I Love You, Bye :)

When we try to understand someone, we just have to be very blank and neutral, so our perception about them, or their portrayal about self isn’t harm in anyway. It a real task, though for many, and it comes easy, natural for some, or they have mastered the skill, maybe.

Okay, so I will tell you a story about a person. She narrated me this. It was the time she says God answered her, so she says; “when I was on a check up visit to a hospital with my mom, and there was a lot of waiting for our number. Everyone was sitting, waiting for their turns and I was just observing people around. There were few things running in my mind constantly. I somehow summoned up the courage and asked my mom my doubts. Again, it was a whole lot about life and support, as I was having a hard time expressing my love to someone who cared for me a lot, I was super doubtful about myself. I needed guidance, in the light of facts and hands on experience about life. Suddenly our eyes fell on two little girls. They were so cute, and adorable. It reminded me of the time when I was small and how me and my sister used to be a support system and indeed best friend for each other. Then I asked my mom, how do you feel, you also were in that place once, where you had two little muffins like them, were we also this naughty and sincere like them or anything weird we used to do?; and Like how does a parent generally let their child go out of their sight and send them away for studies, or for anything of that sort, won’t it be super hard and fearful?

My mom then explained me, it’s the love that is the weakness, but it’s the strength also, here both the points are one only. You have to be on the latter side, always, no matter what. And You have to choose your child’s growth over your expectations, love and comfort, always, suppose if you don’t let them be free, how are they going to learn to be themselves, learn various skills and grow into a beautiful being. These things overtake mostly everything that comes under the weaker side, so all this kind of love becomes natural, it’s not dominating, commanding or demanding. A parent nurtures his child with all the positives and make him understand things in a way he understands. Teach him the goods, bads, right, wrong. It’s a feeling which may not be explained, but that feeling binds a parent and a child. And then she was like, anyways you will understand it someday, but yes you both were exactly like them, same cuteness, naughtiness. Those little girls, were looking at us with their round little eyes and warm smiles. Suddenly, our discussion was interrupted by the reception lady, she called us for our turn. We met doctor and the examination was done. We came out of doctor’s cabin and were sitting for few reports. I was again lost in the thoughts about what I had asked my mom earlier. All of sudden, the younger one of those little girls came to me, she asked me my name, I replied and asked her name back. She answered and ran away. Mumma and me were looking at them both, they both were chit-chatting something in each other’s ear. Then again, she came, she and her actions were soo cute, really. She stood near me and said, ‘You are so beautiful’, in her cute voice, and the smile, with those little teeth, faded all my stress or thoughts into air. Then they, both went back to their parents and were again playing. Their turn was over, and as they were leaving, she came to me running, and she said, ‘I love you, Bye : ) ’, the smile melted me, like anything.

We got our reports, as we were leaving, mom said to me, as far as your question was concerned, just be like her. Even if hesitant but, pure and open. And never doubt the love which came your way, from you or to you, it was meant to be at that specific time maybe, and you deserve all the love you get, you saw, she loves you  : ) ”

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Heart of a hopeless romantic: An Abode of Love

Conversation between Himani and Revan from the play :

Revan questions Himani, ‘why is it that you feel so easy about everything and not bother about the way you carry it?’, there was an eager tension in his voice.

Himani pauses and after a minute she replied, ‘so, maybe because, I have been on a roller coaster ride emotionally in my few past experiences, I can say, but now I am on a level where I know I handled it quite well. I have experienced things like, I have felt loneliness, felt lost, found myself back, found friends in strangers, distanced myself from them for reasonable betterment, then I have fallen in love and not been able to express it, found courage to dwell between good or bad, right or wrong for the love I felt, but understood there’s no such thing as ‘WHY’ when you fall, then been stuck there for a year. Coming out of it all on my own, I was constantly questioning to God, Why it happened, and why, when I couldn’t even get a chance to express it, then one day, I stopped questioning and made peace with this lost state, and then next came the very real moments of spark with my childhood darling for a while, then got the kind of love I was wanting to give, the expressive one, emotionally and physically available one, it was like everything, lost it again for being less emotional or at a lower level feelings wise. But then I realized, we get, not what we want, but what we are, what our soul desires, in anonymous ways, at this weirdly perfect timing of the universe.’

Revan trying to understand the chronology of events while intently listening her, Himani continues, ‘Not everyone get a chance to express their love and if you got to live it, in those moments even for few days, months, years, you are one of the luckiest fellow on the planet. So see it doesn’t matter if it worked out or not, or for a little while, but you lived those feelings to the fullest potential with that person. So be grateful for that, because if you are experiencing happiness from something, there is also this sadness component added to that by default. So, how well you handle the pain/hurt is the key, and not loose your sanity in tough time. But yes, sprinkle the love you are, sprinkle bits of yourself wherever you are. And by that I don’t mean sexually or physically only and of course you don’t do that always, but yes love is purest and most innocent form of emotion. It can be felt through little actions, gestures, sometimes you fail to understand it and more importantly don’t stop yourself from accepting it, because sometimes it’s there to stay, sometimes it momentary. You have to feel it and welcome it with open arms. You know Revan, What I have understood is that, human behavior is so simple yet so complex, we sometimes resist things/people we want, sometimes we have to in situations or sometimes we are bound to, it’s similar to dieting, lol. But yeah, it’s kind of true though’, she says laughingly. The explanation was very clear yet mesmerizingly confusing.

She then lovingly looks at him, and says, ‘I think for hopeless romantics it’s just, “Do lafzon ki hai dil ki kahani, ya hai mohobbat ya hai jawani” and I am just a hopeless romantic with a pinch of practicality maybe.’

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Own your truth.

sometimes, you are fighting with your habits of ignorance or your habitual feelings to feel the feelings ,you felt for someone once, for the first time, and you are not sure of anything that you want to settle or not, but yes, you feel good, you finally start smiling for no reason, and this is happening after ages with you. Okay, It may not be love, yes, but it is good. What would you do? Would you suppress these feels or would you dare to continue? Because you know that continuing this will either give you immense pleasure or an incomplete pain, which may require some time and energy of your life to overcome it, or maybe you may not be able to overcome it, until someone make you believe so hard again to be stupid and feel love again, after all this. But know this, you will get through this also. And one day, It will happen and you’ll get what you desire, only if you try and don’t give up.

You want to hold onto it for now, and take a leap of faith. You would want the destination of this journey to be what it looks like, but what if it is not ? Yet you have the present, power to make the journey beautiful, journey of your life and then why not choose it ! For whatsoever reason you need the assurance for the feel ,right!

You take steps in excitement, which might not be like ‘YOU’ sometimes and you may feel stupid and blank after that, so take a chill pill and relax. It all gets okay with time. Till then you can have fun. But honestly it’s not about the fun you want, you want some part of your personality to come out, and if you believe if something can help, then why hesitate trying it out. Right! So, think this way, you are just taking steps to explore the unexplored. You don’t have to stay in confusion forever, so yes, be courageous and don’t make yourself feel more stupid for whatever it is. You have all the rights to make yourself feel better and don’t let these low times define you, You are not that. You are more than that. Have faith!

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Love Radiates Hope

Love is a hard feeling. You can not force yourself for it. It will only happen when it has to. Of course you love your family and friends. I am not talking about that love. You know, once my heart felt something for a person, and I don’t know, I can not say if that was true, but my heart was so vulnerable that time, I wanted to know that person and for some reason I couldn’t, I felt like something inside me broke, you know the love at first sight feel right, I never believed this stuff, but I really liked that guy, I would’ve given myself a chance to experience this beautiful feeling, if something has to happen, I made myself ready for it. He was already with someone, when there wasn’t a thread of hope for our start, I felt terrible. I don’t know if people call this love, but this can not be it. The terrible feeling of lost hope, can not be love. Hope is attached to Love. What I feel is, You make yourself ready to let someone into your life, your world, you want to know and understand that person, you become this better version of yourself when you feel all this, you allow yourself to fall there. That thing is love. Everything is so beautiful when you are in love. Not everyone is fortunate enough to experience this, some stories end before even starting. You become this very tough person, you feel you can not ever feel that way again for someone, but that’s not true, you know why, because you are living, and no living thing in this world is capable of not loving, no matter of how many heartbreaks you’ve been through or loneliness, just keep the hope. It is important that you don’t give upon the faith.

Maybe, people reach heights, become successful and I assume few of them are really lucky if they found this feel (love). But I don’t know what goes in the minds of others. You know we will earn enough, we will be successful one day, and it is going to happen, but if you have that crazy kind of love in your life right now, you don’t give up on that for any damn reason. You don’t need love to be successful and rich, likewise you don’t need to be successful and rich to love. You will be successful anyways, If you are truthful and honest with yourself. If you are experiencing love, love like crazy, wholeheartedly. For every lock made, a perfect key is also made to fit and unlock it. Similarly, there is perfect fit made for your soul. We find them in different situations, we accept them and we allow ourselves to experience love. Love is the greatest feeling of all, it only makes you grow and a kind human. Even if you don’t know the feel and you are waiting or not, for love, you will find your soulmate someday. And it will happen, just don’t ever stop being a good, kind person, because kindness attracts love. And when it comes to you, You wide open the doors, windows of your heart for it and accept it with your whole existence.

Happy Seeking 🙂

The Real Culprit

People are lovely, confusing and good. But few are the rare species I can say or mostly commonly found today, these are the kinds which are really, really good at persuasion. They are the ones close enough to you that you feel like you can share things with, dominance is their default nature. You can feel that too, still you don’t act against it. You know what this is called in Psychological term, It’s a narcissistic behavior or trait. If you don’t understand, you will end up questioning everything about yourself or you do because of such people with this type of behavior. I must say this, ‘Dominance is okay only until you have good intentions for someone or something, and when if it is just for the sake of your benefit it becomes selfishness.’

Such people, are the real culprit. They will say things, do things first and pretend to be good all the time. They want everything to work as they want it to be. Their most dangerous tool is that they will make you feel that you are the one, who is wrong, and haha the next step, you are drowning in guilt. See, whatever I am writing here, is through very fine observation of situations experienced by people, I see that and It feels so bad that I can’t even explain this. But I am trying to put it into simpler, understandable words. And this I have to write, or say, because such people exist, and you might even know few, or might’ve understood this at some point of time in your life, but you did not take stand for yourself and ended up feeling guilty or upset over things, and you must not take crap from such people, because your inner voice is constantly saying you this, that you are not that person, whatever the shit they are trying to make you feel you are or you have done something.

Know who you are at the core, and speak up for yourself. You have to do this, no one else is going to do it for you. This is very basic, but you have to remind yourself this over time, maybe, again and again. We are trying to build a better society, it is not possible unless such people keep their fakeness and pretentiousness aside and get to their better self. So if you come across such incidents, you please speak up and make them realize what they are doing.

Thanks for reading.

Independence: The lost word

Independence, this word has lost its value. There is no such thing as Independence and freedom, if you are a woman in India. See, if you want a guarantee of your safety, it’s just worth your freedom here. How many times do we have to fight just for basic equal rights and to have the power to decide for ourselves?

I am shocked, I was shocked in past, and I don’t know until when it will keep continuing. Working women, girl students and housewives, everyone is shocked by this incident happened in Delhi, the capital of India, on a normal day. A man killed his wife, stabbed her to death just because she chose to work and not be just housewife. And this is the biggest crime of women, right!

All the people around were watching this like an entertainment show is going on, people shot videos, passed by, turned their bikes from near the dying body of that lady. No one said anything, no one came for help.

She died, you know, she was wearing mask, she should not have died right?

Women, in spite of being successful in every field today still face the same issues again and again and this is like a circle which never ends. We women get rape threats, deadly life threats, acid attack threats, kidnapping and what not, yet, we choose to stay strong and move forward with our head held high with dignity, we choose this because we want to become something great or at least be a part of it and chase our dreams. Who doesn’t? We take risks considering and knowing all these deadly threats, we still keep going, because we want to. Because, we somewhere believe that public is there, good people are there, at least few will come, maybe they will help, will save us from the situation, from that monster. I believed that!! Keeping this thought of your death in mind and moving forward, keep growing gets a bit hard, there is a fear. But as you know “Fear can never make you go out, but will kill you alive”.

So, we choose to side this fear and face the shit and stay strong, and keep growing.

But what do I do when everyone is watching me getting killed, molested, attacked and they do not stand for help?

What do you do when an asshole tells you he will ruin your life and you will have to pay for everything, will make you drown in shame so you won’t be able to face up and walk again?

See, do you feel the vibrations of my thoughts right now !

I am writing this but I feel like crying, crying like hell for that woman, who chose to decide for herself and not satisfy some male ego. But my eyes won’t let me shed a tear, instead they radiate a flame, a flame of burning desire to become capable enough of helping women to raise their voices and act against such threats and not tolerate any kind of abusive and shitty behavior.

But I am deadly shocked!

I am shocked because now I know, public/common man won’t bother to help me in such situation. Now, I know, I have to be alert always and if something happens, I have to fight back even if I am being stabbed more than 30 times with a knife, I should, I must stand and fight that bloody asshole and maybe set a new standard of women power. Then people will come and worship the goddess in me !

Right!!!

I hope someone from the crowd will be courageous enough to at least try to put a full stop to this, because,

This continues……

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‘Life’

Painting Die Gartenbank

What is life,

Listening this question and statements about it more often,

By experiences of days & years,

my heart has become a bit harden and soften…

Never thought of finding the meaning of life, still my whole existence is on a strange hike,

maybe cause I seek that thrill,

in the hope of getting that feel.

I sometimes wish to hover,

but I can’t just deny that I love to discover, for that unknown path, in life, its just ‘me’ I hath..

And life is itself a befalling,

in which.. one needs self hauling.

Life is all about exploration,

so that maybe later, after decades,

you have that satisfaction and heartaches are not because of regrets.

Attitude with gratitude works,

& then you can go,

happily thrive for life.

Thanks 🙂

Effortless Efforts!

“It takes a lot of Effort to look Effortless”… but I think now most of the efforts are effortless!

I don’t know how to start this thought…but you know what, like the era is changing with the changing minute habits in our lifestyle, the way of our expression has been changed totally. I mean… when we look at our self, despite of doing a lot, we are still not satisfied of what we do, our work, any help, caressing others.. there’s this part of us which wants to do more. We just cannot figure it out if we have had done enough of something, for someone. Maybe its because of this ‘change’ I am talking about.

Consider this situation,.. before few years when we dint have the smart phones, with all the good built up mega pixels cam…we used to go and click pictures in studio, just so that we remember the good sweet times we were having. We enjoyed taking those photos. And now this clicking pics has become tiresome. Back then was where we took efforts, actually going with the ones whom you really love to have in your life at that particular moment. You know what was the great advantage of taking such small efforts, unknowingly it reminded us of that present situation, and we knew the value of living in present. Just living in the present moment. We dint even bother to think about how is it going to look after years. Now all the way has changed. Just look at our mobile phones, we have a lot of photographs saved with our friends, family, special ones, a lot as in we take at least 10 pics with a particular person.. one person, all of them just in few eye blinks, right! And in all this we are giving importance to how we look in those pics, our postures, our smile, our hairs and this goes different for individuals.. and then we are here.. busy in making memories… not understanding memories are not meant to made, they just happen! Okay we try and can make them, but you are likely to remember the most unplanned, random ones and those happen to be the sweetest, funniest and bring that grin and laughter on your face. This is not just true in case of clicking pictures, but this is maybe the good example to understand, how time consuming, physical effort could make us feel a bit better in what we do, and how to just have concern about the current moment, and make us feel contented.

The technology has given us ways to improve in many forms, but it has let us forget the value of intent, somewhere, in some cases! We don’t do things, because we wish to, we try out them nowadays. And then decide what suit the best to us, or majority cases just get stuck in confusion. Efforts have become Effortless, it take a few minutes to do somethings, because we have things, helping us. Okay, like these ones, people take effort on chats, wishing you morning, evening, happy-something, sharing smiles, or apologizing you for something, but all of this lack something. Just imagine this all in real, how a small gesture of wishing someone morning, exchanging smile feels good, talking in person makes understand the intent of people, makes you feel the energy of physical existence! As trying to say, the Ways of Expression can decide how formidable we or our Efforts can be!

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The State of being

Humans have endless journey with problems and finding the solutions to them. Some part for arrival of problems come from the feeling of being stuck somewhere. We have often heard the aphorism “the fear of unknown”…which is not always true I guess. Its about the curiosity we have, to know things and we then try to choose between things, people…just keep thinking…’what if’. And we are living beings, we always get a lesson…learning from our past incidents. We live in present but with  a part of our past alive with us. We then sometimes fear to make decisions based on the experiences we had. Like for example, the ones in stock trading fear to risk when its actually the time and leave the sector forever or else just hop without even having enough thought or researched about it which results in real loss and then will never go for trading. Or consider this case which almost every young adult faces…trust issues, commitment problem or just falling out of the love feeling thing. I just want to say.., experience is powerful thing, which has it’s own advantages and disadvantages. Well of course it is worth in every case to have one, that’s why it is either good or bad.

But it is important to make new experiences ….it helps the consistent growth factor in us. We must let our self to have them. I know, there are times when we are stressed and confused, but there is no biggest thing than to have the right to decide for our self. And we have it. So, now is the time to act, when you are screwed with your emotional or technical dilemma, take a break and then go for it. We must learn to give chances and as they say change begins from yourself first, so as this too…if we are not able to forgive or give chance to our self then how can we be able to give it to others and our loved ones! I mean it’d be better to do it and be wrong than just end up regretting for not doing it, right. Because these small decisions impact our lives as it did already in past and I believe it just adds up in our courage to decide for the next time whatever we’d want to do. We are so complex… its not that easy to be simple sometimes but why not just see what happens keeping our complexity aside.

This is the something called ‘the state of being’ and it is a process, we all go through it or can say we are always in this process. It is inevitable like pain. Learning and this state of being are co-dependent, technically speaking are proportional. And trust me, it also does not mean that you do the same mistakes again and again. You’ll see a pattern if you think over it and with a few analysis in your mind you automatically tend to grow.

Thanks for reading 😉