New Year - Let the celebrations begin!

Wish You a Happy New Year!

Most of us wish others a happy new year. But sometimes a weird question arises out of me. Why do we celebrate it? May be the FIRST day of the year. But how do you know this is the first day? Any day is a new day. Someone has named it January. And we are following it world-wide. Is this thought really required when the whole world is busy celebrating the new year? 

Find a reason to celebrate. Celebrate without thinking. Live the moment.  I wish you stop reading this now and celebrate. May be you can celebrate reading this, like how I celebrated writing this post. I just said "Find a reason to celebrate". Now I realize, you need not have a reason to celebrate. Just celebrate. Celebrate anything and everything. 

Have you ever noticed,  though you are not so happy some celebration forces you to forget your worries. When something is by force it won't last long. Celebration pushes you to be happy.  It's not permanent. Who in this world can claim permanent happiness? No one. If so why should we aim for it? Let's accept the forced happiness created by the Celebration. But don't forget to celebrate often. Most importantly, don't celebrate alone. Push others to celebrate, push them to be happy. 

Sometimes forcing is good.

Enough celebrating this piece of read. Celebrate the world now. Let the celebrations begin.

Happy Reading!!!

Love Yourself

Its almost 25 yrs now (don't calculate my age) I still haven't found the answer. If you ask me what's the question,  you gonna stare at me. "Who am I?" is the question. Many of us have this question in mind. Not sure if you have the answer. But let's discuss about it later. 

Let's not be philosophical, instead talk something physical. Obviously related to the topic. LOVE YOURSELF. When I say love yourself, its more important to love your life partner. Only then you can succeed. Without a healthy life partner, you cannot lead a happy life. I can read your mind, no no no, I didnt mean that. I mean the real life partner. The one who is with you from your birth till your death. None other than your body. Yes, your body is your life partner. Love your body.

I am not talking about what I read but what I experienced. Being healthy is more important in life.  Being fit is more important to be healthy.  Being fit and being healthy are two different things.  People tend to confuse.  But both go hand in hand.  

One size doesn't fit all when it comes to fitness. Each one has to follow their own fitness mantra. But focusing on being fit brings miracle in your life. There is nothing called tomorrow in fitness. And there is no comparison to the past. Bring the element of past and future only if it motivates you. 

Those who think its too late, I am already out of my shape, I have gained lot of weight, I have tried but its not working, these are all excuses. Nothing is late to be fit. Start slow but start now. The problem is NOW doesn't come today for many of us, who end up waiting for tomorrow which never comes. But after some or few workouts, we call it off saying there is no progress. There we expect magic to happen NOW. Years of assault and humiliation to your own body but expecting it to react in favor immediately is not fair. Give little more time. It will surely respond. Even Rome wasn't built in a single day. Its just stone and architecture. Thousands of architects worked on on it in a single day. But you are the only architect who can work on you. No one else can. So shape yourself.

I have come across two types of people. One who says I am tired,  I can't do workout I will get more tired.  Another who says I am tired,  I want to do workout so that I will be fresh.  If you fall under second set don't read till the end of this paragraph. This is only to the first set of people, don't skip workout even for a single day. Trust me,  even if you are tired,  do little. You will definitely feel fresh.  Try it. And you can skip the next paragraph.

This is only for the second set of people. When you have a tiring day, its not wrong to have a cheat day. Give some breathing time for your body to heal and rejuvenate. You won't miss anything but gain more energy for the next day.

Let me share with you tips which helps you being consistent and keep going. Share your goal with your friends. Some may tease you in the beginning, nothing bad, they are friends. But few days later when your change is visible they start admiring at you. They praise you. Afterall we all are human, we would like to be praised. Have a "No matter what list" with you.  Make fitness a point in that. Follow it religiously. Also if you have a workout partner that's the best you get in fitness. A partner will never let you down. There will always be a little more push, when you workout with your partner. If you can't find a partner, see yourself in the mirror and have yourself as your partner. Self motivation is the best motivation. You are a champ. You don't need anyone else to motivate you. See the mirror. See your changes. You will definitely get motivated. I bet you. You will love yourself.

I am happy, since you have read this. I will be even more happy if you start your fitness journey today.

Happy Reading!!!

Independence

Today 15th August, being the Independence day of our Country let's celebrate our independence day with proud, happiness and salute our patriots who fought for our freedom. Our country got freedom and declared as independent in 1947. But are we? 

To get the answer, let's think about us for a minute. You may have a question.. Think what? You are right.. what should we think now to get the answer.. Each one of us will have a different perspective of independence. For some of us, independence is free from pain. Again pain of what? Physical pain or mental pain or emotional pain? For few others, independence is free from financial rat race. For some, independence is not dependent on anyone. But the most important independence is freedom of thoughts. 

Who is responsible for our thoughts? I'm not gonna tell it's only us. Our thoughts are influenced by many external factors. Our parents, our friends, our pets, our present situation, past, etc etc. All these influences our thoughts but it's only one person who owns it and responsibile for it. Yes..it's you. Though we are responsible for our thoughts, we block it inside. Those who break it become innovators. We all have an innovator inside. But the Terminator kills that innovator for us most of the time. It's we who don't allow our innovator to think beyond. We don't give freedom to our thoughts. Let's relase the innovator and give independence to ourselves.

Happy Independence day!!!

Sharing my Happiness

Sharing is always good. It's even more good if it's happiness. Yes sharing happiness is the best thing which you can share. When you share something, it never gets little. When you share your food, the portion of your food might reduce but sharing increases your happiness, it doubles your purpose of life, it increases your sense of responsibility, overall it increases your value. 

Now I'm sharing my happiness of clearing an exam, which I consider to be an achievement. Rather than achievement it's a sense of feeling proud. Doing "something" at difficult times when you can't is far better than "something great" at normal time. When you undergo difficult times and do something, you will realise it later as an achievement.

Here is an achievement of passing an exam. Passing an exam itself is difficult for an average student. Studying in difficult situation and clearing the exam is even more difficult. 

Though the exam was written by one hand, so many hands supported me in writing the exam. Not only hands so many good hearts made me clear the exam. A simple way of telling thanks wouldn't be sufficient for them, so here is my way of thanking them. 

What's that way? You are already on that way. Yes! Thanking by the way of this post to those who helped me clearing my exam.I didn't mention your name because you know, you have helped me either directly or indirectly. Hereby sharing my happiness to you and to this small world.

I know this may not make you happy but I have shared my happiness and increased my sense of responsibility :)

Now share this with your friends and make them happy :)

Waiting

Let me start with a disclaimer. If you don’t believe in life which any non living beings have, then you will not be able to follow this piece of blog. Its better you stay aware while you read through. For those who believe in the life of non living being, you will love it.

Let’s jump into the subject with a question. Do you like waiting? Yeah it depends on what or whom we are waiting for. Sometimes yes and sometimes it’s a No, depending on how important it is for us.  But my answer is always a big “NO”. I don’t like waiting but that doesn’t mean I don’t wait. I wait, yes, I also do things which I don’t like. I wait for things which are not under our control.

When I wait, I wait without patience. When we don’t like something, is it fair when we do the same to someone else? Is that right or wrong? Need not be wrong always. I don’t like Biriyani (Though it’s not true). But my friend who likes Biriyani, I can order Biriyani for him. So its not wrong. But its important to understand liking of others before we do it.

This blog is mine and so it reflects my likes and dislikes. When I don’t like to wait, obviously, my blog also wouldn’t like to wait. But its waiting. Waiting for whom? Waiting for the one who owns it, none other than me, who made it wait. For what? To make it happy by fulfilling its desire of making others happy by reading it. So I am here drafting the content thereby making it happy.

Now when we talk about happiness, let’s see if there is any correlation between happiness and waiting? Of course, its positively correlated to some of us, who say happy waiting for the day / happy waiting for you. If waiting is worth its time, it gives happiness. So there is link between happiness and time? The more time you wait, the happier you are? Or is it the other way round? Think!!! Let’s think with an example. We are waiting in the railway station, not for the train but for a friend who comes by train. There is an announcement that the train is delayed by half an hour. Will you be happy hearing that announcement? Won’t we get upset? Though waiting for friend is worth and happy, the impatience brings unhappiness.

Waiting can of course be seen positive, when we say waiting for the right time!!! In such case, are we in the wrong time? Should we wait for the right time or make things right?

So waiting can be good or bad depending on the situation. Let me not wait for the right time to publish this piece of blog, because the right time is right here.

Let’s not wait!!!

Happy Reading!!!

Look at the larger screen

I am sure you will agree with me on the statement, “He is always on phone”.  Either someone would have commented about you or you might have commented about someone else. It's common nowadays to come across this statement. In my case, I was told directly that I am always on phone.

Very true, I rather we, let me take the liberty of including you to be my partner in crime (Using phone always). If you are not eligible to be my partner, then this piece of blog is not for you. You can carry on with your work, but don’t look into the mobile now. Others, my partners, you can continue reading this. Yes this is for you.

Mobile has become a part of our body. Like our hands, legs. Why do we carry our mobile everywhere? Is it so important? The reason we might quote is "we might get important call". Every time? Is that true? Aren’t we deceiving ourselves? But why do we do that? What are we fiddling with our mobile every time? We unlock and check if we have received any messages once a while. May be hundreds of time in a day. Even more than that. (300+ times in my case)

There may be many reasons why we use mobile often. It could be to chat, play games, check social media, read news, talk, etc.

The base for this addiction towards mobile started  long back with me through Orkut. Not sure how many of you have actually heard of Orkut. A social media which was trending in 2005. Most of the 80’s kid will be knowing. Kids!!! I will call them kids since I am one among them and yes we are still kids. Increasing the count in the scrapbook was an achievement. There is no limit of the atrocities we had. We will be in the same room in the hostel yet we communicate through scrapbook of Orkut. “Machi lets go to Mess for dinner”.  Reminds me of my hostel days.

Then came the facebook. Achievement is based on the number of likes you receive. Don't you agree, we choose the best possible photograph to get the most number of likes. We fail to look at others how they are in the picture. Tag friends so that his or her friend will also likes the photo and increase the number of likes. My friend from next room shouted “Machi give one like, it will turn to 100”. 

And now its Instagram. Again likes and comments. Oh yes!!! The hashtags. More the hashtags more the reach. 

Whatsapp has become one of the major source of communication. Both officially as well as personal communication. It has made our life at ease, no doubt.  But it has also taken most of our time. Aren't we spending most of our time checking WhatsApp message and replying immediately! And status which we keep and looking back at who has viewed our status is a trending addiction now.

Some of us spend our time in Games either in mobile or in system. I am one of those who was addicted to Counter Strike, AOE, Clash of Clans, etc. Later somehow this addiction has changed. Recently I happened to play Ludo which easily took more than 3 hours for a game. Before I get addicted, I uninstalled. There are hundreds of such games which kills our time.

Let’s come back to the title, “Look at the larger screen”. It doesn’t mean avoiding only mobile but also Ipad or Laptop. Let's take time to look into the larger screen, “The world”. There are much more things in the world which you cannot find in the smaller screen. The reality. What we look into the mobile or internet is virtual. No doubt it helps us to gain knowledge easily but what’s the purpose of gaining knowledge if we don’t use it. There are certain important things in this world which doesn’t require knowledge. The hard truth is "Everyone expects it from others but not everyone gives it back". Its not that you don’t have but we have reasons. It’s the "Human Touch".

Looking into the smaller screen makes us blind. We become insensitive to what’s happening around. We fail to see what our closed ones need. It’s not always the materialistic thing which fulfills the need of your loved ones but is your time. Our usual excuse is, sorry what can I do!!! I don’t have enough time. Really? Have you ever noticed how much time are we spending on the little devices which kills away our time? Try installing some app which can track your mobile usage time. You will be surprised. Just give a try and  track. 

Spend those valuable time with your near and dear ones. You can try new things, you don’t know to cook? Still you can give a try. They will be surprised and happy when you cook. Give a try. Not necessarily cooking, you can help your parents / spouse in the household. Spend time with your kid, the most important thing. Kid doesn’t know to express but it matters a lot. You can spend time for yourself. Do what you always wanted to do but didn’t do because you didn’t have time. Read, Write, Paint, Join a course, anything which you couldn’t.

All these are not specific to our generation. It has equally affected the older generation as well as the future generation. Kids imitate us. We happily comment, “See how much talented the kid is”, she is able to unlock the mobile and using it”. Are we doing good to the kids? How many of us were wearing Specs at the age of 5? But now? Aren’t we the reason for their eye sight? How can the kid be responsible for it. Let me repeat, “Kids imitate us”. So let’s be careful looking into the smaller screen.

What next? Let's not miss what we were missing. Don’t miss it anymore. Don’t blame the time. It’s all yours and you can decide how you want to spend.

Just because I am writing about it doesn’t mean I have changed. This content is a proof that I haven’t changed completely. Even now I am writing in the smaller screen but I didn’t fail to look into the larger screen. Sometimes you need to look both the screens. Being my Crime partner you are also looking into the smaller screen. Yes you are and I made you to look into it. Now you can go ahead looking into the beauty of the larger screen. Much more than what you have thought of!!!

Worth looking into it!!

Happy Reading!!!