Life is hard is it??

“When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"”

the above line was said by an american journalist and author Sydney J. Harris. Though it may sound hilarious but it is so very true. Almost everyday in our life starts with cursing something or somebody, if we get nothing to badmouth about, we will catch hold of Monday and start venting out our emotion against this day. Oh! we really hate Monday like anything even after knowing that it is just a day or another chance for us to start living our life.

At times, I wonder if the toughest job has gone to Almighty. He created a beautiful world, filled it with everything one needs to enjoy life, tried every bit of Him to ensure that the ride for anyone here should not be too hard, but we, so called, the best creation of Almighty, always find going tough and keep complaining about it.

It is not too long, when I too was breathing out with the statement that Life is so hard, without even realizing who I am comparing it with. After coming across with the above statement, I pondered over it and tried to trace the source of comparison and I failed miserably. I realized that it was a momentarily setback of life, which pushed me to a corner and instead of fighting back and giving it a befitting reply, I surrendered and put entire blame on life for everything. May be, because it was the easiest thing to do. Fighting your way back needs hell lot of determination and efforts, who the hell on this earth would want to make so much of efforts, when one can easily sit back and morn for some time by saying Life is hard and the best part of doing it, is that one will easily get the company as well.

The road between two places can't be smooth throughout till the end, there must be some bumpy ride, pot holes and roadblocks, which one needs to overcome in order to reach the destinations but that doesn't mean journey is bad or not worthwhile. It all depends on the very fact that how much fun you are having during the journey. If you look for a smooth ride, journey will seem to be hard but if you look for fun, adventures, brimming with the enthusiasm of exploring something new, roadblocks will come as a hindrance, instead you will start enjoying that too. Life is an awesome journey so instead of tagging it with being "Hard", enjoy every bit of it. Just "Enjoy your Journey".... :)

Either perish or rule, don't be static

I was lost in fast moving life for past some time and was not at all ready to slow down, hence the long delay in scribbling another post in my new virtual incarnation i.e. in my blog.

I was pushed back and fixed in a tight corner many times in past some day at both personal and professional front and was not able to figure out how to live pass all this. My well crafted hectic schedule was not helping me out to figure out a solution either. Consequence was reflecting in the form of an unnecessary stress. It is when I decided to slow down in life a bit and took a small break to revive myself.

Like a great person has rightly said that if you are not spending some time with you in a day, you are missing a great company. So, at times, break means to block all the roads reaching to you for everyone and let yourself enjoy your own company and that's exactly I opted for.

A philosopher has said that If you are not able to find out a solution for future in today, try to search for it in history. The old pages have never been best of my friends, it bores me to death so I thought of going down the memory lane and remember good old days, which are engrossed so deeply in my subconscious mind that I can clearly see it whenever I feel like or whenever I give myself a chance to laugh and feel ecstatic about life.

An array of incidents flashed in front of my closed eyes in a jiffy and while laughing my heart out, I realized a pattern in these incidents. Almost all of these moments which is crystal clear in my head and still alive as if, I am still living them, are the moments when bunch of we friends, who can aptly be termed as "moron" now, not only challenged the status quo but went beyond it. When we scribbled our own rule book of right and wrong, when we were caught of doing something, which was not the ideal solution but the only solution left for us and in most of the instances we were in deep shit... :)

I tried very hard but was unable to bring a day alive in my memory which was an average day. When while in school, I went to school well prepared and didn't do any mischievous activity or while in college a day when we just shared jokes, did nothing and returned to home. It is not because, I was a spoiled brat in my school days and never let a single day went by without doing something naughty or all days were very happening during my college days, it is because I don't remember those average days today, when everything was so hunky dory.

Life is nothing but a collection of these memories. A day, when you break all the laws to achieve your dreams. When faux pas is just a word for you which was coined by a society that has never lived and is ready to accept you only on a condition that you do the same. When you are so confident in present that you are ready to take chances even if it means that you need to put your future on stake. Days, when you put your entire efforts in living in today and don't bother about the future because you realized that tomorrow never comes and if it comes, you are capable of handling it. The golden times of life were always those days when we really took chances and tried to follow our heart instead of well defined rule books.

This small break gave me a solution, I was trying to find out for so long. I can be pushed back for a while, can be fixed in a tight corner but can't be stopped in making efforts in realizing my dreams. I have chosen to make efforts to rule even if it means I get perished in the process.

It is an old belief that during our last moments the entire life will flash in front of us, I hope, I won't see myself sitting in a cubical and dragging my feet on files and counting how much money I have in my bank. Instead, I would love to see myself cackling and enjoying the ride till the D-day so that I can peacefully close my eyes saying I don't have regret, for, I have been in every highways, I have seen every single thing crafted by Almighty and created by human being. I have "Enjoyed my journey", hence I am no longer bother about the destination..... Amen!!... :)

Time for yet another healing

Happy belated B'day Kasab, you have completed enough time in India to become eligible for the hospitality, India is known for. The soul of our warm hospitality underlies in the dictum, that says "Athiti Devo Bhava" i.e. Guest is God. You were never a welcomed guest in our country neither you are going to be ever, but the way our government has treated you so far, you are the most expensive guest (welcomed or unwelcome), we have ever had. So let me play my part by wishing you B'day.

You may not be aware of the fireworks that was done in Mumbai on your b'day. Though, there was no celebration, joy or harmony while those callous bomb were bursting, instead there was stampede, tears, fear, and ire.

So, you have again put this country in healing process, healing from the nightmares of seeing bloodshed, healing from a loss of losing someone they love. Congrats Kasab, people of your kind of believe have done it again.

Let me give you, your b'day gift in the form of an information. India is just like a sea, cool and calm, it peacefully accepts everything and forgives people for throwing all the garbage in it, but that doesn't mean that it is powerless. It owns tsunami in its belly and when it comes, it sweeps away everything. Incidents like yesterday have shaken the India's belly and brought the people together again. It has created the ripples, just wait for this ripples to become tsunami, until then, Enjoy your journey.

Bienvenida

Bienvenida is a Spanish word, which means "welcome". The question would be raised that why have I made this so complicated when I always had an option of saying it in a plain English? Well, I am an average guy and an average guy gets up early in the morning and start making life complicated. We send our kids to tuition to overload them with the information as if school is not good enough to do this honor, we ask them to learn computer and stay away from playing in mud, enjoying rain and then we expect them to stay close to nature, without even knowing ourselves how would they do it. We fall for someone and hide the feelings from them only. We go to rashion shop to buy something and knowing the fact that the guy is charging us nominal price, we bargain with him but for the same goods, we are ready to pay higher prices in sophisticated malls and that too with a sense of satisfaction. We criticize but never try to figure out the solution and then we have one complain that life is so complicated and hard. So I thought of sticking to my strength and make things a little complicated here, hence "Bienvenida"... :-)...

"Enjoy your journey" is nothing but a way to reach people and get connected with them. After all, we are on a journey called life with a predetermined destination, we may not enjoy the end of the journey so let us ensure that we cherish the journey..... Bienvenida.... :-)