Dear Brain...

A young person, much like you and me, who has had a tough time and is feeling troubled decides to write to his own brain telling it the troubles of over-thinking and asking it to calm down!!!

Dear Brain,

I have been trying to explain you this since some time. But you don’t seem to be in a mood to listen to me at all! (Talk about being stubborn! ;-)) Every day since some weeks, I have been trying to confront you and explain some important things. But all you do is turn your back to me and stare in the opposite direction and act as if you are deaf!!! Now the water has gone much above the danger level (and I am really sinking), that is why I have decided to pen down all that you need to understand.

So let us get down to business crisply. You really need to understand that you have been interfering too much in all my matters. I know your job is to think, analyse, give orders to other body parts and make sure that everything is working properly. But dude, you are overworking the last few weeks…

You are thinking too much…so much that my heart is facing a serious problem. You are making it beat at a pace too rapid, causing anxiety. You are analysing too much…so much so that it is becoming a big obstacle to my sleeping hours. You are behaving like those rash teenagers on the floor above my apartment who play loud music right in the dead of the silence of the night. You are nagging me a lot lately…so much so that you could compete with Mrs. Sharma at it. (Imagine that now!) You are acting like the mother-in-law of the 1940’s…who made their daughters-in-law reduce to tears at the smallest mistakes!!!

So my dear brain, please stop behaving this way. We used to be good buddies amigo…:) I remember that you did not keep chattering all the time then. These days, you are constantly grinding the wheels too hard…weighing each emotion and stream of thought again and again…thinking about every word that my mouth utters…analysing every word that falls on my ears…even all the dreams that I get…DUDE…give it a break!

As your good friend, I really want to tell you something. I understand that you cannot help thinking about everything under the sun including life, ambition, love, passion, work, success, failure and death. All I want to say is that it would be so much better and easier if you think about all these things one at a time. And take it a bit lightly…yeah, you can give that a try, right? Not too hard I guess :)

Please do get some relaxation. Take a short holiday somewhere if you want to. But come back soon…I can’t do without you!

Loads of love and care (I know that sounds cheesy but bear with that!)

Yours truly! :)

This One is To Friendship!

Each one of us has friends…some have few…some have many.

Friends touch our lives in one way or the other…and thus they add new colors to the palette of life…And like all colors make a picture colorful,each friend adds a special flavour…

Recounting some of them here…

One…who lights up your workplace…with his calm and helpful attitude…with a nice smile to light up the days you have too much work…

One…who you tease and by whom you get teased a lot…the major time of your meetings passes in pulling each other’s’ legs…

One…who you meet in the bus/train/signal…the encounter includes just a smile and a hi…

One…who is absolutely your best friend…anything and everything special that happens…the first one with whom you want to share it all with…

One…who has been your eternal company…be it shopping, outings, walks in the evening…even the maggi at 2 am…

One…who is practical and very sane…whom you turn to when you need some sound advice…

One…who speaks less…but is a great listener…

One…who has the most charming smile you have ever known…who can actually make the entire room light up with his smile…

One…who is the most innocent and childlike…at whom you laugh a lot…

One…who is the coolest person you have ever known…the one you know can tell you how to take it light however bleak the fight may be…

One…who can listen to all your stories and can tell his own…and enjoy every moment of it…

One…who epitomizes fun and excitement…the life of every party…the all-time gracious host…

One…who is a music or a sports or a novel freak…and will pull you with him to the match out on the grounds or the music concert somewhere or every bookshop you cross…

One…who has an exceptional talent in some field…be it singing, dancing, writing, playing guitar, swimming, badminton, sports champ, anything…and you really adore that…

One…who is super sweet…and adds a honeyed flavour to every situation…

One…who you think might be busy…so you don’t call him up…whereas at the other end, the idiot is thinking on the same lines…

One…whom you don’t hesitate to call even in the middle of the night if your heart is feeling super low…coz you know he’ll come to meet you as soon as he can without any harassing questions…

One…who has not had a chat with you since a long time…but you know you can call him up anytime…even now…and barring a few swear words in the beginning, have a heart-to-heart chat without any serious complaints…

One…who meets you in few and far between times…but you share your important decisions and views…intellectual buddies…

One…who is living very far away…but his memories come by often and fills your heart with nostalgia…who symbolizes the quote… “The good old times…”

One…with whom you can share an entire afternoon…without really talking much…just listening to some classy music (that you both love)…and feel that you had a great time…

One…who has taught you what passion means…who has gone beyond daily life troubles and duties to pursue his passion…

One…who has altered the principles of your life…who has affected you so deeply that your mind spells respect whenever his memory comes by…

One…who has taught you what it means to be happy…one who has made you feel alive and very full of life and love…

One…who has seen your tears…and not laughed at them…but sat beside you till you felt ok…and then taken you out for an ice-cream(or a drink(guys!))…

One…who has stood by you…when you were facing the darkest periods of your life…

One…who has been there…when you screwed up something really big really badly…and then also helped you clear all the mess and help you jump back…

One…who encourages you in your dreams…tells you that you can achieve them all…and promises to stay by your side whatever may happen…

One…who you know that you can trust with your life…no matter what…

One…who is living a life you dream of…and you hope to see yourself there too…and you are so proud of him…

One…whom you have not really said…but you wish to…that you love him a lot…you have shouted at him…even kicked him…but in your silent moods….you have absolutely loved him…

The list does not end here…I am sure each one of us can add to it…I request you to add to the above. Remember the quote “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves” :)And it’s a nice co-incidence…my colleague’s cell just rang… The ringtone says…“Kyun ki har ek friend zaroori hota hai!” :)

I Want to Disappear...

Life can be compared to a time piece. A rough analogy, one would say. Well, like a timepiece, life too has various periods. There are times which ring in happiness, some which bring sorrow, still some others chime love, and some are hours of pain...

There also comes a time in life when one feels a bit too out-of-the-place. When things look perfectly normal on the outside but the insides are facing restlessness. The times when you might have felt that it would be so wonderful if you could escape to some other place…This piece of writing is dedicated to that phase of life…

I feel like disappearing…

I feel like running away from here…

Without telling a soul…

And be free from any questions…

And the answers that should follow…

I want to get lost in some other world…

With just a wad of notes in my bag…

With a road to walk on…

Or may be a river to cross…

With flowers and blossoms…

With butterflies and poppies…

With the sun and rain…:)

I want to leave behind my home…

The daily routine…

The mundane life…

The day to day expectations…

The thousand questions…

The heart wrenching memories…

The mind numbing nostalgia…

The listless evenings…

The nights of sleeplessness…

The teary eyed mornings…

It’s not that I am afraid of life any more…

But I do need a break…

I want to get away and go to a new place…

A place where I have lost my way

But I have found myself.

A place where I have lost my inhibitions

But I have found what my heart says.

A place where I have lost all connectivity

But I have found the connection to myself.

I want to be with my inner self…

I want to know what my heart desires…

What it has been trying to say in a soft voice…

What it really wants to do and achieve…

Coz I have been crowding it

With what others expect of me…

With what others feel for me…

Somewhere I have lost myself…

Somehow I have forgotten to be mine own…

I want to get away from all the noise…

And listen to the symphony of my soul…

Surely there must be a place…

Where you can get lost and find yourself…

In that simple enlightening place…

I want to disappear…:)