I and the mirror

Every morning when I come across the mirror,

I find an unknown Asking me questions;

For which I have no answers.

Who am I?Why am I?

From where have I come?What is my destination?

In this world of hypocrisy,What is my identity?

What is my identity in this world of crores?How many know me out of my doors?

Why to struggle and feel proud,

If the final dress is only shroud?

If nothing will go with me,

Why to fight with destiny?

I see the mirror in the evening again,

To face myself in a different lane.

Although, I am not known to many people,

But I am also as superior as Einstein and Newton.

I have to live, to make this world happier;

To contribute something great, not known ever.

I have to live such a life,That my death brings tears to some eyes.

I have to live to answer the mirror with dignity;To find who am I, and what is my identity.

Satisfying Life

While passing through different phases of our personal and professional existence; we meet people of different backgrounds, thinking and priorities. Some of them resonate our frequency and others not. Many times, we take time to understand people, trust them and gain their trust and some times not - some times a small chit-chat wins over long talks. But there is one thing which we seldom observe – it is not luck or fortune or any other force behind all the things we see and all the people we meet. How many times on meeting someone in a bus or saying hello to someone in a train, we think that it was destined to happen?
Everyone and Everything we come across in ‘life of a day’ is all linked to our actions in life before that moment. It is linked to the options we choose when life presents us more than one choices. It is linked to our success or failure whenever we come across a moment to prove ourselves. Whenever we celebrate our success, we always forget that this is also a result of all the failures in the past and whenever we curse our past failure(s) we forget that this was one of the milestones for where we are today. So in one way, every moment in our life and every action in that moment govern how rest of our life will treat us. There is nothing discrete and different. Everything and everyone is linked to one another. So if tomorrow you find a friend for life in a small chit chat at workplace or you are bluffed - it’s all related.
Also, there is something which is always overlooked; we always think that what all we do and perform in one sphere will only impact our future in that area but it is completely wrong. Everything which we are doing in one field may impact our destiny in that field more directly and more strongly but it will and it always impacts everything. The reason is very simple you have got a very limited time in a day, and to be precise – only 86,400 seconds. So a second spent more on anything is a second spared less for another. And what all you see and maintain is related to the time spent for / with the same.
Here comes the importance of Goals and Priorities. When everything is linked together, and we have got a limited time in a day so it is very important to know what we want. It is worth to know whether you want to be a doctorate in a field or a big business tycoon or just someone surrounded by friends and family. When I say what you want, I mean, what is most important to you and is a question of life and death - not something to have to feel good. Most of us pass through a phase when life presents various options and we don’t know which one to choose. These options seems to be like different channels and completely isolate but there is something which is common in all of them and that is the time required – Every channel will require some time to be passed which will never come back.
It is worth spending some time to select the channel whose opening on the other side is what you want from life. This opening is your destination or a goal and the channel is the way you will achieve it – a Method. It is very important to understand the difference between the method and the goal because method is very important till you have not reached your destination. Once you achieve your goal, your destination; the method becomes irrelevant. It is like a boat which you use to cross a river; once a river is crossed the boat is useless. What is important is to know what you want to achieve and then how you want to achieve.
Most of us, when confused, pick an option which seems easy and will take less time to buy some moments to think. This is a blunder because these channels are like one way – you cannot go back. Also every destination is in future turned into Milestones, that is, you cannot spend your whole life on one Opening / Goal. Once you reach the end of a channel, you can celebrate and relax for a while then you again have to choose from a set of channels. The new options you will get will depend on which opening you are and also how you reached. This is a continuous process until you get a dark black wall in one of a channel stopping you to go ahead. You cannot break this wall and you will certainly get it once and only once and this is where your life ends.
The best way to lead a satisfying life is to first of all try to find a long term goal which can satisfy your life. Second comes the method – there may by multiple channels which may lead to the same goal and these channels can be completely different. It is like you can take various mode of transport to reach a particular point. The best option is which suits you, where you can enjoy the most. Here also, one thing to remember is all the ways will not treat everyone similarly – it is very much person dependent.
And in the last comes the importance of co-travelers. It is always best to have ‘dear ones’ who share common goal with you and not the method. Although, you will be spending most of the time in achieving something that is there will be very less time you will stop on any goal or milestone, but, ‘this time’ will be far more superior and this will be the place where you will like to be surrounded by like minded people – who can motivate you if you failed and celebrate with you if you won.
Remember, Life will treat you well if you really know what you want from it.

Silence – a Constructor or Destructor:

Yesterday, I was listening to a musical concert and before the music started there was a deep silence. All musical instruments were all set to awake but there were few moments for actual composition to start. I was feeling impatient and thinking about the melody which will start in some time. I was thinking about the emotions that the composition will unfold. The wait was not for hearing something good….The wait was for hearing something – Either good or bad, So that I can enjoy if it is good and I can change if it is otherwise. Finally the wait was over and silence of the environment was broken by the music in the air. It started with a smooth piano as the leader supported by others. The composition started with slow rhythm and in some time it was in full swing. The composer intentionally started it slow to give us time to adapt it and then increased the tempo. In some time I was lost in the music and then the reverberation was suddenly stopped. All the instruments were on rest and there was a deep silence in the air; again. But, this silence was only for a moment and the air was again filled with music. This moment of silent, unlike the initial wait was splendid. Although, this silent moment was not expected but in one sense it made the composition complete because here the silence was part of music. This silent moment like an adventurous Roller Coaster ride dropped the intensity from a peak point to rock bottom. But again, like a Roller Coaster, This moment was a very tiny as compared to the full length but it made the entire composition superb. In other sense this moment was very tiny therefore it made the entire composition superb otherwise if it would have ruined the bliss.
After the concert ended, I was thinking of the silence in the beginning of composition and then in between. This silence applies to all phases of our life; be it professional or be it personal; be it friendship or be it work. When we are waiting to start something new in our life; there is a feeling of impatience and insecurity. We don’t know whether the new venture will be good or bad; whether the new relationship will be trustworthy or not. We just want to start it soon so that either we can enjoy it or change it. And the time comes when our life is filled with it. We become used to it and take it as granted because it becomes part of life and here it losses the value. Now a sudden dip is required to rejuvenate the value. This dip can be a loss in the business or can be some distance in relationships. This dip makes the entire venture valuable throughout the length. But this dip has to be negligible. This drop of intensity from peak to bottom should not last long. This arriving and departure of this fall should be swift. This fall should give us time to value the part of life which is empty now but it should not give us time to change it. And once this dip is filled, when this moment is gone; life gets normal with better outlook and attitude.
So, Silence can be a constructor or destructor. It only depends which part of life it is falling in and of course the duration. The emptiness in life can be disastrous; but if this emptiness is for a small time and at perfect timing then it makes us value every smallest thing we have.

Every Moment is precious...

The saddest part of our lives is that we don’t want to celebrate. Whenever our soul wants to take a dip in the ocean of laughter, dance and fun, our always guarded and awaken brains create a wall to protect.
Here, celebration does not mean watching movies and going to casinos. From the word ‘celebration’, I meant happiness of soul. When you are satisfied what you have achieved. You are happy where you are. Celebration means when every breath makes you feel proud of yourself. When you think there is nothing which I wanted to do is left undone. The moment when you feel that purpose of your life is met. This is the time when you start feeling that this whole universe is revolving around you. The sun is rising to bright up your day and the winds are blowing to bring sweet fragrance to you. This is the time when all the natural forces are your slaves, because these tiny things become insignificant.
The question is why it is so difficult to enjoy the moment we have right now? There could be only three possible reasons which can justify this question.
First and most important reason is we always postpone our happiness to future that I will enjoy when I will be graduate, I will enjoy when I will get a job. But, the targets once achieved turned to milestones. And the life goes on. The life goes on and in the end we think we didn’t get time to celebrate the life. At every stage of life we are unsatisfied because we never enjoyed the past and have not achieved the future. The moment which is available to us always lost because we don’t know what we really want from life. We don’t know where the trail of achievements should stop. We never stop and look back that are we going in the right direction. Is this what we want to achieve?
Second and most imperceptible reason is people who are around us. The love and care for family, friends and even worse the people who are unknown; take us far away from inner-self. Every day we toil for happy family; we spend time with friends to share some laughter. We set our target keeping in mind our colleagues and we behave in a way people around us like. Out of twenty fours hours of the day we are not able to provide us even few moments. The words “manners” and “behavior” ensure that we trap our likes and dislikes in a narrow cage of expectations of outside world. We say we are independent; we are doing things of our choice. But, if happiness and satisfaction are the concern of people around us then how come actions are independent. We hardly do anything which we really want to do from inside and this is why we are not satisfied. How can dissatisfied soul dance on the rhythm of life?
Third reason is our beliefs. We are told from our childhood that living life for self is the most “Selfish” and worst thing. We are told to live for others and take pains to reserve a couch in the heaven. Heaven is a place where you will get all those things which are restricted here to enjoy. This is where the controversy starts. The moment which is there to celebrate is ignored to enjoy the life which is unseen.
Why it is hard to believe that a life which is full of sorrow cannot shower joy on others. A bucket which is it-self empty cannot satisfy the thirst of trees. If you want to spread the joy, then first you should be an ocean overwhelming with the same. Every precious moment which is passing can be celebrated as a festival or can be lost. It is up to our perception how we want to take it.