The Birth (I)

The night came

The town embellished

With lights, happiness, enthusiasm, and love

To celebrate the auspicious occasion

Until the moment comes,  

When everyone will

Burned the evilness

And

Celebrate the victory of

Rectitude, integrity, nobility, and goodness.

Amidst of this,

A family was waiting for something more auspicious. 

The town struggled for hours

And the time finally came.

Reverberated with the sound of crackers

People of the town,

Burned the evilness

And

Cheered for the goodness.

And amidst,

The family blessed

With a baby girl.

Under the sacred merriment

A new life began,

The heartbeat pounds rhythmically

That alleviated mother’s pain.

Sparkling eyes,

Tiny and mushy hands,           

And a bright smile

Made little girl’s cheeks red.

Omnipresent Friend

Who is a friend? A person, who is your confidant, with whom you share a strong bond, who is always there for you in any kind of situation, understands you, makes you feel happy, motivates you, etc. You never get to know how your friendship begins. It's just the vibes, the bond, those small talks that persuade you to become friends. It grows up and eventually you share a great connection.

Well, I got a friend like this. I trust him completely. He is always there for me in every kind of situation. We always use to celebrate my happiness and my sadness together. Whenever I face any problem, he always comes up with something that opens a new way. He is ‘Omnipresent', I can sense him every time. He is like a guardian, who always protects me. Sometimes he punishes me whenever I do something wrong, but I know whenever he does that he always wants me to go in a right direction. He always astounds me when he does his magic and yes he is like a conjuror. I am amazed that I have a friend like him and yes it’s him- ‘The God’, my ‘Omnipresent Friend’.

People always say to me that I am an Atheist. So yes I am an Atheist since I don’t consider him like a menacing object in a way that people use to consider him. I adore him but I am not his devotee, I am his friend. We share the eternal bond even without offering him some money, milk, oil, sweets, etc. In fact, I learnt from him that I should give all those things to someone who actually needs them. I learnt to be a Philanthropist. I don’t have any fear when I talk to him. I always sense those positive vibes when I am with him (or else when I talk to him). I don’t often visit a temple to meet him, but still he is my friend. He is not just Krishna, Ram, Ganesh, Shiv, Allah, Buddha, he is more than all these. He can be in the form of trees, animals, insects, air, water, sun, moon, etc. I always give him the time that he requires in a day. I always make him realize how much he means to me and it just ends up by saying two words- ‘Thank You’. I don’t need to explain it to everyone what kind of relationship I share with him. I just need to feel the vibe that he is there with me every time everywhere and that is why I call him my ‘Omnipresent Friend’. 

The Three Days

The journey has begun and it’s been three days in Hyderabad. These three days showed me that yes, it's going to be difficult living here yet possible. Although the city welcomed me wholeheartedly yet it couldn’t fascinate me. 

In these three days, three challenges confronted me and I broke down twice. And for once I thought that I can’t live here and I want to go back to home because I wasn’t able to accept this city. But after few seconds, I went into flashback and looked that how my parents actually supported me for this internship. They showed the faith in me and sent me to Hyderabad. They have so much courage as well as my whole family (Bhaiya, Bhabhi, Bade Papa, Badi Mummy, Prachi, Palak, Tanu, Parth,  Nimish, Ashu) that they didn’t even cry in front of me when I was leaving Indore because they knew if they would have broken down in front of me, it would have been difficult for me to come here. Thank you mummy papa. Thank you everyone. Those goodbyes, hugs made me even stronger to pursue my dream. And then other people that came into my mind were my friends- Sanjay and Akash, thank you so much for your wishes that make me gallant and determine, and of course my two special ones Anuj and Abhishek, thank you buddies. So, when I came back into reality I fought with challenges and won over them. 

Things have already started happening in a convoluted manner, but now I am enjoying every bit of it because I know I am strong and I will experience new things, a new culture in coming 45 days. I was prepared for all the challenges but I forgot for a while, but the day when I looked at Deloitte office, got the essence of Hyderabad (biryani, dosa, idli) I got pretty much sure that I will accept this city like it is mine. So, now I am ready for coming happenings. And I am thankful to all of you for all your wishes, blessings, courage, and motivation that make me gallant. 

Looking forward to the new beginning. Excited. Anxious.  

DUSK AND DAWN

Every day, 

Looking at the dusk

Remembering the happiness that I have given

Analyzing the mistakes that I have done.

Those different shades of dusk

Reflect me the different shades of the day.

Some dark

While some bright shades.

Enshrouding the dark shades

The bright shades

Reflect emphatically,

The good deeds that I do,

Strength to accomplish the incomplete tasks,

And to give an inkling about the dawn.

And hence, on the next day

The beauteous dawn comes

That sparkles, rejuvenates,

That cajoles me to feel optimistic.

It gives me the hope

To learn from the mistakes and rectify them

And have new targets and priorities.

It gives me the vigor

To become a better person

That can face the world

And can win the challenges.

Oh! You ravishing dawn

Thank you for giving me another day.

A day

That again gives me reasons to get happy,

To do good deeds,

To make mistakes,

To figure out and correct them,

And have a sigh of relief

When the dusk comes again. 

Happy New Year

At night,

I was looking at the stars.

I started looking carefully,

And a star caught my eye.

It was glittering the most,

But, when I look ahead,

It was a part of a group (a pattern).

And I thought,

That how other stars helped it to glitter the most.

Before I could look ahead,

I thought,

Am I like a star?

Who also sometimes shines the most.

But, how can I shine the most?

With the help of those people who came into my life.

Sometimes they gave me the sadness,

Sometimes they gave me the happiness.

Some people came,

Some people have gone.

And now when I look back,

Everyone has made a contribution (directly and indirectly)

That was worthwhile.

Everyone has taught me a lesson,

Everyone has given me a reason,

To laugh, to read, to love, to talk, to get inspired, to get strong.

And now I would really like to thank you all who have been a part of my life. I couldn’t be able to shine the most, if I wouldn’t be a part of your group. I know we have met for a reason and I found it. It would not be such a wonderful year if you all have not been a part of it. 

I know that I made some mistakes, maybe I have hurt you, so for that I am sorry. 

I don’t know whether I have made a contribution in your life or not, but still I want to thank you all.

So, thank you so much

And HAPPY NEW YEAR 

I hope that the coming year brings loads of happiness and success in your life and if I would be a part of it I can contribute something that will be worthwhile.

Stay Blessed! Stay Happy! Happy New Year!

NOISE

Increase in hearing of bad noises is directly proportional to increase in your age. But, you can make good noises and impress yourself.

During your childhood days; your parents try to nourish you by inculcating good habits. They protect you from the pessimism. Even you hear about some detrimental activities they keep you in a nutshell. They speak about thousands of good activities to protect you from pessimism and at the end you only hear good noises.

Gradually you move into the days of adolescence, when you break your nutshell, you come across the word ‘responsibility’ due to which you want to see the real world. You constantly differentiate the stories that you have heard from the world that you are seeing. You start hearing the cacophony of the world. People will try to push you towards the pessimism. Everywhere you will see that people will speak more of negative instead of positive. You will be like a magnet, which is made up of good thoughts. But since, a magnet attracts with opposite pole, and that opposite pole is made up of negative thoughts and activities you will attract towards it. Though your parents will keep you in the nutshell and they will motivate you, but since you are a magnet, like poles repel with each other. And hence, you will hear loads of bad noises.

Eventually, when you are an adult, you will figure out that almost everyone will create bad noises. You will come to know about malign activities through newspapers, television, etc. What about the good noises? You will crave to feel the positive vibes, to hear something optimistic.

So what? Can’t you be the person who can make good noise? Can’t you be the person who can pass on positive vibes? Yes, you can. You can cherish the small achievements of your life. Share them with the people. Tell them in what you are good at. Ask them in what they are good at. Appreciate the good qualities of other people. Make more and more of good noises, don’t be like a magnet. Build a new nutshell and protect it with the good books that you can read, with those people who can motivate you, who are benign.

As T.T. Rangarajan said- “In a world where the bad makes so much noise, you need more and more avenues through which the good too will begin to make noise.

So make good noises and impress yourself and the world. 

VICENARIAN

We all are ‘Vicenarian’ now. We all need to focus on our career very diligently. The age of 20-25 years, these are very crucial years in our life. Because now we are mature, we have to work hard to achieve our aims. Every day we wake up and start thinking about what we want to do. What are the targets that have been set by us that we have to accomplish today?  Every day we are working on it and every day our mind gives new ideas that there is something else also that we can do. But we are ignoring it and then we feel frustrated. Undoubtedly, most of the times we achieve our targets, but still we are left with some.  I know when we have our exams, we need to stop doing other things and should rigorously study for our exams because our future is depending on that. That’s why every day we start to do the planning; we set our target that we need to achieve.

BUT HANG ON!

I talked to so many people who want to achieve so many things in their life, they are working on it but still sometimes they get frustrated like us. Despite achieving our aim, we have so many problems that we are facing it; there are so many distractions which are impeding in our work and we are getting nothing in our hand. Why? Have we ever thought about it?

We are in an age where we need to achieve so many things, but at the same time we are really confused and are in a perplexing situation. We are avoiding those subtle and convivial moments that we need to enjoy.  We are thinking that if we will not go to work diligently than we will not going to have our bright future. We think that we are left with our whole life; we will enjoy our life later. But can we enjoy it? Instead of enjoying we will be having more responsibilities and we will indulge in that.

Life is simple and it says whatever your heart says just do that and relish each and every moment of your life. So, if we are getting an opportunity to spend time with our friends, spend time with ourselves, with our family, to enjoy our hobby, just do that. We need to be loyal towards our targets, but we also know that if we will not going to enjoy those things we will be frustrated. These moments will never going to come back. We are not ‘Tricenarian ‘where we need to sacrifice the things, where we need to take lots of pressure. It is good to be focused in life, but sometimes if we are getting an opportunity to enjoy something we should do that.

T.T. RANGARAJAN said- ‘Today is a providential gift. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. So, draw a line in your past, believe yesterday was over yesterday, and press your speed button into your future. Don’t waste your today and do something productive. Value ‘Today’ and make it valuable.’

‘Life needn’t to be mundane. Life needn’t to be boring. Life needn’t be a year’s experience repeated ‘n’ times. Life needn’t be an imposition. Life needn’t be a life imprisonment. There’s more to life than existing.’

So, if we want to have better results then let’s do something productive. Instead of regretting on things that we did wrong, instead of regretting on things that we have not achieved, let’s satisfy ourselves by achieving our targets, but if we don’t want to lose something, if we don’t want to get frustrated, then spend some moments with ourselves, with our hobby etc. So what, that we need to be focused. Still, let’s flourish our innocence and stupidity everywhere. Let’s do something better and productive happily. Let’s make ‘VICENARIAN’ more happening and convivial.