Happy Independence Day!!!

Happy Independence Day to all.

It’s been 66 years since we got freedom, and from the very first year the only question which comes into the mind of average people (Aam Janta) is “are we really independent??” Yes, I know this is a cliché now, but don’t you think we need answers.

India is free from British rule but now it is under “Politicians” rule. There are still only few people who are running India. I am not a supporter of any political party but I am only an average person, who is confused when I go to vote. Whom should I vote? Nobody is good enough to run a vast and culturally diverse country like India. What should I do? And no one has the answers. It is easy to say “please, vote” but my question is “please tell, whom I should vote? Who is not corrupt? Who is a true Indian if one exist?”

Daily on many social media platforms there are post about India and its issues. How some people are ruining our country and how we should do something? There are advertisements that we should take some steps to free our country from all the corruption. But tell me can we actually do something? Believe it or not, candle light marches and fasts are no option. We don’t need Gandhi steps, we need Bhagat Singh steps, but can we do this? I don’t think so. We are afraid, not for us but for our family. We are afraid, how our steps and decisions will affect them in a country where people are put to jail due to some status update on Facebook.

Girls are raped on streets and people don’t do anything, people are met with accidents and we are just mute observers, why? Not because all humanity is lost but because we are afraid. We are scared of the police and the law system itself. We don’t know when we will be dragged into something only because we helped someone. We don’t know, when we will be framed for some false charges. This is the present situation and this is the truth.

I know this will sound bitter to many ears but we all think lets go to office silently. Lets complete our daily chores and live silently and pray that nothing happens to us and our family and alas we don’t have any other option.

This post is not answer to your questions, but this post is question to all the Indians that what should we do? This is the time when nobody wants to send their children to army, as one day they will be killed for nothing and “nothing” will happen afterwards. They will be forgotten. At max, you will be given few lakhs to forget them.

And now we celebrate 66^th Independence Day. I wonder what Bhagat Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose and likes will feel when they see India in 2013.

Happy Independence Day to all.

Friendship Day Special!!!

Happy Friendship's Day to ALLLLLLL.....

Today, on friendship's day, I am writing after a long time for all my friends out there. This is especially for all of you.

Friends are the most priced possession one can have in their life. They may be complete strangers, your spouse, your parents or even your relatives. It is just those persons who are close to your heart and with whom you can share almost everything without any fear or embarrassment. I am blessed to have some very good friends in my life who made me a better person and who made me what I am today.

And most importantly, friendship is the first step to love also [as in my case :-)].

I would like to thank all of you. You guys are really special. And this is for all of you.

We all know distance never separates two hearts and that is the case with some of you. All my friends who are not here with me; they are still in my heart and I miss you all a lot.

Mohammad Ali once said, "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
And that is so true. I learned the actual meaning of friendship from few of my friends; and I thank them for making me believe in it (friendship).

They taught me how to be good friends, how to trust people, how to stand for your friends, how to set all wrongs right, how to sometimes just listen and how to encourage and motivate them. One of them even taught me how to avoid some unavoidable circumstances ;-).

In the end, I just want to say, thanks all for being in my life and be with me always..

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

- Arnold H. Glasow

Few unanswered questions (about IT world)...

Edit: Well,  after an year I realized that these are the questions, not on IT world, but on life itself... :) :)
Thanks Sachin for pointing this out :)

1. Why do people look down on each other?
2. Why doesn't friendship exist here?
3. Why are people bent on using others?
4. Why they make only those relations from which they can benefit?
5. Why is honesty not present here?
6. Why the person who clearly speaks his/her mind is punished?
7. Why the person who cares about others is considered as weak and is being used?
8. Why being diplomatic in everything you say and do is so important?
9. Why people hurt others?
10. Why the person who makes others happy is the one who suffers the most?
11. And why love has such a different meaning here?

P.S.:

• Based on my observation and experience both.
• Would like to say again to all readers that I don't want to leave this field because of this :) :P

Love >> Life

Love!! The most written and the most unexplained topic.

I don’t know why today, why now and why at all I am writing about it. But there is something in my heart  (not mind) which wants to come out. Which wants to be penned down.

Frankly speaking in my life I have never been able to understand this phenomenon known as LOVE. I don’t know what it is, how it happens, with whom you fall in love, why and how many times. I don’t know how to recognize who you actually love or who loves you really. I don’t know who is worth fighting for and who is gonna be with you till end.

Though I know one thing: love is when you are happy. When you look back on all the happy, most funniest, most secured and most serene moments of life, there are few faces which comes by default and that is what love is. When I look back, the first face is of my parents and my brother and I know I love them more than my life and same goes for that special person.

It does not matter if you start thinking about another new person in your life but you will come back to him in the end. It is not how much he earns, what is his status; the thing that matters is how happy is you with him. If he loves you he will do whatever you wish. He will earn to complete all your dreams, all your wishes.

I have seen people just to move away from other people because he is not that rich, he doesn’t earn as much as I am used to spending, he is not smart, he is not in a big company or at a big position or he is not of my caste. But life is very long and a point comes in your life when you realize that these things doesn’t matter. What matters was how much he loved me. How much he cared for me and how much was he willing to do for me.

All this goes for guys too. Just because she is beautiful, or she is your family’s choice or she is of same caste is not gonna make you happy for the rest of your life.

Life is too short to be wasted on these things and too long to overcome from the consequences of your decisions. Its truly said “life is what you make of it”. Its your life, you have to live it and till end the person who is going to be with you will be your spouse and not anyone else.

So choose wisely and never ever have a moment of regret. Because:

“Sometimes, it’s not the person you miss. It’s the feelings and moments you had when you were with them”

And those moments are exactly what you call LIFE. J J J

MOMENTS OF SILENCE

When I am alone, and I am sad. All I need is someone,

Someone to listen to me
Someone to advice me
Someone to guide me
Someone to support me

Someone on whose shoulders, I can sleep
Someone in front of whom, I can cry
Someone to pour my heart out
Someone to be my smile when I am down

Someone to listen to my silence
Someone to see my unshed tears
Someone to hear distress in my voice
Someone who say hey I am nearby

Someone with whom I can share
Someone whom; I can hug
Someone to raise my morale
Someone whose love is unconditional

But that someone should be THE ONE
With whom I can spend all my life
With whom I can share all my secrets
With whom I have a relation of trust
AND not to forget; LOVE

Random thoughts which are not so random

I just wanna write something, but i couldn't find WORDS
I just wanna be with you, but i couldn't find COURAGE
I just wanna see you, but I couldn't find SIGHT
I just wanna listen to you, but I couldn't find a PLACE

I just want a life with you, but it seems impossible
Though without you, life itself is not possible
Silent tears in my eyes, is just not visible
And the loud cries of my heart, is not audible.

I can't live with you and I can't leave you
And another way is not just plausible..............

Life...

Hi friends,

This is after a long time I am writing. I have been deported from HYDERABAD to PUNE. ;) :P

In some ways, it is good, in some it is bad and for me it was necessary. But Pune changed my life a lot. First and foremost, I realized the importance of my friends. I miss them L and then this place taught me a lot in just 2 months.

Working in an IT industry is tough, it’s mean and it’s a struggle. Within 2 months I knew what it is that keeps you here. (which are definitely not positive traits)

These 2 months changed my opinion of various people; some friends, some not so good friends, some colleagues, some seniors J. Now I know what it takes to be here.

It’s a labyrinth. People are mostly NOT what they seem. They say different things and mean different. Here flattery counts more than work, number of hours spent in office counts more than the hours put for productive work. It’s a competition, a race, a plan to let others down.

It might seem to all of you that I hate this place but strangely I don’t. I like being here. I like to observe people, their reactions to different situations and their power to manipulate others. It’s omnipresent. Just open your senses and we can see different minds working differently.

Everyone here has problems. Married people has one set of problems and bachelors have another, guys have one set of problem and gals another. But in all of them one thing that is common is: nobody actually wants to be here. May be I am wrong on this but I still didn’t meet a single soul who actually wants to be here.

Most of the people are here because it’s the shortest way to earn money and possibly easiest also. Another people just went with the flow. After doing B.TECH there is very less option and nobody takes risk. I think I belong to the former category. But its weird and awesome too that such a big industry runs because of the people who were unwilling to join it in the first place.

This place is a museum filled with different type of people. Sustaining here is life itself and you get very little time to sit and think that where are we going? In which direction? But for me the biggest and the most pressing question is “What are we becoming”? Is it really what we want? And is it the way to live our life? And the answer which I get is something which I cant share. J

I wrote this post for all my friends who work here to stop and think for a while and find their own answers to this question. All the best. J J