jaage hain deer tak
hamen kuch deer sone do
thodi se raat aur hai
subah to hone do
aadhe adhure khwaab jo
pure na ho sake
ek baar phir se neend mein
woh khwaab bone do
a not so popular song from a critically acclaimed chartbuster of the
season.
One of my favourites. Tells about dreams.
Dreams!
In the earlier posts on the blog, i ve written down a lot about it.
Always in the negative sense.
Not that I have changed my stand on it.
It does hurt when it doesn't come true, (still???).
The diffrence lies in the fact that your greatest strength can
sometimes be your greatest weakness.
Too many cooks spoil the broth, or is "two" many cooks spoil
the broth.
Operating in groups has always been tedious.
Working alone might not be difficult, its more difficult when you
have to make others work.
Trust, a word that has been used and abused by many on this
planet, is hard to come by.
Its more important to know the fact that trust on oneself is
easier to come.
Self-Belief, should be there.
Strange for a pessimist who degrades himself more, day by day
like me writing down something like this.
And more importantly, trusting your own instincts. That is something
which I have refrained from doing.
And I regret that and ask me how!
Life and its lessons!
Sunday 25 February, 2007
Trust?
Sadist!
One fine night last week, sparing a few hours of my sleep, i saw an intriguing movie, Babel.
Babel stands for the ancient city of Babylon in the Hebrew Bible.
Once upon a time, few people decided to build a tower, known as the "tower of Babel", to reach heaven. This apparently angered God, who punished the peope involved in the project by making them speak different languages and seperating to the different parts of the world.
"Good Lord", wasn't that nice of him.
Nope this has nothing to do with the movie, its just a piece of mythological history i had read somewhere. Probably the movie has just the similarity of people speaking different languages, from japamese to morocan, english, mexican, and even the sign language.
It basically is a movie about how the actions of one may affect another, who might not be even aware of the existence of the other. A kind of "Butterfly Effect" which states that the flapping of wings of butterfly in Brazil may cause a Tornado in Japan. A story that moves across four countries and people of different races, mistrust ruling among them. Nominated for the oscars, worth it, a bit like last year's winner Crash.
But this post is not a movie review, its about the "knowledge" of not knowing of the fact that each and every action one carries out affects another. Some of whom we don't know, and some whom we know, and value more than ourselves!
Sometimes, we want to make ourselves believe that its just us who are being harmed, but in reality seldom do we realise that the wounds inflicted on others are much deeper and much dificult to fill.
And there are some who feel, let anyone be happy or unhappy, I come first.The "I-centric" people. They ruin this planet, we say. But delve deeper. So are you and I, and everyone until the day comes when the wounded one is you. But does that restrain us from repeating the mistake again. Never. Now its more of a sadistic pleasure!
Babel stands for the ancient city of Babylon in the Hebrew Bible.
Once upon a time, few people decided to build a tower, known as the "tower of Babel", to reach heaven. This apparently angered God, who punished the peope involved in the project by making them speak different languages and seperating to the different parts of the world.
"Good Lord", wasn't that nice of him.
Nope this has nothing to do with the movie, its just a piece of mythological history i had read somewhere. Probably the movie has just the similarity of people speaking different languages, from japamese to morocan, english, mexican, and even the sign language.
It basically is a movie about how the actions of one may affect another, who might not be even aware of the existence of the other. A kind of "Butterfly Effect" which states that the flapping of wings of butterfly in Brazil may cause a Tornado in Japan. A story that moves across four countries and people of different races, mistrust ruling among them. Nominated for the oscars, worth it, a bit like last year's winner Crash.
But this post is not a movie review, its about the "knowledge" of not knowing of the fact that each and every action one carries out affects another. Some of whom we don't know, and some whom we know, and value more than ourselves!
Sometimes, we want to make ourselves believe that its just us who are being harmed, but in reality seldom do we realise that the wounds inflicted on others are much deeper and much dificult to fill.
And there are some who feel, let anyone be happy or unhappy, I come first.The "I-centric" people. They ruin this planet, we say. But delve deeper. So are you and I, and everyone until the day comes when the wounded one is you. But does that restrain us from repeating the mistake again. Never. Now its more of a sadistic pleasure!
Wednesday 14 February, 2007
The thirsty crow!
Date: Feb. 14
Time: 11:00 am IST
Lecture: Concrete technology
Class: B.Tech IV
Branch: Civil Engineering
College: National Institute of Technology, Surat.
Unfortunately i was forced to sit through the aforesaid lecture on concrete technology.
The professor, one of the vey few of his clan who doesn't kill us by giving boring lectures was giving a lecture on the properties of aggregates.
He came up with a story, the oft listened one.....
That of a crow, which was thirsty and suddenly found a jug with little water at the bottom.....
But the Prof came up with an intresting twist to the tale.....
The stones which the crow puts into the jug would absorb water upto an extent, due to the various fissures, cracks, microscopic pores, etc present.
And so there are chances that the crow won't be able to drink the water!!
How complaicat d life is????
The crow drinks water in Kindergarten and it may or may not when in graduation!
But who's thirst did it?
The crow's?
Or mine?
I guess as the thirst increases for anything from knowledge to money, we forget the simple things in life!
The roots are diffiult to be clung onto.....
Although we might sometimes realise and make a desperate attempt to cling on, not much can be done.....
What does flying high take away from us?
lots before you realise.....
lots before you end up being a slave of your needs rather than the other way around!
This crow is sick of the thirst!
Somebody help ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time: 11:00 am IST
Lecture: Concrete technology
Class: B.Tech IV
Branch: Civil Engineering
College: National Institute of Technology, Surat.
Unfortunately i was forced to sit through the aforesaid lecture on concrete technology.
The professor, one of the vey few of his clan who doesn't kill us by giving boring lectures was giving a lecture on the properties of aggregates.
He came up with a story, the oft listened one.....
That of a crow, which was thirsty and suddenly found a jug with little water at the bottom.....
But the Prof came up with an intresting twist to the tale.....
The stones which the crow puts into the jug would absorb water upto an extent, due to the various fissures, cracks, microscopic pores, etc present.
And so there are chances that the crow won't be able to drink the water!!
How complaicat d life is????
The crow drinks water in Kindergarten and it may or may not when in graduation!
But who's thirst did it?
The crow's?
Or mine?
I guess as the thirst increases for anything from knowledge to money, we forget the simple things in life!
The roots are diffiult to be clung onto.....
Although we might sometimes realise and make a desperate attempt to cling on, not much can be done.....
What does flying high take away from us?
lots before you realise.....
lots before you end up being a slave of your needs rather than the other way around!
This crow is sick of the thirst!
Somebody help ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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