A Wrap up!

       This post is going to be a mix of different thoughts & stories wrapping me up as a whole! What you’ll get? A perception about how I view the world, what I value, and how you can see life through my lenses. And this marks my first and last blog post of 2023!

What makes this year better or best? Nothing!! Only our perspectives and mindset with which we approach it.

Looking back at myself a few years ago with different glasses (not the rose-tinted one!) shows me a lot of change in perspectives, growth, and progression. But one thing remains the same. These are the values that I believe in, want to respect, and follow! And this blog remains a better place to view myself at different phases of my life.

Every now and then, I ask myself a few questions, tell myself a few things to remember, and focus on a few things to follow. This list won’t change drastically every year, but yes, most of them will be rearranged with priorities, and there will always be a few additions and rejections at different points. This year was another wonderful one, with lots of focus and growth, new experiences, and priorities mainly focused on health and passion.

For me, this year marked new experiences with new cities, people, and food. Jaipur, Udaipur, Noida, Kolkata, Kumara parvatha, Dal bhati churma, Ganga, and definitely some beautiful people!!

And there are a handful of new people whom I want to thank and a few old ones to whom I want to apologize.

Unlike the Few HundredSteps! in 2018 & 2019, I did a few thousand one, and I saw a drastic shift in my end goal compared to the last one in 2018. This time it was not about successful completion but about persistence, bringing belief around, and completing as one. And in the end, we succeeded together as a team and as a family! This juncture helped me realize the quote, “There are friends, there is a family, and there are friends that become family.”

And I have progressed in Falling in Love! too. I started learning new things, explored new passions, and advanced towards my last name. Cycling became my best hobby after some great touch of nature around my route. Clean air to breathe, wind to pat, birds to sing, and breeze to make you feel lit! What more to ask for a beautiful life!!

I don’t have much to say, but I'm not a fan of resolutions. I’ll wrap up with a few questions that I ponder now and then. Try to answer these questions to understand more about yourself.

What do I value most in life?

Am I prepared for the worst in my life?

What makes us humans and differentiates us from animals?

Why does being a leader matter, and how to become a good leader?

Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year :)

What’s your purpose?

 A long solo ride, lonely room, sky watching, staring at the moon and sometimes a few minutes of meditation arise many thoughts in me. Instead of thoughts, I can call them questions as most of them start or ends with Why, How, What or When. And I love to ask myself many questions and answer them from my perspective so I get to know what kind of person I am. This is my way of self-realization you can say.

So, as many thoughts or questions popped out inside my head, this one badly wanted my answer – “What is your purpose?”. During my school days, I have felt I don’t have a purpose. But my spiritual mindset always mentions people are here for a purpose. And I used to think “Is finding one’s purpose is the purpose of their life?”. I don’t know if all live with a purpose.  

But I think I have defined this from my own perspective and I know it’s susceptible to change based on my future experiences. So here is what this man thinks about the purpose of his life.

There are many people born, became great and achieved a lot. For me, Abdul Kalam is one of the exemplars. But in my perspective, not all human beings are born with those great purposes. Our purpose can be as simple as bringing hope to someone or living by discipline or being helpful to someone. It can also be as simple as feeding a pet or keeping your home clean or gaining insight into something. For me,

“Purpose is living my life the way I want (without hurting anyone) and bringing positive change to my surroundings”

But do you know how these things are determined? By your direction and choices

Our life is a journey and it is dependent on a lot many factors where our decision makes the turn! Whatever decision you make, don’t regret or worry about it. If you have done wrong, try to change it in future. As the saying, it’s the journey which makes thing fruitful than the destination, be at your own pace and enjoy your life!!

Here is a reflection of a person I don’t know but I think - helping the street dogs may be her purpose. Referring to my old post – The Guardian of Dogs

Let me dream about

 What makes me a human? I have this big doubt for a long time. Whether the sixth sense or my emotions? And my mind voice says, "Arre, both don't count! You don't do/utilize anything better from that". 

When everyone can have their own answer, I thought of my own. I want my own perspective to define myself. And here is my one on few! 

"Dream"

Yea, dreaming makes me human. I dream! I dream a lot. I dream of different things. I dream of fiction, I dream of love, I dream of change, I dream of possibilities and I dream of actions. And these dreams are the ones pushing me daily, towards my improvement and success. 

When my personal dreams help me learn and grow, how about the collective dream's effect? 

The world has noticed these many times! 

When Martin Luther King said, I have a dream, When Gandhiji said, I dream of Ideal India, when Nelson Mandela mentioned, I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself! These are great collective dreams composed and delivered by individuals which altered and changed the whole course of history!

Dreams have great potential and it depends upon individuals will power (In my opinion). So lets all dream of great things and make it happen. 

On this great day, come lets dream of Gandhiji's ideal India, where there is no race or religion, no high class or low class, and tears from every eye should be wiped. Let us all make this our collective dream and achieve an Ideal India what we dream of!

If I have learned that, I would not be here!

I don't know whether people use these kind of phrases to express their emotions.  But I always use this phrase more often when there is a deep technical conversation going on and I don't have a clue about it.

 

Don’t look at me silly. I never hesitated for confessing my lack of knowledge on a particular domain. I am very open to that now and glad I am. But it's been three years that now only I really understood what I am doing wrong all these days.

 Whenever I was asked something technically deep apart from my current domain, I just say I don't know and move on. But that is the place I left a big void and forgot to fill. Every now and then when I utter this phrase, "If I had known about this, I would be in better place" I missed the point of what I left without learning.

 I never questioned myself on this phrase and that is one of the worst things I have done to me. I never tend to result in asking myself, why I haven't learned that thing? When can I learn that thing? From where I can learn about these? These questions don’t sound obvious if you discuss a topic you are very passionate about. Because you push yourself to learn what you don’t know about it. But there are many things we are not passionate about but we need to learn that to get going.

 As per psychology, we always come up with reasons to support our thoughts and cause. But this question when you ask yourself, you get to think! I haven't explored this thought for this long while. I think looking life from a different perspective from our own is a key to explore the other possibilities to grow. Let’s critically analyse and introspect our thoughts for making ourselves better than yesterday!

In the process of Knowing Myself!!

With plenty of thoughts, I am penning down a few after a very long time. With constant procrastination, I missed my writing habit. My blogs died, My profiles became soulless, and I became a shit. I am always running with annoying thought of "I don't have time" and worrying about next... But it's time to overcome that.

Being a Homosapien who has only one ambition from my childhood, I failed. After transformation of different phases of life from child to kid to a boy to teen and towards man, still, I am pondering on how to achieve my ambition. Many goals came in between. Many things have been aimed, and few succeeded. Still, I haven't got my path towards my ambition. Looking back all these 23 years, the only thing I succeeded in is being alive. But I believe in connecting dots.

With constant thoughts about my ambition, one beautiful day, I planned to stop thinking about it. When you stop thinking about one thing, then definitely you will start thinking about another, right? In my case, I was already entangled in consistent thoughts about morning song and radio news, here and there with daydreams. But that's the time I clearly understood I am heading nowhere.

And there came a location change, which helped me to clear some clutter in my mind.
I started thinking of myself. I started to analyze what I am doing in my 24-hour span, which I am loosing on a daily basis. First two days, I was rigorous on noting down things I am doing. Then it started diminishing, and I lost track. Then I started focussing on my diet since I am profound about developing my family pack.

In three months of the span, I clearly understood what I should focus on. This can be said for all adults who are in their early 20's.

1. Learn about Yourself. Your strength and weakness. What you love, what you hate, and what you don't give a shit. And write it in your diary!
2. Learn financial planning. Learn to read statements and how money works.
3. Do something at least monthly once, which makes you happy inside.
4. Forget all and focus only on yourself till you turn 25. Whoever may be, let's think about them after 25.
5. Gain failures and make more mistakes. As dark is just an absence of light, success is just abate of failure.
6. Look through and Look forward!

Now I believe the first part of success is knowing about themselves first. What do you think?

On Search of Happiness

Almost every one of us are idiots, who search for happiness (sorry, but its true). You see, on our entire life, the only goal everyone wants is "To be Happy". But everyone fails to be happy in many situations or maybe even at their whole life. Have you ever thought and analyzed this happiness and depression pattern?

Happiness is completely based on your Thoughts. The first enemy to destroy your happiness is your "Thoughts on requirements".Yes! There is a difference between need and requirement. Many people around the world still strive to fulfill their needs while many long to fulfill their requirements. Deep down you just need to realize and understand that your requirements are not needs which have to be fulfilled. It's just a thing which may elevate you up for extra comfort.

Very few of us understand those things. There are various things contribute to your sadness even though when you are happy. Best one of them is Social media's. Do you know for what it is been created? Just to be in touch with people, to make new friends & to share information, career interests, ideas, and other forms of expression on virtual communities. But now this has become the place for obsession and addiction. Being truthful, you are very happy and you live a happy life. But longing for things and your greed intrude you easily and make you think that you don't have anything to be happy. And these thoughts not only make you sad but question your existence.

Always remember and say it to yourself - "I am happy". You are blessed with food and shelter. You have beautiful friends to surround you and take care for you. You being a blessed person, you are very happy and you can bring down the happiness to others. Let's cherish Happiness around you by carrying a smile!!

Cheers!!

P.S: You can also bring smiles to many children by helping them to learn by joining an NGO and volunteer for teaching the underprivileged kids. You can also help out the needed kids by becoming their scribes. (Mail me for more info & contact)

Falling in Love

There is a greater conspiracy on this words.. "Falling in Love". So, have you ever fell in love?
Few say no and some say yes and even few say loads of things blah, blah, blah.... So the answers change from person to person.
So have I ever fell in love? This is a simple question and yes I did.

Firstly and deeply I fell in love with my parents as soon as I born.
Secondly but unknowingly I again fell in love with my sister. She's a hard one at knocking down.
Hardly I fell in love with few of my relations, neighbour and colleagues.
As I grew I fell in love with nature followed by music.
In between, I just tasted the love of food and smile of a child.
Now, I think it's time for the search of love for passion before the hunt for my best last name starts..
And this list goes on until its time for me to end my chapter!!
~Fell in Love~

Let May Blossoms

Let May Blossoms

Hello Everyone, It's been months I have written. As I grow up I was introduced to various information's  every day. Yet I wanted myself to be updated on various fields. So today I just came this corner to write something which clutters in my mind.

Today May 1st. Do you know what's special today? Yep, I have a list. Really I was feeling glad to know some info on this day. The only thing I know about this day is its "Workers Day" (Ulaipalar Dinam). But when I opened the social accounts what I knocked was Mr.Ajith, actor birthday. I am sad myself as many people don't share the info about Swami Vivekananda and Ulaipalar Dinam.

You see today was the day where Ramakrishna Mission established. In Tamilnadu, this is a day we contribute our thanks to all the workers, especially to farmers. Today Anupama Gokhale, the first women in the history of Indian chess to win an All-India level International Tournament. Today is Gujarat Glory day and Maharastrasha divas as well. So I think this day has a hell lot to share including your interests.

And personally, today is one of the memorable days for me as I pitched my important place for online reputation.

So that's all my clutters currently. Well, I join with you all on my next post which is going to be a stimulating one :-)

Children's Day in My Point of View

Today I am not here for wishing happy children's day. Today it's time to refer some of my thoughts to you all. Wishing the children is not enough for this day. On one of my post before stating No Caption I shared some pictures which show the acts that are against the children. It's referred that Jawaharlal Nehru loved children and to contribute to him we are celebrating his birthday as a Children's Day.

But in my point of view this day can be utilized for the current situation. These days there are many unethical things still happening in India against the children. Child Labour, Child Trafficking, Infanticide etc.., Google it once. you will get the detailed info of child deaths due to insufficient nutrition and other problems. So there are many things like this happening around us. Take this day, use this day as a day to protect children from these abuses. There are different kinds of laws, but there are not well up to mark, as of now it seems to be. So this day, everyone try to help the orphan kids and don't ever indulge in any of the activities which affect the children. Even don't smoke before the children.

Have happy days ahead :)

My words

                         We have done enough for our sake. So don't be jealous do something for others

There are many ways of helping others. Use a way. You must create a impression on some people  heart

before you die.

You don't want to create history but you must do something which reminds you.

Don't love fame because it will kill you in a different way.

Have Happy life!!!