Thursday, June 21, 2012

CHANGE

Change is good ... Change is bad ...
Change is neutral being as you want it ...
Sometimes right ... Sometimes wrong ...

The best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
             -Theodore Roosevelt


But something magical about it is-
What it brings along is what leads to it - fear, anxiety, resistance, acceptance, appreciation
Change is both from bright to dark and dark to bright
both are resisted in the beginning, fought then after, lived miserably and then comfortably till the urge for other is felt and here the story repeats again.

Nothing that is can pause and stay;
the moon will wax, the moon will wane,
the rain to mist and cloud again,
tomorrow to today.
             - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


And LIFE - life is not something that happens in between, life is what happens along
Accepting the change or resisting the change is called going for life, ignoring the change is withdrawal from being alive.

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
             - Japanese proverb


Change has the army, you can battle but can never win. A win against it is a loss and a loss against it is a loss till you see a win beyond the loss.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
             - William Blake


Every change definitely has a price to pay and a prize to gain.
Let go the price, let come the prize
But don't let them tame, be them strange
clearing up the way for yet another change.

If you attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are, pleased with yourself, there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
              - Saint Augustine

Monday, June 18, 2012

BEING A GIRL-2

Hell !! Clothes can make you feel expensive, like a princess.
Just think back, how many times we have loved a dress at first sight and dreamt weeks about it and finally overcoming the thought that we are not worth it, gathering all our emotions we decide to try it on one day and...
And when it doesn't fit us, we curse our body for being shapeless. I bet, the trial room in a couture store has heard more confessions than the confession box in any church, more resolutions than the new years' eve and more wishes than god from the famous temples. And after every such unfitting session, we hog on a sundae, a chocolate bar or just reach the bottom of a bottle of liquor.
Ain't it sounding like a breakup? Trust me it is worst than that. It is breaking love with ourselves.
But then there are some lucky days when we find something perfect for our shape, our size and our color, something that makes us look beautiful and confident and that mends not just that very moment but all those days when we wear it. The truth that every body is different is digested and that we should appreciate them as they are; is accepted.
This repetitively unveiled philosophy continues to prevail until we stumble on another such gorgeous dreamy dress. 

Sunday, June 17, 2012

BEING A GIRL-1

Why do we celebrate Mother's Day and Father's Day separately, when there should be a Parent's Day. They are a team together. Expressing love for one without considering the other doesn't feel fair enough to me.
I now know what people mean when they say a girl loves her parents more than a guy. If a guy loses his parents its when they leave this world but the girl loses them way before that, when she gets married.
All those days when I have been low, my dad gave me a tight hug, a pat on my back and held my head in his hands. And like magnets, his hands would pull out all the worries out of my head.
Whenever I had a fight with friends, my dad has become one himself playing and sometimes fooling around with me.
Whenever the people around, teachers, strangers or friends have made me evil in my own eyes, my mother's eyes have never failed to portray me as a star. Oiling my hair and plaiting them neatly she has always uncluttered my mind and my life. Food from even the most finest silverware cannot match the taste of food she has fed me by her hands.
And all of a sudden a stranger will come and take me away from my heroes. I will be madly in love and wanting to start a new life with him, dreaming my days and night with him with no thoughts about leaving my parents. But not too late, just one fight and I will realize no matter what, no one can match those two angels in my life.

MY HERO

May be its true,
God lives in Maa
But let me tell you,
I saw him in you too, Paa

First day of my life,
I opened my eyes in your arms
First time I stood on my feet,
was not the ground, but on your palm

My first walk holding your hand
and the first run I made was to reach where you stand

First stroke of brush and kick to a ball,
you've been there, you've taught me all

There is nothing that I can't bare
if your fingers always run through my hair

I can stand through every storm
when I know I have you to curb all harm

I'll not be star, if I reach any high
but I'll surely be one, when I sparkle in your eye


May be its true,
God lives in Maa
But let me tell you,
I saw him in you too, Paa



Friday, June 1, 2012

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT- Dreamy and equally untrue.
 But first sight is obviously the first step towards eternal love.
 It is totally overrated that first sight is all rosy, fragrant, moonlit or silent and slow-motioned. The best description to it would be
 UNUSUAL- Something that never happened before
UNKNOWN- till it happens again
CRAZY- when it keeps on repeating
 and
LOVE- when it is finally understood