My Dreams.....

Even when my eyes are wide open, there's this world I have - the world of my dreams - that slowly appears and begins to take control of me. It all starts like a small glint of sparkle, and within no time, I see my dreams dancing in my eyes like erupting flames of fire. A thousand worlds with their own gateways and their own stories appear, and the next moment I see myself in places I never knew could exist.
And when I'm THERE, I ride on the winds of blue sky, enclosing the reddish sun with open arms. Somehow, my inner being sparkles like a reflection of the happy mood of this world so unimaginable.

My dreams hold no doubts, neither do they possess any expectations from me - unlike this world where every step I take is doubted and questioned. They belong with me, completely. I carry them, running like an innocent child, and they - like a kite in my control - follow me, flying with all their magnificence. And often, when I desire, I fly along with them, in those open spaces, unrestricted, unbounded.
I own my dreams more like they're a part of me.. And why not? I've been nurturing them ever since I was a little kid. As the time has flown, My dreams have grown too. From the childhood wonderland to empire of ecstasy and hope, they've come a long way.

They know my heart felt desire to grow old and wise, and find MY purpose of life, but at the same time, always keep reminding me of the childlike joyful world which initiated them. You might want to term all this as running away from the obvious or being insanely optimistic, but I wouldn't call my dreams a refuge from reality. But yes, when I am with them, there's NOTHING else that matters more for me.

PS : After writing it, even i am thinking what i have written... :P

Happiness...The way it is!!

Life, as they say, is a castle of building blocks. You put it piece by piece to carve out the best shape and a sweeping wind all of a sudden destroys it all.. There is end of your life, and you leave this world as you came, "EMPTY HANDED"..

It leaves us with a question, What are we doing about it? Should we just throw up our hands in despair and lament about the fact that all we have is going to be left behind? 

Let's just change the perspective and look it this way,

When in the end, all will be left, lets collect something which we don't have to carry, let's collect which is serene, lets collect what we are going to spread as we leave, lets collect HAPPINESS!!

This is,just exactly the answer of the next obvious question..where do we find happiness? It does not come from getting a dream job that pays you million dollars. Neither does it come from living in a 20-storey mansion where you need a mercedes not only to travel outside,but inside too. Its all a matter of collecting the right moments, savoring the right memories, relishing the right company. When was the last time you became happy with no fear in mind? 

• When you fed a poor hungry street kid, and felt the peace and satisfaction watching him eat, did you feel happy that time?
• When all of a sudden, a friend with whom you hadn't talked to for years, called you up. His voice, his stories, did that make you happy?
• When your friend was sad, sitting alone and you judged the situation without asking, hugged him and said, "It will be all right buddy!!" and then he smiled. That must be something that made you feel happy too.
• Sitting with your loved one, you watched a romantic movie,and after it ended, SHE/HE said to you, "I LOVE YOU DEAR!!" Did you feel happy then?
• When you spent the best of the hours with people you love, and remembered those moments later at night, I bet it brought happiness on your face.
• When after all the toil, you presented your first salary check to your dad, did that glint of pride in his eyes bring happiness to you?
• Being with a baby, playing with him, watching him smile, feeling his little hands and feet, and watching him sleep, you felt a smile on your face too?
• Being in nature's lap,on a mountain, in a green field,or at a beach, feeling the breeze, watching the people pass by,watching the morning sun and closing your eyes. you definitely felt that happiness.
• When in the middle of the night, and your snoring sounds, somebody woke you up, turned on the lights and screamed. "SURPRIZE!!!" You must have got irritated then but it did bring a smile on your face later, didn't it?
• That moment when you lived the way you wanted to, screamed, laughed at something which only you and your friend knew about, joked meaninglessly..teased your loved ones..beahaved like mad people, danced so carelessly that it looked obscene, sang like the worst singers and felt proud of it, your most embarassing moment, your moment of victory, the moment you got caught something you were not suppossed to do, oh and the list is endless. Doesn't remembering all this makes you happy? not even a little bit?

That is what happiness is all about. Live your life so that there's never a dull moment. Every second, every minute is yours. Go on, find people who care for you and live your life the way you want. Live for others, live for yourself!! Just Live your life.. Coz we live once and only ONCE. Rest becomes history!!

Life is Good.. :)

I was just that thinking that how many emotions & feelings do we get in a day...& for how many of them do we care.Well, a laymen will say that since we have got a heart or in a learned man's language since we have a brain which has a part that controls emotions we will keep on getting these emotions..All right!...Agreed over that fact...but I was more amused over the fact that do we really need to care about all those emotions...
                                We meet so many people....we do so many activities in a day...we have many good & bad moments in a day...all of them leave an impression on us in some or other way...& many of those impressions sometimes take us down many times that we start taking no care of all those moments that we could have enjoyed....& in the end all we are left with is just "a sad day"...
                              But here is one thing that I noticed....which no one cares to notice in that period of waves & tides.....that we get hurt by only those feelings which are in some way or other related to people about whom we care....people we love...people by whom you want to get loved...So, feeling good for the thought that there are people about whom we care...people who care for us never seems so bad.....At least we are blessed with God's care that he has given us some people in our life who are attached to us with an invisible string...that keeps us binded to this world....

And in the end...life is after all just a journey...a journey which all travelers can travel only once...no matter how rich or powerful they are....So why not enjoy all the stops coming in between our journeys...after all every stations has its own importance...& enjoy the MOMENTS OF LIFE....:) 

after all Friends makes " A Life " to " The Life ".

A Friend.....!!

we all received a treasure..
And it came in the form of a friend..
and thats you...
Initially it was a treasure unnoticed and unvalued,
Until the time that showed me that even the diamonds lose there value with time if not treasured and secured....

Those were the times i realized that unknowingly i depended on you for every small bit i did...
For every small mishap i made..
For every grudge i had..
For every bit of my life...

And now you are so important to me..
and i want to thank you for whatever memories we created..
Whenever i see you i am reminded of myself....

TOGETHER we have done so much,
SEEN so much,
FELT so much,
WITH a knowing smile,
I look back at the shared times
AND all the things that only you and i know,
NOW i know that even ma low voice haunts you to find the reason that makes me unhappy,
EVEN my Facebook status makes you call me and ask the reason for it,
ALL THESE GESTURE OF YOURS REALLY MAKE MY LIFE SPECIAL....

I look ahead 2 the future when you would no more be here...
I look ahead 2 the times when our career and personal life would make things difficult...
I look ahead 2 the times when keeping in touch would mean calling business associates..
I look ahead 2 d times when the cobwebs of life would make us forget each others birthdays..
BUT STILL WITH GREAT HOPES N EXPECTATIONS
I STILL look ahead 2 the times and things tat only you and i will share..
The IGNORANT gestures that only we will feel....

YOU not only put a SMILE on ma face..
BUT you put a SMILE in ma HEART..

Move On......

  "Be careful what you wish for...cause you just might get it all.............and then some you don't want!!"

Almost all of us sometimes think about the good times we have spent in the past…..those best days of our lives which we wanna live again and again, and will still never get enough of it. Surely we want to get back in time and live those moments again....If you don’t find anything interesting in your past to remember it by,…..start creating them right now. Life is full of good bad times, create some and experience the exhilaration of this roller coaster ride called life.

Anyway, we all have some good old memories we cherish. It could be of the high school, where all the things happen for the first time.…Bunking class just to chat, movies with friends and most importantly, first crush. Or it could be of the college, where all these same things happened again, but in full extreme. Bunking every alternate class, going to movies according to TOI rating and crushes one after another….. For me School was all about “How to”. All my energy was focused on how to get good marks in exams, how to make my parents proud, how to create trouble for my teachers and what excuse i should make to escape from admonishment of  papa with the help of mummy… After getting into the college, I made a conscious effort to stop indulging into any kind of cerebral exercise and now it all becomes about "How not to". All of my energy was focusing on…..how not to flunk the exams, how not to get caught when I lie to my parents and.....how to save time to play Counter Strike!!

I do not have any doubt that my best time was college. While in college, I wished to get over with it soon and start with my professional life. In starting Professional life was like i am in Heaven as i was at Coimbatore for ILP. I don't remember any day when i remembered my college days. It was memorable time of my life with persons from different places, different culture at a different place and then i come to know this is best time of my life, better than college life.  Now when I too have joined the rat race and became a Naukri-wala…. I think about the time I have spent in college and ILP. I miss knocking myself out in the middle of the week not worrying about tomorrow, chatting till three at night and staying half asleep in the class... and many things like that which are now long gone.........Office seems to be full of pot-bellied bald guys, wearing black leather formal shoes with formal dresses, having espresso every hour just to keep their eyes wide open and saving themselves from falling asleep on their systems, which if would break. If you want to see how the world would look like if apocalypse would ever happen and everybody turns into a zombie…my office gives you the best picture….and for that matter any office…..One more thing which terribly sucks is to tell people that I am no longer a student. People expect a lot of money from you which you do not really have as they know that you are working in a big corporate, they expect a big bribe.

All of that was in the past and has left some really great memories. Could be school, college, ILP or happy moments with someone special or any other times, but we all have some pleasant memories of our past. It’s sometime good to take little time out of our busy lives and think about it. This will definitely bring a smile on your face.  But, life is all about moving on and creating lot more beautiful memories like these which we would cherish in future.

Move On...!!
Be Happy always and enjoy each moment because KAL HO NA HO.....!! :)

Undefined Relationship.....

There are relationships that you don’t know exists yet they provide you shade in the scorching heat of noon of life. They are not necessarily tagged as a friend, brother, blood relation or any thing for that matter. You have a perception; and that carries the relationship, no matter how many fences you cultivate to keep it in a fixed dimension. It does not know any limits, it just keeps rolling and growing till it is so prominent that you feel a little scared about imagining life without it because you are grown so use to living with it.

 It is just the same feeling when a tree allows a creeper plant to grow near its roots. It grows along with the tree like a true friend sharing the sunshine, the air and water and be there with it in times of joy sorrow and indifference. It makes the tree feel that it is not standing tall alone in the wind. The creeper is always there to protect it and cover it up and so the tree does not feel vulnerable.

 And gradually the tree thinks creeper is creeping and overgrowing it. He doesn’t even get to know that it has become such an integral part of  his life that he would be a lame duck without it.

 And then tree thinks he is suffocated and all his share of sunshine and the nourishment is just absorbed by the creeper. The tree is just so helpless and thinks that he is going to die.

The leaves go pale, the branches are limp and not holding firm. He starts to hate the creeper.

Then tree thinks that the deciding point has come when either he has to just give up and wait for its organs to decay or he can fight. And he fights. forgetting the fact that he is fighting the same soul that he chose as a friend and the one who has done so many things for him.

With time the creeper is gone, it cant live forever.

And then tree covered with the decaying creeper branches realises it. Leaves left soggy and rotten. It reminds the tree of days when they use to be green together. The pink petals of creeper flowers mixing with the yellow flowers of tree use to look like a rainbow.

With the heat the creeper dead remains just dries from the bark of the tree just like the skin peeled off from the black cobra's body every season. Then he feels how secluded he is and craves for the time to travel back.

And the tree stands alone with the memories of the creeper fighting the scorching heat. It now regrets the time when he thought the creeper was snatching his share of nourishment. How foolish he was. That was because creeper wanted to cover him so nice and dense that nothing can harm the tree.Why did he argue with the creeper? 

Alas! the creeper is gone and the tree just lost in the guilt.

Waiting for the one chance to say sorry to his creeper friend.

The nice people whom you meet and they really care are those creepers which never let you know that how much they love you that they want you to stay safe and nice at the expense of themselves. And you are just like that selfish tree who later laments that why didn’t he appreciate them in the right moment of time. If you are one amongst them then come join me. Even I am one of those stupid creature who never paid any attention to my creepers.