#TheHappyPlace

In a complete non literal sense, Strength and Weakness are synonymous.
If one thinks carefully, one will end up at the same place for strength as for one's weakness.
Like a candle can both give light all around while having darkness in its base....people posses strength and weakness....light and darkness...from the same source..
...and may be for some weird reason, weakness is not a bad thing to posses.
.....While strength takes energy to stand up and be yourself; weakness shows that in a world full of judgement you are gutsy enough to show your vulnerabilities.

The one place or thing you can and want to go when you feel either too weak or feel enough strength, is your "happy place"......
...................save it.....!!

#StayBlessed!

#RaceAgainstTime

The problem with time is that it will always runs out..
No matter how fast you run, you can not beat time...it WILL outrun you..the only thing that you can do is try to touch down as many bases as possible during this run..

..something or the other will remain untouched..incomplete..so give your 100% to the things you ought to complete!!.

..so read the book which you bought a year ago and kept in the shelf..
..execute the vacation plans that are only discussed in the "group"..
..try out the restaurant on which you have your eyes on for so many days..
..dance like there's no tomorrow with people you can be crazy with..
..experience the serenity of the setting sun from a quiet beach..
..tell people that you care..
..hug your dear ones (even if they are sleeping right now or first thing tomorrow morning)..
..cook your favorite dish..
..capture the favorite moment..
....because you never know when time decides to run out on you!

#HappyWeekend

#StayBlessed!

#ToTheSmiles

|| A smile goes all the way,
and it has its own sway...
And then when it goes up to your eyes,
my heart skips a beat as it may...

Actions speak louder than words they say,
but I beg to differ if I may..
The silent smile resonates the calmness of a starry night,
it confesses and discloses your every fear and every fight..

And sometimes when you are full of forced smile,
it saddens me because the world won't see..
But I know you will smile anyway,
because that's how much you love me..

There's hundred reasons to be sad,
But find one that 's worth the naughty grin due to the bend of your lips..
It's a much better place with you smiling around,
the crookedness peeping out even when you take coffee sips..

Smile to strangers, smile to a friend,
Smile to a baby, I am sure you won't repent..
It's not as easy as it sounds, I know,
But have faith in life, it will go high someday, if today it's low..

A smile goes all the way,
and it has its own sway...
And then when it goes up to your eyes,
my heart skips a beat as it may... ||

#StayBlessed!

PageFromTheDiary

Love finds its place in most unexpected and bizarre friendships!!..

....I always used to think that both are different, but it is that for a recent event, I understood that both can be synonymous..
Trying to avoid cliches like  "love is friendship"...I have never really realized that we were living in one!

Today I was going through some of my earlier entries (a time when blogging was known as "writing in the diary"), when I came across an event which was both silly and emotional at that point of time.

It was the year 2005. We have just been promoted to next level after passing the board exams, which meant new admissions and new faces from different schools.

It was during this time I got a huge crush on someone mainly because of his voice...He was a new addition to our school's family, from other part of India, who recently moved here..our mutual admiration and knowledge about music made us like each other quite quickly!!...and then one fine day he said that he liked me a little more than "just friends" (u know how school proposals were like!)....I had always been an introvert when such awkward feelings were involved! But made sure that he knew that I was reciprocating the same!

.......now coming to the other side of the coin...I have always had very few friends and fewer when it comes to best friend...
...one of whom did not like this "other school guy" suddenly taking most of my time and walking me home (in his defense, his house happened to be in a similar area as mine) and then specifically discussing me, with a different group, in a mutual tuition, where I did not go!
...so when the "best friend threshold" crossed, one day my friend cornered me and told me all the things, both decent and indecent, that were discussed in the tuition.

I was not specifically upset because he spoke ill of me behind my back but the fact that my friend pointed out that my choice was wrong hurt me more!

That day after returning home I wrote a letter to "the guy" saying that I do not want to continue "seeing" him (as one may say)...and the weird part was that I did not say the reason to be because he said mean things about me, but because my best friend did not like him!!

As suspected, I hurt his ego pretty bad! So after I gave him the letter, he returned the favor by writing me one which was obviously filled with things that I did wrong by breaking it with him..most of them I do not recollect but the last line will always be in my mind which said,
......"If you continue your life choices depending upon what your best friend thinks, there will come a time when you won't have a best friend in the first place."..

Today I came across those lines yet again and realized how badly I must had hurt him!

Time pays back....in this life itself...sooner or later...in its own way!!

#RespectTime

#StayBlessed!

#LateNightMusings

|| We do not loose feelings..We loose people...
What we feel for someone can not be lost...it can wander a little but always finds a way back,
....may be in a different form.
....in a different life or under a different sky; but nonetheless it returns..!! ||

Nothing we ever love is truly lost!

#StayBlessed

#verses

Poetry has a haunting effect on both sane and insane minds...

Music, no doubt can give a taste of tranquility;
....but verses can make one go places so extrinsic and terrifying at the same time, that one in his right mind can never dare to venture there!

"Edgar Allan Poe" has always been my favorite when it comes to mystery and macabre in the genre of poetry..
May be it's because deep down I have always been a recluse (and may be a little bit mad) and someone who enjoys melancholy (in a good way, not in a suicidal way)....for I always observed similarities and reflections of life more in melancholy than in the portrayal of happiness which in most cases seem fake to me.

Today I came across a poetry which reached out to my innermost string and struck a chord; a chord that is unfamiliar to me...
....but that's the delicacy of pain and darkness, that it helps you to be numb!!

I hope one day I make myself able enough to have his whole collection, not just on my bookshelf but inside me as well and understand the untold story that lies in between the lines of his verses!


#StayBlessed!

Poem (partial): Annabel Lee
Poet: Edgar Allan Poe