From dusk to dawn...

Hello everyone...!
I am here after a long time and hell lot has changed during this period.I have changed as a person, I have travelled places , I experienced life my way (though for a very short period) ..All in all everything tried to help in making me understand who i am as a person. There is a drastic change when you leave your college and start building your career. Everything is so 'routinized' that you start finding ways to come out of monotony. But unfortunately there's no way out , you have to keep going and keep doing. That's the way he has created life for us. I just wish like so many others to have my school and college days back. Shoulders without responsibility weighted so less still i was having drooping shoulders so u can just imagine their situation as of now...And i know the path ahead is going to bring more responsibilities for me. I just can't imagine myself in roles which my mother played and is still playing but all i can envision is that..God save me! The small pleasures of life (read getting wet in rains , gossiping around with friends , talking to ur best friend and hours went by but these days we've to find things to talk..Phew ..!) i so much miss all that. I was so much fed up that i switched off my phone for a complete day today, I don't know why I did that may be it was another way to find something different in my daily routine but yes I can do that as well. In college days it was next to impossible for me. Life's teaching me things...!
Feeling good after talking my heart to anyone who's reading this.I know somewhere you will or must be going through same phase. Still ..B happy , keep enjoying!
Ankita

Ki sach ki talash he dur akash he, ki manzil paas nahi kya tu mere paas he...!!!

Amazing, these lines are in my mind since today evening and are driving me so crazy that i am writting a blog on it.

I have many dreams like many others but i don't know i will live upto them or not.I doubt this because i doubt my capabilities.These days I am in love with a Bubble Blower,you may call it childish but i found pleasures of life in these things only.Yes,so what was i talking about ...yeah that bubble blower produces wonderful bubbles but 2 things that taught me.First is Evertytime the no. of bubbles generated are different despite of my same efforts all the time and second is each bubble has a life which is so small yet it spreads happiness because everytime i see a bubble,that makes me smile.Apart from these two things i got another lesson from it Bubbles are just like dreams,they rise high,they are beautiful but unfortunately they burst out...And this makes me sad.I wonder will my dreams come true?But then I am bestowed with some special souls,touchwood.They are with me in every walk of my life.I guess god compensated by for my unfulfilled dreams by giving me these treasures.This blog is kind of tribute to them.I love you all,thank you for being there.I will like to end with few lines for them :

manzil aj nahi to kal milegi to sahi

halaki khud pe nahi he yakeen

par lagta he udaan hogi sapno ki puri

jo tu mere paas he...!!!

Regards

Ankita

2 stories

Hi everyone !

Read 2 stories with great moral,felt like sharing so posting them here.

THE GOOD CORN STORY

There was a farmer who grew superior quality and award-winning corn.Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honour and prizes.One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt something interesting about how he grew it.The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors."How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked."Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field.If my neighbors grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn.If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn."The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbour's corn also improves.So it is in other dimensions! Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.And those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

If we are to grow good quality corn, we must help our neighbors grow good quality corn too...

The 2nd one goes like this...

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead.

The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.

The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die.

He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?"

The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.

This story teaches two lessons:

1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it through the day.

2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill them.
Be careful of what you say.

Speak life to those who cross your path.

It is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way.

Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times.

Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another.

Hope you will inculcate teachings from these stories in your lives.

Regards

Ankita

Why is fasting necessary?

Season of fasting was going on till yesterday for various religions and it's still going on for some.Yesterday I was really feeling glad that i belong to india.Muslims were celebrating ganesh chaturthi along with eid and hindus were celebrating eid along with samvatsari(a festival of jains).So it's not appropriate to use 'hindu' and 'muslims' here.The motive behind writing this blog is Why 'not eating food' the only way to show god that we remember and respect him?

Ramzan last for a month every year.You are not supposed to have even water during the 'Roza' time.Is that the only way to show allah that you are his true follower?Can't there be a substitute?

Jains were having Paryushan till yesterday.Doing 8 fasts continuously without water is a normal thing for them.But what about the after effects?Let's think about it rationally.Your work is affected during the day you fast because you are not that efficient as you will be on another normal day.

What i believe is God shall be remembered from heart.He don't want his followers to suffer because of him.Though fasting has laid it's root hard within our society.It's tough to make people believe that fasting is not necessary.Fasting has it's scientific advantages as well , no doubt in that but you should know your body's limits and shall not cross that limit.

What actually made me right this is 'consequences faced by my mother' due to a fast which she did yesterday.It was hot and humid yesterday and so unconducive weather it was for fasters.Water was essential requirement yesterday but then she didn't had water.Her Blood pressure went down due to lack of salt (as a result of no water),she was having constant vertigo and nausea and 2 vomits as well.A minor consequence this was.But this can magnify and especially when you are growing old day by day.So it was just a piece of advice from my side.Rest upto you.

Was just a thought and you have full right to agree or disagree :)

Regards

Amazing lightning

What a spectacular phenomena lightning is

Opposite charges meet and so they are bliss

After attaining neutrality great energy they emit

Heat and light is what they remit

As hot as sun is the single bolt

Electricity generated is equal to thousands of volt

It is associated with sound of thunder

Why it disappears so quickly I wonder

Different forms and different shades

In a spur of moment it fades

Though it’s beautiful and mesmerizing

Ball lightning is a type it’s wearing

Sprite,elves and bluejet are it’s types

Fascinated I am it’s a fact , no hypes

A tree of light,a tree of spark

Light then sound paints the dark.

P.S.:In the pic it's a type of lightning called sprite.Amazing it is..ain't it?

A request

I just watched a video of a song by shubha mudgal-'Sapna dekha he maine'.Though i have watched it umpteen times as i'm crazy for her voice but this time the video touched me deeply.It's about a poor gal who's expressing her desires.A rich gal fulfills the desire of that poor gal (i'm not liking calling her poor so i'm naming her X) by giving her a doll which she owns.But then ultimately reality reveals itself and inequality is visible.Why our society is so unequal?Why someone is bestowed with loads of money and why some people can't even afford one-time meal? are the questions which are not leaving my mind since watching the video.

It ain't the fault of those people that they are born in those surroundings.Like X they too have desires.They too want to study and they deserve a happy life and a childhood.Don't they?What we can do is help them in whatever way we can.A request from my side to those who are reading this :Please help making this world a perfect place without any inequality (I know it's a dream but start contributing because until and unless we don't dream how can it come true?).

Ending with few lines written by me :

"Dil me he armaan kai sare

Aankhon me he sapne pyare

Aao kare ek kamna

O saathi haath thamna

Duniya ko ek sa banane ki

Khwahish..ek behtar kal ki"

-Ankita

How to face adversity?

Whenever you feel like sky is falling down on you

Remember sky shows a beautiful view

Whenever you feel like God it’s now enough

Remember without getting rough you won’t get tough

Whenever you feel like why only me

Remember the following key

Great wisdom this Persian proverb conveys

I wept because I had no shoes

Until I saw a man who had no feet

So thank god for blessings always.

Problems are not for magnification

Let them change station

Bad phases are for making you strong

Face them as you are enjoying a song

Patience and strong heart you need

Although it is not a easy deed

Face difficulties with a smile

Everyone will then follow your style

Tears are symbols of weak

Common behave like a freak

Normally on adversity people lament

But Show you enjoy the time spent!

-Ankita