Navigate To Happiness

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Today I saw her sail out of my life. She went far and her appearance started getting small on the horizon and then suddenly she disappeared over the horizon of future. I wait here to have one more glimpse of her. With every wave touching my feet I can feel her. I can feel her presence in the water. The water in the sea holds still for a moment and stares at me and then breaks his gaze into a huge tide and drenches me on the shore and mocks me. But he does not know that when his water hits me I feel presence of her over my body.

I walk on the shore then stop and look over the horizon to see something moving, in a hope that it is she coming back to me but it is not she but someone else. I see her struggle to with the waves, I see her disappear and reappear over the back drop of blue skies. I see her come closer but still struggling with the sea but she somehow fights it out and come closer with every wave.

She navigates through the hard waters and opposite winds, she gets pushed to the horizon but she stays in sight. She tries different routes, different strategies to navigate to the shore but tides are also determined. Now it has become a game where she is trying to reach the shore but sea is also not backing down.

It starts to rain and the sea laughs and roars. He mocks her courage and thumps her with a huge wave but after spending so much time with the sea she has also learned how to navigate out of his blows. He strikes again and but she dodges him. With every dodge she comes closer to the shore. Her face becomes clearer as she comes closer to the shore and I can see she is not the one who left me at the shore.

At last she navigates to the shore and suddenly sea becomes calmer. She gets out of her boat and steps on the shore and that is the moment I stop to feel her presence in the water touching my feet. I turn to her and she smiles. I ask but you are not her to which she says, you were feeling my presence in the sea all this time. She said when she left you at the shore I entered the sea from other side of the horizon. You could see her but you were feeling my presence in the waters.

You wanted to stick to the past and memories that is why you felt as if you were feeling her but it was me your future whom you were feeling. I am the happiness that you have been long waiting for. I fought the harsh sea and navigated through unfavorable winds to get to you.

Her words were enough to make me realize and I accepted her and we sailed through the sea called life hand in hand.

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Life Is A Song

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Life has been given various metaphors and one such metaphor is song. People say life is like a song and is not over till you hit you sing your final note and leave the stage. Why such a metaphor is used for life? Is there any special reason for it just an artistic creation? There are people who use art to describe life but are not able to give any strong reason behind their thought.

Life is like a song because it just flows like a song. In a song sometimes notes and lyrics will be repeated in the same way life would play the same note for some time and then change it. The only difference between in life and a song is that songs show a single emotion but same is not applicable for life. Life has all kind of emotions but a song cannot have all the emotions, all the notes.

For me life is like a music album. An album that has diverse range of emotions, that has songs relating to various feelings that one faces in life. Life would have different tunes and you create lyrics on those tunes. You create the song by living your life. Song is a metaphor for life because music describes the emotions that we feel while lyrics are the actions that give meaning to the song.

Music is an integral part of a song. Music has the power to express. When you hear a music piece you can feel the emotions musician tries to convey. Just by listening to the music you can feel the emotions which can be anger, love, peace or anything under the sun. In life we go through various emotions and feelings and when we go through those emotions they have certain music associated with them. This music makes the base for the album called life.

How every song has music in the same way everyone in the world are having a song of their own but their music can have notes same as you. It is their actions that give meaning to songs in the form of lyrics. Not all sad songs are same in the same way all the rock songs are also different. Everyone has got a different album and that is what makes us all fantastic.

Those albums are fantastic and are our true identity. They reflect your actions and show real you to the whole world. There would be some albums about which you would hear a lot and there would also be some who are never spoken of.

Be sure to make your album a bestselling and sells even after your last song is recorded. Then only you can say that you have chosen the right lyrics and people understand the meaning of the song and propagate it further. 

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Navigate Through The Odds

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It was our semester break and all my friends and I planned to have a night out in the city. At the last moment few of our friends backed out because of unavailability of vehicles and some for other reasons. It was two of my friends and I who set out to explore the city. The roads that would be filled with people in morning were all vacant. Narrow streets where normal riding speed was less than 10km/hr in the morning looked broader.

We parked our vehicle to the side of a tea stall and enjoyed our hot tea in chilly winter winds. We sat to the side of the stall in front of a shop that was closed now. We started talking to the tea vendor about the general stuff. He was not rough and seemed well behaved. Soon our conversation drove to how he set up his business and why he picked to sell the tea at this hour of the night. He said he goes to school in the morning and spends the evening resting and studying. This particular answered of him surprised me.

The guy was in his early twenties. We were intrigued and to our surprise he understood it and said you might be thinking how a person of my age can still be going to school. He said he used to go to school till 7^th grade and then dropped out of school. Because of some financial crisis he was not able to pursue his studies.

He used to live with his uncle in a village nearby but he could no longer finance his studies. He started working in a farm with his uncle. One day uncle asked him do you want to live in a big mansion to which he said yes. He said never say yes to questions like this. There are individuals who are of your age and are asked these questions and sent off to other countries to serve individuals for their pleasure. He then heard shocking sentence came from his uncle’s mouth. He said I have sold you to those individuals and if you don’t want to live the life of servitude then you should run.

He left his home and worked as a helper and lived off the streets and worked hard to have a stall. He does not technically own the stall but has a share of profit. He said he goes to school to learn and to make something out of life. He was in class 11^th and next year he would complete his 12^th. He said there are various jobs that only require you to pass 12^th class. We asked what your plans are once you join a job to which he replied with a determination that he would go for a college degree.

That sentence of his showed how you got to plan out your life and why you should value your time. He navigated his life through the odds and has a hope to make things better for him and that too by all the legitimate ways.

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Peppy We

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Peppy is really behaving enthusiastic or feeling that energy while doing something. Many a time peppy is associated with the individuals who are extrovert. That is not really something I second. I guess peppiness is something that a person feels. It is a feeling and not a trait that is displayed and then recognized. If you are feeling peppy and not expressing it with body movements or through your conversation then it does not mean that you are not peppy.

Not all extroverts are peppy and not all introverts are dull and dormant. A person who is extrovert may be active. Peppiness is more of a thought and depends on situation and situation. Scientists are happy and all pepped up for their new research or for launch of their satellite into space while a person might not feel same as them.

Being peppy more or less depends on the situation. If you will put an extrovert in a setting that does not suit him then will he be that pepped up or will he feel that energy. He might be able to show as if he is all pepped up and joyous but if he is not feeling that energy inside of him then can peppy be the term really used for him.

If I would go to a park and start to show off the moves that I learned from Bollywood movies to attract individuals and just only for the sake of it. Will I be peppy? I might be labeled as peppy but if I am no having that feeling then it is for sure not peppy.

Many a times we recognize the feelings like joy, peppy, happy as something that we see. If I am feeling does not mean that individuals may be able to recognize that well. In the same way if am enjoying something or excited or pepped about something then it does not mean that people can feel the same just by looking at my face or just by talking to me.

For many individuals writing is fun but when they would sit at their desk with all kind of serious expressions on their face. Their expressions are serious does not mean that they are not enjoying their time or not having fun. They are as pepped and as excited as any guy/girl waving their hands in the air in discotheque. For them having fun at that moment means something different.

Feelings would all be same but it depends on individuals as to how they feel it and how they show it. X numbers of individuals means x number of ideas in the same way they would all interpret and express themselves differently.

I was all pepped for this post and was enjoying writing it. Hope you feel the same while reading it. 

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Feel Peppy

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Peppy is really behaving enthusiastic or feeling that energy while doing something. Many a time peppy is associated with the individuals who are extrovert. That is not really something I second. I guess peppiness is something that a person feels. It is a feeling and not a trait that is displayed and then recognized. If you are feeling peppy and not expressing it with body movements or through your conversation then it does not mean that you are not peppy.

Not all extroverts are peppy and not all introverts are dull and dormant. A person who is extrovert may be active. Peppiness is more of a thought and depends on situation and situation. Scientists are happy and all pepped up for their new research or for launch of their satellite into space while a person might not feel same as them.

Being peppy more or less depends on the situation. If you will put an extrovert in a setting that does not suit him then will he be that pepped up or will he feel that energy. He might be able to show as if he is all pepped up and joyous but if he is not feeling that energy inside of him then can peppy be the term really used for him.

If I would go to a park and start to show off the moves that I learned from Bollywood movies to attract individuals and just only for the sake of it. Will I be peppy? I might be labeled as peppy but if I am no having that feeling then it is for sure not peppy.

Many a times we recognize the feelings like joy, peppy, happy as something that we see. If I am feeling does not mean that individuals may be able to recognize that well. In the same way if am enjoying something or excited or pepped about something then it does not mean that people can feel the same just by looking at my face or just by talking to me.

For many individuals writing is fun but when they would sit at their desk with all kind of serious expressions on their face. Their expressions are serious does not mean that they are not enjoying their time or not having fun. They are as pepped and as excited as any guy/girl waving their hands in the air in discotheque. For them having fun at that moment means something different.

Feelings would all be same but it depends on individuals as to how they feel it and how they show it. X numbers of individuals means x number of ideas in the same way they would all interpret and express themselves differently.

I was all pepped for this post and was enjoying writing it. Hope you feel the same while reading it. 

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Fantastico Four

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Fantastico four is four things that I think of when I hear the word fantastico.

Pets-

I just cannot resist myself from pets. I just find them too adorable. They are part of family and there is no small reason for it. With their innocence they make you fall in love with them. They would love you no matter who you are. They will always be there for you and would not leave your side even if you would leave theirs. They can sense when you are alright or when you need someone. They are just darlings. Being an animal lover and have had pets in the past I can say without hesitation of any kind that pets for sure are fantastico beings for me.

Travel-

I cannot say I have travelled a lot but I have had my bit of share when it comes to travel experience. As people say the fun lies in the journey not in reaching the destination and how true is that sentence. It is fantastic to go and explore new places and knowing individuals who do not have some ideology as yours and blending in with their culture. Travel is like life in a nutshell. It is exciting and enticing to go into the unknown. You feel free, break all the shackles and breath in the new city to a new life with a new you within.

Food-

Many consider food like an object but for me food is an experience. There are people who eat to live while there are few who live to eat; I belong to the latter category. Digging into new dishes and sitting with anticipation to taste the new dish that you have just ordered and satiating your taste buds with it. That experience, that feeling is something just truly fantastic for me. I love to cook and love to experiment a little in my kitchen on weekends. It is exciting taking a bite and experience flavors unveiling themselves one after the other in your mouth.

Introspect-

We all need time for ourselves and sitting down and talking to myself is something that I love to do. It is something that gives me peace. It sets me straight and helps me focus on being what I am. It helps me emotionally, it makes me stable. There are times when I want nothing but some time to be with myself. It is therapeutic to spend time with yourself. It has helped me a lot in lot of situations because there is no one else in this world who knows you better than you yourself.

There are still many things that are fantastic to me, would share them with you some other time in a new post.

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She Is My Music

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She was one heck of a girl for me. She was there when I needed someone most in my life. She understands me and me respects me for what I am. If you have a partner who understands you, respects you, trusts you and pledges to be with you whatever the situation is then I bet you my friend, you got a keeper.

It was December and that was when I first heard the music, the music of love. It was so complicated and yet so neat. It seemed as if I am listening to the most perfect note of my life. She was the melody that I would play all my life.

I have seen my friends getting in relationship and ruining precious years of their lives. They misunderstand the alarm of danger to music of life. Through her, life speaks to you and for me it was not just speaking to me, it was singing to me. I knew that chords have been struck and song has been made for life.

It is not that we had never hit wrong notes in life. There were times when we got stuck in some really gross situations. But whenever we got stuck or felt unsure, we searched for the right notes. We realigned our lives and realigned ourselves to come out better and stronger then we were.

Like how music can help you distress you and make you forget everything the same way she made me forget all my worries, disappointments. She just like music guided my mood. She became reflection of my emotions and I became hers. We liked not only each other’s company, each other’s words but we liked each other’s silence too. We both knew what we valued and our conversations helped us in knowing each other better. We disagree and debate but we never disapprove each other’s right to have an opinion. We respect each other’s views.

 I know there was a time when we reached to the point as if we were going to break apart but then something magical happened. She called me and started reading a letter that I sent her whiles we were only two months old in the relationship. I listened to her and as the letter finished we disconnected calls from our end and did not speak for two straight days and then came the third day. There it was she and me sitting face to face at favorite table in a local coffee shop with the same pastry and same coffee that we ordered when we first visited that place.

When I look back, I notice how far we have come and how smoothly those years have gone past. The life was playing with a perfect soothe background music and we walked together the whole time hand in hand.

She is the music of my life and a song that I hum all the time. 

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A Positive Impact

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What it is like to get out of your normal routine life and having impact on someone’s life? Is it something too much to ask for from someone? I guess we all are capable of doing something good and motivate individuals.

There are many incidents in life that make us what we are today. We as human beings constantly learn from situations and people. This attitude to attitude is embedded deep into our genes. This hunger to learn has what made us successful and helped us survive ages while many other beings perished. I just feel that whenever someone learns from me they shouldn’t regret that.

Whenever you walk out of the door you should keep one thing in mind that there is someone who is watching you and you should motivate him/her with your actions. If you are having an impact on someone’s life it is better to make it a good one.

When you walk on the road and see a person help other, it fills your heart with happiness. It motivates you indulge in the same act. What it is about that action that motivates you? Do you know name of those individuals? How those strangers are having impact on you? We as human beings are here to help not just other human beings but all living beings.

I was going through job training in Mysore for the IT Company I am working in and there was my one friend from whom I learned how to be happy. He was a hard working and jovial. He couldn’t pass the training and got terminated but still he remained calm. I know he was upset and disappointed but the way he handled himself and presented it to others, gave hope to others too who got terminated. It was because of him that everyone who got terminated picked up themselves. He was having impact on life of so many individuals although he was clueless about his.

He was not doing it intentionally and never did he imagine that he was having impact on so many lives at the same time. I guess till date he does not know that he has impacted or have changed ideologies of many. He has brought positive change in all of us and made us all believe that how imperative it is to be positive.

There will be many times in life when you would be having impact on someone’s life and will not know about it. Next time when you act or react keep in mind that there is someone who is watching you and you are having an impact on his life. Always make efforts that whatever the impact you have on someone’s life make it a positive one.

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Music- Keep It Original

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Music is one of those things which I guess everyone appreciates in some form or the other. What is that about music, which makes it one of the most appreciated things? The answer lies in the simplicity and complexity at the same time. There are various songs that would just seem so simple and their tune flows like a water but the hours that have been invested and the intricate stitching of notes to create that gem is something that is clandestine most of the times.

It is said that music has no language and is independent of borders. It is right because music like any art form is created to appeal to individuals all round the globe. It is not really something that is been created to cater a specific audience. Although people have different choice when it comes to music they like but no one can deny the fact that a lot of effort and thought goes behind that process of creation.

Still I would agree to the fact that pure music is something that is not witnessed quite often and whatever we listen to is a commercialized aspect of it. Blaming those artists for creating music that satiates few specific ears isn’t something I support because it is absolutely normal to supply the music that people demand and make bucks out of it. We need to have respect to all the artists irrespective of whether we like them or not. There is one artist who needs to be reprimanded for his music and that artist is the one who steals music and call it inspiration. Those individuals are nothing but thieves, who make living out of the creativity of others. Being a blogger I know how bad plagiarism is. There are many individuals who just blindly copy the creative capital of someone and post it as their own.

Music being a universal language needs to be kept free from such individuals who do not have a creative nerve. The hard work that goes into creating something can never be compensated by someone who is just blindly copying the ideas.

Music is an awesome way of relaxation. People have accepted that music has such a deep impact on them that their mood depends on the song they listen too. I second their statement that music can change your mood. When I feel restless I just plug in my earphone in mobile and just blast my ears with heavy metal and it helps. I can actually feel better after listening to those songs. In the same way soulful instrumental gives you an insight of yourself. I find it really inspiring to listen to soulful music because it helps me introspect.

I feel that music being such a therapy and so pure and universal, it should be copied or should fall victim of plagiarism. Creativity is for everyone but not for stealing. 

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Be Peppy Be Happy

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Do you have any friend who is a pure bundle of energy? I guess everyone have such kind of friends. They are those individuals who resonate energy. They make even the most trivial of the things interesting with their sheer enthusiasm and energy. It is fun to be with these individuals. I can recall that most of the amazing and interesting memories that I had during my college life was because of those peppy beings. It feels as if they are made of a different material all together. They would bring light to the gloomiest of the settings.

I had one friend who was power house of energy. It is not just about the physical aspect of energy. The way he spoke about the most trivial of the things and making it sound most interesting thing in the world was his quality. You could see individuals opening up to him in no time.

Peppy is more of choice. You can be that peppy being who brings energy to the dull setting and light up the whole place. It is often seen that people who were once enthusiastic and full of energy turning into something they are not.

In recent times a movie was released where the protagonist had these weird side, which he never revealed to anyone. He hid it deep beneath the fake character that he played in his life. He was not acting the way he was but he was acting the way people around him wanted to. It is quite a common phenomenon that we stop ourselves from doing things our own way because of others. Sometimes we care too often about others, about society that we stop caring about ourselves. As that movie suggested, we just become a machine assigned to do a task, without logic, without creativity.

There was a time in childhood, when people used to come up to you and ask what you wanted to be, to which few used to answer doctor, engineer, IAS but very few said dancer, actor, singer, musician. When we used to answer that question, did we really answered it because we wanted to be doctors and engineers or we were just reiterating the things that people around us wanted to say.

Many of the individuals grow up to be nothing but a machine which is performing tasks assigned to it. We miss on the opportunity of being peppy and happy. Sometimes you got to unwind yourself and indulge into activities that you love and fell peppy and happy about it.

Peppy is not something that is reserved for a certain age group but it is an emotion, a feeling you can enjoy at any time of your life. Be peppy and spread the energy.

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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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Dare To Dream



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Many a times in our life we think about bringing change into the society and make this world a better place to live. Many make big statements as if they are next Mandela or mother Teresa but they forget one simple thing that Mahatma Gandhi said “Be the change you want to see around.” For many bringing that change in their life is what seems most difficult but when they start to bring that change in their life that is when they realize that change is indeed refreshing.

It was summer of 69, not the year 1969 but that summer when my 12^th standard result came I scored 69%. I was ok with the percentage that I got. I took admission in an average engineering college. In the buffer period in which I had to join the college after 12^th I started writing web contents for a local company. I like reading the random stuff and the contents were as random as my reading content. It became food of my thoughts and made me more inquisitive. I liked writing and even liked it more when I got paid for it. Soon my college started and the contents that I wrote soon became folder that I would not open.

In 6^th semester I participated in college level prose writing competition and won consolation prize. It felt good and bad at the same time. I was disappointed of the fact that I was not able to create the content quickly on the topic that was given to me. But like everyone else that phase also passed and again I got involved in the studies. After that I got placed in a company from college. Joined that job and successful completed my training but was kept on bench and that is when I indulged into that activity of writing and starting having fun tapping the keyboard and earning extra bucks for it.

Few of my friends suggested me to go for freelance writing and at first I did not pay attention to it but created an account on one of the freelancing websites and uploaded my skills and sample articles that I had written previously.

After two weeks of creating the account I got an email regarding a small content writing work. I was elated and little worried. I consulted few of my friends and then replied to the mail positively. Soon I got another email for a telephonic interview and I agreed with a little hesitation. I got that small content writing work and earned a small yet satisfying amount from my first content freelance writing work.

I did part time content writing for a year and the pay that I was getting per article rose. It was the time I knew that writing was something that not only helped me financially but also helped me in relaxing. In the mean time I searched on net a lot about the various styles of writing and even attended workshops to improve my writing skills.

This was the time when I was in a big dilemma of whether to pursue my career in IT or to become a full time writer. I chose the latter one. It was the decision that changed my life in all the aspects. For few initial months I was disheartened and saw my savings disappearing, but it finally paid off and now whenever someone asks what you do, I proudly respond “I am a professional writer.” Now I am totally satisfied and happy with what I do.

Sometimes you got to dare to get out of the snare.

LIFE Is Not A LIE

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Lying is one of the most important characteristics of human beings. If I ask you or myself a simple question that how many times had you lied from the time you first stepped into the world, the answer would be numerous times. Even in our daily lives we lie about so many trivial issues knowingly or unknowingly. As per a study 60% percent of human beings cannot go 10 minutes without lying once. Now that figure is something about which I am not lying. But no matter how often we lie, it will always be one of the bad habits.

Whenever we lie about something we always feel that little soul inside us trying to shove us to tell the truth and when we do tell the truth there is no better feeling. Lying does have its advantage but only for the short term. As quoted by the great author Mark Twain “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything”. Now that statement in itself is the testament of importance of truth in our lives.

To be honest I was not amongst the most honest of the kids in my school days. I had this habit of lying and convincing myself that I was just hiding the truth. It wasn’t something I feel proud of but this habit set me straight to tread on the path of truth because it helped me learn the lessons that I was missing because of lying.

I remember that day when I was in my in seventh grade. My parents got me enrolled in a convent school and it was tough as hell for me because neither could I speak English and nor could I understand it. As all the teachers were from south, it became tough for me even to understand the normal and simple questions fired at me. I flunked in a couple of subjects in my unit test and I followed the same glorious run in my quarterly examination. I had to get my report card signed by parents. I went up to them to get it signed and I was grounded. I will not say there wrong about it. They wanted me to work on my skills but it was I who got it wrong.

During my unit tests after quarterly exam I did good and flunked in two subjects only. Then came the midterm examination or half yearly exam, I flunked in 5 subjects, even in the Moral Science. The subjects in which I passed were Mathematics, Hindi and Sanskrit. I presumed canning (which I never got) for this great performance. I practiced my mum’s signature as it was a little easy and was little fidgeting when I did the final act of forging it on the report card.

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I was relieved because I had executed my part correctly. Teacher asked for the report card to be brought back in a couple of days. I took it to the school but didn’t give to the class teacher and made an excuse that I forgot to get it signed. I reached home and my mum was there and served me with the hot meal. I consumed it and went up to the study room. I was feeling that guilt of lying and forging. The day passed and it was bed time. I swirled in my bed for a couple of hours. Everyone was asleep. I woke up and took my report card and went to my parents’ room. I woke my mum and she was little tensed and asked in a concerned voice “Kya hua? Dar lag raha hai kya?”  By the time my dad was also up and asked what happened. I showed my report card to them. They went through the red marks in report card and I said sorry for the signature.

My dad said in a calm voice “Koi bat nahi”. He then asked what problem am I facing and what is the reason for such result. He listened to me and made me understand that it was not my final exam and I could still buck up and make more efforts to change this result. He taught me English after that and after that moment I was on the learning spree. My results improved every year and now I m one of the finest English speaking and English writing kids in my family and placed in an MNC too. I don’t know what my life would have been if I wouldn’t have spoken the truth.

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Do try it yourself, it does feel good to speak the truth.