LOVE

When in love
Do not become the moon.
If you can,
Come as the sun.
I'll take its heat
And light up the dark forest.


When in love,
Do not become the river.
If you can,
Come as the flood.
I'll carry its passion
And break the dams of despair...


When in love,
Do not become a bird.
If you can,
Come as the storm.
I'll borrow its force
And destroy the palace of sin.


The moon,
The river,
The flower,
The stars,
The birds-
We can look for them later.


But today,
In the darkness,
The last battle is yet to be fought.
What we need now in our hovel
Is--Fire!


By - Murari Mukhopadhyay

CHANCE or DESTINY

 few days back i saw this movie called serendipity....i don't know if its famous or not but it did make me think....and i'm not talking about the usual shallow thinking but the more life altering thinking....so i got into thinking about the story of our lives.....is it really ourselves that write it??? have any one ever thought about the road that our life takes...the decisions that we make...are we sure it is actually us doing it or the almighty-god-the alma mater that have written our stories and we are just walking and following the already chosen path for us...i know many people would disagree saying we are the one making the decisions and its us who make our own path.....but how can you be sure that what you decide wasn't already known to that invisible power to which we all obeisance to????  i'm an agnostic : i'm not sure if god exist....n to be true i'm on the path of being an atheist....still there things like this movie which force me to reconsider my beliefs.....to re think if what i believe is what is true????

How Am I ???

The one fact that seems quite universal to me is that you learn from your mistakes.I wont say i'm really good at that but i try. Doesn't it seem a little odd that what we do wrong is exactly what teaches how to do the right thing????? How do you differentiate between right and wrong???? Do you consider how it affects people around you or how it effects you??? Is what we think always the right thing or should we always consider what others think??? I believe that making decisions is the most difficult thing that anyone has to do - why because they not only have to try and make the right decision but also to make sure that their decision does not hurt someone. Have you ever made such a decisions???? For as far as i can remember i have never been in a situation where my decision may have hurt someone so i'm kind of grateful for that. 
                         One thing more that is very hard, as i believe is, criticism. People may try to project as if criticism helps them be a better person and they take it in a positive way, i'm not refuting the fact that it helps but i'm pretty sure that it isn't easy to bear hearing your weakness...at least for me it isn't. I was never good at taking criticism....maybe the reason behind it is that for the most part of my life till now i have been little criticized.....apart from the recent few years. I'm not saying that i hate criticism, like everyone else i try take it a positive way.....but as i said its difficult....especially with my temper and crazy theories that i make up as soon as something gets in my mind. So over the past few years i have found out that i'm short tempered, i'm a irrational in thinking and i don't always consider how my "verbal" thoughts can affect someone. But i am proud of one thing that along with getting upset, crying and raging at these faults of mine i have some how reigned them in.....at least i think so. 
      I believe that is the lesson of all this that i have written....not matter how bad you may feel when someone criticizes you, you have to prove that those faults are not what you are....that you are capable of something better.....to be a better person....to make right decisions.....to work on your weakness and one day make them disappear and i mean it literally.

After class as I walked down to the metro station I passed a dog....being a dog lover I instinctively called out to.When i did this i never thought that this dog will follow me all the way to the station. He crossed the road with full heavy traffic, faced other dogs barking at him and waited for me if I lagged behind. 

Doesn't this dog resemble the people we call friends. We call out to them and they follow us no matter where we go. They cross all barriers to be with us, they face every problem to help us and they wait for us if we lag behind or choose the wrong way. They care for us and are the best things in our life. 

The other thing that this incident made me realize was that everybody needs a little love and a sense of being needed. No one wants to be alone and unwanted. When you see a new person in an unfriendly environment what do you do? Try talking to that person and making him/her comfortable rite. We do this because this is what we desire too when we are in a new place. I call this making friends :-)

So to conclude I would like to say that this article is dedicated to friends that are already in my life and those who I'm yet to find. You make my life beautiful. THANK YOU