Life is full of moments..you remember some of them...and forget some....sometimes it so happens that when a certain thing happens you just find it normal...and afterwards when you think of it...you feel a sharp stab of happiness....and thats how these moments make it to your memories...memories you shall always cherish...memories that shall always remain close to the heart...
its kinda funny how just a small gesture or a certain look in someone's eyes cam make so big a difference...how a small wink is more than enough to light up your day...we don't realize what these tiny gestures mean to us unless we give a thought to them...but sometimes its necessary to give them a bit of our time...because i think even they deserve being pampered....:P

You look back...to the days that have passed...and the happy and bitter memories they hold...the emotions associated with them...the moment when you came first in the 100m race...the moment when you got your 10th board results and got full marks in maths....the moment you see the banner of your college and feel a sense of jubilation on being able to be a part of it..the moment you catch your crush staring at you...the moment you and your friend walk on the road doing all the craziest things possible...the list goes on and on.....These moments impart a character to your life...they make it different from others...and most importantly...they impart character to you....
They need to be pampered too..:P

Signet of Eternity - by Rabindranath Tagore

The day was when I did not keep myself in readiness for thee;
and entering my heart unbidden even as one of the common crowd,
unknown to me, my king, thou didst press the signet of eternity upon
many a fleeting moment of my life.
And today when by chance I light upon them and see thy signature,
I find they have lain scattered in the dust mixed with the memory of
joys and sorrows of my trivial days forgotten.
Thou didst not turn in contempt from my childish play among dust,
and the steps that I heard in my playroom
are the same that are echoing from star to star.
Where Shadow Chases Light
This is my delight,
thus to wait and watch at the wayside
where shadow chases light
and the rain comes in the wake of the summer.
Messengers, with tidings from unknown skies,
greet me and speed along the road.
My heart is glad within,
and the breath of the passing breeze is sweet.
From dawn till dusk I sit here before my door,
and I know that of a sudden
the happy moment will arrive when I shall see.
In the meanwhile I smile and I sing all alone.
In the meanwhile the air is filling with the perfume of promise.

The voice that held me captive..

The other  day while I was sitting in my room, cozying on my bed.......I heard a voice ..a beautiful voice ...she was humming the song "Rajneegandha, phool tumhare"....I was mesmerized by the voice...the beauty and the volume it carried...I pushed my covers and went out searching for the voice in my wing...when I found her, she was this pretty little girl, practicing in the washroom, for the auditions of SHRUTI' 2011...I congratulated her for her beautiful voice and came out...well, actually I din't...I was standing outside the washroom, listening to her mesmerizing song....;)


I was captivated...searched for the song over youtube and was listening to it the whole evening...loved the video...loved the serenity and the simplicity in it...if you still haven't watched it, I suggest that be the first thing you should do after reading this post...

Isn't it lovely?..

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I was staring off into the distance...The conversation swirled around me... I considered the hymn of the voices around me.... It was an ever-changing melody... rising and falling randomly and I could make neither head nor tail of the chatter... Sometimes the noise would die down and I would expect the song to end, but then it would rise up again, louder and harsher than ever...

I was sitting alone occupying a table...My friend called out to me, waving from the door... I snapped to attention, smiling, pretending to be interested in what was going on... I didn’t stay long, however, and soon I started pretending to read the novel I carried... I was floating off again... It wasn’t long before my thoughts were drifting over forests and valleys of ideas.... They reached up to me through the cloudiness of reality and every once in a while, I caught hold of one and carried it along for a while... I mostly enjoy the flight more than anything...

I was dreaming, wandering, wondering.... The world inside my mind is my escape... The world inside my head is, for all intents and purposes, the real world to me... I am always safe there...I feel safe there... I am always accepted there... And most importantly, I am always wanted there... Reality, for me,is a place of mystery and confusion... Whenever reality upsets me, I would escape to this world to seek guidance... and would travel the long, dark, dangerous roads of my mind searching for wisdom...and this world...my real world.. never ever lets me down...:)


And then I was called back to reality again as the waiter asked me what I wanted to eat. I again snapped to attention, smiling, pretending to be interested in what was going on...

Happiness is Free...:D

I wonder sometimes...what is our goal in our lives...we perform our daily chores...go to schools and colleges for our education...we strive for getting a good CGPA; a well paid job or and an acceptance from Stanford or Yale....But is this our ultimate goal in life??......NO...but then what is??...when we search our souls for an answer...most of us would find something in common - to seek Happiness...

But then the next obvious question arises...What is Happiness??..Almost everyone who believe that happiness in the goal of their lives have a common stand... they believe that if they are happy then their lives are fulfilled...But then there are different levels of happiness...They have to choose between the lower and higher types of happiness...between worldly pleasures and beyond worldly happiness..

No doubt pleasure should be distinguished from happiness, because there is certainly a very big difference in quality..
'Pleasure is simple physical, mental, emotional, or sensual satisfaction derived from external sources. Happiness on the other hand is related to our mind and soul and it involves a deep sense of fulfillment and contentment.'

A few weeks back, I was working for one of my seniors for her thesis work. Her place was like around 1km from my hostel. I used to walk to her place in the morning(my morning starts at around 1pm) and used to come back to my hostel by 7 (our curfew )..During the first phase of her work; i.e the sheet work I used to go everyday for about a week...When the second phase i.e. the model making started, she called me and asked me to come to her place the following morning...I said I'd go...The next morning she again called to wake me up...I got up, but at that time I was soo repelled by the thought of leaving my cosy bed and walking for around 20 mins in the heat of Raipur that I pulled my covers again and slept....and hence chose to have pleasure instead of doing what I was supposed to do..
Now on the day of the final jury, her work was not 100% complete...when I went to the college to watch the jury, she was still working on her model, unlike her batch-mates who had completed their works earlier and were chitchatting...Now that gave me a jolt, and I realized that had I walked to her place that day and helped her out instead of lying cosily in my bed, perhaps now even her work would have been complete like the others...I was feeling kinda guilty...and most importantly...I was not Happy...

Thats because I chose Pleasure instead of Happiness...'Pleasure is superficial and shallow. It is temporary and develops under specific circumstances and springs from specific object or activity. Nothing is permanent in pleasure. Happiness on the other hand is permanent and long-lasting and brings a glow of well being and contentment when something deep withing us is being satisfied'..

Being happy is not a very difficult task to achieve. Happiness is free like natural air or water. It does not cost us anything. We just have to be willing to be happy...Its a matter of choice...In fact life is all about choices...you choose to love others; u love...u choose to hate; u hate...u choose to do well in studies...to do well...u don't choose to do well...u don't...and most importantly...u can choose, if u want, to be happy...and on the other hand u can also choose to be unhappy and miserable...It depends on you what you would like to choose...A happy life can be created uniquely by any person...You don't need any external agent to be happy..And thus you can become what you want to become- A Happy person, or an un-Happy person...because Happiness is something that can be found inside you....you just have to search for it ...;)



References: 'The secret to happiness', The Economic Times, Kolkata, Dec, 2007.