Oh! What an unpleasant surprise

How does uncertainty play a role in making people happy? Or for that matter why do people love being surprised? The mere realization of having or being treated with something beyond imagination or expectation is no doubt a magical feeling. But what if things turn up exactly contrary?

This is when you are wanting a surprise to come up, to cheer yourself up, to enliven your mood. But alas it never happens. You keep waiting for that moment to happen till the last hope isn't swallowed within. Why is it so?

Then is when you wish surprises never existed! You start blaming the fate or the time or the circumstances which bluffed you at the last moment. And then you start wondering why did you even want the surprise to happen. Why was it a surprise at the first place? It was an inner desire for something which you badly wanted to happen but at the same time you wanted it to be overruled with an element of uncertainty. You knew chances of it happening were very low but still you wanted it to happen out of sheer avidity. Its a game in which heart takes over and lets you feel more than expected. This is when you want to leave it to the other end and want things coming up your stride as desired by you, from the other end, but oh! not as planned mate. You want it to come, marvel you, so that you are taken by awe. But alas it turns out opposite in the end.

This is how time and fate play with our emotions. This is how situations are crafted to hurt and make people realize their folly. This is how surprises turn unpleasant.

Why MBA?

Under the magnetic effect of peer pressure, we see a lot of youth chasing the rat race of pursuing an MBA. Never realizing in depth why do they want to go for it. Now when I myself am entrusted with the job of doing the ground work of a "Why MBA" question for my interviews, I go back to wonder why am i doing an MBA at the first place. Am i also one of those nebulous worshipers of the world of fame and money that is promised with an MBA degree?

This leaves me to ponder on what is my aim for my life. What is driving me to be focused in this field and driving my pursuit for an MBA? and just when i delve deeper I come across all the other options which I have for myself. And then i suddenly start feeling lucky. Yes, that I have the freedom to go for a profession which I want to and not which I am compelled to.

And just when I was reconsidering my thoughts, I see a traffic policeman and a couple of students studying subjects related to forensic science. On one side I see a student who has taken up a very unconventional choice of profession in the field of forensics and on the other hand the traffic personnel is one who has to mess around with the traffic of a city like Bangalore just for his and his family's survival.

And its not just a traffic policeman. Everyday we come across in-numerous set of people who are slogging their lives out only to alleviate the pain of hunger and poverty.What is it that stops them from pursuing their dreams. Is it only we, the lucky ones who have the right to dream and chase them?

That is what we fail to realize. Without any figurative thought in place, without any passion, we like running the race without even knowing what and why are we doing so? Sheer dismay you can call it? That is where it stands justified to make "Why MBA" one of the integral questions to decide selection to the elite institutes of our country. So that one knows what is the passion behind pursuing a profession, because its only the lucky lot who can afford to have a passion for their profession.

The Sunken Boat

She moved hand in hand with water
Swayed by the waves around;
Full of enthusiasm and vigor
Leaving her anchor behind.

As time passed by; nothing could stop her
From going beyond and exhibiting her wafture
Ignorant of the storm that might occur
Such was her craziness for the undulated matter!!

Alas the dream turned into a nightmare
Came the turbulence, as part of nature's plan
The free entity smitten in love was unaware
Got absorbed in her love's clutches within a short span.

Betrayal and treachery, is what now she knows more
The sunken boat - deep down, love will she abhor!!

Life is a Celebration!!

You don't need an occasion to make others feel good. Life in itself is a celebration.
Each day is a gift to be fully cherished. If you do not laugh for a day, if you have not made someone's day happier, if you have not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth.

Some amazing piece of lines extracted from Preeti Shenoy's book "Life is What You Make It". I just couldn't resist myself from not expressing myself on the same lines after having gone through the book.
What is happiness to us. When we want to be happy or when situation around us seems happy to us? Why do we rest our case of being happy on an external environment when it's there within. When life in itself comes with a package- a package of live, love and laughter why is the pursuit of happiness lost in the crowd of expectations and ignored feelings.

Define happiness in a way that it is entirely on your stride. Make it happen by spreading smiles around. Let not gloom put an end to your happiness for underlying the gloom is a reason to be happy for. When you lose something it opens up your arms and mind to a newer dimension of life, a fresher perspective to living.

Appreciate the cause of life and not the reason behind living. If everything needed a reason to exist then where lies the uncertainty, and here we have the mystery of happiness. Being happy for definite reasons is limited to the domain of the reason in context. But when you are happy for no reason or rhyme it's your world entirely. Nothing to stop at, nothing to look behind for.

Life is very unpredictable- any change of state, any change of being shouldn't let you step back and recapitulate. Move ahead with the pace and not just keep craving for an element of positiveness.

Give yourself a treat, pamper yourself on your own, keep stretching the smiles across hearts and encourage others to do the same. For happiness should never be limited, never be defined, never to be subdued for any cause of dismay come what may. Don't keep looking for a reason to be happy for it's inside you, a part of you- just let it out and then it's a world of your own!!

Where Soul Meets Body

Release yourself from the clutches of life
Let not any Entanglement get you carried away
Just dive into the world of "free"-ness
Coz life jingles up at the wink of the eye!!

Laugh not for the sake of being happy
Cry not to lament for pity
Feel is what should rule within
Gloom-Bliss will then seem sedentary

Whats in a smile - simple muscle crunching?
Or a face lighted up..
not just for its owner, but
For all those who bear witness to it?

A simple smile that stretches
From lips and meets the eye
Speaks a whole lot
Than an expression gone by..

Use your eyes, more to speak
Brighten up the atmosphere
Sing and chant along the hymns
Not for the sane but for the happy

Signs of fear let them sway
Smiles around you..just need to give in
Open up your arms, quench your crave
For the melodies of sanctified sin

Why think twice for
what your heart says
why care for the journey
when you know the destination

Just move with the flow, not of the hoi polloi
but of your own soul...
A soul not ruled by body
but a soul which vents through it!!!


Where soul meets body
There is where paradise lies
This is when you reach your home
The home of your dreams!!

When life comes to a standstill!!!

There were days when you wished if life had a pause button of its own. You felt like taking that step backward so as to finish off a lot of incomplete things. You wished if only the day were of 48 hours. Feel to split up yourself to convince, impress everybody, enjoy everything you want. But alas it doesn't happen and then you have to let go of of many things and enjoy with the few for which you took a positive call.

And all of a sudden you are now gifted with transience, opulence, extravagance of TIME which was otherwise running away from you. You seem to be struck with this surprising metamorphosis of your routine. Having always been made to go through a time-scarcity phenomena, the few moments free from engagements do infuse a tingling sensation as of an illusion. The realisation in itself seems to be a dream. By the time you are awake to actually grasp the motionless life as it seems to be, you are all loaded and geared up. For you are expectantly preparing for the unfinished, long awaited tasks to add that touch of soigne to your otherwise perfect but incomplete life.

There you stand by your window looking outside at the treadmill-paced up life of the city, failing to realise the pace though. What more strikes to you is the stillness of the huge lifeless buildings. The Water dripping off the hooves of the houses from last night's rains. The cradle that was always the neighbourhood child's best friend but now kept desserted in the terrace. This is when you feel like why is life taking a turn for you.

Looking at the mirror, you feel like posing a question why do my eyes look so lightened up!! Is it because today you had that extra hours of sleep, or is it just for that tinge of randomness in your life which you are all willing to experience. For that moment you want to do off with all the petite things that you had planned to wrap up. Just feel swayed by the nothingness that life gifts you, feel gifted to be living on your own terms, feel complete from within, feel blessed to feel life!!!

Romance Rekindled!!!

Here comes Plain White T's "I love you" playing the protagonist in this post...nevertheless it has also been the inspiration behind it!!! Sitting in the dark..with a power cut to be persisting the entire night i try to resort to my gloomy side for trivial reasons, and just before i could try to be morose, freshness pours in through the serene candle light further enhanced by the video of the rhythmic tunes of "I love you"...cute is the word as described by a friend. Period. That's how the video unfolds giving you more and more of an opportunity to fall in love.

Having said this, the song in itself is deeply intriguing tickling your senses to crave for more and more of it. You are already smitten by the feel of romance. No room for any more mushiness by anybody.The spell in itself is so hypnotizing.
Why do you need any soul to feel love...why do you need to hear the three words from somebody..why do you need to be felt special in the most aesthetic way...Love needs no personification..no reciprocation..in abstract it can exist. Just let yourself free fall to the rhythm of that transient state in which you are ready to be moulded..ready to be felt..ready to be loved..

And thats how one gets wafted by the breeze, smitten by fancy thoughts of getting wet in the rains, sailing through waves of joy making one feel free and fall in love all over again..not to love or be loved but just to experience LOVE the way it is...