Choices in life…

We all make choices in our life. Sometimes, we make a well planned choice and sometimes we are forced to make one. Every day, we choose to be happy, angry or sad. Our choices eventually affect us and everyone we know & love. There are generally two choices, we have in our life – to accept things as they exist or to accept the responsibility for changing them. And its us, who make the call. Our values help us to decide the right & wrong. These choices are as important as our breath is to us. There may be hundreds of choices in a day and each of them counts. Somebody has rightly said that “We make choices, then our choices make us.” We should be careful in choosing them as these things taken today program our future. But since we are humans, we are entitled to make some of the wrong choices in our life. If we ever face bad consequences resulting from our choice, we should not get stuck with it, rather we should move on with our new life ahead…

“Any change, any loss, does not make us victims.
Others can shake you, surprise you or disappoint you.
But they can’t prevent you from moving on.

No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something.
On every turn of life, you will always have a choice.
And that choice can be your power.”

A walk to...

Men in mid 30s wearing flashy nike shoes are jogging all around wondering about the stock markets and the outcome of today’s cricket match. Women are walking gossiping about their mother-in-law. Old ones are giving their opinions on the recent results of Punjab elections to their mates as they were the heads of Election Commission. It seems they are dawdling the things to take the most of these few happy moments.

A number of teams each with a couple of people are playing cricket at every 15 ft of distance ( I sometimes wonder  if there was no cricket, what would be the Indians doing..!!). A 8 month old girl is trying to stand on her barely 3 inches of feet and play with the grown ones. A boy is approaching a football resting in ground as he would kick it directly into the goalpost. Suddenly, someone calls him from back,”Oye Ronaldo, aj tera din nai hega..”(Hey Ronaldo, today is not your day). And his words worked and the ball instead of going to the goal post comes to me standing outside the post.

Then there are some poor and abandoned children searching for their happiness in that of others. Now, you would be wondering about the place I am talking about. It is a park 200ms away from my house.

I felt delighted when I saw this kind of environment. But when my eyes turned to see a heap of waste, all my excitement deflated…

In fact, this is the story of each & every park in India. We blame govt. for the poor maintenance of parks & their negligence towards them. But did we care about this when we threw the toffee wrapper on the road yesterday. Don’t we have any onus towards them..?? These parks are for us only..their plight will ultimately affect us, not the government. We need to realize that we have a certain level of responsibility towards the environment. And if each citizen takes responsibility of his actions, a lot can easily be achieved. As they say,

“Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand

Make the mighty ocean,

And the beauteous land…”

And then there will be a entire new environment…!!

Nature’s love…

Look at the trees, look at birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars…the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. We have been given a gift. A rare, beautiful, timely gift. The gift of healing ocean breezes, sunshine, endless horizons, unexplored grasslands & wetlands…peace, calm & breath of life. All this is the nature’s way to express its love for us. Then there are beautiful little crawling things in the sand. In early morning, when the birds start singing before dawn and the entire space around us gets saturated with the energy. It is the nature’s love. When we walk along the street, the cool breeze is the nature’s love. When we take the tree in hot, the tree’s shadow is the nature’s love. The macro beauty of pollen is nature’s love. The hills, waterfalls, oceans which sooth our eyes are nature’s love.

And its our obligation to give the same love to our nature by conserving its resources. As they say,

“The love is a beautiful thing only when it is returned…”

I have a dream...

I have a dream to believe in myself

I have a dream to live with contentment

I have a dream to sing at top of the Himalayas

I have a dream to make my parents feel proud

I have a dream to see India as the global leader & be a part of it

I have a dream to turn back and walk along the bhakhra’s bank
I have a dream to see us together

I have a dream that love would never end

I have a dream that people will respect me for who I am

I have a dream to be able to get through all of my good and hard times

I have a dream to learn what life teaches me

I have a dream to feel one day that I have learnt & experienced everything I possibly could from life

I have a dream that one day the sun would rise to a better world

I have a dream to fly like a bird

I have a dream to dream…

In search of a new path...

Twenty years into my life & I feel I haven’t accomplished anything

I feel like a jack of some trades, master of none

I often feel the emptiness in me

I often scream with fear thinking of being in a roller – coaster

I want to run and at the other moment, I want to hide

I feel like two different people are stuck in me..

People say… I’ve gone mad,

but truth is that I’m lost and

I’m in search of a new path, a new itinerary, a new destination… which will be mine, will work for me & which will fill me with contentment…

I need to prove I’m worth for this gift of life…