Why Women love chocolates more than men?

They are always there for you, no questions asked ,no complaints about being busy with office work
They never tell you that you are clingy and need to be more emotionally stable.
They don’t try to flirt with your friends and go lusting after every pretty face they see.
They always make you happy; I have never seen a woman sad because she had chocolates.
You can lick them and actually feel nice about it.
You can always have one irrespective of your weight, height, length, breadth etc etc.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

This story is a story of the Valentine’s Day...so keep reading. The day on which you are supposed to receive cute teddies, red roses, diamonds and whatever the marketers of the 21st century are able to push through the media down the unsuspecting consumers’ throats. If I sound cynical here, it’s not my fault it is only human to detest and criticize things which you don’t have.

So being fully faltoo with no classes for 5 days, I went out for lunch (The food at XLRI mess sucks!) to Novelty. As to why Novelty that is the only place people without jobs and loans worth lakhs on their heads can afford to go to. I went there and ordered food which obviously takes a lot of time to come. Being alone heightens your sense of observation, so I started looking around expecting to see a lot of college goers, young couples going all lovey-dovey, after all love is supposed to be in the air on 14th February. But I was surprised to see people in their 40s probably married for a decade or so; spending time together away from the killing responsibilities of a domestic life.

The sight was heartening, felt good to see that love is not the sole prerogative of teenagers and people who look like they are straight out of a Yash Raj Productions movie. It is reassuring to see that marriage is not all about in-laws, kids and bills.

Some people say that if you love a person it is not important to express it but then not everyone is not good at reading minds. Taking your relationships for granted is the worst damage you can do to them and a little show of love and care doesn’t hurt. Heard a beautiful song couple of days back courtesy a good friend who always says “Listen to this you will like it “, and most of the times I do J

Buy me a rose, call me from work
Open a door for me, what would it hurt
Show me you love by the look in your eyes
These are the little things , I need the most in my life.

- By Kenny Rogers

Human Misery is too great for men to do without faith

Faith a five lettered word which probably evokes innumerable responses in people. The dictionary defines faith as “a belief that is not based on proof.”

For some it is an act of mental destruction accepting something which has no evidence is irrational. For some it is the very basis of their existence.

Goswami Tulsidasji has written in his epic work RamcharitManas:"Parvati Shankarau Vande, Shraddha Viswas Rupinau"
Meaning, “Lord Shankar is (the symbol of) trust and Goddess Bhavani is (the symbol of) faith. The realisation of God is possible only by the worship of both (trust and faith).”

Anyways we are not here to discuss the attainment of God through faith or other superhuman connotations attributed to the word.

Faith is something which lets you sleep peacefully in the night. It can be faith in yourself, your friends, and your loved ones and yes faith in the almighty. It is the belief that when you wake up the next morning these people will still be there for you .It is the belief that even if something has gone wrong, the future still holds promises.
Faith is what keeps you going when everything and everyone else has deserted you. Faith is what makes a family of slum dwellers living in the suburbs of Mumbai smile, laugh, and celebrate festivals.

When a couple decides to bring a child in this world full of hate, misery, wars and discrimination, it is faith in the basic goodness of humans which gives them courage to take this decision.
The world tests you at every step in your life and if you lose faith, you lose the will to survive. To conclude
Miracles are not contradictions of nature.They are only in contradiction of what we know of nature.
- St. Augustine

An ode to the mighty oceans

Came across some interesting lines about the sea in The Economist .…..
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean –roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin – his control
Stops with the shore
Byron
I tell you naught for your comfort,
Yea naught for your desire,
Save that the sky grows darker yet
And the sea rises higher.
G.K. Chesterton

Sad were my thoughts that anchor’d silently
On the dead waters of that passionless sea
Unstirr’d by any touch of living breath:
Silence hung over it, and drowsy Death,
Like a gorged seabird, slept with folded wings
On crowded carcasses – sad passive things

Thomas Hood

Autumn is coming but do the flowers regret it?

We have spread cheer

We have made the child who gave a flower to his teacher happy,

We warmed the heart of a girl whose lover gifted her a rose,

True ,that in a couple of days we will die,

Our petals will fall on the ground ,

The stem will wilt away.

But we have no regrets we have lived

a beautiful life

a meaningful life :)

Tug-of-War

Human mind is a battle field
A constant tussle goes on between emotions and logic
Both sides try to outdo each other
One says I am right, the other says I am
Both give reasons equally valid
Whose side should I take?
Which one of them is right I know not!
I am confused, it’s complex like a spiders’ web
And the harder I try to come out of it the deeper I keep going inside the mesh.
Whether I’ll come out of it alive or dead like a poor fly
Only time will tell.

Banda Yeh Bindaas hai!

This is one of my favourite songs these days.There is a line which goes like this " Kya bura hai aur kya kharab hai ,sirf jeene ka hisaab hai" and how true.There is nothing which is absolutely right or wrong ,it all depends on your perceptions and interpretations.But often we tend to judge people based on our views ,our way of living ,our moral standards.What we forget that there is no one way of laughing,crying ,eating,wearing clothes and most importantly living.And in this process of judging others we lose sight of their real self ,our real self and end up living our lives according to somebody else's view of us ,of the world.

So live your life as you want because " na kuch bura hai aur na kuch kharab hai."