"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice."
The people in your life are supposed to make it all easier
If they're making it difficult, you know you must question the relationship!
It's always going to be about how one has been conditioned through life
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
and then of course there are those who think they're perfectionists and everyone should just live serving to fulfil their wishes and demands
"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."
- Ellen DeGeneres
Upbringing
The impact of that on a human being is just so undervalued!
A child you're raising and pampering today is going to be someone's husband/wife tomorrow, someone's father/mother
Situational behaviour
It really depends on whether you make it a big deal or not
and that will depend on the kind of people/thoughts you surround yourself with
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
So don't make everything a big deal... Let it be!
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
It's surprising how the generation right before mine is more messed up in their thoughts and attitude towards life, than mine!
Thinking you're always right is death to the brain God has given you to wonder, stay curious and exercise your imaginative abilities
Some things, you should never tell anyone
Not even your best friend
Especially when you're aware that you and the other person have drastically different views on a particular subject
It's one thing to have identified the disagreement, acknowledge it and come to terms with it
It's another to share more views on the same
You'll only hurt yourself in the process
Bring up your child with love and chores.
Anyone who has an MBA but hasn't been brought up with a habit of doing chores, will not be able to mould.
(in discussion with a very wise friend, when we talked about parenting, after she'd heard these views on a ted talk)
Passengers, the movie
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
Without knowing/meeting this person ever, but having spent months thinking about how this person could be as a partner in life
She writes, but had never written about herself
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
"When you have been trying to fix a problem for too long
Let go of what you can't control for sometime
Live a little" - a robot saying that to a human
It's so strange how we humans work
We want to live in a world dominated by technology
But look for nature when that's the case
"Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one who finds the gold."
Life isn't always about proving a point
To your partner
To your parent
To the world
To another person
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 feelings
Sometimes...
There's only so much you can do
You explain a viewpoint
You observe a certain aspect a number of times in many ways
But if the person you're trying to show your perspective to, through your eyes, refuses to see what you see
You're only making attempts in vain
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
When you trust people without the fear that your trust might be broken by them, you will be surprisingly happier in life!
When you have tried your best to explain something to someone
Or you shared your thoughts
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
"The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life."
When you feel everything too deeply
Not only are you the only one getting hurt
You're the only one feeling how you're feeling
People don't think about how you feel unless they know that feeling
Everything in life doesn't have to be compared
Everyone's struggles are different
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
You don't know how one deals with it all really
We all deal with stuff in our own ways
The lesser number of friends, the better they say?
You're more at peace and in sync with knowing who'll be there for you no matter what
and that you don't need to be in touch or show affection in anyway sometimes
It's all just understood between the two people
Selfishness
We dwell in it as a species
No matter what the degree of it is
We act as per our convenience, we speak in sync with our benefit
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
That's when we're taking things for granted, bit by bit
"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..."
~ some of my favourite words from the Harvard commencement speech given by J.K. Rowling
We always only think from our level of perception, no matter what the situation
It's amazing that the people you consider empathetic and observant in your life, are the ones who don't see what you see
and then you realise that only time will give certain answers to them
because time does give answers, especially to those who choose to stay silent
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
How does one's nature and way of perceiving have anything to do with being rigid anyway?
Okay, maybe a little.
People showing they care, in front of others, time and again, are the kinds who have major insecurities in life
I mean, you don't have to show it in front of anyone or prove it to anyone
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
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
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
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!
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
You really can't do anything except for time and situations to make your friend see what you see
I may have been repetitive about this point, in this post, but I cannot seem to emphasise on it enough.
Arrival
Lion
#MustWatchMovies
You think everyone means what they say because you mean everything you say, and that's where you've gone completely wrong.
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.
When your day is made from conversations with two wonderful and genuine souls
A call from an old, and favourite teacher, after years
and a well-wisher who strongly believes that you and her have a connection from the past life
The feeling is indescribable! :)
"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."
PS- Happy New Year!
2017 seems to be flying already!
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Dark realities and more
"Half the world is starving, the other half is trying to lose weight."
When the day begins on a pleasant note, but you knew that that won't stay for long, as nothing does
"To understand is to perceive patterns..."
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...
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 sometimes.. The rest of the times you probably just get lucky
Interacting with kids will always remain one of the greatest ways to learn something new!
Awaaz badha ne se, baat sahi nahi ho jaati!
(You don't become right by raising your volume!)
When movies like Udta Punjab are released in the Indian cinema...
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.
Why can't people live by the mantra that people who have a lot lesser than them are happier than they've ever been?
"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."
When you're in the middle of writing a post, and the lady who's the caretaker (apparently they're addressed as jaapa 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!
You go back to realising how people think, and how their lives have been, and how each of them are going through unimaginable situations...
which is exactly why I absolutely dislike people who are not thankful, in our wonderful (whose definition of modern is probably less/westernised clothes and not thoughts) society!
People whining about trivial things and going on about it, always
COME ON. Look around for heaven's sake!
Such humans don't know the value of other humans and don't want to either.
"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."
A number of people have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea in 2016
There are people who died in Orlando
The terrorist attacks are never ending ... all in the name of I don't know what!
There are rapes happening every minute in different parts of the world
There are people misbehaving
Some losing themselves whilst attempting to prove themselves to others
Some continue to live in their big bubbles where everything is flowery and nice
It makes you want to tell everyone around you, to just continue to be thankful!
Finding Dory
The emphasis laid on how an instinct is a natural ability
I recognised Ellen DeGeneres' voice without knowing it was hers :) She's too damn good.
#movie
This Sweet Love - James Yuill
Da Da Dasse - Kanika Kapoor
Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) - Omi
#music
The level of complexity in our bodies..
I'd blame the hormones for all the unexpected mood swings too!
The female body's behaviour and its relationship with one's age ~ something men must give thought to as well!
People will hurt you... time and again
"There are more fruits in a rich man's shampoo than in a poor man's plate."
We all have a tendency to surprise ourselves, we just have to want to test our abilities in the right direction to that extent
Things happen, life has better plans for us sometimes
We just got to take it all one day at a time
The choices you make, some of them might turn out to be harder than you'd thought
But regret never fixes anything
You just got to deal with it the best way possible
"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. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. 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?"
#Marley&Me
If someone ever tells you to change yourself, stay away from that person
Why should you change just because you're sensitive and let things get to you fast?
You are who you are for a reason
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
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!
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
No body prepares you for the hardest jobs in the world ~ managing relationships
While you're overwhelmed and unable to take it, you react in ways that damage them too much
What you may have to give up during that journey/phase of life is also going to come as a surprise
There'll be moments when it wouldn't feel like you made the right choice, or that it wasn't worth it
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..
All these love stories they show in movies
Never believe them
Because you'll only be a big fool to think that's ever possible in reality
You'll get hurt, you'll have arguments even after all your attempts to rationalise
No matter what you do, how much ever you go out of your way for someone, at some point you'll be put down
That's how humans are, the messed up species
One of my favourite advertisements!
: Geeta Phogat ~ will of steel
Olympics and a number of Indians making the nation proud! :)
#Rio2016
It's true when they say that if you're not losing friends, you aren't growing up.
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 destiny and past life's good karma play their role.
There is a post due specifically on marriage and experiences attending weddings from different cultures :)
The world is a dangerous place when there are more people who want to prove wrong than right.
This post had been in drafts for way too long!
Love is on the Way [Saigon Kick Cover]
~ sung by a friend!
Subscribe to his channel if you like it? :)
The link to it: YouTube channel
#musician
"Raaste kahan khatam hote hain zindagi ke safar mein,
manzil toh wohi hai jahan khwahishein khatam ho jaaye"
When the day begins on a pleasant note, but you knew that that won't stay for long, as nothing does
"To understand is to perceive patterns..."
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...
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 sometimes.. The rest of the times you probably just get lucky
Interacting with kids will always remain one of the greatest ways to learn something new!
Awaaz badha ne se, baat sahi nahi ho jaati!
(You don't become right by raising your volume!)
When movies like Udta Punjab are released in the Indian cinema...
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.
Why can't people live by the mantra that people who have a lot lesser than them are happier than they've ever been?
"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."
When you're in the middle of writing a post, and the lady who's the caretaker (apparently they're addressed as jaapa 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!
You go back to realising how people think, and how their lives have been, and how each of them are going through unimaginable situations...
which is exactly why I absolutely dislike people who are not thankful, in our wonderful (whose definition of modern is probably less/westernised clothes and not thoughts) society!
People whining about trivial things and going on about it, always
COME ON. Look around for heaven's sake!
Such humans don't know the value of other humans and don't want to either.
"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."
A number of people have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea in 2016
There are people who died in Orlando
The terrorist attacks are never ending ... all in the name of I don't know what!
There are rapes happening every minute in different parts of the world
There are people misbehaving
Some losing themselves whilst attempting to prove themselves to others
Some continue to live in their big bubbles where everything is flowery and nice
It makes you want to tell everyone around you, to just continue to be thankful!
 |
| The ultimate truth stated by Matt Haig in his book, Reasons to Stay Alive |
Finding Dory
The emphasis laid on how an instinct is a natural ability
I recognised Ellen DeGeneres' voice without knowing it was hers :) She's too damn good.
#movie
This Sweet Love - James Yuill
Da Da Dasse - Kanika Kapoor
Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) - Omi
#music
The level of complexity in our bodies..
I'd blame the hormones for all the unexpected mood swings too!
The female body's behaviour and its relationship with one's age ~ something men must give thought to as well!
People will hurt you... time and again
yes, the same ones whom you gathered the courage to trust again
What are you going to do about it?
Don't let it break you!
"There are more fruits in a rich man's shampoo than in a poor man's plate."
We all have a tendency to surprise ourselves, we just have to want to test our abilities in the right direction to that extent
Things happen, life has better plans for us sometimes
We just got to take it all one day at a time
The choices you make, some of them might turn out to be harder than you'd thought
But regret never fixes anything
You just got to deal with it the best way possible
"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. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. 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?"
#Marley&Me
If someone ever tells you to change yourself, stay away from that person
Why should you change just because you're sensitive and let things get to you fast?
You are who you are for a reason
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
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!
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
No body prepares you for the hardest jobs in the world ~ managing relationships
While you're overwhelmed and unable to take it, you react in ways that damage them too much
What you may have to give up during that journey/phase of life is also going to come as a surprise
There'll be moments when it wouldn't feel like you made the right choice, or that it wasn't worth it
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..
All these love stories they show in movies
Never believe them
Because you'll only be a big fool to think that's ever possible in reality
You'll get hurt, you'll have arguments even after all your attempts to rationalise
No matter what you do, how much ever you go out of your way for someone, at some point you'll be put down
That's how humans are, the messed up species
One of my favourite advertisements!
: Geeta Phogat ~ will of steel
Olympics and a number of Indians making the nation proud! :)
#Rio2016
It's true when they say that if you're not losing friends, you aren't growing up.
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 destiny and past life's good karma play their role.
There is a post due specifically on marriage and experiences attending weddings from different cultures :)
The world is a dangerous place when there are more people who want to prove wrong than right.
This post had been in drafts for way too long!
Love is on the Way [Saigon Kick Cover]
~ sung by a friend!
Subscribe to his channel if you like it? :)
The link to it: YouTube channel
#musician
"Raaste kahan khatam hote hain zindagi ke safar mein,
manzil toh wohi hai jahan khwahishein khatam ho jaaye"
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Depends on whether you're looking for meaning or not ~
"Do not listen with the intent to reply,
but with the intent to understand."
Why do we bargain with the people earning the least in our country?
I just don't get it.
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.
#ComeOn!
"There's a physical connection you can draw between how often you have to sharpen your pencil and how much work you've done."
- Caroline Weaver
A painkiller for an adult is like a toy to a crying baby #simile
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!
Introverts are introverts for a reason and they should never be forced to speak/share too much..
Because they are who they are for a reason!
It's just so sad that our hypocritical society isn't accepting of that nature
Why is everyone constantly stuck on attempting to change one another?
Why? Live and let live?
"It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for."
I am a firm believer of the fact that karma will find its way back to you (!)
Electricity and the wait for it, when Nani watches katha every evening on TV
#LittleThings
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 :)
"You can't change someone who doesn't see an issue in their actions."
One amongst many making a mountain out of a molehill about pretty much every thing
Sad emotions are okay around you as long as you're in your bubble
Zero empathy, let alone compassion
Money servants money servants money servants
~ stories of some...
I personally don't even like the term 'servant'
I mean, no one is your slave, so stop treating someone like one!
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
Why is it that people don't give enough attention to the words being used by them!?
A child's thoughts must always be cultivated in the right manner
Of course, the 'right' depends on the parent defining it for the child
"I stopped explaining myself when I realised that people only understand from their level of perception."
In life, you'll come across all sorts of challenges...
Depends on you what you're willing to put at stake for each of them.
The journey will take you places
It'll make you say why me?
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?
Oh it hurts me sometimes to see how people behave with their siblings and children
You meet people, you judge them, you make rigid decisions
Is that how it's supposed to be?
Ofcourse not!
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.
"There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence."
The society we live in ~
No matter how the people are in a family, there is always differentiation done between siblings, between a son and a daughter
It amazes me how human beings are still unaware of karma's role in life
It's just so sad that the essence of life is lost around
Not many care about what is to be cared about
People just want to talk about people
It's all become about storing everything in your phone's gallery and not going back to see it
Gut feelings aren't believed by most of us
You're called crazy if you want to follow your heart, because ofcourse money and servants should be the ultimate goal
It's tragic to see most thoughts only going in this direction
"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."
- Bill Bullard
Financial independence isn't a concept that is encouraged
But finding a rich husband is more than welcome!
(yes, it's as sickening as it sounds)
People marry for money and they also believe and think that everyone else must do the same!
"Confidence must be monitored so that it does not spoil or rot and turn to arrogance."
When things start to fall in place, it'll almost feel unbelievably strange
But then again, the universe does have its ways of working things out for you :)
"Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide."
Wake Up - Three Days Grace
~ sung by a friend with passion..
yes, I'm promoting his cover/channel shamelessly :)
#musician
"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."
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?
I'm not putting my nose in your life and passing opinions, you shouldn't either!
"Astrology is a great excuse to blame planets for your incompetence."
Neerja Bhanot ~ what an inspiration!
I haven't seen the movie but the story is extraordinary and so was she :)
"You haven't truly given until you have given till it hurts."
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
#GoodParenting
"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." - Atticus Finch
~ something I've always said and believed in
... I was genuinely surprised to know that it's a quote from one of the books that has been on my list; To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I've only added the 'her' as I do not like the male being the obvious gender even in a quotation
Before Sunrise
Serendipity
Before Sunset
#movies
"The heart has its reasons, and they aren't debate topics."
I'm aware that this post was supposed to be about Make A Difference but one more meeting with the kids is needed for me to be able to sum it up precisely :)
Take Yours, I'll Take Mine - Matthew Mole
Fall - Meera Shenoy
Boy With A Coin - Iron and Wine
The Cave - Mumford and Sons
#music
"Whenever you feel like criticising anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
but with the intent to understand."
Why do we bargain with the people earning the least in our country?
I just don't get it.
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.
#ComeOn!
"There's a physical connection you can draw between how often you have to sharpen your pencil and how much work you've done."
- Caroline Weaver
A painkiller for an adult is like a toy to a crying baby #simile
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!
Introverts are introverts for a reason and they should never be forced to speak/share too much..
Because they are who they are for a reason!
It's just so sad that our hypocritical society isn't accepting of that nature
Why is everyone constantly stuck on attempting to change one another?
Why? Live and let live?
"It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for."
I am a firm believer of the fact that karma will find its way back to you (!)
Electricity and the wait for it, when Nani watches katha every evening on TV
#LittleThings
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 :)
"You can't change someone who doesn't see an issue in their actions."
One amongst many making a mountain out of a molehill about pretty much every thing
Sad emotions are okay around you as long as you're in your bubble
Zero empathy, let alone compassion
Money servants money servants money servants
~ stories of some...
I personally don't even like the term 'servant'
I mean, no one is your slave, so stop treating someone like one!
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
Why is it that people don't give enough attention to the words being used by them!?
A child's thoughts must always be cultivated in the right manner
Of course, the 'right' depends on the parent defining it for the child
"I stopped explaining myself when I realised that people only understand from their level of perception."
In life, you'll come across all sorts of challenges...
Depends on you what you're willing to put at stake for each of them.
The journey will take you places
It'll make you say why me?
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?
Oh it hurts me sometimes to see how people behave with their siblings and children
You meet people, you judge them, you make rigid decisions
Is that how it's supposed to be?
Ofcourse not!
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.
"There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence."
The society we live in ~
No matter how the people are in a family, there is always differentiation done between siblings, between a son and a daughter
It amazes me how human beings are still unaware of karma's role in life
It's just so sad that the essence of life is lost around
Not many care about what is to be cared about
People just want to talk about people
It's all become about storing everything in your phone's gallery and not going back to see it
Gut feelings aren't believed by most of us
You're called crazy if you want to follow your heart, because ofcourse money and servants should be the ultimate goal
It's tragic to see most thoughts only going in this direction
"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."
- Bill Bullard
Financial independence isn't a concept that is encouraged
But finding a rich husband is more than welcome!
(yes, it's as sickening as it sounds)
People marry for money and they also believe and think that everyone else must do the same!
"Confidence must be monitored so that it does not spoil or rot and turn to arrogance."
When things start to fall in place, it'll almost feel unbelievably strange
But then again, the universe does have its ways of working things out for you :)
"Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide."
Wake Up - Three Days Grace
~ sung by a friend with passion..
yes, I'm promoting his cover/channel shamelessly :)
#musician
"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."
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?
I'm not putting my nose in your life and passing opinions, you shouldn't either!
"Astrology is a great excuse to blame planets for your incompetence."
Neerja Bhanot ~ what an inspiration!
I haven't seen the movie but the story is extraordinary and so was she :)
"You haven't truly given until you have given till it hurts."
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
#GoodParenting
"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." - Atticus Finch
~ something I've always said and believed in
... I was genuinely surprised to know that it's a quote from one of the books that has been on my list; To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I've only added the 'her' as I do not like the male being the obvious gender even in a quotation
Before Sunrise
Serendipity
Before Sunset
#movies
"The heart has its reasons, and they aren't debate topics."
I'm aware that this post was supposed to be about Make A Difference but one more meeting with the kids is needed for me to be able to sum it up precisely :)
Take Yours, I'll Take Mine - Matthew Mole
Fall - Meera Shenoy
Boy With A Coin - Iron and Wine
The Cave - Mumford and Sons
#music
"Whenever you feel like criticising anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friday, January 15, 2016
The magic is in the mess
"It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller." - Alan Rickman
#Always
It's one thing to have priorities clear,
it's another to know how different yours are from the selfless people
I consider myself fortunate that I've had the opportunity to meet some fantastic people in my life so far already
You have to be brutally honest only with those who understand honesty!
You have to colour your words with the rest.
- said to me by a very wise fifty-six-year-old independent woman living life on her own terms :)
Look around! Learn a little (even when there is a lot to) from those who're doing it without what you have! Seriously!
When you attend one of the simplest weddings ever
No showoff culture equals no punjabis criticising the food/arrangements/clothes/people's dress sense and more
When there really was so much happiness in the air that one could sense the good vibe with smiling faces all around you
Love marriages are always about struggle, aren't they?
This one could've helped an individual grow one's faith exceptionally though
The definition of travelling is so messed up in our culture/society
Staying in the five star hotels and eating food from restaurants present all across the world
Really? What did you learn? That it's all the same everywhere?
You could do that in your own city and not look outside the window of the hotel room. Haha!
[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.]
We don't know our own country well but we love to comment on it every now and then
Trying the local cuisines, using the public transport, exploring an area, that's what it's supposed to be all about!
And,
I have to mention this;
My friend, who is now a mother to a nine months old,
inspires me with her take on motherhood!
She is a rare example in this generation for those of us who haven't walked on her path yet.
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...
She is the complete opposite of that :)
Life can be as messed up as you make it.
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.
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.
You have to keep your freaking equation right with some people, because you're stuck there, and for that, you have to be fake
One of the most difficult things for me to do
Why do we humans complicate everything?
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)
You want something, you want something
You love someone, you love someone
Since when did it all become about approval and agreeing with each other's opinions?
You are different god dammit. Ofcourse you wouldn't like what I like or who I like.
But why exactly is that important?
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.
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.
"If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people."
Selfish. That's what we all are.
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.
"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."
Whenever you think how messed up life is for you,
always remember that there are people hoping they manage to get past just one more day without any more troubles.
"You should always have an opinion" is the most bizarre statement I've heard!
Mad World - Hardwell
Starlight (Could You Be Mine) - Don Diablo & Matt Nash
Waiting for Love - Avicii
Strong Ones - Armin van Buuren
Young Again - Hardwell
#music
When you've also been blessed enough to have a friend who writes to you like one would to one's diary :)
An eighty-three-year-old lady with more strength than I've seen in most people
When the closest person to her passed away forty years ago
and she also lost a child of hers eventually
She's someone who's really felt loss
And I'm a firm believer of the fact that one has to face real loss in life, to get out of their bubble
Oh yes, we're all in our own bubbles
The ones who have lesser than us tend to give more than us. It's true!
The driver named Vicky, gave away his bag of peanuts to the boy who asked for food at the window of the car..
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.
It is important to keep meeting people who are different from you!
(for your own personal growth in many ways..)
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.
HDFC Life Ad Campaign
~ Another wonderful advertisement :)
Because I started working with an NGO recently...
(yes, it is supposed to be 'an' NGO and not 'a' NGO
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 enn, 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.)
Going back to my primary thought,
Because I started working with an NGO recently;
Make A Difference
The experience so far has obviously been enlightening!
My next post will be only about that :)
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.
Because it is the people of Mumbai who make it Bombay :)
In their Marathi, the sorted!, the obvious vada pav
The food that added to my happiness:
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)
The typical business class families have so much to learn from the middle class. So much!
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.
Because good food makes life better!
And so does Chai :)
"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished."
- Daniel Gilbert
PS- Happy New Year :)
#Always
It's one thing to have priorities clear,
it's another to know how different yours are from the selfless people
I consider myself fortunate that I've had the opportunity to meet some fantastic people in my life so far already
You have to be brutally honest only with those who understand honesty!
You have to colour your words with the rest.
- said to me by a very wise fifty-six-year-old independent woman living life on her own terms :)
Look around! Learn a little (even when there is a lot to) from those who're doing it without what you have! Seriously!
When you attend one of the simplest weddings ever
No showoff culture equals no punjabis criticising the food/arrangements/clothes/people's dress sense and more
When there really was so much happiness in the air that one could sense the good vibe with smiling faces all around you
Love marriages are always about struggle, aren't they?
This one could've helped an individual grow one's faith exceptionally though
The definition of travelling is so messed up in our culture/society
Staying in the five star hotels and eating food from restaurants present all across the world
Really? What did you learn? That it's all the same everywhere?
You could do that in your own city and not look outside the window of the hotel room. Haha!
[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.]
We don't know our own country well but we love to comment on it every now and then
Trying the local cuisines, using the public transport, exploring an area, that's what it's supposed to be all about!
And,
I have to mention this;
My friend, who is now a mother to a nine months old,
inspires me with her take on motherhood!
She is a rare example in this generation for those of us who haven't walked on her path yet.
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...
She is the complete opposite of that :)
Life can be as messed up as you make it.
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.
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.
You have to keep your freaking equation right with some people, because you're stuck there, and for that, you have to be fake
One of the most difficult things for me to do
Why do we humans complicate everything?
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)
You want something, you want something
You love someone, you love someone
Since when did it all become about approval and agreeing with each other's opinions?
You are different god dammit. Ofcourse you wouldn't like what I like or who I like.
But why exactly is that important?
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.
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.
"If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people."
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.
"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."
Whenever you think how messed up life is for you,
always remember that there are people hoping they manage to get past just one more day without any more troubles.
"You should always have an opinion" is the most bizarre statement I've heard!
Mad World - Hardwell
Starlight (Could You Be Mine) - Don Diablo & Matt Nash
Waiting for Love - Avicii
Strong Ones - Armin van Buuren
Young Again - Hardwell
#music
When you've also been blessed enough to have a friend who writes to you like one would to one's diary :)
An eighty-three-year-old lady with more strength than I've seen in most people
When the closest person to her passed away forty years ago
and she also lost a child of hers eventually
She's someone who's really felt loss
And I'm a firm believer of the fact that one has to face real loss in life, to get out of their bubble
Oh yes, we're all in our own bubbles
The ones who have lesser than us tend to give more than us. It's true!
The driver named Vicky, gave away his bag of peanuts to the boy who asked for food at the window of the car..
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.
It is important to keep meeting people who are different from you!
(for your own personal growth in many ways..)
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.
HDFC Life Ad Campaign
~ Another wonderful advertisement :)
Because I started working with an NGO recently...
(yes, it is supposed to be 'an' NGO and not 'a' NGO
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 enn, 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.)
Going back to my primary thought,
Because I started working with an NGO recently;
Make A Difference
The experience so far has obviously been enlightening!
My next post will be only about that :)
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.
Because it is the people of Mumbai who make it Bombay :)
In their Marathi, the sorted!, the obvious vada pav
The food that added to my happiness:
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)
The typical business class families have so much to learn from the middle class. So much!
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.
Because good food makes life better!
And so does Chai :)
"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished."
- Daniel Gilbert
PS- Happy New Year :)
Thursday, July 9, 2015
The unexpected.
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
Words are the most powerful things ever..
They can lift you up
or tear you apart
They can take off that weight on your shoulders
or put some extra bit on them
They can work like magic
or a disaster
They can make you want to know a human better
or can destroy the idea of ever wanting that
They can work like an ointment for old wounds caused by inhumane people who will pay for their karma
or they can make it worse if you've chosen to stoop down to that level of inhumanity
Words...
If used in the most appropriate order/sequence, manner, tone, and at an appropriate time,
They can do wonders.
They're underestimated because most of us haven't met the people who use them right, often, yet.
There is a difference between great love and right love.
"You think you shouldn't want it because you've never had it, and it scares you."
It all sums down to something
Life
The small incidents
The big instances
The coincidences
The strange and surreal moments
The tiny parts that involve how one's Sunday was
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
It is a choice even when we don't make a choice!
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 :)
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
If only truer words had been spoken!
#TheImitationGame #Brilliance #TheExtraordinaryMinds
When something unreal happens in one's life
When one finds another, who's like a mirror
Who can not just read your thoughts, but actually makes the effort to, and wants to
Yes, I would sum it up in one word for now
And that's Serendipity
But, that doesn't cover enough, because there's more, yes, there is
Being naive is not the bad thing,
But being naive in a society full of people who are not, that's what's harmful!
It's always important to ensure to look for the good in people
But being fooled by those who are always sure of what they say and draw conclusions fast,
that's the sad part
Since you don't get anything by "proving" anyone wrong
"Caring people help others not because they expect a reward, but because it is natural to show kindness."
Being able to feel is the most wonderful thing ever.
I will probably never understand people who can't spend time alone with themselves
How on earth do you expect others to spend time with you, when you can't even spend some with your own self?
Extreme opinions, being too certain about your words/thoughts/actions
It doesn't say any good about you, it tells me that you don't believe that it's important to wonder!
"You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow."
Humans
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
Some literally need life to shake them up and tell them, What For? Breathe maybe?
The innocence in some is made to lose by others
Because life is full of flashes
Flashes of thoughts,
of memories,
of moments that are going by too fast,
of people coming and leaving,
of nature trying to communicate with you,
of stray dogs looking at you with the hope that you may feed them,
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,
of your mom humming to old Bollywood songs...
For the gazillionth time,
Humans don't fail to amaze me.
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
What the world wants you to do:
- Stay strong and don't speak up about how much it's hurting
- Put on a good face every day and don't share your thoughts with necessarily a person of your choice
- Don't trust your gut because we won't permit you to go ahead with it
- Don't be logical because we won't be
- Your future will not be decided by you, but us
- You will not get to choose what you want to do
- Shut up and listen
- Not numb yet? We're not done with you yet.
#TemporaryDisability
"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."
You must remember to take care of your own self. Always.
The day you think you'll be taken care of, in the manner you can take care of yourself, you're very mistaken.
So often, people can't express what they really want to,
What's worse is, when their silence is taken for no expression
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
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 :)
Incoherence, equals, me.
In Safe Hands - Badly Drawn Boy
Fell In Love Without You [Acoustic] - Motion City Soundtrack
Unlocking The Mind - Samuel Karl Bohn
#music
(Too many tracks to list for now)
Bad experiences are like scars
Apart from having learnt from them, the ones that last would be there as a reminder
Loss.
Too much loss.
#NepalQuake #IndiaWithNepal
Prayers should never be underestimated.
Aaaah,
When you can't find the right words to not just express your thoughts, but even write them down for that matter
Surreal is the word.
When it isn't about figuring out anymore
It's not about your choice either
It's about deciding how to go about it
Life and its unpredictability!
Damn. Who knew who'd have a situation someday, one you wouldn't know how to handle well enough!
"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."
When something unexpected happens
Like it's more than you could've asked for
But the question is, how come? And why now?
Because you are who you are because of all that life's taught you until now. Is that it?
... If only reality were to make sense all the time!
When you're sure of what you feel
But you're not sure why
At the end of the day,
Your happiness and wishes will be respected by those who have always loved you, and have always been there no matter what.
When a visit to a play school was enlightening!
My first visit, yes.
A board that lays emphasis on "why do we need plants" through imagery
~
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
:)
A concept of short sentences/phrases on staircases for little kids
'I will empathise'
'I will respect'
'I will learn'
~
The board at the entrance that had a lot of these words ~
Integrity, Appreciation, Respect, Tolerance, Empathy
There were more..
I'd asked the receptionist lady if I could take a picture of the board,
She instantly said, no photography allowed
So, I said, this should be shown more often to adults!
She laughed as I did, but she was a sweet lady.
And I just made a note of these then.
~
It was just very pleasant to see the values that are being aimed to inculcate in the kids that go to that school :)
'Education is a process, learning is an ability'
When you try and find the image of a poster that said "Rain and tea are Siamese twins." 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)
Blaaaaah!
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...
You never judge your parents :)
Vada Pav, Bun Bhujia and Kullad Chai
The above three with your closest friend while it rains outside :)
(The little things that matter most.)
#ItWasAGoodDay
"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'."
When destiny leads you far enough in one direction,
Is it really just trying to test you how you handle it in life,
Or it does intend to give you what you want at the end of it, after all?
Words are the most powerful things ever..
They can lift you up
or tear you apart
They can take off that weight on your shoulders
or put some extra bit on them
They can work like magic
or a disaster
They can make you want to know a human better
or can destroy the idea of ever wanting that
They can work like an ointment for old wounds caused by inhumane people who will pay for their karma
or they can make it worse if you've chosen to stoop down to that level of inhumanity
Words...
If used in the most appropriate order/sequence, manner, tone, and at an appropriate time,
They can do wonders.
They're underestimated because most of us haven't met the people who use them right, often, yet.
There is a difference between great love and right love.
"You think you shouldn't want it because you've never had it, and it scares you."
It all sums down to something
Life
The small incidents
The big instances
The coincidences
The strange and surreal moments
The tiny parts that involve how one's Sunday was
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
It is a choice even when we don't make a choice!
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 :)
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
If only truer words had been spoken!
#TheImitationGame #Brilliance #TheExtraordinaryMinds
When something unreal happens in one's life
When one finds another, who's like a mirror
Who can not just read your thoughts, but actually makes the effort to, and wants to
Yes, I would sum it up in one word for now
And that's Serendipity
But, that doesn't cover enough, because there's more, yes, there is
Being naive is not the bad thing,
But being naive in a society full of people who are not, that's what's harmful!
It's always important to ensure to look for the good in people
But being fooled by those who are always sure of what they say and draw conclusions fast,
that's the sad part
Since you don't get anything by "proving" anyone wrong
"Caring people help others not because they expect a reward, but because it is natural to show kindness."
Being able to feel is the most wonderful thing ever.
I will probably never understand people who can't spend time alone with themselves
How on earth do you expect others to spend time with you, when you can't even spend some with your own self?
Extreme opinions, being too certain about your words/thoughts/actions
It doesn't say any good about you, it tells me that you don't believe that it's important to wonder!
"You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow."
Humans
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
Some literally need life to shake them up and tell them, What For? Breathe maybe?
The innocence in some is made to lose by others
Because life is full of flashes
Flashes of thoughts,
of memories,
of moments that are going by too fast,
of people coming and leaving,
of nature trying to communicate with you,
of stray dogs looking at you with the hope that you may feed them,
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,
of your mom humming to old Bollywood songs...
For the gazillionth time,
Humans don't fail to amaze me.
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
What the world wants you to do:
- Stay strong and don't speak up about how much it's hurting
- Put on a good face every day and don't share your thoughts with necessarily a person of your choice
- Don't trust your gut because we won't permit you to go ahead with it
- Don't be logical because we won't be
- Your future will not be decided by you, but us
- You will not get to choose what you want to do
- Shut up and listen
- Not numb yet? We're not done with you yet.
#TemporaryDisability
"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."
You must remember to take care of your own self. Always.
The day you think you'll be taken care of, in the manner you can take care of yourself, you're very mistaken.
So often, people can't express what they really want to,
What's worse is, when their silence is taken for no expression
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
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 :)
Incoherence, equals, me.
In Safe Hands - Badly Drawn Boy
Fell In Love Without You [Acoustic] - Motion City Soundtrack
Unlocking The Mind - Samuel Karl Bohn
#music
(Too many tracks to list for now)
Bad experiences are like scars
Apart from having learnt from them, the ones that last would be there as a reminder
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| What it says! Credits for the image to the page: The Idealist |
Loss.
Too much loss.
#NepalQuake #IndiaWithNepal
Prayers should never be underestimated.
Aaaah,
When you can't find the right words to not just express your thoughts, but even write them down for that matter
Surreal is the word.
When it isn't about figuring out anymore
It's not about your choice either
It's about deciding how to go about it
Life and its unpredictability!
Damn. Who knew who'd have a situation someday, one you wouldn't know how to handle well enough!
"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."
When something unexpected happens
Like it's more than you could've asked for
But the question is, how come? And why now?
Because you are who you are because of all that life's taught you until now. Is that it?
... If only reality were to make sense all the time!
When you're sure of what you feel
But you're not sure why
At the end of the day,
Your happiness and wishes will be respected by those who have always loved you, and have always been there no matter what.
When a visit to a play school was enlightening!
My first visit, yes.
A board that lays emphasis on "why do we need plants" through imagery
~
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
:)
A concept of short sentences/phrases on staircases for little kids
'I will empathise'
'I will respect'
'I will learn'
~
The board at the entrance that had a lot of these words ~
Integrity, Appreciation, Respect, Tolerance, Empathy
There were more..
I'd asked the receptionist lady if I could take a picture of the board,
She instantly said, no photography allowed
So, I said, this should be shown more often to adults!
She laughed as I did, but she was a sweet lady.
And I just made a note of these then.
~
It was just very pleasant to see the values that are being aimed to inculcate in the kids that go to that school :)
'Education is a process, learning is an ability'
When you try and find the image of a poster that said "Rain and tea are Siamese twins." 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)
Blaaaaah!
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...
You never judge your parents :)
Vada Pav, Bun Bhujia and Kullad Chai
The above three with your closest friend while it rains outside :)
(The little things that matter most.)
#ItWasAGoodDay
"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'."
When destiny leads you far enough in one direction,
Is it really just trying to test you how you handle it in life,
Or it does intend to give you what you want at the end of it, after all?
Friday, January 9, 2015
The universe loves to play funny
Sometimes, you've got to forgive in order to be forgiven.
#TheJudge
So,
The saddest part is when you have no choice but to not be yourself
That is the worst thing that could happen to someone, in my opinion
If the people you've known all your life, have become someone else
and they make you wanna not be yourself
Now that is when you want to escape
Listening to a track like, Who Needs You by The Orwells, on loud
and writing here at the same time
"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
and I don't live to be
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure your hands are clean!"
Yes, because these days, all people really want to do is point their freaking fingers
It sucks really
(the word, freaking, has been replaced by an abusive word I typed here originally)
So what matters is how PEOPLE may react or what they may feel..
instead of actually being concerned with how the one person being hurt actually feels
All I have is a slow applause for such humans with the broadest mindset ever
(that was sarcasm font, yes)
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.
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.
Why can't people just let others be?
Why are they under the impression that they have the freaking authority to control another person's life?
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.
Why are people imposing their choices on one another?
Everyone is different, and that has to be understood and respected!
The time when all you want to do is escape from that crowd and withdraw into your own shell.
Stephen Hawking.
He is the definition of the word inspiration.
That extraordinary human who one could learn endless things from.
The very fact that people around have become complacent with the idea that they know enough..
With the idea that what is chosen is right..
There is a big difference between knowing and accepting
Knowing there was more than one side to a situation
...and possibilities.
It sucks that one doesn't want to reason out these days
They're just absolutely okay with their freaking minds shut and accepting what is told to them
The recent electricity ad with kids in it:
Bijli Bachao, Desh Banao
Absolutely love it!
Natkhat and Crax.
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
I mean, I honestly felt sorry.
But yes, apart from the above candies, these two were epic munchies! Love them still :)
Kalki
The performance in her new movie's trailer: Margarita, with a Straw
The kinda videos breaking stereotypes: the piece by her about the truths of womanhood, on International Women's Day, 2014 #IndiaTodayConclave
PK
The movie
The different angle
So many things to perceive
Bollywood has a huge influence on the general masses, which is why it's very important for conceptual movies like these.
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.
The moments when you listen to your mother share some stories from her time
I consider myself fortunate enough to be able to be that ear who gets to hear all of it from her
The times when she woke up at the early, early hours of the morning
To do all the things that were expected out of her, at the time
..just so inspiring at so many levels
Then again, there could never be a human like a mother. One person who draws unbelievable strength from I wonder where.
When you feed the dogs outside your house
The happiness is incomparable.
When it's just beyond my comprehension
When it has to become difficult for you to explain
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.
"You don't need to prove anything to get a library card."
One of those rare sentences you could only find on a post of Humans of New York (by Brandon)!
#WordsThatLeaveAnImpact
When the people you thought knew you, don't know shit.
It's disturbing really.
When you see how narrow minded people can be.
I'm like wow. Which century are you living in?
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.
When you're hurt
So hurt, that for once, nothing helped.
When you see a kid playing Atlas with his father, in an Indian train
#MadeMeSmile
A coolie reminding you of Amitabh Bachan Ji, at the Ahmedabad railway station
#OldBollywoodMovie
The wonderful poem by Farhan Akhtar ~ MARD.
The words in this poem could never get old.
Every.Man.Must.Be.A.Woman.In.Another.Life!
#EndlessRAPECasesInOurCountry
Sometimes, you like your room messy (mostly in Winters)
and that's perfectly okay
but you also want it to be the exact way you left it when you get back to it
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!
Old hindi music on the radio :D
Winters make me wanna do only one thing: Not move.
When you hear Atif Aslam's voice on a TV show after really long..
and you remember the goodness and power in the words, sung by him
and how the person next to you still hums to the tune of that one song, even today, with a slight smile
That feeling, is incomparable.
#KyaHuaTeraWada
The improvement in Indian trains!
In one's weak/low moments, one wants to take a step back
and ask, why did you have to do that to me? Why me?
One wants to say it aloud..
In a discussion over Skype with a friend, something interesting was discovered.
People who've had their hearts broken
Never wanted to become people who would be scared of opening themselves infront of others
Never wanted to become people who would be scared to love
Never wanted to become people who wouldn't let their guard down easily...
But they became this weird version of themselves anyway, even when that's never who they wanted to be in the first place.
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.
When you wake up at whatever hour on a Sunday,
the thought that it's a Sunday, is just different
I have no idea why
But even when you're already the laziest person you know, you want to be even more lazy, just because it's a Sunday!
'Made of Honor'
The movie that I can never get sick of.
A hilarious take on the Indian-Mid-Twenties-Issue by Abhijit Ganguly
Superhero - Tim McMorris
#music #lyrics
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
Sometimes when you're with a friend at a new place, and just the right song plays, you're not sure what to think
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
(I cannot recollect this or frame it better, since it had been saved in a draft post for far too long)
A city like Delhi, I'm not sure if I'm ever going to manage to develop a positive sentiment towards it.
"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.
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.
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."
- R.M.Drake
An advice;
Learn to look at yourself before pointing a finger at somebody else!
Irrespective of whether that person is older or younger to you, look at yourself first!
"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."
"I can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in me."
"If you could love the wrong person that much, imagine how much you could love the right one."
"It is a hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow, and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
"If money didn't exist, would you still chase your dreams?"
"Aap khwaab dekh ti hain?
Lekin, khwaab dukh dete hain...
Toh? Woh toh haqiqat bhi deti hai!"
PS- Happy New Year :)
2015, you came oddly fast!
#TheJudge
So,
The saddest part is when you have no choice but to not be yourself
That is the worst thing that could happen to someone, in my opinion
If the people you've known all your life, have become someone else
and they make you wanna not be yourself
Now that is when you want to escape
Listening to a track like, Who Needs You by The Orwells, on loud
and writing here at the same time
"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
and I don't live to be
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure your hands are clean!"
Yes, because these days, all people really want to do is point their freaking fingers
It sucks really
(the word, freaking, has been replaced by an abusive word I typed here originally)
So what matters is how PEOPLE may react or what they may feel..
instead of actually being concerned with how the one person being hurt actually feels
All I have is a slow applause for such humans with the broadest mindset ever
(that was sarcasm font, yes)
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.
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.
Why can't people just let others be?
Why are they under the impression that they have the freaking authority to control another person's life?
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.
Why are people imposing their choices on one another?
Everyone is different, and that has to be understood and respected!
The time when all you want to do is escape from that crowd and withdraw into your own shell.
Stephen Hawking.
He is the definition of the word inspiration.
That extraordinary human who one could learn endless things from.
The very fact that people around have become complacent with the idea that they know enough..
With the idea that what is chosen is right..
There is a big difference between knowing and accepting
Knowing there was more than one side to a situation
...and possibilities.
It sucks that one doesn't want to reason out these days
They're just absolutely okay with their freaking minds shut and accepting what is told to them
The recent electricity ad with kids in it:
Bijli Bachao, Desh Banao
Absolutely love it!
 |
| Which of these candies was your favourite from your Childhood? [Credits to NDTV Goodtimes for the above image and the question] |
Natkhat and Crax.
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
I mean, I honestly felt sorry.
But yes, apart from the above candies, these two were epic munchies! Love them still :)
Kalki
The performance in her new movie's trailer: Margarita, with a Straw
The kinda videos breaking stereotypes: the piece by her about the truths of womanhood, on International Women's Day, 2014 #IndiaTodayConclave
PK
The movie
The different angle
So many things to perceive
Bollywood has a huge influence on the general masses, which is why it's very important for conceptual movies like these.
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.
I consider myself fortunate enough to be able to be that ear who gets to hear all of it from her
The times when she woke up at the early, early hours of the morning
To do all the things that were expected out of her, at the time
..just so inspiring at so many levels
Then again, there could never be a human like a mother. One person who draws unbelievable strength from I wonder where.
When you feed the dogs outside your house
The happiness is incomparable.
When it's just beyond my comprehension
When it has to become difficult for you to explain
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.
"You don't need to prove anything to get a library card."
One of those rare sentences you could only find on a post of Humans of New York (by Brandon)!
#WordsThatLeaveAnImpact
When the people you thought knew you, don't know shit.
It's disturbing really.
When you see how narrow minded people can be.
I'm like wow. Which century are you living in?
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.
When you're hurt
So hurt, that for once, nothing helped.
When you see a kid playing Atlas with his father, in an Indian train
#MadeMeSmile
A coolie reminding you of Amitabh Bachan Ji, at the Ahmedabad railway station
#OldBollywoodMovie
The wonderful poem by Farhan Akhtar ~ MARD.
The words in this poem could never get old.
Every.Man.Must.Be.A.Woman.In.Another.Life!
#EndlessRAPECasesInOurCountry
Sometimes, you like your room messy (mostly in Winters)
and that's perfectly okay
but you also want it to be the exact way you left it when you get back to it
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!
Old hindi music on the radio :D
Winters make me wanna do only one thing: Not move.
When you hear Atif Aslam's voice on a TV show after really long..
and you remember the goodness and power in the words, sung by him
and how the person next to you still hums to the tune of that one song, even today, with a slight smile
That feeling, is incomparable.
#KyaHuaTeraWada
The improvement in Indian trains!
In one's weak/low moments, one wants to take a step back
and ask, why did you have to do that to me? Why me?
One wants to say it aloud..
In a discussion over Skype with a friend, something interesting was discovered.
People who've had their hearts broken
Never wanted to become people who would be scared of opening themselves infront of others
Never wanted to become people who would be scared to love
Never wanted to become people who wouldn't let their guard down easily...
But they became this weird version of themselves anyway, even when that's never who they wanted to be in the first place.
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.
When you wake up at whatever hour on a Sunday,
the thought that it's a Sunday, is just different
I have no idea why
But even when you're already the laziest person you know, you want to be even more lazy, just because it's a Sunday!
'Made of Honor'
The movie that I can never get sick of.
A hilarious take on the Indian-Mid-Twenties-Issue by Abhijit Ganguly
Superhero - Tim McMorris
#music #lyrics
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
Sometimes when you're with a friend at a new place, and just the right song plays, you're not sure what to think
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
(I cannot recollect this or frame it better, since it had been saved in a draft post for far too long)
A city like Delhi, I'm not sure if I'm ever going to manage to develop a positive sentiment towards it.
"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.
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.
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."
- R.M.Drake
An advice;
Learn to look at yourself before pointing a finger at somebody else!
Irrespective of whether that person is older or younger to you, look at yourself first!
"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."
"I can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in me."
"If you could love the wrong person that much, imagine how much you could love the right one."
"It is a hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow, and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
"If money didn't exist, would you still chase your dreams?"
"Aap khwaab dekh ti hain?
Lekin, khwaab dukh dete hain...
Toh? Woh toh haqiqat bhi deti hai!"
PS- Happy New Year :)
2015, you came oddly fast!
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Happiness is a manner of travelling
You've gotta love what words can do
When you get long replies from someone you're really, really fond of, and have so much respect for in your heart
Oh, that can make your day and leave the biggest smile on your face, along with urging you to write here!
When someone has more faith in you than you have in yourself
That can keep you going, forever...
When you read a post by a stranger and it says,
"Very often Bombay rickshaw walas just restore my faith in humanity"
You think to yourself how true that is!
Ever come across something you can't fix?
Like you just can't.
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!
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!
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.
At some point, you get so strong for the person you've been there for
That somewhere along that road, you started to actually become emotionally detached
So you never let anyone/anything hurt you, in order to avoid feeling the pain that it could cause by being compassionate
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
That's when a close one reminds you that it's okay to let your guard down for a while, and be hurt
Because the world can take it and because he/she can take it.
I guess I'll always be a sucker for happy endings...
#BleedingLove
Sometimes it's not about whether it should be done or not
When you'd questioned someone sometime back:
In conversation with a three year old,
Me: "Who is your best friend?"
She: "My best friends are my mom and dad."
That moved me beyond words that I could possibly find to write here
And I considered myself lucky that day, to get a chance to talk to that little girl.
'A cake will bake faster if it's put outside instead of the oven dude!'
- My retarded friend struggling with Mumbai's heat.
I would love to work part time at a crisis intervention centre, you know
#IfOnly
When in a conversation with a friend,
Me: "Can you chuck this please?"
She: "You chuck it, I won't..
I don't like to let go of things"
Me: "DUDE!"
A day trip to Oxford
Thirty eight colleges under the University umbrella
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
...and there was more with regard to the statistics he'd mentioned as to how zero applicants made it through, one of these years
A tiny shop with souvenirs of 'Alice in Wonderland' :)
The crazy vibes that were all around which grew with just the thought of great minds studying in a brilliant University
(might elaborate further about the experience later)
Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to.
~ Such an old but all time quote
Love is giving that extra chance when you're all out of chances.
Real is so rare these days
The Theory of Everything ~ Brilliance.
Never got goosebumps after watching a movie trailer before!
But probably because it's based on Stephen Hawking's true story.
Suffering - Satchel
Soldier - Gavin DeGraw
Innocent - Aidan Hawken
You Got Me - Gavin DeGraw
Life Is Beautiful - Vega 4
Wonder - Jack Savoretti
Blue Skies - Strays Don't Sleep
Sweet Silver Lining - Kate Voegele
#Music
Most Relatable Quotes!
~ Because they're all so true and because they're from one of my favourite TV shows.
"There should be no boundaries to human endeavour.
However bad life may seem, while there is life, there is hope."
- Stephen Hawking
"Perhaps something good has been sprouting in the small numb darkness all this while."
"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
"Tea doesn't talk. Tea listens."
"Every path has its puddle."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
When you get long replies from someone you're really, really fond of, and have so much respect for in your heart
Oh, that can make your day and leave the biggest smile on your face, along with urging you to write here!
When someone has more faith in you than you have in yourself
That can keep you going, forever...
When you read a post by a stranger and it says,
"Very often Bombay rickshaw walas just restore my faith in humanity"
You think to yourself how true that is!
Ever come across something you can't fix?
Like you just can't.
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!
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!
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.
At some point, you get so strong for the person you've been there for
That somewhere along that road, you started to actually become emotionally detached
So you never let anyone/anything hurt you, in order to avoid feeling the pain that it could cause by being compassionate
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
That's when a close one reminds you that it's okay to let your guard down for a while, and be hurt
Because the world can take it and because he/she can take it.
I guess I'll always be a sucker for happy endings...
#BleedingLove
Sometimes it's not about whether it should be done or not
It's not about whether it's the right thing to do or not
It's about acknowledging the other person's sentiment behind it
He/she is happy for your choice and decision anyway
But if there is something sour in that person's expressions
It's only because there is a hidden sentiment behind it
Something he/she expects you to understand and pay attention to
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
When you'd questioned someone sometime back:
In conversation with a three year old,
Me: "Who is your best friend?"
She: "My best friends are my mom and dad."
That moved me beyond words that I could possibly find to write here
And I considered myself lucky that day, to get a chance to talk to that little girl.
'A cake will bake faster if it's put outside instead of the oven dude!'
- My retarded friend struggling with Mumbai's heat.
I would love to work part time at a crisis intervention centre, you know
#IfOnly
When in a conversation with a friend,
Me: "Can you chuck this please?"
She: "You chuck it, I won't..
I don't like to let go of things"
Me: "DUDE!"
A day trip to Oxford
Thirty eight colleges under the University umbrella
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
...and there was more with regard to the statistics he'd mentioned as to how zero applicants made it through, one of these years
A tiny shop with souvenirs of 'Alice in Wonderland' :)
The crazy vibes that were all around which grew with just the thought of great minds studying in a brilliant University
(might elaborate further about the experience later)
Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to.
~ Such an old but all time quote
Love is giving that extra chance when you're all out of chances.
Real is so rare these days
The Theory of Everything ~ Brilliance.
Never got goosebumps after watching a movie trailer before!
But probably because it's based on Stephen Hawking's true story.
Suffering - Satchel
Soldier - Gavin DeGraw
Innocent - Aidan Hawken
You Got Me - Gavin DeGraw
Life Is Beautiful - Vega 4
Wonder - Jack Savoretti
Blue Skies - Strays Don't Sleep
Sweet Silver Lining - Kate Voegele
#Music
Most Relatable Quotes!
~ Because they're all so true and because they're from one of my favourite TV shows.
"There should be no boundaries to human endeavour.
However bad life may seem, while there is life, there is hope."
- Stephen Hawking
"Perhaps something good has been sprouting in the small numb darkness all this while."
"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
"Tea doesn't talk. Tea listens."
"Every path has its puddle."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Shabdon mein...
In life, you have to be strong for those who can't be
It's important to be there for them
They have their ways of doing things for you
Things you may never even get to know of, sometimes
Don't boost your ego by being with someone and hurting that person's feelings
Don't.
You have to stop beating yourself up sometimes
It's not wholly your fault
And as you go along, you'll realize that the combination of chance and circumstance had a role to play too
Rains Here Too - Kate York
Wedding Dress - Matt Nathanson
#TracksOnRepeat #music
"Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself. If that doesn't make you different, then something is wrong."
Armin Van Buuren
Tomorrowland 2013 full set
When you hear the whole set (1.5 hours) three times in a row and go bonkersss!
"If loving you kills me tonight, then I was ready for death the moment you said hello."
"and there were always those nights where she preferred the rain over people.
because the rain would remind her of how she should feel and people would remind her of the things she always wanted to forget."
"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."
- R.M. Drake
You're just stupid to fall into someone's trap again, someone who's already hurt you before
#SoDamnStupid. It really is unbelievable sometimes.
When you're broken, again, you always end up remembering the last time that happened and how it did.
#SuchIsLife
"I wonder, we lazy people go to heaven or they send someone to pick up up?"
"Mere baare mein itna mat sochna, dil mein aata hoon, samajh mein nahin."
"Information is cheap, meaning is expensive."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"There's no such thing as a bad idea. Just poorly executed ones."
"Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you."
"That person is ugly.
No, they aren't ugly.
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."
"Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective."
It's important to be there for them
They have their ways of doing things for you
Things you may never even get to know of, sometimes
Don't boost your ego by being with someone and hurting that person's feelings
Don't.
You have to stop beating yourself up sometimes
It's not wholly your fault
And as you go along, you'll realize that the combination of chance and circumstance had a role to play too
Rains Here Too - Kate York
Wedding Dress - Matt Nathanson
#TracksOnRepeat #music
"Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself. If that doesn't make you different, then something is wrong."
Armin Van Buuren
Tomorrowland 2013 full set
When you hear the whole set (1.5 hours) three times in a row and go bonkersss!
"If loving you kills me tonight, then I was ready for death the moment you said hello."
"and there were always those nights where she preferred the rain over people.
because the rain would remind her of how she should feel and people would remind her of the things she always wanted to forget."
"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."
- R.M. Drake
You're just stupid to fall into someone's trap again, someone who's already hurt you before
#SoDamnStupid. It really is unbelievable sometimes.
When you're broken, again, you always end up remembering the last time that happened and how it did.
#SuchIsLife
"I wonder, we lazy people go to heaven or they send someone to pick up up?"
"Mere baare mein itna mat sochna, dil mein aata hoon, samajh mein nahin."
"Information is cheap, meaning is expensive."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"There's no such thing as a bad idea. Just poorly executed ones."
"Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you."
"That person is ugly.
No, they aren't ugly.
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."
"Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective."
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
There is no gray
Sometimes your faith will waver
That's alright
And normal
But don't let it go away
You're always too young to think it's not going to be okay
Everyone is dealing with a lot more than what's visible
Being the best version of yourself matters
Because the world around you would be a whole lot different without you
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
The people whose lives changed because of you
It matters.
...you're different, you write your own story
you choose your own path
but you can't choose who you love
but you choose whether or not you open your heart to love
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.
I get that.
But somewhere along the line,
you gave up on the idea that you deserve to feel this way again
but you don't see what the person in love with you may see
you deserve this...
#OneTreeHill
Follow Your Arrow - Kacey Musgraves
(probably the first song where I didn't pay attention to the lyrics first, and liked the music anyway
and heard the lyrics after hearing it twice. Ha.)
#music
Tomorrowland ~ Crazy would be an understatement.
#Someday #Insanity #Jealous #WishList
When one manages to build a shield for oneself
This person is not willing to let anyone in
And won't let their guard down
There is always a bigger reason than what appears on the surface for that
A lot of times people tend to behave completely opposite of who they actually are
Sometimes because they're too afraid to show their heart
"Insights paralyzed by wordlessness."
You have to find alternatives
When there is no other way really
The courage to take the high road
The ability to put on a smile on your face after knowing the truth
When you know you have to pull an all-nighter in order to meet a deadline,
but procrastination still wants to be your best bud!
"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
It's important to dream.
That's alright
And normal
But don't let it go away
You're always too young to think it's not going to be okay
Everyone is dealing with a lot more than what's visible
Being the best version of yourself matters
Because the world around you would be a whole lot different without you
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
The people whose lives changed because of you
It matters.
...you're different, you write your own story
you choose your own path
but you can't choose who you love
but you choose whether or not you open your heart to love
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.
I get that.
But somewhere along the line,
you gave up on the idea that you deserve to feel this way again
but you don't see what the person in love with you may see
you deserve this...
#OneTreeHill
Follow Your Arrow - Kacey Musgraves
(probably the first song where I didn't pay attention to the lyrics first, and liked the music anyway
and heard the lyrics after hearing it twice. Ha.)
#music
Tomorrowland ~ Crazy would be an understatement.
#Someday #Insanity #Jealous #WishList
When one manages to build a shield for oneself
This person is not willing to let anyone in
And won't let their guard down
There is always a bigger reason than what appears on the surface for that
A lot of times people tend to behave completely opposite of who they actually are
Sometimes because they're too afraid to show their heart
"Insights paralyzed by wordlessness."
You have to find alternatives
When there is no other way really
The courage to take the high road
The ability to put on a smile on your face after knowing the truth
When you know you have to pull an all-nighter in order to meet a deadline,
but procrastination still wants to be your best bud!
"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
It's important to dream.
Friday, June 27, 2014
Phases
"If your eyes could speak, what would they say?"
#TheBookThief
Why is there always a catch?
Why can't it be simple?
Simple enough for you to not look beyond the obvious reasons
The hidden answers that exist which make reality what it really is
When you had the best intentions
But it didn't work out anyway
When you just thought that everything is in place and it'll be fine
But it wasn't eventually
So you tell yourself once again that things are supposed to get better and so they will
When you've managed to restore the faith that it's all supposed to be for the best
And then when your faith is shaken, oh no, it becomes harder to join the pieces
As some fell too far away for you to find, identify and fix
Fear
Anger
Denial
Acceptance
The phases that one goes through
No one ends up feeling completely safe by the end of it
How one's innocence is poisoned and cultured with ridiculous expectation
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
The willingness to do something about it comes after that.
And obviously if one ends up staying oblivious to it for the rest of one's life
It would just be like noticing the trees from the window, and never being able to look at the glass
When you do something for someone who means something to you
You did it because you knew it was the right thing to do
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
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
The things one does, by hurting someone, but for their good, keeping the long term perspective in mind
Keeping a cigarette in your mouth and never lighting it
~ 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
I wonder how many situations that can be applied to in life
#FaultInOurStars
It sucks that people don't make a conscious effort to look beyond the obvious
It's only hilarious when a person has not only taken you for granted but has crossed all limits
You become that person who gets to hear all the shit because you've been there taking it all in, up till now
Like seriously
The mistakes we commit for the gazillionth time
When people don't realize the promises they made
The irony that exists in life and how the universe plays funny
"Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them."
When you've cut yourself off before
#OneTreeHill
#TheBookThief
Why is there always a catch?
Why can't it be simple?
Simple enough for you to not look beyond the obvious reasons
The hidden answers that exist which make reality what it really is
When you had the best intentions
But it didn't work out anyway
When you just thought that everything is in place and it'll be fine
But it wasn't eventually
So you tell yourself once again that things are supposed to get better and so they will
When you've managed to restore the faith that it's all supposed to be for the best
And then when your faith is shaken, oh no, it becomes harder to join the pieces
As some fell too far away for you to find, identify and fix
Fear
Anger
Denial
Acceptance
The phases that one goes through
No one ends up feeling completely safe by the end of it
How one's innocence is poisoned and cultured with ridiculous expectation
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
The willingness to do something about it comes after that.
And obviously if one ends up staying oblivious to it for the rest of one's life
It would just be like noticing the trees from the window, and never being able to look at the glass
When you do something for someone who means something to you
You did it because you knew it was the right thing to do
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
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
The things one does, by hurting someone, but for their good, keeping the long term perspective in mind
Keeping a cigarette in your mouth and never lighting it
~ 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
I wonder how many situations that can be applied to in life
#FaultInOurStars
It sucks that people don't make a conscious effort to look beyond the obvious
It's only hilarious when a person has not only taken you for granted but has crossed all limits
You become that person who gets to hear all the shit because you've been there taking it all in, up till now
Like seriously
The mistakes we commit for the gazillionth time
When people don't realize the promises they made
The irony that exists in life and how the universe plays funny
"Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them."
When you've cut yourself off before
It's easier the next time you do it
Of course, the simple logic ~ it hurts less when you've become used to cutting off from the world, in one respect or another
Because the first time you did it, only you know what kinda courage it may have taken
Especially when you kinda thought you're not the kind of a person who could survive with a smile, post that
But it became so much better with time, that sometimes, it seems like the best thing to do
Not just to clear your head or whatever, but sure as hell, for reasons you know you'd manage to recollect
The Book Thief
Winter's Tale
Fault In Our Stars
#MustWatchMovies
"A world full of only easy choices would enslave us to reasons."
When your efforts won't mean anything and you know it
because the imaginary wall between you and another individual is colossal and it would take a lot more than just breaking it down somehow
"When all else fails, call Dad."
People will always judge you. Don't let their judgments get in the way of your perspective.
They'll be judging anyway.
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.
It's not about what you do, it's about who you are.
#SubjectiveOrNot?
Let Me In - Grouplove
All Of The Stars - Ed Sheeran
Hey Brother - Avicii
Halo - Bethany Joy Lenz
#music
"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."The Book Thief
Winter's Tale
Fault In Our Stars
#MustWatchMovies
"A world full of only easy choices would enslave us to reasons."
When your efforts won't mean anything and you know it
because the imaginary wall between you and another individual is colossal and it would take a lot more than just breaking it down somehow
"When all else fails, call Dad."
People will always judge you. Don't let their judgments get in the way of your perspective.
They'll be judging anyway.
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.
It's not about what you do, it's about who you are.
#SubjectiveOrNot?
Let Me In - Grouplove
All Of The Stars - Ed Sheeran
Hey Brother - Avicii
Halo - Bethany Joy Lenz
#music
#OneTreeHill
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
You never know
When it's unbelievable
The journey was different
The circumstances weren't remotely the same
The picture you could see getting made in front of you had a different outline, content, script, story
and when you realize that the main character is someone else, it changes the whole idea of it
The thought will never be the same when you think about this every time now
The main character changed the meaning of the title too
It amuses me how we reject what we have and want it when we don't
Why do we do that even when we know it's a mistake?
How are we willing to commit that mistake knowingly?
When you have a flow of emotions like a river
*sigh*
When you've always had words to express your state of mind
But this one time, you don't. You weirdly don't. You don't have a reason to validate the vacuum
You're happy for someone, someone you could've appreciated more in life
Still obsessed with the lines ~
"You're my backbone
You're my cornerstone
You're my crutch when my legs stop moving
You're my head start
You're my rugged heart
You're the pulse that I've always needed
Like a drum, baby, don't stop beating..."
How does one even manage to come up with such beautiful lyrics in the first place? How?
Aaah, when it hurts
It hurts to know you could have, what the other person does, today
But it's too late
and you can't do anything but be happy for this person
and that's exactly what you should
because who knows in life
No one does!
It's as unpredictable as the heartbeat of a person, like they say
The forbidden is what always seems the most appealing
I hate how people come and go in your life
Like, okay, they had their roles to play and all.. I get that
But how is it ever fair? Is anything ever is? (starting to doubt it)
Why do so much for the other person when you won't eventually be there in the long run?
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
How hard is that to understand?
We need time to recover
from incidents and thoughts that have left an impact, or have caused too much collateral damage
Under Control ft. Hurts - Calvin Harris & Alesso
If I Lose Myself - Alesso Vs One Republic (Alesso remix)
Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
#music
When every thing isn't right
and you're stuck
You can't do much at the moment but it consumes you a little everyday
When you've been used to living away from home since eleven years, but miss it randomly one day
and you have no idea what initiated it
#OneOfThoseDays
"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."
"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
The journey was different
The circumstances weren't remotely the same
The picture you could see getting made in front of you had a different outline, content, script, story
and when you realize that the main character is someone else, it changes the whole idea of it
The thought will never be the same when you think about this every time now
The main character changed the meaning of the title too
It amuses me how we reject what we have and want it when we don't
Why do we do that even when we know it's a mistake?
How are we willing to commit that mistake knowingly?
When you have a flow of emotions like a river
*sigh*
When you've always had words to express your state of mind
But this one time, you don't. You weirdly don't. You don't have a reason to validate the vacuum
You're happy for someone, someone you could've appreciated more in life
Still obsessed with the lines ~
"You're my backbone
You're my cornerstone
You're my crutch when my legs stop moving
You're my head start
You're my rugged heart
You're the pulse that I've always needed
Like a drum, baby, don't stop beating..."
How does one even manage to come up with such beautiful lyrics in the first place? How?
Aaah, when it hurts
It hurts to know you could have, what the other person does, today
But it's too late
and you can't do anything but be happy for this person
and that's exactly what you should
because who knows in life
No one does!
It's as unpredictable as the heartbeat of a person, like they say
The forbidden is what always seems the most appealing
I hate how people come and go in your life
Like, okay, they had their roles to play and all.. I get that
But how is it ever fair? Is anything ever is? (starting to doubt it)
Why do so much for the other person when you won't eventually be there in the long run?
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
How hard is that to understand?
We need time to recover
from incidents and thoughts that have left an impact, or have caused too much collateral damage
Under Control ft. Hurts - Calvin Harris & Alesso
If I Lose Myself - Alesso Vs One Republic (Alesso remix)
Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
#music
When every thing isn't right
and you're stuck
You can't do much at the moment but it consumes you a little everyday
When you've been used to living away from home since eleven years, but miss it randomly one day
and you have no idea what initiated it
#OneOfThoseDays
"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."
"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
The ups and downs are normal, as they say.
Sometimes, you wanna cry and stay low
And that's all you wanna be
It hurts so much when you see the incapability in another person to be able to understand what you do
Life
and none of us come out of it alive
Seeing it all through someone else's eyes!
Gone, Gone, Gone - Phillip Phillips
#music
"She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments."
"Seeming and being are not one and the same."
"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."
Gravity.
Brilliant movie
#SandraBullock #GeorgeClooney
"Not all of me wakes up at the same time."
"It take a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
We're always defying age, but the feeling to know that you'd grow old together with someone you love
That's what one's looking for
When you're excited about your birthday, only to realize you'd be having a lifetime experience,
to not care about it really
When it just gets difficult for you to snap out of things,
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!
When all you could possibly wish for, is for the other person to understand. Not listen but understand.
Too much to ask for?
With people like Arvind Kejriwal, this world will be a better place :)
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.
It's the power of words and will probably always be
What one said and how you perceived it
Lizzie Velasquez
Absolutely love the words and the video! Extraordinary.
~ Using one's negativity towards you, to motivate you and keep going in life to make yourself better!
Exams - why are they used to define so much that never matters in the long run?
I love seeing old couples together! Adds to my day :)
#RareSightsAtWarwick
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!
How does one always manage to overlook the big picture?
Why get used to something for a short while when you know you can't have it for long?
Cadbury Bournvita commercials
~ low cost, super effective, usage of the words, well edited, and the extra message to be inferred :)
"Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man made and can be removed by the actions of human beings."
- Nelson Mandela
"We seek power and money so desperately, but love our heroes for sacrifice, compassion, seeing hope in a dark prison."
- Abhijit Majumder
"Sex between consenting same sex adults in private is criminalized, but marital rape isn't."
#SupremeCourt
"Age is no guarantee of maturity."
"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..."
"There are things you're entitled to, like your opinions, and there are things you're not entitled to, like other people's opinions."
"Some give you their word, some keep it."
PS- Happy New Year! :)
And that's all you wanna be
It hurts so much when you see the incapability in another person to be able to understand what you do
Life
and none of us come out of it alive
Seeing it all through someone else's eyes!
Gone, Gone, Gone - Phillip Phillips
#music
"She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments."
"Seeming and being are not one and the same."
"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."
Gravity.
Brilliant movie
#SandraBullock #GeorgeClooney
"Not all of me wakes up at the same time."
"It take a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
We're always defying age, but the feeling to know that you'd grow old together with someone you love
That's what one's looking for
When you're excited about your birthday, only to realize you'd be having a lifetime experience,
to not care about it really
When it just gets difficult for you to snap out of things,
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!
When all you could possibly wish for, is for the other person to understand. Not listen but understand.
Too much to ask for?
With people like Arvind Kejriwal, this world will be a better place :)
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.
It's the power of words and will probably always be
What one said and how you perceived it
Lizzie Velasquez
Absolutely love the words and the video! Extraordinary.
~ Using one's negativity towards you, to motivate you and keep going in life to make yourself better!
Exams - why are they used to define so much that never matters in the long run?
I love seeing old couples together! Adds to my day :)
#RareSightsAtWarwick
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!
How does one always manage to overlook the big picture?
Why get used to something for a short while when you know you can't have it for long?
Cadbury Bournvita commercials
~ low cost, super effective, usage of the words, well edited, and the extra message to be inferred :)
"Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man made and can be removed by the actions of human beings."
- Nelson Mandela
"We seek power and money so desperately, but love our heroes for sacrifice, compassion, seeing hope in a dark prison."
- Abhijit Majumder
"Sex between consenting same sex adults in private is criminalized, but marital rape isn't."
#SupremeCourt
"Age is no guarantee of maturity."
"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..."
"There are things you're entitled to, like your opinions, and there are things you're not entitled to, like other people's opinions."
"Some give you their word, some keep it."
PS- Happy New Year! :)
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Unpredictability
Good food, and/or knowing another person's day was made because of you
~ makes my day.
Fact:
The friendship between men 'without' saying the obvious things, lasts a lifetime
and it's just about the opposite with us women
When you're willing to take that risk
When you somehow feel you have it in you to say it
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
But you couldn't for several reasons
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
One's state of mind and happiness has been getting decided by another's actions
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!
"Google Search : Reunion"
~ An advertisement by Google. Must watch!
Made me cry too, yes.
And I'm told it's based on a true story!
Because we've all changed
evolved to be the new people we are today
Time does that
All for the good I guess
Our choices are different
And so are our perceptions
But then again, some things don't change.. simply because they're situations
And one has to change the situation one self
It won't magically just disappear the next day
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!
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?
Sometimes, we all wanna escape
Oh how much I love that
Listen to distracting songs
Change the subject being talked about
Write it out
Sleep it off
Cry
Take a walk
Do whatever it takes to be an escapist
Not because you're not enjoying your life, but because you know someone who means the world to you, isn't enjoying theirs
It will never fail to amuse me how people don't see the obvious
It's either that they simply don't get it
Or you pretend so damn well that you've forgotten yourself what the original thing was
It's like one says, 'Just be careful who you pretend to be, I'd hate if you forgot who you are!'
When you couldn't attend something
you'll never know what you missed
but you're fine with it
When one family member does too much
and sometimes it's not just about acknowledging but also reminding him/her how much that means to us
Us humans have a tendency to forget things
And we need to be comforted... and sometimes, words can do wonders
Let Her Go - Passenger
Tidal Wave ft. Alpines - Sub Focus
Eid Wala Chand - Rajan Batra
#music
"Saving the world from mediocre coffee."
- Costa
Nothing like Grey's Anatomy!
#SawItAfterSoLong :)
"Everyone now knows Campa Cola compound. Do you know about Golibar, where legal residents were evicted?"
- Naresh Fernandes
"Life is too short to spend it with someone who makes your days difficult."
"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."
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
"It's always nice to have someone around in your life who can make you smile even when they are not around."
"Reason is one of the most effective and under-utilized anti-depressants available to us."
~ makes my day.
Fact:
The friendship between men 'without' saying the obvious things, lasts a lifetime
and it's just about the opposite with us women
When you're willing to take that risk
When you somehow feel you have it in you to say it
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
But you couldn't for several reasons
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
One's state of mind and happiness has been getting decided by another's actions
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!
"Google Search : Reunion"
~ An advertisement by Google. Must watch!
Made me cry too, yes.
And I'm told it's based on a true story!
Because we've all changed
evolved to be the new people we are today
Time does that
All for the good I guess
Our choices are different
And so are our perceptions
But then again, some things don't change.. simply because they're situations
And one has to change the situation one self
It won't magically just disappear the next day
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!
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?
Sometimes, we all wanna escape
Oh how much I love that
Listen to distracting songs
Change the subject being talked about
Write it out
Sleep it off
Cry
Take a walk
Do whatever it takes to be an escapist
Not because you're not enjoying your life, but because you know someone who means the world to you, isn't enjoying theirs
It will never fail to amuse me how people don't see the obvious
It's either that they simply don't get it
Or you pretend so damn well that you've forgotten yourself what the original thing was
It's like one says, 'Just be careful who you pretend to be, I'd hate if you forgot who you are!'
When you couldn't attend something
you'll never know what you missed
but you're fine with it
When one family member does too much
and sometimes it's not just about acknowledging but also reminding him/her how much that means to us
Us humans have a tendency to forget things
And we need to be comforted... and sometimes, words can do wonders
Let Her Go - Passenger
Tidal Wave ft. Alpines - Sub Focus
Eid Wala Chand - Rajan Batra
#music
"Saving the world from mediocre coffee."
- Costa
Nothing like Grey's Anatomy!
#SawItAfterSoLong :)
"Everyone now knows Campa Cola compound. Do you know about Golibar, where legal residents were evicted?"
- Naresh Fernandes
"Life is too short to spend it with someone who makes your days difficult."
"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."
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
"It's always nice to have someone around in your life who can make you smile even when they are not around."
"Reason is one of the most effective and under-utilized anti-depressants available to us."
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Not that lost.
"Be hurt. I can take it, the world can take it."
- really the right thing to hear when you are?
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.
When you didn't want the person to say the words back to you.
You just wanted the person to accept it. That is all.
Acceptance is the most important thing (as I've mentioned earlier). Coming to terms with it.
But, okay.
Perspective. Perception. Point of view. Inference. Interpretation. Power of the mind.
#blah
"Human perception is actually relative and conceptual, not absolute."
"Don't give away anything that you have to, earlier than you have to."
"In business, you don't have to be right,
you just have to be less stupid than your competitors."
Will get back in a post, soon, about the talk I attended by Rory Sutherland.
And Diwali happened and I wasn't home for the first time.
Yes, you miss home the most during this one festive season.
Do not get too affected by things, situations, people. It never helps. Never.
Don't stop working on how much it got to you. Or how much you let it get to you.
When you end up doing things you've never done before
Not in terms of the adventure you'd assumed you would (you haven't forgotten your bucket list just yet)
But doing things in terms of being there. For people.
Going out of your way in more than just one manner and being happy for them.
Overdose of chocolate.
Waffles with nutella. Cocoa and chocolate cream wafers. Lindt Lindor. Chocotastic pop tarts. Mars.
#Haha!
The additional costs in life that we tend to overlook more than often!!
(this is an interesting observation and I do intend to elaborate on it soon)
A fire alarm drill at seven in the morning is one of the worst things ever,
when you know you have a lecture at nine and had to wake up in half an hour anyway!
The value of five minutes is best understood during these early morning hours,
when you had to either give up your sleep, or run to be punctual for a class,
because you did sleep for those five minutes anyway, that were not extra any more then!
Finding out you hadn't replied to comments on your posts ~ *happily surprised*
The generation gap and the variance in the chain of thought on the same subject
The difference in the want to understand
Absolutely overlooking what matters too much to the other person
Rigidity in the mindset with negligible willingness to widen it really
Or maybe a bit for the world but less than zero percent for yourself
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.
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)
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
While we felt helpless and talked to each other about it, while watching out on him/her for a bit,
I realized that by the evening, the bird's friends had come to his/her rescue! (no kidding)
We're all aware that geese always tend to move together and this one had been alone all day
But the day did get better for him/her after all, and so it did for me :)
A blind lady being guided by her dog everywhere
- A sight that sums up Life
Caffe Latte and Lindt Lindor
- one of the best combinations ever! :D
The sun, rain, wind, rainbow - all at one time!
Seriously happens!
God really is kind. Now this is balance of the nature :)
"That Day After Everyday" - A Short Film
~ must watch!
#TheReality #TrueStory #NoWords
"In the book of religion, humanity is the last chapter."
- Saira
Counting Stars - OneRepublic
All Night - Icona Pop
#music
"People only treat you one way, that's the way you allow them."
"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
"Time is innocent only if there are no clocks or watches."
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling."
"It's a very powerful thing when someone sees you as the person you wish you were."
"When it's all said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take
but how you take it."
"Money can buy me happiness, it's called food."
"There's a plague of sameness that is killing human joy."
- Zita Cobb via Iwan Baan
- really the right thing to hear when you are?
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.
When you didn't want the person to say the words back to you.
You just wanted the person to accept it. That is all.
Acceptance is the most important thing (as I've mentioned earlier). Coming to terms with it.
But, okay.
Perspective. Perception. Point of view. Inference. Interpretation. Power of the mind.
#blah
"Human perception is actually relative and conceptual, not absolute."
"Don't give away anything that you have to, earlier than you have to."
"In business, you don't have to be right,
you just have to be less stupid than your competitors."
Will get back in a post, soon, about the talk I attended by Rory Sutherland.
And Diwali happened and I wasn't home for the first time.
Yes, you miss home the most during this one festive season.
Do not get too affected by things, situations, people. It never helps. Never.
Don't stop working on how much it got to you. Or how much you let it get to you.
When you end up doing things you've never done before
Not in terms of the adventure you'd assumed you would (you haven't forgotten your bucket list just yet)
But doing things in terms of being there. For people.
Going out of your way in more than just one manner and being happy for them.
Overdose of chocolate.
Waffles with nutella. Cocoa and chocolate cream wafers. Lindt Lindor. Chocotastic pop tarts. Mars.
#Haha!
The additional costs in life that we tend to overlook more than often!!
(this is an interesting observation and I do intend to elaborate on it soon)
A fire alarm drill at seven in the morning is one of the worst things ever,
when you know you have a lecture at nine and had to wake up in half an hour anyway!
The value of five minutes is best understood during these early morning hours,
when you had to either give up your sleep, or run to be punctual for a class,
because you did sleep for those five minutes anyway, that were not extra any more then!
Finding out you hadn't replied to comments on your posts ~ *happily surprised*
The generation gap and the variance in the chain of thought on the same subject
The difference in the want to understand
Absolutely overlooking what matters too much to the other person
Rigidity in the mindset with negligible willingness to widen it really
Or maybe a bit for the world but less than zero percent for yourself
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.
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)
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
While we felt helpless and talked to each other about it, while watching out on him/her for a bit,
I realized that by the evening, the bird's friends had come to his/her rescue! (no kidding)
We're all aware that geese always tend to move together and this one had been alone all day
But the day did get better for him/her after all, and so it did for me :)
A blind lady being guided by her dog everywhere
- A sight that sums up Life
Caffe Latte and Lindt Lindor
- one of the best combinations ever! :D
The sun, rain, wind, rainbow - all at one time!
Seriously happens!
God really is kind. Now this is balance of the nature :)
"That Day After Everyday" - A Short Film
~ must watch!
#TheReality #TrueStory #NoWords
"In the book of religion, humanity is the last chapter."
- Saira
Counting Stars - OneRepublic
All Night - Icona Pop
#music
"People only treat you one way, that's the way you allow them."
"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
"Time is innocent only if there are no clocks or watches."
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling."
"It's a very powerful thing when someone sees you as the person you wish you were."
"When it's all said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take
but how you take it."
"Money can buy me happiness, it's called food."
"There's a plague of sameness that is killing human joy."
- Zita Cobb via Iwan Baan
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Untitled
When you can't believe people's actions sometimes
Not the words
Those things are not to be paid much attention to in reality anyway
But wow
Contradiction is intriguing
No kidding!
But let's agree once again to the universal fact that we're all aware of;
When we care the most, we get hurt the most.
It consumes me.
When your memory gets refreshed in terms of what it's like to travel in a PACKED local in the peak hours of the morning!
Yup, by local, I do mean the local train!
And even in that situation when you can pretty much not move at all and are stuck..
You will find people with a smile on their face
#ObsessedWithMumbai
Sometimes, you do things.. Things you know are not going to favour you in any way at all..
But you do them anyway
It won't get you any satisfaction either, and you know it
On the contrary, it might hurt you, in ways you're not sure of, but because you know the cost that the other person might be paying in terms of loss.. and isn't realizing any of it right now, purely because of not thinking of the big picture.. You go ahead and you do something, putting your foot down and because you know you can work your way with words to a reasonably good extent, you knew you'd succeed.. and so, you did
You don't think about 'your' fayeda/nuksaan in these situations
You're being selfless and spending your time and thoughts over conveying something that is never going to benefit you, ever
When the song, 'Last Day of Your Life' plays on your phone on shuffle mode :)
#GlassPear #ExceptionalSong
I guess I could never get enough of Bombay
I could have how much ever possible but it still wouldn't be enough.. ever
Yup, same thing said in two ways
Deal with it.
When you go back to College and see that the way your favourite sandwich used to be made has become all fancy now!
And of course it brings back memories
Not just of the obvious times of catching a movie right after the last lecture got over at 10:30 in the morning!
But also of the solitary moments you did have in the cafeteria on a day when it may have been raining like 'cats and men' and not everyone landed up for lectures like you did (at least till the second year of College)..! Haha.
The boy trying to sell umbrellas :)
#Hope
#NotGivingUp
#MumbaiDiaries
Mumbai won't be Mumbai without its people
The originality of thought
The not-bothering-you, but happy-to-help attitude
I haven't seen it in any other city amongst the ones I've travelled to, in our country
It's amazing how it works and how it doesn't
How the pace of life is set and it's a learning even as a mere observer at all times
Too much to gather
#MumbaiDiaries
And here's an awesome post ~
The truth about Mumbai! :)
"Sometimes the simplest things are the most craftily constructed and the most complicated to pull off."
"Words scream to be heard. Silence waits to be understood."
"The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do."
"We ache to make the world of feelings a language we can converse in."
"Love is a question of how you look at it."
"If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all."
"When an email comes to you saying, 'Click here to check your IQ', that you guys is your IQ test."
"Pardon my language but a man who shits and pees in a Rs. 32 lakh loo will never understand what a tanking rupee means for a common man."
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Kafila:
White women in the Indian imagination ~ Alexandra Delaney
"The debate is still raging as to what is more difficult - to understand women or to book a ticket through IRCTC."
"I have been through a lot." - All cars
Coldplay - The Scientist (Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman Remix)
#ObsessedWithThisVersion
Even I want Chai and pakodas in this mad baarish!!
#LuxuriesOfBeingHomeThatISincerelyMiss
"Grammar. The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit."
Not the words
Those things are not to be paid much attention to in reality anyway
But wow
Contradiction is intriguing
No kidding!
But let's agree once again to the universal fact that we're all aware of;
When we care the most, we get hurt the most.
It consumes me.
When your memory gets refreshed in terms of what it's like to travel in a PACKED local in the peak hours of the morning!
Yup, by local, I do mean the local train!
And even in that situation when you can pretty much not move at all and are stuck..
You will find people with a smile on their face
#ObsessedWithMumbai
Sometimes, you do things.. Things you know are not going to favour you in any way at all..
But you do them anyway
It won't get you any satisfaction either, and you know it
On the contrary, it might hurt you, in ways you're not sure of, but because you know the cost that the other person might be paying in terms of loss.. and isn't realizing any of it right now, purely because of not thinking of the big picture.. You go ahead and you do something, putting your foot down and because you know you can work your way with words to a reasonably good extent, you knew you'd succeed.. and so, you did
You don't think about 'your' fayeda/nuksaan in these situations
You're being selfless and spending your time and thoughts over conveying something that is never going to benefit you, ever
When the song, 'Last Day of Your Life' plays on your phone on shuffle mode :)
#GlassPear #ExceptionalSong
I guess I could never get enough of Bombay
I could have how much ever possible but it still wouldn't be enough.. ever
Yup, same thing said in two ways
Deal with it.
When you go back to College and see that the way your favourite sandwich used to be made has become all fancy now!
And of course it brings back memories
Not just of the obvious times of catching a movie right after the last lecture got over at 10:30 in the morning!
But also of the solitary moments you did have in the cafeteria on a day when it may have been raining like 'cats and men' and not everyone landed up for lectures like you did (at least till the second year of College)..! Haha.
The boy trying to sell umbrellas :)
#Hope
#NotGivingUp
#MumbaiDiaries
Mumbai won't be Mumbai without its people
The originality of thought
The not-bothering-you, but happy-to-help attitude
I haven't seen it in any other city amongst the ones I've travelled to, in our country
It's amazing how it works and how it doesn't
How the pace of life is set and it's a learning even as a mere observer at all times
Too much to gather
#MumbaiDiaries
And here's an awesome post ~
The truth about Mumbai! :)
"Sometimes the simplest things are the most craftily constructed and the most complicated to pull off."
"Words scream to be heard. Silence waits to be understood."
"The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do."
"We ache to make the world of feelings a language we can converse in."
"Love is a question of how you look at it."
"If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all."
"When an email comes to you saying, 'Click here to check your IQ', that you guys is your IQ test."
"Pardon my language but a man who shits and pees in a Rs. 32 lakh loo will never understand what a tanking rupee means for a common man."
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Kafila:
White women in the Indian imagination ~ Alexandra Delaney
"The debate is still raging as to what is more difficult - to understand women or to book a ticket through IRCTC."
"I have been through a lot." - All cars
Coldplay - The Scientist (Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman Remix)
#ObsessedWithThisVersion
Even I want Chai and pakodas in this mad baarish!!
#LuxuriesOfBeingHomeThatISincerelyMiss
"Grammar. The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit."
Friday, June 7, 2013
Bits, pieces and more
Opinions
are never right or wrong (as I may have even mentioned here earlier)
But what doesn't fail to amuse me is the level of variation in them on the same subject!
The difference in the intensities of the opinions leading to depths headed in two different directions,
on one subject!
Irrespective of looking from the other person's perspective, there is a big chance you're still not close to his/her chain of thought
It's not about not being able to really put yourself in his/her shoes any more, you already did that bit (if at all you did), it's about not being able to think beyond it
Maybe there is a possibility, that the other person is simply unable to express the unsaid words in any other form as well
And of course, silence is misinterpreted. More than the expected number of the times.
But then again, that's the beauty of human evaluation I guess
At the end of it all, it does come down to how YOU look at it.
The worst part is when we forget things
A crying baby on a flight
Everyone would turn back and stare at the parent and pass all the possible comments capable of crossing one's mind, as to why the parent can't keep the child, freaking quiet!
But I doubt the probability being high, of people thinking beyond
Beyond the perspectives of the parent
Beyond the ideology of taking care of a child
Beyond the faults of nobody
The difference between the reel and the real world even in terms of the one we're living in!
Not just the one in Bollywood
The picture is always something else than the one being shown to us
#Automobile #Dealerships
The mixed signals are in a language I don't understand and he's the only one who has the translation dictionary.
#Dialogue
I love Ryan Atwood.
#TheOC #BenjaminMcKenzie
The Great Gatsby.
He looked at her "in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at, at sometime"
#LeonardoDiCaprio #sigh :)
Am I the only one whose definition of a holiday is sleep as much as you want?
Seems like so!
Ambersariya
#punjabi #music #iLove :)
Magicians
The life of one
What must that be like?
When you're far away from family at the expense of purely entertaining strangers and proving yourself on a daily basis by performing amongst a crowd with different faces everyday!
#Majority #StillInPieces
Dominos
Priority is obviously given to the customer sitting at home who may have placed the order at the exact same time as the customer standing right there at the outlet
Of course, commercial point of view
Guarantee of promised delivery time
But, what about your goodwill that went into the dustbin in the head of the customer standing right infront of you?
Yeah, yeah, there's monopoly in cheeseburst and more
But, big picture?
#TooManyThoughts
[When I'm unable to snap out of observing the working style around in general!]
A brand is not a brand if more than three auto guys don't know the location of its only building in the area.
Is it?
There is definitely no one like Mike Horn.
Words may not suffice my description of him
But maybe a post someday, only about him
The man has done things no one has, with unfailing faith and determination
Truly inspiring in the real sense of it
Someone who's passion for life is a definition of his own
But a question that I never got to ask him...
How can he possibly keep at it ALL the time being humane?
Everyone has ups and downs in life.. The extreme high and low moments when you give up at a point without another thought
My question isn't how he hasn't/didn't give up
My question is, how has it really been possible to keep at it? What were the things he managed to remind himself of, that kept him going incessantly?
#Mystery #RealPeople #MeaningOfLife
Government and its bans and preposterous laws.
When you think it can't get any worse, it can!
"Economic reforms have slacked. Educational reforms yet to begin. Sexual reforms are a distant dream when lingerie on mannequins is banned."
The incomprehensible chaos in Turkey!
What is happening in Istanbul?
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Bombay Rains :)
#Traffic #CabRides #WorkLife #Khichdi
Ilahi
Kabira
Dilli Wali Girlfriend
Balam Pichkari
Ghagra
#GoodBollywoodMusicAfterSoLong
" I fail to understand the 'good' part of 'good morning' "
"Is life so serious that others really determine your destiny?"
"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
"The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go."
"An honest, uncensored expression is as rare as the person capable of producing it."
"I am a Capricorn, because when I love, I love hard."
"Forever is composed of nows."
An Honest Mistake - The Bravery
Apollo (Radio Edit) - Hardwell
Beating Of My Heart - M-3ox (Matisse & Sadko Remix)
#TomorrowlandMusic
"How news works in India.
Incident. News report. National outrage. Media frenzy. International coverage. Hurt national pride. Denial. #rape"
"One does not only wish to be understood when one writes;
one wishes just as surely not to be understood."
are never right or wrong (as I may have even mentioned here earlier)
But what doesn't fail to amuse me is the level of variation in them on the same subject!
The difference in the intensities of the opinions leading to depths headed in two different directions,
on one subject!
Irrespective of looking from the other person's perspective, there is a big chance you're still not close to his/her chain of thought
It's not about not being able to really put yourself in his/her shoes any more, you already did that bit (if at all you did), it's about not being able to think beyond it
Maybe there is a possibility, that the other person is simply unable to express the unsaid words in any other form as well
And of course, silence is misinterpreted. More than the expected number of the times.
But then again, that's the beauty of human evaluation I guess
At the end of it all, it does come down to how YOU look at it.
The worst part is when we forget things
A crying baby on a flight
Everyone would turn back and stare at the parent and pass all the possible comments capable of crossing one's mind, as to why the parent can't keep the child, freaking quiet!
But I doubt the probability being high, of people thinking beyond
Beyond the perspectives of the parent
Beyond the ideology of taking care of a child
Beyond the faults of nobody
The difference between the reel and the real world even in terms of the one we're living in!
Not just the one in Bollywood
The picture is always something else than the one being shown to us
#Automobile #Dealerships
The mixed signals are in a language I don't understand and he's the only one who has the translation dictionary.
#Dialogue
I love Ryan Atwood.
#TheOC #BenjaminMcKenzie
The Great Gatsby.
He looked at her "in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at, at sometime"
#LeonardoDiCaprio #sigh :)
Am I the only one whose definition of a holiday is sleep as much as you want?
Seems like so!
Ambersariya
#punjabi #music #iLove :)
Magicians
The life of one
What must that be like?
When you're far away from family at the expense of purely entertaining strangers and proving yourself on a daily basis by performing amongst a crowd with different faces everyday!
#Majority #StillInPieces
Dominos
Priority is obviously given to the customer sitting at home who may have placed the order at the exact same time as the customer standing right there at the outlet
Of course, commercial point of view
Guarantee of promised delivery time
But, what about your goodwill that went into the dustbin in the head of the customer standing right infront of you?
Yeah, yeah, there's monopoly in cheeseburst and more
But, big picture?
#TooManyThoughts
[When I'm unable to snap out of observing the working style around in general!]
A brand is not a brand if more than three auto guys don't know the location of its only building in the area.
Is it?
There is definitely no one like Mike Horn.
Words may not suffice my description of him
But maybe a post someday, only about him
The man has done things no one has, with unfailing faith and determination
Truly inspiring in the real sense of it
Someone who's passion for life is a definition of his own
But a question that I never got to ask him...
How can he possibly keep at it ALL the time being humane?
Everyone has ups and downs in life.. The extreme high and low moments when you give up at a point without another thought
My question isn't how he hasn't/didn't give up
My question is, how has it really been possible to keep at it? What were the things he managed to remind himself of, that kept him going incessantly?
#Mystery #RealPeople #MeaningOfLife
When you think it can't get any worse, it can!
"Economic reforms have slacked. Educational reforms yet to begin. Sexual reforms are a distant dream when lingerie on mannequins is banned."
The incomprehensible chaos in Turkey!
What is happening in Istanbul?
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Bombay Rains :)
#Traffic #CabRides #WorkLife #Khichdi
Ilahi
Kabira
Dilli Wali Girlfriend
Balam Pichkari
Ghagra
#GoodBollywoodMusicAfterSoLong
" I fail to understand the 'good' part of 'good morning' "
"Is life so serious that others really determine your destiny?"
"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
"The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go."
"An honest, uncensored expression is as rare as the person capable of producing it."
"I am a Capricorn, because when I love, I love hard."
"Forever is composed of nows."
An Honest Mistake - The Bravery
Apollo (Radio Edit) - Hardwell
Beating Of My Heart - M-3ox (Matisse & Sadko Remix)
#TomorrowlandMusic
"How news works in India.
Incident. News report. National outrage. Media frenzy. International coverage. Hurt national pride. Denial. #rape"
"One does not only wish to be understood when one writes;
one wishes just as surely not to be understood."
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