Good Day Folks - Morning Wishes From A Fellow Indian Friend

I always wonder what would it feel like if the sun rises right in front me at 12 in the midnight while I'm preparing myself for a good night's sleep after finishing the day's work. It’s midnight here in India and almost everyone around me has fallen asleep, so I thought about writing this article for the people living in countries where the sun has already risen or is about to rise.

 Howdy dear friends! Hope your day turns out to be a great. I hope you get through this day without being run over by a vehicle, without slipping and felling on a banana skin, carelessly thrown by some idiot, on the road; without being shouted at by your boss and without having to work for more than 8 hours on this day. I wish that your spouse maintains a good mood throughout the day and treats you with intimate kisses and hugs whenever you meet her and that she does not pester to meet your in-laws and I also wish that she gives you enough space to let you watch your favorite game and most importantly I wish she understands you this day. I hope that your coffee machine does not malfunction and I also hope that your dog does not piss on your couch today. I pray for the late comers that they are able to get the cab on time and are not stymied by traffic along the way. I sincerely wish that your colleague does not try to get credit for your idea, that you secretly told him, by babbling it out to the boss before you were able to. For the single people I wish you get your “damsel in distress” and are able to discover your princely ways and long lost heroism by rescuing her or her Apso (one and the same thing). For the fat ones I hope that “fate keeps you away from Pizza Hut’s way”. For the beautiful I hope your sunscreen does a good job by saving you from all that unhealthy UV radiations and also that your beauty enhancing efforts are recognized in your circle. For the crazy ones I hope you find your craze. For the lazy ones I wish you find a way to earn money by keeping your lethargy and integrity intact. For the hard workers I wish your vacation plan doesn't get screwed and your leaves are approved by your boss. For the nagging ones I hope you do not have a “busy day” .

With all these crazy wishes I wish you all a VERY GOOD MORNING while I will sleep in sleep’s tight and comfy embrace and prepare for my crazy day tomorrow.

Nostalgia Returns - The Start Of Summer With A Few Lessons And Motivations

 Being at home gives you so much to catch up: you get to meet your old friends, your elders,  you also get to visit your favorite hangout  places where you went and spent quality time in your childhood and what not.

This summer gives me a feeling that I had been missing in my life since ages. The fact that I'm spending summer at home after a long span of 5 years has made me more sensitive to this feeling

 I spend my days sitting and writing about the stuff that I want to write about, all protected from the heat outside, inside my room with my air condition on. I watch TV, visit by best friend everyday and along with him drive to places where we used to go when we were kids. There’s always so much to catch up to: the old school habits, the troubles we got into together and got out of, the mischief we did, the harmless lies we told, the girls we thought we loved, etc.

It was here in this very season when I met my first love. Sometimes in the afternoon I drive to places where we used to go and kiss. In the coziness of my climate controlled car I try to relive the feeling when she placed her hand on mine and we drove to scenic and romantic places in and around the city. I visit her home, the place where we first met, the places where we used to meet and the places where we ate.

This feeling is so satisfying. It fills my heart with a feeling of warmth and compassion for my home. It gives me the strength to preserve what I have, motivates me to live this day to the fullest and to love with all my heart. It compels me to value this day, this summer, and this home that I have. It teaches me to value my family and my people who will genuinely always be there for me. 

Now after 5 years I have realized the worth of those summers that I did not value or have no concerns about what it will actually mean to me in the future. I have learnt to value each and every second of this time that I have and be grateful for the gift.

                          It’s funny how a simple feeling can teach you all this.

Cheers to the Absolute Vodka of our lives - Happy Women's Day

This Women’s Day, cheers to all the women in my life. Thanks to my mom for being my strength and also my worst critic. Thanks to my sis-in-law for her patience in dealing with me. Thanks to my elder sister for making my breakfast at 6 in the morning when I went to school. Thanks to my X girl friend for teaching me that I should not let any girl to get out of my control :D.

I can’t describe and I can’t predict the depth of the effect that these ladies continue to have on my life. Above all a mother is the epitome of patience who lovingly bears all of our tantrums from the day we were born. Your sister is your best companion, your friend, your silent guardian (guards you from dad’s wrath), your teacher (my sis used to teach me math, all the time), she’s the one who’s next to your mother and what not. I can write a book on my sister and yet not be satisfied. Then enters your GF, she teaches you how to control yourself from killing anyone even if you have all the intention to do so. She teaches you that going out in the evening is essential for your well being even if you are in a crisis or in middle of your exams…haha, other than the good part she also teaches you to love, to live and most importantly come out of your beloved couch and really start doing something. Then comes your sis-in-law who is a completely different breed altogether. At first she seems like she’s coming from a different world but after some time she becomes your best companion and inspiration. She teaches you to be patient, she takes care of the family and she understand you. Even if she’s not able to understand your brother she will understand you; she’s a friend and after your sis gets married and leaves you, she’s the one to fill her gap.

A Grand Salute To All These Women, they have been an inspiration. In the end we men know that without the opposite sex we’re an empty mineral water bottle which will only be worth when either it contains mineral water or water mixed with Absolute Vodka. 

Cheers to the Absolute Vodka of our lives. 

A State Of Life

In life there we face many ups and downs, but there is also a time when everything seems to move smoothly. Life starts walking in straight, smooth path without any potholes or dead ends. A path where life trods at a slow but steady pace.  

I feel the same right now, yet something always seems to be missing. I guess it is always like this. What is the use of a life in which you have everything? These days I'm quite laid back, relaxed. Sometimes I feel a little anxious but somehow I've learn't to control this feeling. 

It's a weekend and I'm sitting at my office. I wanted to do something that I wanted to do and not something that was expected of me, so I opened my blog and started typing. It's been a long time since I last wrote. At that time I was just out of college. I had broken up with my girl friend but not broken apart as I am now. That time I was at home, doing something. Something I thought I wanted to do with my life, but then it all became very blurred and I realised that it was not the one thing that I wanted to do with my life. It was the first time when I had left my job and realised my true nature, my own self. Too fickle, too confused. In my twenties I was behaving like a teenager. It was a time when I thought that everything was very easy and that I could do it, eventually only to realise the opposite. It was a time when I realised that I needed more focus and will power and both cannot be generated by staying at home. I had to do what I did not want to do. I had to see the things that I was too blind to see. I had to find a way when finding one was impossible. Though I am back now, back in my job, I still find myself in a struggle. A constant fight with my self, my circumstances, my views and my opinions, my learning that I have always taught myself or learnt from others. I'm still struggling to find a way out of my misery. The misery that I don't have the slightest idea about. A misery that shows  out of thin air and disappears only to return again and petrify me. An unfamiliar fear that shrouds my happiness and stops me from doing anything that I really want to do.

I've been laborious, but also very lazy. I try to find meaning when nothing around me makes sense. I've become hopeful, hopeful that someday I may figure out a way out of my problems and my fears. I've learnt a lot and I have also realised that I need to learn a lot. Till then it will always be a struggle and I'm afraid that this struggle may not be over in the near future, but still I'm hopeful.

You Are A Controversy : LIVE IT !!!!!

"Please every one and you'll be fine. Don't please yourself and one day you'll surely ruin for life."

Have you ever stirred any controversy? Have you ever made heads turn? No? Then dude what are you living for? Ever wondered why the hell are you doing whatever the hell you are doing? I know you have big plans for the future, just today things are not so great but in the future voila some chamatkaar( miracle ) awaits you. Seriously? Are you this naive? 
          Just do something erratic for once for god's sake. We're so badly stuck in others expectations and in pleasing others. We define our self with other's opinions, please stop doing that to yourself. This ain't the time to please others my friend, this is the time to do something, do something crazy, something out of the league and then you'll understand.
          You probably don't realise but once you stop pleasing others and start doing your thing everything will settle down by itself. Oh ! Come on! You want me to give you some examples? Hitler convinced the whole Germany to burn their fellow countrymen in gas chambers, thousands were burnt, just because he made them believe that it was good for their country, he believed thoroughly in whatever he thought was right and others followed. Gandhi Ji liberated India because he got stuck on his belief, he had thorough faith in it and eventually everybody listened. And believe me people, their journey in this world was one hell of a bumpy ride. People's voices will eventually fade in the background behind the loud noise of your soul. 
          So don't worry dreamers, this all will pass and you will achieve whatever you want to achieve, you just need to curb your desire to please others and please Oh! Please, don't let them make you believe otherwise. We live in a world of dream killers, here everybody wants to kill each other's dream just because they were not able to follow theirs.They may say words like " Oh! you've read too many books, life doesn't work like that." Or " When reality strikes you'll be nowhere." 

"Its good to be a martyr then not have fought at all." 

          Just take a leap of faith people. For your sake, this is your life not anyone else's. Don't be overwhelmed by all the drama around you, write your own script and let the drama unfold according to your terms. There's no time to waste. Only you know what is going on inside you, ask yourself, be honest to yourself. Rise up beyond petty limitations. This is your life live it up to the fullest.

          Don't worry, you will have a lot of opposition and criticism from the world, your parents, your family maybe the whole world but who doesn't ? Tell me who achieved anything in their life without enduring all this? If people are against you, if you have enemies, then ,congratulations! You are making progress my friend, don't back out, keep fighting and eventually it will all be OK! Everything does. Some great man or woman I don't recall the name once said:

  "If everyone is happy with you, you've certainly made a lot of compromises".
          Little children have some traits which if timely recognised will correctly determine what they can do or what they are capable of. But in the process of growing up they're burdened with expectations and false impressions which gets painted on them layer after layer till the soul is lost somewhere and there's no way to reach it. 
      "So now do you want to listen to your heart! LOL, don't kid with me beta!"(Very similar to when Adam Sandler in the movie " You Don't Mess With The Zohan" tells his parents that he wants to become a hairdresser and quit his military career. :DDDD)

•  "You've certainly lost your mind. Bheekh maango ke aage jaakar"( You will have to beg for alms eventually." ) 
• "Dreams are for the rich we have to care about the roti's(bread) first." 
• "Dreams will get you nowhere." 
• "Nikal jao mere ghar se."( "Get out of my house!") 
• "You are a nobody, you only think big, you won't be able to make it." 
• "See the stats, how many think about the same thing that you want to achieve and how many make it big, then weigh your chances, you certainly have no chance." 
• "People give their whole lives to it, you are just a starter."
• "What makes you think that you are different?" 

          Sounds familiar? Then you're certainly making progress.

          Friends, for all I know, dreams are beyond logic, life is too, but this society won't understand, losers wont understand, who live comfy in their big or small houses lost  in the triumph of their fake victories and accomplishments. "I have a stable life." They say proudly. Don't be fooled by them, nothing in life is stable, Earth itself can blow up any time( thanks to global warming ) then how can their lives be stable? Let them live in their false sense of "utopia". 

          So let them go to hell. You win or loose, nobody cares except you yourself. If you win they'll be jealous, if you loose they'll triumph, so why is it that you care for them so much. Just do your thing and let everything go to hell.

          So wake up people. Its our time and nobody can make us believe otherwise, think outrageous things, make impossible goals, achieve something that nobody else was able achieve and trust me you'll achieve it, just have faith, curb your desire to please everybody around you and keep making progress everyday and one day you'll be surprised what you've made out of your life.

          Eventually everyone else will follow!!!

                      

Just Chat : How To Start A Conversation With The Girl You Like

               
So you like this girl since the third standard and u are not able to tell her. Now you are in the tenth standard, your hormones have started to kick real bad and still you can't muster the courage to talk to her. You see her talking to other guys and you wonder,"Damn! Why can't I do that? Those guys are so lucky." You think that you are in love but how will you make her realise? So one day you are fed up, you're just about to blow up, you can't take it any more, you'll have to tell her otherwise you'll die, and then you commit the worst mistake. You go straight to her and tell her," Uhh!! Excuse me." She looks at you, gives you a confused look still you go on and you say it, those deadly words," I love you, sorry to startle you but I do." And you expect her to hug you and say, "Hey, I love you too, lets go out for a coffee," but instead of this the opposite happens. She'll says "Oh! I'm sorry but I'm not interested," or maybe she says "Fuck off despo!" or if things are a lot worse she'll say "I'm not interested, do I even know you?" See you never existed for her. What if, somebody you never knew existed came to you( no matter how cute ) and says "Main tumhare bacche ki maa banne wali hun"( "I'm bearing your child punk!" ). Then what will your reply be? Certainly not nice.( Though you should reconsider based on the level of cuteness of that girl :DDDD)


 Well, from what I've learnt from my experience, girls are no aliens brothers. They like to talk to us as much as we like to talk to them. So go on, you like this girl? Just go and chat! Don't think a lot. A very famous author wrote "What you concentrate on gets bigger."( Why the hell I can't remember the names of these famous authors ugghhhh). So don't make any strategies, any virtual talk shows or any kind of conversation in your mind because they'll certainly be negative and they'll get bigger and bigger and eventually you'll end up not doing what you're supposed to do. Just take a deep breath, go to her and JUST CHAT. She'll certainly not kill you, she may not talk to you but she will not kill you. If you approach her courteously and in a disciplined way she'll definitely not hit you on your face! So you can relax.

I believe that every complex problem has a very simple solution. So do you like this girl? Just go and chat, don't think a lot. Waise bhi soch ke tumne kya ukhaad liya abhi tak?( Thinking never gets you anywhere action does.)( This is my pet slogan and a very effective one TM .).

Hey hey, I did not tell you one little thing. The do's and don'ts of the conversation. So when you are JUST CHATTING please don't say the following sentences, they are strictly prohibited.

• "I want to become the father of your child"
• "Will you marry me?"
• "I love you ."
• "I like you ."
• "You're soooooooooooo beautiful."( Better start dancing like a girl after saying this :p)
• "Do you believe in love at first sight or should I pass again."(That's old cliche now)
• *Any one liners that you think will work, refrain from it.
• "Hey can I take your bag?"( You want to impress her, you're not here to ask her for a servant's job)
• "Hey I like you since *whatever centuries or eons ago*. Wanna go out?"
• "You remind me of my sister."
• "You remind me of my Ex-Girlfriend."
• "You remind me of my mother." ( aww soo cute)
• "Hey I know your big brother, can we be frns?" ( Yeah as if her bossy big brother wasn't enough)
• "Hi, do you have a big brother?" (Pussyyyy)
• "Hi, do you have a younger sister?" (aaaiiikkkk   despoooo......)
• "Hey, remember me?"(Oh, come on! How is she ever gonna remember you? You don't even exist ,remember?)

  Instead, talk about something light, something that'll get the conversation going and wont make it complex. Don't twist the conversation like your cruel baai ( maid ) does with your innocent clothes.Try cracking small jokes, if wittism isn't your forte, don't push it, try and be yourself, feel wonderful about yourself. You gotta feel like You're The Man not You're The Man, "Who else will she be with, if not you?" 

Girls are very intuitive, they can differentiate quite well between a man who takes control to a man who gets controlled. 

So go for it dude.......JUST CHAT!!!!!

जो बात दिल से निकली सत्य है

सोच लो , समझ लो ,

चाहे कितनी ही योजनायें बना लो ,

सत्य समझने की कितनी भी कोशिश कर लो,

कितना भी भूलो-भटको तुम,

अंत में यही पाओगे की,

जो बात दिल से निकली सत्य है.

तुम चले हर जगह.भटके हर जगह,

ना जाने कितने लोगों से मिले,

सबके अलग अलग विचार सुने,

उनकी राह पर चले, गिरे, संभले,

रोये,टूटे और फिर दम से आगे बढे ,

कभी सोचा है की इतनी हिम्मत आई कहा से?

इतना सहना आखिर तुम चाहते क्यों हो?

कितना भी समझ डालो,कितनी भी कोशिशें कर डालो,

अंत में येही पाओगे की,

जो बात दिल से निकली सत्य है.

राह हैं बटी हुई,सौ राहें बनी हुई,

पर तुम्हारे लिए तो एक ही बनी थी, है और रहेगी,

तुम्हारे लिए तो एक ही राह भगवान् ने चुनी,

अपनी आत्मा की आवाज़ को सुनने की आदत डालो,

अपना सत्य स्वयं पहचानो,

तब सारी पहाड़ सी मुश्किलें तिनके में बदल जाएँगी,

और वो सच्ची राह तुम्हे तुम्हारा सरल परिचय कराएंगी, 

तब तुम अंत में यही पाओगे की,

जो बात दिल से निकली सत्य है.

दिल की आवाज़ दबती नहीं लाख दबाई जाये,

खुद से कभी तुम छुप नहीं सकते लाख छुपने की कोशिश की जाये,

दबाना है अगर तो तर्क को दबाओ,

जीवन में तर्क के बजाये दिल का वजूद बढाओ,

तब ये श्रृष्टि तुम्हारे कदम चूमेगी,

तुम्हारे इर्द गिर्द सारी दुनिया घूमेगी,

तब तुम ये समझ जाओगे की,

जो बात दिल से निकली सत्य है.

जो करना है आज कर डालो, जो कहना है आज कह डालो,
मौत का भय किसी को जीने नहीं देता,

मरता हर कोई एक बार है बार बार कोई नहीं मरता,

जब इस हिम्मत से तुम आगे बढोगे,

तब हर सर तुम्हारे आगे सजदे करेंगे,

तब सच में समझोगे तुम,

जो बात दिल से निकली सत्य है.

जो जिद्द करते हैं उन्ही का ये जहाँ सारा है,

बिना जिद्द के बताओ किसने कहाँ क्या परबत उखाड़ा है,

जिद्द करो इस जीवन में, यह तुम्हारा है,

इसका सफल  प्रयोग इश्वर ने तुम्हारे हाथ में डाला है,

चलो आगे बढ़ो ये संसार तुम्हारा है,
तब अंत में येही पाओगे की,

जो बात दिल से निकली सत्य है.