How Lonely Do You Feel? by Vidushi Khera

I have always been a 'poem' guy..write my own stuff..(but burned it all once)..haven't really started off writing apart from the odd ones here and there..Now Vidushi Khera is one poet that i would like to meet..came across her poems a few years back on poemhunter.com. Brilliant!!! i should be the last person on this planet to comment on any poems..forget the structure..forget the scheme...forget the emotional depth and blah..blah..the poems just made me feel at peace..an inexplicable sense of something..but something positive...and i'd like to leave it at that.. :)

So jus putting up one of her poems..."How Lonely Do You Feel?"

When times are bad and you have no friends
When the hopes of life lead to dead ends
When all your surroundings have nothing to give
And you can’t imagine life the way you live
When on your knees you bend and you kneel
How lonely do you feel?

When time goes by and you can’t keep pace
When the world laughs at your weary face
When all that you thought had belonged to you
Turns into trash, your happiness too
When life takes the fruit and leaves the peel
How lonely do you feel?

When all those things that once were yours
Go by like the ticking hours
When you’ve got nothing, no one to turn to
When all your people have betrayed you
When you are left with no joy, no zeal
How lonely do you feel?

When life is more of a terror than a test
When you get nothing though you try your best
When you are numb and you find not a wound healing
When you are a bird without any wings
When in the game of life you’ve lost the deal
How lonely do you feel?

When you find a person in such a state
Go up to him, do not wait
Let this question go on like a wheel
Ask him, “How lonely do you feel? ”

Motivational !!!- by Bryon Dyson

Came across this speech by Bryon dyson: President and CEO, Coca-Cola Enterprises during his speech at the Georgia Tech 172nd Commencement Address Sept. 6, 1996

"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – family, health, friends and spirit – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.How?

Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as they would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future.By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life.

Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each together.

Don’t be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going.

Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.

Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way."

Couldn't have found a worse time to blog!!!!!

I have to be out of mind!!!!

Of all the time that i had in the past 8 months after coming to MDI, i had to choose 14th February, 2010, a day before my Mid term exams to blog... :( What timing!!!!

Here i am with a book in hand "Corporate Finance" :( trying to make sense out of nothing and yet i feel like writing something..

yesterday we had our alumni meet..it ws good to see them relive their campus moments and bond with their batchmates, some of whom with they had lost touch...Reason why i'm suddenly nostalgic abt it is for the fact that i had one of the best conversations yesterday night with two of my very close frnds.it started off as the complaining session..."God! why do u do this to us..(btw..the three of us were facing the same problem.. the love depression- in varying degrees and reasons)" and then u end up talking abt random stuff..take the frustration out of your system and voila!!! u suddenly start feeling good...have things changed?..NO..its the same..the same old issues..yet u feel light..

gotta stop nw..i know its incomplete..but i better prepare for th pprs..else i will have time only for blogging ;-)

SMILE!!!!!

Smile….

 Me: a person who is supposedly “morose, gloomy & who wouldn’t smile even if his life depended on it” L

My brother calls me a Dementor- 1 who wipes the smile off ur face jus by looking at u!!!

And today I’m talking abt “Smile” J…ya right!!!! 

I meet this very close friend of mine; like after 7-8 months; and she tells me you are looking good…I ws like thank you so much…I really cherished tht compliment coz even a blind woman wud never say that after seeing me!!! But then she says..”rather u are looking happy and “gay” coz u r smiling!!!” (She just had to say tht!!L). So then we start talking abt the need to smile…it seemed a bit odd coming from sum1 who smiled a lot more than me…definitely..say like 1ce in 3 days!!! J… (but now she smiles a lot more!!!)

We tend to keep our smiles hidden… it’s almost as if we have to pay a premium for a smile. We are buried so deep in our so called worries and difficulties, tht we think the last thing we need to worry about is if we are smiling or not..thts exactly the point tht I’m tryin to make..this very thought process makes our life gloomier if not more wretched that it already is!!

Everything that I say might sound clichéd but smile is that beautiful thing which connects two ppl…it does not cost u anything…it jus takes a moment to smile…but tht impact…is lasting!!

 “Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.”

 Thts the bond that u make…it’s just not the connection that u make with others…its is also what u giv to urself..a sense of happyness, contentment & peace!!! U jus feel good abt urself..thts the power that smile has…

 I’ll sign off the way I like the best-with a couple of  poems

 “There's Sunshine In A Smile”

            by Helen Steiner Rice

 

Life is a mixture of sunshine and rain,
Laughter and pleasure, teardrops and rain.

All days can't be bright but it's certainly true,
There was never a cloud the sun didn't shine through.

And you'll find when you smile your day will be brighter
And all your burdens will seem so much lighter.

For each time you smile you will find it's true

Somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you.

And nothing on earth can make life more worthwhile
Than the sunshine and warmth of a beautiful smile!!

J J J J

 

My first "Blog"

Finally….after 4 years, 7 months, 16 days, 7 hours and 34 minutes…I have “blogged” my first blog!!!! (Now that’s what I call PROCRASTINATION!!! Try beating that J )

            After thinking for an era on what should be ideally my first blog, I felt I should begin with something that’s inherent…something that describes me to very large extent and the first word that came to my mind was----- SOLITUDE!!!!

“I love people. I love my family, my friends . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”                                                                         - Pearl.S.Buck

 Let me first clearly state that in no way am I a misanthrope…it’s just that I love my solitude slightly more than the people around me J. As I like to put it…solitude is addictive!!! People tend to mistake solitude with reticence, arrogance, superiority/inferiority complex, boredom and more often than not ppl tend to mistake it with loneliness… Solitude is above all this…its sort of a meditative state wherein u are at peace with yourself and the world around u. A time to connect with yourself… (Ironically its in solitude that we think the most about others and what they think about us!!! J ) And when I say connect with yourself, its not like complain box session…its more or less like a thanking yourself moment, accepting who you really are, a small thank you to God (for those who believe), perhaps taking out a moment to smell a flower, probably catching the sunrise/sunset, laughing out aloud on a joke you remembered, humming a tune, or may be just smiling and telling yourself “I love me!!!” …I’m not preaching any “art of living” technique out here…but thts the way it is…Solitude is kind of a  bridge that connects ‘I’ with the ‘they’…something tht creates a harmony between ‘me’ and ‘them’…(Damn!!! Too philosophical I guess)…but the fact of the matter is most of us have lost touch with ourselves…Get in touch with yourself guys!!! Rfresh yourself!!! Get your dose of solitude today…I guess I’ll let Ralph Waldo Emerson say the rest !!! J 

            “What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

 Wht say guys???