LETS PLAY TAG!

Today when I was driving my way back home, something weird happened. A huge branch of a tree broke and it  fell right in front of me. It was a close escape, but I realized that had I been a few meters ahead it would have been disastrous, because I wasnt even wearing a helmet, and hence the topic of my tag.
You will have to write
one sensible and
one absolutely insane reason
why you have to wear a helmet when you drive

Why are we real

Most of my posts are a result of my experience with the world and this post is no different.

This happened around three years ago. I was at E-Square with two friends, Adil and Chandan, playing pool. Well at that time the bug hadn't bitten me so I was watching them play. I must add that both my friends were really good at it.
Just then a couple of school kids asked them to play against them, and the loser pays for the frame. Then E SQUARE would charge for an hour and so the challenge was accepted. I wondered how good the kids would be, because not many people challenge my friends when they see them play.

I got my answer, in three frames, my friends won them with more than considerate ease, the kids couldn't pot a single ball, while they finished them in one go. The competition seemed to be between my two friends and not between my friends and the kids.At that point of time, all we could think of was make fun of the kids, I mean they never knew how to hold the cue-stick and they challenged the so called pros for a game. I wouldn't be surprised If that was their first game ever.

I was forced to ask myself a question.When can I be a kid again?, why do I stop myself and think before I do something? when will I do something because I want to do it, and not let reasoning get the better of me? When would I stop getting scared of defeat and do something what I always wanted to?.

After reading this I want all of you to ask the same question...

where has the fearless child in you gone? 

A dillema ...we face

Being born in the middle class family is very challenging. There is always a question of why not now?....I don't know about this but I might have asked this question a number of times to myself...why not now?..

I remember when I was small, when I wanted a remote controlled car, I was told "not now"...I got it but after sometime...maybe I treasured it a little...but again there was another craze which had started then...and again the answer remained "not now".

I grew and my remote controlled car changed but the question and the answer never changed......and now that I have grown up...when I want something I tell myself the same answer "Not now!!!...."

I ask this question to myself a lot of times when I  see other people having all the luxuries I crave for..I know I will eventually get them, but by then the importance would be lost...would I be able to have a long drive with my college friends, when I am 30?...will I be able to attend a rock concert full of young guys at the age of 35...will be able to buy the most snazziest of watches when I am 40?........

I know all middle class has been asked a lot of questions..and whats worse is that all we don't have an answer...all we say to the question is

NOT NOW

Stand up!

Lecture baazi is the favorite pastime of our country ( even I am involved :-P). I have never found a person who doesn't have an opinion about the going-rounds around us. How many times have people advised you not to break the rules a minute ago and they themselves jump over the barricade on a busy road rather than taking the subway the very next second?. I can see a few hands up already. We lie when we say that honesty is the best policy( irony!).

This is evident all around us. No body will stop themselves from advising you the moment you have done wrong, and its a chain reaction, when u have been lecturofied..then you want to lecturofy  and this chain keeps getting stronger, cricket sex and lecture baazi, have kept the country together for years...

Now dare you say that this is a thing small people do. Take for eg Mr Tata whose TATA TEA keeps telling us to WAKE UP by their anti corruption campaign....himself forgot to carry the tea...otherwise how did he get the farmers land in Singur?.....sab khate hain aur sab khilate hain

Everyone practices Lecture baazi and in case if you haven't noticed, i just did too (:-p)

Hope is...when there is no hope

"An almost non fancied teams beats a champion in a thrilling game of cricket"

"No one thought this guy would make it big in movies"

There has always been a story of an underdog in whatever we do. The Underdogs are every where, but we dont seem to have enough of them do we?....

Here in this post I try and bisect the drive and reason behind an underdog story.

The most important and a major factor of an underdog is fearlessness/ lack of expectations. Yes, like they always say they have nothing to loose. Expectations always seem to be a burden for a whole lot of us, that is why being a champion is not easy

A champion uses the expectations of people to drive himself forward

 But what about the lesser mortals, its not easy and when this load of expectations is taken off the lesser mortals, an underdog is made!!

But is that the only reason? is taking the load off a person the only reason why an underdog story is created. Well there is another category of Underdog is that of "the fallen one".

The case of the Fallen one is curious ("The curious case of the fallen one.. :-))...because we have often seen big giants fall and fall and fall...but then once they hit rock bottom things start looking up again..it is as if starting up new was the only solution for them. But what happens when they hit rock bottom?... Another quote

I lost hope, I lay on the ground to die....

With my eyes open I looked up and realized

My limit is the sky!!

Yes , when u have fallen you then realized that you never had limits to what , where and when one achieves something. If one has to fall, then it has to be for the good, and only one person can determine how much you benefit from the fall and thats yourself. Most "fallen ones" have used failure as spring board for success and one must know on a springboard the harder you fall the higher you go!!!....

Thats what life is about...irony...lots of irony...one rises to fall and falls to rise.....one lives to die and dies to live........

One searches for hope and finds hope where there is no hope

Everything has a reason

From the moment we are born, we are seeing life through our eyes , everything is recorded in the unlimited storage of our brains. But here is my question...why do we remember something very randomly?....why is it that there are some memories whi

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are more prominent than others? Some are dear memories but some are abstract memories, I know why the first kinda memories are always there...the question is the second kind of memories.....

Now before people start asking why I am asking wierd questions, let me explain why I am asking this question. Now years, years ago when I was very small and I was taught the Quran by an Ustaad, who used to come to our house every

evening. Well there is one rule while you read Arabic ( i will not explain the entire rule..but lets consider it rule A), so when I did a mistake my Ustaad, had told me about that rule.Now there were more rules which he had taught me, but why is it that of all of them I remember him talking abt this one rule?.......well as it turned out, a few weeks ago when I was working on Sourabh, I was asked a question about an urdu word( Urdu and Arabic have the same script)...and guess what the answer to that was Rule A!!!!.

This makes me believe in destiny, was it written in my destiny that after a decade this is the only rule he will need at that point of time and people will be impressed by his knowledge of the language. This makes my belief on the concept of the conspiracy of the universe even stronger. To be honest I dont think I could have got t

he support for the magazine in the way I did had I not impressed the few people there. I know after that my other thoughts gained prominence but this was the start and I am sure that the almighty knew what he has planned.

I have a lot of random memories and if I have to go by this incident I am sure each one of them will play an important role in something or the other, hopefully more good than bad, coz I am sure of one thing everything happens for a reason

Sourabh 09 is out

Like all of you know how important the college magazine has been to me. I had devoted an entire year to it and guess what after all the trials and tribulations the magazine was finally launched on 09/09/09.

My lucky number is 9 and so when I realized that the magazine is ready, I decided to have a launch on this day.

The preparations for the launch where nothing less than a roller coaster ride. The launch got almost cancelled twice on that day, but I knew there was an invisible force which made sure that it happened.

They say that if there is a desire, then there is always a road ...I learnt this lesson for sure. Now like u can see in the pic, our team was huge and guess if there is a desire in so many people to make it happen, no one can stop it.

The launch ceremony was one hour long and what is the most memorable moment is when there was a thundering applause when the cover of the magazine was unveiled. I can still hear that!!!......I will put up that picture also in a few days......

And what has been more heartening is the response received by us after people read the magazine. Well I knew the feel of the magazine is very vibrant with all the colour themes made, but the acid test for the magazine was the content....and guess what people loved the content...cheers to all our writers.......

With this launch people are already excited about how the magazine would be taken to another level, in fact a lot of people think that the task would be absolutely daunting. but I beg to differ. If someone involved with the magazine would be reading this would know that there were a lot of organizational difficulties throughout our working, and there were quite a few people who havent fulfilled their entire potential...and other than me all the other people are still there and I am sure when they fulfill their full potential they will take it to another level altogether.

All I can say is that this edition has been a special one no doubt, but what I really wish is that one day when Sourabh would attain cult status, people would remember this edition as the stepping stone to it....BTW for the benefit of my readers I have added the cover pic of Sourabh too