Who Am I?

The world around you is loaded with people who have different appearances, personalities, habits, lifestyles, etc.
That is what makes them unique, doesn't it?
Then why change who we are for anyone at all. Why change our way of living or our lifestyle or our attitude toward certain things?

Well there is a 2-pronged answer to that actually. More often than not I'd say that we shouldn't change ourselves for anyone. Because who we are defines us. That is what separates us from the crowd. Hence, it is important that the world around us, more-so the people around us, accept us the way we are and not for the way they perceive we'd be if we begin to change and live the way they like.

I mean, it is important that we adapt! It is important that we adjust! That we be flexible and seep in to the ways of our relations. Doesn't mean that to gain acceptance in a group, we need to start smoking or eat non-vegetarian food. But it could mean that even though we might be bad at remembering dates, for example, we still keep reminders and take extra effort so that we do not end up forgetting their birthdays.

Life is about adapting to situations and adjusting with people. That is what transforms us from being naive, immature and innocent to being wise, matured and understood.

When we come into this world. We do not carry with us any pre-conceived notions about life nor do we own any material possessions. We come into this life with a few relations that have been assigned to us.
When I came into this world, I owned nothing. It was just me and that was enough. When I leave, I will have left alone but with so many more relations that I made and and with an experience of life.
So if I know it for certain, that my experience is all that I will take back.. Why not make it worth remembering and cherishing on the other side!


Be yourself! But learn adaptation. That is what will take you past all hurdles, make you climb the steepest of steps, reach the highest of peaks and make you the happiest you ever imagined yourself to be.

LIVE.. and Live complete..

A couple of lines that I can think of..

Who are you to me? Who am I to you?

There is a purpose for we, a reason we cannot see

Am so glad that I ever met thee.

I wonder so often, how this road was built

How the river was cleared and so was the silt

You're happiness to me. My reason for joy.

Who are you to me?

Are you the angel I always dreamed of?

Or the artist who colors my life?

Are you the architect who puts me together?

Or the teacher who guides me to light?

Who are you to me? Who am I to you?

A hazy image of you, is all I have today

A beautiful silhouette that you are, covered in mesmerizing shades of gray.

You treat me well and never demand

You teach me well and never command

Who are you to me? Who am I to you?

A friend, A confidante, an ace up my sleeve

You never tell me what to do..

In me somehow, you always believe.

You never ask questions but yet have the answers;

You never raise doubts. Who are you really?

Who are you to me? Who am I to you?

Time to write..

It's strange that even though I love writing, I have started doing this just since the last one year or so.

Doesn't it happen many times that we realize what we love doing really late? That we should have been an athlete or been a teacher or a poet. When we share our thoughts, others around us just feel its more like a FAD and not something of a passion to us. And do we really need to prove ourselves to anyone? Not At All I'd say!!! Those who believe in and have faith in us will support our decisions!

So go ahead and follow what your heart tells you to follow. Work in a corporate office filing financial documents all day and then go home and create that business plan that you always wanted to. Buy your dream SLR/DSLR camera and click what you see. Write the novel and get it published.

I didn't offer the support once to the person who needed it. Today I know how it feels when you want to follow a dream and get boo'ed and belittled along the way. 'What goes around.. Comes around'

I love sports and I love writing. So I make it a point to write a page or two each day and to play at least one sport every single day. I work on my business plan.. my ultimate dream and polish it every time I get a chance. And the more I look at it, the more I feel confident that I'll make that dream a reality sometime soon..

We all are loaded with talents and abilities which are like completely unexplored. Some of us can be marathon runners, some squash champions, national level swimmers, authors, actors, directors, etc. Identify that in you. And work on it. Feel it. Believe in it. You will start feeling that people around you will start supporting you too.

Last night when I was writing. I was thinking of a very important recent incident in my life. I felt that I penned it down to the minutest detail and was very happy with how I framed it. I then realized, "I now have a dream". To publish what I write sometime soon. For that I obviously need to learn more but I am certain I will publish something.

Believe me.. the only one stopping you today is YOU!

Until next time..

Discover!

Life is, as we know it, a real roller-coaster of emotions. We face various situations over the years that define our personalities.

We're Happy.
We're Sad.
Sometimes Upset, yet,
Sometimes evil and bad.


We're Sane.
We're Insane.
We're Naughty.
And we feel pain.


We laugh at jokes.
We cry too.
We love.
We get tears in our eye too.

We live it all, don't we?

Finally, in life I have discovered my path. It's not just my career but a lot more than that actually. I finally feel that this new street has opened up right in front of me. No left's, no right's.

This street is amazing. It has the house I always dreamed to live in. My favourite restaurants and bars. It has star-gate's to my favourite destinations around the world. Those places that I have always wanted to travel to and experience. It has all the love I need. This street has homes of all my friends on it. A sports academy where I can play all I want. A library where I can read all I want. A theater where I can see all the movies I wish to. A showroom where I can order the cars that I always dreamed I wanted to own. And much more.

This street, in fact, is nothing but the path my life has now taken. I feel it within that there is this certain energy I possess and hopefully will spread around that will make things perfect and also help me become the real ME. A jovial, fun-loving, happy guy who wants to achieve and succeed in life. But not forget his true identity.

I feel lighter at heart, happier in mind and just content with what I have and with where I stand today. I have friends who are just what I could have ever asked for. A wonderful family. A job where I feel I fit in so well.

So go ahead. Create your own imaginary street. And promise yourself one thing. That you will believe in your dream and keep reminding yourself 2 things.

One: That you truly deserve all that you dreamed of.
Two: That you're more than capable of achieving it all.

Make this street you 'Wish-list'. Add to it your dream vacation destinations. Your favourite hobbies. Your friends. Your car that you always wanted to buy. Your favourite brands. Your loved ones. Add everything that makes you 'happy'. If you wanna climb the everest, put it up there and look at it often.


So that everytime you reflect on it and look through it, it only gets you to smile and be happier. Not to forget, work harder towards getting there.

We're nothing without our dreams. Just incomplete physical beings with a soul trapped inside.

SO..

Dream. Believe. Love. Discover Life.

P.S. : We will have roadblocks and rough rides on the way. It is a part of the game. Believe me, without them we will never ever gauge the true value of what we wish to achieve in life and where we aspire to be.

Until next time..

Reflections!

Life is a path not so straight
We have many sudden turns to take
There is a quiz to answer everyday
A puzzle to solve all along the way

I wonder and think and find meanings for
I analyze and ponder and think some more
A simple truth so hard to digest
Failing to believe how life is shaping itself today
Its all for the good i know for sure
But why through the darkness, I wish the tunnel would end here

I reflect over the past few years
Have witnessed all seasons
The rains have been beautiful for obvious reasons
Every moment I remember today,
I feel short of words to say

But I do need to say
Thank you for those years with me
There was nowhere else I'd wish to be
I know I'll dearly miss those moments
Maybe this is in our destiny!


I look up today
The skies are cloudy
The wind blows hastily
Carrying with it the dust, moisture and my life in a certain direction

I have to stop expecting I know
But I need to have that time to believe
To have faith and to trust myself again
To reason with myself
To figure me out
And to clear every doubt

I reflect on the seasons gone
I reflect on the nights unslept
I reflect on the joys and sorrows
I reflect on the times I wept!

I begin to understand now
The meaning of a complete life
It's not just about materialistic pleasures
Or spending years finding the perfect wife!!!
Life is a series of experiences
Both fulfilling and unfulfilling
We have to witness them all
To understand life's true meaning.

Some moments come crashing down on us
We give up all hope and desire
But there are those moments too
That lift us up again and help us aim higher!

Let's live for the joy's
Let's live to feel complete
Let's face the sorrows
Let's never, in life, accept defeat!

Being lonely is just an excuse
Being upset is just of no use
Live for today and plan for tomorrow
Things will surely fall in place
You smiling face the world will borrow!

Face the mirror! Reflect!
Dream on! Life, if you believe in it, is perfect!

Today @26, I am at a juncture where my mind and heart are constantly at loggerheads over every decision that I need to make. But I am beginning to mend the broken relationship between them and find the peace. Life as we know it, is too short and moves much faster than we imagine. So every minute I waste is 60 seconds lost.
So let's live. Take Chances. Play a sport. Meet new people. Do something stupid and love it. Let's laugh until our stomach hurts. Let's dance until our feet are sore. Let's eat on the roadside. Let's watch a stupid movie and complain. Buy what you desire. Take a trip to your dream destination.
Live like there is NO TOMORROW!!!

Until next time..

Crossroads!

Well as glad as I am about the year 2010 coming to an end.. I still haven't really found the right path on the crossroads of my life!

I finally feel that career-wise, I am at the right place doing what I should have always done. But then I still feel unstable in most other aspects that complete life.

But then if we think about.. We are all vulnerable at some points in our lives. Maybe this is the time where I will finally identify the strengths in all avenues of life and bounce back. Be a better human being than I was!! And to be very honest, there always was vast scope for improvement!!!

Life, as I see it, has three clear outcomes.. Win. Lose. Trail.

Like the phrase goes.. We win some and we lose some. But the key thing here is that if we do not lose those few, we do not really appreciate the joy of winning the others. I have been very pessimistic about a lot of things lately and that hasn't really helped my cause of trying to fight through these hard times and coming out a better person.

We really have to reflect each event that occurs in our lives and take out of it the valuable information. Create a sort of a filter. Vulnerability is not something we have to be ashamed about or be embarrassed about. It is something that helps us understand the value of relations and people who affect our lives each day.

And about trailing in some paths of life. There is nothing wrong with it. It can be called wrong if we give up because we trail for too long instead of just hanging in there and working on ourselves to put us in a better position and be able to win!!

If I may truly open up and say the absolute truth.. I give up too soon myself and am sincerely hoping that writing and reviewing my blog will help me too. I apologize but I am the last example of 'practice before you preach'.

Today @ 26, I am not looking for anything in life. I am looking for life to shape itself. I will just try and adapt and adjust myself in a way that I make the best of the rest of it.

P.S. The things you own can't make you as happy as the things you do.. If you have to choose between buying something or spending the money on a memorable experience, don't hesitate...go with the experience!

Until next time..

Memories!

Life is so unpredictable! Sometimes we are certain about what we have and before we know it, it's gone!

I just understood the meaning of Karma! Whatever we do, eventually catches up with us..
I have been blaming 2010 for being a bad year for me.. Almost nothing went my way the entire year!! But then is it really 2010 I shall blame or were there mistakes that I made that I better rectify!

I haven't been the perfect, righteous guy that my well wishers would hope I'd be. I have been bad, I have been wrong, I have done things that I wish I hadn't. But I also believe that we all have an opportunity, a chance to rectify our lives. To set things straight.

Agreed that some things cannot be rectified, some wounds can't be healed and some errors cannot be white-inked! But then I have this feeling that Karma has a certain set of rules.. where we all have a chance to be better than our previous selves, to work on our err's and bring our lives back on track.

I have only one major regret in 2010.. the fact that I lost the girl who I loved more than God himself. But I know that I will always have that love for her. I know I lost her not just due to some fights and issues that faced our relationship, I did lose her to many wrong's that I did which I didn't rectify in time.

And when I did try to rectify them, turns out I was a little too late in doing so!

I know I lost her but then if I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have realized the worth of that relation. Today, even though I feel exceedingly incomplete without her, I feel happy for her and glad that she got herself out of the relation that did not make her happy. But I'm sure she knows that there is at least one person in the world that she can always depend and count on, if not as someone she wants to be with, then at least as a good friend and an ally.

2010, on the whole was a year I would love to forget.. to erase or probably rewing and replay in my own little way. But then they haven't yet come up with the commercial version of the time-machine!!! And maybe it's good they haven't cuz this year will always remind me that we can all have good times and bad and even miserable ones. It's totally on us on how we come back from them.

Here's to 2011 though.. It's been a good start - a positive one! I have the job, I have quit drinking too ;)
I want to hereby live 2011 with no regrets and with a lot of optism. I have a lot of goals and aims this year and am super-sure that this is gonna be an unbelievably good year for me both emotionally and financially!

And who knows, if the 2012 prophecy comes true, this is the last full 365 days ever!

P.S. : And just if you'll are wondering, I haven't been all that bad.. I mean I wasn't good but I wasn't criminally wrong either. They are error's I can live with but would still like to set them right with time.

Hence, @ 26: I have a much bigger new year resolution that just quitting alcohol or apologizing to all those who I have severed relations with! My resolution is to be a better human and to respect what I have rather that cribbing over what I don't.

Until next time..