Reaching There

When Hamlet said "To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come", he was referring to the pains an afterlife might bring. There was no way he could be sure whether there would be a relief from the sufferings he is in now. However he was sure that "To be, or not to be: that is the question". Now what is the purpose of bringing up probably the most famous soliloquy ever written in English literature? The reason is simple it portrays two emotions which we all go through in our lives at some stage or even throughout our lives. The first emotion is the desire to bring a change in our lives and second the indecision that follows it afterwards. So what can we learn from Hamlet's soliloquy? The answer lies in his thought process. We can learn something from his thought process and use it in our daily lives. For Hamlet it was a question of life or death. For us it may not be so severe but the effects of our decisions ...

This would be my theme picture for my blog header. It is about a man standing next to a door, looking into the vastness of nature in front of him. The question is what is he thinking? Or is he waiting for something? Or he is just simply enjoying the stillness of beauty in front of him? These and other questions alike keep us haunting in our minds continuously. The mind is like a fly inside a jar it is continuously buzzing around probably unable to understand what is it should do. So it is time we slowdown and relax a bit. Try and watch the beauty and marvel of simple things around us. Then perhaps when we are able to enjoy small thing we may enjoy bigger thing even better. Take a deep breath and for a moment try and feel the happiness inside your mind.

After months of procrastination I finally joined a local fitness center to get myself in a better shape. I have always been on a leaner side but a desire to improve my posture has always been there. But that is another story. The reason I am writing this blog is during the past few weeks I have learned a few important lessons during my workout sessions. I have tried to generalize these lessons and here they are: You always have to start small and gradually build up strength. You can't expect yourself to bench even few tens of pounds from the start itself. You have to start small and gradually push your way to higher levels. The qualities that help you during this course are such as patience, honesty and self-consciousness. The reason for patience is obvious you have to go through it during a course of time; instantaneous results are not always beneficial. The reason honesty is there because you have to continue with these efforts during this course of time. You can't expect to ...

This post is inspired by a movie called " Dead Poet's Society ". In it Robin Williams inspires his students to bring more randomness in their lives and he tries this through poetry. All of us sometimes feel this urge to break out of the shell that seems to have blanketed us and made us apathetic to the beauty & wisdom of the world around us. But how do we get rid of this blanket and cry out loud to the heavens to shower us with this mysterious rain of emotions and discovery? The feeling does not lie in feeling the felt, reading the read, seeing the seen but going out of our limits that we have created for ourselves. We have to bring forth the little Einstein or little Whitman or little Lincoln or little Premchand or little Presley inside of us and let it flow free for at least some time during the course of our mostly mundane lives. Only then can we truly enjoy what we're doing and create/achieve something new in our lives. The more frequently we make these small ...