Life in a Metro

Every time I travel in a metro, the analogy of a metro with life crosses my mind and I just can't help myself wondering about the similarities.

The way we take birth, we enter a metro. Everyone enters from a different station. Its fixed when one will get down from the metro, the way its fixed we all have to die one day. To give more weight to my comparison, I often even compare the time we enter the station by swiping the token as the time one enters the mother's womb.

The difference is that on entering the metro, we remember where we have come from, our purpose of entering it and our station of getting down. Thats why we don't get attached to our fellow passengers and we don't cry when others get down :). We know about after metro exists, though a different one.

At times, one has to change the metro line(usually from CP ;) ). I compare that to rebirth :P. The lucky ones get out of the metro(Moksha in life) and others get a rebirth and re-enter the metro :).

As said in Hindu mythology, one gets human life after 84lacs other births, one keeps traveling in a metro after some time. Its a never-ending process :)

The comparisons are endless. I know I might be sounding stupid but I had to share this. Please let me know your comments on this analogy :)

Crying at Vidaai

Until now, I really never understood why parents cry when a girl is married. Thats what they have always wanted. Its a happy day. Everybody is so elated before that moment , then whats in that moment which causes them so sad... Usually the girl is not living with her parents even before marriage , so how does it really matter!!!!!

But I did understand this when I attended my dearest cousin's marriage. I felt sad n scared. Did I feel sad coz I'll be left alone in Noida..... No it wasn't that... Was it coz I'll miss those ice-creams,walk n talk sessions, yoga classes, movies, tott-mall visits... nai ye bhi nai.. So why was I sad.

Ahhhh... I was getting it ... I wasn't sad.. I was scared... I was scared for her. I was worried that will she be happy!!! Her life's gonna change completely.. A completely new family.. A strange country... Will the cruel world be nice to the sweetest girl...

I wanted her happiness n well-being from all my heart. Thats all I wanted from God that time.

I think its this feeling which flows down as tears :)

Messedup -> Fix it -> Celebrate !!!

Well... this topic has kept my brain occupied since the last few days... I have been thinking and I have been wondering..... How true this is, how simple n how strange...

If we are able to see the other side, life would be so much more beautiful....

You never realise the imortance of something until you loose it...

Well, I know sabne suna hai, sab maante hain par...How do I explain it... See, I have a laptop with an internet connection and this is just a normal fact.... I am not going gaga over it - That.. Wow... I have a laptop... But, one day, it stops working and I am all "oohhhh:( :( " and fir jab theek hota hai - I am so excited ..... 2 din pehle it was a normal thing and now it calls for a celebration....

Well, I have numerous incidents citing it (The laptop one was a fictitious one n inspired by a gtalk status msg :P) - Friends asking for a party when I lost and then finally found my wallet one weekend :) :) No party if I hadn't lost it at all :)

I am not against celebrating it.... khush ho to kya fark padta hai underlying baat kya hai :) .... par All I wanna say is, Why can't be just happy when things are going normal..... Why do we need things to go wrong, fix them and then celebrate !!!!

Expectations!!!!

Well, I wrote this some 2 months ago, but didn't post it as I was feeling very strongly abt this issue and at that time, one shouldn't post things...

boli hui baat vapis ni aa sakti, par likha hua blog to aa sakta hai :P

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Lotsa things going on in my mind.. so what can be better than writing a blog n know the views of people one considers friends.. A bit confused, so please help me out...

Is it not right to have expectations from your friends???

If its right, it hurts when they break. And they do break and you get hurt :(...

If not, whats the difference between a friend and just an acquaintance.

I am the one who always says that if something is hurting you about someone, "Go and talk to him/her about it and matters would be solved".. But times, its just not possible to do that...

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Well... Usually, I am blogging on being happy, treating life simple n beautiful.... Ahhh.. I guess, I should read my previous posts n I'll be fine :)

And hey, pls do leave ur opinions.... Though that matter is over due to which I wrote this post but your advice will come handy on some other chapter of my life :).

Wow!!!! M inspiring people

My room mate started brushing her teeth before sleeping and my colleague now throws waste in dustbin only :D :D.

Do we really wanna go back to our Childhood....

I have heard almost everyone saying that childhood days were the best and some of us actually wanting to go back and live the childhood again!!!!! 

Today while talking to a child, I realized that how badly children wanna grow up. She just asked me, "Di, how much did your cell cost?" and said, "You know what, when I'll grow up, I'll buy the best cell of the latest technology of my CHOICE!!!!". She emphasized on the word CHOICE. Being a child, how much we love the thought of freedom when we grow up, how much we hate being scolded by parents with no fault of ours. How we plan our wish list of buying things when we start earning!!!! so we don't have to get our smallest demands getting scrutinized by our parents like having an ice-cream or even a packet of chips. 

But when we grow up, we just kill the child in us. We lock our "when we grow up" wish list and throw away the key. For today, whatever you do, just think was it possible to do the same in your childhood. Notice the smallest activities we do in your daily life like waking up late, having an ice-cream, spending money without asking anyone, sleeping late, "watching T.V", surfing net, going for a movie, hanging out with friends, eating what you want..... the list is endless. Enjoy every such moment.  

Life is beautiful at all stages, not just in childhood :).

Excerpt from the Speech given by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis.

Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.
 
One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.

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