That One Step!

Why does everything have to be so complicated in life? Maybe Life was always complicated but I never thought in such a complicated manner! It was a striking statement at work today which made a huge difference to my evening - "TRUST NO ONE!". Seriously? Why not?
Competition existed ever since we were in Preparatory. How come we just blindly trusted people and became friends? When did life complicate itself so much to thrown that statement at me. I do take time to make friends but when I do, It's sticking with them through good times and bad.
Going for a "Team building" outing from work, made each one of us realize the importance of trust! Being blind folded and made to walk a rope which was 4 feet off the ground with just 2 of your team mates holding you is quite a feat without blindly trusting your team mates to take you through. Competition existed till I passed out of Engineering. Some came first while others didn't. The bottom line was - We didn't work hard enough!
When did Trust become such a big issue? It is a big one! But not trusting anyone?! That's just too big an issue to be answered by me. Imagine a world where no one trusted anyone, it would be sadistic! It would be chaotic! It just wouldn't be nice!
How wonderful it would be if we all just took that one step, laid down all our fears and just became friends minus the back biting and the Office gossip, we are so used to!
All it takes is one tiny step! That tiny step a baby takes. Minus the fear and distrust because they are all  inbuilt.

Life in all it's Simplicity after the storm!

Some of the little joys we enjoyed as kids were just thinking that being together depended solely on 2 people! Just the "You" and the "Me". Little did we even know about that cruel thing or even not so cruel thing called Fate. And then we grow a little older and we realize that things just do not go our way! And that's when we decided to name that particular event in our life as Fate!



Those are the dreaded times we wish Pandora had never opened that dreaded box which we know so popularly as "Pandoras Box". That box which brought out pain, suffering and all the evils life had! It's easier to believe in mythology at times and blame it on that one person. Not once thinking whether we were right!



And sometimes Life just goes on! Even if you are broken into a 100 different pieces it just goes on!
For Calvin, it's so much more easier to confide in his toy tiger Hobbes because Hobbes would never hurt Calvin! And sometimes it's all the more easier to stay away and avoid getting hurt. And then we think again!
It's always so easy watching out for what's ahead of us that we fail to enjoy the moment.

We try to avoid the fact that we were really offended and really hurt. Who are we fooling?




Words are the only thing which have the power to slice and seer the heart, sometimes even worse than an arrow.


And when the hurt of the rudeness somehow manages to find it's way back to the giver. The receiver of the rudeness has that smug which says, "Ha! He actually isn't that stone hearted!" but then we refuse to let go of the event because we believe that some people deserve "A Swift kick in the butt"


And then we wonder





And then we realize we couldn't ask for anything better. Because deep inside each of our hearts, we know whether we like it or not, "We have to, are going to be and forever will be there for each other!"



Because they are those people we've known forever, who know us in a way that other people don't, because they have seen you change and most importantly let you change!

GUMPTION!!

Looking at Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent. I never followed that season. And when I saw a video of her on the show with a wonderful video title. I in a very cynical mind frame, clicked on the video to check what it was all about. I saw her walk across the stage to face the judges. The judges at their pessimistic best. The usual question of what she wanted to be at this age. Susan Boyle without a stammer says a professional singer. Well, her voice wasn't very professional singer type and I wondered what she was thinking. And when she began singing I realised she was thinking her dream. She was mindblowing. We all have dreams of becoming somebody great. And at time's we wonder what we were thinking about. Because usually the second step after the dream is an Iron Gate with a No Entry sign which no one can even try opening. I've had dreams of becoming someone great, but if I can't go past the second step. How can I even be astounded with the outcome? It's scary. It is! But until we take that step forward, we reach no where. There will be so many you jeer and pass snide remarks. If Susan Boyle had taken all that to heart. She would never have stood across the judges on the stage of Britain's Got Talent. Why should only some have the cake? If only our dreams lasted as long as the passion and the urge to take the starting step was there. It's a herd mentality. You always wonder why it would be the least fascinating to get out of the comfort zone we all enjoy and reach for something which was meant to be just a dream cause at time's things seem to Idealistic in life.

Promises!

Sitting at the airport, waiting for my flight out of Bangalore to attend my favouritest Achacha's wedding. It's hard not to think about what a marriage is all about! I think about that promise the bride and the groom make, the "... patient in sickness, comforting in sorrow... to love you faithfully through good times and bad, regardless of the obstacles faced..." The little poem I penned down was such a refreshing change from that, It went along the lines of, "I can't promise you perfection cause that is not who I am! I can't promise you forever cause I don't hold fate within my hands! I can't promise you the sunshine cause I know there will be rain! I can't promise you complete happiness cause with true love comes pain! I can't promise to always smile cause Life always has a way to make me cry! I can't promise to stand strong cause it's never too easy to want to give life another try!" If you can't promise I wonder what a marriage is made up of, something I'll know in years to come!