Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kills you.
And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

And sometimes the free fall seems for ever…and you just want to know what the hell is coming up… .the feeling of nothing happening yet too much happening….

Courtesy: The Ideasmithy

Sometimes I wonder…we claim these are what we live for..money, love, comfort, power etc….And yet if I think about it, most of things that we remember are by the symbols around it….

The job that always seems to us as fascinating (the greener side)…its actually not so much about the job but what it symbolizes.. be it the money or the travel or the glamour. Its not the actual job content..or maybe just simple peer pressure….which is even more ironical.

When we think about the people who actually made an imprint on us, is it about them or is it more to do what they symbolized to us? Even when people say they are in love, is it the person that they are in love with or what the person symbolizes to them. Is that why we hear about so many relationships not working out because the symbols dont match up later?

Then the basic question comes by..if all that we are running our lives by are just mere symbols and not the real thing, then is it all worth it? Actually going a step further back, since we have never known the real thing, what are we then doing always on the run trying to achieve something??

I have no clue what I am writing about…but am finding that the whole thing of work, career etc is becoming more and more pointless….and frankly i dont think too many people also realize the pointlessness of it..

The thing about being happy for the moment is knowing that the moment will pass…and yet hoping differently

It’s too easy to criticize hope and in the end, cynicism is a lousy strategy

Seth Godin talks about this on marketing

But I think it applies to any part of life. And everyone would have gone through this phase be it in life, career or otherwise.

But I guess the bigger question is what you did with it…
For I think if there is one thing that kills the ‘present’ I think it is the lack of hope and loads of cynicism. But the interesting thing is that I think people can be completely hopeful about one aspect and completely cynical about other aspects of life.

Maybe it is important that you are hopeful about the more important aspects of life such as the people around you…..

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Now playing: Dil Dhoondta Hai
via FoxyTunes

Nobody knows what the race is for…the title unknown..the path uncertain..
Yet the race continues….

We think we know the answers when the question itself isn’t really clear….Maybe thats the key…to not think of the question…

Sometimes it is better to travel than to arrive

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Added (02/12): Its interesting how the same thought comes over in different forums. Caught ‘Jab We Met’ and its the same thought…

Hum jo chalne lage
Chalne lage hai yeh raste
Manzil se behtar lagne lage hai yeh raste

Havent been obsessed about a song for a long time now….
‘Baavra Mann’ from Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi has been going around in my head and has been playing constantly for the last 3 days.

Baavra Mann Dekhna Chala Ek Sapna…..

बावरा मन देखने चला एक सपना
बावरा मन देखने चला एक सपना

बावरे से मन की देखो बावरी हैं बातें
बावरी सी धड़कने हैं बावरी हैं सांसें
बावरी सी करवटों से निंदिया लुभागे
बावरे से नैन चाहें बावरे झरोखों से
बावरे नज़ारों को तकना…
बावरा मन देखने चला एक सपना

बावरे से इस जहाँ में बावरा एक साथ हो
इस सायानी भीड़ में बस हाथों में तेरा हाथ हो
बावरी सी धुन हो कोई बावरा एक राग हो
बावरे से पैर चाहें बावरे तरानों के
बावरे से बोल पे धिर्खना…
बावरा मन देखने चला एक सपना

बावरा सा हो अँधेरा बावरी खामोशियाँ
धर्धराती लोह मद्धम बावरी मद्धोशियाँ
बावरा एक घुन्ग्टा चाहे
हौले हौले बिन बताये
बावरे से मुखड़े से सरखना…
बावरा मन देखने चला एक सपना

Isnt that what life is all about? The attempt to keep alive the option of dreaming if not fulfilling the dreams….if there werent those what would we have….But then the insane mind sometimes just dreams on oblivious to the world around….sometimes the path is tough, sometimes it is just a walk in the park….

Dream on!!!

(Maybe its the tea at 12.30 in the night doing this….)

As the end-credits started rolling….
He looked for the pause button…
He didn’t even know if there would be a sequel
He didn’t want the movie to end…
Too bad, life wasn’t a movie…

Castles in the air….
That’s what they call them dreams
But without them castles
Would there be beauty in the world?

So, listen to them dreams carefully
And build it stone by stone
Maybe then the castles will be here to stay…
And there is beauty all over again..

- Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany….(circa 2005)

With some, geography is only on a map….
Space is only in the mind….