Just for the kicks of it...

Been to Chennai recently.
Took a bus ride to Marina beach which was not far away from place of our place of stay.
Beach was awesome! But that's not the point of discussion here.

On the return trip there were bunch of guys rather boys came running from nowhere. They got on a moving bus easily with quite a bit of grace. Reminded me of Salman Khan~Katherina Kaif movie scene of 'Ek tha Tiger',where both of them stand on a small bar outside the bus just holding on to the window bars.
(The Bus scene from 'Ek Tha Tiger')

Nice. But the story does not end there.
These boys actually started getting down at each place where the bus stopped. Then they will run some distance along the bus and get on again. Apparently, it was a sport for them. Ahh that explained the style, the grace. One of the boys was testing his own limits. If the bus slowed down he would slow down. He would jump in only when the he would know now the speed is beyond him, when he would know he can not keep running at that speed.
Ok, now all this on Chennai busy traffic heavy roads unlike movies. Its risky. And on the other side you end up feeling if only they can utilize the time having training. Common they could be good athletes, do gymnastics. And here they were laughing enjoying without a fear in the world. For them it was just a fun time-pass. Nothing less and nothing more.

I couldn't help but marvel at their carefree enjoyment.

I, most of us, could we have done this without feeling hell lot of a fear for our own lives or going to other extreme and see it as potential to become athlete.
Why it can't just be? Why cant we enjoy the moments? Either we are too busy or too worried or too much in making it big.
I am not trying to justify the boys behavior and not recommending to start running behind the buses either.

Point is just that there are n number of things which gives us happiness. Need to enjoy those. Without worrying too much, without too much of a fear, without thinking too much about its future or gain, just for the kicks of it!

Unreal

Feeling that you get, just before waking up in the morning...u need to wake up now or else u will miss your regular routine of morning gym in office.... Real.
Realisation after opening your eyes and blinking twice,that you are in Pune now and you no more work here. U r just on vacation for 4days and after that u need to go back...Unreal?
Just closing ur eyes back knowingly to just laze around yet to feel the Real feeling not more than a moment old.

Ur plans to do a lot of stuff, stuff that u always wanted to do, when u can find time...Real.
The fact that ur time is fully occupied doing things necessary...Unreal..?

Getting to buy anything u like with the money u have earned... Real.
Longing to go back to same old FC road n care free life...that's unreal?

Real and unreal fussing.... jumbling...
Not too sure anymore what i want, what i need...
Its not about regrets or about longings..
Its just that dawn time....
Neither the day nor the night fully.
Its just a matter of time....

Hopefully!

My First Blog

This one was my First post, added under a different Blog address ... On Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 8.07 AM to be precise.. I doubt the time, am not really a morning person :) But well date at least is correct ;)

I started actually a little later than that with different post and different address too...

Things are different now. I am different now...
2006! Looks like such a looong time back :)

Yet, may be naiveness and looking at ur own words gives rise to funny different feelings... :)
Its also kind of motivating as well to read why I started blogging at the first place, especially when I have not written a single post since Dec 2010. Wake up call :)

Just thought of owning it back , consolidating :) and more to it, Restarting...

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My First Blog Post -

I am always been rather skeptical about lot of things.
Blogging is been on of them.Why do people blog?
Why some people want to share what have they done through out the day? And why does anyone else will like to read it anyway?

Well, the questions are still there. Then why am I blogging? To become one among millions of blogs, which are read by only the close friends?
I am blogging just to give an outlet to my thoughts. I don’t know if I will ever give my blog address to my friends or relatives.
My thought will probably be read by some one some where, and at least one of them will say “yeah, that’s so true!”; I guess currently that’s enough for me to start!:)

Probably over the period of time I will get more positive about this whole concept of blogs!This is just going to be a place to put some of the feelings and experiences in a true color. Will try to remain faithful to the motto!

So “All the Best!” to me! :)
On Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 8.07 AM

Being Cynical

Wrote after a long time!

Feeling like coming out of hibernation…

Just to look at number of posts, am been lil more consistent past couple of years, I feel…

Well… am back, that’s important.

Why are u back anyways… who reads the posts!?

Probably few people do… and few more in future J

Suddenly, I am not all that cynical. And not cynical about lots of things.

Being cynical was like been there with me I don’t know how long. I had been cynical about loads of things. And with changed perspective I am looking around I see lot of people with that Cynical look and attitude.

Being cynical, I realized is very easy. It remaining positive and upbeat about people and event is more difficult. Difficult in the beginning at least. But once u get the hang of it, it’s a new realization that this is your basic nature, true nature. Opens up lot many options. Kind of lets u accept a lot of things about events and about ur self.

Whoa… now so far this is been very cryptic!

Ok. So say this in simple terms…

Whenever, I tried out a thing out a thing (which I have already decided, I am 98% not going to like at all, curtsey cynical part of my brain), I have ended up liking it. Ended up throwing out all my cynical thoughts.

Few things which are done out of responsibility and not out of liking have also turned about to be magnificently enjoyable.

Be it as small as Liking Harry Potter series, to a movie which public seem to be apprehensive about, to Taking up interviews in company for new recruitment, mentoring BE students, attending College Alumni meet, Pinging an old friend, Cleaning of cupboard which is been pending for ages…buying someone gift, going with mom for shopping just to keep her company in the horrifyingly crowded road….

Trying to turn things around on project where everything looks too unchangeable… …To art of living follow up, i.e. coming out of cuddly bed in freezy cold that too on Sunday!

I seem to like it ALL at the moment…

Guess it’s not about what u like and what u don’t like. It’s Just about looking at the things! Living the moment, without thinking much further in future and much back in past. Just Live the moment. Whether you like it or not, enjoy the moment to the fullest…

Anewala pal, janewala hai…

Ho sake to es mein, jindagi bitado, pal ye jo jane wala hai….

When it comes to that, suddenly u start seeing u have so many moments… so much of time! It’s not just passing by. U are consciously living it! There are so many options, so many ways… so much to do…

Run… Run… Run… U have lots and lots to do… and One life time is never going to be sufficient enough!!

Well of course, cynism does bounce back once in a while, n that’s welcome too :D

Now, this one has turned out to be very disconnected thoughts and more like a Diary entry than a post. Well… more structured stuff in Future hopefully!

Aaj bas itnahi! J

Vanished Saturday n endless night

Strange it is…

When you have spent the day, in buzz of activities and continuously doing something or the other… end up sleeping so peacefully. All the days events and buzz don’t interrupt in between.

And when it’s been a lazy day, just lazing around and doing nothing, u end up thinking what all you can do, what you should do in night. Driving the sleep long away.

Guess, the simplest reason could be, in a busy day u have been doing something which u always wanted to do. You took a step forward to getting something done. u are taking a shot break to start fresh in morning. N its peaceful sleep.

A lazy day just ends up giving a sense of helplessness. Not done anything what next kinds!

Activities of the day are always like Newton’s third law: Inertia- The resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest.

If you start the day with a good zeal, the momentum manages to stay whole day long.

Start a lazy Saturday and the whole day just as good gets vanished from life. Zup…. With a long stretched thoughtful night….