Lyf Is Lyk Dat Only !!!

Well, I am back after a really long time. Life has changed a lot in all this while, for good and for bad. I am a year older now and hopefully a bit wiser. Work has been hectic along with the travel & I have sat down finally to write something yesterday. Many of you pinged me and asked me to pen something down, so here it is. Hope you guys like it.

It s been years since I first started to walk

Been years since I played paper scissors and rock

Its been a while when I first left home to study

Been really long when I returned home with clothes all muddy

Though I am not complaining to you about my long lost childhood years

But then I realize I am old when marriages and babies are the new norm amongst my peers

I stopped celebrating birthdays long ago with cakes and all that pomp and show

Maybe it was my own way of stopping time and making myself grow

Life has been a rollercoaster all these years

I have grown out of my emotions and childhood fears

But new pages of chapters unknown still await me

Lot many things I await to know and see

In these times of merry & distress

I have met many new faces and cherished the old ones

Some grew near to my heart

While some did tore it apart

While many dream became a reality for me all this while

Many more dreams are making up a pile

I have learnt a lot in these times

Letting my soul free as the ringing wind chimes

I say to people I hope that I become wiser with years to come

While I really hope that I gain some more wisdom

I wish to god that I don’t lose the child in me during my entourage

I hope that I will still remain that reckless boy I was in the years to come

The Art of Life

As I sit down today to pen down a couple of thoughts today after a really really long time. Few of my unfortunate friends have even pinged me for why I havent written anything for so long. Anyways last 1 year has been the biggest rollercoaster of my life making it a really really special one for me (though most of it was bad, but still I see as good things coming out of it.) Anyways I still see a lot of people with a pretty myopic vision of life who end up cursing few others who are more successful than them in life. Here are a few things I learned over the last few years, they may sound a bit over the hill, but even if you try to incorporate one of them, I am sure somewhere a few years down the line you will thank me for it.

1. Learn to accept change, in the long run, it is always for the good. I have seen a lot of old men resistant to change, but even a few stubborn guys and gals not ready to accept it, try to be open to ideas pertaining to change, your way may not always be the right way.

2. Stop taking pride in smoking away the blues, drinking away to the joy and sorrow of life or even worse going towards the "get high" school of thought. If you are in your mid twenties and smoking and drinking, its likely that you will miss your child's twentieth birthday or your own fiftieth birthday. The Liver and lungs are not meant for you to play with. If you are so sure, try to run a kilometer or two and you will see why your stamina is going downhill. Every other day I encounter one or the other jackass who takes pride in doing a stupid relay of liquor or being a chain stud. Stop kidding with yourself.

3. Learn to respect those who have invested their lives for you. Be it your parents, grandparents, siblings or even some great friends. The odds are in a few years you will realize that they are not around and then you will realize that a piece of the jigsaw of your life is missing.

4. Love like there is no tomorrow, but forget a cheater without recall. Nothing lasts forever, not even love. Its the way two individuals care about each other that counts as after a certain number of years, the crazy hormones responsible for being in love are no longer produced in your brain, so its upto you to make or break anything. However, if someone ever cheated on you, for no matter what reason, forgive them and close them out of your life. I will not say move on, but will say love yourself more.

5. Save while you are young. All of us have desires, all of us have needs. Everyone wants to live like a prince or a princess, but the hard fact of life is that unless you are already born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you will be slightly better off than your parents who were slightly better off than your grandparents. It is entirely upto you to be richer than that extrapolation of wealth by your own intelligence and streetsmartness. Save atleast 40% of your earnings till you are not married and 30% post your marriage. Never should your savings go to waste, invest carefully and you will see that red ferrari in your garage by the time most people hit for a mid life crisis.

6. There are absolutely no free lunches. A company will only pay you the 10% of what profits you make for it and that is the maximum limit. High paying jobs come with high risk of health/ wealth/life/employment, large amount of work pressure or in most cases a mix of both. Then there are also certain set of jobs which require subject matter experts who have devoted a large chunk of their lives in gaining knowledge when you were fooling around with a girl in your hostel room.

7. Learn to respect three type of people outseide your immediate circle. a) The nerds - You never know you might end up working for one someday. b) The selfmade princes - Never underestimate what a man can do, if he has enough determination. Rags to riches examples flock in dozens in todays world. c) Cocky bastards who have a deadly mix of both - few are such men but when you encounter such a guy/gal, dont think he is just talking about palaces in thin air. You might regret later.

8. Respect yourself, your own intellgence and f**k the luck. Yes luck does play a part in our lives. I have myself been at the recieving end several times but even in the nadir of my life till now, I never gave up. I never suspected my intelligence, and even screwed the jackasses who tried to do so. Learn to respect yourself, being a little egoistic is good but always carry the humbleness of a tree with fruits. Work hard and give it your best. It may take a while but you will certainly be rewarded. Even in my worst of days, I continued to work twenty hours a day so the harder you work, the luckier you get.

9. Be truthful, honest and maintain integrity even in the hardest of times. Its not bad to admit that you are not going through the best of times but then its no reason to lie or decieve anyone.

10. Never give up learning, gaining knowledge is a lifelong process and its entirely upto you whether to embrace it or maintain your life in an ignorance is bliss mode.


At the end, I would say no matter where you are today, your past will seldom matter to your future life. But decisions made today will surely decide whether in the future you will regret or celebrate your wishful thinking.

Yours Truly

Thou Shall Not Fall To Destiny

Its not that I am not afraid of failure, its not that my soul is made of steel. Its not that I don't sit down alone sometimes to introspect what went wrong but every morning when I rise, I rise with the hope against hope.

Times will always be turbulent, uncertainty will always rule in our hearts, it is this fear of losing everything that keeps me on my toes, though it is aging me faster than most mortals but then I do not need sleep to see dreams, dreams beyond the normal vision of someone who has been fed by a silver spoon and driven around.

It is not the shield of greenbacks that strengthen my character, it is the blood and sweat that I lost in countless days I toiled, it is these stones of destiny that have sored my feet that I still use to sharpen my Excalibur.

While I sharpen the edge, my hands have not always been safe either, but then it is the sight of blood itself that has made me stronger with each passing day. Years have passed since I took the first step out of my den. I was young and restless, not that I have lost my hunger to this day but I realize that I can make for another day without the elixir of success.

I stand by the side of the fast moving jungle wih animals of all type and size, some big, some are small, some are running fast, faster than they can imagine, slower than they expect. I laugh at them sometimes since they think they will outpace their destinies. Some fall badly as they run only to be eaten by bigger ones who move behind them.

Most of them are confused, as to why they are running along, is there a fire in the jungle, some dont even know but then there is always a silver lining that eludes most of us. One is there that awaits me too, though I am not running, I know it is coming towards me, faster than anyone can ever imagine. Some will say this creature is crazy but then staying foolish is all I can do for now.

Leap of Faith

This is a a very amateur post. It’s a post about a character, I know very closely. It may not resemble any of you or you may find certain shades of yourself in him. Like any other post, my protagonist is going to have a name, lets call him Abhay (Me and my love with letter ‘A’). Anyways, this post is only going to be about Abhay and no one else. Its like an ego sketch of this twenty something guy. Around six feet tall, fair with sharp features and dark mahagony colored hair. Resembles some movie star many say, well he looks good enough to be a model himself but is far from being one. Lives in a small two bedroom house somewhere in the suburbs of a large metropolis, college educated but not working in any job in any company. He is arrogant, stubborn and loyal by nature, wellmany o us would be thinking what is Abhishek trying to say here. Why a rich brats description in his post. Anyways let me go on talk a little more. This guy is not rich, an average well to do typical family but off late he has been living alone. Hardly knows how to cook, lives off magi and some other weird ready to eat delicacies (read Rajma Chawal aka Kidney beans in tomato gravy and Rice) from the small neighbourhood stall.

He is not employed but he is always busy, always tied up with things. Always calling people, making arrangements for something or the other. His circle of friends has a long list of PYTs (pretty young things) yet for him something is much more important in life. It is called faith, faith in himself, his ability to succeed, to win and go beyond where most of his caliber would never even dream of going. He is no Slumdog Millionaire but he is still trying to prove himself and reach where few are destined to reach. I ask him whom you idolize, he says “Dhirubhai Ambani”, as both of us sit on the floor of his modest house munching Tandoori Roti and same old Rajma from the neighbourhood stall. I ask him, how do you feel sometimes taking the unknown path, he replies ,“Bhai darr lagta hai kabhi kabhi, but zindagi bhar yahan to nahi reh sakta na.”, pointing towards his house. “Sometimes I feel that a job like yours would have been much more secure, I don’t even know tomorrow, if whatever I do today will even help me. One moment it may all vanish.”, he adds.
“Faith, it’s the tiny steps we take each day which are actually leaps of faith make us realize our destiny. It is these tiny steps that make or break our lives.”, I add philosophically. Today I see this guy take an ordinary path, something which an average guy his age would always fear, I know I would most of the time. Sometimes we do have doubt in our ability, certain instances I recall were when I gave my first interview, the first time I asked a girl out, the first time I appeared to be ragged in front of a senior, but then had I stopped there that day, I would have not even been an iota of a man I am today (as I look in retrospect). What took me ahead was faith and rest followed itself.
I see this guy making good money in an honest and hardworking way, toiling hard, moving from town to town to do something which he loves. Still at the end of the day when he sits with his pals in some smoke filled pub, he is still laughing around and seem to be happy and contended. No one cares for where he sits when he eats or which car he drives. All they know is one happy go lucky guy who is walking an unknown path, who is happy and fighting against the most powerful enemy of the world called life. No one knows that he like millions of us still has doubt and fear but still he is the bravest in my eyes as he is trying to conquer them.
I don’t know what would be the take away from this post. Maybe it is a small tribute to hundreds if not thousands of those young fellows who have taken the leap into the unknown making a mark of their own as entrepreneurs. They work really hard as compared to us lazy buggers who just wait for the last week when we can see our salary slips.

I shall rise again

They came in disguise and never let me realize
I was naïve and they caught me by surprise
It was all over they almost thought for me
As their knives stabbed my frames several times

But I was not to die, I was to live and fight
I have always fought, no matter what is the enemy’s might
I took their blows each o them coming in full force
As I bled, I stood up to return a favor and fight

I was torn apart, unable to walk but they could not touch my will to fight
I gathered my Excalibur and gave it a swing in full might
They knew that no matter what they do, they cannot kill my soul
It is now that they understand the meaning of the world ‘Invincible’ right

Every now and then the evil camp of destiny sends its coward spies
Deceit, treason and death is what inspire their lies
But every time they try to overthrow my will to fight
I rise again and return them a favor with all my might.

My Search for Immortality !!!

I was born a king but will die an emperor
I was born a revolutionary but will die a conqueror
No matter what destiny has in mind
I was born a poet but will die a warrior

I was inspired by men who travelled across lands
With a handful of men and no elaborate bands
Those who rode the horseback with the sword of victory
Those who lived life in the outback full of misery

Those who made Rome beg on its knees
Those who made tore the Ottoman empire to debris
Those whom the Persians couldn't survive
Those who conquered cities of gold that thrived

I wanted to be like those men of steel
Every time I hear their names, it makes me feel
Am I destined for the glory and immortality too?
Will I be remembered always like the chosen few?

The destiny has all the answers but never speaks it out
But I have no choice to make a question or raise a doubt
Immortality is not for those who wait for destiny to answer
Victory is always for those who choose to be a gallant warrior

A Fight Against the Destiny !!!

Destiny, they say controls your rise
Whether you will be mocked or called wise
Destiny, they say is all you have got
Those few lines in your hand making a crevice

I object milord, I would beg to differ
Not all hapless men are meant to suffer
Destiny is what one makes of himself
Its not a precondition to be a winner

Some men are indeed born with a silver spoon
Some are destined to touch the sky and step on the moon
Some take the longer road, the one which is uncharted
Walking along the gorges, mountains and lofty sand dunes

I myself am from the latter
I never had luck in my life on a silver platter
It was an elusive butterfly which I couldn’t catch
It was a fierce enemy whose strength I couldn’t match

Still I held on to my feet and held my head high
I took mighty blows of the world without a sigh
Today I am once again in the nadirs of life
But I will never give up on my dream to fly