Rains and those Days...

Sitting by your window sill sipping a cup of hot coffee while reading a love story and seeing the rains pour. Ah! that is exactly how it feels,isn't it? Monsoons have arrived and they bring out the best in you. They do! Giving you a break from the vicious heat and making you ready to face those cold winters wrapped in the lights of festivities. The season of happiness, love, heart breaks, warmth, new friendships, mass bunks, hot pakoras and that adrak wali chai, rains caste their spell immediately. The comfort they carry is accompanied by the freshness that they bring along.
Ever seen a kid making paper boats while it rains heavily, or a group of teens enjoying the weather while they sit at the canteen, or a bunch of school kids getting wet in the rain and dancing while coming back home, or a mother who is about to conceive feeling happy seeing it pour heavily,or people falling in love or a newly wed sitting on the marine drive enjoying the rains?

 If you haven't taken out the time or had not had the chance to view at least some of these then you are missing out on LIFE. You are.Ummm? What? Really,don't give yourself a lame excuse of missing out on any of  these because of your night shifts, busy schedules or simply lack of time. It's not just rains that you are missing but you are missing out on a beautiful chapter of life, that aspect when people are the most warm, the most expressive and its not just nature at its best but people who are at there ever best. It's rightly said that 'Some people feel the rain,while others just get wet' and it gives a sense of insane happiness belonging to the former. These little things in life make everything seem beautiful. Those tensions of a pending loan, a demanding job, a fussy boss, an incompatible life partner, a troublesome tenant, a bad relationship, an unaccomplished career, a fight with a best friend, a failure, an insufficient salary, a final examination, a not so homely hostel would always remain. Trust me ALWAYS! And it's time when you overlook these 'oh-so-important' things of life to peep into the brighter side of your life. To view the rains pour, the nature turn beautiful and your 'blue' days turn better :) These things in life bring out not only the lighter aspect in you, but it also brings out the kid inside which has somewhere been lost under the shackles of maturity and time. Don't let that kid die inside because as I always say this mad world needs that 'grain of insanity' in you so make sure you carry it. Life is beautiful only for those who know how to look at it.Take everything with a pinch of salt and  remember that its important to weather the storm and dance in the rain.
#makesureyoudance #monsoons #rains #bestseason

Slow Down

Dreams.Ambition.Focus.Career.Goals
That is all that I have been talking about in one or the other manner till date. But suddenly it hits me, that how 'obsessed' have I turned out to be about certain things in life? It never happened to strike me this way before, like it did a while ago. In this hoard of reaching out to things so ambitiously I completely forgot the most important thing that was equally essential to be done.To SLOW DOWN! Yes. That's what I had been missing out since a while. Of course we need to be goal directed in today's era but then we need to pause and rewind too. How important is it to look back and reflect upon the journey you have traveled till now? I guess absolutely essential. It's good to carry a direction n life, to have something to work upon and to have a sense of purpose in life but like every automobile needs a 'service' to work efficiently again, every 'mobile' needs a recharge before it dies out similarly every one of us need that 'energy booster' or rather 'power saver' mode once in a blue moon. The only reason that I thought of writing upon this 'not so thought of' topic was that I had missed upon this 'break' and drifted from my sense of 'passion' in life and I dint want any one of you to do the same.It's good to learn from mistakes. So all you fellow readers here who are or have been experiencing a sense of 'focus loss' in life lately and haven't been able to get hold of the 'why' of it, probably one of the reasons could have been staying 'over focused' since long We have a tendency of  being dichotomous,don't we? There are no grey shades to life, it's either black or white. But sometimes it's good to take the middle path, to follow your heart and not your mind,to take a deep breath and to just let things go where they want to because at the end you will only get what you really wanted to. Trust me on that. It's equally essential to follow like it is to lead, because unless you follow you would not know how to lead. It's a very common scenario today, when articles are flooded about how to get rid of 'frustration', 'stress' and 'depression' in life and all of them brimming from nothing but 'life stress'. No doubt that the amount of tensions and work pressure is exceedingly high these days but then you need to have your own stress busters. It's good to go out on an odd Sunday evening with your family and not your colleagues, to go out on the lake instead the mall, to watch out on nature rather than your idiot box. That work's, it absolutely does. So make sure that you make up your bucket list soon, I've already got mine... Just be sure that you carry your own grain of insanity in this mad mad world and then life will be worth it!

 #Carrygoodnessaround #yougetwhatyousow

Something I Miss...

Some times are like water, however hard you may try and hold them they just keep drifting off your hands and some like sand,however hard you may want to let them go, they don't until you let your fists open.
And sometimes opening your fist isn't that easy. Everybody has there own story to tell and there own good and bad times. But the times that I miss, those that I know will never come back, those that I long for are the ones bygone. Some people get what they want so easy isn't it? I haven't been lucky to get what I want from life that 'easy'. Never in my life have things been an easy prey. Those who get hold of anything and everything they desire, I don't know whether it's something to be happy of or something to be afraid from? I am sure we can figure this out by the end of the post but for now every coin has two sides and the side unnoticed is often the side one should be looking at. Let's unleash the latter. I don't think getting what you want from life every single time would be interesting. Though I do agree that my bias for the ones working for there goals is more because I relate to that slot but still trying my best at neutrality I really think the former aren't very fortunate. Not because they get 'everything' but because they get everything without working towards it. I've always held a strong belief that its not really about the happy ending but the 'journey' and it's sad that they have missed the 'journey' part to there story. That journey which would have made them better, that journey which would have redefined there perspective towards there 'I', 'me' and 'mine' and perhaps that journey which would have given them the courage to fight there own battles, to stand tall in front of every storm, to have that aspect of 'humanity' still alive in them. I am proud that I belong to the era when to win a 10 rupee note from my parents I had to score a 10 on 10, proud that I belong to the time when I was given a pat on my back for wishing my elders, proud that for me 'childhood' meant tom and Jerry,outdoor games with my neighbor hood friends,proud that the definition of 'happiness' started at family and ended at friends. It gives me immense pain to see the rate of crime,corruption and for that matter disrespect growing amongst the younger slot. It's those times I miss when teachers meant lifelines and parents meant our entire world. In that hoard of moving forward, of getting everything with a click of a mouse the people today have forgotten where they have come from. It's not that change isn't required,it definitely is. Change is the law of nature and thus is inescapable but then there are some things that are constant and should always be.You can always change for the better. With the increasing count of elderly in old age homes, teachers being ridiculed by there students, molestation cases by there very own family members I don't know what are we up to? If that is the swag you want to brag about then I am sorry it's not cool. To forget your roots and carrying pride in it, is really not cool. How difficult is it to stay loyal to your family,to bestow trust upon your friends,to carry goodness around you? I still don't think it's that difficult. It's those times that I miss...
I don't know if you've carried something to look back from my post but I have a little quote that will do the summing up for me...
#justbe #reflections #lookingback
Make sure you are able to do this too....