What else !

Time and time again a question or an exclamation wakes you up or forces you to think and that is,' what else ! ' 

You are born, you learn to walk then you are introduced to education and when you are finally forced to realize that yes, your education is complete, the real game begins. For such a long period of time, you have been warming up just for the tournament to begin. Life is a knockout tournament, in which you have to play some compulsory matches and then it is the survival of the fittest and hence the knockout.

Life always tries to knock you out just to make you stronger and gives us an opportunity to hone your skills. Now, there are people who enjoy a smooth ride of life or they just enjoy everything that comes in their way and that is how life should be led. You do everything at the right time, at the right place and everything is set right and life goes on and this will definitely bring you a sense of satisfaction. Ironically, no human has ever been satisfied with whatever he has ever got. That feeling of contentment is never achieved as this thirst of more or something new is never quenched. 

When everything will go well, as per the plan; a question will surely arise,'what else do I need?' This is the most constructive, confusing and destructive question as well. This question helps you to construct or build new dreams and fantasies and confuses you about the path and destroys the present routine. Something new can never be made, if you do not let go of the existing noun. 

You are leading a very happy and peaceful life, a life in which the definition of peace is created by you and the people around you. You have a good job and you have got all the good qualities that a good person should have, with the passage of time you gain experience and then you get married and then a sweet little being come to your life and then the same cycle goes on for that other being as well. You become a mere medium to continue the human race on the planet earth. Have you really done something that can be defined as a contribution other than contributing to the human race and saving us from becoming extinct? 

Humane !

Definition of humane - having or showing compassion or benevolence. Is this definition enough ? No. We are living in a world where the population is growing almost exponentially and the quality of thoughts is being eroded with the flow of time. There is no conscience to hold our thoughts in the right place. It is as if everyone is run by the same thought process and the same targets. Everything has become so monotonous and mundane that people hardly find time to realize it.

We have become victims of technology and social network. It has rather become easier to express, you can get all kinds of emoticons and feelings on the social networking sites. Emotions are now cheap, those are just a click away and in moments those can even change. Now you might be feeling happy, the very next second you will be feeling annoyed. There is a temporary mental breakdown in this virtually permanent system.

We are building a world of robots with no emotions and humane has just become another word in the dictionary. We are enclosing ourselves in a box and we need to break out of it as early as possible. Now you might not have claustrophobia but you will be suffering soon. 

Gaining control !

Have you ever realized that you are losing control of your life?
You reach a point in life when you are no more sure of what is actually going around you and seem to be clueless, that is the time when you have to grab hold of the steering and steer your life in the right direction. A vehicle would be useless if it had only the accelerator, to make it useful it has a brake as well. So, you can can always stop. Stop the race which you are running, relax for sometime, look around and ponder.

You are not born to win a race, you are born to survive. This world is a huge place and no one has the time to think about what you are doing with your life. When you walk on the sidewalks and look around, you will find that everyone has transformed into mere machines with flesh and bones. When you start walking with them, you start resonating and suddenly the frequency somehow matches and you tend to lose the heat of the spark inside you.

Coming back to the vehicle perspective, a vehicle has a rear view mirror as well. Similarly we have our past, we should never forget our past as well. We should always remember where we come from and no one has ever known the future. Learning lessons from the past and not commiting the same mistakes again, this is how past acts as a rear view mirror and prevents accidents.

You should be the one who should have control of the steering and you should be the only one with the authority to steer your own life in the direction which seems right for you. And as long as there is fuel in your vehicle, you can freely steer it to the directions you wish to. Resume is just the toll tax receipt. 

Wish !

What kind of life that would be when or where you get everything you wish for and you become everything you wish to be? Do you want that life?
Very few are born with that fortune. But struggle has a different taste altogether. A mixed taste of comfort and hardship. If you do not strive for something, you will be left weak.

Somethings are meant to be the way as those are. Nothing can be done and nothing can bring a change in the way those things are carried out. If you wish to reach out for the sky, you can surely reach it but it will still seem to be infinite. How far can you go? That is the real question.

Wishing to be like someone is useless. One should always try to be self, path will always be paved but it is one's own choice whether to choose a paved path or create a new one which others will follow.

Don't do different things!

People whom we idealize, do not do different things, they do things differently. In the process of becoming great or getting recognized people lose the track of time and sometimes the track itself that is the road. Instead of doing different things, we should do that thing which we are good at and that discovery is made with the passage of time. We should keep on trying new things until a certain age is reached and then time comes to hone one particular skill so that we do not end up become a goal-less creature. Settle down for sometime and then when a point of stagnation is reached, start exploring one more time. You do not have to have a license to explore, as you are exploring yourself and you are infinite, you will never be able to know your true potential until and unless you explore the depth of your soul and height of your thoughts.

Yes, people need to settle down at some point of time, but later on people do regret that as well. There is so much more to do, the world is ours and world never expects anything from us, will it be wrong if we take an initiative to do something and think big, do something for everyone around us instead of thinking about self. Life will be great. Fun is good, but doing it everyday will be mundane too. On a broader perspective, if we take social service seriously, as in just try to be the helping hands for people who really need it, social service will be fun.

Let us all make this place a better place to live in. Let us all stop hatered and let us all unite and explore and discover the best that we have. Let us all not kill the evil inside us, instead let us try to make it good as we need the whole that we are. If we kill the evil inside us, half of us are already dead, let us all practice to be good, evil will melt into the best that it can be.

ONE LIFE : make it count

Life is the best gift that you will ever receive and you keep getting it until the very last day. So, if you are alive, why waste time on silly things of the past? But one thing should always be kept in mind and that is the lessons learnt from the past. Seldom does the past act as a mirror which reminds you of the monster or the good person that you once used to be. Try to keep the good things from the past and such selective nature should be maintained in the present and the coming future as well.

As long as there is breath in your lungs, you should strive to make a change or be the change. One should always try to do good for others. It has never been about you, if you are alive does not mean that you forget everyone else. You have to learn to get along, make others realize that yes, they are alive as well. If someone helps you to discover your potential good, you do the same things too.

You have got only one life, make it count.On the verge of doing something great or extraordinary, do not forget the,'ordinary', that you once used to be, otherwise you would be called a hypocrite. 

Dance to the beats of life !

Activate your ears and start listening to the beats which life has, instead of worrying about the next day or the things that you did the last day. It is as simple as putting the ear plugs on and dancing to the beats. There are people who love to do new things everyday and meet new people everyday, but out of thousands of people around, they hardly manage to talk with a few of them. Instead of making efforts to make new friends and meeting new people let us all make an effort to understand and interpret the story of the people around. You might see the the same passerby every day but have you ever tried to understand him, no, why would you? That is one valid question! Is is not necessary but that is what is called sonder. Every random being has a story and those somehow connect the dots of your life. That is what adds meaning to your life. 

This world is round and is continuously evolving with time and we are the ones who are bringing about this change, you never know when you come across a person who has a similar story. Stories are nothing but experiences which you gain with every passing moment f your life. Make your life worth something by adding more stories to it, so that by the end of it you have things to share, things which are abstract. Otherwise, by the end of your life you will have nothing but a bag full of regrets saying,'I used to lead the same life everyday'.

Start enjoying your life as you have got only one.

Treacherous numbers !

One day you wake up and find that neither your phone nor your watch is working, the next thing that you check is your laptop, later you find out that, that too is not working and all the other things that give you an idea of time have stopped breathing. Would you die? No, you would not. The show will go on but it will soon make sense and will become a bit more ambiguous for many people. Time is a catalyst and a parameter that continuously keeps on either motivating or demotivating people.

The day you start leading your life without the sense of time, rather without trying to capture time; you will realize that the numbers which determine time are actually very treacherous. In order to elaborate let us take this example; you wake up, the way it started without any hold of time, and start walking and suddenly you get confused about the portion of the day it is, is it early morning or is it just the beginning of the night? The best time to understand this is on a early winter morning. One thing that would first strike to you is, are you a victim of somnambulism(sleepwalking). Funny it would be, but it would only be possible when you don't have a grab of time. 

Determination of happiness would depend only on the way you lead your life, not on the ticking seconds, as you would hear the sound of none. Will it ever be possible? Of course not, but pondering upon such kind of things will only waste your time. Sometimes wasting time on these kind of things will only help making your lives better.  

When nature calls you!

The first that could have ever come into existence was nature and hopefully that would be the last thing that would remain and obviously in the most unnatural form. Whatever we see around us that had been there much before we started breathing is slowly being replaced by man-made pandemonium, malls and skylines. Work is worship motto has been replaced by the motto work is obsession and this obsession is forcing the people not to concentrate on the nature that still exists.

We should feel privileged for being one of the last generation to witness the beauty of the last remnants of the nature.

People are so much engrossed in their day to day activities that they do not find time to pay heed to the beautiful and large yet minute activities going around them. Large yet minute, why? If we take an example of the sun rise, how many people do you think experience the thrill of watching the rising sun? Most of them don't do, either most of the people sleep or the remaining are in a rush of going to the offices. This rush and unwanted phobia of punctuality has killed the interest of people in discovering the beauty of nature.

Beauty lies everywhere, have you ever noticed the rising sun on a wintry morning? It seems as if  the sun is coming out of the blanket of clouds as it is warm enough, and the spreading lights are like the arms stretching just as we do after we wake up. There is so much to relate and so much to learn from the nature yet we choose to confine ourselves and our thoughts to a computer screen.    

Homesick !

Hunger is what keeps the food chain active. The corporate world somewhat resembles the food chain, the only difference is that no one slays or eats anyone. Today it is all about survival of the wittiest, stomach is what drives the motivation and determination of a person. Why food chain? Everyone waits for a job, either someone quits his job and someone replaces him or there are new vacancies, which result in the migration of the youth.

India is among those countries which has got a huge population within the age range of twenty five to twenty eight and that group has got the power of the pen and we all are well aware of the fact that a pen is mightier than a sword. Youngsters leave their home for better job opportunities and in that process they neither get the taste of the home made food nor a glimpse of their parents for years. Yes, internet does bridge the gap but a virtual presence can never beat the warmth of a hug from one's mother.

Evolution is inevitable and so is change. This is what determines the constant migration of the youngsters irrespective of caste and gender. They frequently keep on moving to the booming industrial places or cities in India and all round the world. Adapting to the new lifestyle, the food and a completely new culture seems nothing to them, but somewhere they remember and bear in mind the memories of their hometown and as soon as they come across similar kind of people, happiness knows no limit. Soon as they leave their places, they try to be at home wherever they move to but homesickness is the only thing that hovers around. One thing that comes to their rescue is the selfish and exaggerated discussion about the native food and the mouth-watering experiences at the best food stations. 'The way to a man's heart is through his stomach', the quote says it all and this is the first thing that can overpower homesickness, being homesick despite having good food is something which one can experience in Hyderabad.  

Resources are limited, time too !

Resources and time go parallely with you, when you divert your path to catch time you lose hold of the resources and when you try to use the resources near you, time walks ahead. 'You come alone' and you have been listening to this phrase ever since your childhood when you did not even have the conscience to understand the difference between nothing and everything. When you finally start realizing the importance and the benefits of the resources around you, time has already gained so much speed that you start giving up.

Now, if you be with yourself, appreciating and applauding all the things that you already have and all the time that you have without even trying to explore new things; resources will not wait for you. When you finally wake up from the appreciation sleep, new resources will replace the old ones and you will consume more time to adapt to those new aliens.

The best possible way, not to regret about anything later in our lives is to try to keep a balance between time and the consumption of time to utilize the resources at the right time.