फितरत

इन 'छोटी' खुशियों की चिंगारियों से क्यों निराश होता है तू ?
कुछ इधर से समेट, कुछ उधर से,
और तबियत से फूँक मार;
कि चिंगारियों से आग जलाना तो तेरी फितरत में है...

Alone.

With noise cancelling earphones
In a jungle of concrete and stone
This uneasy feeling
Of being so alone.

It's a real word !

Random discovery of the day: the word BACKRONYM.

(Backronym = A phrase constructed to fit an acronym/abbreviation)

So today, the tagline of SBS channel (Australia) has gone from "Six Billion Stories" to "Seven Billion Stories" (and counting). Apparently, neither of them is the original expansion for SBS; they are backronyms for SBS - Special Broadcasting Service.

I wonder if I was the only one who got it wrong.

[not that I don't have other things to worry about :D]

क्यों ?

आसमाँ को छूने की ख्वाहिश तो बचपन से थी,
ऊचाइयों से क्यों आज लगता है डर..
समंदर को नापने की तमन्ना की थी,
गहराईयों से क्यों आज लगता है डर..
दुनिया से आगे निकलने का ही तो ख्वाब था,
तनहाइयों से फिर आज, क्यों लगता है डर ?

The crisis in consciousness ..

" We were saying how very important it is to bring about, in the human mind, the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, the crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions and considering what the world is now, with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on. Man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and... he has built a society along these lines."


"What we are trying in all these discussions and talks here, is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind. *Not accept things as they are* - but to understand it, to go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind with every thing that you have to find out. A way of living differently. But that depends on you and not somebody else. Because in this there is no teacher, no pupil. There's no leader, there is no guru, there's no master, no savior. You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is."


- Jiddu Krishnamurty (from the video archives included in the movie Zeitgeist:Addendum)

Four Stages

This post is not about data loss. But it is, of something that, funnily enough, reminds me of this particular comic. Its about an injury I recently had, which made me miss things I didn't want to miss.

Stage 1: Denial [Day 0]

"Its not an injury, I probably just over-exercised. It should be fine in a couple of days. "

Stage 2: Anger [Day 14]

"Damn it, I sure injured myself. My stupid, unfit body ! Cann't take few kilometers of running uphill !!"

Stage 3: Depression [Day 30]

"Still not fine. I wonder how long it'll take."

Stage 4: Acceptance [Day 45]

"It ain't gonna be this time, is it. "

___________

The third kind

I always believed there were two kinds of men in this world, men who go to their deaths screaming, and men who go to their deaths in silence. Then I met a third kind.

- Rang de Basanti

Lets take a moment today, to remember those, who were the third kind.

Happy Independence Day, India.