When Silence Speaks...

I had my birthday recently, and more than ever I felt I should write about it. I have always been thankful for having beautiful people in my life, good friends , well wishers, who care for me.  I have been having a rough time, juggling a bunch of issues of life. And I have been worried, tensed, frustrated and what not. But then my Birthday came, and I was left pleasantly shocked. I saw how many friends came together to wish me, w ho remembered me, friends with whom I go way back to 2005; more than 10 years.  I had video chats, calls and of course spent time in person with friends and colleagues around me. Everyone did make me feel special. They made me realize that I am valued as a person, and my happiness, my well-being does matter to them. They not only care for me, but also my sadness cascades to them as well. They want to see me smiling as always. These are people who know me and love me the way I am. And I cannot thank enough for having such good people in my lif...

Why is it that we are so much stereotyped about few things that we can't be what we really are; but are forced to be someone else by other's standards? I am a female and I am proud of my gender. But that doesn't mean I should love cooking or be dressing up like a barbie doll. There are a bunch of things that I am and  I don't think there's anything wrong in it. I love Boxing/Kickboxing; but that doesn't mean I go punching everyone at their face or do hooliganism. I love Hiking the mountains and not walking in the park, but that doesn't mean I am not romantic. I am straight forward and speak my mind instead of listening silently and nodding to someone else's view, but that doesn't mean I don't respect the thought of the other person. Courtesy - Google Images I listen to my heart and believe in following my principles and dreams, but that doesn't mean I am stubborn. I carry an attitude that I have built over years, but that...

I went shopping yesterday. I had couple of items in mind to shop for, and I ended up buying a bunch of unrelated things. You might be saying with a smirk a common trait of every women . Well, that's not my topic of thought today.  I remembered a day 12 years back when I was in Bangalore on an internship during my final year of engineering. I was staying with a friend and we were 4 girls who had picked up that company from our class. It was a weekend ( I think, I don't remember though ), and we 4 girls went out to shop at Commercial Street of Bangalore. For those who know Bangalore, they know this street very well. In-numerous; eye-catching; lavish; colorful items adorning every store, that keeps calling you to buy them. A Saree Store in my hometown Back in those days, my family was financially struggling; and so was another friend of mine( and we both wanted to buy something since we were heading back to our hometown after the training) . While, my third friend, sh...

Sometimes words are not enough to express what we feel. When we try to put our emotions in a sentence, we feel the words we are using are not doing justice to the depth of our feelings. It does not happen quite often, but sometimes when it does, we realize the value of a " Thank You ", " Sorry " and " I Love You ".  We use them hundreds of time in a day without much of a feeling, but there comes a moment when you have to say it like you mean it. And that's when we realize we probably have over-taxed these words so much over the time that now we feel the person in front of us probably does not realize how much we mean it at this very moment. Then we start saying " I am really really very very sorry " or " I really Love you ", to stress the depth of our feeling. It's funny :) People we love and care for; we don't say Thank you, Sorry or Love you that much. Like our parents, our kids, our immediate family, our close friend...

I generally don't write a farewell to any year; instead I usually write something welcoming the New year. But today, as I sit in this empty office, I went on a quick 10 secs tour of my life in 2015, and felt that I should bid it a good bye; hence this post :) I drove in to office today against the wish of all my office friends who chose to work from home. I somehow badly wanted to be in office this last day of the year, no particular reason. Maybe it was more of a gratitude I wanted to show my office; my work; my employer for having me around. As I drove into the office parking lot, it was all empty, and I realized how quiet its going to be in there. And it was pretty quiet., not many came in. But nevertheless, year 2015 has been one of the important year in my life primarily because I got to check off a lot of items from my bucket list. Yes, I do have a LONGGggggggg bucket list, and this is the year where I got most of them checked off.  I did a lot of crazy stuffs, some of w...

ज़रा धीरे चल ए ज़िन्दगी, मुझे  संभलने का मौका तो दो तुम्हारी रफ़्तार से जो नुक्सान हुआ है उसका हर्जाना भरने का मौका तो दो Image Courtesy - Google Wallpapers वो जो दर्दनाक हादसे किये थे तूने उनपे जी भरकर रोने का मौका तो दो मेरे अपनों और दोस्तों की हंसी में अपनी हंसी मिलाने का मौका तो दो बचपन की हर वो छोटी ख्वाहिश जवानी में पूरे करने का मौका तो दो जो ऊँचे ख्वाब देखे थे खुली आँखों से उनके बिखरे टुकड़े समेटने का मौका तो दो कभी जो इतनी खुशियां दी तुमने उन्हें अपनों के साथ मनाने का मौका तो दो जो प्यार रूठकर चला गया था कभी उसे याद कर आहें भरने का मौका तो दो इतनी भी क्या जल्दी है मौत से मिलने की तुझे पहले अच्छे से तुझे  देखने का मौका तो दो बहाने नहीं है ये मेरे , दिल से गुज़ारिश है ज़रा धीरे चल ए ज़िन्दगी, मुझे जीने का मौका तो दो. -सरिता  Dated - 28th Dec 2015

Why dreaming with your eyes open is important? Because that is the starting point for your brain to come up with ideas and heart to ignite a spark and channelize energy in that direction. If you don't dream, your brain doesn't have any reason to think in that direction, your heart doesn't have any reason to feel excited, your eyes will not be able to see any new opportunities and you end up in your routine not doing anything new. And all of a sudden, you will be left cribbing as to why your friends are living their dream and you are left doing nothing. For e.g. I kept dreaming about having a huge art gallery of my own with beautiful paintings. That dream was around for few years, on and off. It was when I had never picked up a paint brush ever in my life. Then for sometime, I kept thinking, let me atleast try once; if I can paint at all? That was enough of an inspiration for me to go and buy canvas and acrylic paint kit one day. Then I started learning painting during ...

After a normal busy day at office, me and my friend were heading back home through the normal busy weekday traffic, nothing really new, everything seemed normal, until we had almost reached our apartment complex. It was around 5:30 PM MST, but its already dark due to early sunsets these days. We drove past the back gate of the apartment complex, when we noticed a blind girl trying to figure her way around a pile of snow mixed slush on the sidewalk.  I had seen her couple of times in the complex but never really met her. Both me and my friend notice her and go like, " Awe!!! ".  Lily in Dark!!! (Courtesy - Google Images) My friend slows down and goes " Do you want to help her? ".  I am like " Yeah, Ummm ".  And he stops the car and says " You can if you want to ".  I get down from the car and rush towards her. By then she has already figured her way around that pile and was finding her way to the gate. I walk up to her and ...

ज़िन्दगी ऐसी मज़ाक है जिसपे ना हँसी आती है ना रोना  जो जीने की कोशिश करते करते मर जाते है  Live, Laugh, Dance.... ( Image Courtesy - Google Images.) ज़िन्दगी उनपे हँसते हुए निकल जाती है  लम्हों के दामन में सदियाँ सिमट जाती है  फक्र से केहते है लोग कि हम शान से जीते है  पर मौत के बिस्तर पर एहसास होता है  की हम अपनी ज़िन्दगी जिए ही कहाँ थे  बस दुनिया के इशारों पे नाचते रेह गए  फिर भी किसीको फुरसत नहीं टेहराव की  डरता है इंसान सन्नाटे से आजकल  बस भीड़ में खो जाने के लिए तड़पता है  खुद से जैसे खफा होते फिरता है  चंद लम्हों में ज़िन्दगी जी लेते है कुछ  और कुछ, वक़्त के लम्हे गिन ने में उम्र गुज़ार देते है  अभी संभल जाओ और ज़िन्दगी को कैद कर लो इस लम्हे में  थोड़ा सा जी लो ऐसे जैसे ये वक़्त सिर्फ तुम्हारा हो.  - सरिता  Dated - 6th Dec 2015

वफ़ा करके देखा दिल को टूटते हुए बिखरे टुकड़ों को जोड़ा फिर बेवफाई से इस वफादारी के खेल में  हार कर रह गए वो चंद अधूरे अरमान ज़िन्दगी के यादों के सिलवटों में खो गए हर वो किस्से हमारी वफ़ा के रहेगी तो बस बेवफाई की कहानी और वो टूटे वादों का कारवां बस उसी दामन से कुछ यादें चुनते चले जीवन के कुछ हसीन पल समेटते चले वफ़ा से बेवफाई का जश्न मनाते चले ज़िन्दगी का जाम पीते पिलाते चले... -सरिता  Dated - 3rd Dec 2015

Living Life by rules is good, It gives you a Sense of Discipline.  But Breaking rules at times is also good, It gives you a Sense of Life. Dedicated to this day, when I broke a rule to live a little :) - Sarita Dated - 30th Nov 2015.

Recently, India's top actor Aamir Khan made it to the country's headlines for not so positive reasons. Apparently his wife Kiran Rao made a comment asking if they should think of moving out of India looking at the current situations of intolerance in the country and for better future of their child.   Now I am till date unclear on when and where he made the comment; whether it was Facebook or some debate show on intolerance; I am not sure. Honestly, I don't give a damn to all these gossips and useless trash that media shares - whether its Facebook or News. It just so happened, that in one of the family function my cousin read out the statement and said folks are trashing Aamir Khan on FB saying "Leave this country"; "This country made you Aamir Khan" etc... And that's how I got to know about this. Even then, I did not try to learn more about it. Next couple of days I could see videos, comments etc... shared on whatsapp. Some people started comp...