Just a passing thought

Recently, I read somewhere that there is no market for your sorrows in the whole wide world so do not advertise them. I've been thinking about it....does this mean that you can't share your sorrows with people you are closest to? Is the concept of best friends...a farce?

Not sure if in today's age, time and constant pressures of work are to be blamed. Don't know if people are acting happy or really are. On the other hand, it is an optimistic ( and to an an extent, boring) feeling of us living in a sorrow-free world!

Thoughts?

The Circle of Life -The Lion King

From the day we arrive on the planet

And blinking, step into the sun

There's more to see than can ever be seen

More to do than can ever be done

There's far too much to take in here

More to find than can ever be found

But the sun rolling high

Through the sapphire sky

Keeps great and small on the endless round

It's the Circle of Life

And it moves us all

Through despair and hope

Through faith and love

Till we find our place

On the path unwinding

In the Circle

The Circle of Life

It's the Circle of Life

And it moves us all

Through despair and hope

Through faith and love

Till we find our place

On the path unwinding

In the Circle

The Circle of Life

Jaayenge kahan soojhta nahin

chal pade magar..raastaa nahin

It's the way you look at life

I have just updated my Facebook status to 'What we see is what we are'. Not that I want people to comment or 'like' or 'unlike'..but because I remember it asking (in the old version 'what's on your mind'). And this line, honestly has been on my mind ever since I met this wonderful lady who told me that our life is nothing but a collection of reaction of our paradigms.

Now, what's a paradaigm? It is the way we look at the world based on the conditioning, beliefs created in us. To me, this was a life-redefining moment. This basically meant:

1. Everybody is right from their perspective. (This will make me think twice before I start or stretch an argument)

2. What we see is what we are. (This defines our life..perspective..thoughts)

3. When we open our mouth to describe the world, we are not describing the world, we describe ourselves. (Something to ponder about before bad mouthing anyone/any situation)

4. Language has a tremendous impact on creating paradigms. (specially true with children..parents are the first source of paradigms that deifne their lives. So, the way talk, behave infront of them..matters.)

The final effort...
It has taken over two very ..very long years since any scribbling here. Unfortunately, I did not even miss it after a point. Are you thinking what did it take for me to be back? Well...a great deal of thought, a lot of motivation from friends and colleagues, a cautious dose of courage and an iota of time from a lifetime.
Yes, I did say 'courage' for I am not sure whether I can make this final effort to revive this habit successful and continued.

A lot has happened in these two years; not just in my life but around the world. OBL is reportedly dead, Libya and rest of the middle east is torn apart, Japan's smaller than it used to be, people's movement tasted a short-lasting success in India, the politics in West Bengal, India created history with Didi in power....aaaah!

“Excuse is the easiest way to escape from reality.”

This was one of the comments to an old post on my blog. Not that I didn’t realize this earlier, but off late I have seen from my naked eyes, the bitter fruit that excuse bears on one’s life. I agree that circumstances are powerful and mould an individual the way they desire. But, I still think that its only us who can change the lyrics that our life can sway or sulk to.
I am sure many of you are cursing me for the preachy notes. I know it is easier said than done. I know that you’ll understand…and very well at that. But trust me, there are times when you are just forced to remind people things that they know already.
I am talking about episodes where a lone mother who is worried about her son’s health all the while and yet, is lazy to get up to fetch a fresh pyjama to replace the wet ones that her 2-year old is wearing in chilly winters. This is about a GenY guy who knows the value of work experience and responsibility yet refuses to give up the comforts of protection and freedom. I’m talking about the wife who knows that her health needs the attention that she has been denying all along yet pays no heed.
Who doesn’t face adversities in their lives? Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. There are so many of us who eulogize their grief and pain…who seek constant sympathy...and who also keep denying hope or change or even the will to change things, circumstances, the lyrics of their lives.
For everything, everyone, has an EXCUSE.

Terrorists...within human territory?
As Bangalore recovered from Friday’s bomb blasts, Ahmedabad reeled from explosions on Saturday.
The numbers, 9 blasts in 6 places within 60 minutes at Bangalore.
And 17 blasts in 12 places including two hospitals within 70 minutes.
There are hardly any parallels to what happened in Ahmedabad- in terms of terror attacks, IEDs and suicide bombings, never has a hospital been targeted in the cruel and completely inhuman manner the Civil hospital in Shahibaug and the LG Hospital in Maninagar were. Hospitals are always the centre of action after any attack- it’s perhaps the first time they have become the scene of the attack itself.
If terror is a war, then what kind of war is this - that tries to kill the injured, to maim those already suffering, and to destroy the healers?
And the worst part of the plan- that the blasts at the hospitals were timed to be among the last of them all - 80 minutes after the first bomb went off, 40 minutes after the first round ended - at the very hospitals where most of the injured would be taken. A diabolical plan that slayed a hardworking doctor and his pregnant wife, which murdered little children visiting an ailing grandmother, and so many others. What kind of mind can work out something like that? Sadist would be an understatement. The terrorist group lies when it says the blasts are in revenge for events of the past - it’s the revenge of the future that they aim to create. It’s not our fear they’re looking for, it’s our retaliation they want. And that’s something to think about, as we set it up.