Dayatva

It was evening time; the doorbell rang; my mother asked me to open the door. I opened the door and saw my uncle standing with his luggage, smiling at me. I invited him to come in and touched his feet as he proceeded. Everybody gathered - chit-chat began, Mumma was preparing tea, and suddenly out of nowhere, uncle asked me how my studies were going. I gave him an awkward smile and said that it was going well. I thought the conversation might end here, but he seemed more interested in my studies than me:') He further asked me that then in which year I am, I said in the final year. As soon as I said the word 'final' - I was able to see the light of enlightenment behind him and the innumerous life lessons he was going to give me. I prepared myself, one ear for the information to enter and the other to let it exit, mind blank, neck flexible to move up-down, and an expressionless face.    Then the unwanted career counseling began-    Round 1 - "The interview!"  

I am of the opinion that nature is an awfully simple institution and there is an infinite beauty to it. There aren’t an awful lot of rules that govern the nature. Actually, there is just the one - survival of the fittest. In spite of this, even the tiniest, the slowest, the most fragile forms of life have found a way to keep living in this home of ours, creating a beautiful, intricate balance that one cannot admire enough in a lifetime. It begs the question whether survival is really that difficult. When nature decides to inhabit a life form, it provides them with all the necessary resources for it to survive- food and water for sustenance, ability to perceive their surroundings for threats and intelligence for protection from those threats. The available resources are always more than enough for the fit to survive. The balance of nature is maintained if th

Today in this fast-hustling world, we have become more restless towards pain, towards comments and towards our success. Last night my brother got body's pain as he started workout sessions. So he decided to quit those sessions. But then he noticed a wallpaper in our room which had a poster of "No Pain - No gain". So he asked me, `` Why can't we achieve something without pain?" But sadly, in real life success is often associated with pain. It is because during our bad times, when we are unhappy with the status quo, that we learn how to change things — how to make our world better than it is. There were times when our grandparents used to tell us stories. But now that part is missing from our life. Therefore, to fill this void, I would like to share a little story about the same subject that my grandfather used to tell me. So a man named Pinku Kumar had a donkey named Binod. They both went to another village for some work. In between Pinku Kumar went to his friend

  Life is amusing. And by amusing, I mean very interesting. We meet people. Some, we befriend while some we just snub from our lives and wish that we could just obliviate the moment we met them. Let’s not talk about snubbing or discarding somebody. Let’s talk about the bond that we form with those that are close in our lives. Now, I know that each and every one of us has somebody in our lives who we wish we’d never lose. I won’t label or tag those relations because I know some of them are just nameless and some of them are beyond any kind of denotation or categorization. I am also, going to talk about a nameless bond that I formed with someone recently. In childhood, I’d come across this particular intriguing word called “Pen-friend”. I was amused, as how two people, without seeing or meeting each other even once in life, could become really good friends and bond for life (in many cases). At that time I passed it frivolously. But as time moved on and relationships became meaningful

  Visiting my past, I realised that, success, usually recognized through ACCOMPLISHMENT, is a fleeting felling until a new one is added. But what makes an achievement ACCOMPLISHMENT is the emotion felt during the whole process. I’ve felt contentment, excitement, & proud, but the strongest one till date is MOTIVATION. It was 8 th session of my Bharatnatyam class & I was 10 years old. For the last 3 years I’d been trying various activities like playing a piano, UCMAS & karate but was never able to stay through the whole journey & I wasn’t sure I could last this one as well. But a conversation changed it all. That was the 1 st day when Guruji came to see how we newbies were catching up with what her protégé, Kazumi Di, had been teaching us, which included learning new poses by keeping straight & steady hands & maintaining the leg postures for minutes long. Through days I realized that this is not just a dance but it is a process which would help me establish

We always think that we will try our best to make everyone happy! Whether they are our parents, our loved ones or our friends. यह बातें सुनने में अच्छी लगती है लेकिन यह प्रैक्टिकली पॉसिबल नहीं होता। 😂 (Translation: These things seem good to hear but it is not practically possible.) Let me narrate you a small story: A small child was crying near the sea shore. On asking he told that, this sea is a thief. He has taken my favorite shoes with him. And then he wrote on shore- समुद्र चोर है! (The sea is theif) A few steps ahead one fisherman was crying because his boat along with his fishes sank in the sea. When moving ahead again a few steps, a mother was crying because his son was swallowed by the sea. He was playing with his friends and suddenly he got drowned in the sea. Cloud, who was the best friend of the sea, was listening to all this. He told the sea why you bring waves on the shore frequently? Don't you feel depressed after hearing all these negatives about yourself. Sea bein