The perspective of a wandering mind

Not expecting sadness in your path to happiness, is like not expecting a thunder rumble following a lightning. It's as simple as that, but yet so complex to digest. It's said that there's not a single heart that's not been broken, not a single pair of eyes that haven't wept tears and not a single soul that's never lost its way into darkness. Then why do we hype our negative emotions to such an extent, that now in the era that we live in, it has taken a place of such magnitude, wherein people refuse to see the brightness of the lightning. It's what we feel in our tiny hearts that makes the difference. Embrace the lightning, the thunder will sound like a Beethoven's Symphony to your ears; be frightened by it, then you have no choice but to close your ears when the inevitable thunder rumbles. Enjoy the rain, snort in the petrichor, smile at the sight of lightning and dance to the sound of the thunder and finally, when the rains are done with their course a...

Death is defined in our dictionaries as, "The end of the life of a person or an organism"; stating that you are dead when your brain, heart and lungs cease to function. Humanity has so easily pinned down such terminologies and tried to show the world, that if you are not dead, then you are alive! Wow, it's like they say, the greatest trick the devil ever played was making the world believe that he does not exist. Humans have shown, time and again, that we are capable of believing in a God that we cannot see, believing in a love we cannot feel and see things in a person that they are not. We claim people wear masks as a cover up for their misery, and have bonds with people who no longer exist, and find pain in misery. Happiness is like a reward, we have to really work for it and really want it, but misery, on the other hand is like a bad parasite, an unwanted emotion never willing to let go of us. Happiness is like a fuel, we run out of it, and have to replenish our d...

We have all opened our eyes in the mornings, with regrets of either having done something or not having done something. Regrets are those instances where either our heart works but body fails to do so or, are those instances where our body works but brain fails to filter it. With such a wide spectrum of outcomes of good and bad, how do we choose to either do it or not do it? How do we choose the outcome? How do we know if the choice we are about to make is right or wrong? We don't!! We do it anyways. A great man once said, "Whenever there's an argument between the mind and the heart, follow your heart." Why is that? It's Because, the heart is talking to you about what you want while your mind is talking to you about what others want. It's okay to be selfish enough to think and act on what we want, rather than think about what others want. The most common phrase used by people  when you're in doubt is, "Do it, or you'll regret it your enti...

What is love? A question often asked by almost all of us, and more often than not, asked by the same individual at different stages of his/her life. Is love the connection we feel when we look at someone for the first time and have butterflies in our stomach and palpitations in our heart, or is love the feeling of calmness and peace when we look into the person's eyes for the first time? Is love the connections we make with a person, which lead us to have expectations from them or is love the bonds we make with people who are no longer living wherein there is no scope for any expectations? Is love the feeling of closeness with someone who is far away, or is it the feeling of feeling distanced from someone who is in front of us? Is love the laughter and smiles we wear when we think about a person, or is love the tears that roll down our cheeks when we think about another heart? Is love seeing a smile on your face when you look into the mirror, thinking of someone else, or is ...

Intuition and practicality-- two ends of a spectrum. Intuitions, an instinctive feeling rather than concious reasoning. Practicality, the aspects of a situation that involve the actual doing or experience of something rather than theories and ideas. We often come across various situations in our life, wherein our brain and our heart are the main choices, and more often than not, the heart plays a role of a protagonist with a very antagonistic character. A confusing oxymoron. Let me, take the example of the movie Kal Ho Naa Ho. SRK, a dying man chooses to be practical, rather than follow his gut. He chooses to let his lady fall in love with another man; in this way hoping that, even after he dies, his lady is left with warmth and love. Wow, what an ending, truly touching. But let's say, he survives. Let's say he was a dying man who got cured and is cured of his disease. Now what? Does he fight for his true love and try to win his lady back, who he loved so much that he chose...

Life is harsh, from the time we are born, till we die, we go through hardships that no one can understand and explain and feel, other than the person who has lived through it. More often than not, we scar ourselves, bruise ourselves living this life. Some, deeper than others, affecting our lives to such an extent that our day to day activites have changed. From the way we feel waking up or the way we feel going back to sleep. These scars, make us contemplate our future decisions, voluntarily or involuntarily. The individual fears that if they be the way they were or repeat their history, these scars may deepen or worse, new scars are formed. The individual is often caught between the decision to either choose to think before acting, or act by feeling, following their instinct, their heart, like they did in the past. How do we choose? Can humanity be trusted with our bruised life again? Does Humanity deserve another chance with us? I'd say, yes! The belief is simple, sometimes w...