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IM SUPERSTITIOUS!!

P.s.: yes yes i know it is inspired from a certain webcomic.
Ok more like copied.. But I really liked the abtruse goose idea!

Choices

They say we are defined by the choices we make. That our choices in life is what truly tells about the kind of person we are. So that got me to thinking what exactly do we do when we choose something? What exactly defines the thought process that results in that all important choice??

Do we choose a path because it seems right at the time? Or do we choose it because its the "correct" option? Because its the morally and socially acceptable thing to do? But then what about the people who go against the norm?? Everyone good or bad who made choices that went against the general rule of society? Which brings us to the fundamental question "What is correct?" Is something right just because majority of the human race accepts it to be (or at least the majority we know) ?? Or is something right because we want it? Because we know that our happiness lies in choosing that option?

Then what do we do when we have to choose between two right options? When both the options will make us happy eventually? When you know that no matter what you choose you are always going to regret having to let go of the other choice? When even the "correct" choice is going to seem wrong soon after it is made? When all we want is both the choices but all we can get is one of them? What do we do then?

I read a quote that said,

Choice is never between right and wrong. Its between right and convenient.

Is that what we do then? Choose the convenient option? But then wont it make it the wrong choice? Isnt there a way to make the right choice always? A formula to guarantee that we will never regret the decision we take?

I believe we should always choose the option that resonates with our conscience. This is specially true when we have to choose between two rights.. Choose the one which your conscience allows you to choose. Because at the end of the day there is only one person with whom you have to spend your entire life and that is - YOU. You can lie to the whole world but you cant lie to yourself. So you will not want to live with a choice that your conscience doesn't allow you to make.

Will it guarantee that you always choose the right option? May be not. But it will guarantee that you don't have regrets. And what if you still choose the wrong option?? Well then that's a choice you have to live with.

Love You Bangalore

Today, as I boarded the flight to Pune I felt different. Usually this is a very happy moment for me. I will be mentally making lists of the things I will ask my mom to cook for me (matki chi usal, misal, ragda pattice, kali amti etc..), the places I would go to (Vaishali, Cad B near Karishma, Durga, Ganesh Bhel and Laxmi Road always figure in this list) and trying to figure out how to accommodate visit to all friends and relatives in 3-4 days.

But this time it was different. This time I was thinking of all the things I will miss when I am away - coffee breaks at office, the movie I was gonna watch with my flatmates and the meeting with MM friends. I wanted to go to UB City and Orion this weekend and probably even squeeze in Wonderla.

Thats when I realised somewhere in the last 2 years I had got used to Bangalore and my life here and do I dare to say it - started loving it. I was so busy missing Pune during the last 2 years that I failed to notice that somewhere in that time Bangalore has crept in quietly and made a place of its own in my heart, a place even Pune wont be able to take.

Ok - I think I need to make a disclaimer here for all my shocked friends (I am expecting a few heart attacks as well considering that I am the staunchest Punekar I know) - Pune always was, still is and will forever be my first love and my favorite city. I will still rather have pani puri with ragda than potato, still rather shop at Tulshi Baug than 4th block and still rather hang out at FC Road than Brigade Road.

But what I have discovered is this - that pani puri with potato is not that bad, you get good stuff for reasonable prices even at the 4th block market and Brigade Road is a cool place to hang out at.

If I would have been a guy I would have said - Pune is my wife and Bangalore is my girlfriend. (That doesn't mean I am gonna say Pune is my husband and Bangalore is my boyfriend).

This is not the first time I am looking forward to coming back to Bangalore and my routine after a holiday at home but yes this is definitely the first time I am looking forward to coming back even before I have started holiday.

So yeah this time the holiday is different - bcoz instead of planning a break from routine I am planning my return to it.

Miss you Bangalore..

ई-म्हणी १

आपल्या मराठीत भरपूर छान छान म्हणी आहेत. काही म्हणींच "modernization" करायचा हा प्रयत्न...


Original म्हण :
उचली जीभ लावली टाळ्याला


ई-म्हण:
उचला हाथ लावला Keyboard ला

Can't Understand Anything :-(

Can someone please for the love of God tell me what the hell are they singing in the GOINDIGO AIRLINES AD????!!!!!

If anyone from their PR or marketing happens to read this blog then pls pls let me know as Im sure no layman would have understood the ad.

The MAGIC of all that is LOVE.

I don’t know what inspired me to write this post. And I know a lot of people reading this post will think I am writing it because I am in love. Well neither have I been that lucky yet nor is the reason for writing this post that interesting.

The reason is boringly simple: I had called up a friend and then heard his caller tune: “I don’t know who you are, where you’re from and what you do as long as you love me.”

That got me thinking, is Love really that overpowering, that nothing else matters, and if things do matter while pursuing your love is it still Love? So I put on the most romantic songs on my cell, took a steaming mug of coffee and sat down to explore something which I am hoping will happen to me someday.. (the sooner the better Mr. Cupid).

The first question that I want to ask everyone in love is what exactly is it that you are feeling when you tell someone “I Love You”?? Are you saying you like that person the most? Or that that person matters the most?? Or is it that the presence of that person in your life is the most important and amazing thing in your life?? Or is it option D – all of the above….

Anyone who has read the book Twilight will know the description of imprinting that Jacob gives Bella – 

“It's not like love at first sight, really. It's more like...gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it's not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her...You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that's a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother”. 

That’s how I always imagined Love to be. To like someone without limits – where even the thought of not being with that person is like a thousand knives stabbing you at the same time, when all that gets you through the tough times is the thought of the person waiting at the other end to hold you and tell you that everything is going to be fine and the worst is over, when any romantic song reminds you of that person, when even the simplest squabble brings tears to your eyes, when you can’t sleep after a fight, when you wake up with the biggest smile after dreaming about that person, when the thing holding you onto Earth is no longer gravity – it’s the other person.

I believe that loving someone means being with that person is worth everything, that the person is worth everything, so even if you are at each other’s throat every other day or the smallest squabble turns into World War 3, even if you drive each other crazy (both in the good and bad sense) – it’s OK because the person is worth all the hassle…

So what happens when people separate – has their love ended?? Will you still call it love if it ends?? And more importantly does love end?? What about times when the situation doesn’t allow you to be with the one you love?? How do you watch the most important person in your life walk out of it?? Or does the same love give you the strength to do it?? When you love someone can you really watch that person love someone else? Watch him or her belong to someone else?? Watch someone else get all the love and attention that is actually yours?? Don’t you want to scream at every moment “Pick me, Choose Me, Be Mine!!!”?? Why don’t all real love stories get a happy ending?? 

Or maybe they do, it’s just that we fail to recognize that what we have is the true one, that all the past ones are just that – Past. They happened to enrich your life at those moments but they were not meant to be in your future, because your future has something so much more amazing.. Maybe the Magic of all that is LOVE hasn’t touched me as yet, and hopefully when it does I will know it and it will last forever…

Can't Let Go

This is a poem I found in a video of the song Jiyen Kyun of Dum Maro Dum on youtube.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYfFySrui2c
Really liked it...

"I cant completely let go of you
Let go of us....
All I can say is I love you
I know you dont want to hear it
But it makes no sense to pretend that I dont
I miss you with all of me
Things get easier
But will never with you
I'll cry less
But the pain will still be there
The love we shared and gave each other
Will always remain in my heart forever....."