NIGHT

Why's the night so despised?
Why is it always rued about?

There's a day
cuz of a night

For every night,
there's a morning

For every spot of darkness,
there's a ray of light

The night shows us
the beautiful sky.

With the twinkling stars
and the glazing moon.

For they are the ones,
who stand by in the drk.

But as soon as the dawn does break,
We forget there was a moon and there were the stars.

HOPE

An informal talk with a friend on GTalk
He asks me, ignorant of the amount the pain he is causing me, what do the entrance exam results say?
I say with a heavy heart, no calls so far.....
I add that two more results are yet to be anounced.....
He tells "Keep hoping for the best"

HOPE !!!!!!!

How many times have i heard this word???
A word, abused beyond its limits......

But many do survive just on this word......
Its a beautiful word, they say....

I'd say yes...but disguisedly beautiful
It makes the world around you so much unlike it is.....

A world of fallacies...
A world, where dreams rule......
u forget the present, u forget the past.
The steps of the ladder on which u stepped to climb, but forgetting there's a day when you have to step down too....

Hope however is a word par excellence for the bereaved, for the ones who have lost in the immediate past.......

they live on it...

we build a wonderful world around us and HOPE everything works out like that!

The true world is better where tomorrow comes tomorrow and today's to be enjoyed to the fullest!

So enjoy the days as they come instead of worrying about tomorrow......

Tomorrow, if you have to be in misery, you won't rue over a thing which was never there!

And if tomorrow rings in the good......then what else can i ask for!!!!
I do prefer surprises and so do we all!!!!

FROG IN THE WELL?????

I take up the newspaper, fed up of "trying to prepare" for an entrance exam.
The difference being the newspaper is almost a week old,
Running through the usual stories of killings, kidnappings, rapes and murders in the first page,
i turn to the sports page, an analysis of the indian cricket team for the carribean, the possibility of handing over the captaincy to sachin, blah blah blah.....
then to the business page - the officially unofficial release of i-phone by steve jobs priced at $500-600 in the US, good one said my friends, but affordable????

then i reach the editorial page, there comes an article by shashi tharoor.......
He puts forth an India shining picture.......rather a resurgent india picture, citing the example of the new poster boy for mallus, shanatakumaran sreesanth, sreeshanth, or sreesunth???? however his numerologist might have advised him off late.......

Tharoor puts forth the idea of the agressive Indian, like gopu or sree as they call the fast bowler.....

an India where tit for tat rules....
i would deal with you in the same plate as u did with me.....
an india which does not buck down under one blow, which would give back the blows......

good....
youngsters can really get inspired by that idea....

then i reach the supplements, the sunday supplement has an article informing us that the drag "queen" in the UK this time is an Indian, RESURGENT INDIA.....for sure......

then comes another supplement.......
it again brings up the mallu poster boy, and asks whether Indians are aggresive enough to achieve their goals and ambitions....
the survey says pretty much yes.....

And India's own superhero, a bollywood star, also reiterates that we need to stretch ourselves
to know our limits.......
for that he says we need to get out of our own "comfort" zone.......
true i agree a lot....
but how much "comfortable" is anyone out of their own comfort zone....
what is our ultimate aim?
To be HAPPY!!
But happy outside the so called comfort zone!!!!
Is it really possible????
Although everyone would prefer not to be called the proverbial frog in the well, but still everryone loves to be one.....
don't we?
There lies in the problem of aiming high......
We get acrophobic.....
What if we fall midway through????
what if we never reach there??????
would we able to take the mockery associated with the failure?????

But i would rate one thing, which would be ignored by many......
what if we really reach there???
The point of stretching us further comes.....
Stretching further until one day the chord breaks.....
But what have we achieved???
We still feel incomplete....
Still feel that we have got more to do till one day we will die leaving the job at hand unfinished.....

And in this process we might even break a few relationships built over the time, because we no longer belong to that genre of people.
We can't even strike a conversation with them.
Simply putting we start feeling uncomfortable, thus getting out of the "comfort" zone.....
But is achievemnt in the materialastic world really worth it?????
True to be called a "hero" by the masses you need to cut a few present chords, forge a few new ones......
But there in stands the choice......
Emotional satisfatcion or materialastic satisfaction?????
What would you prefer?

Even Mahatma Gandhi, is said to have a "spiritual marriage" to Tagore's niece, three years his junior at the age of 50, because he just couldn't realte to an illeterate Kasturba.
Yesterday i went for a bollywood flick, Guru, about how a villager makes it big as an industrialist, but the moral ways are forgotten for the good.
The end of the movie, say many including the newspaper in my hand, was flawed.
Because the industrialist is let off for all the frauds that he has committed.
They said cinema should always show a "morally good" end.
But i guess that's justified in the materialastic world of today.
India is definitely changing and so are its people.
Everything is changing with time.
Nothing remains same.
You.
Me.
Him.
Her.
It.
Everything, nothing escapes the clutches of time.
And so does India!!!

Three cheers for the changing country, although something dear is always lost in a change!
You have to pay for everything.
Nothing comes for free.
This country is set to pay with its culture down the line.....

Call me a pessimist or one that resists change......
But if I am happy with the present scenario, why should i change????

I would love to be the frog in the well.
My world does start and end with the well!!!!

Spring time ahoy?

I saw those eyes....
those innocent eyes.....
the cute smile with a kid's gleam in those eyes....
and i yearned to be like that...........
Free of thoughts of the outer world,
free of the worldly pleasures except for an odd ice cream!

Can i ever be like that.....
Be a twenty one year old and still manage to move around with the nonchalance of a five year old?

be treated like one......
feel like one......

like they accept her...
like they treat her.....
taken care as a kid......
but treated like a woman.

its so difficult in this world to show you are tough.
but its more difficult in this world to keep the innocence in you
the child in you alive....

They say the years go by, and it all changes with the years.....
the childhood comes and goes.

But is it so, or are we responsible for it?
Don't we brand the innocent as unwise?

so we hide the innocence somewhere in the dark corners where it would be difficult to retrieve it back........

And put up a facade.....
and end up not being us......

being someone else we would love to be,
but definitely not HAPPY to be.......

But there are pros and cons for innocence too i guess.....
the con part being, the naivety would be mistaken as mere "foolishness"

But paying a price with your happiness seems to outweigh people mistaking you.
after all its not them who should matter.....
its your happiness that does matter....

and slowly but steadily, the dreams are creeping in....
the days seem more wonderful,
the sunlight seems to penetrate although its the winter at its peak now, for the outer world.

greenery seems not far in the boulevard.

A few steps and is it spring for me?