AN ENRICHING VOYAGE

As you set out for Ithaka hope the journey is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon – don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon – you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one,
may there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbours seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind –
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey,
without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean. 

PS: One of the best poem I came across on Career Launcher website.

पौने दोसो नकाब है

थोड़ी पी लेता हूँ तो लगता है भेद खुल गए सब इस दुनिया के, सब संगमरमर सा साफ़ है

सोकर उठता हूँ अगली सुबह, चार लोगो से मिलता हूँ, हर एक चेहरे पर पौने दोसो नकाब है

या तो कही गड़बड़ है कुछ हम में, या फिर पूरी कायनात गलत है, पता चलता नहीं माजरा 

बस इतना पता चलता है की असली दोस्त तो है अपने पाच वही, बाकी सबके वायदे बेबुनियाद है

हम तो इस उम्मीद पर टिके थे की वो खुद ही गबन कबूल करेंगे पान खिला कर, गले लगाकर

अब दिल का गुबार निकाले भी तो कैसे, नशे में तो सिर्फ हम है, बाकी अभी भी हाज़िर जवाब है

माना दिल दे कर जुर्म इक हमने भी किया था छोटा सा कभी, पर इतनी सज़ा नहीं बनती थी

ताली भी एक हाथ नहीं बजती, उन्होंने तो हमे ऐसे तड़पाया जैसे उनकी रूह एकदम बेदाग़ है

अभी तक भी तो चल ही रहा था रफ़्तार से सब कुछ, आगे भी चलेगा, मुझे कोई शिकवा नहीं

मैं तो आज भी ना कलम उठाता, मेरी क्या गलती, कुछ दर्द का नशा है बाकी हलकी शराब है

 PS: This poem has been taken from someone's blog as I find it interesting

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011

Before midnight

Tomorrow morning as we all wake up in our bed, we are neither here to remember the immense beautiful moments of just went 365 beautiful glorious days, nor we are here to mourn the days which we want to revert back deep somewhere into our hearts. Life is all about moving on, and all of us will move on burying this year too along with the previous ones deep inside our hearts, only to revive those moments at some time. No matter whether this year was great for you or was very painful, it will be forgotten and will be faded in the history pages.

Resolutions – I know no one fulfills any but still it gives me a sigh to finally have some.

I am not going to waste even a second in this year. Keeping yourself busy keeps your mind from all the creepy idle thoughts and helps all your work done in time and with great efficiency.

This year is going to be the most important and my full career will be decided in this year. I have my intern and placement and cat exam in this year.

I will read a lot in this year. It has been correctly said that books are our best friends. Plus reading them really benefits us a lot.

I will write a lot. I am going to do some serious blogging, apart from love and emotional crap.

After midnight

A thought : Time flows at a miraculous speed. Isn’t it?

Today is a special day. Why wouldn’t it be? It is the first day of the year 2011.

It is the day of hope and inspiration for a lot of people who had decided to do a lot of good things in this year. It is the day to make a lot of resolutions and act upon them, to wish and hug your dear ones, the day when you can finally stop moaning over your previous days and can start your life from a new end. While many of us had a splendid bash of this New Year at the midnight, I was just lying in my bed ready to sleep while the clock ticked 12.

 

In retrospect: the year 2010

My greatest regret for this year was that I didn’t click many photos. So this year I am going to click lot of photos as memoirs.

I have learnt that many of the wrong decisions related to my emotional life have been taken by me by waking up till late in the night when I really have nothing to do. So I would keep myself busy during such weak and soft hours of the day.

Never fall for or get serious for any girl. Not because this is not the right age to fall in true love but also because you will lose all fun plus it will jeopardize your career. Never propose a girl in your life, atleast not now. Start using the word “like” more than the word “love”. Believe me it changes everything for good. Don’t ever try to define your relation with any girl, either. Some things are best going when allowed them to go the way it is. Let the time decide the course of your relation.

Your time will pass very quickly like this year. Manage your life accordingly.

Don’t eat too much of junk. It spoils your health.

Life is beautiful. Enjoy each and every moment of it. These are really the best days of my life.

Well overall the year 2010 was wonderful. I mean seriously! Whatever happened in this year, good or bad, I learnt a lot from it. I had experienced hellnuma new and different things in this year. Plus I guess my thought process has gone a drastic reversal, in a good manner. Now I see everything-(say it life, friends, love, my career, love, anything) with a different perspective. A real sense of maturity have come into me. I am no longer a misanthrope and above all I have started to love myself, once again!

As I entered the year 2011, and looked back all what comes to my mind is what a wonderful year 2010 was!

 

I hope that this year brings in your life everything you ever wished. I hope this year will bring the prosperity to mankind. I hope that this year will bring smile on the millions of sad faces of this country. I hope this year make earth a better place to live on. I hope when I wake up tomorrow sun is as bright as it had been in my dreams. I hope.

I wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2011.

AM I GETTING OLD?

 

Sahil asks himself: Am I getting old?

This may be weird but I am getting a feeling as If I have grown old. There are several things that make me think so.

• I no longer take interest in chats and long bakkar sessions.
• I no longer shed tears in a romantic movie or while listening to sentimental music.
• I have stopped coming online 24x7. I am not an active member on social networking sites like orkut and facebook.
• I no longer put eye-catching status messages on gtalk.
• I am happy with my old nokia 1600 set and don’t ask for a new phone with QWERTY keypad. I don’t even recharge my phone with a message card and have stopped replying to stupid “hi! watsup” messages.
• My emotions have become more pragmatic and less inclined towards anyone.
• I have become a stoical and nonchalant person who no longer gets hurt by people’s comments.
• I always say to people that “childhood was the best part of my life”. Doesn’t this clearly show that my childhood is over?
• I no longer go to canteen late in the night as I think that canteen food is insipid and aesthetically unfit.
• I can spend 350 bucks for a dominos cheese burst but will bargain even 5 bucks with a rickshaw tender.
• Whenever I see rain I want to go out and dance like a kid but I stop myself because I don’t wanna take the pain of getting wet and drying myself. Maybe I am afraid of water. Plus I think that I am too mature for such kind of nonsense. God! What has happened to me!
• I think that I have seen enough of chicks in my life and now am no longer get attracted or infatuated towards any hot girl. The feeling of falling in love seems to be buried ages ago. I have stopped building castles of love and fantasies in air (typical characteristic of a teenager).
• I no longer shout at or chuckle with my sister. Neither do I fight with my parents to fulfill any of my stupid fantasies.
• I no longer buy/want to buy the things that I always wanted to, the things that satisfied my tastes and passions.
• I start a novel but never reach beyond 50 pages. I don’t even watch a full movie at one stretch.
• I no longer love to play video/computer games and consider those as kids who do.
• I have started taking bath regularly (What the fuck!).
• I know my SWOTs (strength weakness opportunities and threats).
• My hairs have started falling and few have become white.
• The number of cosmetics that I use has fallen from 12 to 1. I have even stopped using facewash and prefer washing my face with soap.
• My stubble grows very fast.
• I have started valuing people in my life.
• I laugh at the things that hurt me once (the best part!).
• My views have become very diplomatic, political and phlegmatic. I am worried and feel very much insecure about my future.
• I have learnt sharp riposte for every touché through experiences.
• I love to advise people like their grandfather guiding them what to do and what not to do. I wish to help people with true heart and nothing fishy in my mind.
• I long for rejuvenation. I desperately do!

They say life begins at 60. But why I am feeling that life should end at 20? I think I urgently need a change in my life.

PS: Finally I have turned 20 which marked the end of my teenage.

PS: Thanks Amik, Garima, Neha, Prachi, Ankit and Samarth for making my birthday special. And yeah the card was so stupefyingly awesome. :)

PS: Today I ride my bicycle after 16 months. It felt very good. I love bicycling.

PS: I have joined CL (Career Launcher) classes for my MBA preparation.

PS: Nowadays life has become very tough, busy, hectic, miserable and pathetic. I have to manage many things simultaneously like MBA preparations, my core studies and reading hellnuma lot of magazines along with improving my GK and gaining knowledge about business world. I wonder how I will manage so many things!

PS: Addicted to Dominos pizza badly!

PS: A long journey ahead. Wish me good luck.

PS: Adios.