Disjointed Path

"The romanticism fades when your eyes open to reality''

when a new phase in your life starts,it commences with a ''honeymoon period''. You are optimistic and you see the world from a rose tinted window,issues seem trivial and time is abundant.You have things to smile about as everything looks nice from the outside.Sooner or later,reality sets in and the grind begins.They are breaks in the middle but the story remains the same.

We always search for things to hold on to, is it because we are weak to just be with ourselves and exist with no baggage or is it that these things give us a reason to live.Would life be worth living if we had no goals and dreams?,have you ever thought what drives you to wake up and go to work everyday,are you following your dreams or carrying out your responsibility to people that matter to you, well more often than not it is the latter.

Well on the other hand do we even know are goals,as our thoughts are constantly changing,our image of the world and ourselves changes as well, we learn a new lesson and/or undergo a new experience each day . So are we following a defined path or  walking on a set of disjointed paths connected by our sense of self.

The destination of life is death.

Its the journey that matters

Lets end with some words of Bob Dylan

'May your hands always be busy,

'May you feet always be swift,

'May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift,

'May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on ever rung,

'And may you stay,Forever Young.

Thought Flow

This is my first blog and I have nothing to say right now,or rather I do not know which thoughts of mine should i put forth first as they are too many of them scrambling through my mind, when I start to right about one another seems more alluring.

Yesterday I was walking by a flyover and I saw a girl who was sleeping on a footpath,it was raining heavily and she only had a thin blanket to protect herself yet she still slept, I looked the other side and a BMW went past. Growth is the BMW, whereas development will be when you and I rise to bridge the gap between the two India's that exist today. One which we try out best to shun and ignore, hoping it would suddenly disappear someday soon,and the other which we all are or aspire to be in.

Does the Capitalism in our economy prevent the eradication of poverty?! I think to some extent it does as the economy in India is largely based on the availability of poor & cheap labor and we need this tool to grow,such growth will not bring about development but is definitely showing us the need for development.When we read the papers the figures of Inflation,Poverty and Unemployment are just figures to us as they hardly have an effect on us but for millions out their it is the story of their life in one figure.

A very popular saying goes as follows ' Ignorance is Bliss ' is that true or just something a lazy man invented to hide his shortcomings.I have been through times where i used this to support my behavior and at times I would cringe seeing some one else's ignorance,so when i say this it does not mean I am ignorant, truth is we all are,we just choose to remember and see what suits us and would want to see what we like to see.Sometimes we need to look inside ourselves and see beyond. As the Beatles said 

''When you look beyond yourself

You may just find,

Peace of mind is waiting there''

We are just a drop of paint,

yet sometimes the whole painting

Amen.