Ola

Hey guys, hope life is treating you in the best possible ways.

I just wanted to update you guys that i have just finished reading ‘Brida’ by Paulo Coelho. Another wonderful book by the literary magician. The book is about a young girl who in the search for the lost wisdom of magic and love turns out to be a witch. The book was great and i would love to paraphrase some of the parts and dialogues; which i will in a different post.

I have read several of Paulo’s books, but till date ‘The Alchemist’ and ‘Eleven Minutes’ remain my favourites. Recently i also had a chance to read his latest book ‘The winner stands alone’. It was good too, but for those of you who haven’t yet experienced his magic, i would suggest the alchemist. The Alchemist is for those who wish to look at life in a much deeper level, it would touch your heart and would make not one or two but several revelations, which would change the way you look at things. However if you wish to read something rather light, Eleven Minutes is the book for you.

Paulo Coelho’s first book was the pilgrimage, and that is the book i wish to read next. I want to see, when he began writing in 1987, what was his mindset then and whether it has evolved over the ages as he continues to fascinate the world with his ideologies and revelations. The book after that i plan, is ‘The manual of the warrior of Light’. The title is quite intriguing, i must say. Although all these plans of mine for this sequence of reading depend on if i find the books and the time.;)

Finally i got some time off today to write to my blog, or rather i should say, that i decided that come what may, i definitely have to write a post today. I think of new things to write to my blog every other day, but the ideas wither fade off my mind, or lie on a piece of paper in my jeans backpocket or somewhere. Very careless attitude, gotta write down to change this. LOL.

Anyways, take care and keep reading.

Salaam.

Back with a BANG!!!

Hey readers, how are you? And most importantly, how have you been. I am indeed apologetic for disappearing away from my blog. I know it has been quite some time. I have been busy but you and I both know, I am a lazy person and excuses are never the answer.

Anyway, there a reason why I suddenly decided to post on my blog, the inspiration....

Well you know, there are days when you feel in the pits; when everything becomes wrong, when all the things which used to make you smile, now make you wonder, “I used to smile at that?? What a waste!!”. I had one of those days yesterday. The cause, was some stuff going on at work and then there is stuff that makes you worry at home. It made me wonder about the feeling I was experiencing at that very moment. I thought...

                This is not a time when everything is actually wrong. These conditions, these circumstances that surround me were there yesterday and the day before that; so why am I feeling so low today? I realized, that at any point in time, a person has a million things to be happy about.

Someone has rightly said, “if you thank the Lord for all that you have and that makes you smile, you shall not have time to complain about the bad things.”, and it was yesterday that it struck me, I always believed this to be true. But yesterday I realized, at every moment in life we have more things to frown upon that those which make us smile; but it is us who chose to look at the good parts and ignore the bad till they come directly in our faces. Yesterday was a day when I still had those good and bad things, but I decided to concentrate on the bad rather than the usual good. And boy did I think... I was literally depressed. After a certain point of time, I actually wanted to come out of that depression and start living the usual life, focussing on the good things, but I couldn’t.

I did realize, that one person stuck in the stage, where I was yesterday for two days could actually turn suicidal. I mean my depression was infectious, I actually scared a friend and made her think about all the shit that was going on in her life. That is when I realized how dangerous that state is. I also started to think about this, ‘thank god for all the stuff’ part. It seems that there may be some scam-like feeling to it. I think, it’s like a person is fooling you into thanking for the good stuff as he knows there a million of those and you would be too tired to start on the billion-long list of the bad things. You still have the billion bad things, but he cheated you into thinking about those million good things and at the end of the day, you’re happy!

I mean it is definitely good, but the feeling of being alone and thinking about all sorts of stuff made me discover a Hindi song which touched me. It has been in my top list for a couple of years now, but yesterday it took itself to new peaks. It perfectly fit the situation and also provided a way out. The song is ‘Tanha Dil by ‘Shaan’. He is a beautiful singer and has sung a zillion good, ahem, great songs. But this one is really apt. It points out, you started alone, stopped at towns in your way, met people made friends, then you had to move on, and there you are alone again. But soon enough you see another town and that phase of life is back again. It also shows you that the destination of the path you are travelling upon, is something you have to reach alone; so bro, do not get distracted.

I was really in the pits yesterday, but one thing is for sure, like the scam I mentioned, this also brought some good. ;)

I actually realized on how wasteful I was and how much of my life I have wasted. So it got me working again. And that is the reason, I am back on my blog.

True story- ;)

Hmphfff...

At the onset, my heartfelt apologies for disappearing from the blog for such a long time. I have been real busy with work. How I got the time to post up something today is that from the past 4 days, I have been down with a terrible fever. While just lying around the house doing almost nothing at all, a thought crossed my mind. So thought of discussing it here..

You know they say that if a dog infected with rabies bites a person, the victim develops hydrophobhia... I was just thinking how would that happen. I mean of course dogs hate water, but if one bites you, how do you end up getting his characteristics?

I agree that there is a transfer of germs, but that should make you sick and not behave like a dog. Is it like there is DNA splicing from the dog's DNA from his saliva and the victim's? How does one get the characteristics of another animal, without DNA interference?

Another example, you know when a person is infected by malaria, he develops chills before he has the fever. Us it like, Mosquitos fly at night and feel cold and when they bite a person, transfer their characteristics or rather feelings to the victim. Just like in the case of rabies.

These thoughts really intrigued me, so thought should put up on the blog and see what people think about these phenomena... I know they sound stupid, but you never know what might come out of stupid ideas.;)

Would love to hear views.

PS. I am having cyclic fever, it goes up suddenly stays high for a couple of hours and then comes down by itself. Has anyone heard about such a 'cyclic fever'? If yes please comment and suggest me how to get well ASAP. your help is highly appreciated.:)