Lullaby - Creed

Hush my love now don’t you cry, Everything will be all right
Close your eyes and drift in dream Rest in peaceful sleep

If there’s one thing I hope I showed you
Hope I showed you

Just give love to all

Oh my love in my arms tight, Every day you give me life
As I drift off to your world Will rest in peaceful sleep

I know there’s one thing that you showed me
That you showed me

Just give love to all,
Let’s give love to all

Larger than Life

What's the most amazing thing about life is there is something which is larger then life itself. It's bigger and better then all of us. It's the driving force behind the human race.

Hope outshines and outlives humans. The single most important thing. We all live as slaves of hope. Each night we goto sleep believing that tomorrow will be a better day and each morning we getup hoping to change our lives for the better. Hope is the panacea of all illness.

Rich or poor, in health or in sickness one thing we never loose is Hope. Even the most forgetful person does not forget to be hopefull that one day he will be able to remeber. Such is the magic.

Even at the most impossible of situations we do not lose hope and where hope has been lost eveything with it has been lost. Ever mountanieer, diver or person trapped in the ruines after a natural catostrophe after being resuced say one thing : "They hadn't lost HOPE." Hope is the only religion common across all nations and people. We all believe in it and follow it with the passion that comes from being human.

Today I embark on a mission in a far away land equiped with the only weapon I can trust "Hope". Hoping that I will come back a better person. Hoping that I will achieve the goals of my life. Hoping that this is will the single most important turning point in my life. And this Hope is not my own or I alone do not have it. People all around me share this Hope with me. My family and friends.

Let Go

Probably the most difficult thing in a relationship. Letting Go does not mean we love any less. The love, the infatuation, the liking is left with a void and that void is filled by pain. But if we are capable of loving someone so profoundly means that we are capable of deep emotions and that in itself is something we have to proud of.

I know to let go hurts a lot, so much so that we want to hold on the every last moment that we can before we finally have to let go. We try all sorts of things. Emotional Blackmail to crying to anger. But is it worth it. Isn’t letting go part of loving someone. The last time I had to let go was three years back.

She was so perfect, I just didn’t want her to go. But then I let it go. Holding on to someone is like caging a bird. You will have the body but not the soul. You don’t want to live with the fact that the person in front of you gave up his/her dreams for you. And you don’t want the person to resent you for stopping them from exploring themselves.

Life and Death

What will happen if death falls in love with life?

I was watching "City of Angel" today morning and that's what I felt was the theme of the movie. I would like to know your thoughts on this. Is this possible and if yes what will happen if it does? It should make for some interesting article in the future.

Behind Every Face There is Always

Since I wrote this topic, I have a had a couple of people ask me to complete it. I would like to thank these people from the bottom of my heart for taking so much interest in the little tit-bits that I write now and then, so here is my feelings on this.

"Don't Judge a Book by it's cover." A cover is only a view of what could be inside. It gives a starting point to make a story in the book. A face, must be the most wonderful creation of God. It tells a lot about a person just as a cover of the book does but at the same time it hides a lot about a person. Behind every face that we see lies another self which only a few intimate people share, the people who take the pain of reading that book.

Unlike the cover of the book, a Face is so wonderful cause of it's ability to act as a "chameleon". It gives us the power to hide our true self behind Veil. The face that different people see in different light as we intend them to see.

But behind every face there is a self, there is that story that has shaped us, that has made who we are. U know why most of relationships fail. It's cause our inability to look behind the face.

You know when you trust someone completely when you shed the cover and the story is there for the person to see. The face that I present to different people are different. It is influenced by what the person sitting opposite me expects to see. and don't we all do that.

I believe we choose a friend as we choose a book. We pick it up look at the cover and if it's inviting, we turn it back and read the review, review of what people who have read it think about it. Doesn't matter they have understood it or not. Doesn't matter if that person understood what the writer was trying to convey. That's how we pick friends. We find someone and ask around/listen to what others have to say about the person. And if we like what we hear, you have a friend out there waiting for you. Doesn't matter the person whose opinion we so highly regard actually read what's there behind the face or not. And even if they read whether they understood it or not.

I have had three people become friends with me on the basis of what they heard about me from other people. The source whom even I would not highly trust casue they were shown the face of me that I felt they needed to see. These people never tried reading the real me. What triggers me? What makes me happy? What makes me sad?

These are small things but they are what the whole point of the relationship is all about. You read a book, and after turning the last page you should feel close to the writer. If you don't you havn't understood anything.

As I was saying to a friend of mine over the chat, there are two things that can unveil the person behind the face, one is their eyes and the other is their diary. These two things never lie.

God is a toy for adults to play with, similarly face is the toy for relationships to play with. Reach behind the face and touch the true person. That's when you touch the person and a bond is shared, a bond which is more powerful then everything else in the world. Ever wondered why twins are so attached to each other that they can feel each other's pain and sorrow and happiness.

Behind a face there is a human fighting to come out. But we don't let it. In fear of what other people will think. What's funny about this is that, it's the same with everyone. Each and everyone of us are trying so hard to hide the self. If only we all could be free and let it roll out.

I know I would offend some people by what I have written but you have to understand that you are equally guilty, not with me maybe but with other people. You might have been true to me but then there is always someone out there who has never seen, experienced the self behind the face

SWOT Analysis of a Married Man

A married man was asked to perform his SWOT Analysis.

(S)trength : My Wife
(W)eekness : Neighbour's Wife
(O)pportunity : When Neighbour goes out
(T)hreat : When I myself go out

Courtesy Forwarded Mails. i.e. to say it is not my own creation

Was chatting with this person online and here is something she said. I couldn't help but share it. I am editing it a bit to make it more comprehensible.

"I was a child and afraid of growing up in this world, so my mom used to say : If you have a Dream Island in your Heart, you can own your heaven everyday"

So folks don't be afraid. Whenever you are think of that dream island and you'll be in heaven and everything will be all right.

Magic of Life

I am a dreamer caught in this materialsitc world. A world that no longer belives in the magic of life. I feel that we have reached out lowest point when the News Channel uses a case of a person found alive after a catastrophe. They make it their big thing. They seem to have forgotten the magic of life, the power of human emotions.

I know when writing this artcile a lot of things that I have already written about will be repeated but then that's again magic of life. Everything we do, that affects out lives and those around us is all part of the magic of life.

Walking down the street you see someone and that gut feeling strickes, I know this person. You are standing in a group and you look at someone and thing this guy is great. I would love to be his friend. We hear about people who have met over chat and got married for a great relationship. This is all part of our lives and need not be hyped by the media. It's just that we are so busy with are lives that we are oblivious to the every day magic that happens around us.

A birth of a child. A smile of a mom holding the new born baby. The affection of a baby to their parents or just the spark in the eyes when you see someone you like. These are all part of the everyday life.

Magic of Life also part of all the tragedies. The pain on loosing someone you love, The suffering of the under priveleged. The pains that we suffer in our lives is the constant reminder that life has both the ends. It makes us stronger. It brings out the significance of that happy moment we have in life and is the contant reminder to us so that we don't sit back and forget about the magic of life.

Let's all get together are rekindle that Magic. Take life as it comes and enjoy every moment of it. And instead of asking the question why for everything, just sit back and be glad that every moment that has passed and will come have been a part of our lives. Be it good or bad, life will go on. Whether we believe or not, life will travel it's course. So wht not be grateful for that life.

Let the Magic of Life guide us to our destiny.

Reading that Expression

MonaLisa is by far the most popular painting in the world for the simple reason of that expression on her face. I don't know what's all the hype behind it. The true meaning behind an expression can only be experienced if you know what caused the expression. Be it sadness, happiness, pain, discomfort, or plain ecstasy.

I picture of a woman smiling and the same picture of a woman smiling holding a new born baby gives different meaning to the beholder.

For me Mona Lisa is insignificant compared to the expressions of the people I know, love and care about. There every expression is worth a kings ransom. I know the reason behind it and I can make a difference. I know I can bring a smile on a sad face of a friend. I know what each expression holds, and the meaning of it for that person.

Reading that expression gives me the power to make a change for the better. I know I can bring a difference in the person's life. I can see my actions reflected on that expression. Nothing can be more powerful or wonderful in life. The love, hate, happiness, sadness are all part of my life and is reflected on my face too.

Reading that expression is all that relationship is all about for the better or the worse.

Hither2Forlorn

Three words:

Hither : here; towards the speaker; this place
To : direction
Forlorn : pitiable due to abandonment; lonely

That's my life in a nutshell.

Thank You

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