Money..money..money

Money..money..money.Is it everything in the world? Can it buy you all the happiness you need?
After a long time, some thought is provoking me so much that I had to come back to my blog. I see so many people around me going mad after money, spoiling their health, spending sleepless nights with all work tension, having almost no time for their family..All this, just to live a luxurious life - to give mobile phone to their children even if they don’t need it, to busy a new car even if they have two which are running good enough, to buy a home theater even you have good enough big flat screen TV at home. I don’t say, we shouldn’t have passion to fulfill such dreams. But I do feel that we should not spend half our life thinking how to acquire money and then acquiring money just to fulfill our dreams which are not ‘needs’ just luxuries! I have a question in my mind, 10 years down the line what would you like to give back to your children a decent life and your time or only a luxurious life? If I were to choose between the two, I would have chosen the first one. Because I think there’s no end to human desires and happiness resides in a contented mind. Some one has rightly said (I don’t know who!)

मेरे दिल के किसी कोने मे एक मासूम सा बच्चा
बडों की देख कर दुनिया, बडा होने से डरता है!

2 Years!

Time passes so quickly. I can't believe I'll complete exactly 2 yrs in my first job tomorrow. I still remember the day we landed in this company. It seemed to be no different from college - 1) so many classes and tests 2) I had the same circle of friends. Training period got over and then a world of responsibilities began - staying on your own, paying the rent, paying the bills, cooking food, getting up early to catch the bus -no scope of bunking classes, work - tension! I learnt how much responsible you are for every word you write or speak here and how much commitment is expected from you at workplace. I still remember I couldn't attend my convocation because I had to give a presentation at office that day. My PM made me cancel my tickets at the last moment! Now when I turn back I smile at those moments.
Well the work and the environment hasn't changed much since 2005. The people do keep on changing.
Had both sweet and sour experiences. But I must say my first job has given me more than what I ever expected as I could find my better half here ;-)
My good wishes and congratulations to all those who started their career with me!

Happy friendship day!

One more friendship day gone! I remember two years back when I was in college, we had some kind of excitement in us. We used to send e-cards, wake up till 12 to wish each other...Things don't seem to be the same any more. This time also I wished all my friends, they wished me back, but I don't know why I felt that enthusiasm was gone! It made me scribble some lines and and I'm posting them:
हमें याद आता है
हर वो नज़ारा
था दुनिया में हमको सबसे जो प्यारा
वो यारों कि बातों में रातें बिताना
कुछ हसीं सपनों को दिल में सजाना
उनके कन्धों में सर रख के रोना
वो हर अपने दुःख को हसी में उड़ाना
वो lectures में उनकी proxy लगाना
वो majors के time पे movies दिखाना
अजी हमने माना
वो नही थी हक़ीकत
थी इक कहानी, था इक फ़साना
क्यों आज हमको वो हर दोस्त अपना
यूं लगने लगा है पराया पराया
बदली हूँ मैं, या बदला ज़माना ?
है मौसम अभी भी सुहाना सुहाना
फिर भी हमें याद आता है
हर वो नज़ारा
जो था कभी, हमें सबसे प्यारा!

What makes you happy!

Life is a never ending circle of complaints. Your very own people will complain for every other action you do. There can never be a situation when you can make everyone happy. If there is something which makes you happy there must be someone who’s getting hurt because of this. And I feel if you will try to make everyone happy you will surely make yourself unhappy.
True are those lines of a song ....
“कहॉ किसी के लिए है मुमकिन
सबके लिए इक सा होना
थोडा सा दिल मेरा बुरा है
थोडा भला है सीने में "
The moral of the story is do what your heart says and don’t try to make everyone happy because this is a hypothetical situation which can never happen. Do only what makes YOU happy!

Wrong Choices!

Has it ever ever happened to you that you give chances to the same set of people to prove to be good friends and in return they keep on doing things to hurt you the possible extent?? I wonder how a person can't be a loyal friend if you are so good to him. You help them in any possible way, forgive them hundreds of times, they can't leave the habit of breaking trust! A friend of mine has rightly described such people as Gnawing rats!(http://myjourneys.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/gnawing-rats/)
I don't mind if they don't let me know what's happening in their life but I do mind if they are letting the world know some wrong things about me.
Anyway its life! And we must learn to choose friends very carefully and I think I'm still in the process of learning that.
Thank God! I still have a bunch of friends who have never proved and will never prove to be wrong choices :-)

Its a lovely day!

Its friday again. End of week! It was a hectic week for me. After being on bench for a long time, I'm enjoying this "busyness".Though I have my tasks set for the weekend also, I'm a bit relaxed that I can enjoy this nice weather. People like me, who don't like bangalore, do visit bangalore at this time. The weather is at its best. It was drizzling the whole day and there is a nice breeze going on.
Its 7 pm and I'm still in office as we had meeting from 6 to 7. Something strange happened in our meeting today! One colleague started laughing all of a sudden and the laughter was so contagious that we forgot that we have some more people who have dialled in the meeting call :)
It was fun!

Ever been real angry??

Over the years, I have learnt that silence is the best way to show anger. Just don't talk to the the person you are angry with. It will surely work; but speaking out that you felt bad because of something might not work. I believe complaining for something weekens the relationships. I remember once a friend of mine gifted me a poster "Angry people cause hurt and get hurt". Silence is the best killer as it hurts the most.And to be silent is best when you don't know if you have the right to be angry with the person. This is difficult way of expressing anger, but it works :)I don't know how to apply this when the concerned person is a room-mate or a team-mate. You can't avoid talking to that person in such cases...I have tried hundreds of times to be angry with my rooom-mate. The very next morning I forget :(