Fall in love with "right now"

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

- Barbara de Angelis

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life's good when its full of surprises..surprise yourself by holding your tongue when it wants to lash out, surprise yourself by letting go off your ego, surprise yourself by achieving a target, surprise yourself by testing your limits of stamina and running an extra mile, surprise yourself by making someone smile, surprise yourself by not falling prey to your weaknesses..  guaranteed you will fall in love with life and yourself...!!

how much time we waste wanting to sleep for 10 more minutes and we end up sleeping for an extra hour..:O .. how much respect we lose as we speak off accuses and abuses and false stories in anger or malice and we end up ruining relationships..:/.. how much peace of mind do we disturb as we fall back on our targets and end up frustrated..:|..

why give yourself any concession from happiness?

my friends who have known me for long, would know what i talk about and would understand the change in heart.. but for those of you who think i am preaching, No,,,sorry to have come forth like that, if i may.. a heart that's always negotiating for a little more happiness, pushes me to tolerate a bit more, stops me when i have a severe need to argue to prove myself, helps my tongue to remain held back when i want to say the worst things, is pleading for me to spread the happiness..

life's too short and so unpredictable that it caught me off guard more than once.. and am not taking anymore chances of wasting my life in addictions, laziness, anger, malice, dishonesty, ego... i am grabbing this very moment, doing what i love the most and smiling all along...! as i close my eyes in prayers and gratitude, i feel for your happiness from the bottom of my heart...

and for a few friends and people who i have hurt in past with my words and deeds, i ask for your kind forgiveness and pray for your happiness,,,

signing off,
yours sincerely,
Somi:)

the world pauses..to moan for its losses...!

When i read history as a kid, and read about various legends like Tagore, Shakespeare, Einstein, Sir Issac Newton, Madame Curie and many more respect worthy Heroes, who changed the way world worked, who brought in a revolution, I merely read their names. Not taking any respect or credit they truly deserve from them but having not witnessed the revolution myself and having to come into a world made comfortable because of heir innovations and contributions and to merely have read and to respect them are one thing...

but as a growing teenager, as i heard my dad playing Ghazals on the cassette player, on the car radio, and when as a college student, as i bought my first cassette of Jagjit Singh album of Ghazals, i truly went into a deeper more meaningful world..my most favorite of his compositions was 'ye nayan darre darre, ye jaam bharre bharre' i have been singing it in times alone and with friends and every time i sing it, Jagjitji's voice echoes in my head and mesmerizes me..! As a working professional, when there was no time for friends and smaller luxuries like time..his composition,'ye kagaz ki kashti' felt comprehensive.. and it took me to my childhood.... if something is so powerful to bring tears to your eyes, so mesmerising to pause the rest of the world, so indulgent that u loose yourself in the moment, then it surely deserves an ovation, a standing one at that.

as i see my 3 year old playing with my iPhone, i see how conveniently he browses through it and finds his desirable games..without an effort , he unlocks and locks and controls volume.. that is when i truly appreciate Sir Steve Jobs. Innovation was never defined better. To be creatively innovative is to be able to make something extraordinary and to keep it significantly simple.

two men, who made history, the men of our times, the men who changed the way world works, who contributed in making it a better place. iSalute and sing along your glory! there's a hole in the world suddenly with this loss...! and we learnt what it takes to create history!