Tracing back to our roots

Recently I got back from my native place Konkan. And that journey made me realize some of the aspects we have been constantly ignoring in our day to day activities. One of the reasons for those getting overlooked is they don’t seem to be cool. What do you think is running in my mind? Is this person suggesting to leave MNC jobs and rush for a tirth yatra (sacred journey)?

No. That would be too early activity for seeking serenity. I intend to ask you all few questions. Where did your family origin from? Do you visit that place and get involved in its festive celebrations?

Apathy towards life

We all have certain hobbies or likings. Ergo, we indulge in it and sometimes get addict to it. Most of the men like sports while women gravitate towards shopping. Per se all live to enjoy one or the other thing. It is perfectly rational to get attached. Ever thought of Sannyasis. Those are the ones who wish to renounce worldly and materialistic pursuits. 

However they dedicate their lives to spiritual pursuits.There exists certain class of people in our society who wish to be different. They believe all tend to deviate to such things and lose their focus. So this class lives aloof, free from any kind of addiction. This apathy is what separates them from the rest.

Syndrome of jealousy, greed and love

Doesn’t the title infer a sequence of events? For many it started with your best friend getting a girlfriend and you getting a lesser priority in his life. There comes jealousy. Some might argue here that jealousy might come from you not getting that girl. Introspect and you will find the former cause. This leads to greed of having a girlfriend. And the lonely rider tries his luck with many until he finds love.

The above analysis was pretty simple. But this is not limited to cuddling moments. Think about your family relationship, your work place moments. All adhere to this principal. And there is a learning one should take from it. Let’s see the below diagram.

Free world

Mankind has evolved since a long time. In this journey he created a lot of conditions through his own knowledge. This conditions are religion, beliefs, culture, etc. This has been followed since generations. The western or eastern or any other side has some or the other pattern which is executed.

Ever thought why we get up early, why we go to office, why we go to temple, why we marry,etc. There are so many things that are being done by humans devoid of purpose. There is nothing wrong in following the suit. The question I ask here is are you ready for a world free of choices?

Her Blessed Family

When a mother is pregnant there is a curiosity amongst her close people if it would be a boy or girl. Thankfully the government has made it illegal to know before birth about the gender of the baby. The curiosity comes to an end after 9 months. Husbands in the mean time equivocate and try to assure everyone that they are ready for either of it. Finally after the epic operation is completed the doctor comes out and says – Operation successful. Congratulations. It is a XXXX

Eyes get filled with tears when the father sees his exhausted wife looking at him and the tiny baby crying of being awakened to reality. And in few days relatives, friends try to figure out the baby’s looks match up with the father or mother. The baby starts growing and finally becomes a girl child in the family.

Virtual philanthropist

Home Telephone rings: “Mom send tea in my room”

Whatsapp msg: “Hey Rhea whats up. Haven’t seen u for a long time. Hope you are doing well.”

Twitter/Facebook Status update: “Sana is now married to Akhilesh Raut”

What do we see in above cases. A clear display of exploitation of technology. I wonder what Graham Bell must have thought if he had seen his telephone making very short distance calls just to avoid getting out of bed. I recollect a witty saying – A minute on the lips a lifetime on the hips.

If we look at today’s generation this technological edge is vital for surviving the demanding phase of time. By multitasking we avoid the unnecessary moments wasted in expressing our views. To be precise 17 muscles to smile and 42 muscles to frown. A smiley/emoticon saves that efforts. And yes saves you from being blank and not obligated to reply at once.

Status switch

Statutory declaration: This does not relate to any facebook/twitter status. I will not be criticizing on your emotions here in any manner. I understand to be living in a very democratic society.  On a bird’s eye view Yes some of your status will be assessed. Let us start with certain scenarios.

What’s so special about that guy I can do better than him. I deserve that girl’s friendship.  
I worked like a donkey to finish that assignment and that useless fellow has to be in fame.
etc, etc, etc

We saw the dissatisfaction in us for what we are good at? No. We saw the dissatisfaction on the part we leave to others to decide. I agree we consider external factors like faith, destiny to tide over it. But the fact which remains unexplored is; have we ventured into the other side?

Happy New year

Illusory Satisfaction

Some things just trespassed my shortlived happy days

And have left me choked into a state of enforced silence

Where the mind is blocking whatever the heart says

Making its slave for an undesired essence

I believe not all wars can be won by love other than resurrection

But sometimes wonder if love is a war which needs to be won from both sides

Then either you have to defeat yourself or have the strength to face the ultimatum

And if there is something that I look for is none other than what abides the above

Eclipsed

How the earth feels when it faces an eclipse. How do you feel when a shadow of awful things is casted on your destiny? We all agree good things don’t last forever in our life. How nice it would be if they last. But as I always say something which lasts longer loses its value or respect.

It is said that one should handle one problem at a time. Multi tasking is a definite no in such scenario. But what if there is a league of problems encircling you at a time. You have no option than to suffer quietly. One can’t risk of supplying its full power to one problem. Days pass on and the limit approaches where you desperately need a break from this to breathe fresh air.

As rightly said - As earth revolves, as wind blows, the clouds also move. So thus the dark clouds over us moves. But sometimes the wait is too long. Instead of fighting or resisting the pain we find methods to quit, which is wrong.

Today I had a chat with my uncle who has experienced this and handled it in a better way. Let me share this with you all.

Living slowly

Rohan asks his mom: If earth rotates why don’t we feel it. His mom replies him scientifically about the huge sphere moving at just 1070 miles/hr. Rohan is not yet convinced and seeks out to find an answer. Somehow we have also ignored this question for bookish knowledge.

Have we ever seen the sun come up or the moon passing by? Why not. Ahh! We are always out of time. Why do we live life so fast to skip the fun of living it. 

Beach Part 2

Beach - Part 1

Give an ear to

Democracy has penetrated in almost every part of the world. One of the principles of democracy is freedom to speech. Agreed that we all have different views regarding the society we live in. But speaking in air doesn’t make any sense. There has to be an audience for it.

The world is not complicated as it been seen. Every person has its own story to be told. Till the time he doesn’t tell it to anyone it is trapped in its body. He only feels relieved when it is voiced to someone. The person doesn’t expect any advises or suggestions, he just needs to be heard. 

Love - hate synergy

Practically speaking there is not much difference between loving someone and hating someone. Coz you think about that person most of the time. Well sounds great on the jovial side. But ultimately those are energies that embark upon the ocean of human emotions.

I believe most of you must have felt your chest full when you really see the person you love after a long time. That’s love pouring in your body. Just waiting to hug him/her. That was the love side. Let’s look at hate side. Think about that situation when you were just ready to hit someone badly. You had the adrenal gushing in you. But you still controlled yourself and avoided it. So what exactly is this force?

Happiest moments in life

Happiness differs from person to person. It can’t be shown but can only be individually felt. You may have said to someone that a particular person is always happy. But you never knew what he is portraying is indeed the truth or just an effort to please someone who cares for him.

Happiness relates to satisfaction and satisfaction relates to acceptance. Any person can be happy if he decides to be happy. Let’s give it a try. Close your eyes & imagine yourself being happy. What do you see? When I do I see few things & suddenly a smile appears on my face. What did I see?

Young Responsibilities

“With great powers come great responsibilities.” A quote which is said many times by us to people endowed with such powers. Responsibility should take into account the pros & cons of his/her doing.

The above situation is a latter part of the story. Let us look into the preliminary stage of it. If you tell a youngster - You will be responsible for your own doings. He will innocently say why me? My parents will back me up. And this scene will continue till the time their backing prevails in the society.

If you tend to closely look at the young generation, you will tend to find they have gone too ahead of what we could imagine at their age. They are doing things which took us ages to succeed.  I am not criticizing or jealous of it. The think that is lacking is the understanding of the gift.

Ex-life

Sometimes I wonder was I right

In letting you leave me

And make me believe to be free

Never to see you in my sight

Time passed away at its own speed

Entangling us in our own world

But like a ray of hope passing through the dark cloud

Nested memories of our love to let my heart feed

Pull – Push Factor theory

The pull-push factor theory is known by almost everyone. Still I feel the need to throw some insights in it. There are some misconceptions that need to be addressed.

There are many ways to lead your career. Some of the ways apart from the above two are: Parental advice, friend’s advice, ego’s advice and leftovers with the flow.

Corollary of haste

In the flow of time we are in constant need of various things. We manage to get some which are meager in terms of our expectations. Others are postponed. They mostly become farfetched dreams. Imagine buying a spacious flat at South Bombay. 

The things which we acquire either by emptying our pockets or of our parents’ are not effectively used. What I mean to say is we are not happy with it. We often tend to lose out on what we have in anticipation of a bigger chunk of what we possess. Why?

Hidden answers

We chase things which we believe is for us. But when those things don’t work out properly, the things which we had ignored earlier come for our rescue.

This is not restricted to things alone but humans are also a part of it. Let me emphasize on humans as I have seen quite a number of cases having common characteristics. 

There are certain people who we are close to. We may not consider them best friends with whom we meet regularly and go for movies or shopping. But those are people who we turn to in crisis situation. Or precisely when we are in a state of dilemma between heart and mind. Mostly there would be only one friend in your life who would qualify for this rank.

Mirroring ourselves

I walk a lonely road and my image follows me

But will I ever set myself free from me….

A short two liner to start with this thought. I wonder whether you have noticed in the computer games we used to play. We had two types for viewing a game or precisely speaking there was an option in the camera settings. It was a first person shoot or a third person shooter game. In the latter format we could see how our player is fighting. And in other part we just saw what is in front of the player without the visibility of the player body.

Why am I emphasizing on such position setting? 

Reaching the Equilibrium

Before creating living things on this planet God had a lot of preliminary factors to look into. He made a point that nothing goes waste and nothing interferes more than its scope with the holistic system.

Since most of the things are invisible to our naked eyes, it is just experience that justifies their existence. We always feel that bad is reverse of good. But this is not the case.

Way to living

Days passed, months passed and years passed away and we thought at the end of the day “Oh my God we dint even realize how fast time flew away.”

We are always in a hurry.  We believe in getting things done in the fastest way without even experiencing the fun of it. We have a lot to do in a day right? And we just need more than 24hrs to complete those.

Are humans really sensing this crisis situations? Can they tackle it?

No Tv day

An amazing performance by this foreign group playing with fire. This was organised by Hindustan Times as a No TV day on January 29th. This is worth seeing. I know the quality is bit low. Couldn't upload the HD video because of its huge size.

Random

Macro

Airborne

Daisy evening

I remember the very first day of our course

When we all were given a sleepy dose

Dressed in white corporate attire

You were blooming in a mass of mire

There is not a scintilla of doubt in my mind

Why they chose you from whatever they could find

And made you the head of the class

Just like a song that doesn’t sound good without the bass

Sun special

Rainy snaps

Greater Coucal Call

Bharadwaj (Greater Coucal) is a bird that is not seen so easily in this concrete city. I got a chance to shoot this bird. Listen to the amazing sound he makes to call his companion. And yes next time you hear such sound dont hesitate to look outside your place. You might get lucky to see him.

Tiger Call

I had been to Tadoba tiger reserve in the month of May. Its bit late to share this video. But I am sure you will like it. Its something too real to experience from a closer angle.

Birds

Flowers