Lost and found

“Kabhi Kabhi Kuch Paane Ke Liye Kuch Kona Padtha Hai” – Well don’t worry this is not gonna be a reprise of the Hindi flick Baazigar. But these lines are really quite profound. I don’t think Shah Rukh meant that in the movie though, lol

Coming to my story, I had (have – don’t know) the panache of getting myself lost in different ways. The first story (as narrated by my parents to me) is when I was a toddler, I apparently sneaked behind my Dad when he was going out somewhere and some stranger on the road just picked me up and was just taking the kid away (thatz me) and a shopkeeper nearby (friend of my parents) noticed me and got me back to my parents.

Well then a few years later, I was going on the bus with family on an outing to the beach. Err, I have a habit of sleeping on the bus and my parents unsuspectingly left me behind on the bus. Suddenly I wake up feeling a hand on my shoulder and I see the conductor asking me if I wanted to go back as well from beach on the same bus. It took my folks quite a while to figure out that somebody was missing and that somebody was me (me sounds better in this sentence than I somehow though itz apparently grammatically wrong, who the hell wrote grammar, lol). Eventually they found me.

Well as it goes, it happened again albeit this time on a different plane sometime ago. I was just lost in myself until I found a whole new world of excitement, fun and joy. If you want to know how, just come back and read my next posts, lol

What is Violence?

For what shall I wield this dagger O Lord?
What can I pluck it out of
Or plunge it into
When You are all the world? – Mystic Indian Poet Devara Dasimayya

Well as I thought about these profound lines, I just realized that violence is not just a bloody act but can be bloodless too at an emotional level. A simple negative thought/action of hatred or animosity against another fellow being is violence too. Well a sane person may not plunge a dagger into someone but how often do we actually commit acts of emotional violence?

Sri Sri Ravishankar (Guruji) talks about this beautifully and says –
“Even a feeling of hatred against one person is a guaranteed one way ticket to hell”. Hell sure it is, at an emotional level as you lose your peace (and piece) of mind needlessly hating another person.

Falling in Place, Not Quite

There are times when things just happen out of nowhere and you cannot connect the dots. They say the mind is powerful enough that your thoughts define the events that happen around you. There are also connections, which seem extremely coincidental when they happen. Well when the one writing the script is the be-all and end-all, how else could it be?

Well here is something that happened to me. I am on a professional break and to extend my break, I was supposed to apply for medical leave (as that is only leave that I’ve got). Just on the day before I was supposed to apply for medical leave, I trip and fall and break my metatarsal bone on my leg. So eventually it became medical leave in truth and quite a break (leg) to begin my break (professional). Well thatz not the end of the connections, I go to the orthopedic in a car tinted with shades manufactured by 3M (the company) and I am wearing a POP cast manufactured by 3M. Guess what, I have been working on IT applications for 3M for the last 5+ years and the connection doesn’t want to end quite yet, lol.

So things sometime just fall in place, not quite like I’d have wished to here though. But here I am enjoying every bit of walking like an astronaut with the cast. The other thing that hit me the most is all the warmth with which my friends here have taken care of me that I didn’t feel the pain just one bit and am giggling away as if am wearing this cast for a dress-up.