Time...

Time... How it flies by...

Two years to the day... I left Delhi.. left for another place... a place where I am right now... for what... to what...

Looking back... to some this would be wasted time... to me... I have learned new lessons... most of them the hard way... but lessons for sure...

As cliched as it might be, there's no looking back other than to remember what you learned. What is there though, is to look ahead and move forward...

Thoughts from Kashmir

Coming Soon....


:)

A fall, a bump in the head but still working.... :)

My Laptop fell the other day from my wardrobe and broke... so now that makes the list such... the screen had long gone, which I got replaced and it is now again on the verge of giving away, the battery doesnt last more than 10 mins, the hard disk cannot last another fatal error if I am right, some of the ports no longer work and now the whole damn thing has fallen and is broken. Wonder what the message is that it so desperately seems to be trying to pass on to me...

But then again, as has been the case with all my stuff, I have never been known to take care of them but still, they have served me without giving me too much to worry about. They have kept going on & on, struggling, sputtering maybe but never giving up.
This has been the case till date, however, I guess I am soon gonna run out of this luxury that I seem to have over abused now.

Well, as goes the song from the movie 'Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind'.... Everybody's gotta learn sometime...

So, the sooner the better ... :)

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd


An excerpt from Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard".

To read the full poem (one should... I think its nice) Click Here.

Kabhi....

Kabhi, mai na chahun koi khushi
Na mai chahun yeh zindagi
Mere dil me teri kami

Har sanam, har pal hai koi karam
Har dil ki chahat magan
Dar dar ke guzre janam

Jungalon aur samandaron me sami
Hai raahtein jo mile na kabhi
Is haseen samay ki yeh rahat samajh me aane lagi
Ban jayegi yeh khushi, mil jayegi yeh khushi
Kitne samay guzar gaye, bichad gaye is samay
Ban jayegi yeh zameen....



Kabhi, mai chahun sabke liye
Khul jayein dil me chhupe
Chhote chhote ghum ke gile

Oh kabhi, mai chahun tere liye
Mai chahun mere liye
Jo gaoon sabke liye

Jungalon aur samandaron me sami
Hai raahtein jo mile na kabhi
Is haseen samay ki yeh rahat samajh me aane lagi
Ban jayegi yeh khushi, mil jayegi yeh khushi
Kitne samay guzar gaye, bichad gaye is samay
Ban jayegi yeh zameen....

As they say... Better late than Never

So with this, I have now completed all editions of Klueless. I eagerly await their next edition this Oct/Nov and hope to reach the top 100 that I had planned for last time. Funny I was having a gala time elsewhere because of which I wasn't able to do it this time. No Regrets :)

Glad my friend, Aditya, got into the top 100. He is on Rank 58th!

I'll be there next time :)

Drifting...

Is this going to be the beginning of the drift?

Is it going to begin now? Whats gonna happen next? What is one supposed to do?

Many a question as always... answers... well... that's a search that still continues... isn't it?

Coincidences??

A friend once told me how she believes that books come to you whenever you need it...

I dont really know about books... but I can tell you something about my experience with songs. No, not that the songs have been what I needed, but it has always been something that matches with my frame of mind at that moment. Be it joy, happiness, sadness, trepidation, confusion or whatever else you can think of. But yeah, its always been n sync with how the minds (only?) working at that moment.
Maybe for some reason I have all the songs that go along with all those emotions somewhere close to me, and by the way its not like I select and play them myself, its got to do nothing with me, cud be the next track on my phone, the radio with the local chaiwala, or the local music store blaring out songs from the speakers that they place outside their shops... its just not something that I control...

Not that I am going to be the one who complains about it :)

Now the more educated or the cynics would say (I include myself here btw) that its just another game played by the mind. As someone once said the mind sees what it wants to see... maybe its just that my mind finds some weirdly concocted way to relate the songs with the frame of mind... but then again dont you think its an awful lot of coincidence managing to do that almost every time?

Anyway, I am not sure why I am writing all this, other than the fact that I am listening to songs and well what do you know, they still are in sequence, in sequence with the times, thoughts and well who knows what else :)

Cheers to Life

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Happiness only Real when Shared!

- Christopher Johnson McCandless

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