A Great Exit

A while ago, I came to know the death of an iconic man whose genius gifted us jaw dropping gadgets. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple is now no more physically in this world, but he will always been remembered for his landmark children-iPhone, iPad, iPod and many more. He will be missed for unimagined imagination he showed in his job. All this post death respectful condolence is a must part of each great personality who gifted the world through their genius.  Their lives are marked with a great exit, like we all know what happened with Steve a couple days before his death. 

A friend of mine got a SMS early morning stating the death of Steve Jobs. He was not aware Steve and his jobs. After reading some news articles, he said, “I don’t know who he was, but I feel uneasiness for something. It may be not for his death but for our death.” It was not so easy for me as well to understand what he meant. He was right, do we think about our exit from this world? Have you ever thought who will be missing your deeds after your death? Will you leave a heap of memories and gifts that will be cherished by your family, society, country and the world? 

Once you learn how to die, you will learn how to live.

The great personalities from Mahatma Gandhi to Nelson Mandela, from Swami Vivekananda to Einstein, their lives give a valuable lesson: live for a great cause and plan your life for success of the cause. When you live your life, plan how to live, deliver yourself before the world and exit the world. Here, in this world of immortality, your end is more important than your entry. Your birth is no longer considered to make you remembered even after your death. Your life will be counted for what have you done during the period you spent on earth. 

People are respected for their great tasks no matter whether they do it for themselves or for others. Many individual sports players played for their whole life. They played for their immense desire to play and enjoy the game, and they conquered greatest heights of success in their field. Some people dedicated their life for the sake of country and society. Their contribution finally caused some great inspiration, dreams and positive life lessons. This is the essence of great life. 

The following ancient Sanskrit saying précises the great truth of living a great life:

“When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice.”

Just Do Eat

In life, everyone is bound to follow some values. The values may differ from one person to another, but we all are bound to a single universal principle. This is the discipline that nature has blessed us, and we all are proud to follow this heart filing rule- JUST DO EAT.

The moment you stepped into this world, you busted out loudly not for your mom but for the food. You just wanted somebody to help you filling your three inches stomach. From that day to the present moment, you are running, talking, toiling, fighting, and lying for the same noble reason knowingly or unknowingly. This run will go on for the rest of your life. Our happiest moment of every day is when we have stomach full tasty food at right time, right place and with right people. Off course, having good company while having our lunch, dinner or even breakfast is as important as the quality and variety of the food we are going to put into our baggage. Sometimes these things over take the food, as we experience this while having a cup of tea on a small road side stall with our near-dear friends, a late night Maggie with a hungry roommate and a small cupcake from the delicate hands of your cute baby.

We are born to eat, treat and greet. When we are happy, we wish to eat, then we give treats to others who are exceedingly happy to eat with us; when we all are happy to eat together, we greet each other for the treat we made memorable. These get-togethers and parties remain forever in our memory as a token of our unity for eating and our loyalty to the JUST DO EAT policy. I feel myself very lucky to have many eating loving people. We love to eat foods with different tastes and at different places. The Indian mythology focuses the importance of healthy food for not only healthy body but also healthy mind and character. Hence, we have now many reasons to eat, celebrate, and throw treats. Just go and eat.

Question Mark

In the world of dreams and imagination, you live with a universal thread that shadows your life inside out. Your aspirant soul is never tired of waiting. No matter where you are, how you feel now, how long you have walked or achieved greatest crowns in the world you still keep waiting, waiting and waiting…


Do you believe in Angels? Do you believe in God-omniscient, omnipresence and omnipotence? Do you believe in the definite end of this world? Would you support a national cause till your death? Will you hang your loved one for transgression?


Can you be sure if what you do, think and speak will go in right direction? Will you be able to serve the desired goal with pure heart and intellect?


If you are still busy in finding answers to these questions, you must have be ready with a contemplated answer for a dominant question-Do you believe in yourself?

Empty Days...Empty Days..

Vacuous time, barren flow and the empty days,

Yesterday, today and yet another day,

Idly passing seamless countless nights and days,

Sliding through the slippery vacant way.

Deadly sound from the dark beating,

Drawing sketches with lessen colours,

Endless seconds with the loud clicking,

Shattered tower and standing pillars.

Snowy the way spread everywhere,

Leading no one towards nowhere,

Across the sea white air smelling,

Discovering the golden bay rarely reaching.

                        Dated 7 February, 2007; recalled 12 June, 2011

Frivolously Asked Questions

Questions are unquestioned part of our mysterious life.  We face questions that insist us to stop, think and answer. Mostly, we try to answer anyhow some questions, avoid them or simply reject the questions for not making any sense. In your day-today’s life, people put many simple, short and objective questions in front of you. It isn’t necessary that every time you face a question you are in problem. Some questions are just meant to be asked, and you are not supposed to answer them as if you are writing a test paper. Some questions carry the answers themselves. People ask questions even when they know the answer, people argue with themselves, and expect someone else to participate in that futile dialogue.

In this blog post, I will be dealing with two most common questions we face every day. We understand FAQs are meant to help you by providing useful information, but the following questions put you in dilemma. 

  

?    What’s up? :- These two irritating words we hear hundreds of times in a day. Almost 98% people we meet include ‘What’s up?’ in their greeting. Experts say that ‘What’s up?’ stands for many questions- How are you? How you doing your things? What are you doing? What plans you have in mind? How things are going at your side? etc. They may be your friends, colleagues, neighbors, or the shopkeeper from whom you buy daily news paper. They simply greet you-Hello, Hi! Or Good morning! How are you?, and put that useless phrase in a typical tone. The way people pronounce the phrase ‘what’s up’ indicates that your answer is not expected or not worth to be mentioned, or even if you reply it won’t be considerable. Isn’t it Amazing? I think, it’s amazing because you are surrounded by people who just show their interest in you as if they are doing a charity.

 This might have happened to you when you enter in your office. Your colleague or manager passes through you by chance, and he throws a scrappy line upon you- Hi! What’s up? You turn back with a big smile on you face to tell what happened this weekend, but you can hardly see anyone standing there to hear your reply. This is just ridiculous! The question remains how to answer “What’s up?” and how to get rid from this irritating phrase I suggest you to follow my trick. Somebody once asked me what’s up, and I just looked up and said- its sky! ;) It works, believe me.

?    What’s next? :- Did you say ‘next’? Or did you ask what will be Future? This is another two wordy questions with a lengthy, bold and highlighted question mark that leaves us with blank mind and bare handed in any situation. You never know what’s going to be your future. The phrase ‘What’s next?’ comes to your mind frequently, for instance, when you finish a life taking test, after you proposed your dream-girl, when you came out facing a lengthy interview or when you start brawl with a cracking slap. All these times you never know what will at the next moment. Thousands of thoughts may come into your mind.

The interviewer never knows who will be the next candidate to whom he will interview when he says ‘Next!’ in authorizing attitude. The next candidate can be replaced to the interviewer. You may predict the result of a cricket match, but you can’t tell what’s going to be on next bowl, can you?

Since you have just done with reading/skimming or jumping my write up, I can’t help asking you what’s up? ;)