Music: Art Of Living

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What is music? Is it really related to the sound that is generated from the instruments or is it something more?

When I asked individuals about their hobbies, I have often come across this answer from individuals that they love to listen to music and name their favorite artists. For me music is not really something that you listen from great musicians or maestros. I will not deny the fact that the creation of those creative minds is music but it is not just plane sound, which is music.

Have you wondered how your favorite song would sound without all those pauses? How empty would be if the music did not have that elegance of pause, which gives that stability to the changing beats and tunes?

I am very sure that many of you have heard of this phrase “Nature playing its music” or “wind was singing to me”. Is it really something that has been said metaphorically or something that is observed keenly? I bet you cannot deny the fact the nature has its own music and the instrument she uses is just jaw dropping.

On a lazy summer afternoon birds chirping and the wind blowing on the deserted road. What is that sound, isn’t that a melody? If you have ever been on beach and paid attention to the sound of the waves, you could relate to the music I am talking about. A music that is not dependent on the instruments but a music that has beauty, which is not repeating itself, that is not created just to soothe few ears.

A kid laughing, wind blowing, lustful whisper and many more happenings of life can be music. Rustle of leaves on an old boulevard to honking of cars in a traffic jam, everything is music.

If the beauty lies in the eyes of the onlooker then music lies in the ears of the listener.

I play guitar and do treat the sound that is generated from it as music but also consider the pause in between the tunes as music. Music is beautiful and truly a stress buster. It gives time to you, to realize and contemplate on your being. For me it is really something in which I can find my reflection. It helps me unwind and let me focus on my being myself. It sets me straight.

As they say music is same everywhere because it has no language, no borders and no appearance of its own. You cannot differentiate between music as rich or poor or black or white. It is universal. If you ask me perfect definition of democracy then it has to be music because music is for everyone and anyone can contribute to it.

Music not only makes me happy, but it can also make sad, it can also scare me and it can also make me violent because music to me is emotion. Emotion that spreads without medium.

         

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Impact- A Ripple Effect

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We all are created to do something. That something can be really anything. It can be leading the nation by being the Prime Minister or it can be being a sweeper and making society cleaner. But what is important part of life is doing something not for the sake of yourself but also for others. It is about having the positive impact on life of others.

From ages we have been hearing this phrase “Human beings are social animals”. What does the term social refers to in this phrase. Is it something like living in a group or having get together or throwing parties or is it something else?

Being social does not really mean having X number of friends or having Y number of friends on Facebook. It is more about having positive impact on life of others. It is more or less related to working for the betterment of yourself along with the society. If human beings would have kept all the knowledge they got to themselves then what the world would have been like. I guess who would have never come to know of the fact that earth is round and also we wouldn’t have been able to identify ourselves too.

I have a friend who, who once told me a story about making the difference and having positive impact on someone’s life. There was a person who used to live in his neighborhood and sweep his parking space and also the road in front of his house. He was mocked by few in the starting but eventually the whole neighborhood joined hands and swept the road daily. The whole society was cleaning the roads, making it one of cleanest societies of the city.

That person did not require great effort or a lot of resources. He indulged in the activity he felt right about and eventually everyone started following him. There is one term that I have used quite often in this blog, which is “positive impact”. Having impact on others life can be anything from good to bad, what is important is that a person should work on having positive impacts on other’s life.

That action can be as simple as planting a small tree or adopting a stray dog or giving free lectures. It can be anything under the sun. As people say a good deed is like a ripple effect. No deed done with good intention is big or small. Get out of your house and pick a banana peel from road and trash it in dustbin, which is also a good deed.

There is so much in life that you can do. It don’t always need a great mansion or good bank balance to do well to others. No one is asking you to give away yourself for others but it is the thought that counts. Spreading the awareness about something also a good deed. If you feel like indulging in a good deed and having positive impact on someone’s life after reading this blog then I would feel that I have also done something that had positive impact.

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Navigate With Courage

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Have you ever been stuck in a situation where you cannot think of any way to get out of it? That feeling of being helpless and being stuck is really frustrating. When you feel as if you are going nowhere and the whole world seem to be passing by you and you just stand there and watch everyone get ahead. Have you wondered how a sailor would have felt when he gets lost in the ocean and all he can see is the emptiness all around him. For him feeling blue becomes reality in a literal sense. In the vastness of sea and emptiness of it, how small and trivial he feels.

Imagine you getting stuck on an island for few days and all you can think of is finding a way out of it but not finding it and you can see the days passing and the whole world moving forward except for you. That is when you need to muster courage and navigate through the unknown. If you look at the sea, you would see nothing but the blue vastness extending to infinity but those who navigated through those waters know that there is land on the other side of it. They were the one who navigated their ships into the unknown.

Everyone is afraid of something and everyone hesitates to take that first step but some day to know what lies on the other side of horizon you got take out your boat and start navigating into the waters and have to keep in mind that waters will not be forgiving and they would push to the limit and test you. The moment you start to accept the defeat is the moment the blue waters will become your destiny, the destiny you have not asked for. When the journey becomes your destination that is when you feel stuck because it is not something you wanted.

Always remember you set out for land and you would settle for no less but land. You will reach there because you have fought waters and have always kept it under your boat.

Navigation is a skill. It is the skill to be able to think straight while life is in spirals. You are responsible for your actions and no one will row you out of ocean. You got to pick up that oar and start rowing towards the land. Even if you can’t see the land, you must have faith in you. If you feel like getting stuck, you got to work on your navigating skills.

Navigating is just like navigating in seas. You have to know your coordinates and also know the capabilities of your boat. Once you know about these aspects, there is no one stopping you from reaching the coast.

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Losing Her

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Have you ever felt that sensation running down your body, which makes you feel naked instead of donning the best dress from your wardrobe? I have felt it. The feeling was triggered by losing something. At first I took it as something not of importance but as they say “You come to know the value of something after losing it”. Same was the case with me, I lost her and now I long for her.

It was a fine morning. Nature was playing its music and vehicles’ honking at a distance seemed like a melody. I was lying on my bed awake and caressing her texture. I did not wanted to get up, everything seemed just perfect about the moment. I looked at my cell phone’s screen and got out of the comfort of my bed with haste. I was running late and got ready in quick time and then as I picked my cell phone, I got agitated. I was early. There I sat again on my bed caressing her and looking into the mirror and that is when the crazy idea struck me. I got rid of her and all little bits of her were flushed down the gutter.

I looked in mirror and that is when I realized, what I have done. I felt as if I have lost my identity. I was ready to go to office but felt as if nothing covered my skin. I felt that bare naked just like the bare naked truth of she not being with me anymore.

I promised to myself that this time I will not lose her. She will be with me again. Now I have brought her back and she is with me again. She spends all her time with me and I know she would never leave me. I love it when I look into the mirror and see her there in the reflection. Beard becomes a man's unique identity in the world of monotonicity and losing her nothing short of losing the clothes. 

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Custard- My Perfect Dessert

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Food is one of those things that keeps me driving. Right now I am working in IT Company in Pune, far away from my home and I miss the delicacies that used to satiate my taste buds when I used to be home. As I never did much of cooking, I missed the dishes that my mom used to cook for me. One such dish that I used to miss a lot was fruit custard. Last time when I was home my mom made that for me. I helped her while she was cooking and she taught me how I can prepare it. When I came back to Pune, I tried to recreate the dish that mom made for me. I recreated the dish and instead of sugar I used Sugarfree Natura for that.

The recipe for my favorite dish goes like that.

Ingredients:

1 Liter Milk

5-6 Table spoon custard powder

3-4 Cardamom

9-10 pills for SugarFree Natura or as per your taste

You can add fruits as per your taste, I added Pomegranate, banana, apple and strawberries

You can also add dry fruits if you want to like cashew, pistachio, almond etcetera

Method:

Take a pan and pour milk in it

Bring the milk to boil

While milk is getting heated up, take custard powder in a pot and add some milk, stir it well so as not to form lumps

Now put the mixture obtained in above step in boiling milk and stir it well, so the mixture gets properly mixed in the boiling milk

Now let the mixture boil for 10 minutes and then add sugar free pellets in it

Stir well to mix the pellets and boil the mixture for another 15 minutes

Turn off your gas and let the custard cool at room temperature

After that keep it into the refrigerator to chill

Serving:

Mix cardamom and dry fruits into the custard

Cut fruits in small pieces

Keep fruits in bowl and add custard

You can also add dry fruits and fruits for garnishing

Viola mouthwatering custard is ready to satiate your taste buds.

My Sweet Custard

I made fruit custard for me and my friends and they really liked it. Seems like I have grown a little as a cook now. I know there are many for whom cooking to close to next nightmare but such an easy recipe is something you can try. I have now made it a couple of times and it has become my specialty. There are few more dishes that I can serve with these fine dessert but recipe to those some other day. Just try out this simple recipe and enjoy the sweet taste of fruit custard. Going to surprise my mom with my fruit custard now.

Chaotic Peace

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When you ask someone where they love to drive, one of the most answers that you get is about the place which has broad roads or scenic beauty. It is more or less related to pleasure for eyes and ease of driving. Even I like riding/driving on broad deserted roads where there is plenty of picturesque stuff to look at but if you would ask me which city I love drive in then it would be my city Indore.

People often say that if you can drive in Rajwada then you can drive anywhere and even I agree to that. When you drive through the city, you would only see chaos. People are busy, traffic is jam packed, vehicles breathing down each other’s neck, continuous honking and all that happening at the same time. Just five minutes in traffic can easily stress you out but traffic is the beauty of driving in Indore. All the things happening are in perfect harmony. Whether it is rumbling of engines or honking of cars, they seem to create a music of their own. You would see a cart puller trying to make his way to the other side of the road while a cyclist trying to spear head through the traffic. You just have to come out of the traffic and look at it with a different perspective. So much happening and so many lives getting connected to each other at that very moment. You can see many lives playing right in front of you.

It is just not traffic that Indore roads offer you. There are some great broad roads where you can have fun driving your car in peace. MR10 will serve as the best place for that. You can also steer towards Agra-Bombay road, if you like driving on national highways. People in Indore are also helpful. And if you want to do a little networking then you can easily find individuals ready to discuss about anything under the sun. One thing that every Indore dweller has is opinion and they will not hesitate in sharing that with you. They love to talk and same is applicable to listening. You can connect with individuals in an instant. If you are talking about Indore then how can you not talk about its awesome tasting food? If you are among those who love to eat, then you would find an instant connect with Indore and people of Indore.

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Indore might appear as a city full of chaos but the way Indore carries that chaos elegantly is because of its fine design and its impeccable infrastructure. Ring road around Indore binds the whole city and its residents into one entity and if you are in Indore then it will embrace you and bind you in itself. Indore is in Madhya Pradesh or in central zone, which makes it easy for people from different zones to visit her. Public transport is also quite good and has real good connectivity to other states too. Visit Indore once to taste its awesome food and to taste its awesome spirit.

My Brother- Truly Made Of Great

Me and My brother

Word great is used for pretty much everything these days. Going out with friends and then posting a picture on Facebook with a caption “had a great time”. We have overused that word but there are some who truly reflect the meaning of the word great with their sheer hard work and dedication. But a person is not always famous. He can be anyone. He can be any individual who is carrying out all his duties and doing all the work assigned to him with his/her full potential. He can be the person sitting next to you in a cubicle, he can be a tea vendor; he can be anyone. What actually makes these individuals great is their doing what they are doing with their full potential and great determination.

For me my elder brother would surely be the one who is made of great. He has always made me feel protected by him. He would always stand up and go ahead to light the path for me. People say that an elder brother pretty much like a father figure and for me he was that. He would bring whatever I needed for me at any given hour of the day.

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He had the patience and the humility. He has always encouraged me to try something new and have always showed faith in me. He is also a blogger and has also written contents professionally for few firms and he was the one who introduced me to writing. He showed trust in my writing and encouraged me for it. He purchased guitar and have always motivated me to play and learn it. He always pushed me to try out new things.

For me my brother is someone who is truly a great being. Whatever he does has his touch of excellence. He is perfect in his own way. His soul is the thing that drives him to be great in whatever he does. He has this perfect personality. He can just get along with anyone. He is great with kids, he is great with elders, he is great with youngsters, he is great with animals, he is great with relatives or you can say he is great with everyone. I have never seen him quit and walk away. He has always been a fighter. The most beautiful flowers are the ones that blossom in the harshest of the environments.

He helped me at each and every stage of life. Right from the time when we were in school till the college his guidance has helped me. He would not only help me with the studies but will also help me with the co curricular. His guidance is the reason I am what I am today.

Love you brother. You continue to be a source of inspiration for me. You are truly made of great.

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