Birthdays...Do we celebrate ???

Day before yesterday in my ODC, we celebrated our colleagues b'day. Good Day for him, I thought! With everyone admiring and wishing him! We took out some contribution and bought a cake for him...Yummy! Merriment was in the air...we took it to the terrace near the pantry...Everyone sang the B'day song..he cut the cake and things were fine till then! Then the mischief started...with the icing cream and the soft pieces of cakes puffing off in the airs! They even decorated the B'boys face with all the icing, mocked him, taking his snaps altogether in a mess..additionally the poor guy had to undergo through all the b'bumps!! Some pieces (leftovers of the mischief!) were taken away by us! The rest were trashed!!!by the sweepers.. And the celebration was over!


Things didn't shock me really that day, for I had seen this a couple of times...but then this somehow disturbs me..my mindstarts wavering..I won't be able to concentrate till I put this into words...Why this?..What kind of celebration are we up to? Has anyone questioned? One may answer back saying its my life , my money..my wish the way I do things! Yes, all is true!! But then, that doesn't answer the question, does it? Did anyone think about the sweepers who cleaned it..the ladies who trashed it to the dustbin..what they must have felt! None of us shared a piece with them, forget alone I was not able to see the cake pieces lying all the way on the floors! Probably they might not be able to taste an ounce of it, in all their lives, and here we were crumbling and dancing over them.


Ought we need to behave this way? Or is there any way out! I think b'days are meant for looking back again, revising what all we did the year through, analyzing our thoughts and deeds, learning from our mistakes and finding a way out to be a better human being each day! In that case each day becomes a birthday...for me! in the quest to improvise myself each day I am a refreshen, a better person! I thank God for giving me a human birth, with which I can enrichen my soul..I thank my mother; hadn't she been there, I wouldn't have seen this beautiful world!


One way to thank anyone is to owe to them. We owe to every single creature on this earth; because it is instrumental in making you lead a life you are living each moment. We owe to the society. Give it something that it doesn't have..it doesn't require much, but still it makes a ot of diffrence! I feel instead of feeding ones who are already full, its always worth to feed the hungry...the desperate; to donate organs or blood who are yearning to experience life...



Celebrate b'day like a tree--the older it grows, the wiser it turns...the more it holds fruit, more it bends with gratitude!!!

"PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind."
-Alexander Pope

Live And Let Live !!!

The other day we were just relaxing at the afternoon teabreak near the lakeside in our office. Meanwhile two of the ducks came and sat beside us...Great! I was on the top of the world...No fear! Innocent creatures..so harmless. One complete white and the other with grey feathers and multicoloured neck...charming! We wasted no chance of taking a snap!! Nature has imbibed all its skills and efforts to beautify the creatures, with sheer perfection, no shortcomings, no shortcuts.

I kept on wondering how life as a duck would be! Every morning I board off my bus, enter the office gate with the tag displaying to the securities..and then I am with the ducks, probably they are one of the few things that I love in my office. Sometimes they quack a lot, screech, quarrel with each other, fight with each other and again get along, everything just like the kids! and then they merrily float on the waters...Wow!!! Life is so simple..then! We always comment on their lives, like they are the only creatures here, left with no work...enjoying life!!


There is always something to learn from anything, anyone, at any time...learning never stops...that's what my manager says,... great! I learn from these ducks, to enjoy each day as it comes, to take life in a stride, exploring the facets of nature.
As a child I always used to wonder how people could harm and kill such creatures--the chickens, goats, sheep, cows??? Poor Creatures!!! I was too perplexed with the advent of reality when I discovered what people ate was a little chick chirping around..a life merrily frolicking on the grass, hardly knowing it won't be there, the next day, or might be the next moment...too cruel ...I thought then!! Who has a right to shun life like this?? We cannot produce life ...so we have no right to destruct it..I felt!! What its mother might feel knowing that her offspring is no more!! In this context I use to always ask my mother how about if anything like this happens to me..if I am taken away like this?? The thought merely was enough to make her faint..so only human beings should have emotions...I concluded!!

I tried to convince hundreds and thousands of people on this issue..hardly I succeeded! But I am happy at least I questioned them, induced this thought in their minds...they gave it a 'thought'... this is more than enough for me!!! Now too I continue with the same ...

And then we talk of cannibals and the recent episode of homicides of young children and girls.Too contrary....isn't it?

"Live and let Live"--A Wonderful Adage!

Prologue

Right now I am feeling the ecstasy of something "First"...like the first shower, first bloom, first first date...everything that is first..likewise this is my first page !!!...My creation...!!!

It fascinates ...believe me! I came to know about the "blog" concept lately..had been wondering what it is and why people are talking about it! I would rather dislike the idea of surfing the net for no reason..and in graduation days would do it only when I really felt the need for it. But the my job structure as of now leaves me no better option than go for it..that's how I found what blog is..and liked the concept. For me its like writing a diary...all these years I have been putting down into words my feelings, my actions and reactions, my relations...but how I regret I never bothered to maintain those papers well...I wish I had.

The blog is a diary, a medium of expression, giving vent to all your feelings, your desires, your troubles, facts and fiction. As Saint Ramdas of Maharashtra rightly quoted--"Disamazi kahitari lihit jave"--it might help me to understand myself much better, to analyze and rationalize my thoughts and figure out if I am on track or not. For the readers it might entertain them a bit, invoke some thoughts and categorize the kind of person I am.

Hope myself and the readers enjoy this journey !!!