Monday, December 19, 2011

Accepting the Changing Society - by VD

To accept the change, you have to change your ‘bit’ within
To adapt to a transforming world, you have to mould your thinking
I say, ‘Accept the change’, but do not forget your roots
I know where I truly belong but the world does not fit into my boots
Amidst the juggle, you define-redefine the rights and wrongs
Amidst the commotion, you unknowingly break your thongs

If life is a play, I keep changing my roles
Sometimes I do good things and become a protagonist;
Sometimes I do wrong things and they call me an antagonist
“Who am I really?” – is the question I ask myself
I am no heroin, I am no villain!
Whatever role I play is only my momentary challenge

Victory is a blend of ‘effort’ and some amount of ‘luck’
Defeat is a result of the exact opposite of both
Triumph does not fascinate me; it does not recharge me
Peace is what I aim for; peace is where my energies are focused on
They say, ‘Pain is a proof that you are a human’
Often ‘Pain’ is the reason for me to be inhuman

Time changes and it heals it all
Mornings are beautiful because it ends ‘Yesterday’ afterall
I no more see the injury; I blind myself to the ‘marks’
And despite the twilight, I appreciate its beauty than to see it as dark

But it is not the past that haunts the present
It is the present that reminds me of yesterday
Yet I bury the memories and handle the challenges of today

Every moment is an opportunity to better the today
And every past an experience that should have no place for dismay

by Vrushali Deshpande

Changing Society - by SB

Society keeps on changing and so do its norms,
We are the society and so is it formed,
Change is inevitable and accept it if we may,
Everyday would be different with a new role to play.

Victory is a choice and so is defeat,
As you get close, faster does your heart beat,
Pain is a proof, that comes only with life,
Happiness & smiles are blessings in disguise.

You shall have everything, all that you want,
What you can do is much more than all that you cant,
Every morning is different, though it almost looks the same,
Attitude to win is imperative, than winning the game.

As they say - Best things in life are for free,
The best deal is life itself and so can it be,
Every moment is an opportunity to better the past,
Everyone is different and hence allz an outcast.

By SB

Sunday, December 18, 2011

My reply to SB's verse!

Picture is an illusion and ‘reality’ far from it
Being one-self is truth, but to the society – a complete misfit
Often I ponder and realize I am still too Indian
I hold the will to be independent, but yet too many custodians
Life isn’t a story to me for it to have an end,
Not sure if I love my life, but I am surely its friend

‘Smiles’ spread positive vibes and happiness only deeply felt
And despite all the betrayals, I still find my heart melt
When I truly love something, I give it all that I have
And in this process, I give them my secret code to survive

Complicated are relationships as there are many facets to it
Our mind is simply a victim which often gets jumbled into it
Past is chapter 27 of my life-long book
Even as I flip the pages to read ahead, it is still tightly hooked

By Vrushali Deshpande

Reply to 'Brain Virus' - By SB

Life is beautiful, it really is,
Consider it as a picture, if you may please,
Endings are good, mostly are that way,
Love your life is all I can say.

Smiles are precious, happiness though rare,
Betrayed at times, still I do care,
If I love something, it will love me back,
I believe in it and its not living in the dark.

Complicated is the mind, it plays multiple games,
Few are anonymous and a few have names,
Past has a future and present a past,
Being one self ain’t mean one is an outcast.

By SB - a dear friend!

Brain Virus !


My thinking has got corrupt; just as a virus that can hit a computer application and corrupt it. And then it acts bizarre. Reasons which seem convincing and justifiable no more make sense to many around me. Are they not seeing the logic or am I being too realistic to outcast from the general norms?

Marriage is not about love between two people; it is a contract two people sign with each other’s families and the couple struggles to make the so called ‘love factor’ work. Pause! Readers have all the right to reject this thought – as much I want to do the same, unfortunately, I do not anymore think goodie goodie about it.

Love? I would not even be the last person to come up with a definition of love; forget about feeling it. What it seemed like a feeling closer to love was raped so many times that even the doctor within has given up. Sometime’s the person is a jerk and you learn it the hard way and the poor next person becomes a victim of your bitter experiences. Worse is when God acts like a jerk and just for fun, takes the most important person away from this life.

Making people happy, making others around you smile and seeing to it there is no fight, argument, ensuring no misunderstanding and all this to ensure happiness for yourself in a married life. Cut to scene 2 – People with different backgrounds, varied cultural set up, different set of experiences, coming together under one roof and ensuring none of the above happens. Whoever said it is difficult to find a good job was perhaps wrong. It is far more difficult to maintain a relationship and make it work positively. Two most frequently used words “Adjust & compromise” – Phew!

Born in Mumbai, India – one of the busiest cities of the country – a city which is recognized for not knowing their neighbors. Cut to scene three – Whoever has this notion has surely seen and experienced just the tip of the iceberg. Every neighbor is interested in their neighbor – for good or bad, let us not get there, but let us assume, mostly for the latter. They may pretend they do not know you, but boy they know so much about you which you perhaps would take one more day to figure your forthcoming action.

Living life? Highly overrated. Is anyone of us living life even closer to living life the way we want to? Yes? You are either fortunate or too adjusting in nature. Life is fun? Everything costs money! To see a scenic place, to eat good food, to sit by a sea face, but for that you commute and spend. Commutation is money and even if you decide for a walking trip –time is money.

To get all of it, you work like crazy and make some money. Cut to climax – scene 4 – Monday to Friday, you work for 9-10 hours, commute to home in utmost annoying traffic, come back home tired, drained out, eat some food (which you are then least interested in) and sleep. Alas! You know it while sleeping; you have the same routine to start with the next day. Weekends? Sleep, rest, go clubbing, read and sleep for the same day.

Life is really beautiful, isn’t it?

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Conscience - My Best friend & My Worst Enemy


Best part about a relationship is when you live more than one relationship with the person. He is your friend, lover and most importantly, a companion for life. The ugly part of a bad break-up is that you have to release knots of all the relationships you have with him. Disregarding a lover is easier than breaking ties with a best friend in him; not thinking about a best friend is relatively easier than letting go your companion, who always walked beside you even in silence.

Betrayal is no easy to handle when you are in a relationship, but when someone betrays you while breaking up with you, the meaning of ‘trust’ immediately alters.
I am no good human as I was earlier and despite my attempts to be better as a human, I fail miserably. I have wronged some people knowingly, unknowingly and life has its way of giving it back to you. When pain becomes too much, acceptance creeps in.

Someone said to me yesterday, “You underestimate yourself too much as a person and you should know it is not always your fault, but your reaction to the ugly situation you are compelled to face”
. I do not know if that is correct. My conscience is my good friend as well as my worst enemy. It criticizes me severely instead of understanding why I reacted the way I did, and yet it has saved me from the worse by not letting me become revengeful in life despite the ugliness.

You learn from a bad relationship in every phase and it ends up changing you as a person somewhere. It complicates your life more when you regret getting changed and find no way of becoming what you were. Phase changes, age grows, experience increases and you cannot anymore be what you were before. When the face of ‘earlier you’ is beautiful and the ‘present you’ is unsatisfactory, ugly, you are stuck in between. Conscience! – has a way of sucking into you!

In so many years, this would be the first time when from my heart I genuinely remember those people I have hurt severely. It has never been with wrong intentions, but it happened purely out of the circumstance. Yet circumstance is no way and reason to shy away from your mistakes and I realize where I went wrong.

I am sure most of them would not be reading this, but if at all at any point in life they do when I am not around, they ought to know I am sorry!

Written by Vrushali Deshpande