Sunday, September 28, 2008
I WISH TO FLY....
I wish to soar
I wish my dreams could roar..
I have the energy
I have the potential
I want to create the new anthem.
Anthem of the youth
Anthem of the passionate
Anthem of those who are desperate
Desperate to create a new height
Not caring about their plight
With a vision of achieving a great flight.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines.....
'Tonight I can write the saddest lines'
Of those endless nights, of those deepest sighs…
My eyes are numb, heart aches and throat is sore,
And somewhere in the distance the sea roars.
For it is also crying for the pain of being alone
As I have been left forlorn…
He whom I loved d most sometime
And sometime I wished he could also love me…
Has left me shattered…
Like a tornado that leaves it's victims battered…
To the person who matters to me the most….
Were the lines that he told me..
But the subject of those lines wasn't me…
O my god..Please pay heed
For it is your wretched daughter who did d deed
Who was just blinded by love..….
Did that heart breaking task of joining two lover doves….
I m glad that it happened…
For here I m
and still going strong
Because it's a new dawn
The dawn of realization
And a dawn of new start
These were the most saddest lines I could write tonight
And probably the last
As the world is brand new
Like the grass wet with dew
Thursday, April 17, 2008
PERFECTION........
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle!”
- Michelangelo
Once Michelangelo was working on a statue for several days and he was taking a long time to retouch every small detail, which seemed rather insignificant to a bystander. When asked why he was doing this, Michelangelo replied, “Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle”. Most people forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well it was done.
There are two ways of getting rid of weeds in your yard. The easy way is to run a lawnmower and the yard will look fine for a while, but that is a temporary answer. Soon the weeds grow back. But the not-so-easy way would mean getting down on your knees and slowly pulling out the weeds by the roots. This is time-consuming, tedious and would take a long time but the weeds would stay away for a very long time.
In today’s fast paced world, everyone is looking for instant formulae for success and instant gratification. People seek short-term gains and not long-term benefits. This is a limited vision and can bring only limited results. Today, people want to become rich overnight, but shortcut methods, more often then not, make them compromise on their integrity. The money comes in but brings in only momentary pleasures for along with it comes anxiety, fear and guilt.
Success is but a flash in the pan. True fulfillment and sustained results come only through working relentlessly towards the goal one has set. Goal setting itself involves a series of steps. Goals, as Mr. Shiv Khera points out, should be SMART: S-specific, M-measurable, A-achievable, R-realistic, and T-time-bound. And to realize such a goal, it is absolutely essential to plan and prepare. “Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win”. A complete mental and physical preparation requires sacrifice and self-discipline. This is no doubt difficult but the result is the best. Disorganized labor leads to naught.
Having decided on the course to follow, one needs to have persistence. Nothing can take the place of persistence, not even talent and genius.
Fritz Kreisher, the great violinist, was once asked, “How do you play so well? Are you lucky?” He replied, “It is practice. If I don’t practice for a month the audience can tell the difference. If I don’t practice for a week, my wife can tell the difference. If I don’t practice for a day, I can tell the difference”.
Persistence means commitment and determination and this comes from a sense of purpose.
So, don’t look for one-minute solutions to everything. Quick fixes do not bring a sense of fulfillment. Moreover, this attitude is apt to lead to disappointments. Remember that triumphs do not come without sustained efforts.
When the going is tough....
I would smile
Say words to soothe
Grip hands to affirm
My trust, my faith,
To transmit energy
Convey how much I care.
I would unfurl
The golden pages and
Recall who I am.
My spirit strengthened
I would soar, strive
To realize, not analyze
Dreams that must be dreamt.
I would shut the cacophony around
And composed within
Write a symphony of
Harmonious notes.
I would believe that
“ the secret of life
Is to make stepping stones
Out of stumbling blocks.”
I would learn
That to be shaken
Is not to be broken
That my yesterday
Will again be tomorrow
As it must.
I would, wisdom dawned
Learn to remember:
My destiny is not
The slope of the valley
But, guided by the stars
Is to claw up the climb
In the stillness of night
To an applauding world.
-- Donn Doongaji
Friday, April 11, 2008
Memoirs of a Geisha
Welcome again Friends,
My first entry
Well this is my very first entry, in my very first blog. And since, I believe in straight talk..let me state what I'll be posting here..I'll mostly be writing about the books that i have been reading (well, the influential ones), quotes from them, about politics, love, my life( some interesting events off course!).
To start with;
the idea of writing a blog struck me not because it is something glamorous to do these days (as most of my friends do it because it is something in vogue), but something that struck me when I went through these lines of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf". Well, the lines are:
" I know people who read interminably, book after book, from page to page, and yet I should not call them 'well-read people.' Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of assorting and classifying the material which they have gathered from the books. They have not the faculty of distinguishing between what is useful and useless in a book; so that they may retain the former in their minds and if possible skip over the latter while reading, or if that be not possible, then- when once read- throw it overboard as useless ballast. reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. It's chief purpose i to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of talents and capabilities that each individual possesses. Thus each one procures for himself the implements and materials necessary for the fulfillment of his calling in life, no matter whether this be the elementary task of earning one's daily bread or a calling that responds to higher human aspirations. such is the first purpose of reading. And the second purpose is to give a general knowledge of the world in which we live....each little piece of knowledge thus gained must be treated as if it were a little stone to be inserted into a mosaic, so that it finds its proper place among all the other pieces and particles that help to form a general world-picture in the brain of the reader."
I am an avid reader, I read as if there is no tomorrow, but then I don't read without purpose, as these books for me are like a peep into a different world or the same world but with a different view of things and people, that usually escapes our eyes. I keep on collecting each little piece of knowledge gained from these books to form a world-picture in my mind. Just like a child fits in the jumbled parts of a jig-saw puzzle to form a concrete picture. Because, what we always see around us might not be always true, it is a luminous halo and we don't know what to make out of something in front of us. But, these books, they help us reflect on our general surrounding and to form a more concrete and true picture of the world around us.
And thus, coming back to the purpose of my writing a blog is that sometime back somebody said that "knowledge gained and not shared is knowledge wasted". And I hope that sharing the knowledge I gain by reading these books helps you and me in some ways.