Inexpensive Treasures

All the time we are rushing to earn more and more, hopping from job to job to get the best figure on the pay check. Obvious is the reason that we all are seeking better life with all those extra grands earned. Money cannot buy you everything…what!! d’aah! that sentence is nothing but a cliché. Money can buy you almost everything today. But some small silly pleasures of life can still be experienced free of cost. Having said that I’m not going to start the whole- “finding money in an old pair of jeans” or “one car four buddies and a road trip” kinds list. Undoubtedly all that is some “feel good” stuff, but what I mean is that it can be about more regular little stuff like

• Hearing your parents’ childhood stories…sometimes funny sometimes inspiring…but always priceless!
• Somebody kneading your feet after a looong tiring day…priceless!
• Lying on the terrace gazing at the stars completely into the “me zone”…priceless!
• Feeling the velvety head of a bald baby…priceless!
• Snuggling down in the quilt on a chilling winter night…priceless!
• The unannounced day off of your not so favourite teacher…priceless! 😉
• Gosh those puppy eyes & belly rubs!…priceless ❤
• Crossing the traffic light seconds before it turns red…priceless!
• Pirated blockbusters, authentic relationships and not vice-versa …priceless! 😀
• Listening on loop the song you feel is written just for you.. priceless!
• Being with a tipsy friend… priceless! 😉
• Remembering the right thing at the right time in an argument…priceless!
• Making somebody happy… priceless!
• Fulfilled expectations and promises lived up to…priceless!
• An honest compliment… priceless!
• Realizing that you are exclusive…priceless!
• Me+U=priceless 🙂

ohhh yeah.. How can I forget?

• Internet catching 4G on a 3G plan…priceless! 😀

These are just very few of the million things that go unnoticed each day…things we can do/feel good about…things nobody boasts about…things we can celebrate way more than we really do…things we don’t pay much attention to; things which are petty…but that’s life.. “petty”. Not everything every time has to be grand. Pleasures of life come in small packets too. 🙂

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  FEELING GOOD IS THE NEW LOOKING GOOD

I know you have a bigger list of such tiny beautiful things which please you. Just sit back.. breathe.. and feel the joy of living…

Your life = My life

In Life, there will always be…

A person loving you unconditionally.

A person who won’t love you back ever.

A person who makes you feel you are awesome.

A person who makes you feel you are awful.

A memory you want to forget.

A memory you want to cherish.

A memory you don’t know if you want to forget or cherish!

A friend who would always stick around.

A friend only you thought was a friend.

A pain that will always lie deep within.

A happiness for no reason.

An untold truth.

A told lie.

A fun trip you had been on.

A trip you could never take.

A bad hair day.

An “I’m beautiful” day.

A thing you will be a pro at.

A thing you will suck at.

A pessimism of being doomed.

An optimism of being lucky.

A why me?

A why not me?

A thank God its me!

A me I know. ❤

A me others know. 🙂

So you are not alone in this, life is same to everybody! But as they say ” No matter how many goals the goalkeeper saves, some people will always remember just the ones he missed” .Probably you are doing the same with life, forgetting all the blessings and focusing just on the hardships. Life balances every situation & every emotion, we just are too blind to see its equilibrium. Just try looking at the other side of the story of your own life and you’re good to go!

I hate you like I love you!

She broke my heart and flaked me- “I hate her!!!!”

I worked hard and he took all the credit-“I hate him!!!”

I shouldn’t have said it “Darn! I hate myself!”

Hate- too strong an emotion, too easy to say. We all have heard a lot of jibber jabber about hatred like -“life is too short to hate” and “If we love our self even after making so many mistakes,how can we hate others for their one mistake” etc. Well! we are not saints and we really don’t need to be. What’s important is that we should know the art of hating i.e. we should know how much hatred is to be parked for whom!

Hatred just like love,is not to be showered upon anybody just like that. It, trust me, is an important asset because by hating somebody you are still giving them a place in your life in some form. Ask yourself again, is that person worth even that much? Do u really want to waste a corner of your heart and mind for that person? In most cases, the answer will be in affirmative.

Also, sometimes we just confuse anger with hatred. We are so much in heat of the moment that we tend to be impulsive,rather than rational. Gradually with time we calm down and so does the anger disguised as hate.

And then there is always a class of people we love so badly that we can can never hate them, no matter what. Just check if you are letting people migrate out of that privileged category for nothing big!

Finally, after the above acid tests what qualifies is actual hate which you have every right to feel and why not!! It comes naturally as a part of human behavior.

Anyway, so now that you are firm that you hate somebody what next?? Usually its like burning your own blood when that person doesn’t even know,or knows, but doesn’t care! Does it mean your are putting the whole city on fire to burn your enemy’s house, but forgetting you too live in that city. We can really do better in such situations. How?? Erm…Just feel sorry for such people for being themselves and cut them off your life! You are a superior human to let go off such things and people in life and focus on more important and beautiful things life offers. Remember “Not everybody you lose is a loss” 🙂

The Ass-trology!

If you live in India you would totally relate to this. Right from the time a child is born he is caught in an unseen web. Even before he gets an identity in form of some name, his life’s summary and report card is prepared, commonly called the horror-scope…oops! I mean the horoscope. Ever since then his whole life, even his name, depends upon his so-called planets & stars.

Life is about ups & downs and probably the ups wouldn’t be valued and celebrated if there were no downs. As simple as that! But no!!!! How can we simplify things so much, let’s complicate it a bit. Be it studies, career, marriage, house or health for everything we get eager to unleash our future and run to the astrologers or how I like to call them “the ass-trolgers” They claim to decode our horoscope & foresee all the hurdles that may come up in our life. Then there is always some stone you can wear or some pooja you can do or some other deed that’s going to assure your life is smooth.

The debate is not about astrology and its existence/accuracy the point is what is the need of knowing all the good or bad in advance????

If you ask me, I don’t need to know if my shukra (Venus) is flirting with my guru (Jupiter) and that’s going give me backache in life! or my shani (Saturn) is hand-to-mouth and that will hamper my promotion or that my mangal (Mars) is partying and that is sinful for getting married.

These superstitions are all around us, affecting lives. It is not wrong to believe in it, but it is wrong to depend on it. It is ok to wear a stone if it makes you feel confident but it is wrong to wear it in fear that if you don’t wear it only bad lies ahead for you.
The universe works on a simple secret “You invite what you think”. Like how your day is doomed if your daily newspaper horoscope said that it will be a bad day! Thats because you had made up your mind that it is sooo going to happen. So why not to make up the mind for the good things only? Not just astrology, keep yourself at bay from anything that makes you negative or otherwise deal with it in the face, punch it and defeat it!

If life could be unleashed so easily we won’t wait for tomorrow as we would already know it in advance. Nothing is above the faith that everything is fine and will always be fine. Conceive your faith from anything, sometimes a movie or a TV show or a book or a person or your own self helps you feel that life’s good and it will always be good. If you believe in the philosophy that all our stories are pre-written then at least have that confidence that whatever is my story it is the best or else have the balls to believe that you have to write your own story & your mind writes it for you each day. It is up to you that you write a thriller, action or rom-com for yourself!

Think Good. Speak Good. Be Good 🙂