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.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!