Writing on the last day of 2007....i am inspired to write something by J.D. Jakes that i read in one of the mails recently....something that touches me and am sure all of us can relate to some part of it in some way or the other... something good to start the New Year with... :)
There are people who can walk away from you.
And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.
When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The bible said that, They came out from us that it might be made manifest > > that they were not for us. > For had they been of us, > no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]
People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.
LET THEM GO!
And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead.
You've got to know when it's over.
Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of goodbye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in goodbye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay.
LET THEM GO!
If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to...LET THEM GO!
If you are holding on to past hurts and pains...LET THEM GO!
If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth...LET THEM GO!
If someone has angered you...LET THEM GO!
If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge...LET THEM GO!
If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction...LET THEM GO!
If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents...LET THEM GO!
If you have a bad attitude...LET THEM GO!
If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better...LET THEM GO!
If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship....... LET THEM GO!
If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves...LET THEM GO!
If you're feeling depressed and stressed...LET THEM GO!
Get Right or Get Left, think about it, and then...LET THEM GO!
Thats how life goes...Let It Go...and start afresh...cuz the best is yet to come.. :)
Monday, December 31, 2007
Friday, December 28, 2007
schmaltz...
schmaltz...really!!?? well well... no not really....may be jus an exaggeration for d post.. :)
actually all dis razzmatazz, dis ballyhoo...owing 2 a visit 2 my old college...err..university...i dont really know how many of my old buddies are gonna read this post but i jus needed to post this.
Lats week i had this aweful time.... visiting my university for a reason meagre....and what do i see there...well things have definitely changed...jus hoping for the betterment. i remembered the days when my fellow mates used to carry cell phones hidden in all possible unreachable places..(I dont think i need to specify the details ;))...and then now i see students (thats what i suppose they were.. :))... flashing their phones stoutly...yess thats jus one of the many things i saw that has changed. i still remember the nites i spent in the hostels of Sathyabama as well as St joseph's....and trust me those were really "THE DAYS"....there was not one nite we dint decide on sleeping early and getting up early....and wen did we actually retire to bed?? :)
and those endless discussions we used 2 have about the rubbish college rules and how many "IT SUCKS" proverbs....rubbish and crap was d fave words 4 d deemed univ.. :)
ohh and how can i ever forget those raids for electronic thingies in d hostel....man i lost so many of my good collectible music...reason...!!!??? you are not supposed to carry eletronic gadgets inside the deemed univ campus!!??? phewwwwwww......... :(
ahhh...and then wat was next?? getting fake letters from d HOD...that the thingies were kept for college day practice....ohh well that reminds me....our HOD has changed as well...nice man...very sweet guy....he resigned... :)
when i left the deemed university campus 2 years ago....i never really dreamt of comin back there...and believe me i dint regret a bit that college was actually over for me...but now when i went back to college...how much i wished those days could come back...the only headache those days was... :)
where to go over the weekend...whom to ask to send the fax 2 get outta hostel....whewwww....how to manage the uncountable CORRRRESPONDINGS of java sir... or how to keep myself awake during networking lectures....how to tell d POC sir that he actually was very funny...and not intelligent.. ;).... ohh and the amazing DSP paper....ohh man how does an engineering graduate ever pass that paper...!!?? :( ... ahh...and how to find atleast one smart dude/dudette in d campus!!!??? :)
jus walkin the campus i realized....everyone mus be walkin atleast 5 KMs inside d campus everyday....from d mess hall 2 d class...to d mainlab...to d other lab...to d director's office for some lucky ppl lik d dept of CSE'05...i jus cudnt stop myself from getting reminded of sitting in one of those classrooms and trying not 2 sleep...trying 2 get something out of the lecture of which i dint know head or tail....makin a face that will look as sincere as possible that i understood everything...when i know i am waiting for that person to stop for the day....and when i see other people i wonder how they manage...they all knew whatever they teach is dumb and anyways no one's gonna ever listen to it...but still they wanna...and c'mon yu cant tell someone what r yu thinking when d class is going on....anyways...it was all fun....esp when ppl like OS mam was in class...almost begging us 2 let her write something on d board.. when we had an important announcement 2 be made....and what was that??? someone's dog has given birth to 2 puppies and they need to be sold!!?? now what can be more important than THIS for an OS lecture?? :)
my college as they say in the records is a ragging free college....is it really!!!??? naaah....and wats d fun if yu don get in tch wid yur seniors the way they want!!?? :) those ragging sessions in d train...when guys used 2 get away with ragging saying they are from hindustan....and i was fool enuff 2 get ragged by someone from hindustan when he said hes my senior from 3rd ECE Sathyabams......... :(
those one nite stands before the midsem day....lining up in front of the prof 2 get some "IMP" questions...he he..actually gettin the whole paper on SMS at 12 in d nite...now thats wen we warm up 4 d prep...and those 5 min prep standing in front of the exam hall...and then there were times....when i dint even know what were the 7 papers in d sem....all i did was sms till 5 in d morning....sleep till 6:30...get up..get ready...catch d last possible bus from madhya kailash....and....sleep thru all d lectures...thinkin wat d heckk...tryin 2 stay awake d nite before the dreaded day i always used 2 wonder how we stay awake talkin rubbish thru out d sem...but wen i have an exam d very next day...i jus cudnt keep my eyes from closing...forget concentration.. that was miles apart for d prep..
whenever i think of my college days...well i can only smile at the amazing ways we used 2 invent 2 gettin ourselves outta trouble...those fake faxes, fake phone calls from local gaurdian, fake signatures....and fake IVs....even now when i tell ppl of my college i know what they think...that is one of the most boring colleges in chennai....may be true....but i had fun in those 4 yrs...kinda fun i wouldnt have had being anywhere else... :)
actually all dis razzmatazz, dis ballyhoo...owing 2 a visit 2 my old college...err..university...i dont really know how many of my old buddies are gonna read this post but i jus needed to post this.
Lats week i had this aweful time.... visiting my university for a reason meagre....and what do i see there...well things have definitely changed...jus hoping for the betterment. i remembered the days when my fellow mates used to carry cell phones hidden in all possible unreachable places..(I dont think i need to specify the details ;))...and then now i see students (thats what i suppose they were.. :))... flashing their phones stoutly...yess thats jus one of the many things i saw that has changed. i still remember the nites i spent in the hostels of Sathyabama as well as St joseph's....and trust me those were really "THE DAYS"....there was not one nite we dint decide on sleeping early and getting up early....and wen did we actually retire to bed?? :)
and those endless discussions we used 2 have about the rubbish college rules and how many "IT SUCKS" proverbs....rubbish and crap was d fave words 4 d deemed univ.. :)
ohh and how can i ever forget those raids for electronic thingies in d hostel....man i lost so many of my good collectible music...reason...!!!??? you are not supposed to carry eletronic gadgets inside the deemed univ campus!!??? phewwwwwww......... :(
ahhh...and then wat was next?? getting fake letters from d HOD...that the thingies were kept for college day practice....ohh well that reminds me....our HOD has changed as well...nice man...very sweet guy....he resigned... :)
when i left the deemed university campus 2 years ago....i never really dreamt of comin back there...and believe me i dint regret a bit that college was actually over for me...but now when i went back to college...how much i wished those days could come back...the only headache those days was... :)
where to go over the weekend...whom to ask to send the fax 2 get outta hostel....whewwww....how to manage the uncountable CORRRRESPONDINGS of java sir... or how to keep myself awake during networking lectures....how to tell d POC sir that he actually was very funny...and not intelligent.. ;).... ohh and the amazing DSP paper....ohh man how does an engineering graduate ever pass that paper...!!?? :( ... ahh...and how to find atleast one smart dude/dudette in d campus!!!??? :)
jus walkin the campus i realized....everyone mus be walkin atleast 5 KMs inside d campus everyday....from d mess hall 2 d class...to d mainlab...to d other lab...to d director's office for some lucky ppl lik d dept of CSE'05...i jus cudnt stop myself from getting reminded of sitting in one of those classrooms and trying not 2 sleep...trying 2 get something out of the lecture of which i dint know head or tail....makin a face that will look as sincere as possible that i understood everything...when i know i am waiting for that person to stop for the day....and when i see other people i wonder how they manage...they all knew whatever they teach is dumb and anyways no one's gonna ever listen to it...but still they wanna...and c'mon yu cant tell someone what r yu thinking when d class is going on....anyways...it was all fun....esp when ppl like OS mam was in class...almost begging us 2 let her write something on d board.. when we had an important announcement 2 be made....and what was that??? someone's dog has given birth to 2 puppies and they need to be sold!!?? now what can be more important than THIS for an OS lecture?? :)
my college as they say in the records is a ragging free college....is it really!!!??? naaah....and wats d fun if yu don get in tch wid yur seniors the way they want!!?? :) those ragging sessions in d train...when guys used 2 get away with ragging saying they are from hindustan....and i was fool enuff 2 get ragged by someone from hindustan when he said hes my senior from 3rd ECE Sathyabams......... :(
those one nite stands before the midsem day....lining up in front of the prof 2 get some "IMP" questions...he he..actually gettin the whole paper on SMS at 12 in d nite...now thats wen we warm up 4 d prep...and those 5 min prep standing in front of the exam hall...and then there were times....when i dint even know what were the 7 papers in d sem....all i did was sms till 5 in d morning....sleep till 6:30...get up..get ready...catch d last possible bus from madhya kailash....and....sleep thru all d lectures...thinkin wat d heckk...tryin 2 stay awake d nite before the dreaded day i always used 2 wonder how we stay awake talkin rubbish thru out d sem...but wen i have an exam d very next day...i jus cudnt keep my eyes from closing...forget concentration.. that was miles apart for d prep..
whenever i think of my college days...well i can only smile at the amazing ways we used 2 invent 2 gettin ourselves outta trouble...those fake faxes, fake phone calls from local gaurdian, fake signatures....and fake IVs....even now when i tell ppl of my college i know what they think...that is one of the most boring colleges in chennai....may be true....but i had fun in those 4 yrs...kinda fun i wouldnt have had being anywhere else... :)
Thursday, December 27, 2007
blasé
Am writing after a long time...was busy...dunno doing what.. :)
Lots surpassed me during these few days in the past.. i mite never write out all that happened as it hurts to look back and think.. and may be when i look back the only sound i can hear resounding in my ears is... what did you gain..what did you lose...was it worth the pain.!!??
ya lots of time, its all jus blasé...
its easy to write out things artistically...make people believe whats written is true... but what you feel is what you live with...theres not much to think about...or else you will end up writing rubbish jus lik dis one on a cold december nite.. :)
LIFE is too short....start living..before it betrays you.. :)
Lots surpassed me during these few days in the past.. i mite never write out all that happened as it hurts to look back and think.. and may be when i look back the only sound i can hear resounding in my ears is... what did you gain..what did you lose...was it worth the pain.!!??
ya lots of time, its all jus blasé...
its easy to write out things artistically...make people believe whats written is true... but what you feel is what you live with...theres not much to think about...or else you will end up writing rubbish jus lik dis one on a cold december nite.. :)
LIFE is too short....start living..before it betrays you.. :)
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The Exodus...
Why do some people come into your lives when they are supposed to go away...Do we meet to part? Ya i know as they say people will come and go but life goes on...Life doesnt stop for anyone...but at times there are moments when you feel someone touched you deep inside and you mite not go on without them. There were times when you spent enduring experiences with them and there were times you shared your sorrows with them and cried on their shoulders....there were times when they made you laugh forgetting every other thing in the world and then there were times you felt nothing else in the world is above you... there are people who leave an imprint on your mind and soul and you just cant force them out of your thoughts....even when they are gone.
life goes on...no one ever leaves to come back...the exodus never ends...
life goes on...no one ever leaves to come back...the exodus never ends...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
One Art...
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
I Carry Your Heart...
I carry your heart with me
(i carry it in my heart)
I am never without it
(anywhere i go you go, my dear;
and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate
(for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world
(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
And it's you are, whatever a moon has always meant
And whatever a sun will always sing is you
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root
and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky
of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart
(I carry it in my heart)...
(i carry it in my heart)
I am never without it
(anywhere i go you go, my dear;
and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate
(for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world
(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
And it's you are, whatever a moon has always meant
And whatever a sun will always sing is you
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root
and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky
of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart
(I carry it in my heart)...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Sunshine..
Indian cricket is enjoying the best sunshine in decades...Whatever happened in South Africa was not cricket, it was Emotion. It was also not a happenstance...it was an effulgent outcome of a calculated, energetic and patriotic action tempered by pride. It was a demonstrations of youth power. There they were, eleven young men with only meager experience, wearing their blue uniforms with innate pride for the honour of playing for the nation. They threw caution to wind and took plunge headlong. They took on the world's best and the mightiest in the newest version of cricket-- Twenty20 -- and became world champions in a ravishing manner. The sweet taste of success is barefaced, but this one's flavour is beyond words. The whole nation is cognate on this feeling which none can capture in words...
For the first time in many years, Indian cricket is enjoying a popular confidence of an unprecedented intensity. Though there were anxious remarks that India will not do very well in this inaugural Twenty20 World Cup, there were also larger numbers taht believed that India will make it to the top. By the time India thrashed the mighty Australia in the semi-finals, an overwhelming majority of fans had already gifted the Twenty20 World Cup to Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his young team. It was certainly not the best team in the tournament, atleast on paper. What made the difference was the team's self assertion.
The journey now will never be easy, particularly under the weight of popular expectations. Teams pipped by India will come back with a sense of vengeance. That will make the game all the more interesting for the fans, but difficult for the team. The real test, thus, will come now. But Indians seem all cinched. Thats the gain...thats the spirit...Cheers team India!!
For the first time in many years, Indian cricket is enjoying a popular confidence of an unprecedented intensity. Though there were anxious remarks that India will not do very well in this inaugural Twenty20 World Cup, there were also larger numbers taht believed that India will make it to the top. By the time India thrashed the mighty Australia in the semi-finals, an overwhelming majority of fans had already gifted the Twenty20 World Cup to Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his young team. It was certainly not the best team in the tournament, atleast on paper. What made the difference was the team's self assertion.
The journey now will never be easy, particularly under the weight of popular expectations. Teams pipped by India will come back with a sense of vengeance. That will make the game all the more interesting for the fans, but difficult for the team. The real test, thus, will come now. But Indians seem all cinched. Thats the gain...thats the spirit...Cheers team India!!
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