Thoughts!!

Came across a wonderful thought today so thought of posting it:

"Kabhi zindagi ek pal mein gujar jaati hai... aur kabhi ek pal hi nahi gujarta..."

Translated:
"Sometimes life seems to be passing away in a moment... sometimes its difficult to pass a single moment..."

I don't truly know whether I completely understand this statement or not, but by whatever I make out of it, it is a very well said statement. And the fact that makes it so beautiful is the deep meaning it has in its simple words. By the long message it conveys through just a few words.

By what I make out it: it means to say that when things are going right and life is all rosy, you feel as if time is just flying by. You don't have a count of hours or days or even weeks at times. But on the other hand, when things are not going right, you even have the count of minutes or rather seconds!

This makes me think. Why? A why actually is the biggest question in life and keeps coming up
every now and then. But still why is this so? Why does it happen that we have such different feelings of time just based on some external parameters (our state of mind is more or less governed by some external parameters is what I feel)??? I don't think there is any answer to that. It's just the selfish human nature and that's how HE has made us. We just want to be happy always and don't want to feel anything sad. Hence, We make a note of the time that we are passing off as being unhappy. We are so sure that HE has written the best for us that we don't even consider that life can be gleamy at times.

Now that's human nature. But should we prepare ourselves somewhat for the unhappy times so that life's doesn't appear so unfair when things are not right? Or should we just do nothing about it and be as we are? I think chosing the former is better off. I am trying to change myself to follow the same. BUt as they say it... it's easier to preach than to follow :-)

Anyways, just some thoughts... so wrote it... nothing more than that!

Cheers!

Time pass...

This time it is just for some time pass
Waiting for the office to end and the weekend to start
Weekends have suddenly gained more importance
Specially since the time I have landed in Germany

It is not because of work pressure or anything
But it is simply because this is the beer land
As such I have no inhibitions drinking on the weekdays :-)
But I dont have to run tomorrow morning to the bus stand
Its the biggest pain to get up early in the morning
Specially if the night before has been so grand!!

This is only my second weekend in this place
The last weekend, my first here, was in true sense rocking
Attended the farewell of a colleague who was going back
And then went out with a coupla friends for some pubbing
Luckily met a few of their local friends there
And then it was time to get the dance floor rolling...

So in all it was a good first weekend in the Deutschland
And I am looking forward to have some... rather many more
Finally with this writing I have managed to end the day
So here I come bartender... let the beer pour!!!!

Cheers!

Life!!

After a long time am I coming to this place again. I don't know but I don't feel like writing too much now... Today I came here coz I felt like talking to someone and I didnt want any response. :-) Strange aint it? But that's exaclty why I am here today.

Whoever I talk to would give his/her advice as to how to sort out my life. But I really don't want any advice at all. Coz somehow I have realised today that some parts of my life are just too screwed up to be sorted out. Have tried probably my best but to no effect. I have done numerous mistakes in my life. Rather I am the only reason for screwing up my own life. High's and low's are there is every person's life but I screwed up any high time that I could get, and I did that in my low time.

There's one friend of mine. Total bakkar. But this guy puts this thing in very simple yet meaningful words. He says -

"Life is a sine curve. There are high's and low's. Just make sure that you don't commit such mistakes during your low's that shorten or delay your high periods. Make mistakes in the high periods but just hold yourself back in the low's. That is key to minimise the low's and maximise the high's"

I love the way he puts this. And this is actually the bare fact of life. We commit gross mistakes when life is not going smooth and these mistakes further worsen things for us. So just let the low period pass on. Keep your cool.

I know it sounds easier than done. I myself have never been able to follow and I am paying the price. But I feel that I am being done by inflation and am paying a price much higher than what I should have to. :-) But then probably everyone feels the same. I think I have written enough crap now and should end this. Will end with an advise:

"Life's not smooth. Learn to enjoy the bumpy ride!!"

Cheers!
P.S. I still wish my life was a highway... just as everyone would! :-)

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Human Sweat - Is The Value Decreasing?

Recently an incident happened with me that made me think about the title of this post.

I belong to Delhi and work in Chandigarh. It is just a 4 hour drive to my home from my workplace and hence I have frequent trips over the weekends. One such trip, I got dropped down at a point from where I had to take a rickshaw to my place. This is a point on the ring-road from where I used to take local buses to travel within Delhi when I was still of the small-to-drive-a-car-not-wanting-to-drive-a-scooter age. I have been living in this house for the last say 10 years or so. The price the rickshaw-wala charged 5-6 years back was Rs. 5. This is not the point of thought. Rather, the point of thought is that the amount charged today is the same Rs. 5!!!

While inflation has hit us big time in the recent times, the cost of human labor is still the same. The cigarette that I started smoking some 5 years back (I am hinting at my loyalty there :-)), has started costing me Rs 4.5 now starting from Rs. 2.5. The cold-drink that I drink to quench my thirst (I sure am inspired by Sprite) has seen an increase of some Rs. 2-3. The movie that I watch to keep the I-am-having-fun feeling alive has seen probably a 200% increase in the price (thanks to the PVR group). In all, cost of everything has increased except human labor.

I sat in the rickshaw to go to my house after quite sometime. And as soon as the rickshaw-wala asked me to pay Rs. 5, immediately this thought struck me. Is the value of human sweat decreasing? You would think that the price is still the same, it is not decreasing, then why this question. But with the inflation in picture, same amount amounts to lesser today than it did yesterday. And hence the question. Is human sweat less worthy than a careless smoke or a gen-time-pass movie? Thought about it for sometime, but could find no answer.

No reason, No rhyme!!!

Life has become pretty monotonous,
Had known this for quite sometime...
But realised it yet again today,
In my life... there's no reason no rhyme!

Today was another of those generally low days,
I was talking to a dear friend.
And was given a very routine suggestion,
"Do something you like to do" was what was said.
This made me think as to what I really like???
And I could find no answer to this simple-looking query...
Is there really nothing I like doing anymore??
If no, it really is something about which I should worry!!

My days are just a routine these days,
The one word summarizing it all is... NOTHING!
Spend 8-9 hours in the office... do nothing,
Go home, watch TV... and do nothing.
Drink with a couple of friends in the night,
Then go to sleep without doing anything.
Same story repeats day after day after day,
Some day for good, I wish my life does swing...

But then swings do not happen on their own,
And something about it should very soon be done.
"God helps those who help themselves" is what they say,
So to make that change, I myself will have to be the one...
But what to do about it is the big question,
As of now, I do not have the slightest of a clue.
Change is probably what I need right now,
Sooner than later, to some things I need to bid adieu...

There's a difference in living and surviving,
By just surviving, I feel like I am commiting a crime.
I have to live and soon I shall be doing that,
But as of now...
In my life... there's no reason no rhyme!!!

What do I want???

It's after quite sometime that I am sitting down to write,
And that's because things are too complex in my mind.
My career is point of concern for me right now,
What do I want from this point on? - I am not able to find...

Three and a half years I have been with my current job,
And I have no regrets that I stuck on.
Now I see no growth opportunities for me here,
But still somehow I want to hold on...
On the other hand, I want to go back home,
It's been quite sometime since I have been out.
But without the clear picture in my mind,
It will just be another step taken as a scout.

At the back of my mind, I always wanted to do an MBA,
But why and what for I simply don't know.
I am sitting in the office googling around,
To find something that as the reason I could show.
I don't know if this will help,
I don't know how many people know their reason.
But to me searching my reason on google,
Looks to be trying hands on some self-treason!

Another option is to stay here and travel to onsite,
That is for what everyone around me rages.
Reason is money, that's what everything in life we do for,
My personal reason for an MBA precisely is the huge packages.
But I can go to onsite anytime after MBA or in another job,
That will always be a part of life.
So is it wise to let my career take this option,
Right now, I am just standing on the edge of a knife!!!

All in all, I dont know where I am heading,
Job change or MBA or sticking here and asking onsite.
I am too caught up in all these thoughts,
And in this dark world, nowhere do I see any light.

At times, I feel lucky to have so many options,
At others, it feels that I am just getting grinded in the grind,
I always keep on questioning myself,
What do I want from this point on???
And the answer, I am just not able to find...