Ballast

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On every page of life comes some or the other dissatisfaction, the hindrance that demassifies a person to the extent, the person loses all hope for seeking out ecstasy. The trouble, the glut of desolation just gulps down, just to spit you out.

Willing to kill you

It wills to tear you apart

Wanting to hunt you

It wants to fear you somehow

Give it your openness

Give it your ownself

It will desolate you

Split you from your own self

Turning sweet to sour
No vibes your powerhouse will feel

Your lights turned off

No sight of sweetness you will see

The land beneath you

Tend to swallow you bold

You feel the rains of ashes

The fire too will be cold

Hold your hands

Put up your collar

Be the survivor

Be the damn, tough survivor

Your own protection you are

Your heads held up

Spit the poison out

All your weapons dropped

You have your own back

Don’t you lose your shine

Count the million reasons of euphoria

Dominate those hundreds to die

Life hands you lemon

Make it an orange juice

Make even God wonder "HOW?"

While with eminence you fuse!

The Illuminati

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“He who holds the spark can illuminate the soul of others”

I have till date followed this quote and tried to gain knowledge but fail every time, unlike Boyes who holds the magic of making anyone smile, like making a dead flower bloom again.

My fellow holds the charm and an eye-catching personality with his dark eyes, light glowing off from his face and the body too muscular, anyone can easily hide behind! “Damn you Boyes! You have again put a blot on my wooden table and you know it, it takes 15 expensive minutes of my life to clean that scar off my desk.” His never-ending habit of pouring ink on my desk every morning ruins my mood and I have to clean that not-easy-to-fade-away big spot on my well furnished wooden desk. Cool it, Charles! Cool it! My subconscious mind consoles me as I then get back to my routine. The moment is in continuous loop with an interval of hours.

I am practicing an art of being enlightened, on the boulevard of changing the perception towards life for which, I travel 30 weary km towards the suburbs. Boyes is off for his work; he doesn’t find my “temporary philosophy” worth gaining, rather considers it a waste of time. I am still in the web of question wondering why does he metaphor it as temporary philosophy! God knows!

Calmness for an hour and BAM! I am back to my boring running round the office-to-home and home-to-office bush. Just 1 hour in my 24 hours in the time I get peace in. Well, its going boring, but atleast still.

I am back to my pavilion, I can feel my bones, each seeming to weigh about 3 kg for now. I am too weary and going to have a hot-water bath and forget the world. Ah! Who says heaven cannot be visited being alive! I jump out of my shoes and there, Boyes is standing right in front of me. He is a kind of enigma to me as he never seems too tired but fresh. Is he on drugs? My medulla oblongata never seems to shut up and get rid off negative comments.

I presently need a shower very badly to dust off all my weariness and make myself feel light.

“I want you here Charles” I have hardly stepped out of bathroom, my body still half-wet and I hear Boyes commanding me.

“I hope we have no work to do Boyes otherwise you will have to see me faint on the ground!” I fear.

“You go to the temporary philosophical class, still you have so much to complain about. I cannot understand you at all. ” Urgh! Again naming my practice as something to be ‘temporary’ but I really am out of fuel to argue with him. I shrug my shoulders and greet him my absence.

We have had dinner and he is busy with his laptop, working on some designing software while I am enjoying my hot chocolate, listening to jazz. So soothing and relaxing! I am today in bed early as my body needs to be charged. I lay down in bed and think of what Boyes said. My ‘enlightened mind’ really is enlightened? My brain shuts off and so do my eyes and I am in the world of virtuality, letting go of the thought.

Morning with a sun-kissed skin on me, today I is going to be a good day and I am quite awaken and quite on ready-to-go mode. As I am about to leave, I can see Boyes still brushing up his brains on his software but he has no sign of sickness from that boring stuff. I have no time for this and I am off for my work. Again the same story as I repeat the same day for months and I am calling it a LIFE. Poor you, Charles! Even my oblongata feels pity on me.

Finally, home is where the heart is! But I can see the heart of Boyes roaming everywhere. I want to know the mystery.

“Boyes, I want to know something.” There is a vivid curiosity in my voice. Boyes frowns towards me in surprise, “Are you alright, Charles? You look in some kind of dilemma.”

“Why do you tag my practice as temporary? What makes you think so?”

“Oh! So you have finally got your eyes open, ha? You know I am always busy still I wear the charisma.” I nod my head as a refusal.

“Look Charles! Your so-called practice is just for an hour. But what then? It yields no fruit for yourself and you are to be accused for it. It doesn’t matter if you go for the practice or not but if you do not will to open your eyes by yourself; no great human being can help you. The key to the lock of your mind is in your hands itself and I assure you, no person, no matter how wise, how strong cannot steal that key from you.” I can smell wisdom in the words of Boyes as he continues.

“You always complain about your job and are never happy with what you have. There are many people out there striving for job, grinding their feet everyday on kilometers in search of job. This was taken for instance. But there are possibly many times I notice you cursing.” Boyes has a record to irrefutable nature of mine. Holy cow! I have been so dark! He adds up,

“There is a beauty in everything, Charles! All you need is a vision. Not everyone who has a sight has a vision.” The words of Boyes caught my soul just as easy as a fire spreading in a forest.

“Even a person who is dying has a beautiful message that now, he won’t have to suffer any pain. A person who just broke up and is crying leaves us a message that he has no one now to lose and he is so much independent. A person who just broke his leg can rest in bed for days. You call it a curse? I call it a blessing.”

That true those minutes can never be washed away from me that Boyes put in me.

“You truly are illuminati, Boyes” I get up and hug him tightly.

He whispers in my ears, “I am no alien, my man. I am no different. Everyone is illuminati, you have just to break up the darkness of the dark sight of yours and generate a canopy of bright vision.”

A lesson I learned. A morality I earned. I am feeling so light, so good like never before and what I will percept now in my life will be my real practice.

Darkness Domination

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The vision we have in our lives contributes a lot to the quality of it. It is up to you whether you want to wander in the shades of the tunnel or want to approach for the ray outside. It is an undeniable matter of reality that no matter who, everyone has passed through that bitter pit of sadness where one feels no less than being worthless. Believe me or not but one grain of sadness is much enough to grow an entire field of darkness. Crushing that grain in that person and then exhilarating him is not a path of roses, not at all a path of roses!

One such grain was developed by Martin, when he was studying with me at the school of literature. Reiterating his grieves had become a, everyday tale in his running days. Thrown aback in his life, he had lost his wheels to carry on the wagon of his life. I noticed him falling deeper and deeper, mulling over and over on his grief. I always lent him my shoulder to cry on but all he wished was to be left alone; the biggest mistake one does when he/she is in the bad times. I firmed myself and decided to get that grief out of him by hook or by crook.

Hotshot, 6 feet tower fellow, whose muscles spoke it all about his fitness, Martin was my colleague and my partner-in-prime. The brains he developed were smart enough to conquer the failure which he might hardly have tasted. I was always left spellbound and astonished by his wits; salute to such a master who had almost unlocked all his senses!

Flying above the sky at the speed of light but had his toes down touched to the sand. No one was ever taken as a competitor by him. Maybe that was one the features that made him stand apart from others. I have always felt vibes of positivity and goodness from his region around. He had a hunger, a hunger that could not be cooled, a hunger that was increasing day by day, a hunger of learning something newer and newer. Hardly would you have ever seen a guy who is willing to learn every damn possible thing and working hard for that stuff. I have never seen his body still, at one particular place, taking a breath of sigh. The guy was never tired.

His image, so created, no one ever thought that he would interosculate with vulnerability. Just as lady luck strikes at least once in a person’s life, no different than that, so do the events of misfortune. The climax lies in how we welcome them.

Martin was struck too, by misfortune when one day, his assignments were copied by some ‘EVIL’ in class. I can bet that he would have thought of more than 100 ways to murder that more-than-a-devil fellow, it is inevitable after all it was his talent that was to be credited but the reality was quite unlike.

I knew how it feels like to be completely worthless. I went to him, standing besides him quietly; sometimes a person must just be given a helping hand ears to listen rather than a jar of sweet advices! I did the same and he let out all his poison of aggression in front of me, I standing calm and listening to him, the best thing that could be done. He continued for few minutes and halted. The halt was a remark of his weariness from his anger. I calmly told him to sit down and take a deep breath. What I would say and what I was going to make him understand was completely expected by him and he gave me a peaceful smile.

His idea was copied, not his talent. What he lost was a copy; the original still belonged to him. Secondly, mulling over the person who betrayed him would yield nothing but vanity.

We are often mislead in our lives thinking more about others rather than focusing on our own selves. The time spent is gone forever and nothing is going to change it. Think about it over and over again, dig your pit deeper and waste your so precious time OR rather utilize that time in your constructive ideas, constructing a better future by the foundation of the lesson learnt from the past, the choice lies in your hands! The way we see something inculcates the reflection of that thing on ourselves. If we see someone as an enemy everyday, we get nothing but hatred against him and we develop poison in our own selves. But if he is taken as a lesson to learn from, we can improve our selves.

Do not let some one, who did wrong to you, control you. You are the creator of your own destiny, no one else. If someone doesn’t see your worth doesn’t mean you are worthless. It needs the right eyes to differentiate between stones and diamonds. You are what you think you are. Do not let anyone, who did so little for you, mean so much to you. Make yourself so powerful and dignified that they must not deserve even your hatred. Instead of thinking over them and waste our so precious time, why not we develop our selves and make our own selves happy!

It is quite well quoted that

“Let God deal with the people who hate you. Hatred in your heart will consume you too!” have your standard and maintain it, let us not be dragged by ill-moralized people around us.

Don’t even regret over the things you lose. What goes around does come around. You have talent; you have the power, invest in yourself and get drenched in the profit. Investment in you is the best investment. Your talent speaks a lot more than a work copied from your talent. Work can be copied but not talent. Ultimately, the lamp lies in yourself that can help you dominate all the negativities around and inside you!

Apple of My Eye

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You are something in the world

But you are the world to someone

A lady of a gentleman

An apple of the eye to someone

Everyone have a view

Not everyone have a vision

Elegance in your soul so bright

Beating the loudest, my heart just succumbs

Why do they call you my “CRUSH”

When only you can build me up!

You make my heart go dim

Yet you make it gallop

Not a tear in your eyes, I’ll let

Not a fear in your heart would reside

All yours worries are now mine

Let me face them, I’ll let you be beside

I won’t be the one you’ve dreamt of

I will be much better than that

Never leave a slot for accusation

Neither will I nor let you ever bate

On my knees, I am here before you

Wanna be my lady, my love, my sunshine?

Our tie-up will be a nonesuch, I commit

Will you be my VALENTINE?

The Apprehension

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[Before starting this anecdote, I would like to acknowledge a very good friend of mine, my prime partner, Ram Pandya who encouraged me to write on the raging topic of today!]

On normal circumstances, assume your consciousness to be

 suspended for few hours and suddenly an ‘idiot’ proceeds along with the intention to disintegrate your peace in the nap with his stupid tease. You will be raged, furiated, probably kill that fellow, won’t you?

I have hit the place on the dart where I wanted to. Our fellow beings, living in cages, who are dumb, whose screams are left unheard, whose feelings are considered numb face these irritating deeds everyday, in fact every moment.

Animals are the prosperity of every nation. The backbone of a nation’s prestige. Some people out there, act so much juvenile, they tend to tease the animals, the birds in the cage in spite of a clear sign put over there which says,” Do NOT tease the animals”.

I, along with my fellow buddies, visited a ‘baug’ recently. Such a beautiful place one can ever visit where you can find so much peace amidst the nature; you can say we were in a complete different world surfeit of nature and just nature.

We visualized different species of animals, so beautiful, so eye-catching; one can easily get afflated by the ‘engineering’ of nature.

Entering the empire of the KING, the lion, sitting there in ‘like a boss’. So enormous. But the irony was intensely felt that the KING himself was a slave in his own empire! The feelings of him overlooked as numbness by the anti-social social beings left me and my friends think to what extent people can act so illiterate! What a waste of knowledge they create when they themselves act so foolish!

The uncivilized bunch of civilians teased the animals in the cage that were sleeping. Let me ask you the same question again that I asked you earlier,” What would you do if your friend came over to you while you were sleeping and he teased you and went away?”

Before causing any harm to others, just subrogate yourselves in place of them.

A photographer, present over there, well-dressed, aviator sunglasses put on, suited himself as a man and a nature-lover, capturing the beauties over there in his DSLR. But it is said that no matter how you look and what you wear, if you do not have sophistication and wear etiquette, you are one of the ugliest persons who have no right to be called as a civilized person. Crossing the safety railings for the sake of photography of a leopard and teasing him was the stupidest act of him in which he lost all the respect we had for him as a nature-lover.

Animals are profound living beings that are to be respected, not teased. They are meant to live free, not between 4 walls of domination. It is so pitiful that the incunabula of their lives lay the first stone in the cage and see their lives set amidst the 4 walls itself, unfamiliar with the wild forest where they truly belong.

Do not grow old; grow up, grow wise. The animals are not hungry of flesh; they are hungry of freedom and love, which can be provided by us.

We are social animals, then why the heck don’t we show sociality? People have their eyes wide open, but are still not awake. They are educated, still they lack knowledge. Let us improve ourselves. Let the issue for their freedom be the word of everyone’s mouth. Let us take an oath right here itself not to tease and not to let others tease the national heritage and true wealth of our nation. Let us stop all those educated-illiterates to stop their foolishness and enlighten the sense of manners and love towards animals.

And after all, it is an irrefutable truth that humans are the most dangerous animals themselves! Be wise, stay clever, be HUMAN, wear HUMANITY!

Where Do I Start?

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The most common reason in people for not starting any task is the start itself. Let me explain.

For instance, you planned to draw a simple canvas, you sat with the colours, paint brushes and the sheet. But now what? From where to start and how?

The step of initiation is a herculean task in any field, no matter how small, no matter how brobdingnagian.

Speaking about my own self, while I am writing this anecdote, I have to contemplate many a times that how to give spark to the ignition? But once you peep inside your divine soul and get familiar with the instinct you posses, trust me amigos, it is no big deal to generate the spark.

You have a dream to put into action, well then the foremost step you need to put on is to see the root of it. It is irrefutable to digest the fact that an empire cannot be built directly without the basics of it.

Allow me to present you a case of a friend of mine who had tremendous knowledge in physics but no notion regarding the initiation of any project work. He just kept the climax of the project in his mind and the advantages of it but no foundation of it was thought by him. What he thought was much simpler yet fruit-yielding step. The project he had, he just segregated all the steps and went in reverse from the solution and steps that would result in the successive step. Coming backwards, he finally found the source of the light. As simple as that. He found how to take the start.

The panic for anything is worthless. For any step to be proceeded, you need to keep calm and listen to your instinct.

For the secret of success of anything lies within one’s own self and nothing is beyond that.

Know how to start as half the battle is won if the start itself is quite boosted up.

Love Endowed

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Glow on her face

Shine in her eyes

Couldn’t ever get my eyes off

Her beauty can not be summarized

You may not have seen an angel

Trust me, she was a kind

Thoughts of her couldn’t be resisted

She was always in my mind

Craving for her soul

Craving to earn her time

Grow old with her I wished for

The spark in her made my soul shine

Mustered my courage

I went up to her

Disclosed my feels

As my eyes rolled into her

Shyness on her face

Her eyes dropped in blush

Her smile said it all

Not a question I needed to ask

“My mom would be so proud of me

If I brought you home”

Tears of happiness rolled down her face

So touched by the love in my tone

Not a word she spoke

Hugged me so tightly

As if never will she let me go

Her love got my heart so brightly

Who says angels exist is myth?

Mine exists here in my soul

For she showed me heaven here on earth

An undying, eternal feeling ,thus we hold!

Failure is NOT a Failure

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If you get injured on your hand, will you cure it or cut-off your entire hand? You will prefer to cure it, yes of course, but I tell you to cut it off. No? Why? Just because the scar is not a major one that’s why or the hand is much important relative to the small injury?

Failure is an injury on your hand which is to be cured. An injury makes you strong and so does failure. Let the sub fuscous moment of your life build you up, not diminish you.

An incident of quite much consanguinity resembles much to this article. Back in time, young I, studying in engineering college was struck by dalles of hard luck. Hardship in studies was major disaster in my life. To give up on myself was the only thing flowing through my mind. The taunts of people, the curses of fellow mates, the pressure from family carried too much weight for me to carry on my head.

I sat in my room, my mind so numb; I gazed at the wall continuously with no thoughts in my mind. I didn’t know how to indemnify, how to compensate over my loss!

A voice, from nowhere was heard in my soul,

“The moment you feel to give up is the moment you need to give yourself a push.”

The enlightenment in me morphed me to a drastic level and opened my vision of my soul to see the brighter side in my life.

The perception you wear is the virtue which controls your mindset. Failure is not actually a failure, my dear ones. Trust me, a failure is NOT really a failure until you wish to give up. It is not a rock that crushes you down. Instead, lift it up, let it make you stronger. Have an ‘optimistic’ view in everything you face. Even the dark clouds pour down rains that make us feel jolly.

You fail, you learn, you improve, you shine. Make the hindrance a hustle towards your new version which is taller, better, faster, stronger.

Come on, you are the best in yourself. You failed, not a big deal. When plan ‘A’ doesn’t work, you still have 25 alphabets remaining.

Failure, and failure is the vehicle that can make you travel towards the ray of success.

Everyone fail in some or the other matter, you are no exception.

In fact, for me, you are luck-stricken as people who are blessed with failure get to learn something from it rather than from those who do not fail.

Fall down, it is ok. But get up, dust yourself and fly. For the coal under pressure and correct parameters yields you a perfect diamond. Shine like the diamond!

The "CHANGE" Therapy

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Before taking a step forward, I would like to just ask you all one question. We all must have seen something or the other stuff which we don’t like. Maybe everyday, maybe someday. We want someone to stop that and make our soul feel the fake relief imagining the relief when it is subsided. We see, we hate, we curse, we forget. But how many of us take the initiative to morph it, change it?

The day is so busy in sucking up our energy and attention that it doesn’t allow us to take a breath and think about a change we want to see.

We work way too hard for our green bucks that we have turned so lazy or we can say we have become LIVING DEADS for the development for the glow of our soul. The irony hits too hard, doesn’t it?

Stop complaining, and take up the leap. We are the creators of our own selves. The seeds we sow today will harvest our better tomorrow.

BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE.

Initiation is the boost for the change. “Fear less and be fearless.” We do not fear the loss in business. We do not fear the heavy amount of the fuel. We feel ashamed to take a new step, thinking that people will laugh at us. Come on guys, we must accept the bitter fact that we just want to go with the flow, who cares about the change? But actually, I as a person do care. I want us to bring the change. Don’t like anything? Change it. Make it better phenomena for everyone to accept.

For instance, I am an engineering student. Many times, I notice people just leaving off the wrappers lying around on the way. I am an engineering student, why should I pick it up? There are people hired for cleanliness.

Is it acceptable? Rather I would just pick it up and make the area clean. As simple as that. Now subrogate (substitute) yourselves in place of me. Felt something? Got my point?

Friends, we live in a civilization where everyone is in a rush.

Everyone is wasting half of their lives in earning to waste the other half of their lives. So busy in themselves, they do not want up to take any initiative.

It is all about one small, single step. You just have to take a step; the rest will be done by your conscience itself.

Take the initiative, bring the change, build your dignity, enjoy the peace. Change is all we need friends. Break up the shell and redeem yourself, be the change and facilitate yourself.

Opportunities' Fatality

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The world is contaminated

A disease so widespread

Killing billions of thoughts everyday

People alive, their mind is dead

“What will the world think?

  What if I end up embarrassing myself?

  I must rather keep calm

  Be quiet, keep it to myself”

The loss can never be indemnified

For opportunities waits for none

To hell with what people think

Let your courage summon

You stand up and speak out

They will laugh, later forget

Learn your lesson

Boost up your fate

Between you and your goal

Lies the story of your endeavor

The world is a purely neutral

None of its business, it did no favor

Be the cicerone of your own

Never mull over others

You raising your own self

It is all that matters

Wings beyond Fear

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On every verse of life

She feared every step she took

Reluctant to stand up against the crowd

The shades of the world was all that she looked

Never did she open her eyes to the bright

Never did she dare to take the risk

She wished to stay at her mooring

Till she experienced a sudden twist

A spark in her soul

Wished to spread her wings, off the ground

Visualizing the rising Sun in herself

Leaving all her fellow mates spell-bound

Giving a boost to her instinct

Stood high and firm

Her mettle touched the sky

Optimism was wealth she earned

The felicitous environment she created

Her life quite remunerative

Glow in her soul was quite vivid

Personality she wore, so pure so assertive

Just the correct personality is all you need

Rise from a pupae to a butterfly

Hit the niche, grasp up the top speed

Never you fear, always initiate a try

The "S" Transformation

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What do you call a struggle? You are looking out to gain something and you start to work hard for it; is that you call struggle? Ask yourself again if you really know what struggle means.

We live in a society where hard work is misunderstood to be struggle. People have morphed themselves into a living dead such that all they want is to facilitate themselves with more and more luxuries and with ease. You want something, you lose something. You work hard but that is not a STRUGGLE.

I was treading along a roadside when I saw an old man, reluctantly working on the road, sweeping the road to earn his bread. It was quite inevitable that he didn’t like his job, yet he was hardwired to do it for his livelihood. That is what struggle is, my friends.

You are at a position you have chosen to be. You have not yet endured the pain of life, and I pray we all never have to. If you are studying, doing any job at some organization or any other thing which you had opted for, you must love it, not because it serves you right, but because you chose it, thinking to achieve something for it.

I was studying mechanical engineering and I hated a few subjects, I would have loved to tear the pages of the books. But I heard a voice from my inside: why am I doing this? Did anyone compel me to be what I am today? I have carved my own self out today and I have chosen this field because I love it. Why should I hate it just because I do not like a few subjects? I am calling it a struggle but I myself chose this and I see my future to be decorated by the matter I have mustered in my gray cells. No, I cannot call it a struggle. I am loving it and will continue to study, no matter what but I will venture upon it to study as it interests me.

Struggle never serves you. If, what you are doing gives you even a fraction of happiness and is remunerative, that is not struggle. It is just that you have a shell of fear upon you which you need to subside. Let it not be babelism over hard work as a struggle. And even if you think you are struggling, dig the way through the box and reach out for the ray. Every negative can be transformed into positive. Love what you do, do what you love. Everything can be fruitful to you, even the bad things or the things you hate.

So stop complaining, start exploring yourself. Push your struggle to the level that it becomes not your weakness, but an enormous strength you can possess.

Initiate the Ignition

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Success is nothing but a combination of failures. A person who gets up and passes through the storm of failure can achieve the height of success. But what if a person just gives up before entering the storm just to be on the safe side? Is it good enough to ignore the storm or go for it and see the aftermath?

Hardly had he completed his school life when he started dreaming of different inventions he wanted to make while studying mechanical engineering. Siddharth was a student with good mental power, not the book worm kind but he knew the right applications of his knowledge. He always thought of making new machines, models, and projects but dropped the ideas making some or the other excuses. 

His ocean of ideas was enormous, even took a little initiative but used to give up during the incunabula of the respective project in the fear of failure. He thought that his time and money would be in vain if he tasted the failure but he was unaware of the fact that no great success has ever been achieved without the mountain of failure.

No doubt there are many failures that hinder the way to our path towards success but it is only due the failure that increases our enthusiasm and enrages our blood to fly upon success. The time passed during any failure is not the time wasted, but the time in which you got to learn something. Have a dream? Take the initiative, put your foot on the pedal, go towards it at the top speed and fly with the wings of success. Care less about the pit of failure. There are only 2 possibilities: Try and achieve your aim. And try, fail, learn, again try and achieve your aim. It is as clear as crystal that trail is the ultimate weapon what you possess. You are not a failure until you do not get up after you have fallen for success strikes only upon those who have the guts to pass through the path of obstacles to achieve it.

The time you waste in busy doing nothing is like letting the wind go which could have helped you to fly. Get yourself up, implement your imagination or later, be the slave to implement someone else’s imagination.

Be The Change

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The profound aim he had

Always ran in his blood

Working tough day and night

A flower blooming from a bud

No wonder he had obstacles

No wonder he had to climb the “SUCCESS” hill

He made it prior than anything

In his eyes was seen the zeal

“Who is gonna let you?” people said

“Who is gonna stop me?” he replied

Be the change you want to see

Before you see your dreams die in front of your eyes

The Sun has to Burn

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Walking down the silent street

With the cloud of grief hovering over him

The darkness was inexpressible

He had an ocean of fire to swim

On his boulevard

He mulled over his sadness

Sinking deeper and deeper in it

Affecting his own happiness

No longer had he seen a pupae

Which was about to break

Butterfly which was rose from the pupae

He saw it leaving all his worries at stake

Quite a lesson he learnt from it

Life gives us many tough stages, not just one

And if a person is passing through burn

That is because he made to shine like the Sun

What If...?

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Amidst the cool sea breeze, sitting below the heavenly lights from shining stars, Ahmed was quiet yet his eyes spoke a lot, no one could ever know. The only company he had with him was he himself.

Going back in time, Ahmed studied in 11^th grade in a school. Being bright among his fellow mates, having an eye-catching personality, Ahmed was almost an all-rounder. The only Ahmed did not like about himself was he used to mull over small things. That thing lead him to many advantages but also led to problems in his life as well. Despite of his good gray cells, he was a very humble person and never took anyone as a competitor in his class. Good thing, isn’t it? Well, that was the thing that made him unique.

Appraisals everywhere, Ahmed had in his life that every student wished of.  Every coin has 2 sides and so had Ahmed. Nevertheless he had his skull filled with loads of knowledge; he had a fear of what people would think about him.

He used to attend parties, functions and see people dancing, singing, having fun there. His heart used to freak out for him to dance but he would resist thinking what will others think? What if I end up in making fun of myself? He did not regret it; he didn’t realize that the golden time was slipping away off his hands. He never gathered courage to enjoy at functions.

Years passed by as this continued. He started earning good bucks, got married and lived a happy life.

A day in his life, to his fortune, he met his school friend who had also settle quite in a good way. They went in their flashbacks and remembered the school days. But no sooner did his friend start about the enjoyment, his heart began to hurt.

Few moments spent in nostalgia, they both went to their respective ways. But there was something that was pinching in Ahmed’s heart. What was that?

He ignored it and continued his life. Just a few days had passed when he saw a group of school friends in a restaurant laughing, enjoying and creating memories. A curve of smile came on his face but a pinch in his heart too at the same time, the same pinch that he felt earlier. Ahmed was coming close to what he must have known quite earlier.

He came home, exhausted and exhilarated. Seeing him so, his wife sat near him, and asked if anything was wrong. The paleness on his face, the frustration in his mind, the pain in his eyes, he discussed the “PINCH” with his wife. His wife understood what the problem was. She asked him just one question which he couldn’t answer, yet he got his answer to the question, WHAT WAS THAT PINCH?

He, after dinner, went to the seaside, he kept thinking, “What if I had just danced at the functions and enjoyed? What if I just made myself happy and cheerful? I always thought what others will think and today I am the one regretting, not them. I should have enjoyed, I should have lived that moment.”

He grieved under the blanket of the sky, regret, wanting so badly that the time must reverse but he was helpless. What was gone was gone and never had to come back.

We all have some moments in which we think, “I should have done that.” Do not bring such moments. Instead of saying so, say, “Let us do the stuff and see what happens.” You will enjoy and even if people laugh, think that you did something that brought smile on their face instead of thinking yourself as a fool. They will forget that later but you will remember that thought they laughed, it was so much fun.

The question Ahmed’s wife asked him was, “HOW DO YOU ENJOY LIFE?”

If you are asked the same question, and if your answer is you enjoy by watching T.V., playing PC games, trust me you are not enjoying your life. Make memories, hangout with friends, family. Live, love, enjoy. You may get hurt but the pain is temporary. It doesn’t have the power to ruin your happiness which belongs to you.

Get up, smile. A day without laughter is a day completely wasted. Not even that you do something every day the same and say you are enjoying; don’t live the same day for 75 years and call it a LIFE.

Life is not one big journey but a combination of million small memories and moments and better not to spoil it because of caring about what others think.

So you choose between the two, whether to regret in later years that I shouldn’t have thought of people and have lived my soul out OR to hell with what others think, I am just gonna do what I enjoy?

“Just Do It” is always better than “I Must Have Done It!”

Living Or Just Existing

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What will you call happiness, a person alone having 3-course meal in a five star hotel or a group for friends having snacks in a small restaurant? A person travelling alone in his Rolls Royce or a family travelling together in train? There are some things in life beyond money and we need to feel those things.

I used to be a nerd in my college. I always stood 1^st in class. I gained respect, knowledge, scholarships and many more things. I started my day with books and slept after seeing the face of my books. My classmates used to tell me to join them for cricket, football but I was busy studying at that time. No activity except study and I was proud of myself. I did not care what others spoke of me, I used to be busy in my own little world.

Today, I am a CEO of a multi-national company. I earn in billions but all left with me is now bucks which I earn and spend. I ask myself,” Have I not a single person with whom I can play with, share my feelings with? ” and I succumb alone in silence. I have no memories to remember, no friend to talk to, just I live with my daily routine, paper works and money.

I look back today, if I gave just 1 hour of my busy life to my classmates, I would have got friends who would have added colours to my dull life.

Studying is important, no doubt but we also need to maintain relation with other people. Memories are worth more than books. Friends teach you how to live life, how to enjoy. If you are still in school/college and are still a stupid nerd with books all the time around, it is still not late yet, have friends, enjoy with them because Few Relations In Earth Never Die.

Living and existing are different things. If you have no enjoyment in your life, damn you just exist and you can call yourself a ‘LOSER’!!! Live your life, enjoy, have fun, scream, shout, smile, laugh because LIFE DOES’NT GIVE YOU A SECOND CHANCE. So just ask yourself: ARE YOU LIVING OR JUST EXISTING?

Only They Are Worshipped

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The most common question asked by people to youngsters,” Which degree do you have?” If he has a degree, he is praised. If not, he is not even looked at. Isn’t it right, ha?

Completing his school life and getting admission in a reputed university, Nikunj wanted to gain a degree. Doesn’t matter which but he wanted one. He studied electrical engineering. He faced many ups and downs in his college life. He always thought of the degree he wanted and not the knowledge which is important to achieve a degree.

He almost completed his graduation, scored very good grades and he got the ‘DEGREE’.

The day came of his knowledge test, the interview. He wasn’t asked the theoretical questions which he expected, instead he was asked logical and technical questions in which he had to think of applications of the things he studied. We all know what would have happened next; he was not select and his friend who was just passing in his subject got selected because he knew how apply the knowledge he gained in daily lives.

Here, Nikunj and his friend, both of them had the same degree, so what was it that made both of them different?

We judge people by their degrees. It is completely wrong. Degree doesn’t define one’s intelligence. Bill Gates has no degree, the people who constructed The Great Pyramids had no degree, Dhirubhai Ambani had no degree. This explains quite well that if one doesn’t have a degree, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t have knowledge. It is the fault of society that gives importance to degree.

But. But, only they are worshipped who have degree.

Is degree really the most important thing or can a person live an easy life by the knowledge he has without a degree? The question still remains keeping in mind the society…

Is Education a burden?

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Before I share my thoughts with you, let me first ask all of you, How many of us want to make big and easy money? How many of us want to live an easy life? Undoubtedly, we all want to. But is it only about being successful? No friends. There is something more than success and that is EXCELLENCY. Excellency is the key to everything. But we run after success, don't we?

                These days many people, no maximum people complain about education. Education has become a 'BOREDOM' to those people. 90-95% people think that education means only bookish knowledge. Are they right? Is education just a bookish knowledge? Friends, education includes knolewdge of books but also includes extra curricular activities like sports, art,  games etc. Well, the fault is not of the students of the teachers. It is the system that compels us to be BOOKWORMS. We are given more of the bookish knowledge than practical knowledge. Students get tired of reading books, cram the pages and thus could not give in their best in exams.

                But we cannot change the system. But what we can change is our way of thinking. 'NOTHING IS INTERESTING IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED' !!! Do what you love and love what you do ! Whatever you do, do it not to just get good grades but do it so that you can develop yourself.

                Some of the students over here maybe thinking that I am talking about reading books with interest, am I right? Hehehe(give a small laugh). No dear,  ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY. If you study books and only books, you will get good grades but not good knowledge. Read books, take part in sports, dance, sing, laugh, be happy, enjoy your life. This is education friends, this is education. How to ACTUALLY live your life!

                Here we got our answer of the question,'Is education a burden?' No, it is not a burden but the way of seeing education makes it a burden for us. Friends, do what you love, no matter what, but give it your best  shot! Achieve excellency. And if your are excellent in your work, success is not far away.

GO FOR EXCELLENCY FRIENDS, SUCCESS WILL SURELY FOLLOW YOU !!!

P-Interest

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Imagine yourself with nothing to study and all time play, do 

your own stuff and enjoy! Fascinating, isn’t it? Now imagine 

yourself with lots to study and no time for other work! Can’t 

even imagine, right?

Heet, a college student was a die-hard fan of automobiles, 

especially cars of Lamborghini. In college that too in 1st year, we 

knew about automobiles but hardly. Heet was able to describe 

each and every part used in automobiles. But the unfortunate 

thing was he lagged behind in other studies. 

The question arises how and why he knew so much about 

automobiles and then too why he lagged behind? 



Personal Interest is a very great and important ingredient in 

one’s life. Heet’s personal interest was only in mechanics, not 

other subject. He loved what he studied in mechanics.The 

knowledge he had was not because of studying piles of books, 

it was just a simple interest of his in the subject.

Now think in reality, if we do what we love and love what we 

do, success won’t be much far. My friends, knowledge isn’t 

about cramming books and gaining knowledge, it is about how 

can we use the things we learnt in our practical lives.

Whatever you do, doesn’t matter what it is, make sure you do it 

with interest. And if you are not interested in the work, change 

it, do the work you are interested and do not ever waste your 

precious time in doing what you do not like. 90% of our work is 

based on our interest of doing it. 

Life doesn’t give you a second chance.

Heet was interested in automobiles and he studied for it 

regardless of other subject. The degrees we achieve do not 

define us but the talent of us does.

Next time, whatever you do, make sure you are interested. If 

you are not interested, you are wasting your time !!!