Life will be easy!

Whatever you do, you expect something out of it! You are working so you expect a good pay, a good environment and a lot of other things. You meet new people, you expect them to be good to you as you are generally very good. You lend someone something, you expect to get that back within the promised time. You expect you expect a lot! 

So when the things do not really work out as expected, you end up disliking things and slowly you stop believing in things like dreams and happiness. It becomes even harder when you fail to express yourselves.

The key to this is not to expect anything from anything that you do. That way you will have nothing to lose. As a matter of fact, anything that/which you will get will be served as a surprise on a plate for you.

You win or lose, it will not matter anymore as it had never been about the result, you had always wanted to be a part of the journey. This is what we have always been taught, participation is the main thing.

Participate, appreciate, do not expect, have a smile and life will be easy!

Photograph!

I have a habit of picking up new hobbies and discussing it with friends; while doing so this time, I had good listeners around me. So this time Ankit bought a Kodak camera for me as now I had decided to make a dark room for myself so that I can develop the pictures. I genuinely wanted to learn this new thing which is ages old and Ankit helped me a lot.

On a not so special evening, I started clicking pictures of Mitra and suddenly while clicking he said,'show me the picture once.' Both of us remained quiet for some time and then it came to me, how beautiful those days used to be when everything was not so instantaneous. We leave behind old things and habits so easily that we tend to forget the beauty of those things.

Pictures defined memories back then, pictures were not clicked for status updates or stories instead those were clicked to cherish those very moments. Photographs used to be the best form of surprise. Most importantly, cameras did not have an option to delete. Every picture of the camera roll was as important as the other one. You must have old albums at home, haven't you found a different level of joy when you go through those photographs.

We used to wait for the photographs for days and pen drives of Bluetooth could not transfer those pictures, it was not so easy and yet we desperately wanted to be a part of that transaction. We would protect the camera roll from light and what not. Limited pictures and many such limitations, still we enjoyed those days. With all those limitations and disadvantages compared to today's technology, don't you ever wish, just a wish, to go back in time.