The past week was good

Last week was quite something.

To start with the first half of last week was filled with holidays.
Went to Kerala and had a jolly good time with the guys from office.

Independence day, time for the re-union of all our classmates from school, made it special.

All of us went out for a movie. "CHAK DE". Couldn't be anything more than perfect.

And yesterday, all of us from school got together again.
This was for all those who missed out the get together on I-Day.
Reminiscing what we'd all been through.

The best part was it was filled with Laughter, which we so often miss.

Chamundi Hills adding to the fun. It was the best time I had in the recent past.

Have fun people.

Happiness, sadness

I never saw where I was going. I just went along wherever life took me. If given a chance relive my life, I wouldn’t want to change a thing. No regrets is my policy.

Life gives you a lot of things, takes away a lot more.

Being happy with what you have make’s a lot of difference. Just whining about what you don’t have will end up making you miserable.

At times, you’re sad for some reason. Your sadness spreads to others very soon. If somebody comes to cheer you, take their happiness and let go of your sorrows. It’ll be good for you and to others around you.

Just adding to an already gloomy camp can make life miserable for everybody.

Let sadness be a step on which you can place your foot and move forward towards happiness.

Don’t make sadness your final destination.

Time

A desire to do so many things.

But as always, there s always a shortage of time.

Whenever, you are doing anything that’s interesting, time just flies by.

And boring stuff just seem go on and on till eternity.

Just remember a class in which you had to sit for one whole hour. The lecturer mumbling something about signals and systems. And you’d be signaling to your friend’s waiting outside the class to wait until the class got over. Also precisely at that time, somehow the clock slower than usual. That’s the most frustrating point in college. But blink and time just flies by.

Imagine this, it’s 12.45. You’re in a lecture that end’s at 1. You have a movie to watch at 1.30. The lecturer throws caution to the wind and continues to take class till 1.15 Those 30 minutes will seem to be the longest time of your life. Don’t they?

Also, when you have your lunch break, and it seems like you just entered the canteen and it’s time for the next class.

The double standards of time can be quite interesting at time.

Sometimes can be irritating as well. Weekend’s finish even before they started. Whereas work seems to be around for ever and ever.

You go on a weekend getaway, it feels like time is racing against us.

Most of the times, time itself wins.

While we lag behind. So just catch hold of time and you’ll be changing the whole theory of relativity.!!!!!

Desperate Choices

There’s always a given point of time when you wanna do something desperately and you don’t get the chance to.

It happens a lot of times to everybody, is my guess.

Not that I’m a psychologist or anything near to that.

However, considering that I’m a normal person in this totally abnormal world, I consider myself as saying what is happening to everybody.

Think about it, when you were in college you might have wanted to do a lot things.

For example, If you are guy, you might have wanted to take a girl out on a date and vice versa.

Considering the fact, that I’ve spent most of my time in college with hostelites, I know for a fact that none of the guys had money to spend lavishly.

Well most of them!

So, the first reason as to why your idea might have failed.

The basic funda behind guys/girls not going behind girls/guys could be:

1) When you are in college, and upto some point of time after college, friends are your life. Anything that your friends don’t like is not at all acceptable.

2) The rest of the things are at the moment out of focus as in a telescope without any focus.

The other things are you desperately want to study and the moment you pick up your book, behold, the KEB thinks it’s high time they removed power.

And lo, the boys and gals, who are hell bent on making an impact in the exams lose out their chance to do so.

A few more things like your favorite hero/heroine ‘s movie is releasing and you have no money around. And you are bankrupt. Also at that point of time, It so happens that none of your friends have money either. You are SCREWED. I can’t think of a better word than that.

My vocabulary is limited, so please make do with whatever I have.

The most important thing according to me is what you have to say to your friends.

That’s the most difficult part. If you have to say something to your friend/s that is gonna hurt them, then your SCREWED PARTII. Because if you don’t tell them they are gonna end up in deep shit. But if you tell them, then you’re gonna end up in their deep shit.

Sounds kind of crazy. But it’s a mad mad mad world.

You end up in a catch-22 situation. Which is the worst situation to get into!!

Read the book Catch-22, a superb book by Joseph heller.

No, I’m not a marketing executive for the publisher’s. It’s just a nice read.

Have fun while you’re at it, cause you never, when you might end up where.

In the end, it might all be bullshit of the highest order!!

Chances

Quite a few times it so happens that chances decide or rather turn you towards your destiny or wherever you happen to go at the end of the day.

I came across this thought when I was sitting in a tea stall called Manju’s One stop near our college.

You’ll get some really nice Tea and Coffee. Stop by if you have the time.

Returning to the topic of chance, just imagine wherever you are now. Would you be there now if something small had changed let’s say five or ten years back?

Think about it.

I took five years to complete my engineering. Rather still on it. Hoping to it finish this time around.

I got a job at the end of my fifth year. The company that recruited me came to our college for the first time. And lo.. I got selected. If I had finished my engineering on time, then may be I wouldn’t have joined that company and may be I would have been an unemployed youth till now.

Also since I gained one year in engineering, I made a lot of friends. If I had lost that 1 year and completed my engg in 4 years, I would have missed getting to know a lot of great people and would have learnt a lot less than what I’ve learnt now.

So just think about it some time when you are free.

Is there something that could have happened, which could have changed your life?

Of course, there’s no big deal if you don’t think about it.

I’d like you to think about it because I’d like you to take some time for yourself.

What say?