And now the story begins...

This year has taught me a lot of things and I have discovered a lot of me and I still think that much more is still left undiscovered. The best part of this year was that I was able to travel a lot, find new places and push through the limits. There are times when you are riding solo when you want to stop the bike and just stop. You become so tired of the same highway and the scorching heat that you want to quit. Would you quit or would you gear up and start riding again? The best thing about riding solo is that you will not be influenced by anyone to choose from the two options, the decision will be yours. Some people will quit, some will turn on the ignition and ride on while some will find a different route altogether. The last two options will take you somewhere and the first one will take you to where you used to be.

Life is no different. Either you have to carry on with the same route or you have to find a new one or else you will end up being where you used to be.

This will be continued...

Social media IQ !

IQ determines how witty a person is and who does not like to be with a witty person. You feel good when you are around witty people and you always tend to gain something positive. You feel the vibration around and a famous saying says," always surround yourself with people who know more than you," it definitely means something otherwise why would people say such things and remember too. 

Now, why IQ suddenly and social media IQ? People prefer social media IQ to general IQ now. There was a time when people did not even know what is the pronunciation of a meme and now it is all about memes and short facebook videos. Almost everyone is on facebook now and are actively using it as internet and data is available in plenty. Unlimited internet and calls are the new permanents but how many people do speak to each other now. The consequences, many, some are people are watching the same things and reading the same things, it's just that they are not wearing the same dresses otherwise everything is just the same.

Again, people read the memes and start discussing as they believe everything they see on the internet be it true or not. No one has time to check the validity of the news, no one even wants to check whether it is legit or not, but yes all of us make sure that we discuss those. The best example is those who don't even watch football they make sure that they discuss about the football team of Iceland, most of whom have a day job. How did they come to know that? The memes, what else! 

Yes, news channels cannot be trusted now, as all have become business houses for political parties and you can very well understand that by watching the trend of news they follow. One new channel will always telecast news which is anti-ruling party and the other new channel will show the positives of the ruling party. So, it is better to abstain from the news as you are not going to hone your debating skills by watching the news channel debates and the conclusion of those debates always nothing, save your time instead, read good books and there are many more things.

In a nutshell, the social media IQ is determined by the time you spend on social media and discussing those memes. Now you have to decide whether you want to have a greater social media IQ or you like to be dumb as far as the virtual world is concerned.

Life and a plate of rice and curry!

Your mom serves you a plate of rice with some curry and you have already been informed that there is no extra curry. In the beginning, you do not pay much heed to that warning and start enjoying the food. Soon you realize that not much curry with be left for the rest of the rice. So you start eating carefully, less curry with more rice. What happens next? You have enough curry for the end so that you can retain the taste without wasting the rice with just a little bit of management and compromise.

So, why this curry and rice story? Life is very much like the curry and rice. Only if you decide to adjust sometimes, the rest of the journey becomes fun. If you end up using all the resources and the money in the beginning, you will be left with nothing but dismay!

Sometimes people might even call you frugal or unsocial but they actually do not know the things which go on in your mind so let them think. Why think about what others are thinking? Plan for the bigger things, look at the bigger picture.

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.

New!

As long as you are not doing anything different you will not be able to find the meaning of new. You keep on doing the same errands everyday and finally after years you realize that you had never tried anything different and hence you have not learnt anything new. Is it really necessary to do that? Yes, it is! You are riding a bike and all you find is a straight highway with nothing but empty land around, it is obvious that the ride would turn out to be really boring after sometime, you need some curves, some hills, some valleys at least to make the ride interesting, isn't it?

Life is like a ride which does not become interesting without any difficulty in it. How long do you play a game with the same difficulty level in it? The only difference is that in life you do not get to set the difficulty levels. Whatever you get on the way you have to accept it or you have to find something new. New is you, every time you do something different you discover the new you and you would be amazed to know that you can do so many things, it would be unleashing your potential to do things.

Life is one and try to make the most of it before it gets too late to change ways!

Is life a race?

" Life is but a race and if do not run, you will be like broken eggs", remember the dialogue from the movie 3idiots? How not to be a part of this race? Well, do not participate, just go with the flow and enjoy the present which is the best present life has given. Otherwise, every time you go out of your homes, you become a part of a race chased by someone or chasing something or someone instead. You do not have the time to look behind, forward and ahead.

Have you ever noticed something? On a normal week day when you are at your office, you count hours and wish the day was over soon and on the same day if you were on a vacation, somewhere on a hilly region, you would wish,'how beautiful would it be if that moment or that day would never end.' Life can be so funny at time and the worst part is you do not have control over it.

The best solution is to get lost and the only thing in possession be hope and nothing else that would consume you. A road that would run endlessly, no expectations and who so ever passes by would greet you and you would pass a smile. How beautiful would that world be! 

Ghosts!

Are you afraid of ghosts? Are ghosts real and if not why do people still believe in them? The truth is that ghosts are real and are not dead. I, you, he, she or they, everyone is a ghost for someone or the other. The only difference between the living and dead ghosts is that you can see them anytime. They vanish only when you want them to or when they stop seeing you. As long as you are the present for someone or some place you are alive and as soon as you are gone, you become a ghost. Generally we call it out of sight out of mind. A ghost is merely a memory which you prefer to share with others by siting across a candle lit table by creating a ghastly environment.

Do we really care about each other or we just pretend to? Every now and then someone from our contact is becoming a ghost and we do not even have the time to realize it. Are we really that busy? The positive thing about us(ghosts) is that we can be brought back to life without even performing Planchet. All you need to do is give a call and talk for sometime to give life to a character which might play a role in your life.

So pick up your phone and start bringing the dead back!