Problems…

The poor say if they had a bit more money all their current problems will be resolved. They might invest in shelter and food and might get a better job.

The middle class say if they had some more money all their current problems would be resolved. They might buy a car or a larger home or invest in their business to expand.

The rich say if they did not have so much money all their current problems would be resolved. They might work some hours in the morning and enjoy the evening on the beach with a loved one.

The dumb say of they hade some more brains all their current problems will be resolved. They might get better grades and get admissions in better institutions.

The smart say if they did not have so much brains all their current pronlems would be resolved. No one would put so much pressure at them to top examinations or crack various tests.

The loners say if they knew more people all their current problems would be resolved. They would have more people to talk to and more who would care about them.

The popular say if they knew less people all their current problems would be resolved. They would have to deal with less fake people and would easily be able to differenciate between the real friends and all others.

It doesn’t matter where you end up in life. You WILL have problems. A lot of them. No matter at what post you stand or how wealthy you are. So stop complaining. Solve the damn problems. Thats what will drive you forward. Thats what will take you where you want to go.

But it doesn’t matter where you want to reach or have reached. Now what? Did you spend the whole of the journey complaining how hard your life is? See, that’s the mistake we all are making.

The destination is not the point, the journey is. It is where you will go through so many ups and downs. It will make you cry your eyes dry, thrill you on some days, make you super happy on some, it will break you on others. But in the end it will actually make you, build you. You are who you are because of the routes you took. “Decisions of you past are architects of your present.”

These are the decisions you took on your journey. You will always cherish the destination you reached, but more than that when you will look back uou will realise the road taken had more of the thrills, the enjoyment.

Life itself is a journey my friend. The final destination is your death bed. So make sure you never again grumble, or hold grudges against anyone. After all, they too are a part of your journey, their destination, their deathbed.

Just relax right now, forget everything for two minutes. Brace yourself for this hell of a ride. And on any journey, wether that of life or a career or education…just remember to enjoy it, to cherish it because it is what will make the destination worthy and make you feel proud of yourself at the top of the world.

Good luck on this journey of yours my friend😀😀.

Happier

Today lets talk about happiness.

What is happiness? It’s a very basic question. Yet many fail to define it. If google the definition of happiness it will tell you that it is the state of being happy. A bit too helpful, isn’t it?

Further if you search the definition of happy, it says it is the feeling of showing contentment or pleasure. That’s a bit too basic. While it may define the word, it does not define depth of the feeling or this state.

We can rightly say that happiness is the state you achieve after solving a problem, over coming an obstacle. So without problems there would not be any happiness. A bit too ironic, isn’t it. We all want happiness yet we want to ignore the problems that it comes with it. That’s not entirely possible.

But keeping that in mind, we can devise a way to achieve happiness in a much more easier way.

The amount of happiness we get is completely dependent upon the place we look it for. Your glasses might be resting on top of your head yet you are looking for it every where at your house. You’ll never find them. Until ofcourse, you look for them in the right place.

We need to recognise the easiest place where we can achieve this feeling.

If you are truly rich, a millionaire, maybe a billionaire, you still won’t find happiness looking for it at the wrong place. If you are still regretting that deal you did not take a year ago or envying the success of a colleague or a competitor while having more material wealth than more than 90% of the world, you’ll never ever be happy.

While if you are a man living a humble life but value your friends, family and your environment, you will feel happy. There is no doubt about that. You just need to recognise the things around you that make you happy, not things from your neighbour’s garage because the grass always looks greener on the other side.

So stop envying others progress or house or car or whatever. Find what makes YOU happy that you can easily access. It might be inner peace, reading, writing, playing video games, whatever.

You need to discover new horizons of your life. Your passion might even turn out to be a career option for you and if you truly enjoy your work, there is nothing between you and success.

So go out there, discover new things, invent some on the way but when you come back, come back happy.

Live Life The Better Way

As teenagers in high school, we are told that if we get very good marks in the CBSE class 10 board exams, the rest of our life is set.

Next we are asked to get in a very good college like IIT or IISC or IIM and the rest of our life is set.

We go through a lot of trauma and stress and pressure with drugs and alcohol an arm’s reach away and n college. We are advised to get through this and and told that then the rest of our life is set.

If we get through this mental and emotional torture we are literally broken from inside. Next we are asked to get a good job and told that the rest of this life of ours is set.

After waking up early every morning, listening to the boss’s bullshit and completing the day we return home to find our mom and dad. The smile at you. They tell you that if you get a nice girl of their choice and marry her, the rest of our life is set.

You need to their demands, they are your mom and dad after all.

You are married to a person whom you might have met just a couple of weeks ago and asked to spend the rest of your life with her. Strange, isn’t it? Looks like a strange dream yet it is a very common reality.

This goes on for a couple of years. You accept life’s harsh beating. You might have been earning well but you definitely haven’t been able to live life yet.

You just start thinking about this and you see that your parents are at your doorstep. They are asking you to have a child and they tell you that life after will be “set”.

You believe them again. You got three little ape-evolved creatures running around the house. You sigh. Soon you are old. So old that anything you think of comes with a feeling of regret. You say to yourself that you should have done those things in your youth. Yet, you say the same things to your kid that your parents tell you. And the cycle repeats itself.

It never really is ‘set’. Never that way. That is something that makes you just like the guy next door. Not like Sharma Ji’s kid.

We have been living life the wrong way all of the time. This is not the way it is lived. You deserve to wake to that beautiful wife of yours that you met in college and not to the goddamn textbook and marks from dried tears that you had shed last night. You deserve a framed picture of yours pursuing your favourite hobby rather than that framed degree of a college you don’t want fifty years later. Do some serious shit to which you smile to when you remember it even when you teeth are falling out. Explore the world rather than that college campus or office building of yours.

Bill Gates was a college dropout. Steve Jobs was a school dropout. They are at a level higher than almost all of the world.

Eminem was a school dropout and was in ninth grade for three years straight. Yet even he is a very well known name in hip hop culture.

Sir Richard Branson was dyslexic. His headmaster had told him that he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. He achieved the latter.

Why live an ordinary life when you can live an extraordinary one?

It doesn’t matter if you scored 60% in boards. Or if you went to a small college in a village. Or if you have a petty job that pays you fifty grand a year.

It doesn’t matter if you are unmarried.

You need not be great to start. Just start to be great.

Most footballers playing professional football in Europe’s prestigious clubs do not have a formal education. Yet they possess skills and had a burning fire of passion within them that fuel led their way to success. They are richer than more than 90% of India’s population.

It is sometimes said that our universe might just be a cosmic accident. We don’t know what will happen post our life. What we do know is that we have this life that we get to live on this beautiful planet. A creation of nature.

This is why you need to stop being just a cosmic accident and go outside and do whatever makes you happy, learn to express yourself. Open a YouTube channel, start a blog. Do whatever makes you happy. Do whatever makes you YOU. Do anything that makes you different from the next person. Be more than a cosmic accident.

Be like Sharma Ji’s child.

A Quote to Live By

Okay! Getting started now on this blog. Needed a platform to share my thoughts and views for a long time. Now have it, so lets go! Okay, so lets get started with a nice and beautiful quote. I read this quote a few months ago and it never really left me. I wish to live my life by it. It might even inspire you! It goes by as follows:

SPEAK ENGLISH

KISS FRENCH

DRIVE GERMAN

WEAR ITALIAN

SPEND ARAB

PARTY CARIBBEAN