tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18217369348450604012024-03-14T11:45:15.616+05:30Perspectives & PerceptionsLife and its meaning derived from situations and incidents, in my words. Because it's all a state of mind! ~ "Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be."Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-8798127897219774122017-07-11T18:58:00.000+05:302018-08-24T19:21:20.028+05:30Human beings and validation<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><i>"Every word has consequences.</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><i>Every silence, too."</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">The more you do for someone, the more they’ll expect the
next time. Don’t keep being the giver. Make a conscious effort to strike a
balance. It sucks but it’s the truth. The ones you confide in with matters of
the heart, will be the ones taking you for granted. And as a bonus, if you can
provide financial support and have the heart to keep giving… you’ll realise
much later where you should’ve stopped yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">A mother’s tears speak volumes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Don’t explain yourself too much always. Your words will
be mistaken for trying to justify a point you never began to explain with that
intention. You were only explaining because you purely felt like you were
sharing your thoughts, out of habit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">"There’s
a message in the way a person treats you,</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
<i>just listen…"</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Anyone who is close to you in your life must be accepting
of your flaws and nature.<br />
Because if that person isn’t, it’s going to be a problem, as somewhere that
hope of you changing bit by bit will never go away. Regardless of whether this
person accepts that he/she would want you to change your basic nature, make
sure that you have sensed the underlying meaning in the words spoken by your
loved one, as a pattern.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">It’s so amazing to see a difference of opinion from an
individual when it comes to you, and when the same thing is applicable to
another close person in their lives, it’ll vary to a great degree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Marriage, it’s not for everybody. Tons of patience,
expectations, tolerance. It’s an endless coping process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">You have to be able to reassure the right people in your
life<br />
and by right, I mean, the ones you take for granted!<br />
<b><i>The power of reassuring and apologising is truly underestimated.</i></b><br />
<i><br />
</i>There is no point in you displaying affection when there is no
reciprocation from the other end due to prior experiences<br />
Don’t let yourself suffer because of a river of emotions</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Most people don’t think as much as you think
they do!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">What has gotten into the millennial generation that
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be judged. Again and again. They judge you by your silence and by your
expressiveness.<br />
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smile on your face, the happier you’ll be :)</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Enjoying solitude will help you heal those parts of you,
you thought were healed but actually aren’t.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Money is certainly not everything, but it does solve a
lot of problems. #Kalyug<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">People won’t get you the way you expect them to.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">That’s because and will always be because
they’re thinking from their level of perception always.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">There is no relationship that’s full of roses without
thorns</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">The thorns might be too many and piercing in
some<br />
But that’s how it is</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">What will you do about it?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">You are always being compared even when
you’re told otherwise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Everyone’s brain works a certain way</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">As an individual who’s a parent, one must
remember that you’re forming a child’s questions and answers</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">You are contributing in every way to a
child’s thoughts who you’re raising up or even interacting with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">I don’t get why women are always looking for validation
from a guy</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">No, you don’t need it</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">I rarely see a man who isn’t confident about
himself and seeking the same from the opposite gender<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<b><i>Find the sort of person who doesn’t judge you
during your worst moments and celebrates your best ones to the fullest.</i></b>”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">– Ankita Mahabir</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">(a senior from school, in one of her
articles)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">The world is disturbed<br />
Syria attacks and people dying, so many innocent children suffering due to no
fault of theirs<br />
The media is always focusing on coming up with sensationalised headlines, and
depressing news, instead of maybe reflecting on positivity or philanthropy at
some level<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sons are sons<br />
Daughters are liabilities<br />
No matter what you say, hear or believe<br />
That is the harsh truth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">This is an old one;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt;">"</span><i style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Sometimes
the nicest people you meet are covered in tattoos and the most judgmental
people you meet go to Church on Sundays."</i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">So if you’re an empath, a words person, and reading this</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Here’s something you must remember ~</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Don’t let anyone tell you that you should
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">The power of storytelling, self-awareness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">The sad part about being an empath is that you will
always be taken for granted. You’re a good judge of people because you can
sense who they are for real behind the masks they wear, and not how they are on
the basis of their appearance or how they portray themselves in front of the
world.<br />
You can see through people, but not everyone can, especially the naive ones out
there. And because you’re always looking to receive genuine vibes, you’re
unusually alert when you don’t receive even a little bit of those. But when you
warn another person about the same, you’ll definitely be blamed for having a
negative outlook, and preconceived notions.<br />
The worst part about being on, is to feel everything.<br />
Such is life. Such are human beings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">It’s amazing the kind of questions people ask sometimes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">I mean, honestly, it isn’t even about whether
you have any common sense at all whatsoever<br />
Because that again is quite subjective and depends on your exposure in life
anyway<br />
But really, it’s about whether or not you applied your brain to its maximum
capacity and tried to figure out an answer or look up google, in the first
place!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">But no, why would one do that when it’s
easier to not think at all and ask questions amongst a group of people.. I’m
not even considering our parents generation here, they’re exceptions and a
different breed of homo sapiens</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Such amazingness is only reflected by the
awesome millennials!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><i>"You cannot force someone to comprehend a
message that they are not yet ready to receive, but never underestimate the
power of planting a seed."</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">People running after fame, money or success often forget
their families in the rat race.<br />
They lose themselves in the process and the worst part is that they don’t
realise or admit it..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ellentv/videos/10155577207022240/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; text-decoration: none;">It’s
12-year-olds like Alex who will change the world.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
~ A must watch video, thanks to Ellen for being who she is!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">When you notice a pattern<br />
in a person’s behaviour</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">in life,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">connect the dots…</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "mingliu"; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">it’s all connected!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">"Never
confuse education with intelligence."</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">These board results coming out, and the 99% average
(meaning 100 in more than one subject), just reminds me of how much people have
forgotten to differentiate between knowledge and education, as always, in our
country! The system can never be truly impactful, unless it recognises the
difference between a person’s marks and the capabilities of an individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">"Magic
happens when you don’t give up, even though you want to.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br />
<i>The universe always falls in love with a stubborn heart."</i></span></div>
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<br />Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-77467281771537361822017-03-20T20:11:00.001+05:302017-03-20T20:13:30.531+05:30Feeling how you felt, only makes you human"<i>Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.</i>"<br />
<br />
The people in your life are supposed to make it all easier<br />
If they're making it difficult, you know you must question the relationship!<br />
<br />
It's always going to be about how one has been conditioned through life<br />
It's why we see some people as really graceful beings, respectful not just towards elders, but just by nature while speaking to anyone, it's in the way they speak and their tone<br />
and then of course there are those who think they're perfectionists and everyone should just live serving to fulfil their wishes and demands<br />
<br />
"<i>It's a little strange to actually get an award for being nice and generous and kind, which is what we're all supposed to do with one another. That's the point of being a human</i>."<br />
- Ellen DeGeneres<br />
<br />
Upbringing<br />
The impact of that on a human being is just so undervalued!<br />
A child you're raising and pampering today is going to be someone's husband/wife tomorrow, someone's father/mother<br />
<br />
Situational behaviour<br />
It really depends on whether you make it a big deal or not<br />
and that will depend on the kind of people/thoughts you surround yourself with<br />
So if you make it a big deal, it will definitely be a task/challenge for you, because you've already convinced yourself that it's not going to be manageable<br />
So don't make everything a big deal... Let it be!<br />
You'll be able to deal with it all as it comes, if you believe that you can, and that you'll take it as it comes<br />
<br />
It's surprising how the generation right before mine is more messed up in their thoughts and attitude towards life, than mine!<br />
Thinking you're always right is death to the brain God has given you to wonder, stay curious and exercise your imaginative abilities<br />
<br />
Some things, you should never tell anyone<br />
Not even your best friend<br />
Especially when you're aware that you and the other person have drastically different views on a particular subject<br />
It's one thing to have identified the disagreement, acknowledge it and come to terms with it<br />
It's another to share more views on the same<br />
You'll only hurt yourself in the process<br />
<br />
<i>Bring up your child with love and chores.</i><br />
<i>Anyone who has an MBA but hasn't been brought up with a habit of doing chores, will not be able to mould.</i><br />
(in discussion with a very wise friend, when we talked about parenting, after she'd heard these views on a ted talk)<br />
<br />
Passengers, the movie<br />
How her mind works and he feels that something written by her is what he can relate to so much, it's as if it was written just for him<br />
Without knowing/meeting this person ever, but having spent months thinking about how this person could be as a partner in life<br />
She writes, but had never written about herself<br />
Arthur, the robot who doesn't have a heart obviously, only follows instructions, can't feel, but his character is portrayed in a manner that it can be deceiving even for a human, with regard to trust<br />
<br />
"<i>When you have been trying to fix a problem for too long</i><br />
<i>Let go of what you can't control for sometime</i><br />
<i>Live a little</i>" - a robot saying that to a human<br />
<br />
It's so strange how we humans work<br />
We want to live in a world dominated by technology<br />
But look for nature when that's the case<br />
<br />
"<i>Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one who finds the <b>gold</b></i>."<br />
<br />
Life isn't always about proving a point<br />
To your partner<br />
To your parent<br />
To the world<br />
To another person<br />
<br />
I'm not sure still, after all these years, if humans pay for their karma or not, considering we see rapists in our country walking free, let alone those who get a high after hurting another person's <i><b>feelings</b></i><br />
<br />
Sometimes...<br />
There's only so much you can do<br />
You explain a viewpoint<br />
You observe a certain aspect a number of times in many ways<br />
But if the person you're trying to show your perspective to, through your eyes, refuses to see what you see<br />
You're only making attempts in vain<br />
Not only because this person will never get it, but because even if this person eventually does get what you see now, it'll be too late<br />
<br />
When you trust people without the fear that your trust might be broken by them, you will be surprisingly happier in life!<br />
<br />
When you have tried your best to explain something to someone<br />
Or you shared your thoughts<br />
But the other person just doesn't get it because he/she is only going to be looking at it from his/her level of perception<br />
<br />
"<i>The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.</i>"<br />
<br />
When you feel everything too deeply<br />
Not only are you the only one getting hurt<br />
You're the only one feeling how you're feeling<br />
People don't think about how you feel unless they know that feeling<br />
<br />
Everything in life doesn't have to be compared<br />
Everyone's struggles are different<br />
Just because one's trouble doesn't seem as much to you because you've faced a lot more in life already, doesn't make their troubles small/petty<br />
You don't know how one deals with it all really<br />
We all deal with stuff in our own ways<br />
<br />
The lesser number of friends, the better they say?<br />
You're more at peace and in sync with knowing who'll be there for you no matter what<br />
and that you don't need to be in touch or show affection in anyway sometimes<br />
It's all just understood between the two people<br />
<br />
Selfishness<br />
We dwell in it as a species<br />
No matter what the degree of it is<br />
We act as per our convenience, we speak in sync with our benefit<br />
Even if it is a little thing like making a call, we don't usually keep the other person's situation/convenience in mind, in personal life<br />
That's when we're taking things for granted, bit by bit<br />
<br />
"<i>And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are...</i>"<br />
~ some of my favourite words from the Harvard commencement speech given by <i>J.K. Rowling</i><br />
<br />
We always only think from our level of perception, no matter what the situation<br />
It's amazing that the people you consider empathetic and observant in your life, are the ones who don't see what you see<br />
and then you realise that only time will give certain answers to them<br />
because time does give answers, especially to those who choose to stay silent<br />
<br />
Instead of accepting each other's flaws, differences, nature, way of thinking... one is always trying to show the other person how he/she is wrong in his/her thought process and this is what he/she could do to become better or more flexible<br />
How does one's nature and way of perceiving have anything to do with being rigid anyway?<br />
Okay, maybe a little.<br />
<br />
People showing they care, in front of others, time and again, are the kinds who have major insecurities in life<br />
I mean, you don't have to show it in front of anyone or prove it to anyone<br />
If you care, it's understood, just by the person you are and the vibe you give out rather than the words you speak amongst a group of people on purpose, to show that you do<br />
I absolutely detest it when people do it for the world or in front of other naive humans, demonstrating the same by being unusually explicit about it, as if it needs validation every time<br />
<br />
When you don't expect too much from a situation or from the people in your life, you'll be less disappointed in life in general, for sure<br />
<br />
It sucks when you care too much. You realise that the other person is better with those, who don't care even half as much as you. It's true!<br />
<br />
You expect your best friend to understand your viewpoint or be in sync with your thought, when you share how you feel about a particular situation or what you sensed, but when he/she isn't on the same page as you, and is confident or perhaps has chosen to not feel how you feel<br />
You really can't do anything except for time and situations to make your friend see what you see<br />
I may have been repetitive about this point, in this post, but I cannot seem to emphasise on it enough.<br />
<br />
<i>Arrival</i><br />
<i>Lion</i><br />
#MustWatchMovies<br />
<br />
You think everyone means what they say because you mean everything you say, and that's where you've gone completely wrong.<br />
<br />
The definition of being modern is still so messed up in our society. People think angrezi and clothes do it. Soch ko theek nahi karna lekin.<br />
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When your day is made from conversations with two wonderful and genuine souls<br />
A call from an old, and favourite teacher, after years<br />
and a well-wisher who strongly believes that you and her have a connection from the past life<br />
The feeling is indescribable! :)<br />
<br />
"<i>You think it's normal to feel everything so deeply, so you expect the same from other people. Well, don't; because it's not normal. It's not normal at all. It's rare. It's precious. It's actually amazing how the things which don't even brush their hearts, somehow manage to burn a hole in yours."</i><br />
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PS- Happy New Year!<br />
2017 seems to be flying already!Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-44399747593061724272016-12-07T01:03:00.002+05:302016-12-07T10:03:21.840+05:30You don't have to stay broken<i>"We don't have to agree on anything to be kind to one another."</i><br />
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It is still the hardest job to continue to stay who you are while people keep pulling you down or atleast don't give up on trying to change you<br />
Oh humans... people feel the way they feel for a reason and they think the way they think for a reason<br />
<i>Empaths</i> will get affected by everything you say to them because words hurt.<br />
<br />
If only someone could take away the pain and burden of knowing how strongly someone close in your life disagrees with your decision<br />
Life is ... about being happy apparently<br />
But at the cost of?<br />
So, based on your assumptions that you'd be happy in the future, you jump into the unknown?<br />
<br />
It's all about <i>choices</i>.<br />
<br />
Why is it that human contact is in fact so necessary, that without it, there's lack of validation and a sense of incompleteness, with regard to the purpose of existence?<br />
<br />
<i>Trust</i>.<br />
What is it?<br />
You trust your partner to love you as much as you love him/her with all your heart and never hurt you or break you knowing he/she has the power to.<br />
<br />
When you keep your phone away for a day,<br />
<i>Digital detox</i> is really important when we're living in a world dominated by technology!<br />
<br />
<i>Money</i>.<br />
It's important to you when you don't have enough of it. It's not as important to you when you have enough of it (exceptions are the self-made people). And I guess that's pretty much applicable to anything in life.<br />
<br />
"<i>Psychology says, people who hide their feelings usually care the most.</i>"<br />
<br />
A human's emotions coming out on another person. Once in a while is one thing, every time is another. Marriage surely isn't for everybody. In the words of a wise woman, an excellent dessert maker, "<i>marriage is compromise</i>." And that's the thing, what if one can't keep doing that?<br />
<br />
Why is it that the society doesn't <i>allow/permit</i> a girl to live with her parents for life, but a son can and in fact is expected to, even if/when he doesn't want/wish to?<br />
<br />
The one thing I handle in the worst way: <i>uncertainty ahead</i><br />
But that's the thing<br />
You just need to plunge into the unknown to find out for yourself what is out there<br />
Even if it means taking the big decisions in life<br />
You won't know the answer to your '<i>what if</i>' if you don't<br />
<br />
People will take you for granted, they will check your patience level<br />
No matter what on earth you do for them or anyone who means the world to them<br />
They will take advantage of your adjusting and giving nature till the point that you don't speak up about being hurt/affected by their words/actions<br />
These are the opposite of <i>humble</i>.<br />
<br />
One of the worst feelings in life is not knowing why you've come so far<br />
It's a sad, sad state when you don't have an answer to your <i>'why' </i>with regard to the path you've been on for so long or rather fought for<br />
...and you begin to doubt yourself. Don't ever let yourself do that!<br />
<br />
<i>Sarson ka saag </i>made by my mother is probably one of the finest creations that I've had the privilege of tasting almost every year during winters...<br />
<br />
How is a person expected to take a plunge in life and be at one's best at the same time?<br />
<br />
That satisfying feeling when you give bones to the stray dogs outside your house on a late dinner night, especially when you didn't eat yourself :)<br />
<br />
<i>Why don't people question their sons as much as they question their daughters?</i><br />
<br />
There is no space left for certain emotions in some people's lives<br />
They've had that much to deal with, that they don't know what it's like to show that extra concern towards themselves or even for a person they love dearly<br />
It's true.<br />
<br />
Indians giving bouquets to each other on an occasion: waste of money and the flowers!<br />
(keeping the exceptions aside)<br />
The next day, you'll see the flowers in the dustbin. Very few actually make the effort to take the flowers out of the plastic, and probably put them in a vase with water even for a day.<br />
<br />
And the Indian festivals that lead to people buying flowers worth hundreds of rupees, I mean, come on, you can make someone's life better with that much money. Because even if you do use those flowers to decorate your homes for a day, the next day, those flowers are going to be in the bin only. But no, no, why should we think that much, when what's more important is decorating and clicking pictures of those flowers on the ground, and getting that validated by people you don't really care about. The people selling flowers in temples fall under a different category all together. That's their bread and butter. The ones who show up only and specifically during festivals have other jobs and means of earning.<br />
<br />
When you don't need another person (<i>not even your best friend</i>) to tell you to look at the bright side or think of how blessed you are<br />
Because it's not that you've forgotten even for a second (all the more because you're one to remind others around you to stay thankful), but you just wanted to be heard without any reason for a moment<br />
I guess that's the difference between a human and a diary/dog, there is no response from the other end especially in terms of rationalisation in the case of the latter<br />
<br />
"<i>Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.</i>"<br />
<br />
Who'd want to be taunted for crying?<br />
Yes, in some parts of this strange world... even crying is a taboo!<br />
<br />
Work. You have to work hard. For yourself. For the point you're trying to prove to the most important people in your life that you can survive, all by yourself.<br />
<br />
People living in a parallel universe...<br />
<br />
You choose who <i><b>you</b></i> are.<br />
Whether you choose to be at a certain place at a certain time, or with people who expected their presence to matter to you...matter to you more than your presence elsewhere.<br />
<br />
There's something called '<i>personal touch</i>' when it comes to taking care of your elders<br />
The same action can be performed by a helper, but you doing it adds care to it in a way that no one else can fill that missing gap of care/affection<br />
<br />
Life, especially the serious days of it, the ones we add seriousness to with all the problems in our head... <i>Laugh it out</i>. This is something I've finally started to implement. Something I learnt from an important person in my life.<br />
<br />
You choose who <i><b>you</b></i> could be.<br />
<br />
Different people get a high from different things ~<br />
Saving lives as a doctor<br />
Working for an ngo and changing lives<br />
Proving others wrong around you<br />
Yelling at domestic helpers/employees<br />
Scolding someone younger to you<br />
Making others feel bad for you<br />
Alcohol<br />
Inflicting pain on another person<br />
Skydiving<br />
Making a stranger happy<br />
<i><b>It's a matter of being in control with your own state of mind!</b></i><br />
<br />
When it so happens that due to some of your own actions, your friends withdrew, without you realising what you said/did, and by the time you become aware of it, it's been a while, you must use all that time and energy you would've used on building a relationship further, towards building your career/educating yourself and becoming more aware of how you can progress in an area that will eventually help you in the future.<br />
<br />
"<i>You can meet someone tomorrow who has better intentions for you than someone you've known for years, time means nothing, character does.</i>"<br />
<br />
Human beings hurt each other the most!<br />
<br />
The difference between making a video and a scrapbook...for your mother<br />
She wouldn't need battery in her phone to see it, or space to see/find it!<br />
She can touch the book and go through it whenever she feels like without straining her eyes with the brightness of the screen in the middle of the night..<br />
<br />
<i><b>~ Music ~</b></i><br />
<i><b><br /></b></i>
Closer - The Chainsmokers [Boyce Avenue Cover]<br />
Right Place Right Time - Olly Murs<br />
Chocolate - The 1975<br />
Faded - Alan Walker<br />
Say You Won't Let Go - James Arthur<br />
This Town - Niall Horan<br />
All We Know - The Chainsmokers<br />
<br />
Aashiq Tera - Sohail Sen<br />
(from the movie <i>Happy Bhag Jayegi</i>)<br />
The Breakup song - Jonita Gandhi<br />
Nachde Ne Saare - Jasleen Royal<br />
#OnRepeat #Bollywood<br />
<br />
Closer - Kabira - The Chainsmokers<br />
Blank Space - Mental Manadhil<br />
#VidyaVoxMashupCovers<br />
<br />
Boyce Avenue covers are a kind of their own :)<br />
<br />
If the luxuries are basic necessities for you (<i>from the perspective of a layman)</i>, then you will never be content in life, because the variety is endless, and so your thirst to own/possess more will never die...<br />
<br />
"<i>Your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt</i>" - That's me!<br />
<i>Me Before You</i> ~ What a wonderful movie :')<br />
Sometimes in life, the most beautiful things happen to people who think life won't be nice to them.<br />
Life ~ it asks you to live it to the fullest. It expects you to consider it your duty to live it to the best of your abilities, for we all get one chance.<br />
But then again, movies are movies for a reason.<br />
<br />
It must be the first time that I've stopped believing that even parts of a movie can happen to one in reality<br />
It's a lie, a big lie<br />
No one will ever care for you like that, even the person who loves you the most.<br />
<br />
<i>The Best of Me</i> ~ another movie that made me smile and made me question universe's ways of working and how destiny does say hello to you even if you try and run away from it. Loved it.<br />
<br />
Some people's lives are only about hairstyles, makeup, dresses and parties ~ it's all about appearance<br />
<br />
An important learning for myself,<br />
If a person is of a very different nature than yours, and you just cannot understand or cannot relate with... Don't zone out or show it on your face<br />
You don't know why that person is that way (<i>upbringing, circumstances, apathetic by nature</i>)<br />
<br />
"<i>People enter our lives for many reasons</i><br />
<i>Sometimes we are destined to help them on their journey</i><br />
<i>Sometimes they are there to help us grow</i><br />
<i>Sometimes they come to lead us to someone else</i><br />
<i>Sometimes they are there to show us what we do not want</i><br />
<i>Sometimes they come to remind us how beautiful we are</i><br />
<i>Sometimes they are there to teach us a lesson</i><br />
<i>Sometimes they come to show us how to love again</i><br />
<i>People don't always stay and sometimes it hurts</i><br />
<i>Just remember, everything happens for a reason...</i><br />
<i>Whether they stay or go...</i><br />
<i>...we will take a piece of them with us forever."</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
The thing is, when you don't wish to learn about some people's lives, you really shouldn't be made to. It only makes you hate it all.<br />
<br />
<i>What makes people think that money gives them power over others who don't have as much as them?</i><br />
It's beyond me.<br />
Insensitivity amongst the rich and educated is prevalent.<br />
Thank goodness for people like J.K. Rowling and Melinda Gates.<br />
<br />
I miss Bombay.<br />
The feel that city gives you when you're there.<br />
<br />
We've all read this somewhere or the other, but I'm going to repeat it here, because I really don't think it's said enough:<br />
<i>Money can not buy/teach you or your child: <b>how</b> to speak to someone, manners, behavioural ethics, basic etiquettes, and kindness!</i><br />
The list can certainly be longer but I'll stop at that. Inherited wealth is the worst. It makes you look down upon people and you'll never even admit that, that has become a part of who you are. You're far from empathy. A wise friend once said to me, 'Garima, self made men aren't rich, they weren't born with it, they earned every penny themselves and so they're rich not in terms of money but in terms of their experiences, it's the next generation who's rich.'<br />
<br />
Another thing is,<br />
Common sense is not common in common people!<br />
Goodness, we've all been blessed with a brain (okay, there are four different kinds apparently) and the same thinking capacity, but, humans just don't seem to want to use their heads enough. They call it overthinking when a person attempts to rationalise.<br />
<br />
Your opinions start to matter less the day you have gone against one's decision and put your foot down.<br />
<br />
Indian railway station - 9 pm - foggy - people stare because they believe it's their right and because it's the right thing to do - you want to go buy a packet of chips for yourself and for the driver who has come to drop you and a couple of more people - the first thought that crosses your mind as a female is - whether or not you should even walk by yourself to a counter that's at quite a distance - why - because that's how your country has always made you feel when you're out alone anywhere even for a minute!<br />
<br />
The problem with most rich Indians is, they will look down upon anyone who <i>A</i>. earns less in general <i>B</i>. earns lesser than them <i>C</i>. cannot do anything for them <i>D</i>. whose colour doesn't appeal to their eyes <i>E</i>. whose job doesn't appeal to them<br />
Ofcourse, there'd be exceptions to the above, but frankly, I can't stand the fact that people actually get to behave like that and get to convey as if they have some sort of <i>power</i> over another person, just because they think they do.<br />
<br />
When a lady (your mother's age), talks confidently about how she didn't let her son pursue the course he wanted to, and made him stick to the realistic options/career path in life..<br />
shows exactly what's wrong in the thought process of parents even today, when they don't see how not allowing their child to pursue a career of his/her own choice (a part of his/her passion) lead their children to only believe that they wouldn't have been able to pull it off/make a living with the same...<br />
<br />
<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/natgeotvau/videos/vb.318845797005/10153922126577006/?type=2&theater" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Before the Flood - so important for everyone to watch!!</a></i><br />
<br />
And,<br />
In the words of <i>Jim Carrey</i>,<br />
<br />
"<i>My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that <b>you can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love</b>.</i><br />
<i>How will you serve the world?</i><br />
<i>What do they need that your talent can provide?</i><br />
<i>That's all you have to figure out.</i><br />
<i>As someone who's done what you're about to go and do, I can tell you from experience,</i><br />
<i><b>the effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Because everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart.</b></i><br />
<i><b>And all that will be left of you, is what was in your heart</b>."</i>Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-68902594367399760702016-08-23T01:18:00.000+05:302016-08-23T01:25:54.164+05:30Dark realities and more"<i>Half the world is starving, the other half is trying to lose weight.</i>"<br />
<br />
When the day begins on a pleasant note, but you knew that that won't stay for long, as nothing does<br />
<br />
"<i>To understand is to perceive patterns...</i>"<br />
<br />
There's that weight you carry inside of you, until you don't say it out loud or take it out just by sharing silence...<br />
The other person has to have the perspicacity and power to reason, to know that you just need the silence to be shared for a while and the aggressive emotion will go away.. Because when you're the emotional one and start to get angry even when you've just missed someone a little too much, and although you're usually pretty good at conveying your thoughts, this one time you don't want to and want the other person to just get it.. But of course people don't always infer what you expect them to.. That only happens <i>sometimes.. </i>The rest of the times you probably just get lucky<br />
<br />
Interacting with kids will always remain one of the greatest ways to learn something new!<br />
<br />
Awaaz badha ne se, baat sahi nahi ho jaati!<br />
(You don't become right by raising your volume!)<br />
<br />
When movies like <i>Udta Punjab</i> are released in the Indian cinema...<br />
Not only do you get to hear about controversies, you suddenly become more aware of the degree of the problem existing in that state! The people living in the state are far from the purpose of life and are in an existential crisis it seems. A dark movie with strong messages indeed. Excellent acting by the cast.<br />
<br />
Why can't people live by the mantra that people who have a lot lesser than them are happier than they've ever been?<br />
<br />
"<i>Hold on to every genuine person you find. This generation has people driven by ego, money and status. As a result good souls are ruined daily. Keep your head up and be conscious of the energy you give out and connect with."</i><br />
<br />
When you're in the middle of writing a post, and the lady who's the caretaker (apparently they're addressed as <i>jaapa </i>in Hindi) of your nephew, starts to share a bit more about her life... and you have your mouth open when she says she was married off to a forty year old man when she was twelve! She had her first child when she was just sixteen! And she's my age right now. She sounded happy that she was married off to him because he didn't take dowry!<br />
You go back to realising how people think, and how their lives have been, and how each of them are going through unimaginable situations...<br />
which is exactly why I absolutely dislike people who are not thankful, in our wonderful (whose definition of <i>modern</i> is probably less/westernised clothes and not thoughts) society!<br />
<br />
People whining about trivial things and going on about it, always<br />
COME ON. Look around for heaven's sake!<br />
Such humans don't know the value of other humans and don't want to either.<br />
<br />
"<i>I have never understood why people go out of their way to put others down. Be a good person, it isn't that effing hard.</i>"<br />
<br />
A number of people have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea in 2016<br />
There are people who died in Orlando<br />
The terrorist attacks are never ending ... all in the name of I don't know what!<br />
There are rapes happening every minute in different parts of the world<br />
There are people misbehaving<br />
Some losing themselves whilst attempting to prove themselves to others<br />
Some continue to live in their big bubbles where everything is flowery and nice<br />
It makes you want to tell everyone around you, to just continue to be thankful!<br />
<br />
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<br />
<i>Finding Dory</i><br />
The emphasis laid on how an instinct is a natural ability<br />
I recognised Ellen DeGeneres' voice without knowing it was hers :) She's too damn good.<br />
#movie<br />
<br />
This Sweet Love - James Yuill<br />
Da Da Dasse - Kanika Kapoor<br />
Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) - Omi<br />
#music<br />
<br />
The level of complexity in our bodies..<br />
I'd blame the hormones for all the <i>unexpected</i> mood swings too!<br />
The female body's behaviour and its relationship with one's age ~ something men must give thought to as well!<br />
<br />
People will hurt you... time and again<br />
<div>
yes, the same ones whom you gathered the courage to trust again</div>
<div>
What are you going to do about it?</div>
<div>
Don't let it break you!</div>
<div>
<br />
"<i>There are more fruits in a rich man's shampoo than in a poor man's plate</i>."<br />
<br />
We all have a tendency to surprise ourselves, we just have to want to test our abilities in the right direction to that extent<br />
Things happen, life has better plans for us sometimes<br />
We just got to take it all one day at a time<br />
The choices you make, some of them might turn out to be harder than you'd thought<br />
But regret never fixes anything<br />
You just got to deal with it the best way possible<br />
<br />
"<i>A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. <b>Give him your heart and he'll give you his</b>. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?</i>"<br />
#Marley&Me<br />
<br />
If someone ever tells you to change yourself, stay away from that person<br />
Why should you change just because you're sensitive and let things get to you fast?<br />
You are who you are for a reason<br />
<br />
When you're too tired of explaining yourself, of keeping up, of controlling your tears.. that you just want to give up.. You don't know where to draw the strength from<br />
The part that's the worst throughout the above is that the people pulling you down are the ones you never thought would be the ones!<br />
<br />
No one's guidance or advice is going to help with regard to knowing how to be the right one in a marriage, or how to be a parent, because no one is going to tell you time and again that it's going to be hard, and that everyone has a very unique experience of their own<br />
No body prepares you for the hardest jobs in the world ~ <i>managing relationships</i><br />
While you're overwhelmed and unable to take it, you react in ways that damage them too much<br />
What you may have to give up during that journey/phase of life is also going to come as a surprise<br />
There'll be moments when it wouldn't feel like you made the right choice, or that it wasn't worth it<br />
Just ensure that you have the right people in your life telling you the right things, things you needed to hear for the reassurance that was needed.. Don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise.. You and your closest friend know how you may have coped with it all..<br />
<br />
All these love stories they show in movies<br />
Never believe them<br />
Because you'll only be a big fool to think that's ever possible in reality<br />
You'll get hurt, you'll have arguments even after all your attempts to rationalise<br />
No matter what you do, how much ever you go out of your way for someone, at some point you'll be put down<br />
That's how humans are, the messed up species<br />
<br />
One of my favourite advertisements!<br />
: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bK04dGgGLY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Geeta Phogat ~ will of steel</a><br />
<br />
Olympics and a number of Indians making the nation proud! :)<br />
#Rio2016<br />
<br />
It's true when they say that if you're not losing friends, you aren't growing up.<br />
<br />
There are those who don't consider themselves worthy of things and deserve the world, and then there are those who haven't done shit to deserve what they've been blessed with, but have much more than needed, let alone deserve. This is exactly where <i>destiny</i> and <i>past life's good karma</i> play their role.<br />
<br />
There is a post due specifically on marriage and experiences attending weddings from different cultures :)<br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>The world is a dangerous place when there are more people who want to prove wrong than right.</i><br />
<br />
This post had been in drafts for way too long!<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UeETp6oKk0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Love is on the Way [Saigon Kick Cover]</a><br />
~ sung by a friend!<br />
Subscribe to his channel if you like it? :)<br />
The link to it: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnr2WOASATJsASqvK7qPVA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a><br />
#musician<br />
<br />
"<i>Raaste kahan khatam hote hain zindagi ke safar mein,</i><br />
<i>manzil toh wohi hai jahan khwahishein khatam ho jaaye</i>"</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-56697952895400080502016-04-16T23:09:00.000+05:302016-04-16T23:09:57.736+05:30Depends on whether you're looking for meaning or not ~"<i>Do not listen with the intent to reply,</i><br />
<i>but with the intent to understand.</i>"<br />
<br />
Why do we bargain with the people earning the least in our country?<br />
I just don't get it.<br />
You're willing to pay a big amount at a branded store, being well aware that the price isn't worth the product... but you will still continue to tell the vegetable/fruit vendor and rickshaw driver to charge you five rupees less.<br />
#ComeOn!<br />
<br />
"<i>There's a physical connection you can draw between how often you have to sharpen your pencil and how much work you've done.</i>"<br />
- Caroline Weaver<br />
<br />
A painkiller for an adult is like a toy to a crying baby #simile<br />
The pain hasn't gone anywhere but your brain's been informed that it has apparently; the child's hiccups are still making him/her uneasy, but the sound and movement of the toy gets his/her mind off it and works pretty well as a distraction!<br />
<br />
Introverts are introverts for a reason and they should never be forced to speak/share too much..<br />
Because they are who they are for a reason!<br />
It's just so sad that our hypocritical society isn't accepting of that nature<br />
Why is everyone constantly stuck on attempting to change one another?<br />
Why? Live and let live?<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">"It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for."</span><br />
<br />
I am a firm believer of the fact that <i>karma</i> will find its way back to you (!)<br />
<br />
Electricity and the wait for it, when Nani watches katha every evening on TV<br />
#LittleThings<br />
<br />
Thai noodles soup and crispy mushrooms with a friend, and a short drive after that whilst discussing the general siyapaas that tend to exist in the life of a twenty five year old female in our society :)<br />
<br />
"<i>You can't change someone who doesn't see an issue in their actions.</i>"<br />
<br />
One amongst many making a mountain out of a molehill about pretty much every thing<br />
Sad emotions are okay around you as long as you're in your bubble<br />
Zero empathy, let alone compassion<br />
Money servants money servants money servants<br />
~ stories of some...<br />
<br />
I personally don't even like the term 'servant'<br />
I mean, no one is your slave, so stop treating someone like one!<br />
But ofcourse in our country, they wouldn't say domestic help/helpers... just like they don't say homemaker and instead choose to say housewife<br />
<br />
Why is it that people don't give enough attention to the words being used by them!?<br />
<br />
A child's thoughts must always be cultivated in the right manner<br />
Of course, the 'right' depends on the parent defining it for the child<br />
<br />
"<i>I stopped explaining myself when I realised that people only understand from their level of perception.</i>"<br />
<br />
In life, you'll come across all sorts of challenges...<br />
Depends on you what you're willing to put at stake for each of them.<br />
The journey will take you places<br />
It'll make you say why me?<br />
How hard is it to let it be and let one be and not hurt that person by saying something you already have, again and again?<br />
Oh it hurts me sometimes to see how people behave with their siblings and children<br />
<br />
You meet people, you judge them, you make rigid decisions<br />
Is that how it's supposed to be?<br />
Ofcourse not!<br />
<br />
But if there's anything I've learned lately, it's that, whoever is not empathetic will never feel the pain. They are just like that. Detached and insensitive.<br />
<br />
"<i>There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.</i>"<br />
<br />
The society we live in ~<br />
No matter how the people are in a family, there is always differentiation done between siblings, between a son and a daughter<br />
It amazes me how human beings are still unaware of karma's role in life<br />
<br />
It's just so sad that the essence of life is lost around<br />
Not many care about what is to be cared about<br />
People just want to talk about people<br />
It's all become about storing everything in your phone's gallery and not going back to see it<br />
Gut feelings aren't believed by most of us<br />
You're called crazy if you want to follow your heart, because ofcourse money and servants should be the ultimate goal<br />
It's tragic to see most thoughts only going in this direction<br />
<br />
<i>"Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding."</i><br />
- Bill Bullard<br />
<br />
Financial independence isn't a concept that is encouraged<br />
But finding a rich husband is more than welcome!<br />
(yes, it's as sickening as it sounds)<br />
<br />
People marry for money and they also believe and think that everyone else must do the same!<br />
<br />
"<i>Confidence must be monitored so that it does not spoil or rot and turn to arrogance.</i>"<br />
<br />
When things start to fall in place, it'll almost feel unbelievably strange<br />
But then again, the universe does have its ways of working things out for you :)<br />
<br />
"<i>Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.</i>"<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEBlQ-zZ8p8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wake Up - Three Days Grace</a><br />
~ sung by a friend with passion..<br />
yes, I'm promoting his cover/channel shamelessly :)<br />
#musician<br />
<br />
"<i>Never be envious of what someone else has. You don't know the price they paid to get it, and you don't know the price they are paying to keep it.</i>"<br />
<br />
You want something I would never even think of wanting. I want something you don't want. Fair enough. Keep your choice with yourself and let me keep mine with me. I absolutely fail to understand (as always) as to why validation is necessary or even important! Why?<br />
I'm not putting my nose in your life and passing opinions, you shouldn't either!<br />
<br />
"<i>Astrology is a great excuse to blame planets for your incompetence.</i>"<br />
<br />
Neerja Bhanot ~ what an inspiration!<br />
I haven't seen the movie but the story is extraordinary and so was she :)<br />
<br />
<i>"You haven't truly given until you have given till it hurts."</i><br />
<br />
What do you think you should do? ~ A mother questioning her eleven year old in different situations, in an attempt to ensure that the child uses his/her own mind to think and isn't just instructed what to do instead<br />
#GoodParenting<br />
<br />
"<i>You never really understand a person until you consider things from his/her point of view, until you climb inside of his/her skin and walk around in it.</i>" - Atticus Finch<br />
~ something I've always said and believed in<br />
... I was genuinely surprised to know that it's a quote from one of the books that has been on my list; <i>To Kill A Mockingbird </i>by<i> Harper Lee</i><br />
I've only added the '<i>her</i>' as I do not like the male being the obvious gender even in a quotation<br />
<br />
Before Sunrise<br />
Serendipity<br />
Before Sunset<br />
#movies<br />
<br />
"<i>The heart has its reasons, and they aren't debate topics.</i>"<br />
<br />
I'm aware that this post was supposed to be about <i>Make A Difference</i> but one more meeting with the kids is needed for me to be able to sum it up precisely :)<br />
<br />
Take Yours, I'll Take Mine - Matthew Mole<br />
Fall - Meera Shenoy<br />
Boy With A Coin - Iron and Wine<br />
The Cave - Mumford and Sons<br />
#music<br />
<br />
"<i>Whenever you feel like criticising anyone</i>," he told me, "<i>just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.</i>" - F. Scott FitzgeraldGarima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-2610762403664541692016-01-15T15:15:00.002+05:302016-06-24T13:13:29.339+05:30The magic is in the mess<i>"It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller." </i>- Alan Rickman<br />
#Always<br />
<br />
It's one thing to have priorities clear,<br />
it's another to know how different yours are from the selfless people<br />
<br />
I consider myself fortunate that I've had the opportunity to meet some fantastic people in my life so far already<br />
<i>You have to be brutally honest only with those who understand honesty!</i><br />
<i>You have to colour your words with the rest.</i><br />
- said to me by a very wise fifty-six-year-old independent woman living life on her own terms :)<br />
<br />
Look around! Learn a little (even when there is a <i>lot</i> to) from those who're doing it without what you have! Seriously!<br />
<br />
When you attend one of the simplest weddings ever<br />
No showoff culture equals no punjabis criticising the food/arrangements/clothes/people's dress sense and more<br />
When there really was so much happiness in the air that one could sense the good vibe with smiling faces all around you<br />
Love marriages are always about struggle, aren't they?<br />
This one could've helped an individual grow one's faith exceptionally though<br />
<br />
The definition of travelling is so messed up in our culture/society<br />
Staying in the five star hotels and eating food from restaurants present all across the world<br />
Really? What did you learn? That it's all the same everywhere?<br />
You could do that in your own city and not look outside the window of the hotel room. Haha!<br />
[It's like someone gifting you an electronic gadget on a particular occasion, and in your head you're like; it could've been bought at any point of time after saving up enough; you didn't manufacture it, did you? So what was your (not the money's) effort in it? Yes, I'm weird.]<br />
We don't know our own country well but we love to comment on it every now and then<br />
Trying the local cuisines, using the public transport, exploring an area, that's what it's supposed to be all about!<br />
<br />
And,<br />
I have to mention this;<br />
My friend, who is now a mother to a nine months old,<br />
inspires me with her take on motherhood!<br />
She is a rare example in this generation for those of us who haven't walked on her path yet.<br />
And because it kills me a little every single time I see people around me confident that there is nothing that they could possibly learn of/from...<br />
She is the complete opposite of that :)<br />
<br />
Life can be as messed up as you make it.<br />
You'll be surrounded by people at one point, and feel like there isn't a single person who's like you and then you'd have one person miles away understanding that there's something not right, just by the punctuation used in your sentences.<br />
<br />
You're making fun of someone and you don't mean to hurt that person at all? Fair enough. Keep that person's nature in mind before doing anything. Things that don't hurt you, won't hurt them either : is the worst assumption ever. You don't know that what you're saying or doing would or wouldn't hurt them. I just fail to understand why people keep taking others around them for granted.<br />
<br />
You have to keep your freaking equation right with some people, because you're stuck there, and for that, you have to be fake<br />
One of the most difficult things for me to do<br />
Why do we humans complicate everything?<br />
Why can't people just get it? You're a certain way for a reason, and you reacted a certain way for a reason (no, the humans who don't think before opening their mouth aren't included in this list)<br />
You want something, you want something<br />
You love someone, you love someone<br />
Since when did it all become about approval and agreeing with each other's opinions?<br />
You are different god dammit. Ofcourse you wouldn't like what I like or who I like.<br />
But why exactly is that important?<br />
The biggest problem with us humans is; one half is seeking for validation, and the other half thinks they must validate it because it's their basic right and they were born to do just that.<br />
There are such few people out there who actually let you be. Whoever you are, and however you are, they let you be. There is no effort needed with these people. No effort to make a conversation, no effort to laugh/smile. It's effortless because you can share silence with them without thinking even for a second that it could be awkward. These are the kind of people who get you. And most times, one doesn't find such people easily. Because you know, it can't be all that easy.<br />
<br />
<i>"If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people."</i><br />
<div>
<i><br /></i></div>
Selfish. That's what we all are.<br />
We want things our way. We discount other's feelings on the account that it's okay to, because we have problems too. Umm, hello.. We all have problems, and unconditional love is too rare, and it doesn't work the way you think it will.<br />
<br />
<i>"Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate."</i><br />
<br />
Whenever you think how messed up life is for you,<br />
always remember that there are people hoping they manage to get past just one more day without any more troubles.<br />
<br />
"You should always have an opinion" is the most bizarre statement I've heard!<br />
<br />
Mad World - Hardwell<br />
Starlight (Could You Be Mine) - Don Diablo & Matt Nash<br />
Waiting for Love - Avicii<br />
Strong Ones - Armin van Buuren<br />
Young Again - Hardwell<br />
#music<br />
<br />
When you've also been blessed enough to have a friend who writes to you like one would to one's diary :)<br />
<br />
An eighty-three-year-old lady with more strength than I've seen in most people<br />
When the closest person to her passed away forty years ago<br />
and she also lost a child of hers eventually<br />
She's someone who's really felt loss<br />
And I'm a firm believer of the fact that one has to face real loss in life, to get out of their bubble<br />
Oh yes, we're all in our own bubbles<br />
<br />
The ones who have lesser than us tend to give more than us. It's true!<br />
The driver named Vicky, gave away his bag of peanuts to the boy who asked for food at the window of the car..<br />
And even though I wished I'd have had something edible with me (like in Bombay; Gems) on that day, but I didn't and he did.<br />
<br />
It is important to keep meeting people who are different from you!<br />
(for your own personal growth in many ways..)<br />
The reason behind that thought is a girl I met, a few months back, someone very ambitious, who told me about a story of a person who lived in the slums of Mumbai and got through the Stanford MBA on one hundred percent scholarship! People like those are the ones setting examples for the rest of us.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAuBa6G8v0U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HDFC Life Ad Campaign</a><br />
~ Another wonderful advertisement :)<br />
<br />
Because I started working with an NGO recently...<br />
(yes, it is supposed to be 'an' NGO and not 'a' NGO<br />
The articles are used before an abbreviation/word depending on the pronunciation of the first alphabet in that particular word! Phonetically, yes. So, because in this abbreviation, the N is pronounced as <i>enn</i>, which again begins with a vowel, therefore the 'an'. Haha. Yes, let's face it that we've all wondered about this at some point in our lives before.)<br />
<br />
Going back to my primary thought,<br />
Because I started working with an NGO recently;<br />
<i>Make A Difference</i><br />
The experience so far has obviously been enlightening!<br />
My next post will be only about that :)<br />
<br />
There's a part of me that can't wait for the next chapter of my life to begin, a part of me that wants to be there for these kids in many ways, for as long as possible, and a part that wants to go away.<br />
<br />
Because it is the people of Mumbai who make it Bombay :)<br />
In their Marathi, the <i>sorted!</i>, the obvious vada pav<br />
The food that added to my happiness:<br />
Chicken Tikka roll from Sigdi, Chip Butty from Theobroma, Sardar Pav Bhaji (no, it's not meant for you if you're not a street food person or if you're concerned about your immunity getting disturbed because of all the butter and the utensils used) and the gol gappe from Right Place (Amarsons)<br />
<br />
The typical business class families have so much to learn from the middle class. So much!<br />
It just amazes me every single time I see a confident individual around, and most of the times, the confidence is backed by the wealth inherited. Haha. I find that hilarious.<br />
<br />
Because good food makes life better!<br />
And so does Chai :)<br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished."</i><br />
- Daniel Gilbert<br />
<br />
PS- Happy New Year :)Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-19017865488548301172015-11-24T21:57:00.000+05:302015-11-24T21:59:28.860+05:30Because it's a paradox<i>It is too important to appreciate silence in a world that never stops talking!</i><br />
<br />
How is a human being so messed up overall?<br />
We hurt people around us all the time, and continue to live in our bubble pointing fingers at whoever possible because we're the fastest at criticising.<br />
You think you know people, but you don't really<br />
Even the closest ones in your life, the degree of variation in your opinion and theirs on certain subjects will leave you nonplussed.<br />
<br />
What goes around, comes around.<br />
And that is the ultimate truth.<br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>"You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened."</i><br />
<br />
The hypocrisy and chauvinism in the culture is in every part of this awesome society we live in<br />
People are shops of brands<br />
Their lives start and end with money<br />
Money: the problem causing problems, always.<br />
<br />
<i>"Not everyone will understand your journey. That's fine. It's not their journey to make sense of. It's yours."</i><br />
<br />
When it isn't about finding inspiration, or making a decision,<br />
it's about making a choice...<br />
There's a difference.<br />
<br />
When you know that a person is going to react in a certain way and he/she isn't going to entertain your perception, it's only going to make matters worse, then you might as well control your tongue! Why repeat the mistake?<br />
[No, in no way am I attempting to convey that one shouldn't stand up for what one believes in, of course one must. What I've mentioned above is only trying to convey the fact that there is always more than one way to handle a situation, an alternative way, and we must remember that, at least sometimes..]<br />
<br />
Because silence and time can both make situations better when you think nothing else can :)<br />
<br />
Be thankful.<br />
It makes you a more positive person overall without a doubt.<br />
It doesn't have to be about praying to one God specifically, or praying in general..<br />
Nothing of that sort. But be thankful. It's true that when we appreciate what we can do with everything that we're blessed with and what we have, we don't take it all for granted as much then.<br />
Shukraguzaar is the term I prefer actually. Bohot zaroori hai shukraguzaar hona. Har us cheez ke liye jo humare parents ne, higher power/universe ne humein di hai :)<br />
<br />
<i>"People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand."</i><br />
- Elvis Presley<br />
<br />
If you're meant to get something in a certain way and of a certain amount, you will get it irrespective of where you are and who you're with, because things beyond your control have always worked a certain way and they always will. The universe has its timing, and telepathy between people makes your faith grow in general when you just want to believe :)<br />
<br />
<i>"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."</i><br />
<br />
Why on earth are the narrow-minded human beings full of confidence?<br />
Did anyone ask for your opinion? No, it wasn't asked for, keep it to yourself please?<br />
I absolutely cannot stand humans making judgments, passing opinions and imposing their beliefs on all the possible people around them, unnecessarily.<br />
What the hell is wrong with our species, seriously?<br />
Humanity comes last in their thick heads!?<br />
<br />
<i>"Pray for the world that blames a refugee crisis for a terrorist attack.</i><br />
<i>Pray for the world where people walking across countries for months, their only belongings upon their backs, are told they have no place to go.</i><br />
<i>Pray for the world that does not have a prayer for those who no longer have a home to defend.</i><br />
<i>For a world that is falling apart in all corners,</i><br />
<i>and not simply in the towers and cafes we find so familiar."</i><br />
- Karuna Ezara Parikh<br />
<br />
Workaholics: people who take a few seconds to recollect what they had in their last meal!<br />
<br />
How do you know what to do when you're being told that you're on the wrong path but your gut says the opposite?<br />
You go with your gut!?<br />
Head vs heart: You listen to your heart, and led the head be this time.<br />
At least you'll find out what your heart wants to know.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Assumptions are the termites killing relationships: since 1990.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<i>"The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not the circumstances."</i></div>
<div>
<i><br /></i></div>
Can we or can we not change our own destiny?<br />
One of the most debatable and intriguing questions still<br />
Of course different perceptions developed from past experiences would say different things, and different theories would set some as norms<br />
But how does one really break it down?<br />
<br />
The world only makes you want to run away<br />
But ensuring that the right people in your life are guiding you towards the right path, is essential.<br />
<br />
The beliefs one has, one's outlook to life, the upbringing, and schooling of an individual<br />
can tell so much.<br />
<br />
Imparting knowledge and aiming to gain something from another is one thing<br />
Feeling superior is another<br />
<br />
When a child is pampered for the wrong reasons, he/she is well aware of the fact that from that moment onwards, he/she can take as much advantage as he/she wants of that.<br />
I'm absolutely amazed as to how a parent(s) stays ignorant towards the impact that that has on their relationship with their other child, and then, it's a human tendency that when an individual doesn't find love at home, he/she will look for it outside, always. The importance of good parenting has been overlooked by so many so often.<br />
<br />
<i>"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."</i><br />
<br />
A: You don't have to do that<br />
B: I know..<br />
A: You can't do everything<br />
B: I know, but I can try :)<br />
<br />
When the people around you fail to see the purpose of it all<br />
You're not going to take all that money with you<br />
Having a heart and giving, not only takes conscious effort, but humanity.<br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>"When you have more than you need, build a longer table not a higher fence."</i><br />
<br />
Everyone has a '<i>figuring out</i>' phase in their lives<br />
What's most important when you're in it, is not how fast/at what speed you figure where is it that you're heading, or what is it that you want to do/give to the world<br />
But the people who guide you during this phase, the ones who share their opinions, opinions that you seriously consider... That's what matters. Because if they aren't matching with how you always wanted to work things out in life for yourself, your head and heart won't be at sync with the whole chapter at the end of it.<br />
<br />
<i>"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language."</i><br />
<br />
Because no matter how much you know about yourself and your choices, your likes/dislikes, people you love, you will keep getting enlightened. It's another thing to think and believe that you know yourself and your partner well, but what you're forgetting is, it's an ongoing process. You're discovering more about yourself with each passing day; your capabilities, fears, your desires.<br />
Things are changing, and so are we.<br />
<br />
When something manages to shake your faith for the first time in life.<br />
<br />
You can, if you think you can!<br />
<br />
Obsessing over <i>Boyce Avenue</i> covers<br />
Alejandro, you're too damn good.<br />
And, Bea Miller covering Ed Sheeran's song: Photograph ~ treat to the eyes and ears!<br />
<br />
<i>"To make something special, you just have to believe it's special."</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
In a conversation with an engineer;<br />
There are raw thoughts, filtered thoughts, unfiltered thoughts, conscious thoughts, subconscious thoughts.. and probably more kinds that I will keep for another post<br />
Irony is, the topic could've been endless<br />
But this crazy person's point of view revolved around thoughts being made of particles and atoms/molecules, etcetera<br />
But of course I never meant to talk about the structure, and that's when you realise that you mustn't go further as you're the one from a non-science background in the conversation. #Blah<br />
<br />
Strange Talk - Young Hearts<br />
#music<br />
The Intern<br />
#movie<br />
You're never wrong to do the right thing!<br />
#RobertDeNiro<br />
<br />
<i>"What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters.</i><br />
<i>You can't reread a phone call."</i><br />
<br />
<a href="http://menstrupedia.com/blog/fellow-men-lets-not-keep-menstruation-a-mystery-anymore-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">An article on Menstrupedia</a><br />
A very interesting and straight forward viewpoint in that link<br />
and I love that this was written by a guy!<br />
<i>"Because psychology always affects physiology."</i><br />
<br />
Astrology: also another debatable topic.<br />
<br />
You will not understand the true meaning of it all until you really feel loss, your self.<br />
<br />
<i>"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."</i>Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-16053738681225603922015-07-09T18:49:00.001+05:302015-07-09T18:49:21.126+05:30The unexpected.<i>"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."</i><br />
<br />
Words are the most powerful things ever..<br />
They can lift you up<br />
or tear you apart<br />
They can take off that weight on your shoulders<br />
or put some extra bit on them<br />
They can work like magic<br />
or a disaster<br />
They can make you want to know a human better<br />
or can destroy the idea of ever wanting that<br />
They can work like an ointment for old wounds caused by inhumane people who will pay for their karma<br />
or they can make it worse if you've chosen to stoop down to that level of inhumanity<br />
Words...<br />
If used in the most appropriate order/sequence, manner, tone, and at an appropriate time,<br />
They can do wonders.<br />
They're underestimated because most of us haven't met the people who use them right, often, yet.<br />
<br />
There is a difference between great love and right love.<br />
<i>"You think you shouldn't want it because you've never had it, and it scares you."</i><br />
<br />
It all sums down to something<br />
Life<br />
The small incidents<br />
The big instances<br />
The coincidences<br />
The strange and surreal moments<br />
The tiny parts that involve how one's Sunday was<br />
It's for YOU to make sense out of what you want to make sense and what you don't want to make sense out of<br />
It is a choice even when we don't make a choice!<br />
It will always be about the power of the human mind. Yes, I have mentioned that here before. But reminders are healthy when used for the right purpose :)<br />
<br />
<i>"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."</i><br />
If only truer words had been spoken!<br />
#TheImitationGame #Brilliance #TheExtraordinaryMinds<br />
<br />
When something unreal happens in one's life<br />
When one finds another, who's like a mirror<br />
Who can not just read your thoughts, but actually makes the effort to, and wants to<br />
Yes, I would sum it up in one word for now<br />
And that's Serendipity<br />
But, that doesn't cover enough, because there's more, yes, there is<br />
<br />
Being naive is not the bad thing,<br />
But being naive in a society full of people who are not, that's what's harmful!<br />
<br />
It's always important to ensure to look for the good in people<br />
But being fooled by those who are always sure of what they say and draw conclusions fast,<br />
that's the sad part<br />
Since you don't get anything by "proving" anyone wrong<br />
<br />
<i>"Caring people help others not because they expect a reward, but because it is natural to show kindness."</i><br />
<i><br /></i>Being able to feel is the most wonderful thing ever.<br />
<br />
I will probably never understand people who can't spend time alone with themselves<br />
How on earth do you expect others to spend time with you, when you can't even spend some with your own self?<br />
<br />
Extreme opinions, being too certain about your words/thoughts/actions<br />
It doesn't say any good about you, it tells me that you don't believe that it's important to wonder!<br />
<br />
<i>"You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow."</i><br />
<br />
Humans<br />
Some of them actually like to consider themselves inferior and not important and live their life like that, which is why they treat themselves like that throughout<br />
Some literally need life to shake them up and tell them, What For? Breathe maybe?<br />
The innocence in some is made to lose by others<br />
<br />
Because life is full of flashes<br />
Flashes of thoughts,<br />
of memories,<br />
of moments that are going by too fast,<br />
of people coming and leaving,<br />
of nature trying to communicate with you,<br />
of stray dogs looking at you with the hope that you may feed them,<br />
of the domestic help at your house looking at you with the expectation that you keep in mind that they are also human beings who could use a smile once in a while,<br />
of your mom humming to old Bollywood songs...<br />
<br />
For the gazillionth time,<br />
Humans don't fail to amaze me.<br />
Being that animal who has access to language and the ability to express him/her self through speech, and still has the maximum number of misunderstandings/misconceptions<br />
<br />
What the world wants you to do:<br />
- Stay strong and don't speak up about how much it's hurting<br />
- Put on a good face every day and don't share your thoughts with necessarily a person of your choice<br />
- Don't trust your gut because we won't permit you to go ahead with it<br />
- Don't be logical because we won't be<br />
- Your future will not be decided by you, but us<br />
- You will not get to choose what you want to do<br />
- Shut up and listen<br />
- Not numb yet? We're not done with you yet.<br />
#TemporaryDisability<br />
<br />
<i>"It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."</i><br />
<br />
You must remember to take care of your own self. Always.<br />
The day you think you'll be taken care of, in the manner you can take care of yourself, you're very mistaken.<br />
<br />
So often, people can't express what they really want to,<br />
What's worse is, when their silence is taken for no expression<br />
<br />
<i>"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."</i><br />
<br />
It is an extraordinarily good feeling to know that there is a stranger out there in whose life some of these words could make a difference even for a split second, especially because that was never exactly intended upon :)<br />
<br />
Incoherence, equals, me.<br />
<br />
In Safe Hands - Badly Drawn Boy<br />
Fell In Love Without You [Acoustic] - Motion City Soundtrack<br />
Unlocking The Mind - Samuel Karl Bohn<br />
#music<br />
(Too many tracks to list for now)<br />
<br />
Bad experiences are like scars<br />
Apart from having learnt from them, the ones that last would be there as a reminder<br />
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<br />
Loss.<br />
Too much loss.<br />
#NepalQuake #IndiaWithNepal<br />
<br />
Prayers should never be underestimated.<br />
<br />
Aaaah,<br />
When you can't find the right words to not just express your thoughts, but even write them down for that matter<br />
Surreal is the word.<br />
When it isn't about figuring out anymore<br />
It's not about your choice either<br />
It's about deciding how to go about it<br />
Life and its unpredictability!<br />
Damn. Who knew who'd have a situation someday, one you wouldn't know how to handle well enough!<br />
<br />
<i>"Without pain, how could we know joy? This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate."</i><br />
<br />
When something unexpected happens<br />
Like it's more than you could've asked for<br />
But the question is, how come? And why now?<br />
Because you are who you are because of all that life's taught you until now. Is that it?<br />
... If only reality were to make sense all the time!<br />
<br />
When you're sure of what you feel<br />
But you're not sure why<br />
<br />
At the end of the day,<br />
Your happiness and wishes will be respected by those who have always loved you, and have always been there no matter what.<br />
<br />
When a visit to a play school was enlightening!<br />
My first visit, yes.<br />
A board that lays emphasis on "why do we need plants" through imagery<br />
~<br />
It reminded me of the time, when the same friend (with whom I'd gone to this play school, because she had an interview), had come with me for an interview that I had in Mumbai, over three years ago<br />
:)<br />
A concept of short sentences/phrases on staircases for little kids<br />
<i>'I will empathise'</i><br />
<i>'I will respect'</i><br />
<i>'I will learn'</i><br />
~<br />
The board at the entrance that had a lot of these words ~<br />
Integrity, Appreciation, Respect, Tolerance, Empathy<br />
There were more..<br />
I'd asked the receptionist lady if I could take a picture of the board,<br />
She instantly said, no photography allowed<br />
So, I said, this should be shown more often to adults!<br />
She laughed as I did, but she was a sweet lady.<br />
And I just made a note of these then.<br />
~<br />
It was just very pleasant to see the values that are being aimed to inculcate in the kids that go to that school :)<br />
<br />
<i>'Education is a process, learning is an ability'</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
When you try and find the image of a poster that said <i>"Rain and tea are Siamese twins."</i> from the place #Chaayos and you fail, and therefore, my friend must be told that Google doesn't have an answer to everything, but yes, it's another thing that I really wanted to take a picture of that poster at this place, just that it was hidden the whole time because of someone who was working on his laptop, and seemed to take breaks to wonder and freeze with his head moving here and there (no, I did not just cook that up, he actually did keep stopping whilst working)<br />
Blaaaaah!<br />
<br />
If an individual can inspire you to be a better person, you must make sure you learn and grasp as much as possible from this individual in the time that you have...<br />
<br />
<i>You never judge your parents :)</i><br />
<br />
Vada Pav, Bun Bhujia and Kullad Chai<br />
The above three with your closest friend while it rains outside :)<br />
(The little things that matter most.)<br />
#ItWasAGoodDay<br />
<br />
<i>"She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?', and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you'."</i><br />
<i><br /></i>When destiny leads you far enough in one direction,<br />
Is it really just trying to test you how you handle it in life,<br />
Or it does intend to give you what you want at the end of it, after all?Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-82872630026969137712015-04-12T17:34:00.002+05:302015-04-12T17:34:11.701+05:30One of those days<i>I wish I could tell you that things get better, but they don't</i><br />
<i>You just get to know yourself better</i><br />
<br />
If only your brain knew what to tell your heart when it's being absolutely ridiculous about a situation<br />
One that doesn't even exist, but you love to believe that it will<br />
<br />
When you're so used to seeing someone ill...<br />
that you don't even realize that the person is actually still going through the same physical and mental pain, and suffering!<br />
Just because you have become accustomed to it, does not give you the right to treat the other, like it's normal and okay. Because no, it's not normal and it's not okay.<br />
People really need to get that!<br />
<br />
You are a big fool if you think you wouldn't get hurt just because you've been good to people all throughout your life!<br />
<br />
<i>"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other."</i> - berlin-artparasites<br />
<br />
You know what's worse?<br />
When you can't f**king ignore a situation completely and be all I don't give a damn and I don't care, not just because you're supposed to be better than that at dealing with it all, but because you're expected to, and not only from one person, but a whole bunch<br />
So, when you know it's going to affect a lot more than you can see infront of you<br />
The relationship between two individuals will always remain fragile, unless there's unfailing faith and trust on the other<br />
And no, that isn't just a rarity<br />
The point is that it takes forever to get there<br />
and one shit lie to make it fall.<br />
<br />
<i>"I like to eat truly, drink truly, kiss truly, chat with friends truly, fall in love truly; and when you put so much into all of those things, it's natural that you come out full of scars."</i> - Sabina (berlin-artparasites)<br />
<br />
When a person who's compromised and sacrificed all his/her life ~ is made to feel like it's an obligation now<br />
I mean, come on<br />
Why are we so screwed up as a species?<br />
<br />
An individual will only choose to believe what he/she wants to believe, irrespective of what kind of a relationship a person may share with another, irrespective of how long it took to build it, and also irrespective of what the accused has been wrongly blamed for and has chosen not to explain oneself for the same<br />
#HarshTruth<br />
<br />
"Just overheard two kids getting into a heated argument about iOS and Android. At their age, I was arguing about Apsara pencils being better than Natraj."<br />
- Akshar Pathak<br />
<br />
So, this world is cruel<br />
And yes, you'll be hurt<br />
One has got to be prepared for consequences irrespective of the number of good deeds done.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Serendipity :)<br />
[might have to pay some royalty for the usage of that word, since it's not my original thought. Haha.]<br />
<br />
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop."</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
And maybe you're not supposed to talk to another human being at all, sometimes</div>
You'd probably kill yourself in the process, but yeah, you're still expected to keep it all inside you and die with it<br />
And please, I'm not talking about an individual's secret here AT ALL<br />
You're not even supposed to share some thoughts with another human<br />
Thoughts that have been piled up inside your system since a while<br />
Because no, there is no guarantee that your trust will not be broken, no matter how faithful you are to the people in your life<br />
When your trust is shaken, it's done<br />
The part that actually sucks about this entire scenario, is that, you will be hurt<br />
and you will get hurt, no matter what.<br />
<br />
<i>I had a dream I was dying</i><br />
<i>But I found nobody there</i><br />
<i>And if one last night is all that we've been given</i><br />
<i>Let's live it like we care</i><br />
#Lyrics<br />
<br />
Sucks<br />
When people sitting across the world can get you better than the ones sitting next to you<br />
The human mind never ceases to amaze me<br />
It sucks how a person is made to go through so much of mental trauma because of absolute unnecessary bullshit<br />
And what's worse is, the person causing this damage is unaware of it<br />
Yes, I do remember mentioning this much much earlier in one of my posts<br />
But since humans have a tendency to repeat their shitty acts, I'm just left with no choice but to repeat myself with my words here<br />
<br />
When you've realized that you've already met the most selfish, the most immature individual on earth, who does not have the brain to even understand what degree of selfishness has been reached<br />
When such humans are willing to stoop down to a level, that will jeopardize people's relationships<br />
<br />
I hate how people overlook the fact that what they want and like is not the same as the person sitting next to them<br />
No, I do not like what you like<br />
My priorities are different<br />
And when your priorities are different, you're willing to compromise on a lot more than you think!<br />
<br />
It's so damn important to remember to not let any of it consume you<br />
Not even your passion<br />
Because you can't afford to lose yourself in the process of it all<br />
Since that's the worst thing that can happen to you!<br />
<br />
<i>"It's always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn't think he already is."</i><br />
<br />
Sometimes, silence from the other person is better<br />
The more you dig up the dirt<br />
The more exposed you'd be<br />
and the probability of you getting hurt might increase<br />
<br />
<i>"I'm trying to beef up my skills. There's still too much getting lost between my head and the page. There are a lot of emotions that are very close to each other. I want to be able to show the difference between nervous and tense. Sad and depressed. Thoughtful and wistful."</i><br />
~ Words taken from another post of Humans of New York! #BecauseICanRelateVeryMuch<br />
<br />
You'd always wish that things had turned out differently<br />
Different than what you thought<br />
Different than the expected<br />
Different than how someone else had predicted it all<br />
Just different<br />
Even if not on a different tangent, but atleast different to a degree that it can be called different.<br />
<br />
The only regret in life is ~ 'giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.'<br />
<br />
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."<br />
"The right and the easy thing are never the same."<br />
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."<br />
<br />
One Last Night - Vaults<br />
Blame It On Me - George Ezra<br />
Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding<br />
Until The End - Dirty South<br />
1998 - Chet Faker<br />
Closer - Travis<br />
Romance is Dead - Paloma Faith<br />
Budapest - George Ezra<br />
#music<br />
<br />
<i>Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels.</i>Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-6808289567910045562015-03-28T13:51:00.000+05:302015-04-04T14:33:55.754+05:30Why so insensitive? So,<br />
Old Bollywood songs playing on the radio actually are capable of getting the weariness off somehow :)<br />
<br />
The worst part about being strong is that people choose to not ask if you're hurt.<br />
<br />
"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."<br />
<div>
~ Choose wisely!<br />
<br />
Just because you know you can afford to take it out on some people, doesn't mean you do it every damn time you have to. There's a threshold of the mind, for that person, hearing you say it all in anger, too.</div>
<br />
<i>"You can't win a fight against someone's perception."</i><br />
<br />
We are known for insensitivity, the human species<br />
<br />
Words you read here and there, in another country/city, on a bus ride, or wherever else walking, and can only relate to one thing ~<br />
<i>Lawnmower</i><br />
(A scene from the movie, Easy A<br />
"I borrowed my neighbour's mower. I came right over."<br />
<i>Joey's Pizza</i><br />
(Duh. Joey. Friends. Enough said.)<br />
<i>New Montgomery</i><br />
(A Cinderella Story. Mrs. Montogomery. The evil stepmother.)<br />
<i>Coventry Motor Inn</i><br />
(Duh again. The tiny city I lived in, once upon a time)<br />
<br />
So many things that go unnoticed<br />
and because humans don't prefer to think<br />
No one ends up bothering<br />
<br />
Casa Sanchez<br />
~ a restaurant in L.A. which has the most awesome cheesecake ever!<br />
It honestly reminded me of the scene from Friends when Chandler and Rachel hog on a whole cheesecake together!<br />
<br />
Maturity<br />
does not<br />
have anything<br />
to do with<br />
Age<br />
or<br />
Time.<br />
It comes with<br />
experience,<br />
exposure,<br />
and willingness to think beyond the obvious.<br />
Bas.<br />
<br />
Uncertainty has its consequences<br />
That feeling of not knowing, assuming some parts, leaving some to destiny, and knowing some<br />
Somewhere along that process of reaching the finish line, there are consequences of your choices and decisions made, some that go unnoticed all together, and some that are visible clearly even later<br />
<br />
"I can't adult today<br />
Please don't make me adult"<br />
*please picture a lazy pug lying around, while reading those two lines above*<br />
<br />
When the temperature of your room is just about perfect for the dairy milk silk bar to be at its best<br />
<br />
Ides of March<br />
How that always brings back "<i>Et tu Brute</i>" in my head<br />
<br />
Some songs will always brink back that one time in your life/one person/one situation/a group of people<br />
No matter what you do, that memory ain't going anywhere<br />
<br />
Rape. Rape. Rape.<br />
What's beyond sad is that the world is getting used to hearing about it so often, that one is starting to overlook the seriousness of the damn cause.<br />
<i>"Rapists rape people, not outfits."</i><br />
<i>"Imagine if men were as disgusted with rape as they are with periods."</i><br />
<br />
Patience<br />
Nope, you just want the other person to have enough<br />
Not yourself<br />
#Irony<br />
<br />
<i>"It can be tough for a woman in the construction industry. I'm in charge of hiring the subcontractors - electricians, carpenters, roofers, plumbers. Those jobs are overwhelmingly male, so a lot of them don't like taking orders from a woman. They'll say 'yes' when I tell them to do something, but then they'll slack off when I'm not watching. So I've got to stay on point. I have to demonstrate that I know enough about all of their jobs to know when something isn't being done correctly."</i><br />
- Words taken from another post of Humans of New York, because I can relate to this too much!<br />
<br />
I miss being younger.<br />
Life's become too serious. Reality, big decisions.<br />
Makes me want escapism more.<br />
I want the time when the matron used to say it's time to get up, and when we knew it's prep time, and when it's sports time, and then we're supposed to finish our freaking breakfast in 15 minutes.<br />
I miss that precision.<br />
<br />
When your morning begins with a long email from a wonderful soul :D<br />
<br />
Love - Mike Cavanaugh<br />
Carry On - Fun<br />
All I Need Is Your Love - Tonic<br />
Lazarus - Porcupine Tree<br />
#PaidAttentionToTheMusicMoreThanTheLyricsAfterALongTime<br />
<br />
Ah, humans. Perpetually forming conclusions after hearing one side of every story. Lack of perceptiveness. Insensitivity. Zero courage to point fingers at yourself. The hatred for the species only grows.<br />
<br />
<i>The Giver</i><br />
~ that thought provoking movie that shows a different side of the world, one that doesn't exist, yet<br />
<i>Whiplash</i><br />
~ the word for the movie is crazy, since your passion starts to consume you and you don't even realize it, but brilliant acting<br />
#Movies<br />
(benefits of the longest flight)<br />
<br />
"A word of encouragement after failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success."<br />
<br />
No, you can't do whatever you feel like. Because being yourself a one hundred percent is not what's acceptable to people who don't matter in your life. Yes, you read that just right.<br />
So much for irony, eh?<br />
<br />
<i>"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us</i><br />
<i>that we don't take time to enjoy where we are."</i><br />
- Calvin and Hobbes<br />
<br />
The words ~<br />
right, wrong, happiness, satisfaction<br />
~ are all too subjective to be narrowed down to one single definition<br />
Everyone has their own and they're all different to some degree!<br />
<br />
It's not hard to say sorry<br />
It takes just a moment of realization to be apologetic<br />
But ofcourse if you're okay with your ego taking over, I have no words for you<br />
Sucks how people value their ego more than their relationship with an individual<br />
<br />
Like I'd mentioned in the last post, about Alan Powell's inspiring words in that interview<br />
One really needs to hear that for reassurance and be themselves instead of being told they're over-thinking or some crap of that sort!<br />
<br />
<i>Your lack of faith in me is disturbing.</i><br />
- Me.Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-89314383650492304172015-02-09T19:05:00.002+05:302015-03-23T23:17:25.054+05:30Your own mind plays games with you."To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour."<br />
<br />
Fresh starts<br />
I don't think they can always do the trick<br />
<br />
On some days, the only fairy tales that come true are the ones you see in movies, probably your favourite ones, the kinds you've seen over and over again<br />
<br />
You're judging a book by its cover<br />
By just looking at a situation, or noticing someone perform poorly for the first time; by merely predicting how a company is going to perform after having been a part of the company for the shortest while (probably days)<br />
- These don't depict that you have a fairly good grasping power! It shows that you were reckless enough to not want to get into the depth of any of it, and therefore you jumped to a conclusion, once again, and failed yourself in the mind of someone observing you.<br />
<br />
<i>"I'm terrible at journaling. But I do it anyway, because I think that maybe one day I'll write something that I didn't know before, and suddenly it will all make sense."</i><br />
- Words taken from a wonderful post of Humans of New York.<br />
<br />
Sometimes, you don't get to choose things in your life<br />
They're choices that have been made for you by someone else<br />
This someone could be someone you know, could also be someone you don't (if at all that is possible), and then it could be an energy too (the faith you have in things that make your subconscious choose for the conscious you, you still staying oblivious to what the f**k happened)<br />
It sucks that you're not fully aware of all the choices that are being made for you, in your life, sometimes.<br />
<br />
You're hurt and you only wish to work things your way<br />
But ofcourse that's not possible<br />
Life would just be an easy path to walk on then<br />
We'd forget it's something one aims to come out of, alive<br />
<br />
Unexpected things always happen<br />
Because if one could predict every single thing that's going to happen<br />
Then what's the fun in that<br />
Or may I say, what's the point if all the troubles that are going to come your way were already seen and acted upon before needed<br />
(The things beyond control of the ordinary<br />
and subjectivity in the definition of the word 'trouble')<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3p50A1SFR0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A clip from the movie: 'The Song'</a><br />
The movie I saw on the flight<br />
(yes, not 'a' flight, 'the' flight, since the journey had taken a U turn)<br />
The disappointment when you can't find a movie online, but I loved this part (the video)!<br />
The music. And then Alan Powell's inspiring words in general, in an interview (taken by Conn Jackson)<br />
<br />
It sucks that every individual has to go through so much in one lifetime<br />
<br />
Emotions, feelings, humanity<br />
Man, they sure can mess with one's world<br />
And on that note,<br />
"There is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."<br />
<br />
Therapy.<br />
Everyone needs it. Often.<br />
Whether it's Uncle Chips and your favourite chocolate<br />
Or listening to your favourite song on repeat<br />
Or sleep<br />
Or smoke a cigarette<br />
Cry in the bathroom<br />
Scream<br />
Or a punching bag<br />
Or listening to a kind of song, one plays on loud<br />
Or going through old albums/diaries/stuff<br />
Or vent to a human (in all probability your friend who's always been there)<br />
<br />
When you listen to songs like<br />
I Should Go by Levi Kreis<br />
after really, really long...<br />
<br />
When you can't be yourself with the people in your life, and cry or smile whenever you feel like, what the f**k is the point?<br />
<br />
When a domestic servant at your house suddenly starts crying and pours her heart out to you<br />
You feel a weight, but at the same time, there is a tiny amount of positivity, that you're there to make her say it all out so she could feel better<br />
But you also feel helpless to an extent, although you did discuss the matter further, and would aim to help as much as possible<br />
<br />
When something unusual happens<br />
and you're unable to handle it<br />
You're not sure how<br />
but you're not able to breathe<br />
You're getting choked, but oddly, you're keeping at it out of choice<br />
<br />
When in a conversation with a friend,<br />
and he wondered as to why he wasted all this time planning a room design and putting so much into it, when he could've easily hired a professional to do the same,<br />
I figured, sometimes, you have to derive sense out of it<br />
The very fact that he did put all that effort, and the room is done now, every time he'd look at a painting or a pattern, he'd be reminded of how he did it all by himself, and at that moment of realization, if he gets happiness by being able to relate to so much of it in that room, it's been worth it...<br />
<br />
When someone reassures you more than the times you needed it<br />
<br />
And,<br />
<br />
"I feel very strongly that I'm surrounded by other realities. We don't really go that far into people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and ask quickly if anybody's there."<br />
<br />
"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never a weakness."<br />
<br />
<i>"And in all those cruel, difficult moments I encountered, I always wished I would be a little kid again. Not because everything was easier when you were a child; not because you weren't responsible for anything including yourself; not even because life was much more simple, but simply because you had all the rights to scream, to shout, to cry your heart out whenever you felt like it without having anyone blaming you for not being strong:</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>You can wail the moment you feel that you miss or need anyone. You can scream when you're afraid. You can cry when you're left alone. You have all the rights to weep when it's your first day at school and you're alone and terrified from this sudden change that took place in your life.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>If you're a kid, you won't have to fake a smile when your insides are burning just to seem strong and fine! Back then, you had all these rights - until they started telling you that you're a 'grown-up' now and you shouldn't be crying; that you should be strong and responsible; that you might be dying from inside but still you must manage to smile.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>I just don't mind losing that 'grown-up' title if that's all I have to lose in order to regain my childhood life and my childhood rights again. I just wish it were possible. Because having to act as a grown up is very painful sometimes."</i><br />
<br />
- Credits to the page: 'berlin-artparasites' for the above quotes.<br />
(The most relatable page on social media ever!)<br />
<br />
Angels Walk Among Us - Anathema<br />
Sugar - Maroon 5<br />
Holocene - Bon Iver<br />
Instant Crush ft. Julian Casablancas - Daft Punk<br />
Waiting - The Devlins<br />
Bruises - Train<br />
Speeding Cars - Imogen Heap<br />
#MusicGarima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-67860987750234245782015-01-09T02:22:00.000+05:302015-04-05T02:16:07.543+05:30The universe loves to play funnySometimes, you've got to forgive in order to be forgiven.<br />
#TheJudge<br />
<br />
So,<br />
The saddest part is when you have no choice but to not be yourself<br />
That is the worst thing that could happen to someone, in my opinion<br />
If the people you've known all your life, have become someone else<br />
and they make you wanna not be yourself<br />
Now that is when you want to escape<br />
<br />
Listening to a track like, Who Needs You by The Orwells, on loud<br />
and writing here at the same time<br />
<br />
"Who are you to judge the life I live?<br />
I know I'm not perfect<br />
and I don't live to be<br />
but before you start pointing fingers...<br />
make sure your hands are clean!"<br />
<br />
Yes, because these days, all people really want to do is point their freaking fingers<br />
It sucks really<br />
(the word, freaking, has been replaced by an abusive word I typed here originally)<br />
<br />
So what matters is how PEOPLE may react or what they may feel..<br />
instead of actually being concerned with how the one person being hurt actually feels<br />
All I have is a slow applause for such humans with the broadest mindset ever<br />
(that was sarcasm font, yes)<br />
<br />
It's happened a lot with me, that when I've formed an average image about a situation in my head, and then it turned out to be above average.. It left me less disappointed.<br />
It happens with everyone that you form a picture in your head of how it's all supposed to be, and when it doesn't turn out that way, that's what disappoints us, always. But I think it's another thing to be relatively less disappointed and that's important sometimes.<br />
<br />
Why can't people just let others be?<br />
Why are they under the impression that they have the freaking authority to control another person's life?<br />
No, you don't have that kinda right. Stop making the other person feel claustrophobic with just your thoughts about how and which way the situation that he/she is handling, the situation that he/she is in.<br />
<br />
Why are people imposing their choices on one another?<br />
Everyone is different, and that has to be understood and respected!<br />
<br />
The time when all you want to do is escape from that crowd and withdraw into your own shell.<br />
<br />
Stephen Hawking.<br />
He is the definition of the word inspiration.<br />
That extraordinary human who one could learn endless things from.<br />
<br />
The very fact that people around have become complacent with the idea that they know enough..<br />
With the idea that what is chosen is right..<br />
There is a big difference between knowing and accepting<br />
Knowing there was more than one side to a situation<br />
...and possibilities.<br />
<br />
It sucks that one doesn't want to reason out these days<br />
They're just absolutely okay with their freaking minds shut and accepting what is told to them<br />
<br />
The recent electricity ad with kids in it:<br />
Bijli Bachao, Desh Banao<br />
Absolutely love it!<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Which of these candies was your favourite from your Childhood?<br />
[Credits to NDTV Goodtimes for the above image and the question]</td></tr>
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<br />
Natkhat and Crax.<br />
I was absolutely shocked and didn't quite know what to say when a person born in the late, late 80s didn't know what they were<br />
I mean, I honestly felt sorry.<br />
But yes, apart from the above candies, these two were epic munchies! Love them still :)<br />
<br />
Kalki<br />
The performance in her new movie's trailer: Margarita, with a Straw<br />
The kinda videos breaking stereotypes: the piece by her about the truths of womanhood, on International Women's Day, 2014 #IndiaTodayConclave<br />
<br />
PK<br />
The movie<br />
The different angle<br />
So many things to perceive<br />
Bollywood has a huge influence on the general masses, which is why it's very important for conceptual movies like these.<br />
<br />
It is a hypothesis that things are going to be different in the coming time, which means that either they will be or they won't be.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
The moments when you listen to your mother share some stories from her time<br />
I consider myself fortunate enough to be able to be that ear who gets to hear all of it from her<br />
The times when she woke up at the early, early hours of the morning<br />
To do all the things that were expected out of her, at the time<br />
..just so inspiring at so many levels<br />
Then again, there could never be a human like a mother. One person who draws unbelievable strength from I wonder where.<br />
<br />
When you feed the dogs outside your house<br />
The happiness is incomparable.<br />
<br />
When it's just beyond my comprehension<br />
When it has to become difficult for you to explain<br />
<br />
That awkward moment when you have that weird internal head ache (nope, not the normal one), and you can't sleep, and instead you choose to distract yourself by doing some word vomit.<br />
<br />
"You don't need to prove anything to get a library card."<br />
One of those rare sentences you could only find on a post of Humans of New York (by Brandon)!<br />
#WordsThatLeaveAnImpact<br />
<br />
When the people you thought knew you, don't know shit.<br />
It's disturbing really.<br />
When you see how narrow minded people can be.<br />
I'm like wow. Which century are you living in?<br />
<br />
So many thoughts piled up that I'm not sure I'd be able to present all the sides of the human mind I've witnessed lately, which can work from the most mysterious to the shittiest ways.<br />
<br />
When you're hurt<br />
So hurt, that for once, nothing helped.<br />
<br />
When you see a kid playing Atlas with his father, in an Indian train<br />
#MadeMeSmile<br />
<br />
A coolie reminding you of Amitabh Bachan Ji, at the Ahmedabad railway station<br />
#OldBollywoodMovie<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GPinWKNa84" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The wonderful poem by Farhan Akhtar ~ MARD.</a><br />
The words in this poem could never get old.<br />
Every.Man.Must.Be.A.Woman.In.Another.Life!<br />
#EndlessRAPECasesInOurCountry<br />
<br />
Sometimes, you like your room messy (mostly in Winters)<br />
and that's perfectly okay<br />
but you also want it to be the exact way you left it when you get back to it<br />
See now, that is a problem, when you're at home, and your mom has an obsession to keep things cleeeean and in proper order. Whoops!<br />
<br />
Old hindi music on the radio :D<br />
<br />
Winters make me wanna do only one thing: Not move.<br />
<br />
When you hear Atif Aslam's voice on a TV show after really long..<br />
and you remember the goodness and power in the words, sung by him<br />
and how the person next to you still hums to the tune of that one song, even today, with a slight smile<br />
That feeling, is incomparable.<br />
#KyaHuaTeraWada<br />
<br />
The improvement in Indian trains!<br />
<br />
In one's weak/low moments, one wants to take a step back<br />
and ask, why did you have to do that to me? Why me?<br />
One wants to say it aloud..<br />
In a discussion over Skype with a friend, something interesting was discovered.<br />
People who've had their hearts broken<br />
Never wanted to become people who would be scared of opening themselves infront of others<br />
Never wanted to become people who would be scared to love<br />
Never wanted to become people who wouldn't let their guard down easily...<br />
But they became this weird version of themselves anyway, even when that's never who they wanted to be in the first place.<br />
<br />
When one is told about something wrong one did, or a negative about oneself, without sufficient encouragement alongside. Nope, you don't know shit about how much that would work.<br />
<br />
When you wake up at whatever hour on a Sunday,<br />
the thought that it's a Sunday, is just different<br />
I have no idea why<br />
But even when you're already the laziest person you know, you want to be even more lazy, just because it's a Sunday!<br />
<br />
'Made of Honor'<br />
The movie that I can never get sick of.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKzWRSXeATI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A hilarious take on the Indian-Mid-Twenties-Issue by Abhijit Ganguly</a><br />
<br />
Superhero - Tim McMorris<br />
#music #lyrics<br />
<br />
So, when there are things that have been on your mind all day and you still can't find a way to say it in words<br />
Sometimes when you're with a friend at a new place, and just the right song plays, you're not sure what to think<br />
Whether you're meant to feel like everything that you'd missed out on with this friend, will be caught up on since it had only been paused until now, or was it just meant to feel different<br />
(I cannot recollect this or frame it better, since it had been saved in a draft post for far too long)<br />
<br />
A city like Delhi, I'm not sure if I'm ever going to manage to develop a positive sentiment towards it.<br />
<br />
<i>"We will never be happy because our expectation of happiness is always evolving. And as we evolve, everything changes. Even the love we have now becomes something of yesterday and the anticipation of the things we desire tomorrow, are the things that fill our emptiness today.</i><br />
<i>And as we evolve, nothing stays the same. We will always want more, even if what we have now is enough. This is the destruction of being human. We create the illusion of happiness to make sense of the disappointments we have yet to live.</i><br />
<i>And sometimes we do find happiness. But even though, sometimes it is not meant to last forever and that within itself is a beautiful thing to evolve from."</i><br />
- R.M.Drake<br />
<br />
An advice;<br />
Learn to look at yourself before pointing a finger at somebody else!<br />
Irrespective of whether that person is older or younger to you, look at yourself first!<br />
<br />
"It's not the obligation of the artist to censor viewpoints for the sake of agreeability and most of all, it's not your obligation to experience the artist's art."<br />
"I can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in me."<br />
<br />
"If you could love the wrong person that much, imagine how much you could love the right one."<br />
"It is a hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow, and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."<br />
<br />
"If money didn't exist, would you still chase your dreams?"<br />
<br />
"Aap khwaab dekh ti hain?<br />
Lekin, khwaab dukh dete hain...<br />
<br />
Toh? Woh toh haqiqat bhi deti hai!"<br />
<br />
<br />
PS- Happy New Year :)<br />
2015, you came oddly fast!Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-22886086769731791992014-11-06T02:34:00.001+05:302014-11-06T02:50:39.307+05:30Amusement central!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"If you don't believe in even the possibility of magic, you'll never find it."<br />
#Castle<br />
<br />
When you save a friend's ass and she didn't even have to say why, because you figured<br />
That's the moment when you both laugh hard..and she gets back to what it was that she got caught for<br />
Haha. I hadn't smiled like that since a while. That feeling of just knowing, and sharing an understanding like that with someone, that yes, I have your back and I always will. It's just really reassuring. And reassurance is just what you need sometimes these days.<br />
<br />
"It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are."<br />
<br />
Sometimes, you have to choose between what you can do and what you should do!<br />
#SuchIsLife #Unpredictability #HumanBehaviour<br />
<br />
When you see one losing the respect that he/she anyway never really had.. you see it happening. The other person's face tells you all of it. I'm not sure what to feel, sorry or indifferent. But it doesn't work like that. The defined choices that we keep in our heads in order to see things in black and white, doesn't work well, at least for those who have the ability to look beyond the obvious.<br />
<br />
Hypocrisy at its best<br />
#MentalityOfTheHumansAroundUs<br />
<br />
The times when you're left with, 'I don't even know what to say'<br />
When you're so damn hurt, that you prefer to not even talk about it this time<br />
You realize you'd have to be fake for once in your life<br />
You'd have to pretend to be someone you're not, in order for less bombardment of bizzare and nonsensical questions in your face<br />
<br />
Sometimes, the people in your life make you question things you never thought you'd question<br />
<br />
Whatever happened to entitlement to freedom of expression?<br />
<br />
And for the love of God, you're not supposed to jump to conclusions by agreeing/disagreeing with every person's opinion that's shared with you. I mean, grow up?<br />
No human is expected to agree with everybody's opinion. But respecting it is what's important.<br />
<br />
"You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are."<br />
~ Have people forgotten this?<br />
People need to be reminded of this from time to time!<br />
<br />
When a person who's expressive all the time, but chooses to stay silent once in a while.. There is a reason behind it. You genuinely don't want to hurt the other person's sentiment and therefore, you talk when you're calmer.<br />
<br />
I don't remember the last time I experienced so many emotions all in one day<br />
It'll always be amusing how the human mind works and a mystery how it doesn't work at all in some gray areas<br />
Not too sure whether I should say 'gray' really<br />
#ThatDayWasANewLow<br />
<br />
The point when you couldn't help but think what you'd do to make someone feel comfortable in an awkward situation where he/she doesn't know anybody in the group he/she has to stand amongst..<br />
This is mainly because of your habit of making a conscious effort to go beyond just the obvious perspective of the other person<br />
But, oops! Not everyone thinks like that, and not everyone wants to make that effort.<br />
(Yes, we must try and look at the world like it's a beautiful place even when we see cruelty in different forms around us all the time.)<br />
<br />
There's so much that's happened lately that I'm not sure where to start from, still<br />
<br />
Why can't people learn to respect each other's opinions in general, instead of actually making the other person feel bad about their thoughts and how one processes their own?<br />
<br />
It's so important to forget all your troubles for a little while. To stay in that bubble where everything seems okay, only until it's not.<br />
It's important to watch your mother smile to old Hindi Bollywood music and understand the depth of momentary happiness.<br />
<br />
"Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too."<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
Seriously, when will empathy go viral?<br />
No one gives a shit about perspective<br />
They're just absolutely okay with shoving their heads with what is told to them or for that matter, what has been known all along<br />
Ugh, how much that pisses me off<br />
Oblivion is one thing, and choosing to just go on about whatever it is that you've known so far, is another<br />
You just don't have the freaking ability to make yourself want to know better<br />
Man, learning is endless<br />
Why on earth are so many people delusional that they've learned enough?<br />
It makes me sad.<br />
<br />
"So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them."<br />
<br />
And somehow, I still sense that being yourself isn't good enough. And you're not very welcomed.<br />
Man, it's bloody sad that people don't encourage each other to be themselves.<br />
<br />
'If I Stay'<br />
The movie<br />
The background music<br />
Jamie Blackley's accent<br />
The passion in two characters portrayed towards music<br />
The hope<br />
The promises made and kept<br />
These are the kind of movies that take you into a bubble for a bit, and it's all different when you're in it.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What it says!</td></tr>
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<br />
I think one's threshold of pain rises rather significantly when you undergo a situation you wish you hadn't dealt with all by yourself.<br />
<br />
Why are we humans so insensitive man?<br />
We don't give a tiny shit about the people around us. Forget making conscious efforts every now and then to actually help out a person even emotionally and be god damn perceptive about it!<br />
<br />
Some people are the worst story tellers.<br />
The worst part is when they're the only ones who make sure that their opinion is heard, you can't help but pull your hair apart in grief that the whole story has not just been poorly narrated to a bunch of people, but is full of baseless words.<br />
<br />
What's the point of making the effort when you will be discouraged again? So much power in one person's hands deciding the future #Sucks<br />
<br />
I sat in the shuttle and the first song that played was, Let Her Go<br />
I mean, what timing!<br />
The feeling of listening to a song you like/love, will always be different when you hear it in a moving vehicle.<br />
#Warwick #OnCampusShuttleBus #OneLastTime #UK<br />
<br />
So, the guaranteed way of hating a topic you genuinely liked to begin with: write 10,000 words on it. No kidding. And it sucks and is really unfair that there's so much power in one person's hands deciding the future. In short, your degree here pretty much depends on your luck of who your supervisor is. And that's it.<br />
#Thesis #TwoMonthsAgo #TrueStory<br />
<br />
This.blog.post.is.all.mixed.up!<br />
<br />
The Librarian - Laura Jane Scott<br />
Fact-Fiction - Mads Langer<br />
Everyday - Vetiver<br />
Who Needs You - The Orwells<br />
Promise - Ben Howard<br />
Mind - Willamette Stone<br />
Until We Get There - Lucius<br />
Heart Like Yours - Willamette Stone<br />
A Sky Full of Stars (philharmonic orchestra cover) - Coldplay<br />
#music<br />
<br />
One can be so delusional looking at a really old picture saved in your phone, thinking, the relationship between the people in the photograph and the bond that existed at a point of time, is all still the same because that's how it's supposed to be.<br />
But man, are we gullible or what?<br />
I mean, I wonder how could I ever be that stupid to actually believe that things are the same and so are the closest people to you.<br />
<br />
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling<br />
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton<br />
#SungByAGuitaristFriend :D<br />
<br />
Humans Of New York - the best page on social media ever!<br />
And one post that is just so...<br />
"I want to study nuclear engineering at MIT."<br />
"What interests you most about nuclear energy?"<br />
"I like that you can't see it. You have to trust that it's there, and trust what you know."<br />
<br />
For her, bigger the smile she carried, there was more space for pain to be buried...<br />
- Parekhit<br />
<br />
"Life never gives you more than you can handle."</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-52866283509980621332014-08-10T08:33:00.000+05:302014-08-10T08:33:29.551+05:30Happiness is a manner of travelling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You've gotta love what words can do<br />
<br />
When you get long replies from someone you're really, really fond of, and have so much respect for in your heart<br />
Oh, that can make your day and leave the biggest smile on your face, along with urging you to write here!<br />
<br />
When someone has more faith in you than you have in yourself<br />
That can keep you going, forever...<br />
<br />
When you read a post by a stranger and it says,<br />
"Very often Bombay rickshaw walas just restore my faith in humanity"<br />
You think to yourself how true that is!<br />
<br />
Ever come across something you can't fix?<br />
Like you just can't.<br />
<br />
When you can almost sense the happiness on the person's face you're on a call with, and you managed to make him/her happy with a tiny surprise that you got couriered for him/her!<br />
The way that, that can race your heart and make you smile, with the thought of how the effort was all worth it, is incomparable!<br />
<br />
The good thing about a picture is that you were happy in it even if you aren't now. So that state of mind almost crawls back in for a second.<br />
<br />
At some point, you get so strong for the person you've been there for<br />
That somewhere along that road, you started to actually become emotionally detached<br />
So you never let anyone/anything hurt you, in order to avoid feeling the pain that it could cause by being compassionate<br />
And because you kinda got good at keeping at it, all by yourself, you forgot the need to feel that pain that demanded to be felt<br />
That's when a close one reminds you that it's okay to let your guard down for a while, and be hurt<br />
Because the world can take it and because he/she can take it.<br />
<br />
I guess I'll always be a sucker for happy endings...<br />
#BleedingLove<br />
<br />
Sometimes it's not about whether it should be done or not<br />
<div>
It's not about whether it's the right thing to do or not</div>
<div>
It's about acknowledging the other person's sentiment behind it</div>
<div>
He/she is happy for your choice and decision anyway</div>
<div>
But if there is something sour in that person's expressions</div>
<div>
It's only because there is a hidden sentiment behind it</div>
<div>
Something he/she expects you to understand and pay attention to</div>
<div>
That acknowledgement is enough to assure him/her, so that the respect this person does have somewhere in his/her heart for you, never varies</div>
<div>
<br />
When you'd questioned someone sometime back:<br />
In conversation with a three year old,<br />
Me: "Who is your best friend?"<br />
She: "My best friends are my mom and dad."<br />
That moved me beyond words that I could possibly find to write here<br />
And I considered myself lucky that day, to get a chance to talk to that little girl.</div>
<div>
<br />
'A cake will bake faster if it's put outside instead of the oven dude!'<br />
- My retarded friend struggling with Mumbai's heat.<br />
<br />
I would love to work part time at a crisis intervention centre, you know<br />
#IfOnly<br />
<br />
When in a conversation with a friend,<br />
Me: "Can you chuck this please?"<br />
She: "You chuck it, I won't..<br />
I don't like to let go of things"<br />
Me: "DUDE!"<br />
<br />
A day trip to Oxford<br />
Thirty eight colleges under the University umbrella<br />
As per our cute tour guide, one of the colleges had an admission criteria where each student was given one word as a topic, and you had to write on that one word, for three hours<br />
...and there was more with regard to the statistics he'd mentioned as to how zero applicants made it through, one of these years<br />
A tiny shop with souvenirs of 'Alice in Wonderland' :)<br />
The crazy vibes that were all around which grew with just the thought of great minds studying in a brilliant University<br />
(might elaborate further about the experience later)<br />
<br />
Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to.<br />
~ Such an old but all time quote<br />
<br />
Love is giving that extra chance when you're all out of chances.<br />
<br />
Real is so rare these days<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Salz7uGp72c&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Theory of Everything</a> ~ Brilliance.<br />
Never got goosebumps after watching a movie trailer before!<br />
But probably because it's based on Stephen Hawking's true story.<br />
<br />
Suffering - Satchel<br />
Soldier - Gavin DeGraw<br />
Innocent - Aidan Hawken<br />
You Got Me - Gavin DeGraw<br />
Life Is Beautiful - Vega 4<br />
Wonder - Jack Savoretti<br />
Blue Skies - Strays Don't Sleep<br />
Sweet Silver Lining - Kate Voegele<br />
#Music<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/kaitlynnknopp/31-of-the-most-relatable-one-tree-hill-quotes-de8z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Most Relatable Quotes!</a><br />
~ Because they're all so true and because they're from one of my favourite TV shows.<br />
<br />
"There should be no boundaries to human endeavour.<br />
However bad life may seem, while there is life, there is hope."<br />
- Stephen Hawking<br />
<br />
"Perhaps something good has been sprouting in the small numb darkness all this while."<br />
<br />
"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."<br />
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."<br />
<br />
"Tea doesn't talk. Tea listens."<br />
"Every path has its puddle."<br />
<br />
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."</div>
</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-27359628667468655112014-07-29T05:30:00.001+05:302014-07-29T05:30:48.803+05:30Shabdon mein...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In life, you have to be strong for those who can't be<br />
It's important to be there for them<br />
They have their ways of doing things for you<br />
Things you may never even get to know of, sometimes<br />
<br />
Don't boost your ego by being with someone and hurting that person's feelings<br />
Don't.<br />
<br />
You have to stop beating yourself up sometimes<br />
It's not wholly your fault<br />
And as you go along, you'll realize that the combination of chance and circumstance had a role to play too<br />
<br />
Rains Here Too - Kate York<br />
Wedding Dress - Matt Nathanson<br />
#TracksOnRepeat #music<br />
<br />
"Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself. If that doesn't make you different, then something is wrong."<br />
<br />
Armin Van Buuren<br />
Tomorrowland 2013 full set<br />
When you hear the whole set (1.5 hours) three times in a row and go bonkersss!<br />
<br />
"If loving you kills me tonight, then I was ready for death the moment you said hello."<br />
"and there were always those nights where she preferred the rain over people.<br />
because the rain would remind her of how she should feel and people would remind her of the things she always wanted to forget."<br />
"The worst thing you could do is tame the chaos in you. It's like being told not to feel when you're thrown in the fire."<br />
- R.M. Drake<br />
<br />
You're just stupid to fall into someone's trap again, someone who's already hurt you before<br />
#SoDamnStupid. It really is unbelievable sometimes.<br />
<br />
When you're broken, again, you always end up remembering the last time that happened and how it did.<br />
#SuchIsLife<br />
<br />
"I wonder, we lazy people go to heaven or they send someone to pick up up?"<br />
<br />
"Mere baare mein itna mat sochna, dil mein aata hoon, samajh mein nahin."<br />
<br />
"Information is cheap, meaning is expensive."<br />
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."<br />
"There's no such thing as a bad idea. Just poorly executed ones."<br />
<br />
"Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you."<br />
<br />
"That person is ugly.<br />
<br />
No, they aren't ugly.<br />
Just because you chose not to see the beauty in someone doesn't mean they're ugly. You have no right to call someone ugly. You don't know how much that can scar their self esteem. She or he has just as many feelings as you do. Just because someone can call you ugly and you take it as a joke, doesn't mean they can."<br />
<br />
"Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective."</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-40243539784864423362014-07-16T07:46:00.001+05:302014-08-10T08:22:28.284+05:30There is no gray<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sometimes your faith will waver<br />
That's alright<br />
And normal<br />
But don't let it go away<br />
You're always too young to think it's not going to be okay<br />
Everyone is dealing with a lot more than what's visible<br />
<br />
Being the best version of yourself matters<br />
Because the world around you would be a whole lot different without you<br />
All the people you encountered, the lives you made a difference in, and that piece of those respective people that changed, it all got carried forward to a larger chunk of the world<br />
The people whose lives changed because of you<br />
It matters.<br />
<br />
...you're different, you write your own story<br />
you choose your own path<br />
but you can't choose who you love<br />
but you choose whether or not you open your heart to love<br />
At some point, you're too stubborn and scared to admit that you're in love again, because the last time you really gave your heart to someone, it got broken.<br />
I get that.<br />
But somewhere along the line,<br />
you gave up on the idea that you deserve to feel this way again<br />
but you don't see what the person in love with you may see<br />
you deserve this...<br />
#OneTreeHill<br />
<br />
Follow Your Arrow - Kacey Musgraves<br />
(probably the first song where I didn't pay attention to the lyrics first, and liked the music anyway<br />
and heard the lyrics after hearing it twice. Ha.)<br />
#music<br />
<br />
Tomorrowland ~ Crazy would be an understatement.<br />
#Someday #Insanity #Jealous #WishList<br />
<br />
When one manages to build a shield for oneself<br />
This person is not willing to let anyone in<br />
And won't let their guard down<br />
There is always a bigger reason than what appears on the surface for that<br />
A lot of times people tend to behave completely opposite of who they actually are<br />
Sometimes because they're too afraid to show their heart<br />
<br />
"Insights paralyzed by wordlessness."<br />
<br />
You have to find alternatives<br />
When there is no other way really<br />
<br />
The courage to take the high road<br />
The ability to put on a smile on your face after knowing the truth<br />
<br />
When you know you have to pull an all-nighter in order to meet a deadline,<br />
but procrastination still wants to be your best bud!<br />
<br />
"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."<br />
<br />
It's important to dream.</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-69811858709061337272014-07-14T06:12:00.001+05:302014-07-14T18:10:05.371+05:30Not a corner of my mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"Much as some of us fight it, our parents have a mystical hold over us,<br />
the power to affect our thoughts and emotions the way only they can.<br />
It's a bond that changes over time, but doesn't diminish,<br />
even if they're half a world away, or in another world entirely.<br />
It's a power we never fully understand.<br />
We're left only to wonder that when our time comes,<br />
what kind of hold will we have on our children?"<br />
<br />
Why is the world such a bad place?<br />
Where people always surprise you, with their actions and words<br />
And they don't live up to their promises<br />
They hurt you<br />
<br />
"People always leave."<br />
#OneTreeHill<br />
<br />
The difference that you see in a person when the friendship is not the same<br />
It's as good as a stranger saying hello<br />
What's the point of such minimal friendship really?<br />
I mean, come on, this is one relationship that's either really strong or doesn't exist at all<br />
How on earth can there ever be a concept of little friendship with fakeness?<br />
Man, who are people trying to fool? Because the world doesn't give a crap.<br />
<br />
When you walk away from something for a reason you can't change in life,<br />
you gotta know and decide what you'll do with this life with the altered choice now<br />
<br />
When you've been hurt too many times, you become an ass<br />
And dare anyone blame you for it.<br />
<br />
It sucks to be doing things for people and being there for them, and getting their shit back in return<br />
<br />
How can one be so selfish?<br />
Doesn't that take courage too?<br />
How does one gather that amount man?<br />
Or does it just come naturally when one doesn't give a thought to others' perceptions as such?<br />
<br />
Selflessness - synonym - parents.<br />
<br />
"People change, feelings change. It doesn't mean that the love once shared wasn't true or real.<br />
It simply means that sometimes when people grow, they grow apart."<br />
<br />
When you know you won't be surprised with your sadness, it's better<br />
At least you won't be hurt unknowingly in that case<br />
<br />
Those times when you wish you didn't exist but you have one reason to hold on<br />
And you owe your life to this person to stay<br />
<br />
It's a good thing when your memory sucks in terms of recalling incidents,<br />
coz that way you don't remember the bad ones as well<br />
<br />
When friends come to your rescue<br />
Equals 'sharing' two chocolate desserts, curly fries and cheesy garlic bread with a heartless yet caring friend, in Varsity<br />
Will mention names of all the people who have always been there, someday<br />
#VarsityIsTheFoodJointOnCampus :D<br />
<br />
I miss Neha Puri.<br />
The friend who passed away three and a half years back.<br />
That was wrong and unfair to the world.<br />
<br />
23 - Jimmy Eat World<br />
Bleeding Out - Imagine Dragons<br />
Glad (Acoustic) - Tyler Hilton<br />
It's Time - Imagine Dragons<br />
#music<br />
<br />
"There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads; afraid, confused, without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course, when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back. But once in a while people push on to something better. Something found just beyond the pain of going at it alone, and just beyond the bravery and courage it takes to let someone in, or to give someone a second chance. Something beyond the quiet persistence of a dream. Because it's only when you're tested, that you truly discover who you are. And it's only when you're tested, that you discover who you can be. The person you want to be does exist. Somewhere on the other side of hard work and faith and belief... and beyond the heartache and fear of what lies ahead."<br />
<br />
Life sucks when there's a dissertation.<br />
#EnoughSaid</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-77461704766931843652014-06-27T09:20:00.000+05:302014-06-27T09:23:39.102+05:30Phases<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"If your eyes could speak, what would they say?"<br />
#TheBookThief<br />
<br />
Why is there always a catch?<br />
Why can't it be simple?<br />
Simple enough for you to not look beyond the obvious reasons<br />
The hidden answers that exist which make reality what it really is<br />
<br />
When you had the best intentions<br />
But it didn't work out anyway<br />
When you just thought that everything is in place and it'll be fine<br />
But it wasn't eventually<br />
So you tell yourself once again that things are supposed to get better and so they will<br />
<br />
When you've managed to restore the faith that it's all supposed to be for the best<br />
And then when your faith is shaken, oh no, it becomes harder to join the pieces<br />
As some fell too far away for you to find, identify and fix<br />
<br />
Fear<br />
Anger<br />
Denial<br />
Acceptance<br />
The phases that one goes through<br />
No one ends up feeling completely safe by the end of it<br />
How one's innocence is poisoned and cultured with ridiculous expectation<br />
<br />
To be able to work on something that's been a part of who you are, in order to make it better, you need to identify what it is first<br />
The willingness to do something about it comes after that.<br />
And obviously if one ends up staying oblivious to it for the rest of one's life<br />
It would just be like noticing the trees from the window, and never being able to look at the glass<br />
<br />
When you do something for someone who means something to you<br />
You did it because you knew it was the right thing to do<br />
It's not in that person's knowledge and he/she can never dig that deep to figure it all out by him/her self<br />
And you wait for the right time to let the person know that you did it because you knew it would make him/her happy, and without your absence in that person's life, it wouldn't have been possible<br />
<br />
The things one does, by hurting someone, but for their good, keeping the long term perspective in mind<br />
<br />
Keeping a cigarette in your mouth and never lighting it<br />
~ The metaphor that makes one think as to how you've put something in your mouth that can kill you, but you haven't given it the power to kill you<br />
I wonder how many situations that can be applied to in life<br />
#FaultInOurStars<br />
<br />
It sucks that people don't make a conscious effort to look beyond the obvious<br />
<br />
It's only hilarious when a person has not only taken you for granted but has crossed all limits<br />
You become that person who gets to hear all the shit because you've been there taking it all in, up till now<br />
Like seriously<br />
The mistakes we commit for the gazillionth time<br />
When people don't realize the promises they made<br />
<br />
The irony that exists in life and how the universe plays funny<br />
<br />
"Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them."<br />
<br />
When you've cut yourself off before<br />
<div>
It's easier the next time you do it</div>
<div>
Of course, the simple logic ~ it hurts less when you've become used to cutting off from the world, in one respect or another</div>
<div>
Because the first time you did it, only you know what kinda courage it may have taken</div>
<div>
Especially when you kinda thought you're not the kind of a person who could survive with a smile, post that</div>
<div>
But it became so much better with time, that sometimes, it seems like the best thing to do</div>
<div>
Not just to clear your head or whatever, but sure as hell, for reasons you know you'd manage to recollect<br />
<br />
The Book Thief<br />
Winter's Tale<br />
Fault In Our Stars<br />
#MustWatchMovies<br />
<br />
"A world full of only easy choices would enslave us to reasons."<br />
<br />
When your efforts won't mean anything and you know it<br />
because the imaginary wall between you and another individual is colossal and it would take a lot more than just breaking it down somehow<br />
<br />
"When all else fails, call Dad."<br />
<br />
People will always judge you. Don't let their judgments get in the way of your perspective.<br />
They'll be judging anyway.<br />
<br />
It may be wrong to say that your education doesn't define you. But it sure as hell is not the only thing that defines you.<br />
<br />
It's not about what you do, it's about who you are.<br />
#SubjectiveOrNot?<br />
<br />
Let Me In - Grouplove<br />
All Of The Stars - Ed Sheeran<br />
Hey Brother - Avicii<br />
Halo - Bethany Joy Lenz<br />
#music<br />
<br /></div>
"I've come to the conclusion that if having things turn out the way you wanted them to is a measure of a successful life, then some would say I'm a failure. The important thing is to not be bitter over life's disappointments. Learn to let go of the past. And recognize that every day won't be sunny, and when you find yourself lost in the darkness and despair, remember it's only in the black of night you see the stars. And those stars will lead you back home. So don't be afraid to make mistakes, to stumble and fall, cause most of the time, the greatest rewards come from doing the things that scare you the most. Maybe you'll get everything you wish for. Maybe you'll get more than you ever could have imagined. Who knows where life will take you. The road is long and in the end, the journey is the destination."<br />
#OneTreeHill</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-82714060694572310322014-05-17T20:49:00.001+05:302014-08-07T04:40:30.209+05:30Long, long overdue!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"It's a strange world where the least important thing is doing well and the most important thing is just hanging on."<br />
#OneTreeHill<br />
<br />
It sucks to be in that handicapped feeling<br />
When you can't do more than you already have<br />
Knowing that the amount you've done is not even close to enough<br />
And it won't matter in the long run<br />
But you only wish and hope and pray that it does anyway<br />
<br />
When so many lives are attached to one and interrelated in some way or another<br />
But the role causing the pain is not known to the actor performing<br />
Oblivious as the actor is, goes on to cause more pain and collateral damage, somewhere sensing that he/she is delivering it, somewhere not aware at all<br />
<br />
Sometimes, you gotta take a call<br />
You cannot be in that comfortable neutral zone anymore<br />
You're not left with much choice<br />
So you take that call<br />
and it's good in a way<br />
(yes, there are always pros and cons)<br />
But it's liberating, to an extent<br />
You're surprised by the outcome in a positive and negative manner<br />
But you gotta tell yourself it'll be okay, if it has to be<br />
There is only a limit to which you can deliver and prove yourself<br />
If one still doesn't get your effort, or how you may have gone out of your way to do something, it's alright<br />
At least you found out! And in the long run, that's what matters really. Clarity.<br />
<br />
When you can't change something<br />
How do you come to terms with it?<br />
Just how do you be okay with it?<br />
Every time you've tried, you've only hoped it hadn't turned out this way<br />
You just can't seem to come to peace with it wholly, just yet<br />
Even after years of somewhere being convinced, you know it deep inside, that you're not<br />
<br />
Yes, life is unfair n all that<br />
But it's only harder when you have to live with a situation that could've been dealt with differently<br />
And you can only hope for that now and that's all there is to it<br />
It involves too many lives and it's messed up<br />
<br />
When you find a reason for your existence and presence at a particular place, time and situation:<br />
While I was getting off the bus that stopped at a bus station, an old blind man who said something I didn't hear, was somewhere behind me. Holding his hand, and telling him, 'There's a step now', made the driver of the bus smile at me (and I was given a look by the same person, when I'd mentioned I'm short of twenty pence. I did pay extra eventually, yes)<br />
Just the feeling of being able to hear my heart beat fast, while I walked the old man to a corner at the station, was incomparable. After a couple of seconds of no conversation and wonderment, I thought I'd ask him further where he exactly wants to go, as the station is pretty big, with stops named after alphabets.<br />
As I asked him, 'Umm, where exactly are you heading, Sir?' He replied spontaneously, 'Eastern Green'<br />
As lost as I usually am, with regard to figuring out stuff for myself, at stations, roads or anything involving maps (and leaving that part for my dear friends always), I told myself, 'You have to find out which bus would take one there, no matter what.' And so after a minute or so, we walked to that one particular bus stand which was slightly at a distance from the rest. As I left him there, and told him he could sit down, when he stood right in front of the bench, he had made my day already and further said, 'Thank you so much, dear. I really, really appreciate you dropping me till here. Thank you.' The smile on his face made me the happiest.<br />
<br />
Hope.<br />
<br />
And sometimes all you can say to yourself is, it'll be alright<br />
<br />
The person who's become someone you don't seem to recognize<br />
And, it will never be the same<br />
That's when you don't know what is the truth anymore<br />
<br />
When you know two different individuals in your life and it's not about comparison<br />
But you begin to think about how one of them has done so much to get where he/she is today<br />
And the other has probably not done one percent of it, but has more<br />
Now what is the reasoning for this really?<br />
I don't know about deserving or achieving or fulfilling your dreams<br />
But sure as hell, it ain't fair from the layman's perspective<br />
Having known two opposite people, and not just blatantly wondering about destiny for no apparent reason<br />
Why does one who has so much with no effort and therefore, doesn't appreciate life enough, is the one who hasn't lived really yet.. but the other who had the least at his/her disposal, is one who has lived life to an extent already, and not merely existed...?<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkaWQMo6fU4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kalki on Womanhood... If Only!</a><br />
~ too good.<br />
<br />
People change<br />
They surely do<br />
And you miss the person you'd met and become friends with<br />
And you can't seem to do anything whatsoever to get that person back and neither do you recognize this new person even when you've been trying to<br />
As it's a choice that person has made willingly to stay this new person he/she is, forever<br />
<br />
Courage<br />
It requires courage to stay who you are, always<br />
Not that you would/could stop yourself from evolving, or discovering yourself further<br />
But managing to stick to those essential characteristics that make you, You<br />
That's the originality I miss in people around me<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/ajit_narayanan_a_word_game_to_communicate_in_any_language" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A word game to communicate in any language - Ajit Narayanan</a><br />
~ Beautiful!<br />
<br />
When you can't fix it<br />
You just can't<br />
You never meant for it to happen<br />
But it just did somehow<br />
And you don't know what it'd be like for the person in that situation now<br />
But you really, really can't do anything whatsoever to fix it<br />
Yes, that feeling sucks big time!<br />
<br />
So much in pieces<br />
AGAIN<br />
<br />
Recovery<br />
takes time<br />
No matter what the situation was<br />
<br />
When it's someone you think you knew, seems to generalize things<br />
<br />
Or wait,<br />
<div>
do we realize that what we want, or what we think we want, is not exactly what we want</div>
<div>
I mean, it's like you almost had it in the past<br />
<br />
Bonfire Heart - James Blunt<br />
Fallen - Sarah McLachlan<br />
Take Me Home (Acoustic) - Cash Cash<br />
What You Wanted - OneRepublic<br />
We're On Our Way - Radical Face<br />
Story of My Life - One Direction<br />
Human - Christina Perri<br />
#music<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=on.ted.com-facebook-share&utm_content=awesm-bookmarklet&awesm=on.ted.com_a04Oc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What adults can learn from kids - Adora Svitak</a><br />
~ Brilliant!<br />
<br />
Highway - the Bollywood movie:<br />
Concept, acting, story<br />
Music, haryanvi jaat punjabi, realistic, happens everywhere<br />
and happens today as well! - It sucks the way one is taught things, and asked to shut up about it.<br />
<br />
Patakha Guddi - Male and Female version<br />
#TheSong<br />
<br />
"Whatever happened to common decency anymore<br />
Technology has made people so cowardly and disconnected."<br />
#TheIrony<br />
<br />
The people who really want to be in your life will make the effort to stay<br />
They're the ones worth keeping<br />
Let go of the rest<br />
<br />
And even though the Indian election results are out,<br />
and pretty much everyone knew what was going to happen, by the end of it,<br />
another one of my favourite videos, with a very clear and distinct message, directed by a friend:<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hS6MeDOcb4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Day In The Indian Parliament #GetInked</a><br />
<br />
Punjabi weddings music<br />
Lifting your spirit<br />
<br />
School<br />
The importance of things<br />
<br />
Are you okay?<br />
I've been better.<br />
#WhenThatBecomesAConsistentAnswer<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/samuel-leighton-dore/2014/02/the-lost-art-of-being-okay/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Lost Art Of Being Okay - Samuel Leighton-Dore</a><br />
~ the words.<br />
<br />
Have to catch up with Grey's Anatomy!<br />
#It'sBeenAWhile<br />
<br />
"Life is too short for fake butter, cheese or people."<br />
"Money isn't everything but you have to have enough before you can say so."<br />
"When you make a commitment, you build hope. When you keep it, you build trust."<br />
<br />
"Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct."<br />
"Sleeping is nice. You forget about everything for a little while."<br />
"Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act while you're waiting."<br />
<br />
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have a say in who hurts you."<br />
- John Green<br />
#TheFaultInOurStars</div>
</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-48305766066537130382014-01-21T08:03:00.000+05:302014-01-21T08:03:32.500+05:30You never know<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When it's unbelievable<br />
The journey was different<br />
The circumstances weren't remotely the same<br />
The picture you could see getting made in front of you had a different outline, content, script, story<br />
and when you realize that the main character is someone else, it changes the whole idea of it<br />
The thought will never be the same when you think about this every time now<br />
The main character changed the meaning of the title too<br />
It amuses me how we reject what we have and want it when we don't<br />
Why do we do that even when we know it's a mistake?<br />
How are we willing to commit that mistake knowingly?<br />
When you have a flow of emotions like a river<br />
*sigh*<br />
<br />
When you've always had words to express your state of mind<br />
But this one time, you don't. You weirdly don't. You don't have a reason to validate the vacuum<br />
You're happy for someone, someone you could've appreciated more in life<br />
<br />
Still obsessed with the lines ~<br />
"You're my backbone<br />
You're my cornerstone<br />
You're my crutch when my legs stop moving<br />
You're my head start<br />
You're my rugged heart<br />
You're the pulse that I've always needed<br />
Like a drum, baby, don't stop beating..."<br />
<br />
How does one even manage to come up with such beautiful lyrics in the first place? How?<br />
<br />
Aaah, when it hurts<br />
It hurts to know you could have, what the other person does, today<br />
But it's too late<br />
and you can't do anything but be happy for this person<br />
and that's exactly what you should<br />
because who knows in life<br />
No one does!<br />
It's as unpredictable as the heartbeat of a person, like they say<br />
<br />
The forbidden is what always seems the most appealing<br />
<br />
I hate how people come and go in your life<br />
Like, okay, they had their roles to play and all.. I get that<br />
But how is it ever fair? Is anything ever is? (starting to doubt it)<br />
Why do so much for the other person when you won't eventually be there in the long run?<br />
No, it's not the better decision, because you're only going to make it harder for one to deal with all of the pieces<br />
How hard is that to understand?<br />
<br />
We need time to recover<br />
from incidents and thoughts that have left an impact, or have caused too much collateral damage<br />
<br />
Under Control ft. Hurts - Calvin Harris & Alesso<br />
If I Lose Myself - Alesso Vs One Republic (Alesso remix)<br />
Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane<br />
#music<br />
<br />
When every thing isn't right<br />
and you're stuck<br />
You can't do much at the moment but it consumes you a little everyday<br />
<br />
When you've been used to living away from home since eleven years, but miss it randomly one day<br />
and you have no idea what initiated it<br />
#OneOfThoseDays<br />
<br />
"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."<br />
<br />
"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."<br />
<br />
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-45080842425665251352014-01-15T09:35:00.000+05:302014-01-15T09:36:38.822+05:30The ups and downs are normal, as they say.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sometimes, you wanna cry and stay low<br />
And that's all you wanna be<br />
<br />
It hurts so much when you see the incapability in another person to be able to understand what you do<br />
<br />
Life<br />
and none of us come out of it alive<br />
<br />
Seeing it all through someone else's eyes!<br />
<br />
Gone, Gone, Gone - Phillip Phillips<br />
#music<br />
<br />
"She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments."<br />
<br />
"Seeming and being are not one and the same."<br />
<br />
"We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair."<br />
<br />
Gravity.<br />
Brilliant movie<br />
#SandraBullock #GeorgeClooney<br />
<br />
"Not all of me wakes up at the same time."<br />
<br />
"It take a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."<br />
<br />
We're always defying age, but the feeling to know that you'd grow old together with someone you love<br />
That's what one's looking for<br />
<br />
When you're excited about your birthday, only to realize you'd be having a lifetime experience,<br />
to not care about it really<br />
When it just gets difficult for you to snap out of things,<br />
not because you can't seem to get your mind off it, but because it's already left a deeper impact on you than you thought it would!<br />
<br />
When all you could possibly wish for, is for the other person to understand. Not listen but understand.<br />
Too much to ask for?<br />
<br />
With people like Arvind Kejriwal, this world will be a better place :)<br />
<br />
Because the opposite of love is apathy, not hate. When you're not completely indifferent as yet, and there's hate. An emotion that exists, it's amusing how you'd never thought you could manage to build that amount of hatred in your heart for someone, who's not even capable of empathy.<br />
<br />
It's the power of words and will probably always be<br />
What one said and how you perceived it<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c62Aqdlzvqk" target="_blank">Lizzie Velasquez</a><br />
Absolutely love the words and the video! Extraordinary.<br />
~ Using one's negativity towards you, to motivate you and keep going in life to make yourself better!<br />
<br />
Exams - why are they used to define so much that never matters in the long run?<br />
<br />
I love seeing old couples together! Adds to my day :)<br />
#RareSightsAtWarwick<br />
<br />
Accounts - a subject that you've never liked, plus you've never been good at it, so you're all the more not motivated to make the effort!<br />
<br />
How does one always manage to overlook the big picture?<br />
<br />
Why get used to something for a short while when you know you can't have it for long?<br />
<br />
Cadbury Bournvita commercials<br />
~ low cost, super effective, usage of the words, well edited, and the extra message to be inferred :)<br />
<br />
"Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man made and can be removed by the actions of human beings."<br />
- Nelson Mandela<br />
<br />
"We seek power and money so desperately, but love our heroes for sacrifice, compassion, seeing hope in a dark prison."<br />
- Abhijit Majumder<br />
<br />
"Sex between consenting same sex adults in private is criminalized, but marital rape isn't."<br />
#SupremeCourt<br />
<br />
"Age is no guarantee of maturity."<br />
<br />
"Having a face to face communication with someone is one of the greatest things in life. Amidst decades of technological advancement, it is still the most powerful form of communication. We don't do it enough these days..."<br />
<br />
"There are things you're entitled to, like your opinions, and there are things you're not entitled to, like other people's opinions."<br />
<br />
"Some give you their word, some keep it."<br />
<br />
PS- Happy New Year! :)</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-18623809257904979232013-11-26T08:44:00.000+05:302013-11-26T08:51:03.698+05:30Unpredictability<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Good food, and/or knowing another person's day was made because of you<br />
~ makes my day.<br />
<br />
Fact:<br />
The friendship between men 'without' saying the obvious things, lasts a lifetime<br />
and it's just about the opposite with us women<br />
<br />
When you're willing to take that risk<br />
When you somehow feel you have it in you to say it<br />
It's been long since this thing has been on your mind and there have been more than a few times when you really, really got the urge to freaking do something about it<br />
But you couldn't for several reasons<br />
For reasons like it wasn't your place to, for reasons like the other person may believe he/she understood what you said, but what he/she heard is not what you meant, because it is not that damn simple to convey it just the right way<br />
One's state of mind and happiness has been getting decided by another's actions<br />
What lack of communication can do, always leaves me jaw dropped in situations where it only leads to assumptions, and as I've said, they are the worst things ever. Let's just leave them for economics, which is a con!<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE&feature=share" target="_blank">"Google Search : Reunion"</a><br />
~ An advertisement by Google. Must watch!<br />
Made me cry too, yes.<br />
And I'm told it's based on a true story!<br />
<br />
Because we've all changed<br />
evolved to be the new people we are today<br />
Time does that<br />
All for the good I guess<br />
Our choices are different<br />
And so are our perceptions<br />
But then again, some things don't change.. simply because they're situations<br />
And one has to change the situation one self<br />
It won't magically just disappear the next day<br />
<br />
I don't get how people are just willing to overlook important parameters affecting another's life right in front of your eyes and since forever!<br />
How on earth can you be that apathetic towards this whole scenario that has been playing live in front of you in someone's life who's again been a significant person of your life all along?<br />
<br />
Sometimes, we all wanna escape<br />
Oh how much I love that<br />
Listen to distracting songs<br />
Change the subject being talked about<br />
Write it out<br />
Sleep it off<br />
Cry<br />
Take a walk<br />
Do whatever it takes to be an escapist<br />
Not because you're not enjoying your life, but because you know someone who means the world to you, isn't enjoying theirs<br />
<br />
It will never fail to amuse me how people don't see the obvious<br />
It's either that they simply don't get it<br />
Or you pretend so damn well that you've forgotten yourself what the original thing was<br />
It's like one says, 'Just be careful who you pretend to be, I'd hate if you forgot who you are!'<br />
<br />
When you couldn't attend something<br />
you'll never know what you missed<br />
but you're fine with it<br />
<br />
When one family member does too much<br />
and sometimes it's not just about acknowledging but also reminding him/her how much that means to us<br />
Us humans have a tendency to forget things<br />
And we need to be comforted... and sometimes, words can do wonders<br />
<br />
Let Her Go - Passenger<br />
Tidal Wave ft. Alpines - Sub Focus<br />
Eid Wala Chand - Rajan Batra<br />
#music<br />
<br />
"Saving the world from mediocre coffee."<br />
- Costa<br />
<br />
Nothing like Grey's Anatomy!<br />
#SawItAfterSoLong :)<br />
<br />
"Everyone now knows Campa Cola compound. Do you know about Golibar, where legal residents were evicted?"<br />
- Naresh Fernandes<br />
<br />
"Life is too short to spend it with someone who makes your days difficult."<br />
"The reason people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go instead of how far they have gotten."<br />
<br />
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."<br />
"It's always nice to have someone around in your life who can make you smile even when they are not around."<br />
<br />
"Reason is one of the most effective and under-utilized anti-depressants available to us."</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-37335816299541752812013-11-06T19:15:00.000+05:302013-11-26T08:00:45.293+05:30Not that lost.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"Be hurt. I can take it, the world can take it."<br />
- really the right thing to hear when you are?<br />
For a moment I was like, wow. But, not so much when you can't get your mind off, of what it was that's gotten on your mind. It's like bacteria. It's only multiplying even when your efforts were all to make it stop/shut down and not just put it to sleep.<br />
<br />
When you didn't want the person to say the words back to you.<br />
You just wanted the person to accept it. That is all.<br />
Acceptance is the most important thing (as I've mentioned earlier). Coming to terms with it.<br />
But, okay.<br />
<br />
Perspective. Perception. Point of view. Inference. Interpretation. Power of the mind.<br />
#blah<br />
<br />
"Human perception is actually relative and conceptual, not absolute."<br />
<br />
"Don't give away anything that you have to, earlier than you have to."<br />
<br />
"In business, you don't have to be right,<br />
you just have to be less stupid than your competitors."<br />
<br />
Will get back in a post, soon, about the talk I attended by Rory Sutherland.<br />
<br />
And Diwali happened and I wasn't home for the first time.<br />
Yes, you miss home the most during this one festive season.<br />
<br />
Do not get too affected by things, situations, people. It never helps. Never.<br />
Don't stop working on how much it got to you. Or how much you let it get to you.<br />
<br />
When you end up doing things you've never done before<br />
Not in terms of the adventure you'd assumed you would (you haven't forgotten your bucket list just yet)<br />
But doing things in terms of being there. For people.<br />
Going out of your way in more than just one manner and being happy for them.<br />
<br />
Overdose of chocolate.<br />
Waffles with nutella. Cocoa and chocolate cream wafers. Lindt Lindor. Chocotastic pop tarts. Mars.<br />
#Haha!<br />
<br />
The additional costs in life that we tend to overlook more than often!!<br />
(this is an interesting observation and I do intend to elaborate on it soon)<br />
<br />
A fire alarm drill at seven in the morning is one of the worst things ever,<br />
when you know you have a lecture at nine and had to wake up in half an hour anyway!<br />
The value of five minutes is best understood during these early morning hours,<br />
when you had to either give up your sleep, or run to be punctual for a class,<br />
because you did sleep for those five minutes anyway, that were not extra any more then!<br />
<br />
Finding out you hadn't replied to comments on your posts ~ *happily surprised*<br />
<br />
The generation gap and the variance in the chain of thought on the same subject<br />
The difference in the want to understand<br />
Absolutely overlooking what matters too much to the other person<br />
Rigidity in the mindset with negligible willingness to widen it really<br />
Or maybe a bit for the world but less than zero percent for yourself<br />
<br />
When you see a goose hurt in the garden right outside your building, standing in the rain, and barely managing to move, you call up the student reception to ask for help (and it was a Saturday) and you get the worst reply of all time. You call up security and you're told some crap about how you shouldn't mess with the balance of life and nature.<br />
You manage to go down with another flatmate of yours to see what can be done (keeping in mind that the bird will, in most probability, move away, as soon as we get to him/her)<br />
And even though that's exactly what had happened, once again the only ointment that had popped in my head was boroline, but he/she had, had a bone injury and we knew we couldn't do anything<br />
While we felt helpless and talked to each other about it, while watching out on him/her for a bit,<br />
I realized that by the evening, the bird's friends had come to his/her rescue! (no kidding)<br />
We're all aware that geese always tend to move together and this one had been alone all day<br />
But the day did get better for him/her after all, and so it did for me :)<br />
<br />
A blind lady being guided by her dog everywhere<br />
- A sight that sums up Life<br />
<br />
Caffe Latte and Lindt Lindor<br />
- one of the best combinations ever! :D<br />
<br />
The sun, rain, wind, rainbow - all at one time!<br />
Seriously happens!<br />
God really is kind. Now this is balance of the nature :)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQR6cB1DXzY" target="_blank">"That Day After Everyday" - A Short Film</a><br />
~ must watch!<br />
#TheReality #TrueStory #NoWords<br />
<br />
"In the book of religion, humanity is the last chapter."<br />
- Saira<br />
<br />
Counting Stars - OneRepublic<br />
All Night - Icona Pop<br />
#music<br />
<br />
"People only treat you one way, that's the way you allow them."<br />
"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."<br />
<br />
"Time is innocent only if there are no clocks or watches."<br />
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling."<br />
"It's a very powerful thing when someone sees you as the person you wish you were."<br />
<br />
"When it's all said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take<br />
but how you take it."<br />
"Money can buy me happiness, it's called food."<br />
<br />
"There's a plague of sameness that is killing human joy."<br />
- Zita Cobb via Iwan Baan</div>
Garima Nagpalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09769451708104034719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1821736934845060401.post-3117857855542631852013-10-14T05:50:00.000+05:302013-10-14T05:50:54.125+05:30Mixed to the extent that I can't decipher the ingredients!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When you can't seem to keep track of all that's going on in your life<br />
No kidding!<br />
#AlmostAMonth #WarwickTimes<br />
#TooMuchInTooManyPieces<br />
<br />
When there are situations we've all imagined in our heads, situations we've totally wanted to be in..<br />
but it's when you're really there, you go blank and are not quite sure if you'd be able to be yourself at that moment of rush and risk.. and maybe the evolved you, manages to be somewhat yourself also.. but there is a constant thought in your subconscious kinda pulling you back for no apparent reason<br />
Either ways, don't regret it. I don't :)<br />
<br />
When it's not any kinda fear but more like a debt<br />
Guilt that's been cooked up in your head but doesn't have any basis to exist really<br />
The unpredictable factor in life that leaves us all with our jaws dropped after all<br />
<br />
When you're being forced to go about a few things in a way you didn't have in mind for yourself and for the other person<br />
<br />
When things turn out like you least expected them to<br />
But all in a positive way :)<br />
<br />
When you know you have a cold and it's only getting worse, and you should probably sleep.. But no, you end up listening to Alesso tracks you hadn't heard in a while and of course, sleep vanished<br />
<br />
When the experience that's built up with incidents that took place in a period of about three weeks<br />
has managed to give you a relatively good insight over all..<br />
<br />
I don't get why people are such cowards<br />
You don't have it in you to say things clearly to someone who's been a part of your life for a significant period of time? How weird can you be? I hate incomplete conversations and then one has to do the icing of the cake by leaving you with assumptions for the rest of your life<br />
Thank you so very much for being the freak you are.<br />
<br />
Avicii - Wake Me Up<br />
Ellie Goulding - Burn<br />
Alesso - Years ft. Matthew Koma<br />
Alesso - Clash (full version)<br />
David Guetta - Play Hard<br />
Zedd - Spectrum ft. Matthew Koma<br />
#music<br />
<br />
That moment when you don't get your own chain of thought!<br />
<br />
Time is flying and it's almost here<br />
It's starting to hit me now.. that things are going to change<br />
and for once, I can't wait for that to happen!<br />
~ Well, that was written a while ago. I've been here since three weeks now and it's been great.<br />
I guess it is true when they say, it's better when you haven't formed that picture in your head, coz then, you'll always like it, no matter what it is.<br />
<br />
UK. Warwick. Campus life. University. So much keeps going on. Change. Happiness.<br />
New people. Different mindsets. Lack of home food. Independence on another level.<br />
Too much walking.. seriously! Swimming. In a pool after four years with some swimmers who swim like sharks.. again, not kidding!<br />
Realizations. The unpredictable weather.<br />
Food fair. Samosas.<br />
Walks while listening to your favourite tracks, more than often :D<br />
Mars and Dairy Milk flavoured ice creams!!<br />
Salsa taster session.<br />
Awesome food at the Indian Village in Coventry. #ItWasAGoodDay<br />
And blah (not in the gibberish way). Haha. Will continue this! :)<br />
<br />
~<br />
<br />
Why do people give opinions on a subject they don't have any freaking knowledge about?<br />
WHY?<br />
Somebody explain that to me, please!<br />
Did I ask for your opinion?<br />
No, I didn't.<br />
Have you done any study whatsoever on the subject you're jabbering about incessantly?<br />
Clearly, you haven't.<br />
<br />
When there is so much effort that's required from one person to work out a relationship (any kind!)<br />
even in terms of normal communication.. It shouldn't have to be hard at all. You weren't born to please the other person.. And for that matter, if it is hard, is it really worth it? (Don't be kidding yourself)<br />
<br />
I don't get it. I just don't get it. You talk before you think. You're bloody certain of things you don't have any kinda knowledge about. You will present your views as if you're the master and the others are meant to bow to your words. You do not understand (forget believing) the concept of cleaning the mess after a presentation of any sort. You lack the freaking ability to look beyond just your own perspective. You take forever to gather some logic and reasoning from the occurrence of a situation. You talk in a repulsive tone. You don't have a drop of keenness to learn anything new whatsoever. Since when did humans become like that?<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
Hope but don't expect.<br />
Nope, it's not the same thing :)<br />
<br />
'Old enough to rape, and young enough to get away with it. Age should not be a factor at all.'<br />
#Rape #IndianLegalSystem #Juvenile #ShitLaws<br />
<br />
"Happiness is not a situation, it's a choice."<br />
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."<br />
"The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said, or never explained."<br />
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."<br />
<br />
"The longest five seconds in anyone's life is waiting to press the 'Skip Ad' button on YouTube."<br />
"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."<br />
"Some days, the whole world seems upside down. And then somehow, and probably when you least expect it, the world rights itself again."<br />
<br />
PS- I love my room :D<br />
#Campus #Warwick #Uni #Solitude #Life </div>
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