Day-15

PRAYER

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Whom do we pray ? God..? Have we seen him? well I guess probably not. Then how is it that in an era where we even refuse to believe our own eyes, we still believe in something which we have never seen. I believe Prayer is a means to recognize our own positive energy in us which would aid us pursue our dreams. This energy is kept in something that is very pure and serene  Most of the time this is our heart and soul. We have different forms of such energy in us to which we name it as God. Now there is one question still echoing in my head. Why do we pray so little then ? Why is it that we never bother to get such a positive energy in us in every task we do. Simple answer to this is the lack of inner desire and will to perform a task. This is why we are inefficient and fail most of the times.

So I believe, in every thing we do we should do it with our heart and soul and put full effort to it. In the worst case we would fail, but the urge in us to begin the task all over again would still remain. " The beauty of tide lies not in its rise and fall but its ability to rise with every fall ". Why not transform our prayers into actions itself and then this world would be a lot better place to live in.

Learning : What ever you do just put your heart and soul to it, this itself is a form of prayer and every arrow released with such conviction would only find a 

                  single spot which we often refer to as the target. And I know you can make this happen else we will make it happen, that I can assure.

Day-14

FriendShip

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Often we try to decrypt the meaning of life alone. Doing so, we only have one side of the picture. And we assume it to be the whole. How do we know what lies in the other half. This is one such question whose answer only a friend knows.since he can see the other half. Which also brings us to the point that we in ourself are alone and it is this friend who completes us. We are deciphered and we begin understanding the essence of life. In short a firiend completes us. And yes it is.. All our emotions are dependent on him. He cracks a joke we laugh, he hurts us we are hurt, While he sings we play the music, He loses and we give him our hands he wins and a treat on is side becomes due. We are two different but same soul. Gradually they both travel a path and set off for a voyage. I guess this is where Ship comes in and now the much incomplete word in itself has a friend too which makes it FriendShip.

Everyone of us own a ship. Friendship is when a friend takes you with him in his ship and shares some of the best moments of life in the complete voyage. And we enjoy every bit of that voyage. And this is when we decide to leave our ship aside and keep travelling in the same( friend's ship) ship as long as we share a common destination and a dream.  Even when this ship goes down during the storm, we have the one we kept aside and could use its roaring engine to reach that milestone which once we together dreamt of.

Learning : Whatever happens one of our ships would certainly reach us our dreams and destination. Keep your ship ready and properly anchored too. We have to pass the storms and keep sails properly aligned. With you forever in such a ship. AMEN !

Day-13

WINNERS

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All of us dream to be a winner. But has anyone of us tried to decode their success? Yes, couple of times. We normally try to see what great qualities a winner possess that makes him/her a winner. What if we try to flip this a little and try to look from a different angle.

 

I feel it is us because of whom the winners are actually the winners. They owe us a significant part of thier success. It is us who I feel give them an opportunity to come first and let them be the winners. Why not start seeing within us, rather than the winners? Because it is us who has to Win and not the winner who has to Lose.

 

Learning : You are a true winner since the day you have been facing so much difficulties from Day 1. You are brave and have all the capacity to prove yourself your worth.

                  No matter who is there in the fornt always measure your steps and you would be the first to kiss the final ground. I would be there to clap and see that smile on your face again and again ( Actually its worth everytyhing ).

Day-12

LOVE*******
Love is a gift of nature, a virtue which only a brave heart possess and not the faint ones.

Love is that when you stop expecting anything in return ..even love, and you still have a smile and seek happiness of that being no matter what.It is when you have a heart to sacrifice irrespective of the other half.

A mother's love for her child, Soldier's love for his nation are certainly one of the purest forms of love. Love either exist or not at all. There is no measure or forms to it.

Photograph : The parrots speak for themselves and Love itself has reasons to blush on such a gift of nature.

Learning : When you stop expecting anything in return and you still love that person, then I think it is love. This is tough and only the pure ones can possess such a virtue.

                 Think : Your love for animals is irrespective of what they return in exchange of your love. Whatever happens, you still would love them  I am sure even if they come and cause pain to you, you would still love them. This pure form of selfless feeling is called love.

Similarly I have no reason for being nice to you.. irrespective of anything I still would want to see a smile on your face. 

Day-11

SILENCE

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No doubt one has millions of thoughts to share with, while we share the major chunk of it, the lesser ones keep banging the inner walls. When the dice of love collide it is always the sacrifice that is rolled. It is said by Kabir that the path taken by love is so narrow that the two cannot travel parallel to each other. Nevertheless, long walks often taken together in silence speak more than the words themselves. So, in short, silence is the language of the heart and any form of word used in place of it would only cause pain... :'(

Learning : Yet to learn and require your help to learn..

Day- 10

TEARS

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Tears often symbolize pain and grief and we often try to disregard it. But Tears roll down when we are overjoyed also. It is there during both the happy and the sad hours.

Today it has just made me realize one characteristic which I failed to see so far. It is tears that are always with us during our good and the bad times. It is there no matter how helpless we are and it is also there no matter what success we achieved. Yet, we are the ones who always part with it while it still clings until it has rolled down that last inch of our cheeks begging not to leave it.

But again when we were sad or happy it was again this tear that we wanted to part ways with. No matter how much we threw it from our life it was there again and again yet again only to share with us our good and the bad times.

So, I wish all the Friendship and Relations to be as pure as this Tear that never part ways with. Tears are precious use it judiciously.

Learning: Dedicated to you with regards from TEARS himself. Keep it with you, it deserves that.

Day-9

HONEY

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From one flower to the other the humming bees start their day of work. They toil hard all day to collect their food and return to their home. How little do they know what would be done to their food and their house (Hive) eventually? But one fine day all of those are vanished in the thin air. Now just realize if Honey is still sweet. How can just one destroy others and find sweetness in their losses. A thing to Ponder!!

I would need reasoning from your side.

Learning: Be content with what you have and never seek happiness or taste in others loss. It’s a crime.

Day-8

IDOL
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We must have often come across atheist in our lives. They question the common belief that how can God's idol be so powerful when it is only made of stone or metals. So, according to them it is insane to worship the idol and so they do not believe in the concept of God at all. No offence, they are true and I support them too. But there is a slight difference between them and me. I still believe in the concept of God. Let me cite an example.

We are already aware of the concept of time right ? When we want to know what time it is, where do we look ? clock or a watch. Now tell me if this clock or watch Time ? the obvious answer is NO. But still if we want to know the time we look at it. In the similar way the Idol is not the God in itself ( which is where I support the Atheist ), but the idol does give us the sense of God and that is it. Temple, Mosque, Church, Gurudwara, Synagogue all are different forms where we put the God's idol but it is them that gives us the sense of God.

For those of you who are Atheist, Now that you know the secret, I hope you dont change your mind. The bottom line is always be good to everyone and that is better than just worshipping God, atleast I feel so.

Day-7

I believe that Almighty God was initially all alone. He then created us, Humans and kept us beside him always and that way he was then no more alone. He liked us humans so much that he kept increasing our numbers and somehow it became so much that it became difficult for him to manage. There were all forms of us, from good to best and bad to worst. Good ones often remained closed to his heart while the bad ones away. He then thought that he had had to manage this somehow so that he always had good ones beside him while the bad ones as far as possible. It was then that Heaven, Hell and Earth came into being.

Heaven - This was the place where The Almighty himself along with the all the good ones resided.

Hell      - This was the place where only the bad ones resided.

Earth    - And this was the place which was the testing ground (more like a laboratory) where God could differentiate between the good and the bad ones.

So since then till today he has been sending us Humans to the Earth and has been testing who has been good and who has been bad. The good have resided with him in the heaven while the bad in the hell, far away from him.

So, we find both the types of the people on Earth, the good and the bad. And since Earth is the only place he has used for his testing between the good and the bad, it (Earth) has started wearing out. The reason why the Earth a 1000 year ago was so different and much pure than compared to today. So one day would surely come when he would flush this earth and clean all dirt and make it afresh again. That day I believe is not very far. Since all of us have almost been tested and God is almost done with his testing, I think it is time for us to improvise while we still have time to prove ourselves for Heaven. The best part is that the world today has so many bad people that little good we do today would take us to the heaven. So, we have enough reasons to smile. In a way the cutoff to make it to the heaven is very less fortunately, seeing the present scenario.

So why think and wait an act of little good and kindness I believe would surely take us to the heaven. Keep in mind that there are no schemes or offers here. White is white and Black is black, as simple as that.

So, now that I have revealed you the secret I would want a favor from you. PLEASE BE BAD AND LOWER THE CUTOFF SO THAT I WOULD EASILY SCALE TO HEAVEN. THIS IS JUST A GENTLE REQUEST. DO NOT GIVE ME COMPETITION. I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.

Learning: Please be bad and allow me to go to heaven..Please...!

Day-6

TIME

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Pause for a second. Did you? I guess you did, but did the time pause also, the obvious answer is no. See, time stops for no one, proved, right? Now look at your wrist watch or wall clock. If you observe and pour a little of your grey matter over it, you would notice that the needle in the clock passes every digit twice in the 24 hour bandwidth. 

In all what I would want to say is that the time or a moment comes twice in our life. This moment itself has a life and death as it is followed by another moment and so on. Like humans it has feelings of happiness and sadness but it is us who controls it. So, if we remain happy during that particular moment or be or do well, the moment too is then happy until followed by another. So we could say that moment died happily because we were happy and so it too was. Now think the same in the negative context. That is if we remain sad or be negative, the moment too becomes sad and negative and so it dies that way also.

As I already told that Moment comes twice it would come again. But this time it would not depend on us. On the contrary this time we would depend on the moment. The moment would decide if we would remain happy or sad. Why? Remember, I told that it would come again. And this time it would be sad or happy depending upon its first visit to us. If we were happy then, than no matter what we would be made happy (often we call this as being lucky when we least expect of anything good and it is there).Similarly If we were sad then, than no matter what we would be made sad ( often we call this as being unlucky when we least expect of anything good and it is there ).

Therefore it totally depends on us that we would be lucky or unlucky and not the fate alone. It is us who decide our own fate and not the time. So be positive and think positive if you want luck to remain by your side always...

Learning: Please think Positive and everything around you would 'pakka' be positive. I would help you no matter what...Promise. Just have Faith.

Day-5




 

TRUST

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There is so much uncertainty in the word 'TRUST'. I guess which is why it came into being. So, i wouldn't be wrong if I say that it is uncertainty that gave birth to this misunderstood word 'TRUST’. What we presume as Trust is actually an image of Uncertainty. While we always take Trust as Honesty and Truth which is error from our part, we overlook what meaning it actually carries. So the photograph which I took from my company’s IT Help Desk Area does speak volumes when it says “In God we TRUST, All others we scan for Virus ".

For those whom I confused, here is an example. Always be careful in those places where you find a lot of cops. Cops does not mean security, it means they are there due to some kind of danger. So it is this danger (uncertainty) which has brought cops (TRUST) into picture.

Note: And you know how much you trust the cops … Ha-ha. PUN Intended here. 

Learning: Trust is not a word we should look into blindly because the consequences and damages arising from it could be huge. So to sum up, do not trust anyone even me, just have faith (It will work wonders, TRUST ME "with a smile”).

Day-4

Crossword

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You need not scratch your head to resolve this crossword. Do we feel clueless at times? Sometimes we aren't aware of what and how, yet we keep looking for clues to those answerable questions just like a crossword except that there are clues attached to it. Like crossword, Life would have been very simpler with the clues. But Guess what? Surprise!! There are indeed always those clues attached in our lives too. It is just that we would need to understand ourselves better to unravel the mysteries within and in the process clues would do miracles. This is where I believe Crossword comes into picture and teaches us to find the answers with clues leading us to the right way..Always.

Learning:  Like a crossword look for clues around you and you would definitely find the answers to your unanswered questions. Besides, I would always be there to help by your side :).

“The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.”

Day-3

It is an attitude of a person that determines if failure is looked as an opportunity or regret. While most take it as regret, they are left behind and in a way provide opportunity to others who uses it just as any opportunity is expected to be utilized.

Quotes:

"Learn from the mistakes of others coz you can't live long to commit all mistakes yourself ".

“Opportunity is never missed, it is used by someone else if you don't. "

Learning: The picture taken speaks volumes and it is now on your part to take this an “OPPORTUNITY” and live by it.

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

Day-2

Patience is a virtue, they say. But seldom do we find it among us. Like this Traffic Signal (which is yellow), which signifies us to wait, we do not pay heed to it and thus, invite troubles for us as well as for others. Therefore one should learn to wait.

Learning: Maybe it is a yellow signal at your end for now and so you should not hurry. When its time, things would sort out and you would be with smiles again.

“A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time – patience.”

Day-1

I know the file is hefty but I had to do this correct with maximum light Exposure and minimum shake especially when it was at night. The owner of the shop was not allowing the photography but being a first day challenge I had to since this was what i wanted to click the moment my eye balls rolled at it. Nevertheless with lots of patience and a little courage I took it the way it could be take though after that I was not seen at that place again. I know the guard outsid must have noticed it. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it.

Zoom it and you could visit the fine details of it too. I took it in color but thought grey scale would add al little to the visual effects. I hope you like it.

Learning : Like this gold which has to refine itself 7 times in fire, you too at this stage is being passed through it until I know, one day you would shine more than this gold itself.

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."