Adios 2010

Hello friends,
Today, yet another fruitful (supposed to say so) year comes to a marvelous end. And again, it’s time to celebrate the year bygone and the new year that is at the dawn.

The year 2010 (MMX) was popularly called as the International Year of Youth true to its spirit seeing some youth coming forward in each of the diversified culture. This year saw some major heart breaking and mind blowing events like the opening of Burj Khalifa in Dubai, a devastative earthquake in Haiti which took the lives of over 2.5 lac people, volcanic ash from Eyjafjallajökull (weird name haan) which disrupted European air traffic, Air India flight running down from the runway in Mangalore killing almost all passengers but 8, Spain winning the FIFA World Cup and WikiLeaks becoming public and creating havoc by publishing secret and confidential cases. As US market started to boom up slowly and steadily, this year also saw the European economy slowing down.

Personally, this year had been hard and strict with many turbulences and now it is gone once and for all. It was this year when I hit the quarter life crisis which changed many a things for me personally. I came to know why is it called ‘crisis’. It has taught me and I believe many of us to look forward, not to sulk on the past, to believe strongly and have an uncanny faith and desire in your yourself. Drive a success path personally, professionally as well as financially. So friends, let bygones be bygones, grow over your weaknesses and insecurities, work upon your strengths, get healed of your heartbreaks, inculcate the feeling of love and fondness. Keep learning something new, revive the old, be fresh, be friendly, be flexible, be strong. Make resolutions and stick to them just to keep yourself determined, make promises and fulfill them because it is not always that your tongue weighs more than anything else in the world, look after your health because there is nothing much you can achieve without it, set goals for yourself to keep you focused. Welcome new, welcome the change. Change has been declared to be good :-). But for now be a part of the bigger celebration.

I wish all my near and dear ones and my readers a very happy and a prosperous new year. May you find the courage to step forward towards your dreams and hope they come true one fine day. Cheers and have a blast. :-)

Adios 2010.

Wedding Season

With the year coming to an end, it seems it’s a good time for people to get married. With many (almost all) of my friends, colleagues and relatives getting engaged/married in this period it is, by far, the greatest marrying season till date. Majority of my school / college friends are getting married with their sweethearts and many of my relatives are tying the knot too. Growing to an age of 26 is the perfect time to enter the new phase of life. And most of them have all of it sorted out. Marrying your childhood sweetheart is probably the greatest boon on this planet. Of all the things and times faced and shared together for so many years, marriage would be the ultimate goal. Things might even change after marriage (as they say), but atleast you are lucky enough to reach till this breakpoint.


Going to school and then accompanying them to college and probably even during pursuing the masters degree is quite a time together with each other. You might have had to bear a brunt of staying away for some time during the college or masters degree, but it is all worth it when the quarter life crisis comes to an end and you decide to accompany him/her to the next level in life and start an altogether new phase as the better half. All the quarrels, taunts, love bits, insecurities, wisdom, plans, promises will now get to the next level. Having cleared and sustained so many levels (read years) is certainly an advantage in the relationship. It does not mean that life will cease to be a challenge from now onwards, but companionship gives you that boost and courage to fight difficult times. When you have your better half with you, you are determined to stand against all the odds. And of course the wisdom of so many years of togetherness only adds to the morale support. You feel stronger day by day. It is great when your teenage love changes into a marriage.

With almost everyone getting engaged and married leaves us bachelors in the undying candid spirit of independence. But the feeling of comradeship with your loved one is, according to me, far better than the spirit of independence which cease in its joy with times to come. So cheers guys, congratulations for the new beginning all over again with the person you love. Wish your lives be full of joy and you stay together through the toughest of storms. Wish you all a happy married life.

Nostalgia

I visited the apartment recently (after a long time) and more than feeling felicitous looking at the advancement, I yearned for someone which made me miss my heart beat. That anxiety shock was jeopardizing. Then I reached the railway station and the past days (or may I say years) of companionship glared through my eyes only to be converted into tears. We accompanied each other in trains not so often but it was special and caring. I liked to drop her to her home whenever we met. Facts of life, or may I say bitter facts of life are always harder to digest in the times to come.


You make every effort, however small it may be, to what people say ‘Move On’ and at times you even be successful in it, but at the end you are back to square one. You try almost all the steps to get over it and try to walk ahead in life. Days pass by and you even start feeling comfortable about it, but destiny strikes at the right time and knocks you down at ground zero, bruised, disappointed and utterly depressed.

Returning from office in the shuttle, cool breeze waving through the hair, shiny glowing posters on the highway, reminds me of the invaluable time I spent in the unknown city. It feels warm from inside for a moment and right at the next moment the heart seems to burn ferociously in ache. Why in life does undesirable things take place when there is absolutely no chance of them being fulfilled? But not all the time is life the game you always wanted to play. You plan for certain things, you change the course of most of the ideas and you are all set to go. It is just then when you are swayed off your feet and off the ground so harshly that you don’t even have time to think of what the heck is happening over here. Before you come back to your senses the damage has already been done and there is nothing much left for you to do about it. The point I am trying to say is, memories last, moments die. But time flies by. The hours of the clock which were, once, pleasant become a harsh reality today. You always wish this would be a dreaded dream, a nightmare, only to wake up and know that it is nothing but a reality. The unknown language of the city, the unruly behavior of the people, the unfelt warmth in the breeze, the chilling cold of the night and an awesome sense of belonging and togetherness is what takes me aback today to shed an unnoticed tear.

Many a times, it is better to leave a prospect unanalyzed and unlooked. For it may get you down, break your heart and bring you back to from where you had started the harsh yet real journey of life. They say ‘to lose’ is the part of life. Then why don’t they also say ‘to gain’ is another part of it. I guess, these sayings were invented only to console depressed people.

Time to get strong yet again. Time to learn to stride without the guiding angel. Time to kick nostalgia out of here, not because I don’t admire it, but because it causes more pain than pleasure. It is better to be like a machine with no feelings, only biological cycles and unnerved intelligence which evolves by each passing day.

The memories are green and will always be. The moments are gone, but will remain in the hearts of thee.

Mondays are not always blue

We all have felt the blues while going to office on Mondays some or the other time (probably most of the times), didn’t we? This is because, our life during the weekends is more joyous compared to the weekdays. After a wholesome week of tiring work, cutting deadlines, boss’s tantrums and meetings and presentation’s overhead, it feels great to be on a holiday of two days to take a break; more of a mental one than physical. During this holiday (so called weekend), we try to relax ourselves by watching a movie or treating ourselves, a little bit of shopping, a little bit of household chores and largely by just lying around lazily. And hence, when this period comes to an end we start feeling sad and low and the after effect is the ‘Monday Blues’ when we are about to go to office on Monday morning.

But this is not always true. When weekends start to get boring, when you have no special plans over the weekend, when you have nothing to look forward to, and when all your friends make plans with other friends, the yearning for going to office on Monday becomes the most looking-forward-to moment. You start looking for outlook mails and appointments for the upcoming week and the communicator suddenly seems more interesting. It feels safe and good to be in office doing your usual routine (read boring) work rather than sitting at home idle, sulking over petty issues and giving your little brain a darn heavy exercise. In this, case certainly Monday blows life back into you taking you back on track. That could be just for a while, but yes, truly plausible.

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