Friday, August 1, 2008

Value of life

Poison of pessimism gushes through our body unknowingly and life’s setbacks aggravate its spread. How naive I was to not understand that pessimism is always in ones mind and never a way of living life.


A droplet on the face during monsoon irritates a mentally distressed mind but raptures a mind which moves in a positive direction. Sun-set indicates a strong signal of good-bye to an anguished person but a ray of hope for an optimist.

I let the events which I loved calling “big” rule my way of life. To a tormented pessimistic mind almost all the events has left a painful mark; but to an optimist some events rarely go noticeable to his mind.

Determination fades when urge of living joyfully alleviates. An ambitious becomes aimless when he/she completely succumbs to situations which did not happen the way they expected them to happen. An event saddens a human’s mind when there is a huge difference between expectation and reality.


Two days back my dear friend lost his mother and this awareness to me after 2 long days explained the extent to which I had gone far from my people. She missed me enough to remember me often; she loved me enough to pray for me in my absence. I touched the soft toy gifted to me by her and I apologized tearfully.

But I did not cry anymore, I did not want to continue repenting that I should have not gone far away. I stopped myself from once again succumbing to the situation and giving away by holding myself responsible and repenting for not visiting once.

It was time to be with my friend and now there is no looking back.

Aloofness from friends and family only leads to repentance when the pain we cry on becomes too small compared to the trauma they had to go through in their life. At that moment, this mind liberates from its self-centered world where the only one in pain we thought was our own body; the reality however was we never wanted to see what lies beyond our world.

She so much wanted to live life and she could not; when we have everything possible we nag over things just because they did not happen the way we wanted them to happen.

Helpless she was that she could not survive, but she fought cancer till the end. She disregarded the reports and continued to imbibe positive thoughts and energized herself to live life.

This loss in a strange way has made me to value people around me; it has told me that there is more to life which is yet to be explored.

Life has just begun in me.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Amit's story

Dedicated to Amit
( A victim of ragging)

Check the video at
http://www.noragging.com/video
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Ever since I gained my wisdom,
My dream has been my freedom.
Along with years of hard work,
I went through seas of pain.

New people I would meet,
But no teachers I would greet.
Few believe what I say,
But I'm here to stay.

A new world awaits me,
My dreams call for me,
With pride I embark on my way...

Its the song of my life,
Some happiness and strife,
Is this all reality?
Oh, Its hard to believe...


My head fought with my heart,
For a man, was it just a start?
Beaten up in a fearful game,
Lost my clothes, what a shame.

It's okay, many thought,
But my honor did depart.
A year above, all in name,
To guide me through, as they claim.

Mirrors reflected a slave,
Crystal balls, an open grave.
Couldn't gear with life's ways,
My dreams began to fade...
My dreams began to fade.

A new world awaits me,
My dreams call for me,
With pride I embark on my way.

Its the song of my life,
Some happiness and strife.
Is this all reality?
Oh, Its hard to believe ...


Its the time of the year, again,
Revenge I could seek, and gain.
But customs have to change,
Coz I...
Feel the pain...
Yes I can feel the pain...

- Above lyrics are written by
Abhinav Malhotra
Karan Chatrath
Vaibhav Malhotra

http://noragging.com/

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

FRIENDSHIP !

It’s difficult to find genuine people now. Way back in school days, we called that person a friend who stayed the longest time with us; person who shared his/her lunch box with us, person who sat next to us in the school bus.

What an innocent way of choosing friends! - A relationship which required no judgment.

We step out of school without giving a thought that we spent our life’s longest years with those friends and we are happy about saying good-bye.

With no negativity in this relationship, we teens put forward our hand for friendship with the same innocence.

We see the faces of friends changing as time passes by and then it is no more about them just accompanying us for a movie but it is about they being there for us when we need them the most.

Betrayals in friendship shock the innocent mind and we wonder this human creation of God.

We question the right and the wrong and we begin to realize that some people we are surrounded with have stopped asking these questions to their conscience.

"Everyone’s not the same" and you get into relationships again with this thought.

Some who are obvious about their evil thoughts and you discard them right away. But you were unaware of those devils wearing the mask of friendship before you.

Attitude! This weapon builds a wall around you and does not let people approach you easily. Some get intimidated and some stay away thinking you are way too snobbish.

You think you have succeeded but you have stopped friendship from coming to you, you have stopped love from coming to you.

Today as adults you welcome relationships after keen observation and only when you have tested the person to the battery of psychological test.

You do not realize that you are actually testing them and the innocence of a relationship has got lost forever.

You do not wish to risk your soul once again and there is a lot of judgment and less of feeling now.
Everything becomes so mechanical day by day.

People say words and those words we analyze, we find out the intention behind it.

People are around us and we call them friends because they are the ones to listen to us when we need someone to talk.

People we think of as friends, people who can listen to us, wipe our tears, but they are the first ones to back out when the whole world goes against us.

It may not be a big deal to give your ear to listen to someone.

It may not be a big deal to wipe someone’s tears, but it indeed is a big deal to have some real guts to stand by this person when no one decides to do that.

And this gesture, I call as friendship.

Written by Vrushali Deshpande

Monday, June 23, 2008

That's the life that I live

Faking a laugh, faking a smile,
Hiding the truth behind a mask, while

my heart is breaking into pieces
with every smile that i give
That's the life that i live

Used to believe in fairy tales, thinking it's a beautiful world
Then i was appalled with the truth that this world holds

I tried to fool myself and hide behind my dreams
Tried to make everything as simple as it seems

But deep inside, there were thousands of bursting tears,
with every smile that i used to give
that's the life that i live

Ended up with a broken heart,
ended up with my life ripped apart.

Ended up left alone in the darkness, crying,
Gave up and just quit trying...

-Anonymous

Friday, June 13, 2008

The last Page of my diary


As I sit on this playground
There are trees all around
Please listen carefully
This place is my diary



The tunnel keeps my secrets
While the swings throw my wishes to the stars
The slide lets me slip by
The branches keep asking where you are

We used to sit there,
and talk for hours
Now only the grass,
the trees and
the flowers keep me company



This place knows me better than I do
And it remembers all the times I spent with you

That bench is lonely and so am I
Missing you only



But remember what happens
when the sun runs from the sky

As I sit on this playground
There are trees all around
Please listen carefully
This place is my diary

-Anonymous

Friday, May 23, 2008

Importance of a friend !

Life has its own games to play and these games bring no smile to our face; unfortunately they generate no fun. During times of agony, we crave for support more than any sort of guidance and in the absence of strong shoulders; the world of loneliness takes control over us.

Tears make their way out in the night and we helplessly curl our blankets over and weep silently. Have you had sleepless nights when no one could see your tears, no one could feel your pain and when no one could hear you shout because you forced your voice to silence?

Pages full of words signify nothing but helplessness of your emotions to me. It tells me that you do not have a person in your life who can listen to you and that person need not be your friend, relative or lover. Have you had more talks with yourself, God and with someone close to you who is now with God than you could have ever had with a person alive?

Some lives live this way for over a decade and it is then when words slip through pages and tears lose their way. Their silence ends and they shout for HELP and it is this time when they do not just need a person, but they need a friend.

Loneliness only makes you lose your self and the self after a point you can never get back to. Our innocence goes on a sale in the presence of impure souls and the things about yourself you were once proud of, you will repent losing it all.

It is this time that we curse loneliness because it forced our emotions to slip their ways.

It is then when we recall how badly we needed a shoulder to cry on, how desperately we needed someone to listen to us.

Right guidance in the right time and immense emotional support from a mature individual could have only saved us from the mistakes of loneliness.

Written by Vrushali Deshpande

Monday, March 10, 2008

Believe in your dreams

Our aim changes with our present priorities & we derive pleasure once they are met.
When we aim we make our everyday living purposeful. It helps us engross our mind in thinking how to achieve it. An aim can be giving the best in a project; my aim can be writing 10 articles in a week or it can be making 3 people smile everyday.

Goals on the other hand changes with the change in phase of life & we derive satisfaction once they are met. Once the goal is met in one phase, it signifies the end result of ultimate accomplishment toward which an effort is directed -An effort which has taken form of an aim.

-The end result of one phase by being in an organizations top level management, by becoming a profound professional writer or an end result of another phase by becoming a good person.

I aspire to achieve my goals; I desire to get to my aim & together I give hope to my dream.
-Aims, goals are all irrelevant without a proper focus. “You must always know what it is that you want.” said the old king [Alchemist: Paulo Coelho] & when you find out ‘what’, the next question is asking yourself ‘why’ you want it.

An aim, goal or a focus without an objective is playing with the available time. Objective is questioning why to your every want, need and desire. Every human being does something for a reason- that reason could be a need, want or desire. A human being who has no reason has a reason which is yet to be discovered by him.

We respect time when we know why we want something & what is required of us to achieve it. Together with the WHY, WHAT, HOW & WHEN we give a practical touch to our dream making it become a part of the reality of life.

Written by Vrushali Deshpande

Relationships- A dead end for an escapist

Your footprints travel through the journey of life struggling to reach the destination you have set for yourself. The aim of your life is known in a better way to you than anyone else. This aim which I do not know if is your destination. Design of these prints change as you tumble & you hold these pebbles responsible for being an obstacle in your journey.

In this tiresome yet tireless journey of life we shake hands with many & there are others who are passer bys. Some enter our lives as friends & some truly remain as friends.
Some we call companions while some accompany us throughout our journey.
There are people who influence us positively & then they decide to leave us. While there are some who do not influence us in any way & still pointlessly stay in our lives.

A stranger you trust blindly & a friend whom you trust after unintentional analysis are both capable of wiping off the meaning of trust in our lives. We let our friends know ourselves by sharing what is deeply felt by us. We take the risk of telling other human beings what & how we really are.

Some take advantage of this innocent relationship & throw pebbles on our way. While some passer bys see us falling & offer us a helping hand. We thank them & we fall into a relationship again. There’s no escape to love, friendship & care. There’s no escape to relationships.

I do not know if your aim is to reach the end of this road of life & then walk on a different road of life. I do not know if essence of life is in aiming for a goal & then struggling to achieve it. It makes me wonder if i.e. our destination & if it is so then who are these people whom we meet on this road.

These people who bring major transformation in us; these people who impact our lives greatly. They do it to the extent that we sometimes take turns & decide to walk on a different way.

Essence of life is in meeting these people who touch our lives in their own ways. It is in thinking about the change they bring in us. Essence of life is in losing these people who cause pain to us in their own ways. It is in learning a lesson every time we fail in a relationship.

Written by Vrushali Deshpande