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The will to change, change!

Over time we get used to our different lives. We may be happy, sad, according to our wishes or just the opposite. If it is the latter, we criticise, crib but all of this is just momentary. After some time, we learn to accept, adjust and move on in life. We start living in whatever manner is best possible and start accepting life as it comes. But then life takes its usual course, that is, it turn the tables on us once again. Change, the most inevitable part of one's existence comes in yet again. It may be positive or negative. It may be for our betterment or for the worse. But no matter what it is, it is not an easy thing to accept. So, what do we do now? Sit back and let life take its course? Or stand up and try and change the change in the way that we want it to be surely for our benefit, for our betterment? I think the latter, even though a difficult and somewhat impossible option, is the best way to tackle such a situation. We can't stop a happening from happening, but at least we can, by our effort and intervention, make it happen in our favour. This is the power of humans. Our will power that is more powerful than the power of change, or life taking new turns every second. So, whenever an unwanted change comes in your life, take it in your stride and become a part of its course, rather than standing in its way, so that whatever the unseen is, at least you know more about it and would be able to handle it in a better manner and even benefit from it. It may prove to be positive for our life and improve things for our existence.

Forgiveness

For all the healing in the world
There is just one reason
For all the pain in the world
There is just one solution
For all the trust in this world
There is just one reason
For all the distrust in the world
There is just one solution
For all the truth in this world
There is just one reason
For all the lies in this world
There is just one solution
For all the peace in the world
There is just one reason
For all the war in the world
There is just one solution
For all the love in the world
There is just one reason
For all the hatred in the world
There is just one solution.
For all the righteousness in the world
There is just one reason
For all the guilt in the world
There is just one solution

Don't run after it

Almost everyday in everyone's life, there comes at least one moment where you feel as if no one trusts you, as if everyone is doubting you, your intentions, your feelings and your actions. And trust me, these moments seriously hurt when you know that you have been as true and sincere as you could or anyone could have possibly been. It is in such times that we feel what wrong have I done? Didn't I do enough to ensure their belief, faith and trust in me. It is also in response to such talks that we hear replies like we trust you but not the world, or that we never asked you anything about where you go what you do. They may haven't. But actions are much more visible than verbal commitments. I don't say that these explanations are wrong. But I have another view on this. Why do we need to worry about anyone's trust on us, in our abilities? A person needs this only when he or she doesn't trust himself/herself or obviously if he has actually broken someone's trust and would want it back. We just need to be true to one person. We just need one person's trust to stay alive and in bliss. And that is none other than we, ourselves. If we are true to ourselves, we know that we haven't broken someone's trust or breached any boundary, then we have no need to worry about whether other people trust or doubt us. It remains of no significance. Because any person who is true to himself/herself is automatically in the good books of his/her God and is true to her/him. And that's I think much more important than the trust of this petty world. So, I suggest you all to, instead of focusing your energy in gaining someone's trust, check whether you have your own soul's trust or not! Don't run after someone's trust, just be true to the person you see everyday when you wake up, in the mirror. That face you see. It is the only face in the whole world which will cry at the same time as you, with you and laugh in the same manner as you. Just gain that person's trust and the journey of life will be so much easier!!

Realize

She kept on telling her
They won't they won't
But she adamantly said
They won't they won't
She told her she was her only
They don't they don't
She still adamantly said 
They do they do 
She warned her don't
They would they would 
She still said I would coz
They wouldn't they wouldn't
But now the time has come
She told her I told you
They did they did 
She said I know
They have they have
She told her you see
They said  they said 
She said I did hear
Good bye good bye 

There are so many moments in life where we realize like we have been wronged, we didn't get what we wanted and felt that we would and that too from loved ones. And these are the moments when the hardcore truth of life dawns upon us, that we all are at the end of it all, alone, surrounded by complete silence and serenity. We trust so many people around us, care for them, help them when in need. But all of this is of no avail when we realize that life is a unidirectional thing, everything just moves in one direction. We all, all humans make our sincerest efforts to move forward. And the same is applicable to all our deeds.We need to perform them without expecting anything in return. It is not as if you wouldn't get anything back, but what you might get won't be what you have expected.   

Worthy apology

Forgiveness is for those who value it, because they understand the pain that their deed has caused to someone and the trauma that it is has caused to the mind of their counterpart. It is absolutely not for creatures who look at it as just another word in the dictionary of their stationery and fragile minds which are nothing but cerebral matter with no feelings at all, no pain or sorrow whatsoever. This is a message to the latter lot to stop apologising as forgiveness doesn't matter to them, similarly nor does their apology matter to the former, who understand the value of pain and the worthlessness of happiness.

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Hit Hard? Who? Never.

It is quite strange that how, how in this big bad world, in this place of sadness and sorrow, you see so many people running just running towards something. Something weird and unknown to me it was, but not now. It seemed so strange, why people are not bothered about the pain, the sorrow around them. So I too leaving behind all the trash, decided to find out what was that strange thing. I took the first step, it was very hard, very hard. Then as a walked towards that light, I felt so much more composed and calm. And then finally I got there, I reached my destination. It was nothing extraordinary, nothing out of the blue. Just a plain old thing that I had been ignoring for a very long time. It was hope, the slightest chance, a 0.01% probability that things will fall into place. And trust me that this probability exists in every situation, even the most difficult of them. It is just something that you hold on to. Till eternity, it is worth trying. And in this very struggle of trying, you reach your destination. And all of this is not philosophy or something just made up. It is tried and tested. If a wave move towards you, pushes you back, hits you hard, none of this is painful or difficult to handle. It is a piece of cake. But when this same wave emerges from within us, pushes us hard, hits us badly. This is when it all gets out of control. It is this same wave that makes us or breaks us. Because if we throw up, we never get back again. But if we hold on to even a pillar of sand or salt, it is definite that we will stand back up and the wave inside of us will actually push us forward towards glory.  

Traición

Why is it that even though we try so hard every day, every moment, every second, but things just don't seem to change! It appears as if life has come to a stand still. It has stopped just where it shouldn't have. How do we define what is enough? Like that's it, this is the limit. Why are some choices so necessary? In two ways, one, people who are in sadness stop crying, and two those in happiness stop smiling. This is an indicator of the fact that yes, they have enough sadness or happiness. It is enough for them. There is no need to be more gracious and shower any of this anymore. There is no need for this anymore. No one follows the principle of give everyone what they deserve because if it were so, then those with excess happiness or sadness would never have felt so numb that the happiness or sadness doesn't matter to them anymore. This is a testimony to the pain that they have gone though. So much, just so much that they have stopped feeling things, stopped communicating, stopped living. And the same is equally true for people who have abundance of happiness. It has blinded them and made them ignorant about the pain in the life of other people. Because you can't turn into a philanthropist and say that yes I have experienced the pain of the world and that I deserve what I have got and I have done my bit to improve the conditions of the world. All those who say this are just big fat liars, whose life is so full of luxuries that what they call charity is actually just some of the extra stuff spilling over, nothing more or less. So I call upon all those in pain, all those like me, all those like us, to kindly stop accepting this charity, goodwill and philanthropy of people these big fat liars. Because they don't actually care about you and nor do our lives depend on them. We don't need their hand to move forward. We have to push them aside so that we get what we deserve.

Mourn-Day

Decency, simplicity and grace

Are all signs of weakness

Not for the heart and mind

But for the society that exists around

This is a serious disaster that is taking place. Moments of intensity and heaviness. The world is turning into a different place. Everything just seems so different- people, places and things. Sometimes we feel like we had known none of them. Every mistake is termed as arrogance and every good deed or gesture as fake. Fake is what the world has become today. There are very few people who look at the real world. Most of them are just lost in the reel world. People no longer seem to be effected by the goodness or uniqueness of others and contrary to what should be happening and is true this uniqueness has become synonymous with ugliness. This is just a pitiable circumstance. This is a moment of mourning that none of seem to be  competent enough to accept the different people and their different ways. 

Volando En El Suelo

We all at some point of time in our lives feel a bit lost, as if traumatised, numb or in an oblivion. There seems absolutely no way out of whatever we are in, and the sad part is we don't even know what we are in. We don't feel like being with people, talking or just about doing anything for that matter. Our heart and mind move at a very slow pace in such times. Time itself seems to have stopped. Happiness doesn't seem to excite us, nor does pain bother us anymore. As I said earlier, everything moves in slow motion and even though we are audience to everything that is happening around us, no matter how big or small, important or not, nothing registers in our mind. It doesn't make sense to us. It just doesn't matter. In such times certain questions arise in our mind like, What is the purpose of our existence? What is the importance of this life? Why do we need to follow dreams? What is the necessity of doing the things that we do everyday in our lives? What is our significance in this world? All these questions may have come to your mind or may not have, if not at some point of time they definitely will. The answers to all these queries don't really exist. We go through many things in life and many of them question our very existence. Rationally thinking, what difference to this big fat world would the life and death of a person mean? If we use any formula and calculate, the answer is the same. It would make no difference as we are not very special or extraordinary people. We are no Presidents or Olympians, we are no celebrities.Then why is our existence required. After looking through possibly all the places that my mind could think of, I found the answer in a very strange place, in my inner self. And to my utter dismay the answer was much more simple than I thought. To us our life, our existence seems very ordinary because we don't believe in it, in ourselves. We don't believe that it is special, very special. That 's it. This is all that makes the difference between some people becoming celebrities and others feeling so disheartened and ashamed of themselves. Agreed, we may not be as beautiful or intelligent as some others, but they may not be so many things that we are, and in most cases they are not even that beautiful, trust me, it's all rotten inside. Our life is much more precious to those around us, our parents, siblings and  friends. They are people who really love us and care for us and will stand by us no matter what. We don't necessarily need the accolades of a million people to feel special, one word of praise and appreciation from our parents does the job well enough. And it is for their happiness that we live, that we do each and everything that we do, every single day in our lives. And trust me for whatever they give us, it is all worth it. So never question your existence or significance in other people's life. It will be as big as you make it, as special as you believe it to be.

Moving Forward

We all know that our lives not perfect. Let alone not perfect, a hell lot of miles away from perfection right? And you know here and there, in the course of life, obstacles are like always there. They don't see who they are coming to. They don't see how much it hurts for us to actually overcome them. And when one goes it is like another was already there to receive us right? And when we look at other people we think Oh God! why have you given all the pain in the world to me? Look at all of them leading their picture perfect lives blissfully! Well I ask you all to stop at that very moment, when any thought of this sort comes into your mind. Why is that our homo sapien species is so fickle minded and narrow in their approach towards life that they always think about what they don't have and just truly believe in the fact that the grass is greener on the other side! And I have no shame to say this I too think so! Without doubt, each and every one of us, no matter how hard we try to deny it or avoid it, hearts in hearts, we all know this hardcore truth. And this is no ordinary problem, it is a disease like plague, once we get it its hard to let go. And trust me, we don't realise how far this petty disease  has already ruined our lives. So much of our time, we spend cribbing about what we don't have rather than appreciating what we do. I don't say that we should be satisfied with life, no not at all. But wouldn't it be more appropriate if all of our energy that we spend cribbing about  things we actually use it to earn those things? Wouldn't it be more sensible to do so? Life is too short to cry over things or topple over obstacles. It moves at a very high pace much faster than we can even imagine to imagine to imagine. We can't move at that pace but it is high time that we stop wasting time on cribbing over what we not have and whatever we have to face. Instead of thinking of how bad things are for you, let's just think about all those people who are so much worse than us and also we think about making our as well as the life of such people much better than what it is. Because in order to move forward it not necessary always to step foot on the failures of others and turn them into your gains. It is a lot more easier to propel upwards when you have someone along with you to hold your hand and push you through instead of someone just pulling you back down.

Se Sentía

She felt like she was drowning
Under all of these taboos
Between all these boundaries
She felt like she was suffocating
There seemed no way out
She felt like she was helpless
There was no second chance
She felt like she was heedless
She felt llike she was sinking
Into the guilt of gluttony
She felt like she was balking
On the road to mutiny
There was no evasion
She felt like a prisoner
over her own life not death
She felt like she was a mourner

Examinations

How simple life would be 

If we had no examination to pass

No parents to please

Life would be like a mellow breeze

How relieved we all would be 

No competition to beat

No dreamy goal to achieve 

Just ourselves to please

Life would simply be incomplete

There would be no sorrow of defeat 

No happiness for what we achieve 

No appreciation and praises

No criticism or phases

Life would be so plain 

No entertainment or gain

No anxiety or stress

No scoldings of parents 

To ensure that we 

Always get the best 

Life would simply be incomplete 

Life would simply be incomplete 

Explode

We are human. We feel, the pain, the emotion, the guilt, the anger. But why do we never express it, as we should. In our lifetime, so much of what we are, what we think, what we feel just remains inside, it is never allowed to come out. It is as if what is real is locked inside and what is outside is just a mannequin, not the real thing, not the original thing. What is outside is what others want to see. Why do we hide ourselves under layers of restrictions, rules, institutions and just plain old fear. But the weird question is the fear of what? So why don't we open up all gates, remove all boundaries and let our inner light shine, let it all explode. Let's spread all the love we all have inside us. Let's spread all the happiness, the experiences, the moments, the pain, the sorrow, all of it. Let's pour our heart out, put it on a plate.What is all this fear about? Do you fear the fact that if you let the world have a piece of yourself, then you will be criticised? Abandoned? If any of these apprehensions are in your mind then I can assure you, they are all wrong. When you open the gates, what will come through is a constant stream of bright shimmering light filled with what you are. When the world feels it, you yourself will be surrounded by all that love which you have just poured out, all that happiness that was inside you will engulf you,  and give you a strength and satisfaction like you have never experienced before. We don't get a lot of chances in life. Sometimes moments come by and go and we miss them. We don't even notice them most of the time. And after some stillness, we realise what all we could have had, done, appreciated, shared, what all. There is so much to us all and we ourselves are blissfully unaware of it. There is a whole world of emotions and passion raging inside us all, trying to get a chance to break free. But we under the pressure of our social institutions, have chained it so hard that let alone break free, that world is struggling hard, very hard to survive. Please start expressing, start believing as I did or else one day that world inside you will just be gone, vanished forever. And let alone anyone else, but you yourself won't know what you are, what you were, who was the true person who resided in that body of yours. You will never know them. Stop hiding what's inside you. Just let it explode.

Hear It

It feels 
It pumps
It hopes 
It skips
It speaks 
It believes
It breaks
It tries 
It cries
It fights

Right now. Right in this second. Leave all of that pain. Leave all of that sorrow. Move. Try. Fight. Cry. To see the sunshine on the other side, it is all worth it. Get busy living or get busy dying. Because when that one moment comes, the right moment, the moment that only you and no one else can experience, can feel, then all will fall in place. All will shine brighter, brighter than the sun. Work till that moment comes. When that rush fills your body and your mind. When the sky seems so near and just around. When it seems that making yourself happy is the most important thing in the world. When seeing a smile on someones face won't matter as much as the peace inside you. To reach that moment, to reach that peak, to experience the adrenaline,  keep on moving, keep on running, keep on trying, keep on fighting faster than light or sound, faster than anyone around. To do all of this all you need is a little bit of it. Move quickly before, it does the last thing that it can, it stops.

                                          

Experience Douleur

Life is so perfect for some and just that much imperfection is there in the life of some other people. Life is so ironical. You don't know what can happen to you next and when that something happens, there is just about nothing left in your life. Absolutely nothing. We don't realise when the tables turn, and all the spotlight is on us. People do business, work hard and earn lots of monetary satisfaction, but if I would be willing to give up all that monetary satisfaction just for the well being of someone, people would call me a fool. This is what life is. You never know when, what you value the most, just becomes a thing of the past. You don't even think about the thing, which till a few moments ago mattered the most to you. This is what life can do to you. We can curse destiny for it, we can curse life for it. But the hardcore truth about life is that, the more good you do, the more exposed you are to sadness. Some people don't even have to experience any pain of  any sort and go on living, their lavish blissful life without even looking around to see that their share of sadness has actually surrounded someone else. And for those who are engulfed by that cloud of sorrow, they may never come out of it. But who cares. Absolutely no one. Till the time you are well and good, you are surrounded by a whole hoard of people chasing you, singing your praises. But in a split second it all turns into a pile of dust. And there is no use crying over this fact. Because life just goes on. In whatever manner, in whatever circumstance, it just goes on, throwing flowers at you or swords to pierce your heart and stones to break your stance, but then too it goes on, happy for some and well, otherwise for the rest. But please don't think that the former will succeed and love their life. Actually they are the most unfortunate ones as they haven't really experienced what life is!! They have never broken their cocoon to actually go out and fly whether to meet a breeze or a storm, that doesn't matter at least the latter flew, they flew with their wings spread, with their heart in the sky, flying with them, by their side. And they will be remembered they took the flight, the stride towards glory and their dreams. They took the flight and there is absolutely no doubt that yes they will, they will reach the top where the elite inexperienced lot will never step their foot. The others will conquer that mountain, they will sail that sea and reach the shore. They surely will.

Miss a moment

Times change and so do people

But how can they be so self centred

In the race to achieve the goals of their lives

They all just leave their friends behind

All that remains is broken promises and lies

And actually they don't even seem to mind

Life starts moving at such a pace that people don't wait to see where their companions, their friends go. They all are just so eager for success that they don't realise what they will do of this success, if they just stand alone at the end of the road. It all seems like a mess. Was life meant to be like this? Seriously? No. People make it this way. So all those loyal friends who didn't care to miss a heartbeat for their friends, let alone tuition's or classes, go on, because those who did not wait for you, they probably didn't deserve you at all. They never did. This is not to make friendship look like an obstacle in your journey to success and glory, but if you do care to know, then friendship can be the best motivation and support on this journey of yours. Sometimes it takes just a minute to prove that you care and sometimes even decades do no good. To all the friends, stop ignoring all your friends and take a minute out of your busy life and look around, you may just be all alone.

Waiting for happiness and its friends

It was only a moment ago

 

Everything perfect as it goes

 

Then why do things have to change

 

Like every season from sun to rain?

 

After every sway of the windowpane

 

There is an empty space beneath the pain

 

The place then is slowly taken

 

By sorrow and her lonely parents

 

Why do you have to go?

So early before even the season of snow 

Why don't you, happiness of some kind

Stand by me and reside

Somewhere where I can see you?

Somewhere where I can feel you?

And say that yes you are there

With your friend laughter, just waiting

For the right moment to follow me after

Many times in our life, we all just doesn't realise when the moment of bliss, the moment of joy ends. Why is it so? I wish knew. But I know everything happens for a reason but sometimes I wish I could decipher what that reason is. Actually not sometimes, a lot of times! But then too it is only the longing for happiness and not the pain from sorrow that makes us feel so empty, so lonely. So, we just wait for the sun to rise and for happiness to be by our side. And now too I sign off with the same patience and fortitude, waiting for happiness and its friends.

Perfecting imperfection

She bloomed in the garden

Where the sun never shone 

And never asked pardon

From people unknown 

For whatever she did

Was an expression of her heart

So why were people so eager

To tear her dreams apart

She was just born in a society

It was not a choice.

So why was it so essential

To give society a place in her

We all are so immersed in perfecting ourselves, looking beautiful, thinking about what people think about us. When we don't succeed in achieving these standards, we are sad and start cursing life and ourselves. Why me? Why can't I do it? Why can't I be as good as her? And then ultimately we end our day on a bad note, in a sad mood. So, why initially get into all of this mess. Why do we need to exert ourselves so much to please strangers? Why do we need to so badly be a part of society? Why is it so difficult to just stand out of society rather than going in?? This is not a moral advise but just something related to common sense. It is high time we realized this simple fact.