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Shift happens .... are you ready?

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A disturbingly true look comparing the past to the present and a glimpse of things to come. All to show you how, shift happens. Credit where credits due: Original Video created by Karl Fisch and modified by Howie DiBlasi.

don't lose hope is the moral of story...

When I look back in the past years, I see I’ve left many plans out there… no one ever got completed. I don’t remember if anything I thought & planned, I accomplished. I used to leave one thing and jump on another, give a break of some days between them, but never stopped planning. Keep on doing them and always made a crap out of them. Every time I was determined to get it done anyhow :P but donno when that determination fades away...

Hmmm…….. It’s wrong…. Very wrong… :(

No problem… I take on my next plans! ;)

Umm… why do I go to temple???

I know I know… the theists & ascetics would find it as weird as I’ve trespassed on a holy land, and it would be of no interest for those who are atheists. Well… many of us are those who do not belong to any of these categories and ply ourselves with the questions such as do I really believe in this stone sculpture? Why do I worship someone I’ve never ever seen? Why these rituals & rites just to please someone whose existence is dubious to me?

They say go to religious places and you’ll feel good, you’ll get power & wisdom…I ask why and how?… I get many answers, none of which could suffice my incertitude.

but after passing these puzzles in & out of my mind, I got something… something reasonable… which ticks me to be a fairish answer to all the Whys above… might tick you too… :)

I believe in the concept of energy… because you can feel it in every form, positive or negative... and that’s the thing that made me apprehending the concept of worshiping n all.

Observing many visiting places where a mass of people go, its plain and simple to see that religious places are the only spots where everyone goes with a common state of mind, i.e. having positive energy in their thoughts. They leave all the tension of the world aside and come here to seek the peace.

Just think, when everyone is having a pure positive thought and feel within himself together with all other people at a single place, it becomes the center of spirituality. Now, why on the earth wouldn’t that place be worth worshipping? It’s already pious with all the positive souls gathered!

So even if you are an atheist… just once, having the above thought in your mind, go to such a place. Don’t follow the rituals if you don’t want to. But you’ll be far away from the chaos of the world outside and feel the flow of irrefutable energy...

once again... leave or think of it! its up to u :)

Celebrating the cheerful vibes…

You want nothing when you r surrounded by ur best pals having gags n giggles on stupid n silly chatters. You recognize the colors of life… nothing much is needed.

When you don’t join them for some reason… you miss them like anything… making calls and asking hey wassup now.. wht u people doing now? What now? What next? Hehehe.. missing u all badly, I wish if I could be wid u :(

But then life doesn’t stop… it offers u some other cheerful arena. Its up to you whether u like to go or not…

My younger bro insisted me to go to mela (fete)……

Mela………???????!!!!!!!! I guess this would be the last place in the world I’d like to go…..

But all my siblings’ n mom n dad were going… I also went…

Then… no restraint… no constraints… no hiss… no fuss… I decided to enjoy the next few hours to the fullest.

And I did it!

I wonder I really enjoyed those small-small things.

I don’t remember when I last had that bubble maker. But today the first thing I bought was the bubble maker… a lot of special effects surrounding me… ;) enjoyed that pani-puri, popcorn and yes… gudiya ke baal(sugar candy)… :D

No fete is complete without Swings…right? Haha… fast and high swings used to scare me in my childhood… but this time kicking that out of my mind I relished the marry-go-round, torra-torra & that neck wrestling break dance swing(I din like that though...). Had a lot of fun in the rush around.

usually I don’t think I’d enjoy it that beautifully. But fun is only limited by our thoughts & mood…right?

Sometimes there should be no reason for happiness… you just touch it and feel… don’t despise anything just by thinking it’s not of my type… happiness never comes to a specific type, it just sees your open mind, heart & soul and smoothly gushes in.

Say cheers to every such moment life takes to us! Don’t let it pass… go with it… go good! :)

Loose Control………

Love.... I donno much about it...
Heart… I donno what is its connection with love
But there's something that this heart wants...
Other than the determinations & resolution we often take about our life & future, our career, that we discuss often with our friends, what is the thing that we need but we are oblivious of them or trying to be oblivious? what’s that thing that we always keep ourselves away from?
Ever think what we really want… easy to explain…not exactly…
Desire to have a lover…I have it…who doesn’t?
Its very basic need I think… there should be one love… who can lead life towards perfection… what u are not, you can be with him… some things which couldn’t be shared with anyone else… except him
Who doesn’t want such love?
But the Attitude of being [surviving] in this world… I guess is the biggest problem that doesn’t let the heart do what it really wants [:D]
Restriction… no body knows whether they are necessary of not… but impose them upon themselves… ha ha ha………I m also talking about myself
I guess many people would not agree with me… I know… but donno whether they are really sure about it!
Some whispers come from inside or outside, like
No no no… don’ let the heart go………
Don’ be so emotional…
Don’ let anybody know what u really want………(that u also donno)
Confusion………yessss……...better leave it!
I come across people who say that love is not life… they mean to say romance is not life…
Well…I guess romance is a part of love but not the entire love!
‘Love is life’
I like this adage…
Feel it…………don’t rationalize love with materialistic matters of life… those things are different that are necessary for a living…love is ultimate.
Not hurriedly… I don’t want anyone right now…
Lets give a chance…
To understand what I really want…
But don’ make a rush… It will take time! Few valentine’s days to reach one valentine…I guess!!!

“Wonderful & Refreshing”

Sometimes it happens that we come across people who are easily aberrated. I m talking about some short-tempered people to whom I’d like to call ‘wonderful & refreshing’ (just4me).
This is for the first time I m very much excited to share my critical views about a particular kinda people… I don’t do it usually, but I think sometimes there’s no problem in doing so…
That’s why some people like this if read further would probably find this text as weird. Better I recommend them to have patience & keep their temper, or else do not read further.
Now let’s start……………………..

Some dialogues:

XYZ is very good friend of ABC. They live together. One day XYZ was not in a good mood. ABC didn’t mind actually & was doing his own work. He said something to XYZ, “why don’t you keep things at right place dear? It seems good if things are well arranged.”
But he got a weird response:
“When do You keep things at right place? Keep your suggestions to yourself. I know what seems good or what seems bad. You need not to tell me. Mind your own business & let me mind mine.”

We often have such person around us, at our home, college, or workplace, to whom its sufficient to say only one sentence against their will and the loudspeaker automatically gets on… I mean they start blowing their anger for whatever we’ve just said, no matter what did we mean to say was really negative or fair positive!
We don’t expect such irascible responses. Do we? No! absolutely not.
They behave like this for their own reason, whatever that may be, but the situation may turn interestingly if we just think for a moment what Our response was…
Anyone of the following could it be:

1. I just said the simple thing, but why do u act like this, what’s wrong with you? (A sheer increase in our temper. Now if that person again retort in previous manner, situation becomes worse)

2. If you are annoyed with something keep it to yourself, why are you throwing your anger at me? (We have words like this)

3. We say nothing & think, “nothing can happen to this sod”

4. We say nothing but see how easily & beautifully he gets annoyed of something & how wonderful is his outcry. We just guess to ourselves what would be his reply if I say this & that to him… what next?... then what next? & thus we get really a fun when it comes true. The moment just refreshes us, as there’s no other way ‘cos that person is not sharing his problem with us but just getting annoyed… hence we cannot do anything else than that.

Did u like the last one? I think some people already do this. It works actually, but it just requires some patience & fun loving character in u.
I m not saying that we must always have this kind of behavior, but if one person’s mood is not good, then isn’t it a good thing to prevent another’s? This trick will be useful to hold on a positive energy in the surroundings. And probably would help that angry person to calm down.
But if not done carefully, it may harm your image. Hence, it will be a good practice if we keep it to ourselves only. So do not let other person know what you are thinking about him, just say nothing, don’t let him feel that you are making fun on him. Just do whatever you were doing before that conversation. It may possible that that person will understand the unsaid msg (i.e. he’s acting very funny), & soon chill out. Although we are doing so just to keep ourselves away from the pool of anger and make the situation as cool as possible...
If he, the wonder one for us, says anything, it’s just giving a jerk of refreshment, (if we take it in that way).
That’s why whenever anyone does such lost tempered activity before you, at any time, which might be precious for you, can become a hilarious moment …
So don’t worry, be happy. Such wonderful people are just for our refreshment… and thats why they are "wonderful & refreshing"...ain't they?

B.L.A.C.K

Think of this color… what comes in your mind? The Color BLACK
Now associate this color with your feeling…
Different people may think differently and I think especially in case of BLACK.
When I consciously thought of this color, I saw Shahrukh Khan wearing a black suit having a glass of wine at a celebrity party. Sometimes (perhaps often!) I also think of myself in this way. (lol) :-)
Ok, many of you might think like this but there may be an opposite view also, that we’ll discuss shortly.
Now, unwrapping the ripples of my mind around Black, I found many myths, tales, beliefs, etc., about this color.
If there’s a discussion about darkness, the evil, violence, disaster, calamity, etc., and if asked to put a color to connote these traits, BLACK is specially chosen. At some places in the world, as a darkest hue, black color clothes are worn for mourning.
It is quite reasonable that people belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin, or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin, are called BLACK. Even Indians were named BLACK by British because of the skin color. This is as what we see. But there also exist some unreasonable myths about Black:
Especially, in our country Black is associated with many superstitions. The Magic that harms others and makes the most abysmal stuffs that causes the disaster in somebody’s life, has also been prefixed with Black and known as “Kala Jaadu” or Black Magic. Why our ancestors have chosen this particular color? why not Red Magic, Blue or Green Magic? Not going so far, here at my home my mother forbid us to buy a black colored vehicle…I never know why, though we could wear black clothes!!! I think there must be Something in her mind that is probably unreasonable.
BLACK. Interesting color…isn’t it?
It might be possible that you also got some gloomy thought when I asked u to think.
Whatever the thought may be, the reason we’ll speculate soon…
Just take another phase, i.e. the positive phase of Black. You’ll find thousands of Black points about BLACK but rarely find White ones…and so have I.
Well, Black as a party wear is the top choice. Isn’t it? I never come to know why is it. May be because it makes feel so royal, so resplendent & very dazzling. But is it the reason? Why it’s so splendid when worn as a party dress? Whereas the same color has got an uncountable curses?
There is one more point about black, which will meet the same question as above: Black also symbolizes a description of a positive balance on a company's financial statements. The phrase "in the black" is widely used to refer to the condition of companies that have been profitable in their last accounting period. Well it has got a reason. This term is derived from the color of ink used by accountants to enter a positive figure on a company's financial statements. If they used to use blue ink instead, we might call them “companies in the blue”. But if black was so bad color then why did they use that for such a positive reason? (Well, I guess they were very smart & modern, far from stupid superstitions…right?)
Not any other positive point I know right now, but if you know you can share with me…
BLACK. Lets have a look at more fare, i.e. our Scientific view & try to clear this dilemma about The Black. I think now it’ll be manifested simply….
Scientifically, Black can be defined as the visual impression experienced in directions from which no visible light reaches the eye. Hence, that would be unbiased to say that the life of a blind is Black.
The ambiguity of good & bad can also be cleared by the following description:
Pigments that absorb light rather than reflect it back to the eye "Look Black". A black pigment can, however, result from a combination of several pigments that collectively absorb all colors. If appropriate proportions of three primary pigments are mixed, the result reflects so little light as to be called "BLACK".
Similarly, if we compare our worldly issues with this scientific theory, we will find that BLACK is the color which includes every aspect of life good or bad. May be because of this, there are some good opinions as well as bad ones about this ultimate color BLACK.
This is just my speculation, which I found by digging deep into BLACK.
It will make more interesting if you share your speculations or the facts you know about BLACK.

excuse me please!

Here is a conversation between me & myself at a lazy night after a busy day:
"Oh please… I m very tired this time & really not able to do anything. My leg is paining badly, also I have a splitting headache. I need to get a sleep…
-But I've a lot of tasks to do, What about those?
No. I’ll do it tomorrow… This time not at all……"
And I went to bed & embraced the most comfortable sleep……
As I closed my eyes, all the perplexing thoughts came to my way. Some were with me, some were against…
“I haven’t done this & that, tomorrow I’ll have to work twice hard. Should I get up & finish my work just now…?”
But another phase of my mind was saying…
“No, I’m not physically well, I also have some mental stress…(& many other excuses like this) better I do it tomorrow… just sleep soon, so that I’d wake up early in the morning.
I’ve set up the alarm… I’ll definitely wake up…”
Ok… then I decided to have a comfy sleep that night. But suddenly something, which I wasn’t expecting, aroused in my mind…
A scene of IIM, and after that that dream city where I want to live, that building near the sky where I envisage my home, that workplace & those people with whom I want to work, and all those things with which I fancy my future just flashed in my mind… And then… my heart was pumping out my chest, my head was full of vim & vigor, my body was just like flying in the sky and I was at the verge of opening my eyes & just standing out of bed. The headache, leg pain and that laziness, were all went away without saying me bye…
And then I woke up & finished my procrastinated works. After that I slept like a log, with a self-assurance that next day will be free from any dilly-dally.
Why that thought of my future flashed upon my eyes? Perhaps, sometimes when I was deciding what I want to achieve in my future, I was talking with my God, & praying that ‘O God whenever I deviate from my path, please show me the right direction.’
Now I believe that with all His blessings God listens to me, even at the moment when I don’t talk to him, He listens to my true desires, & that’s why he pushed that thought to wake me up.
Most of us might have faced situations like this very often. Though we know the result of every such action we take, we do the things against our will & make a lot of excuses to ourself. We procrastinate deliberately. But He gives a jerk to remind us our true self… just faith is required…
After that incident I realized that the thing which push us towards getting our dreams come true is our frequent re-assurance to ourselves that we are in this world to achieve the best, make ourselves to deserve for the best, & live life at full of its extent, not for baffling & bewildering in the temporary aberration of life.
And yes, the moment when I was procrastinating was the moment when I forgot to fill my mind, heart & soul with the rejoice of my future, the only thing which makes me keep on stepping towards success.
So don’t you think it’s time to keep aside all the excuses & live the life we’ve imagined?