Love or Money?

The world appears to be running crazy about money, regimes are being driven unethically in their own ways and people trying to emulate characters which they are not. Today, goals are set keeping in mind the profit & loss statements rather than realizing where our happiness lies. What everyone is deliberately neglecting is the fact that even success is worthless without happiness.

There is no amount in this world which could satisfy us more than a kiss from our loved one when we are feeling down and out. Money is something which will always win us competitors. On the contrary, love is something which will always bring us admirers. Money, no doubt, is one of the most important requisite of life but having it at the cost of love and/or happiness simply makes no sense.

I dream of a life where people around me can feel the positive vibes emanating from my body, I dream of a life where I can impart so much happiness to everyone around that my misery will be a matter of more concern to them than what it will be for me and I dream of a life where I can have friends who will ask "Why are you not smiling?" than the ones who wait for a tear to trickle down my cheek so that they can wipe it off.

We are slowly turning ourselves into the beasts who acknowledge only possession and categorizes everything in just two columns, i.e., one of success and the other one of failure. Efforts count for nothing if results are not met as per desire and on time and love counts for nothing if the other half declines our proposal. Can't we be content in the fact that we were able to spend some of the most beautiful and memorable moments with that person which we can cherish forever?

The questions are many but I don't think anyone is ready to address them and to introspect his/her own self, especially when even the most purest feeling, love, has been divided, as per convenience, into crush, infatuation and flirt.

Women- The Epitome Of Love And Power

Power is not something that deals with the physical dominance of one over the other. Neither does it have any roots with the display of authority, as is normally perceived. But power is something that is proportional to the degree of self-control that one possess. And this is where I epitomize women.

They love us but never say, they care for us but never show, they want us to be there for them always but they don't admit. This is all just because they are not from among those who like to exaggerate things.

Their love, care or even hate can never be matched with that of their male counterparts. The male fraternity is often touted to be the one opportunist species. On the other hand, a woman's love is like a divine blessing for a man, that can be in the form of a mother, sister or a girlfriend.

Out of the above three, love from the former two is pretty much expected and predictable. But love from a girlfriend is something very special and different from the rest. This fact is attributed to the reason that the relationship with a girlfriend is a relation of commitment and not obligation. Moreover, unlike in the former two relations, here it is our own decision to choose the person to get into a relationship with, which further makes it an extra bit special.

An ideal girlfriend is the one who listens to us patiently for long when we feel disturbed, who gives us a hug to let us know she cares when the whole world seems against us, with whom we can easily share things which we can't even dream of talking to anyone else in this world and one who understands the speech of our silence more precisely than the speech of our words.

A women really is an epitome of true love with a will-power that is next to only God in might. I just hope to have one such divine gift by my side sometime sooner to face this callous world head-high. Hope the God is listening.....

She Is All Over My Mind

All my day is spent in gloom thinking about her, thinking about what went wrong and thinking about what she would be thinking about it all. Days, somehow, pass by because of the chirping of people around me and many more such stuffs which make me realize that life does exist in here further pushing me towards being a part of those lively people.


But as the night approaches, the pores of my skin expands three times than normal allowing abnormal passage of sweat all through my body. Night scares me off as the world seems to be scrapped of each and every single creature around. Night reminds me of the night which brought this uncalled fear into my nights.


I agree with God that it's not just me who is suffering. But I also confess to Him that I am from among His those creatures who have miserably failed to find solace.


I fear night as I feel that it is mocking me. I fear night as I feel it is laughing at me for being so stupid that I couldn't make her believe that I loved her. I fear night as I feel it is standing over my head and berating me for being childish in my confession and I fear night because I have started to hate my own self for letting her go in the midst of dark night at that critical moment.


I lay down my body onto the bed just to appease the night which seems to be staring at me. I stay on my bed so that night doesn't term me deceptive. Though I fear night, but I also fear that if I make it angry, then even this night will leave me just like she did. I let the night pass by faking sleep and keeping my eyes closed till dawn.


I am just waiting for the night when I'll actually be able to sleep without being fake to it.

You And Me

I kept on constructing the path to allow smooth sailing of our relationship but you kept on trying your level best not to let that happen. At the same time, you made sure that you aren't off that road either. Why does it happen in some relationships that the onus of moving forward is left on just one individual?


Nowadays, relationships are such that they can easily be compared to the trading business in stock markets. Some invest a little bit into their relationships but are able to reap a 'fatty return'. On the other hand, some invest every possible thing into their relationships but what all they are able to get as a pay back are some scars over heart and some bitter memories for the mind to hold for the rest of life.


I personally believe that one of the most important aspect of life is the art of choosing right blend of words for framing a sentence because generally words hurt more badly than spears or anything else possible can. You seemed to lack that aspect but I never did. No matter you like me or not, but you can never scrap the fact that you act as the oil lightening the lamps of my creative thoughts.


I always respected you and your decisions. After all, love is not a mutual bond or deal signed between the two. It is just a beautiful feeling that blossoms within the heart for someone.


And finally, I would like to quote one last thing. All what transpired between us made my faith more firm on the fact that heartbreak fuels creative expression in a such a furious way that even those who normally play 'war with words' end up becoming 'the czar of words' after the folding of all the events.

When I'll Not Be Here

The hardest punch of the lifetime is supposed to be delivered by the life itself. Even the thought of parting with your loved ones sends a shiver in the body, right from the top of the skull to the tip of the toe. I was thinking of such a situation and penned down a few lines trying to capture some beautiful moments. Hope the readers like it.

When I was with you, you never talked to me

When I walked with you, you never walked with me

Now your eyes are red and full of tears

But now I'll not be here

I still feel the touch of my loved ones

Their face is now that path on which a tear runs

I once said to them they will search for me in air

When I'll not be here

When I scolded you, you didn't talk to me

Then I made a plea to patch up with me

Now when you'll make a plea, you'll find me nowhere

As I'll not be here

You made me walk on the path which showered pain

Such was my faith on you that I didn't complain

Though the target is still far but it'll surely get near

When I'll not be here

You will cry for a week then settle down

I was to be in your heart and wear a crown

I may be dead but from heaven I'll glare

When I'll not be here......

The Art Of Living

Learning is one specific term that has always been substituted with cramming. Segregation of students take place solely on the basis of grades. But the irony surrounding all such 'sensitive and worth addressing' issues is that reforms hardly face into these dimensions. All you get, after waiting for a decade for corrective measures, is a film like "3 Idiots".

The film touches the chord with every section of society (especially the youths), churns out quanta of profit and finally phase out after sometime. At the end of the day, we are left battling the same system without having even a 'quark bit of change' in it.

Most of the time, I keep on wondering why is there such a huge gap between the quality of graduates being produced throughout the country and the industry requirements. Once I read a newspaper article that was compiled using the statistical data record of the NASSCOM, providing the figure of employable graduates from technical and non-technical backgrounds.

It stated- "out of the total technical graduates being produced in an year, only 10-15% are employable with the figure falling even more shallow to 5-8% for those hailing from non-technical background".

Don't you think its quite a startling fact? Is it going to do any good to quench the thirst of skilled man-power which an economically growing giant like India requires? There need to be some changes, especially in education system, where there is ample room for it. Becoming a jobless graduate will only add on to the rising problem of the world, i.e., the possible threat of "academic inflation". So, is this how we will challenge the world of being a power enough in the near future? Atleast, I beg to differ in this case. The future position of our country depend on the youths. As the matter of fact, for any country it's the same, be it a developing nation or a developed nation.

India is poised fantastically to look at the world 'eye in eye' and ditch its tag of being "a third world nation". Hope the 'much anticipated' changes in every sector, especially education, sets in before there is irrepairable damage done to it.

Regards.

Video showcasing Sir Ken Robinson deliver a fantabulous speech. A must watch for everyone.
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity Video on TED.com

The process of learning and constraints of life-(Part 1)

What exactly is the definition of life? And what precisely is the best way to live a life? These are the two questions that generally keep on pinning us all every now and then.

As far as the answers to these questions are concerned, there can be many. Every individual has got a different perspective of viewing life but they can all be interpreted to reach on to a unanimous conclusion, i.e., life is meant to conquer all that comes into way and the best way to live life is to follow one's own heart.

But how many of us get a chance to really live a life? Here, this question is worth being asked to our own selves. We throw our lives into jeopardy even though we know all the basics of living a life. Why is it so?

We know what all we need to pass through any hurdle is the possession of confidence of being able to do so. It's the primary requirement to accomplish something. Then why can't we just instill that confidence into us? We know that our confidence level is inversely proportional to the confidence level of our opponent. Then how come is it possible that we can't capitalize? Here, we do have a solution to our problem right in front of us, but we just can't get on to it.

Why in the life are we made to study what others have already discovered? Don't you think if one is creative enough then he/she can manage without going through these cliche of sequences?

The process that one would undertake to find a valid reason for the happening of an event in a specified manner is termed as the process of learning not the one which we practice. Nobody taught Newton about the concept of gravity when he was sitting beneath that apple tree! It was mere a thought of 'why and how' that prompted him to investigate the matter. That is what we call learning. Learning is not something of the type of mugging, it's something that makes you lose your own self into deep genuine thoughts of finding a reason for an event.

But not being a stereotype can again lend your life in trouble if you don't have apt backing behind you. The simple solution to all above glitch about the process of learning is to follow in on the already travelled paths. Since most of us still fail to do that, that's why life is often termed as "the mystery of solutions".

This is the conclusion of the first part of this write up which housed the introduction section. In the next part, I'll try to puke in over the page some more confusions that infest me and my life which are mainly related to education system, conservative family brought up and many more such unaddressed issues existing in this country.

CLARIFICATION NOTE- These thoughts hit my mind way way before the release of TZP and 3Idiots. So don't think of this as its copy.

Regards.