Caged

Once, I saw a bird in a cage. Very exotic, huge and preeminent. After gazing each other for a while, the bird spoke to me.

"You seem to be perplexed, seeing me in this cage. Tell me what do you have in your mind."

I was surprised, to see a bird talk and moreover reading my thoughts.
"Yes" I said, "I look at you, so mystic and transcendent. But pity you, for being in this cage. So feeble and lonely. Don't  you feel like soaring out in the open sky, living the life on your own will, rather than being caged."

The bird chuckled. And replied, "Do you think I was forced to be caged? What you see as the open sky is filled with predators. Always ready to hunt you down. One has to worry about feeding themselves, feeding their family. So, I  have created this cage around me. In fact, I have flown thousands of miles to get into this cage. This cage shields me from predators. I get fed with most succulent food. Lonely, yes I am. But I trick myself into believing and I am not. For better or for worse, I am caged in my own delusion."

I was startled. It made me wonder, is it a good thing, to be caged? Am I caged? Are you caged?

I care for.. Well...Really?

It amazes me, how selfish the humans can be! In times of adversity, when we see others suffer we empathize them. Or at least we believe so. But what I rather think is that we humans are the most self centered creatures. If you really think about it, the emotions that occur to us are caused by our own discomfort. We contemplate the situation as if it is happening to us. And thus we sympathize ourselves.
We are slaves of our own imagination...

Well...What to say :)

A girl is chatting with her boyfriend, and she happens to be big fan of Salman Khan. The guys is kinda jealous and questions her...

Guy: wo mujh se bhi acha hai??

Gal: nai tumse aacha koi nai :)

Guy: dil se??

Gal: dil se...tumse acccha koi nai hai..

Guy: acha...aisa kya hai mujh mien huhh??

Gal: hehe...kyunki tum bahut hi aache ko..smart ho..well toned..handsome ho..perfect ko..very understanding...very nice..good toughts...inteligent..know to respect other,make me smile,talks intresting,love me so much.......

Guy: aur tum ismien se kuch bhi nahi ho.

Guy: but your beauty compensates for everything :)

Sounds familiar?? ;)

Should "Change" be changed??

Sometimes, I really admire the enigma of human mind. No doubt we worship the creator. The fact that, when nothing is changing we want see some change so desperately, and then when things change we complain saying, WHY ME?!!
We start as an infant unaware about the intricacy of this world, unaware of the predicaments of life. During this phase our parents take decision for us. We join the kindergarten not even realizing we are at the starting line of a long race, a race whose finish line doesn't really exist. We learn the rhymes, we learn the alphabet. I bet no one ever forgets "A for Apple, B for..." or "Twinkle twinkle little star". Then we are "promoted" to higher grades, primary school, secondary school. In our teens, the mysteries of life start revealing. We are excited, "Come on baby, bring it on". All we crave for is CHANGE. We cant to go to college. We have all the possible ambitions in life and are so confident that we can achieve them. "I want to be an Engineer", "I want to be a Doctor", "Oh no, you people are stupid, I am gonna be a businessman and have all the money in the world". We want to go to college, start our career as soon as possible. We are so excited about the transition. Just cant wait for the change to happen.
We go to college, and when we face the competition and cannot make it to the college of our choice, we realize "This is not how it was suppose to be!" and come up with valid reasons to convince ourselves. We struggle our way through the college. First year gone, we look forward to second year. Second year gone, we look forward to the third...One day we realize, damn!! Soon the preset path is gonna end. The road we traveled so far was already there and now its the time we make our own way. And now you are perplexed. Worried about getting a job, or seeking admission for higher education. Eventually, you get a job and are amazed, this wasn't too hard! You laud yourself for doing it AGAIN!
Change after change, this is how it was suppose to be, right?? But you don't realize that all the way untill now, you never controlled the change. It was change controlling you. Now you question yourself, what next? What change you want to happen now?? You don't know! You start panicking. You wonder, did you wanted to be here. Life becomes a dilemma. But still, you try convincing yourself by making up reasons. Pretending to be satiated. Waiting for the next change to happen, but with every change you cant to change the change. You don't like the way change is changing. You realize how circuitous life is.
So, think about it - should the change be changed?? Or you think, even if the change is changed, you wont like the changed change and would again want it to change???

And it rained...

Was still in my dreams, did not want to get back to reality. Dreams are always more pleasant than the real world!! But my cell phone went off, I cursed my self for being optimistic and setting the alarm. I had options, "Snooze" or "Turn Off", well I wanted to turn it off and go back to my dreams, but again being optimistic I "Snooze"ed it. After about 1-1.5 hrs I finally got up, and started getting ready. It was raining outside. WOW!! I thought. I don't know why, but rains make me so happy. It reminds me of my childhood, when as a kid I used to play in rain, splashing water all around. Its so sad that I cant do it anymore, well I can but then it wont be the same feeling. Hope you understand what I mean. Back to the topic, so it was raining and rains make me happy. I miss home even more when it rains. I miss the bike expeditions in monsoon, I miss the warm tea and kanda bhaji. Miss my folks!! But still, I like it when it rains. At least partially, I feel I am home.

I wish I could feel the SAME, AGAIN!! The feeling of cold water droplets on my face, touching my soul, purifying me!