Inspiration from Ashes

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to sit down and pour your words of wisdom on the so very famous subject “Smoking is injurious to health”. Well let me give the other side of the coin (which of course for most of us doesn’t exist).

A simple cigarette can give you far more insights on the philosophy of life than any random book. Each and every cigarette is a prototype of life. As it burns, I can imagine myself burning myself in a scenario which I never desired. The lighting of the cigarette is similar to the zeal we had during our teenage to achieve something in life. Each puff burns out a part of cigarette. It marks out a remarkable similarity between the modern lives we live. The tensions of daily routines take away a certain level of liveliness from our body leaving behind a skeleton at the end of the day which is equivalent to ash since its of no further use. And as the bud left at the end of the cigarette struggles to keep itself kindled it reminds me of an old person struggling down the line in life just to be able to fulfil his daily basic routine.

However, all said and done the smoke that rises from the cigarette is an inspiration. As you struggle through life try to be the smoke that rises upwards always leaving the crowd behind. Don’t be the ash that remains behind. Struggle to enjoy and achieve something. And when the time will come for the bud stage we will at least leave the fragrance behind which will remind people of the things we achieved.   

Be the smoke and not the ashes....

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SongStones of Life

Well this is something that occurred to me some days back while I was listening to some old songs. Life is a series of crests and troughs though the amplitude of vibration varies from person to person. One day you might be extremely blissful and other day a little gloomy.

However a major incident in any phase of our life generally creates a spike in the graph of life. When we achieve something great, that incident occupies our thought process for a considerable amount of time. Happiness is reflected in any and everything we do for that particular period. Similarly when something horrific happens like failure to achieve something, loss of something or someone we love, etc the sky of life seems cloudy and we can’t find a silver lining for a certain duration of time. Murkiness is portrayed in each of the tasks taken up by us during that period.

Just like everything else we do during that period, any song that we repeatedly here during that period gets embedded in our sub conscious mind with a particular image.
Something like the day we cleared a major competition we were extremely jubilant. We just wanted to dance around everywhere expressing our blissfulness. The famous dance numbers of that particular period was played repeatedly for a continuous period of at least ten days till the excitement of the achievement faded away.

Similarly when we lost someone close to heart like a pet or a failed relationship, it takes some time to come out of the after effects. During such a phase u generally don’t like doing anything. However, when the shock subsides to give way to sadness, most of us like sitting alone and listening to certain type of music. The song that we listen to most during that period marks out a sad moment in our subconscious.

Apart from the extremes the general phases of our lives like the school days (can be further subdivided into classes), our graduation (subdivided into years), etc also have certain songs which were either pretty famous during that time or were listened to pretty often. They don’t mark a particular spike in our life but certainly represent a different phase in our life.

After years when all these incidents have happened and you sit alone listening to these songs alone in a room, you start feeling nostalgic of that period. The feeling might be a happy or a sad one that comes along with it or if nothing at all it will just bring a smile to your face. All such songs are not just lyrics composed to some specific tune but these are songs on which we danced as directed by the tunes of life during that period.

These I call “Songstones of our Life”.

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Destiny

The way we came onto this earth,
How much we are worth,
Our family our culture,
Nothing was decided by us!!...Read More

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