Beginning of the End

Everything which has a beginning has an end to it. No matter how much we cry or try to hang onto it, it will go away at the end of it. You might be wondering why such a sad topic to blog about? Well it’s just so that I happen to be travelling a lot these days and in these travels of mine, I am lucky to meet people who change the way I look at life. If you go through my previous blogs you will know that the genre I write on is basically ‘people’. While I was travelling on my lovely little Kaira from Kolkata to Jamshedpur, I met this Saadhu while stopping for my lunch. Wise guys, as they are said to be, I thought lets interact with him and ask him what his wisdom is all about?
I asked him if he has a family or a set of friends as they are the most common thing in a social person’s life. He replied saying that he has been a nomad for almost 55 years, he has lived all by himself and he had only the sky for company. I thought he was lying and I asked him that if he feels the need for having someone he could talk to or travel with him. Hearing this, the old Saadhu gave a hearty laugh and said, “Kaun kiske saath aata hai, Kaun kiske saath jaata hai, Sab log zindgi bhar apne paap ka karz utarta hai” and he went away. His tone had a strange thing in it which was kinda mocking me. I thought he was living a sad life but his tone gave me an impression as if I was the one who was having a sad life!!
I continued back to Jamshedpur after this episode but somehow the mocking comment of that Saadhu was still ringing in my ears. The night after reaching, I sat down and thought about his comment; I realized that he made a point. We all live lives of slaves, work our asses off, live life as society dictates and on our death bed think of what we could have done out of our lives. We worry about Global warming, EMI payments, Traffic, Credit Card hassles and forget that there is something called life which is getting wasted.
We worry about our friends, the girl who we fall in love with, our rides, our expensive watches and what not but at the end of the day, they all will not go everywhere along with you. Everything is a mirage, when you come close to it, it vanishes. When I looked at my life from the Saadhu’s point of view I saw how I was being punished for my sins in a way I never knew. Think about it, a life full of trouble, you love people, only to see them go away, you make friends, only to be back-stabbed, you give your heart to someone, only to see it being shattered into a million pieces. Life from his point of view just seemed to be Gods way of punishing us.
After this encounter, I had a new prospective towards life, how its programmed to kill us, there is no way out but the best you can do is to make it worth something you can be proud of. Don’t waste your life; go do something which you are proud of on your death-bed. Beginning of life is nothing but the beginning of the end.

Lucky Strike

You are said to be lucky if you find someone who shares a smile with you. In my long list of friends there are only a few I call my besties and this post is dedicated to that one bestie who has been the closest to me in recent times. we have shared a lot of smiles and good times.. :P

I know she is probably reading this so here goes..Happy Belated Birthday Cookie..I know I am a few days late in wishing you online but I hope you dont mind. You have been a great friend and you always make me feel special. I hope you enjoyed your day and also the little surprise I gave you..Keep Smiling :)

To the People I have loved and the People I have lost

Have you ever loved something so much that you let it go? I know it’s a very strange question. A sane person never lets something he loves leave him but there are times where a person can’t help falling in love with something he knows he can never have. In a general sense I can give you many examples like many of us love those fancy cars The Brits and the Italians make. Deep inside we know that we will never be able to afford them but still their aura attracts us to them and we fall in love with them.

Getting back to my point, all of us have this thing in us that we cant help falling in love be it with things or people. However, there are times when we don’t get what we want from life and although it’s a common happening in every human’s life we have different ways of coping with it. Some of us soldier ahead without regretting the fact that we didn’t get what we want, other seem to get unhappy that they didn’t get what they wanted and they continue to live with a depression and then there is me. Like most of us in this world today I am an emotional fool. I find peace in small things, my family, my friends etc. I have been through many situation where I didn’t get what I wanted and frankly speaking I know its not the end of it. I know that I still have many things to lose. I have my way of handling with it. Till very recently I wasn’t very stone cold with my emotions. I used to cry secretly, feel bad and after a few days sorted my head out and was back to normal. Off late I have lost my feeling towards everything. I realize that I am in a way becoming a dark person, a character who likes to be in the shadows away from everything.

Recently I saw this movie named ‘The Crow’. The protagonist loses his fiancée a day before their marriage and is murdered by the group of thugs who rape his fiancée. After a year of in-existence, he returns from the dead to avenge the death of his fiancée and sets out to kill people. I realized the intensity of the character of Eric Draven. This guy saw his fiancée being murdered in front of his eyes, very painful for anyone. He lost everything he had. While watching the movie there was a particular line which caught my attention. In one of the scenes Eric says “It can’t always rain”.

That line caught my attention for a very simple reason. It showed hope. The character of Draven who had absolutely nothing to live for still hoped that he will be with his love someday, somehow.

Somewhere I compared myself to the character of Eric Draven and I realized just because I don’t have a few things in my life doesn’t mean it’s the end of it. People need to realize that even if they let things they love go away, they will still always have a reason to be happy, maybe not in the same way, maybe something lesser or something greater. Just because a few people are left behind in this road-trip called life doesn’t mean that there will not be any other companion to give us company through life. You just need to realize that everything is not given to you at one particular moment. Its all about going with the flow and taking life as it comes rather than making a castle of happiness in your mind which can be easily destroyed.

Don't Trust Anyone

Not so long ago when I was a little kid and used to love watching WWE (I know, probably it brings back memories from your childhood too) I saw this leviathan of a man who walked the isle into the ring with 2 beer cans in his hand and the sound of what? echoing in the arena. This man was none other than the Stone Cold Steve Austin. One of the best wrestlers the ring had ever seen. He gave the world many things to learn including his trademark 3:16 (hah!! You know), but the most important thing he taught you probably got erased from memory very easily, It was D.T.A or Don’t Trust Anyone. Sitting here right now and reflecting back there is only one thing that comes into my mind. Why the hell did I forget that??

No one in this world can give you anything without asking for something in return. If you need a good job, pay a good bribe. Need a reservation urgently? Pay extra, hell the list can go on. Every single person you know has something in his mind. The only unconditional love you get is from your family and a few friends who are family but don’t even dare to think that all friends come without any strings attached. Most of them come with a string attached and a string which hurts you bad. People can talk on and on about how long they have known you and how much they have cared for you but they have hidden motives and I have learnt it the hard way. Time and again life has shown me why I should not make friends but like the mistake making machine that all of us humans are I have learnt it after having a face full of gravel.

The world is full of masked people who are ready to hurt you at every given moment. People who back stab you. How can you not learn from the famous murder of Julius Caesar?, the guy who killed him was none other than his most loved friend and here we are in the 21st century, the age of technology and yet the characteristics of the man hasn’t been changed one bit. You will always find that one guy who will be your ideal back-stabber. I have such a person in my life, but what do I do??, I let him go without a pinch on his palm. I am sure that someone reading this might just be the guy this blog is dedicated to and I am sure, he will wake up every morning, look at himself in the mirror, DISGUSTED. At the end of it all you readers just remember one thing, Don't Trust Anyone.

FORTUNE COOKIE

Now I know the title makes no sense to most of the people reading this but trust me off late I have been really lucky. Everything I have been touching is becoming gold but then its not because of of the midas touch that I am writing this blog.
I wrote this blog because I felt an empty space today when I was with my family and friends. I was remembering a few walks, bike rides and some pictures. I realized what I was missing. It was my luck.
Somehow I realize its because of me that I dont have my luck but then, just then I imagine a smiling face and I get all my answers. Its only a matter of time before I get my lady luck back, and once i get it I will welcome her with a swinging hug, till then the only thing I can do is Imagine that smile. Whenever I imagine it, I know things will be fine and everything will fall into place. Now its only a matter of time till my luck is back to where it belongs.. me :)