and people around you?? If somebody has hurt you, done wrong to you, you start hating the person and it makes sense to do the same. Agreed, but not forever. He/She did wrong to you. You are a common person, and it makes sense to be angry, abuse and hate him. But, if you keep doing so forever, not even indirectly, you are directly hurting yourself. Let the things go off. You never know, the person might have changed and when you meet him next time, take that as the present and act accordingly. Things go wrong and sometimes, right because you don’t have the control over them, as I don’t have on my blinking.

Next time, and that will be today for sure, when you see me, please don’t hate me. I am there for you, just for you. Standing all alone, getting tanned in the sun, soaked in the rain and feeling cold but with no pre-conceived notions. I love you all and see you all with the same eye and complete my duties and responsibilities with full dedication and sincerity towards you. I am very much part n parcel of your life.

As somebody has said:

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”

I wish you could fall in love with me(traffic lights), so that you would know if you should go for it, slow down, or just stop! Enjoy winking.

Why Me???

Teardrops slowly fall from my eyes as I look to the sky, and I question how come life keeps passing me right on by.  I just wonder why I can't escape, is this my fate?  To always be unhappy and how much longer must I wait...

Why Me???

I am sure, this question comes on and off in everybody's mind.

Recently saw this advertisement of Yuvraj Singh after his victory over cancer - WHY ME. I don’t remember exactly, but the ad seems to be for an Insurance Company.

But, this "WHY ME" triggered lots and lots of questions-thoughts inside this small brain of mine. The important fact of life and death and the complete process which we all walk through from the day we start breathing inside our mother's womb till we get onto the funeral pyre. 

Small baby who dies even before he takes birth; Mother thinks - WHY ME?

Now, if the child comes out and takes in the fresh air of our universe but something wrong happens later or is born with some abnormalities.

Again the mother says - WHY ME? On top of this she thinks wish the child had not seen the first rays of light of this world.

Now suppose, if with the God's grace and Doctor's abilities, all goes well.

He grows up to be a naughty child and one who doesn’t study much. Again the mom thinks - WHY my child only??Why "A's" child is so good and studies well. etccc.......

Let's make this child intelligent and smart but when he gives his Entrance Exams after school and is not able to make into one of the IITs or AIIMS by just one mark. Again the mother and now even this teenager thinks - WHY ME??? I was so intelligent and smart but still could not get through and now I am standing outside the gates of these prestigious colleges of India coz, some lucky friend of mine got through. But, did he ever think for all these 16-17 years, he was the lucky mascot for so many.

 Irony doesn’t stop here.

As we progress in our life from college to job to married life to parenthood to some illness on the way and even on the last step of our life - Death, if everything goes well, we just smile and thank god but never think WHY ME.

When even one event of the life takes a different turn and the Red Signal of our life does not change to Green for few minutes, hours, days, months and years...

We start asking again n again - WHY ME????

For sure, this moment of WHY ME is bad and it hurts and maybe sometimes we wish, if we had not taken this decision or wish to die or wish if some miracle could happen to pull us out of this situation or just wants to sleep for a thousand years, or just not exist, or just not be aware that you do exist, or something like that.  Wish the earth stops rotating and revolving or something which keeps you away from everybody and so many other thoughts keep spinning in your head.

At this point, somehow one more thought comes to my mind that all those books which talk about leadership and ask us to focus, concentrate and grow as a leader.

Is it easy to come out of this WHY ME and keep moving on the path of this leadership???? I still have to learn and walk this path.

As some great people have said---->

" Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently." Maybe during those WHY ME situations, we need to be patient and work to make the traffic signal Green.

OR

" Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects."

Keep Smiling..... :)

Why do we need somebody else to police us always????

 If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. 

End of July, most parts of Northen India faced: Major power failure due to Northern power grid breakdown. Being Delhite, and being one of the victims of this power failure while driving down the South Delhi this is what I thought and decided to pen it down. 



Suddenly, a normal usual technical failure in the afternoon which led to no power and most of the people who travel via different modes were on the roads in Delhi. Metro was impacted and thousands of passengers for whom the metro is a lifeline had no other choice but to use the road service. Hence, as per the logic, there will be more people, more traffic on the road. At this point, Traffic Lights also ditched the travellers which could have been savior. But, no worries Delhi is known as people with hearts, so we were facing all this bravely. On top of this, monsoon rains which we are not seeing so regularly and which is deficit this year also started pouring. Wow, I suppose, most of us have heard this phrase and it did fit aptly at this time"Bhagwan jabh deta hai toh chapphar fad ke deta hai". It means that when God gives, he gives by breaking down your ceiling. I hope I have translated it correctly. 

 My father and me were driving down to Saket for some work on a weekday in the afternoon. At the IIT Gate Traffic Signal, we landed up in the soup which is known as The Traffic Jam.

No Traffic Lights, No policeman, all the four sides of the road on the crossing were crowded and everybody is in a hurry as everybody has some urgent work in such situations. We were also one of those.

At this point, for sure, there will be somebody who will try to out smart others and try to be more intelligent then everybody and he thinks he can cross the road and will not be a issue for others. As its a trend, so we had one here. I have tried to use my painting skills. Black Honda City was the culprit at this time over here. In this drawing, Car in the center is the Black Honda City and other blue and red lines are other vehicles from all other sides. Driver of this Honda City, decided to cross but there was somebody else in front of him, not s small vehicle but a big truck coming from the other side who came in front of him. And then, Black Honda City got stuck in between and hence everybody as no one could move even a inch back or in front.  If one would have tried also, then we would have landed in something which is known as accident and added spices to the soup.

And then after 5 minute of wait, my father came out of his car and tried to ask some of the people to move so that this Black Honda City can move and hence some space can be made and traffic can start moving atleast. But, even if little space was made, we would get a biker or a scooterist from somewhere who would come to go from there and again we were back to square one. Father frustrated came inside and said nothing can happen of this and people. He was loosing his temper now as we had to reach as soon as possible and we were loosing time. And then after 15 minutes, we saw two traffic policeman came. I heard my father saying - "Now, people will listen and move". I didn't say anything as didn't want to get in the discussion mode at the wrong time, but kept thinking over the way.

Normally, we say that these Traffic Policemen don't do anything and at such hour, its these guys only who are making the difference and we listen to them. Also, we look forward for them, otherwise normally we pray and hope that they are not there on the traffic signals. Isn't it. Why are we like this??? But, here I am not to praise the policeman as have so much to say against them. So let's get onto what I was actually thinking.

Next thought which came to my mind was that why do we need a policeman to guide us. All those who are driving are above 18(As per the law, you cant get the licence before 18) so, for sure, crossed the teens and are very much adults. So, do we need a policing at this age also. Why were we acting like a kid and waiting for a person who might be younger to many of us who are there to tell that what should be done. Inspite of driving above 100 on highways, we need somebody to tell and guide us.  Hmm....Infants, Kids need parents, children need parents and teachers to guide them. College students also needs teachers, parents. But are we not learning at each level of our age to grow intelligent and think independently and take the right decisions at the right time without looking upon a policeman. I am not talking just about policeman but different instances of our life also wherein we keep looking for some police to tell us inspite of the fact that we know more about the situation and have the ability to confirm that what's right and what's wrong but still we want somebody else to tell and that somebody should have the authority. For sure, we will listen to this authorized person are used to listening to authority and working as per that.

Please don't get confused by the term suggestion, advice which we should keep looking from anyone at any age and at any point of our life (Either the person with authority, our seniors in any form, or somebody who is expert in that area who can be younger to you also or some discussion which we have on and off with friends, strangers). At this point I am trying to mention about the things wherein we can take our own call but still we don't and we do some silly mistakes and get everybody else in the soup. Traffic Jam is just an example which triggered the thought process in my small brain.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do. Why do we need Policing always????

Does our life depend on the movement of Moon/Stars/Sun?

We all have heard about astrology, sun signs, our stars, palmistry, our life being ruled by movement of Stars/Moon/Sun. I will not say if I have never believed all this. It will be a lie. I do believe. But, more then this, I believe in that super power which exists and which guides us to to do good in life for our own selves and to other beings. Also, I believe in myself, that who actually I am and can be to myself and to this world. I can make or break my life; by my thoughts, by my way of living the same.

Even today I do have, somewhere deep in the brains or in the heart,belief on this connection between what is happening in our lives and reason for which are these stars and astrology. But, for sure, there is a doubt now..Hmmm...let me try to recall some instances in my life and some in my friends' lives.

When I was a kiddoo, going to the school. As usual, not studying before hand and getting tensed a day before the exam. Sitting in front of the God, I used to pray "God, this time. Please save me. Pls...From next time, I swear, will study hard from day 1 and will not trouble you, Pls, God. Pls................." Big tears from my eyes used to melt my dear God and hence at the end I used to get good marks. Thanks to HIM!!!

One day, I heard one of my friends saying that when she was crying the other day before her exams; her brother explained her one simple thing - You are wasting your time by crying. You can use the same time to study and give your best. There will be situations in life when these tears will not be able to help you. You will have to be bold enough to face the world. And, Once, you are sure, that you have given your best, just say to God - "Hey God, I have tried my level best. Now. I leave on you. Please help me and do the best for me". I really liked this. Till date, I have been following this along with the on and off cries in front of the God. Things have worked and if they haven't worked, I thought, maybe it was not for me and God knew the best so I didn't get it and will surely get the best later.

Grew from childhood to teens to adult hood with this small funda of life, trying to look at the positive side of whatever was happening. Trying my level best to get the best, to do the best in each aspect of life, career, studies, family, friends....Always being optimistic of the things and keeping that smiling face always on....coz, whatever was happening was happening for a reason, so not to worry just keep giving your best....Many things happened in between. Let's skip the autobiography of myself.. :)))

Class 11th which decides what and how you will be moving in your life. I took PCMB which is considered to be one of the toughest selections. Took it, did well in boards but could not fulfill the dreams of seeing myself saving the lives of others. Went for Engineering, the next line which was never the plan; never dreamt to be one, but I graduated as an Electronics Engineer. Sometimes, I used to think, Somebody had rightly said --->"Whatever happens, happens for Good". Maybe I would not have been a good doctor and God knew this so, he took the right decision for me.

          Some more years of my life went in getting graduated, first job, post   

          graduation, 2008-09 recession time getting the job with the

          God's grace.  

          Finally landed up in my current company.

          Most of all this said above has happened with all of us. Some of my

          friends, faced some of the really bad times of life.  And being their   

          friend, I always kept saying that something really good is in store for

          you. If some body's love life was in a bad shape due to some or the

         other reason, my response in handling it was trying to look in future    

         and being optimistic and positive. I could talk to them for hours trying  

         to pull them out of all those negative thoughts and saying that If 

         something has to go, it will go;don't hold it as its not yours and all

         those fundas..which we keep liking on FB.

There are many more such instances which can be outlined...

Getting back to any common man's life(Man or a Woman). As part of the Sine Curve, sometimes, things are going too good. He is doing good in his career, personal life is rocking but one decision of the life brings the sine curve below and it goes even beyond the basement that it changes his/her life, his lifestyle, his thoughts, his way of looking at the things, his career, everything, his future....Why???

Even if he tries to come out of it, he is not able to. Does this Shani kee Sadesati concept exists??? That means, if some body's life has started to move down, it will keep moving down for years??? Why??? Why ??? Till the Moon or Sun God will not move from this position to the next position.

Why some body's patience is tested to the level that the person can breakdown? Is there any learning in actual in this process of Sine Curve of God? There are many such questions which keep coming in my mind, seeing and listening to my friends and hence the conflict to believe the belief which has been there always with me since childhood that whatever happens, happens for a reason and something better of the best in in store for myself and one day I will get my share of happiness; but here I want to ask if a person looses all the patience and his hopes of rising up one day, then what is this Better of the Best???

Today sitting on the terrace and looking at the moon makes me look back at my life and some of the lives of my friends, that does this movement of the star/moon/sun make a difference in any body's lives? Does God really exist and is he doing all this intentionally - Why - Because we have to follow the theme of the movie 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam'???

I agree with the lines that success is sweeter after all the struggle and success is more valued and you will understand what smile is etccc......................................................But............Why????

Smilingly Simple Life with No Preconceived Judgements

Holding my cute little niece in my arms brings the smile on my face, takes off all the stress. Playing with this few months old kiddoo who has no name as of now, just wants one to play more n more with her and not think of issues, challenges, hikes, appraisals, work and more stupid things of life.

Some months back when she was just few weeks old, we all were sitting and playing with her. Somebody commented - Humans are the most developed of all the living beings but are the most dependent beings when they are born and they remain so for quiet a few years. Didn't give much thought to this as just looking at this innocent child and keeping her in the arms was the best thing one wanted to do, rather think seriously about this.

Today, while I playing and looking at her trying to crawl, hold the hand....., made me think about the above comment made long time back. Isn't this the fact.. I am sure, all the parents would be able to comment better.

Human kids are so dependent on their mothers and other family members for sure to grow, to learn how to eat, walk, sit, do so many other things. I mean to say they cannot grow without somebody else taking care of them. If we see other living beings(animals) they do also need their mothers to teach them basics but they learn all this very fast and can live independently without the need of their mother after few days or weeks but human child needs 1-2 years and if we see otherwise some more years to be able to go out and live on their own without anybody's support. And this gets into our nature that we are always dependent on somebody else. Even those who say they are not and show that they are very much independent and don't need anybody, tell the lie of their life.

When the child is born, he is dependent on his mother for his food, for his care, for his growth in the best way. As he grows, for sure, he remains dependent on his parents forever(depends on the context in which we can say he is dependent or its just his and their love for which we use this small word "dependent"). School Time, he is dependent on his teacher, his classmates for the best education which he will get and become a good person.

 Now, it depends on us how and in which way we consider this word 'Dependent'. Many of us might take this word as 'Evil/Bad' word for anybody's growth and in today's world everybody wants to be independent.

Child after 4-5 years will say 'Parents, I am not dependent on you. It is your responsibility to do everything for me.'.

Wife says to husband' I am earning well, I am very much independent' and Husband echoes the same words.

Colleagues are independent of each other.

I am sure, we all want Independent wives, kids, husbands, parents to make life easy.

But, the emotional part of this person wants to say that what is wrong in being dependent. Let's look it other way round. Just to give different perspective, I will try giving some examples. When a wife says to her husband - 'Hey, please come and pick/drop myself to the office whenever you can and have time'. It depends on how we look at this. Husband can think - 'What a lady, can't she live, come and go on her own, she is very much educated and why is she being dependent on me. Other way to look at it is - Wow, this is such a good opportunity to get some more minutes with my wife. In this fast pace world when we both are working so hard on our career and get so much less time for each other. Its a good idea to drive down to her office whenever I get some time.

So, it depends on how we look at the idea. Is it actually dependency or is it love or is it the time one wants to spend with her/his loved ones. As we know this famous saying - 'Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder'

Somehow, I feel we interpret this word 'Dependent' in a wrong way. We assume, we interpret the way we want to, but not the way it is in actual.

Another example - As I said above, that Human Child is the most dependent on all the living beings. We all see this and its the very fact. But, isn't this human child and this dependency which gets the mother child, grandparents - grandchildren, parents - child relationships so close and strong. Does any other living being has such a close and strong attachment with other. It is just because of this dependency which the child has built up in his infancy that gets him close to his family and he understands the value of family, love, care.

Haven't we seen the cases/situations wherein child doesn't like his family coz. they did not give him time when it was required by him.

Why this difference of views for the same situation? Why most people take the word dependency in a wrong sense. Why don't we try to see the other side of the coin that it might not be actually dependency but the way of showing love, care and more closeness.

Also, why cant we differentiate between professional dependency and personal dependency/love/care/closeness???

For sure, when we face the Professional world and we are out in this world, we need to be independent and have to give out best and look up to take up the next position and work beyond our own capabilities. We should be doing the work on our own and work with the teams and be a leader to get the best out of ourselves for our organization.

And in our personal lives, we should be very much independent in most of the things, but there are some situations when you look forward that your child or your spouse should discuss with you and let you know and then take a joint decision over some situation or you look upon your parents, your spouse, friends to help you in deciding certain things. This should not be considered as being dependent nature of that person or taken as a negative personality of that person. It is known as giving value to that person. People looks upon you for certain situations as they trust you with their most precious possessions, thoughts etc.. They count on your faith and care you have shown to them. This shows that how much value you have in your life and you are reliable, so you should be cherishing this and not considering this as a liability. They value you and your decisions. Why cant we be happy coz. of this and rather find faults and issues?

Let's keep our lives smilingly Simple. If somebody looks upon us and is looking for something. Don't put the judgmental shoes and build up that this person cannot do anything or so many other things which come to the mind. We need to understand, get in his shoes and help him out at that point not by spoon feeding him but working with him to make him independent but don't take his dependency in the literal sense of this word but maybe take it up as his faith, his love, his care, his closeness, his reliability and confidence on you.

Vicious Cycle of Good and Bad!!!

 

Vicious Cycle of Good and Bad!!!

 

Saturday...Weekend Starts....Got up late, nobody else at home as all the family members are out of station for some or the other work. Household work, ready, breakfast done. Didn't feel like going out anywhere. Wanted to spend some time with myself, sleep, eat, read...Its almost afternoon and I thought why not read the newspaper...before I open my laptop and login on Facebook.
Normally, I read the editorial page of Times of India. Most of the time, the thoughts in the 'Speaking Tree' are good to read.

 

Today's article was also good. It was regarding the ten characteristics which a person should have for whatever reasons. For me the reason is to be happy and smiling at the end of the day.
So let's check out what those 10 characteristics are:
1. Earth/Patience.
2. Forgiveness
3. Control
4. Not to steal anything physically or mentally
5. Internal and External Cleanliness
6. Control over the Sensory and Motor Organs
7. Benevolent Intellect
8. Internal Assimilation of External Objectives
9. Truth
10. Non Anger
Had to read the article almost 3-4 times to understand it as per my way of living the life.

 

Many thoughts ran across while reading all this.
Is it possible and easy to have all the above 10 characteristics in this today's world, wherein we all are running around, competing against each other, fighting against ourselves and then our family and then our neighbors and then this world, wanting so many things and if we don't compete, fight, get angry, and so much more...., will it not be tough to live a family and a social life?? Will I actually get smile on my face if I have all this in me? Will I be able to live a easy personal and professional life????Or, all this is just for personal life and not professional? Does it mean, I should have two personalities?? Too many questions...
Ok, suppose if I follow and imbibe all the characteristics written above (by the way, I do have and good percentage of each of them.. :))) so to get 100% won't be tough)but what about others, they will still not be like this and hence, when I come across a person who is at 0% of not having all these characteristics and say I have 100% of all written above..What then?After all, I am a human being. I will be hurt, if I keep forgiving and the other person keeps hurting me. Some day, even my patience will loosen out and I will blast. Volcano is blasting finally. Right???Its like a vicious circle, Isn't it????

So, is it really possible?????

 

Fine, let's leave the humans.
Take the case of an iron.
Iron till the time, we don't do anything has lots n lots of patience. Does nothing. Simple. But,one day a very smart human being comes and he starts hitting this iron who has 100% level of patience in herself(Somewhat similar to the drunken husband beating his wife). But, our sweet little iron is quiet, saying nothing as it has the characteristic of having patience. But till when????? She has not been saying anything, forgiven him for hitting it once, twice, thrice and infinite no. of times. Now, she gets angry and breaks down, no more patience is left and either she gets converted to steel or is broken down into two pieces. Isn't it the case of diamonds made out of rocks and many more other examples which we all keep liking on the facebook to share the flexibility, strength, perseverance and what not...

 

So, somewhat like iron most of these dumb materials have all the above mentioned characteristic; if they can break down in extremes of the situation? What about we humans? We have emotions, we have brains to think, but still we break down..

 

Now, someone might say that we have brains to think and hearts to love. Awesome things given by the God Particle or by God or by DNA's or..... Let the smart people work on this.

 

Time to sleep and think if having even 50% level of each of the above characteristics is enough or complete 100% is required. Will I get my smiles at the end of the day?????

 

Poem by Laura Cummings summarises this. Link http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-vicious-cycle/
Some lines from her poem:
Whipped around, a vicious cycle
full of life and death, each vital to survival.
Giving up, making a new start, taking a chance on something new
Still making no sense at all, but perhaps it's not meant to.
Degrading, crushing, Encouraging, freeing
Compromise, age, learning to wait.
Life and death, each vital to survival.



I want this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



 

Gone are the days...But, not the memories....

Missing those School Days...Wanna go Back!!!

Growing up,
The calamities of adolescence;
Perpetual obstacles, hindering our ability to enjoy the simple things in life.
Incessantly surrounded by drama, “he-said, she-said” gossip,
petty arguments, and the tragic dilemmas of teenage life.
They say these are the best years of our lives.
Stressful schoolwork, the frustration and pressure to do your best, always give 110%.
Imperative decisions and choices that are crucial towards your future,
and the rest of your life are essentially necessary to be made
Right now.
The overwhelming distress and distraught feelings are overpowering.
They say these are the best years of our lives.
And I couldn’t agree more.
For nothing I’d trade the memories made.
The laughter and cheer throughout all of the years outweighs everything else
Making it all worthwhile.
Does it really have to end?

Poem by someone who also felt the same when he/she graduated from his school. Done with my schooling years back, but last week, was cleaning my cupboard and found a big bundle of something. I opened it as had nothing else to do...There came out the cards n cards, letters, write ups and so many in number. I just sat down and started reading each and every card, write up and letters. I was back to my School..Flashback ..almost 10 years back..
I looked at them and laughed n cried..I didnt expect this from myself but it reminded me of my School - Army Public School, my friends, my twelve years, my first educational institute, my first step after my home.

Cards were all those cute ones, but I am sure, each one of them was a value to me at that time and has more n more value to me today.
Such sweet Cards..All the Best, Happy B'Day Cards...Exam Time Card, New Year Cards, Festival Wishing Cards. Some are Handmade, some are bought.
But all this brings back memories of the best time of life. Well said "Savor the moments that are warm, special and giggly."So True "Friendship is like a violin; the music may stop now and then, but the strings will last forever. But every memory of friendship shared, even for a short time, is a treasure, like sunshine and warmth in our lives, like a cool breeze on a humid day, like a shower of rain refreshing the earth."

Now, very special mention of my friend - Meghana Pathania.She was in our School for Class 4 and Class 5. Her father was in Army and hence she had to leave the school as he got posted outside Delhi.

I really don't remeber how come we got so good, so great friends at that age of 8/9 that we decided to write letters to each other. There was no FB or emails during those times. I went through her letters and realized that we were writing even after a year of school and then somehow dont know what happened, why I dont have a letter of hers. Why did we not remain in touch after that? It just means that for almost 7-8 years we were writing to each other. Wow, this sounds so good.
And the letters are so cute. I am sure, I must have written something of the same sort to her, something if we read now, will look how stupid and dumbos we were.  I don't know, why we used to write those letters but now looking back I feel all this makes so sense, doesnt it make sense?
We used to write on that blue inland letters. There was not even a single area which was left unwritten. I am sure, nobody uses those letters now in this fast Internet Facebook World. I have some of her handmade cards too. Such cute and loving messages which I can never get now from anyone.

No idea where she is, what she is doing. But, reading each line of her reminds me of that slim beautiful Meghana. Meghana, I don't know dear, where you are. I tried on Facebook, but no luck.
I agree to this "Friends are the most important part of our life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories"...I have done that and now I am looking forward to meet you somehow, somewhere dear.



Today sitting on my bed and recollecting memories of my school days shows that those were the moments close to my heart and I am holding onto the things I love, what I am today, the things I never want to loose. Schooldays, I believe, are the happiest in the whole span of human existence.
Most of us would agree that the days spent in school are/were certainly the best days of our lives.
Its in school tht we make our first frind, have our first crush, compete to excel, hope for places in the sports teams, eating lunch boxes during classes,and learn our first lessons abot life.

For those whose school is now forever OVER. I still can't get over it - I feel like I'll be going back next year and seeing all the same people, but I won't be one of them! I'm happy and sad about graduating, I guess that's how most people feel.Those who are in school think that when I will grow up n go to college and then to work. But belive me as you grow you will get bored with the narrow mindedness of the things around yourself, closeness of life, and to find yourself as just time machines which is racing against time. Really School Says are the golden days. People call it SCHOOL, but its LIFE.

Delhite Daily Travel and Human Machines!!!

Delhite Daily Travel and Human Machines!!!

Metro, Buses, Cabs everywhere on the roads but not a place to sit.
This is the situation between 8 to 11 AM and between 5 to 8 PM in Delhi everyday.Being a delhite, I am also part of this and cannot avoid it.
Delhi has very good infrastructure and good connectivity through roads and metro system but still due to the rising city needs we face the traffic everyday.

Bus in Delhi

I know how to drive but I am not very confident enough to drive to the office. Hence, I travel by public transport bus.
Today was also as usual day. I took the Bus No. 392 from Hyatt Hotel. Normally, I get seat in the bus as its almost the beginning stop of the bus. The bus journey is for almost 1.20 hours. So either, I sometimes take nap, or just sit and think (ME Time) or sometimes I read the book.
This week I started reading 'Atlas Shrugged'. Kind of liking the book as of now. I took the tickets and sat down and started with my book. Almost half journey was covered and I felt a bit sleepy, so closed the book and my eyes too.

Today's Situation of my morning travel to Office

Suddenly a creeping sound and bus stopped. Driver made the announcment that some issue in the coolant and hence, we need to get into the next bus. I had nothing to feel. Ok, we all came out. Next bus came and some of the passengers from this bus got into the same. It was crowded, I was not able to enter. Then the second and third bus came, highly crowded and hence I kept on standing on the road waiting for the next bus. Fourth bus came, and I decided to get in. It was almost full, five of us tried to get in. I decided whatever it is, I will get it. I was kind of the last one to get it and I can't believe even now that I got in the bus and travelled like this. I have no photo/picture of the same but I took one picture from google and posting it here. I had just one foot on the bus and 2nd was on top of it. My bag on my back. One hand holding the handle and other holding my book.I Was almost 3/4th in the air.
I travelld like this for almost 4-5 km. And one push from inside and I Would have been on road and gone forever, but still I didnt feel like getting angry on anybody. There was no frustration that why and what. I Was just standing, bit smiling on seeing that if somebody sees me likes this then ... No comments.
After the next stop, some people got down and I got a place to stand inside the bus.

Story of this unusual thing in my daily routine ends here but maybe this is the normal routine for most of the people everyday here and in most parts of the world. I have so many things going in my mind thinking of this that where are we all rushing and why? What if by mistake, somebody would have given a push and I on the road. I know, I would have been writing this blog from either heaven or hell. What else would have happened. Police, Hospital, Cries, sadness and some more sadness and after some years again its a normal life. Whenever the blasts happen, breath stops for so many, so many of them who are still breathing cry for them but next day they are back on the road running here and there for money, for food, for job, cursing each other and what not...Do we stop???

Why can't we live our present? I am not saying that we should not think of the future and not invest and etccc.....We should, but why are we just running and not able to smile on the small things.

This is not the sitiuation of Delhi, or India or one part of the world but it is is for all over the world. One just gets up in the morning like a machine. As he has been told by his doctor, so does some excerices but keeps on thinking of all what meetings he has to do in the whole day. Take breakfast like the daily dose of medicine. Get onto the road by some means of transport. Reach Office. Work mechanically and back again on the road. Back home, have dinner - last dose of the medicine and go to sleep. Bonus, if you get the time to talk to your family for some minutes.

Where and for what are we heading for???