When you spend all your time and energy to develop emotional stability and positivity in a person and in the process you lose your own, that is the hardest part.
It is so damn bad!
Author: Tirthankar Roy
A common citizen, trying to break the shackles of stereotype learning and social practices
Dreams
When I was a kid, I had so many dreams. And the thing that used to go on in my head was to fulfil all those when I grow up.
Now, I’ve grown up. But the disappointment is, I forgot my dreams.
Failure!
When you fail, everyone around you starts reminding you of the mistakes you have done over and over and over again.
It’s not like you don’t know that already; but people like reminding you of that because at that time you can’t reply. Or maybe you don’t want to respond. Because you already have had so much of these thoughts already played out in your own head that people’s reminder of the same only builds up more frustration and anger within you.
It makes you feel like you have made all the wrong choices there were to make. Like you did the worst you could. As if you don’t realise the mistakes. As if you are carefree.
But the truth is, you are already drowning thinking about how could you possibly fail? How could you make so many wrong choices? How? And just how?
These things make you numb. These things create sadness. These things make you feel like a loser. And people’s reiterations confirm that in your head – that you FAILED!
But have you though? Have you given up? Have you lost hope? Have you run out of plans? Have you run out of options? Have you lost the spark? Have you lost the experience? Have you lost the ability? Have you lost the zeal? Have you lost the gratitude? Have you lost your way?
If not, then you’re not done yet! Not yet!
Buckle up! Because things are going to take a turbulent turn.
‘Cause when a ‘failure’ comes for what he deserves, he snatches it!
You’re not a failure. You are just delayed MAGNIFICENCE!
The month of Celebration
What’s your favorite month of the year? Why?
That would undoubtedly be December for me.
The reasons are pretty straightforward. On this month I have my birthday, my girlfriend’s birthday, our anniversary and of course New Year’s Eve.
Those are SOME events to have in a single month.
Yes, I know you might be thinking about Christmas, but we don’t really have huge celebrations on Christmas. Yeah we go to churches, but the celebration is not huge.
This month does empty the pocket, but the fun is totally worth it.
India Vs Australia, CWC Final 2023
What happened on the night of 23rd March, 2003 has been of unforgettable pain and regret. When Australia scored 359/2 and bowled India out for 234, with Zaheer Khan getting caught by Lehmann at the short pitched ball from McGrath, everything fell so silent. The streets that were dancing and cheering, went numb. India had lost a World Cup Final to the greatest ever Australian side to ever exist.
20 years into the future, and here we are! Seems like the roles have reversed. India now seem to have the strongest ever World Cup side ever to exist and Australia seem to have struggled their way to the Finals.
From 2003, I always wished that some day, some fine day, we would again meet the Aussies in a World Cup Final, and return the favours in our own style.
This might be the greatest opportunity for India to make it up for what Ganguly’s men couldn’t achieve. Let’s hope Rohit finishes the job Ganguly started! Let’s beat the Aussies!
After all this time
After all this time
After all these efforts
After all these sacrifices,
Compromises
After all those hard times
After all those sleepless nights
After giving it all I had
After loving her keeping all at end
She felt nothing!
Just disappointment
Just grief
Just tears on her cheeks
Just aches in her heart
Just pain in her soul
That’s all she felt.
That’s all that’s left!
‘After all this time?’ I asked
‘Always’ she replied!
The Great Indian Traffic Show
The most majestic and mind blowing show that you can ever witness is the Great Indian Traffic show that runs every single day on the streets of India.
Why is it THE BEST?
If you have ever heard of the phrase “Rules are made to be broken” then the real authenticity of that phrase can be felt at the core of the heart only on the Indian roads.
ANYONE can drive, ANYWAY they want. There are ZERO restrictions. The public has complete authority of driving their vehicle according to their norms. The rules don’t MATTER!
Here is a list of things you can do while driving in India:
- Take a Left/Right turn without turning on the indicator
- Take a left turn with your right indicator ON or vice versa
- Overtake a vehicle towards the left hand side, that too without any pass light or a single honk
- Move to the complete right side of the road before taking a right turn on the main street and end up on the wrong side of the road upon taking the turn. In addition, you can call names at the people whom you find moving towards you right after you take the turn because YOU ended up on the wrong side and still get away with it
- Have complete liberty on applying brakes in the middle of the road if you want in case you have a sudden phone call. You don’t need to care for the vehicles behind you
- Especially if you want to drive an e-rickshaw, you have even more liberty. You can stop anywhere on the road to pick up or drop off passengers and take off immediately after the above task is done without any indication to the vehicles behind you
- Use a helmet as a substitute for Driving License and Registration Card for your vehicle. How cool is that?
- Overtake as many times as you want and create a 4 lane traffic on a 2-way road
- Buy an off-road motorcycle and get the real feel of it right in the middle of the town because of the amazing roads
- As a pedestrian, you can walk on the middle of the road and not give a damn about the vehicle behind you because if the vehicle hits you under any circumstances, the driver is completely responsible for the accident. The pedestrian is always INNOCENT!
This is the beauty of the Great Indian Traffic Show! And you know what? You get to see all of these, live in front of your very eyes, all for FREE, 24*7!
Experience the beauty of a 1.4 Billion Nation performing a Mega Circus on the streets of India.
You’re welcome.
You can thank me later.
Cheers!
It’s Not Me
Sometimes life puts you in a situation where it portrays you like you are not. And you have no possible way to explain that to anyone. You feel like you’ve been trapped by life. You can’t come out of the cell. Seems like you are in sleep paralysis. The more you try to explain yourself, the harder it gets.
And then all of a sudden, you stop! You stop explaining. You stop feeling.
You’ve just experienced something that you’ve never experienced before. A blow to your character and principles.
You go NUMB!
Ever felt that?
Life
Life hasn’t been easy
And I know it wasn’t meant to be
But somewhere deep within
I want it to so be!
That was my fault
That was my downfall
To want anything so easy
Should never have been my call
Life is tough
It is meant to be that way
But I can’t be soft
Because that’s not a winner’s pathway
Life has punched me down
Right down to my knees
I’m scratched and torn down
Nowhere can I find peace
But hold on
I can still get up
Crawl, walk and even run
Because bruises are meant to be healed
And life is meant to be won!!
A Lesson Learnt!
Coming back to my blog after almost 1.5 to 2 years, it feels great. But I’m not feeling great at all. The reason is, I have learnt a tough lesson and I wanted to share it with you all.
“Never keep high expectations from something you don’t know much about”
Recently, I started trading in stock market (Options Index) and I got hold of a broker through one of my friends. At that point of time, I was doing quite well financially. Thinking trading would bring me some quick money, I jumped at the opportunity. Although I wasn’t expecting too much returns. With a capital of ₹14,000 I started trading.
Fast forward 3 weeks, and I have ₹1,70,000 in my DEMAT account. Life was over the moon, confidence was touching the sky. I felt like I could be a crorepati in months.
Fast forward 3 days, I had ₹20,000 in my DEMAT account.
I lost ₹1,20,000 in 3 days and had withdrawn the remaining to furnish my newly bought car.
For 2 weeks I didn’t trade. But a part of me became dependent on trading. So I came back, determined to earn more and save this time.
Fast forward to current date, I have ₹4000 in my DEMAT.
In these 3 months, I became so dependent on trading, that I was expecting to pay my bills through its income. And now I have literally nothing.
I just realised, that the thing I love doing (Teaching) and the thing I am a professional at (Counselling) have taken a back seat, just because I was expecting something huge from a niche I wasn’t even aware of 3 months back.
The message of this post is to let you remind that you all have a special talent or skill that you have been working on throughout your career. And suddenly you get distracted by something that can bring you quick money or give you instant fame or whatever fancy it is in your life. And then you fail. You fail because you start expecting too much from a field that you know nothing about.
If you ever face that situation, STOP!! Take a moment, think, give your skills priority and take the step. Learn the new field, practice and then if you feel you’re good enough, take the LEAP!!
I have made a mistake, but I believe I’ve learnt something more valuable than the money I lost.
Yes, I’ll come back to trading. But this time, with knowledge. Easy money doesn’t last. But thankfully for me, I still have ₹4000 to save 😉.
So, as I said, NEVER KEEP HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF SOMETHING YOU KNOW DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT!
The Verbal Explainer 