Notes of an Overthinker

The social networking has gained momentum in our country from around 5 years ago and is a great hit among the masses. Almost everyone is a part of it. But, I believe, it never remained true to its motto. It never lived upto its real expectations. At least, so is the case in India, as far as my knowledge is concerned. I strongly feel that we people are great at diplomacy. We use something as it best suits us and not as per its purpose of use. Mostly, we tend to use a strong tool from its destructive end. The case with the social media is no different. The ill-effects of misusing the social sites have already started to come up. I am not talking about cyber scams and scandals but a change in the general mindset of the people. We are observing a drastic decline in the quality of thoughts, language and general attitude of the society. The worst affected are the children in the early teens. The young, fresh, innocent and clean minds are hampered the most. The social media, in the way it...

Situations are the moulding forces of our lives. We live as per the situations; we grow with the situations. Sometimes, we change them, but mostly it is the time and situation that has the guts to change a person. We all are submissive towards the situations and there is nothing to be ashamed of in bowing down before them or adjusting with them. It is totally natural. Many times, we find people telling someone, "If I were you, then I would have..." kind of statements. These are nothing but complete lies. The truth is that if you were in someone else's shoes you would have done exactly the same as the other person had done. In that situation you would have not been yourself but that very person. You would be moulded by the situation and then made the same decisions as the other person. Moving along with the situations and adjusting to the them quietly is not coward but a wise decision to make, if you cannot change them. Moreover, doing so is completely human.

We have always heard that life is a cyclic process; that there are ups and downs, one after the other in life. The downs are usually referred to as the dark phase of one's life or what we sometimes call the hard times. Everyone faces them, and everyone comes out of them too. But the struggle we make to overcome those challenges; we keep them to ourselves. We do not speak them out loud for no particular reason. Hence, everyone feels that he or she has worked the hardest or struggled the maximum to enjoy this happiness today. This increases the self-respect of people and they live a life of dignity, but sometimes this self-respect increases enormously without a reason and makes them egoistic. These struggles are something to share with people whom you are close to. when you do this, you come to know that the person infront has worked equally or more harder that you to achieve his or her current position. The awareness toward this fact changes your high self-respect into a mutual...

I love cloudy mornings. In fact, morning has its own beauty when the sun rises but the day does not. It feels as if the time has come to a stand still; It looks as if the clock is ticking but not moving. A quiet stroll on the streets on one such morning, with only the hue of blurred sunshine, all by yourself brings you closer to your inner being. And a road ride is beyond happiness; it is joyous. (By the way, I had one today morning) Today was this perfect morning in Delhi. A beautiful morning in a beautiful city. P.S. You need to wake up early for these experiences. :P

The monotonous and mechanical lives that we are living these days make me feel sorry for ourselves. We usually spend our whole day without giving a single thought to any of our actions. What a loss it is! 86,400 seconds wasted! We failed to live even a single of those moment! This makes us nothing better than robots. But, have you ever tried to sit and stare into empty blank space? Do it. 'Waste' some seconds for yourself. Try to enjoy the blurring visions. Do not let anything bother you. Let the mind take its own course. And then, when you are surrounded by a complete void, think! Think what are you doing and where it is going to lead you. Analyse your actions and make the best decisions. When you do this, you feel your existence. You know that you belong. And that realization is one of the most powerful driving force in the world. It always lets you choose the right path and propels you ahead on your way.

अक्सर ही हमें ये समझाया जाता है की ऐसे सपने जिनका सच होना मुश्किल हो, उन्हें  देखना व्यर्थ है क्योंकि वो तकलीफ देते हैं। यह बात सत्य नहीं है। सपनों का उम्मीदें बन जाना और उन उम्मीदों का पूरा न हो पाना तकलीफ़देह  होता है। सपने देखने में को हर्ज़ नहीं है। सपने हमें खुशी देते हैं और उनके सच होने की दिशा में बढ़ने की ताकत भी। सपने पतंग की तरह हैं, जिन्हे अगर ऊंचा उड़ना है तो उन्हें यथार्थ की डोर से बांधे रखना होगा। अगर ऐसा नहीं किया तो पतंग कहाँ जाके गिरेगी, ये किसी को पता नहीं। सपने देखिये, उम्मीदें न पालें। और यथार्थ से जुड़े रहें।

Acceptance is an important trait which must be a part of one's personality. It determines the broadness of a person. Everyone must accept everything. It doesn't matter how you take things, but you must take them in. That's what really matters. If we do not accept things, then we are confining ourselves in a shell; we are surrounding ourselves within some boundaries. And these boundaries, they are unreal, fake and non-existent. They are only our reluctance towards the thought of acceptance, thus narrowing the spectrum of our knowledge and making us unable to see and comprehend things as good or bad beyond a certain limit. It not only affects our social personality but also hinders our growth personally, as we put up resistance for new thoughts and ideas, making us an ignorant lesser mortal. We must know everything, let it be anything. We must be welcoming for thoughts, ideas, news, knowledge, teachings and any such thing, so that we can contemplate them and then know wh...