Fear is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed,happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbeliefand disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it withlittle trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for yu. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread.
Fear next turns fully to your body,which is already aware that something terrily wrong is going on. Already your lungshave flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Now your tounguedrops dead like a opossum, while your jaws begins to gallop on the spot. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles begin to shiver as if they had malaria and your knees to shake as though they were dancing. Your heart strains so hard, while your sphincter relaxes too much. And so with the rest of your body. Every part of you, in the manner most suited to it, fallsapart. Only your eyes work well. They always pay proper attention to fear.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
The Utmost Fighter
Excerpt from a Booker Prize winner book.
"It is about the situations which make you either the real winner or the ultimate looser. Situations in which you realize your real potential and exercize it to overcome the odds.Language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.I discovered at that moment that I have a fierce will to live. It's not something evident, in my experience. Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh; others fight a little, then loose hope. Still others-and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity".
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
When You Were Sleeping
Wake up, Please wake Up !
I wanna see you being awake
The eyes which look so b'ful in sleep
How they'll look with that glitter of light
But however I may wheedle
You wont listen, 'll not get up
As no one comes back to life
From that Eternal Sleep !!!
I wanna see you being awake
The eyes which look so b'ful in sleep
How they'll look with that glitter of light
But however I may wheedle
You wont listen, 'll not get up
As no one comes back to life
From that Eternal Sleep !!!
I Owe !!!
वो तेरा एक दिन अचानक यूँ मुझसे मिलना याद आता है
और फिर मेरा ही होके रह जाना याद आता है
यूँ तो लबरेज़ थे गम से हम भी तुम भी
पर तेरा फिर भी खिलखिलाना याद आता है
तुझसे मिलके सीखा हमने भी मुस्कुराना
अब कहाँ वो बीता ज़माना याद आता है
आँखें जब किया करती थी आँखों से बातें
बिन कुछ कहे भी सब कह जाना याद आता है
कितनी यादें संजोयी हमने उन लम्हों की
हर पल मुझे वो उनका अंदाज़ रूमानी याद आता है
और जो न किया कैद मिट सकने वाली यादों में
वो दिल में महफूज़ हर पल ख़ास याद आता है
और फिर मेरा ही होके रह जाना याद आता है
यूँ तो लबरेज़ थे गम से हम भी तुम भी
पर तेरा फिर भी खिलखिलाना याद आता है
तुझसे मिलके सीखा हमने भी मुस्कुराना
अब कहाँ वो बीता ज़माना याद आता है
आँखें जब किया करती थी आँखों से बातें
बिन कुछ कहे भी सब कह जाना याद आता है
कितनी यादें संजोयी हमने उन लम्हों की
हर पल मुझे वो उनका अंदाज़ रूमानी याद आता है
और जो न किया कैद मिट सकने वाली यादों में
वो दिल में महफूज़ हर पल ख़ास याद आता है
Monday, March 10, 2008
Happiness
Happiness is a choice we have to make. Its not something we have to look outside.... it lies within the beings.
Happiness in itself can not be a destination but is experienced in the journey of life by those who concentrate on making their contributions to making the world a better place to live. The results is strife in every sphere of life and struggle to find peace. Peace is a prerequisite for progress in any sphere, whether it is emotional, intelligence or spiritual.
Happiness is integral to the well-being. What makes one Happy, the criteria or sources of happiness can be different for diff beings. One of most important index of happiness is Free Will, which hardly people recognize. In this sacrifising, compromising and conforming world of ours, we keep succumbing to others desires always, never recongnizing and trying to exercise our own will.
There are two selves of any being...one his real self - what he's, what he wants, and what he wud like to do given the option ; secondly there's an ideal self - where the individual does what is expected of him. When there's too much of gap between these 2 selves, they lead to disintegration and maladjustment of personality. more the overlapping in real n ideal self, better adjusted n integreted will be the personality.
Freedom to choice should be ones right and he should be allowed to exercise it freely without any pressures.
This kinda freedom to exercise free will will enhance the self and will help to emerge into a happy n healthy being.
Happiness in itself can not be a destination but is experienced in the journey of life by those who concentrate on making their contributions to making the world a better place to live. The results is strife in every sphere of life and struggle to find peace. Peace is a prerequisite for progress in any sphere, whether it is emotional, intelligence or spiritual.
Happiness is integral to the well-being. What makes one Happy, the criteria or sources of happiness can be different for diff beings. One of most important index of happiness is Free Will, which hardly people recognize. In this sacrifising, compromising and conforming world of ours, we keep succumbing to others desires always, never recongnizing and trying to exercise our own will.
There are two selves of any being...one his real self - what he's, what he wants, and what he wud like to do given the option ; secondly there's an ideal self - where the individual does what is expected of him. When there's too much of gap between these 2 selves, they lead to disintegration and maladjustment of personality. more the overlapping in real n ideal self, better adjusted n integreted will be the personality.
Freedom to choice should be ones right and he should be allowed to exercise it freely without any pressures.
This kinda freedom to exercise free will will enhance the self and will help to emerge into a happy n healthy being.
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