Monday, August 5, 2013

A rendezvous with life..

It has always been a pleasure to write, but life seldom gives an encounter & a space to explore. In this stringent educational system of our country, one is always involved in one's own rat race & there is no space to explore, to come up with ideas. Only engineering or medical! If anyone desires for something else, his desire always remains a desire. There is not enough room to search for ideas & opinions! Everyone is in a race to own money & power; no one else desire for pleasure, one's own ambitions & a sense of being contented. I always feel being suffocated in this system!!

Anyways, it's been really a long time that I have written here. I always feel an urge to express, but it's really often that I share; it's just due to lack of time!
Whenever I get an opportunity, I try not to lose it; especially in writing.

To begin with, there are a lot of things that I would like to share!
To begin with, it must be huge!

Last evening, I saw super-stardom.
Last evening, I saw Shah Rukh Khan!!!
He was there in our university, as a part of his promotional campaign for his upcoming movie. He was really humble, sweet, generous & down to earth. A true superstar. We had been waiting for him for almost two & a half hours in that sultry heat! Legs ached, wetting heat & loo winds!  A crowd numbering in thousands!!!
But believe me, when he came, "It was worth it!!"
I was standing so close to him; never had been so close to a star. He danced to tunes, & delivered his famous dialogues! When he said, "Kaun kambakht bardasht karne ko pita hai", I went berserk as it was a dream come true for me!!
Literally, an evening to cherish all my life...

P.S I forgot to mention Deepika Padukone was also there! Got noticed in reflecting stardom

And moving on, I completed reading many writings of great literature, most promising were Animal Farm by George Orwell, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie & The old man & the sea by Ernest Hemmingway. Truly cherished, being a part of literary world. I feel myself to be lucky enough to read such great pieces of art. And most of them, particularly, Animal Farm & Midnight Children have really encouraged me to come across 'freedom of speech & expression' as a literary agent to express ideas & opinions. I firmly believe a need for 'a sense of freedom of speech and expression', which is there in our constitution but is not practically viable!
Expressing your ideas with a certain tolerance level & the boundaries of hurting anyone's religious sentiments, limits the very own idea of 'freedom'.

And lastly, my tryst with destiny.
I have always wondered what would life be, in future! I had always dreamed of it. Whatsoever I dreamed in my childhood, it has always been different. Life in any way, or the other, has, always, taught me a new dimension itself, whenever I try to get over with any idea or any sort of relation! It has always been magical to be into the arms of life & to cherish what had happened!
Whatsoever happens in your life, it would result into two things:-
Pleasure or an experience.
Both are necessary to have in your life.
But I feel, reading literature has matured me gradually, into a person which I had always dreamed of. I see myself, today & I review myself a few years back, I feel how much have I changed, how my views and ideas changed with time, how I matured or is being matured with the passage of time, how I used to deal with people, and the list is endless..

A few hours back, while I was leaving my room for dinner, I saw the date of that particular day only, and a plethora of emotions, ran into my mind. 'Past' is something which can't be changed and 'loneliness' is something which can't be shared! It reminded me of my lonely past which has always been beautiful and which I always cherish, as that was the time when I was so close to myself!

It was luck, or was it destined, I don't know; but I adore that moment and those are the memories which I can live with, whole of my life! It gives me a strength to express, to live, and to love!

Past few months had been a sort of tsunami for me, whirling between love and fate. There were a few instances which I had never thought of; I felt it would be in future, but never had the courage to confront it or to deal with it. But as I feel, always expect the unexpected; I have been fortunate enough to deal with it.
Closing a chapter or ending what you have been adoring/ loving all along, is the most difficult thing to do, but as I learned from 'Florentino Ariza'- male character from 'Love in the time of cholera' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, it's never over...

In our society, when someone goes up in life, to mean being on the roads to success or aspires perfection; instead of encouraging you, there would a group of people pulling your legs to come down! A dirty truth which I have been dealing with, for quite a long time now.

There is still so much to express, but time doesn't permit me as I need to submit my project, its report and a presentation to be prepared for the same, and to be delivered in the seminar!
And I am not even half into it, and only half a day is left!
I am really entangled within the hands of society and education; I wish to fly, fly away to the extremes, exploring the unexplored and to be close to nature!

 Hope my life is listening...