A Conversation

She: I am not sure if I am ready yet.
He: Neither do I, but then this seems the correct step. 

She: What if its not correct?
He: Together, we will work to make it correct.

- #ForegettableMemories

The One You Cannot Have

This love, it is a funny thing. It can elevate you to the highest peak and plunge you to a bottomless pit.  The path we plan for ourselves meanders in ways we can never imagine. Life never ceases to throw us googlies. It is how we handle them that makes all the difference. Sometimes you have to take control of it and, at other times, it is best to let go. And the wisest of persons is the one who knows which option to choose.

 - Sanjeev Advani, in Preeti Shenoy's 'The One You Cannot Have'

The One You Cannot Have

No matter how much you try, no matter how much you want to love somebody else, no matter how much you convince yourself that you have moved on, deep down you know the truth. If you are deliriously happy when you think about someone and a smile creeps up on you, even when you are in the worst of moods, if even a mere thought your weary body, then it is nothing by love. You can try to squish it, pretend that it does not exist, ignore it, try to make it go away, but it never entirely does. 

It always finds a way back.

 - Shruti, in Preeti Shenoy's 'The One You Cannot Have' 

Wisdom of Day !!!

Don't be awake for so long that you forget how to dream...!!!

- Anonymous

A Conversation from ForgettableMemories

She: I miss you
He: You said, you couldn't accept my love
She: but surely, can't I miss you as a friend?

He: I don't live in a world with identity crisis, love & friendship cannot exist together unless they reciprocate.
 

She: But, that's selfish
He: & a healthy too
 

She: You're hurting me & my honest friendship
He: Nope, I am just ensuring that the fragility of friendship and purity of love is preserved.

- a conversation from #ForgettableMemories

Friday Read : કોઈ સજ્જન માણસ પણ છે

એક ચાર વર્ષનો ભાઈ અને એની છ વર્ષની બહેન
બંને ભાઇ બહેન બજાર મા ફરવા નીકળ્યા છે
નાનો ભાઈ છટા થી આગળ ચાલે છે
અને બહેન પાછળ છે

થોડી થોડી વારે ભાઈ પાછળ જોતો જાય છે કે બહેન આવે છે કે નહીં

રમકડા ની એક દુકાન આગળ બહેન ઊભી રહી જાય છે
ભાઈ નજીક આવી ને પૂછે છે
"કેમ તારે કાંઇ લેવુ છે ?"

બહેને ઢીંગલી સામે આંગળી ચીંધીને બતાવ્યું
ભાઈ એ બહેન ની આંગળી પકડી
અને એક વડીલ ની અદા થી
બહેન ને એ ઢીંગલી હાથ મા આપી
બહેન ખુબ જ ખુશ થઇ

કાઉન્ટર પર બેઠેલો વેપારી
આ ભાઈ બહેન ને બહાર થી જોતા હતા
અને ભાઈ ના માસુમ વડપણ ને નીરખી ને મનમાં મુસ્કુરાતા હતા

કાઉન્ટર પાસે આવીને ચાર વર્ષનો એ બાળક બોલ્યો
'આ ઢીંગલી નુ શું છે ?'

"જીવતર ને ઘોળીને પી ગયેલા" એ વેપારી એ કહ્યું
'તમારી પાસે શું છે ?'

બાળકે ચડ્ડી ના ખીસ્સામાં થી સમુદ્ર ના છીપલા કાઢ્યા અને કાઉન્ટર પર મુક્યા
પેલા વેપારીએ એ જ માર્મિક હાસ્ય સાથે બાળક ઉપર અમીભરી દ્રષ્ટિ કરી
અને જેમ રુપિયા ગણે એમ છીપલા ગણ્યા

બાળકે કહ્યું 'કેમ ઓછા છે ?'
વેપારી કહે 'ના આમાંથી તો વધશે'

વધેલા છીપલા ફરી ખીસ્સામાં નાખી અને ઢીંગલી રમાડતાં એ બાળકો તો જતાં રહ્યાં પણ

એના ગયા પછી વેપારી ને એના માણસે પૂછ્યું
'આવી કિંમતી ઢીંગલી તમે છીપલા ના બદલા મા આપી દીધી ?'

વેપારી એ કહ્યું
 

'ભાઈ, આપણે મન આ છીપલા છે
એને મન તો એની સંપતિ છે અને અત્યારે એને ભલે ના સમજાય
પણ એ મોટા થશે ત્યારે તો એને સમજાશ નેે

કે છીપ ના બદલે આપણે ઢીંગલી લઈ આવેલા ત્યાંરે એ મને યાદ કરશે
અને એ વિચારશે કે દુનિયામાં સજ્જન માણસો પણ છે.

- A WhatsApp forward, to remember.

Remembered and Forgotten

She: you remember so much.

He: I haven’t forgotten at all

She: That’s why you are my friend

He: Indeed, you are the only best friend I have

- a simple yet a powerful conversation to walk you right through past…

Wisdom of Day !!!

Impossible

Impossible is not a fact, its an opinion.

Happy Diwali & Vikram Samvat 2072

 

So, the festival has gone as suddenly as it had arrived. Your colorful diyas now protectively hold tiny pools of melted wax and ash. Your rangolis are still radiant, albeit slightly disheveled.

As you walk on the streets this morning, you catch sight of last night's celebrations all around, and you probably see or hear yourself and your loved ones laughing, in that very spot that someone cracked a joke yesterday. Friends and extended family have now gone back home, making promises to meet again soon. 

The sweets and savories have now been stored away, and will be served at tea-time, as mementos of Diwali. The clothes and jewellery that you chose with great care, that made their grand appearance yesterday, have been put away for the next big occasion.

As all the festivities slowly recede into the distance, I ask you for a promise... that in your heart, you will let the lights remain. That in spirit, and in being, your celebrations will continue... that you will attempt to meet your loved ones a little more often and that the laughter that came in abundance yesterday, will make an appearance everyday.

Here's wishing you all a happy festive spirit, all year round.

Lots of love and laughter,
Hardik

- Received this message at start of last year (Vikarm Samvat 2071) and scheduling this post for the next year, as I firmly believe in this message.  To all my friends & family members... Happy Vikram Samvat 2072.

Wisdom of Day !!!

Be a voice, not an echo

Wisdom of Day !!!

Walk

As a child we learn to walk, 

as an adult we learn to walk away...

- Somewhere from facebook post 

 

Think Out of Box - Vanilla Ice Cream Puzzle

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:

'This is the second time I have written to you, and I don't blame you for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after dinner each night, but the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we've eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. It's also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a problem.....

You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I start back from the store my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts just fine. I want you to know I'm serious about this question, no matter how silly it sounds "What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?" 

The Pontiac President was understandably skeptical about the letter, but sent an Engineer to check it out anyway. The latter was surprised to be greeted by a successful, obviously well educated man in a fine neighborhood. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time, so the two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream store. It was vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the car, it wouldn't start.

The Engineer returned for three more nights. The first night, they got chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got strawberry. The car started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start.

Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man's car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem. And toward this end he began to take notes: He jotted down all sorts of data: time of day, type of gas uses, time to drive back and forth etc.

In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time to buy vanilla than any other flavor. Why? The answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most popular flavor, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup. All the other flavors were kept in the back of the store at a different counter where it took considerably longer to check out the flavor.

Now, the question for the Engineer was why the car wouldn't start when it took less time. Eureka - Time was now the problem - not the vanilla ice cream!!!! The engineer quickly came up with the answer: "vapor lock".

It was happening every night; but the extra time taken to get the other flavors allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got vanilla, "the engine was still too hot for the vapor lock to dissipate"

Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems seem to be simple only when we find the solution, with cool thinking.

Wisdom of Day !!!

 

Dreams are not negotiable - Paulo Coelho 

A thought on full moon night !!!

Even today looking at full moon, I wonder why it has black spots. It made me remember an old man's advice, beauty & perfection never goes together,  just as happiness & compromise. 

Accepted level of compromise brings happiness while intolerable compromise scares away happiness.

- a thought on one such full moon night

'Just one year back' is now a decade old lines :-(

10 years ago, I shared this email with my college friends and lot of people had their eyes filled with tears... I am sure, today also they will have same effect. 

Disclaimer: It's not my writing and being almost 11 years old script, have no one to give credit too.

Just one year back, we were breaking our heads to finish our projects by hook or crook.

Just one year back we were feeling bad about leaving college.

Just one year back we were regretting the dismal state of our love lives.

Just one year back most of us didn't know where we were headed.

Just one year back we hardly had any major responsibilities.

Just one year back we were justifying our selection of electives.

Just one year back, we almost lost the ability to read engineering text books. Thankfully for the exams, we got it back.

Just one year back we wanted to spend more time in college than go out bowling, or to a movie or etc.

Just one year back we wanted to go through the college routine one-last-perfect-time.

Just one year back we wanted to curse the appropriate people one last time.

Just one year back I didn't even know I would be doing this...

The most remembered place on Campus

Missing that corridor of life,

that I haven't visited for more then a decade now...

Wisdom of Day !!!

 

Don't dig up in doubt,
What you have planted in Faith.

- Elisabeth Elliot 

Wisdom of Day!!!

The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept in silence sealed, the thought, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed.

- adapted from movie, Definitely, Maybe.

That's LIFE !!!

When I got enough Confidence,
the Stage was gone...

When I was sure of Losing,
I Won...

When I needed People the most,
they Left me...

When I learnt to dry my Tears,
I found a shoulder to Cry on...

When I mastered the Skill of Hating,
Someone started Loving me from the core of the Heart...

and while waiting for Light for Hours when I fell asleep,
the Sun came out...

That's LIFE !!!

No matter what you Plan, you never know what Life has Planned for you...

- a WhatsApp forward

Reel life take-away - 'If I Stay'

Watched the movie 'If I Stay' (IMDb), and should I say, its one of the most touching story I have seen in recent times.  The way it shows the importance of every moment in life and a flashback is amazing...  Guys do watch out this movie if 'moment' permits...

Wisdom of Day !!!

The moment you loose hope of Change, you have an opportunity to initiate the Change. It's up to individual to either live with lost hope or grab the opportunity.
- Hardik Thaker

A thought on day of receiving my revised Compensation Letter. :-)