SEARCH OF CONTENTMENT

IN THE SEARCH OF CONTENTMENT ...

SHORT POEM 

In the search of contentment 

Which was there within me...

Didn't realise what and where it was..

But I searched it for a cause.  

The cause was happiness . 

In the search of contentment 

Which I knew I was going to find sooner or later 

But who knew Life was such a traitor 

Every time I found it , it ran away from me 

I kept on chasing it,  I ran in the search of it. 

Who knew what I was chasing was in turn chasing me..

In the search of contentment 

Which took me to greater heights 

Couldn't see what's behind me 

All I could see was a flying kite .

Flying kite that carried hope 

Hope that had vision and scope 

In the search of contentment 

I went on to chase the desire that had left me hungry 

My soul was now a tad bit angry 

I was tired for it had been a long journey 

But the journey seemed to be successful..

At the end of the road what I saw was a mirror 

Life then sighed to me 

What u have been finding 

Was all in here !

I then sighed to life. .What, in the mirror ?

Yes it said ... Contentment was within you ..

In the search of contentment 

I went on discovering myself 

I lived the life, that was within me..

Now I can say in the search of contentment

I found the real me !

-ARIKTA RAHEJA 

WHIRLWIND OF EMOTIONS!!

Like Air surrounds us all day long giving us life , Emotions and feelings linger around us as if giving soul to our life!!!





We all feel the presence of air around us but we all understand the presence of feelings around us ...

Our heart , mind , soul and  body revolves around the whirlpool of emotions we have... some call emotions as the gift of expression and some call it as a burden or baggage that they carry... 

The group of emotions that build our character are decided on the basis of our experiences ...

Everybody has a unique power  of feeling emotions but understanding them is an art only a few possess .. and they are termed as psychologists .....but the fact that has been visibly invisible to us is that... 
In real life we all are psychologists for others as well as for oneself ... 

SHOCKED RIGHT??

Well, there is nothing to be surprised about... we all know about self healing books .. we are quite aware of our emotions and  and we know the way to control them.
Its just that not everything in life is simple......things come with a TWIST .... The twist ,that I am referring to here is that - when the other  person is in an unfortunate situation we become real good advisers, but ,when the same thing dawns upon us we lose the ability to handle it efficiently... that happens because the emotions we posses overpower us ....




YES ! HOW SO EVER STRONG A HUMAN IS ...DEEP INSIDE THEM LIES SOME OR THE OTHER WEAK POINT THAT GOES AND HITS DIRECTLY ON THE TARGET : THAT IS THE HEART , THE EPICENTER OF OUR EMOTIONS .

Emotions of my choice , my favorite? ... The one I would like to spend my life with ?... the one I would like to experience all day long?....
Someday I would like to sit with them and ask them ... Hey emotions what is this game that you have mastered ?
It ain't really acceptable ...why so ???(if the emotions Ask) 
I would have only on thing to  say ... 
"YOU MY DEAR EMOTION,  YOU BEFRIEND MY FEELINGS , TAKE FULL CONTROL OF THEM ,EVENTUALLY MAKING IT MY ENEMY... WHY SO ?.. WHY DO U DO SO??"

A fleet of emotions run around me ....every sight, every corner ....wish I could talk to them and understand why do they make us feel the way they do!
 so i decided to visit them individually!! 

Hey happiness ... why did u like us so much when we were young ...were we innocent or cute? ... If not so then why did u slowly decrease your presence when we grew?

Recalling my childhood ... we never had a reason to invite you in our lives... you never used to be so busy ....nowadays we need reasons to invite you...spreading happiness is now a trend back then it was an individual treat .. nowadays I think about happiness, but earlier I used to feel it... you were like a constant in my life which faded away slowly and now show up only on certain occasions ... nonetheless .. you are still my favorite !

Hey sadness ... 


Don't be so sad ... You are not really hated by everyone... off course not everybody yearns to have you in their life but ... you are the best teacher !
You teach the lazy to earn their breads ... you teach the mischievous to be innocent, the insane to be sane , the lonely to be friendly ....we might not understand or appreciate your presence in our life while you are there with us ... but we definitely understand you when you leave us teaching us the valuable lessons of life.

Hey fear...

You visit such places where the vulnerable stay...you enter their places and fill them with guilt, resentment, tears... sometimes you are kind enough to give them a second chance but not all times are people excused... Why do u think phobias are so popular.. you can develop fear of everything...
but hey dear.. don't fear! 
BECAUSE 
when you have confidence in you and people around you, fear cannot harm you unless you let your guards down...!

Hey anger...


You prove fatal to some and good to others sometimes..well congratulations for being one of the most discussed topic among humans ... especially in this era.. People talk about the art of taming you and have become famous authors and saints by writing books on you and by meditating for long ours respectively...you make us lose the clarity of vision and hypnotize us...
Nonetheless, we are not all that happy to have you in  our life but trust me we would like to thank you because you help us venting our stuff out...


Hey surprise ....


We all love and hate you at the same time ... sometimes you come in our life as a shock and sometimes as a surprise indeed.. some you leave mesmerized others flabbergasted! 
You are the core aspect of  our life as you are considered as the highest form of expression....





We all are well aware of all these emotions and have felt it at some point of time ... some might feel the need to express it , others are just fine not expressing it .....
But one thing we all have got to remember is that .. however heavy these emotions are on us .. we got it all covered ...but the best part of feelings are they are not constant ...we feel a tide of emotions inside us ...  when every night they come to the surface and all about to fall outside ... 
We know this ain't the right time for the emotions to be poured out so we combine our day of anguish with self disgust and once again wear a pretty smile to cover those beautiful emotions inside us .. Because we know that the world around us is not yet ready to handle them... 

HEY THERE LIFE IS NOT ALL ABOUT EMOTIONS BUT LIFE IS FULL OF EMOTIONS... 

FROM HERE ON LET US BE CLEAR WITH OURSELVES AND THE EMOTIONS INSIDE US.. 

LET US MAKE OURSELVES LIGHTER DAY BY DAY..
POURING THEM OUT AND SETTING THEM FREE...

FOR THOSE WHO CANT ... ALL I HAVE GOT TO SAY IS SUPPRESSING THOSE WONT DO ANY GOOD TO YOU... 

EMOTION ARE NOT TO BE BONDED IN THE CAGES OF OUR HEART BUT THEY HAVE TO BE SET OUT FREE !

NOT THE LENGTH BUT THE DEPTH !

Observation is passive science, experimentation an active science.

                                                                                                           - Claude Bernard

Curiosity killed the cat but also made newton recognizable in the field of science ....millions of people saw the apple falling but only he asked why?

Things have been changing as times are...very rapidly .....at a faster rate that we could ever imagine...from landlines to personal phones , from public parks to in house laws and backyards, from joint families to nuclear families , from notebooks to tablets.... evolution has taken place..
BUT there is one thing that will never change.... neither in the lives of people nor the materialistic things.
That is the base, the foundation , the root cause.... 
Basics are where we start from when we learn something new...its always a journey from beginner to pro level, its always that the builders make the foundation of the building and start with the construction.

It is  the same with us...yes we are termed as the complex creatures on this earth... with a complex way of living , with a complex body design, with hundreds of mood swings .. we are the ones who commit a mistake and we are the ones who feel guilty about it , surprisingly we are the ones who also read the self heal books to get over the guilt and have frequent visits to a psychologist ....
Well, that's none of our fault, as already stated that we the complex of all the creatures on the earth....
As rightly said  " MOTHER NATURE SPEAKS IN A LANGUAGE UNDERSTOOD WITHIN THE THE PEACEFUL MIND OF THE SINCERE OBSERVER. 
IF A PERSON IS CURIOUS AND WANTS TO DERIVE KNOWLEDGE UNIVERSE HELPS HIM IN EVERY WAY!!

In the beautiful lines said by Rabhindranath Tagore sir .....he tells us the significance of good quality education ..adding on to it, its not just the harmony that education provides us with its also about the keen interest we show towards the education in terms of inviting peace ad harmony in our lives.

symbol of depression.

Physics being the most logical subjects of all  and a subject full of derivations I tried to look at it from a different angle and came up with a deep philosophy of life.

While studying the role of elasticity and its use in engineering and day to day life I came across a formula of depression.

Symbol of depression as given on the right side ....

Formula of depression as given below 




In which d stands for depth raised to the power of cube which is in inverse proportion of depression .

THE VERY PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE IS ON THE SIMILAR LINES ..
THAT IS ...
Life is going to  be hard and never going to be easy and the older you grow the difficulty levels of the game as in life would rise and grow with you each day... this would bring in a lot of sadness and not a lot of people can't handle stress and thats where depression sets in....
some might try reading self help books ad go to a psychologist ....
BUT REMEMBER ,

THE ONLY WAY TO DECREASE DEPRESSION IN LIFE IS BY INCREASING THE DEPTH  IN LIFE ..
Foe some past is terrifying , for some a great experience... but past is always a part of the present..that one part of the present that passes by every millisecond ... keep your eyes open to observe the minute changes  and mind open to understand what life has to teach you.

Depression sets in only due to our past actions .... if we observe carefully recognize the mistakes and identify the root cause ... by increasing the depth in our life and making it a good habit of thinking about each ad every past action in a deep manner and looking at it in a different angle  we can change our future ... thereby learning from our mistakes and eradicating depression and replacing it with happiness.. 

Happy people live longer !!

LESSON LEARNT

INCREASE THE d OF YOUR LIFE AND REDUCE DEPRESSION, STRESS LEVELS AND ANXIETY.

LIVE HERE AND NOW !!

EVERY STEP TAKEN IN PAST IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR PRESENT AND EVERY STEP TAKEN IN THE PRESENT WILL BE A PART OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL FUTURE !

THEY SAY , BECAUSE YOU HEAR !!

Life goes on, they say .
Dark nights , happy mornings are a fact , they say.
Get over it , life is too short to be depressed 
have fun, enjoy, collect memories they say.
Study hard , make a name , earn your your food , fight your war, they say.
Life has no bounds , it is endless,  it will reach infinity.
You are time bounded and you are a limited edition , they say.
Make, create , be the best version of you.
Smile , love, dance , do what makes your soul happy.
Happy people live longer , they say.
Pretty faces are valued less than pure hearts and pure hearts come from peace they say.
State of mind is important, one should be enlightened about art of living , they say.
Get married by 23, they say.
Your biological clock is ticking , they say.
Don't go alone , they say. 
Don't be aloof , they say.
Go for your passion, but don't cross your limits , they say.
They say a lot of things, they are none other than people around you.
But, listen to yourself, your soul is wanting to reach you.
Listen to it, go for it , conquer it, 
World becomes a better place when you befriend yourself.

LOVE YOURSELF !!

LIFE TAKES PLACE IN VOIDS

                              

We all enjoyed answering this question as a child : what are you going to do when u grow up?
and with the sparkle in our eyes ,with a free spirit, visions in the head , unaware of how hard the reality is.......we displayed our interests.

Even before beginning our life as a child we had dreams to achieve. Having dreams is a good thing, after all a life without an  aim is meaningless .
But in order to achieve our dream we got so involved that we forget the real meaning of life is to let go  worries , burdens , and most importantly GIVE TIME TO ONE SELF. !!

We forgot the real meaning of time ,the way of utilizing time in manner that  makes us enjoy the sun, the breeze in our hair, gives us time to gather our thoughts, and enjoy the sound of the nature.
Long days do have the  ability to KEEP you busy all day long, but too many events fill your day, crowd you out of your life and leave you exhausted without clear recollection of what you did.

If you put your schedules aside you would realize that nature has mysterious ways of engaging you and would make you realize that the with an empty intention is the best time of the day  and that time of the day  is termed as an individual time. ``which is vital for a happy life '.

The individual time allows you to cut yourself from the negative vibes  , make you care less about politics, make you care less about who is famous whose not and would energize the beta waves in your mind which are responsible for all the active energy required for the day, also individual time helps you to understand your weaknesses and strengths as an individual.

As a To-do-list is required to align the daily tasks similarly meditation or alone time is required  to align the body, mind and soul.
Its okay to not have a plan sometimes, its okay to spend one day with yourself and without bearing any guilt.
always remember:
Your contemplation shapes you as much as your doing.
All truth gathers there and defines your being .
Glide with the wind .
Move with the current
as much as you want to be yourself , be with yourself.!

ME AND MY INNER VOICE !!

Often in my life i have heard people saying LIFE IS HARD !!

I just look at them and ask COMPARED TO WHAT ??

Exactly!

That's the point, forget about the past defeats one might have had,one should be proud of living a life ....cause that's the hard thing...Once a great man said "We won the war as soon as we accepted the challenge.

Whether u win the challenge or not is a secondary thing...but accepting the challenge is what matters.....WHY we play and HOW we play is what makes a difference in out attitude towards approaching things...

Then let life throw lemons at you or oranges u have gotta enjoy the juice...!! ;)

Life chooses its target very carefully..it gives a task to a person who is capable of solving problems ...anyways what is life without problems..??

if i ask 10 people to choose between roller coasters and a train journey ...80% people would opt for the roller coasters,why? 

off course because everyone would want every moment to be exciting and unpredictable...hence there is NO LIFE without ups and downs..

Sometimes we are not able to solve problems because either we  under analyze our capability to solve problems or life over analyzes our capability!

Life has a smart way of handling stuff though, that is; it makes some strangers a part of your life who can later be called as friends or kin...some u seek advice from,some who motivate you,some give you ideas that benefit you, some teach you the valuable lessons of life and end of the day all act as the THERAPISTS of your life..

Now there are  two categories of homo sapiens ...

ONE who needs a push or a kick-start towards their goal and need a little bit of criticism, also they tend to take care of  mostly all the stuff lined up for them ad don't really need others help, while the SECOND category is the one who constantly need to be surrounded by optimistic people , who always needs a plan and feels awkward to move without one...and to sum it up they need therapists constantly to show the direction or as I may state, they like being the "MAN WITH A  PLAN" !!

Everything in life comes with certain loop holes ...nobody is perfect!

The second category might seem more systematic to some people but to be honest it isn't....because you see, you constantly need people to act as therapists of your life..to guide you ,to show you the right direction as the filiform apparatus does to the pollen tube..(biology!)

Recently, a study has shown that;

"FUNGUS IMMUNE TO DRUGS SWEEPS THE GLOBE."

The study shows us that, the bacteria Candida auris is so tenacious, in part, because it is impervious to major anti-fungal medications, making it a new example of one of the world’s most intractable health threats: the rise of drug-resistant infections.

Which makes it fatal to humans and it has become resistant to all the antibodies because we have been consuming it at a higher rate which destroys 99% of the bacteria but the 1% which survives ,becomes genetically resistant and the divides and reproduces to form more resistant bacteria, and to conclude now we are progressing at faster rates ,ad we are capable to  produce antibodies, but none of them will work on these bacteria since they have ADAPTED TO THIS ENVIRONMENT..

Now let us relate this very concept if being immune to something...off course you will become resistant after a while ...which ain't good for your health..cause u will become resistant to change and would not allow flexibility in life ..

That's what happens to the people who fall in the second category..as I have already stated there is nothing wrong in the path you choose but be certain about the loop holes in your way..

If u become too addicted to what people have to say o the choice u have made..then i fear u might not able be able to reach your destiny soon...

Take only so much advice that is going to act as a hint in your life ...because if u go in the search of solutions I fear u may not find one, because the problems of life itself are too unique ..

AS THE  HEAVY USAGE OF ANTIBODIES HAVE LED TO FORMING AN RESISTANT BACTERIA , HEAVY USAGE OF THE ADVICE GIVEN BY PEOPLE WILL MAKE U RESISTANT TO YOUR INNER VOICE.... :)

MORAL: ADVISES ARE FREE,BUT IMPLEMENTATIONS ARE EXPENSIVE SO SPEND WISELY!!

 

RECIPE FOR LIFE !!

We all have been taught those 26 alphabets which make the very base of the ENGLISH language.
As a child we were often asked to repeat it in the sequence, and since practice makes a man perfect, we now can recite it in a perfect manner, duh huh...thats obvious..!!

we often even used to say, A for apple , B for ball, C for cat, D for doll......
but as we grow ,our level upgrades, and it upgrades to such an extent, where A no more stands for apple but ACCEPTANCE, B no more stands for ball but BIRTH, C no more stands for cat but CHOICES we make in life, and D no more stands for doll, but DEATH, the ultimate truth of life .

So yeah, we all are well aware of the universal law of life, that is  
DEATH IS BOUND TO OCCUR FOR ANYBODY IN EXISTENCE .

One cannot step away from death, but can surely accept the very fact that they too have an expiry date.

Now once you have taken Birth, Accepted that Death is inevitable, all that is left to do is to make CHOICES in life that will lead you  to LIVE your life .

Now the question is what do you do, to make choices in life that will affect you in a positive manner. 

well here is an effective way, we all should follow, the A.I.D.A rule in life, to make things work for us in a smooth manner .

The A.I.D.A rule , where in 

A- ACCEPTANCE 

I- INTEREST 

D- DESIRE 

A- ACTION

Life revolves around this, once an individual starts following this , no one can ever stop the individual from achieving its GOALS in LIFE...

ACCEPT that you been chosen to survive through the circumstances u have been put in, make the best out of it, most people crib about their present situations but all that can help them get through this is their ACCEPTANCE in life .

INTEREST , always be interested to do stuff, always find ways to make your life interesting in creative ways , be an interesting person, have experiences , express emotions, share stuff, don't wait for an interesting person to come and enlighten your life, be interesting to be able to lighten yours as well as others life.

DESIRE, always find ways to achieve what you desire, make plans, ask people, work on yourself, keep a goal and strive hard to achieve it. Have dreams , have plans , have desires and achieve it.

ACTION , making plans, thinking of change, making time tables, sharing your goals,are the first steps towards success, what matters is implementation..YES thats what reflects your seriousness towards your goals and desires..and this is your final step towards success..ACTION MAKES YOU REAP REWARDS !!

MAKING LIFE IS AS EASY AS MAKING TEA , YOU JUST GOTTA FOLLOW THE RECIPE STEP BY STEP....

EVERYBODY has ingredients to make life , what differs is how one makes it..some might follow steps and be patient with the process , others might just keep looking out for short cuts to live life ..

LIFE IS TO BE LIVED AND NOT TO BE FEARED MY FRIENDS ...

TO GET THE DESIRED RESULTS FOLLOW THE RECIPE AND ENJOY THE PROCESS..!!

  

LIFE SENTENCE !!

A WISE MAN ONCE SAID " IF YOU ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO RUN AWAY, THEN YOU ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO FACE WHATEVER IT IS YOU ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM.!!

LIFE HAS THROWN A CHALLENGE AT YOU ANYWAY.
YOU HAVE TO FACE THE CHALLENGE ...... UP TO YOU TO RUN AWAY AND KEEP RUNNING TILL YOU ARE DONE AND OVER ...OR...KNOCK IT DOWN ...SHOW LIFE WHO HAS HE CHALLENGED!!!

WELL, ONE THING I HAVE DEFINITELY LEARNED FROM THE SUBJECTS I NEVER LIKED (MATHS!).....THAT IS ....
1. IF YOU RUN AWAY FROM IT , ITS NOT GONNA LEAVE YOU,RATHER FOLLOW YOU !
2. IF YOU DON'T FIND OUT A WAY TO GET THE WORK DONE IT WILL DEFINITELY CHUCK U OFF FROM THE VERY RACE OF LIFE.
3. IF YOU AIN'T CONFIDENT ABOUT YOUR EXISTENCE , THEN NOBODY WILL!

WE HAVE OFTEN HEARD PEOPLE SAYING LIFE IS A RACE ,AND ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BE A WINNER

BUT I SAY, LIFE IS A RACE AND ONE SHOULD ALWAYS WALK AT ITS PACE !

LIFE HASN'T SPECIFIED THE CRITERIA FOR A WINNER OR A LOSER , ALL IT SAYS IS ...BE CONTENTED...!!!

THE ONE WHO IS CONTENTED IS ALWAYS THE WINNER .
OFF COURSE ONE SHOULD NEVER  WAIT FOR EXTERNAL VALIDATION ,BECAUSE THAT MAY LEAD TO STARVATION .

YOU MAY NOT WIN TODAY , TOMORROW ,  IT MIGHT TAKE A WEEK ,A  MONTH , COULD EVEN TAKE A YEAR ...
BUT ALL YOU GOTTA REMEMBER , ALL THIS WHILE YOU ARE STRUGGLING OR WORKING HARD TO WIN  , IS THAT YOU WERE A WINNER EVEN BEFORE YOU WERE BORN .... 
MUST BE THINKING HOW ....!??

WELL, YOU WERE THE SPERM WHICH FERTILISED THE EGG .. YOU WERE ONE IN THE MILLIONS TO BE BORN,SO LIFE CHALLENGED YOU EVEN WHEN YOU DID NOT ENTER THE WORLD !!

SO LIFE IS BOUND TO GIVE YOU CHALLENGES AS YOU UPGRADE !! 

THE UNIVERSE ALSO HAS A RULE ..WHICH IS ...IT ONLY GIVES YOU PROBLEMS YOU ARE CAPABLE OF SOLVING ..!!!

LETS TAKE AN OATH : BEFORE STARTING ANY TASK, KEEP IT  IN MIND AND REPEAT IT TO YOURSELF 3 TIMES
THIS TASK IS DOABLE , AND UNIVERSE HAS CHOSEN ME TO FULFIL IT .!
THIS TASK IS DOABLE , AND UNIVERSE HAS CHOSEN ME TO FULFIL IT .!
THIS TASK IS DOABLE , AND UNIVERSE HAS CHOSEN ME TO FULFIL IT .!

AND I SHALL CONQUER IT WITH MY FULL ENERGY!!!

REMEMBER ,YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOUR LIFE , SO WHY NOT  MAKE A LIFE WORTH LIVING !!!

-----------------------------------YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LIFE-----------------------------

WANNA BE SOMEONE ? BE A PENCIL !!

PENCIL SACRIFICES ITSELF TO THE THOUGHTS OF ITS MASTER!

We all have often come across the very thought TO GAIN SOMETHING WE OFTEN NEED TO LOSE SOMETHING !

LEARN THE HARD WAY ,LEARNING REMAINS FOR A LIFE TIME.!

Lessons are not only learnt in the class room , everything in our surrounding has an impact on us....

The only thing is one should be like a sponge ...ABSORB THE LEARNING !

WE all want to be happy in life ,no matter what ,who wants pain and suffering ....??

NOBODY!!

But thats the ultimate TRUTH of life ...for a glamorous look..even DIAMOND has to go through the very process of the strategic cuts...

GOLD which has a high market value ,has to be heated till the highest degree to be obtained in the purest form .!

CONCLUSION:  If life did not spare the non living things from pain and hard work , how will it spare the living things???

Well, we all are the pencils of life ...life is a blank book to be written on ...teachers our are sharpeners who are always there to sharpen our mind and enlighten it with beautiful and encouraging thoughts , our parents are our erasers who no matter what are going to be there for us, to erase our mistakes, and off course the most beautiful of all the SHAVINGS are the beautiful mistakes or achievements of our life ...some are beautiful and are saved and admired for its beauty some are just a life lesson and are thrown away ...BUT in the course of this ...both the achievements as well as the lessons do cause pain and leave markings on the pencil.

NEVER worry about a bad shaving cause it definitely taught us a valuable lesson in our life which sooner or later is gonna come to our rescue as an emergency eraser at the back of the pencil. 

Last but not the least, always keep in mind that every pencil whether lead pencil, fancy pencil, colourful DOMS pencil or just a plain red and black NATARAJ  pencil ....every pencil has GRAPHITE and has  been made to achieve the very sole purpose, that is to  fill the blank pages of life...

Like wise every human as stated, is a pencil and his status, job, social circle, outer beauty  wont define him unless he is able to achieve the sole purpose that is to define humanity in a good sense.

   

EFFORTS CAN BE MADE TO GLORIFY THE OUTER BEAUTY BUT NOT AT THE COST OF ACHIEVING THE VERY SOLE PURPOSE !!!

SO BE A PENCIL WHICH ATTRACTS THE EYE AND ALSO MAKES THE PAGES LOOK BEAUTIFUL !!!

 BE AS HUMBLE AS A PENCIL , TO ACCEPT MISTAKES , CORRECT THEM, BE AS STRONG A S PENCIL TO BEAR THE PAIN AND ACHIEVE THE PURPOSE ,BE AS SACRIFICING AS A PENCIL WHICH FINISHES ITSELF TO BEAUTIFY SOMEONE ELSE'S  STORY!