#AfternoonThoughts

What makes the city of joy, joyous, is not the constant festivities around but the people with whom we share the ongoing festivals.

It is not about the picture perfect crowd but that one face or few comforting faces among thousands around.

It is not the places that make one nostalgic but the people who were there when memories were made.

Tip toeing around some of those places made me realize how far life has come; in terms of time and distance(both physical and mental)..

When memories become both happy and heart-wrenching, it is time that one realizes that we have grown up!

#StayBlessed!

#Change!

Since the inception of this universe, the only thing that remained constant is CHANGE..

Weather changes..Year changes..People change..Mood changes..Job changes..Life changes and Place, that changes the most (for me)..

Human beings are however born to be mobile...yet we fall in love with the stability of a place...
...the people there, the life, the achievements and the failures even sometimes make us realize how much a place can contribute in enhancing someone's emotional side...

All the "first time emotions" that were felt there will never be found anywhere else!

Change is the hardest and inevitable thing at the same time..

It's not just leaving a place, it is like leaving a piece of yourself there...that self which you know would never be found again somewhere else..

....the familiar faces and the known roads have so many memories..some even untold and incomplete!

....and thus that particular part of "you" can never leave the place even if the mortal frame does..

Once you decide on something, the pain of anything multiplies...

...living in denial is far more comforting!

...and then you find yourself packing bags...finding long lost things as you clean up the room for one last time..the room where memories are hugging you left and right..

Staring at the packed bags you start to think, "oh boy! I have so many cloths! and I didn't even wear half of them!"....

.....jokes aside they also give you one last push of the reality that your days are done here!!

We move anyway, we try to scare the fear inside us....and

..Both dilemma and life continues: "whether to stay a little longer or move ahead?" 

And the excruciating pain lies in the fact that no one knows which is the better option to choose!

Only time can tell! ~ I hope it does.

(Pune; I will be in love with you....always!)

#StayBlessed!

Location: Chatushrungi hill, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Time

|| "If you have chemistry, you only need one thing....Timing!
.......and Timing is a b**tch.." ~ HIMYM quote

....and you met me at every weird time of my life, when there was nothing left to plan..
.........and, when I understood the severity of it and sighed;
..time took your words again and ran me over with them,
...slapped me with the hardcore reality of life! ||

||Time: It can either make you or break you|| *trade lightly*

#StayBlessed!

#Witnessing Innocence

After climbing down four flights of stairs, I saw a little creature, who was even shorter than my knee, was trying to go upstairs..with a school bag on her back and clutching another one with both hands.. I was wondering whose was it, when I came across another little fellow!
She was helping her friend as he was not feeling well...
I could understand seeing the limp..

....the elevator's button is too high for her, I thought and tried to help but then realized that her self esteem was higher..
She not only refused to go inside the elevator with a stranger (obviously), but also showed me "I don't need your help" face! ...I know because I can relate to that!...

Failing to convince her about the elevator, I started walking upstairs with her holding the other bag and her friend..she could rely on me once I was ready to go by the stairs..

On reaching the apartment, I came to know that it was the boy's apartment and the parents had no idea that the school bus came early..
She lived across the hall....
The parents were both equally embarrassed and delighted at the same time..

I took my leave saying that I should not be given any credit because it was She, who very responsibly did her job by helping her friend through trouble..


The world is full of people who tend to pull you down...But it is little people like these, who can go extra mile for a friend, is making this world still a better place to live in!!
.....and these small moments in your otherwise busy day act as oxygen and makes you work harder, for making the world a better place for these little fellows!!

#StayBlessed!

#UnturnedMemories

|| Making good memories isn't a big deal...
Keeping them good, is....||

At any point of time, no matter what your mood is, you should look back into one such memory that does put a smile on your face without the pain...everyone should have such memories, at least one in their lives!
...that no matter where you are, everyone included in that memory is just a wink away (in this tech-savvy world that's not a very difficult thing to do)..
.......and if not then there is something one can do which can at-least ensure that someday those can be recreated, with strands of white hair in the pictures, sure..but nevertheless can be created again...

Hope!...one can always hope for the good times to return..
...it's the slowest poison of all....
....yet we stick to it..
This is what is called Being Human I guess !!


#stayblessed!

BeingAgirl

For all my life till now, I thought people respect me because I don't cry in front of them..
I am not very vocal when it comes to, u know, showing my inner emotions..
I get embarrassed when someone pat my back and say, "you will be fine" and "everything will be ok" and worst of all "hang in there"..

I go like, "hello, can't you see..I am fine!"

I have always been like that kid who used to get angry when people call her a girl..well I am.
..but I never wanted people to quote it because I saw the word girl being used as an insult!

All my life till now, I thought that showing that I am emotionally detached would help me loose that stigma of being a girl and more so help me find legitimacy in a person for there will only be handful of people who will go below my layers of "leave me alone" and find the real me..

And I was right..They are handful indeed!

And for the rest, it has always been my responsibility to show you my emotions because one can not and should not expect such high maintenance from everyone!

It has never been anyone's fault if you didn't understand me in the past. It was mine!

In an event it was pointed out that not showing my inner emotions to people didn't help me or may be didn't get me the place I wanted but in turn put me in a position where people, kind of took me for granted that "I will know it all".

Segmenting myself emotionally made me look hypocritical more, than anything else!
the concept of " I won't let everyone in emotionally" took hell of a wrong turn!

So being expressive and being vocal in expressing your feelings are things that sound similar and easy but a lot different and hard to do in real...nevertheless both should be done!

If you feel something (anything...it covers a whole area from, having a bit more affection for anyone to having anger issues with a long distant friend), say it, do not think if he has a girlfriend or for that matter, boyfriend (vice-versa)....or that he/she won't understand just because that person is physically away!!

Saying that will probably make you feel that you are on a display, but believe me it's better than wondering for the rest of your life; because you will eventually express it directly or indirectly at a time which may or may not be fair to the concern person!

If you are emotional and want to call someone at the middle of the night or want to cry on someone's shoulder, do it..Do not think whether he/she will judge you or think less of you..because here also, you will end up crying, hugging that person eventually at a time when they won't have a clue of what to do next!

Today. I felt a strange thing..

As I have always thought myself more of a testosterone person than an estrogen one, I have always had zero knowledge as far as female make up is concern,

(yes! I am straight..and..no! I do not have a favorite shade of lipstick)

.....and at the same time had this feeling of inferiority while walking past a beautifully dressed girl...I have always wondered what would it take for me to look like that.
Then the thought of so much of work for looking beautiful used to make me go "forget it!"

But today, as I was in my usual pace with my playlist loud and headphones on, a group of "selfie-queens" (if I may say so, with no offense to anyone) past me; and it hit me, I don't care anymore..because someone became vocal and said that
"You are beautiful"
...strange what right words from right people can do to you!.....and I caught myself smiling..for no better reason than realizing it that henceforth I know I will hear the voice every time my confidence will shake!

I always knew I don't need make up to look confident as far as looks are concern; but having someone injecting that feeling inside felt pretty good today!

Somewhere I read that, "While silence can numb the world, words can be destructive"

It is right!! The words that gave me confidence that I am the perfect version of myself did destroy the old me...destroyed many old beliefs and made me believe that being "a girl" is more important than being "ideal"..

The phrase might not have been written the way I interpreted; but here's to the writer that it can be interpreted this way as well!!

|| It is better to get destroyed by words than surviving silently || :)


#StayBlessed!

It's 2017 already!!

I should have started the blog entry of 2017 with this writing but I was too preoccupied emotionally to start the year just by saying happy new year!!

Nonetheless....HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL who have been following my blog.
I am and always will be over whelmed by the views..it means a lot because it injects in me a subtle confidence that there are people who are willing to spare some moments of their valuable lives to read the cacophony of my mind!

Of all the years that I have lived till now, last year by far had been the most unexpected year of my life.
I have lost people whom I never wanted to.
I have found inert intimacy which I did not know of.
I realized that "realization" is a bitch sent by Karma!
I helped people in ways I did not know I could.
I hurt people in ways I did not know I could either!
I came one step closer to one of my dreams and went a step away from some!
I loved....I lost...I laughed...I cried (yes I do)...and I survived!

Honestly, I am a bit tired of the unexpected but not yet broken..
Here's to the coming year: I am looking forward to whatever you have to unleash..Don't be gentle on me.. I know you won't :)

To everyone out there....
God Bless You All in unexpected ways..
Have a miraculous year ahead!
Cheers!

A_favorite_path!

|| Walking alone is never hard..
.....but it seems hardest; when you have already walked with someone...||

#StayBlessed

Day_Defining!!

|| A Day is a 3 Dimensional image of many a real laughter...some fake smiles....few unseen tears and complicated answers to all simple questions around...
But as the day edges, everything disappears into the evenness of the night...
The monotony of the heart-beat, the familiar ticking of the clock and the serene pillow assure me that I not only belong with them but can confide everything....Always! ||

#StayBlessed

May the FORCE be with You!!

|| Take your broken heart....
.......make it into art..||  ~ Carrie Fisher

#StayBlessed
#Dedication