"Daffodils"

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.” Audrey Hepburn.

Have anyone of us heard of the line, “Get a dog! And you will be fine?” I thought about this line and it always make me smile from my heart like a fool. In today’s popular culture with relation to dog, I feel that the dog has just top over human when it comes to trustworthiness and loyalty. Funny nah! Nowadays, when you have just broken up with your girlfriend or boyfriend, your best friend may suggest you to get a dog because he or she cannot bear the sight of your emotional breakdown. 

Similarly, if you want to start a family, what did your childhood friend suggest you? Get a dog for trial if you are responsible enough to be a family man, says your childhood friend. Not only these, I'm sure we might have come across millionaires or billionaires leaving their fortune to their pet dogs.

I don't know whether these sorts of behaviors are sane or insane. Or have we become so incapable of trustworthiness and loyalty towards one another. May be we have lost our humanity on the pursuit of happiness we craved for. Our dream world of fantasy just stole our sanity like a daylight robbery leaving behind just hope and anguish. 

If you listened to the song “Demon” by Imagine Dragons, there is line in the lyrics stating “No matter what we breed; we still are made of greed” is very true. But I'm no one to judge; I'm just a commentator writing blogs about the things I see and the things that comes in my mind. It just saddened me see people losing faith in our very own humanity. This is no offence to dog, and I really do love dogs regardless. 

Enough of all these shitty things we go through but it seem definitely sane to go for a dog because they never complained nor whined. Dog just listen to your pain silently with his eyes fixated on your eyes, and if this is what we long for when we are really down with no one there to stand up for anyone and listen, it is wiser to have a dog who care and adore you.

The only thing that can make us happy is the doing the thing we enjoy. It is not the other way around to do things you don’t like for the sake of your happiness in later life. The world we live is not sort of probability without limitation. The phrase “What if?” is just a stumbling block. We can replace it with “Why not?” to make our life easier and stay happy. Easy said than done but it can always go hand in hand to make it easily done unless we complicate it. Happiness is everywhere; you can see it in the morning sunlight because you have another day to live. You can see happiness in a child because they don’t worry.

I really like the poem “To Daffodils” by Robert Herrick. I read the poem when I was in high school and I'm blessed with enough many days to still savor those memories unlike the daffodils that has only a day to live. This is one short poem which pierce straight to your heart that our life in this world momentary. I really want to share this poem here in my blog:

“To Daffodils” by Robert Herrick

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see

You haste away so soon;

As yet the early-rising sun

Has not attain'd his noon.

Stay, stay,

Until the hasting day

Has run

But to the even-song;

And, having pray'd together, we

Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring;

As quick a growth to meet decay,

As you, or anything.

We die

As your hours do, and dry

Away,

Like to the summer's rain;

Or as the pearls of morning's dew,

Ne'er to be found again.

I hope everyone likes the poem. Our life here in this world is momentary but have we not engorged our time in the pursuit of happiness where it is just in front of us? Only if we knew the value of time in this world, we won't have to worry the thought of losing our humanity. Of course, we are capable of living our life where we won’t need the dogs as our life companion rather protecting your home and loved ones.

Thank you. Have a good evening!

Change???

After spending nearly 60 hours of the past 5 days in office including travelling time, finally it's weekend. The excitement of weekend is like watching the final minutes of 1980s Hindi movies when the hero suddenly fights like "The Hulk" although he was beaten black and blue in the beginning. Today, I woke up early with full of energy....:) I played the song "Headlights" by Eminem (feat. Nate Ruess), "Guts over fear" and followed by Sia's album "1000 form of fears". All of the songs are great with good lyrics. Especially, I really like the Eminem's Headlights and Sia's "Elastic heart". Eminem's Headlights lyric surprised me the most in a very good way. Of course, there are few explicit words but the essence in the music is a message which can influence a person.

During the start of Eminem's career in music industry, he invented his alter-ego "Slim Shady" and he dissed everyone starting from his mother, wife, and gay people and objectifying women in most of the songs released in early 2000s. And I won't recommend anyone to look into those lyrics. As an artist, he is one of the best selling artists and he is also known as the king of hip-hop. Believe it or not, I got a cassette of Eminem 2nd album "The Slim Shady LP" from a friend when I was in 7 standards. I didn't know anything about hip-hop or rap music at that time. 

The only thing that I knew was those explicit words "F##k" and "B***h", and out of sheer ignorance, I just wanted to listen those words in the rap music. I can still remember playing the song "Please stand up" in my portable Phillips tape very loud when our village Church Pastor visited our home in Christmas. I don't understand why I did that.

The Eminem music I like those time is not same with the Eminem music I listening this days. There was a tear in my eyes when I listened to the song "Headlights" for the first time. The song is a tribute to his "MOM" and seeking her forgiveness for all the things he had said in the past out of anger and immaturity. I'm sure his mother will be very pleased to listen to the song dedicated to her. Above all, she'd be really happy to know his son has grown. It is not only this song from the latest released album "The Marshall Mathers LP 2" that stood out. "Beautiful pain" and "Guts over fear" both feat. Sia are also those songs you can listen repeatedly. The lyric in the songs are very inspiring and has a clear message of maturity over immaturity.

We always talk about the word "change" with reference to our life, system, government, etc. I've seen many times in News channels professing 'change' we need in our Government system, Policing system, judicial system, etc. Seldom have we remembered 'change' need to start from our heart. A change in a Budget report is not going to change a common people overnight because he is working on daily basis to feed his family by the end of the day. A change in our judicial system is not going sentence all the criminals with pending cases overnight. A change in a price of petrol or diesel is not going to benefits all. A change in a government is not going stop the corruption and bring back the black money overnight. The issue with the word 'change' we profess is based on monetary benefits; and it is too logic and rational. It appears we have forgotten to contribute our conscience in our build up to change we want.

All we need is a change in our heart and listen to our conscience; and even our twisted mind can overcome the hurdles and fears we have created on our own. According to the United Nations Population Fund estimate, there are more than 7 billion people in this world since 2011(please note that the estimated population can vary with other agency census on human population). Won't it be the best achievement in human history if we all can change our heart to love one another and make our world a better place to live? Although it may appear impossible to make our world a better place to live but it doesn't mean it is impossible to have a change in our heart and make our life better. There is a reason why God has made us superior than any other living beings on earth. And we can do it make out world a better place.

Thank you. Have a wonderful weekend!

Argument

I thought of writing in my blog once a week reviewing only for the Manchester United matches. But today, it is not related United game nor it is about any football matches played recently. And frankly, I had a very bad start for the day and it make me reflects on my every action as well as reaction which has been orchestrated after I woke up. And can you believe it? My Office is kind of become my best friend and my confidante, and here we are. Anyway on my way to office via coach, I had a good time listening to songs of Ozzy Osbourne's Dreamer and Mama I'm coming home, John Legend's All of me, and other songs in my playlist. 

The reason why I mentioned the name of the songs tiltle is that it gave me a goose bump after the bad start to my day. It was soothing to my mind and my heart that I weren’t able remembers about the bad start I had. Some of you might be wondering, "What is your reason for your bad start?" and "Why do you have to be that passive and not optimistic?" I'll get to the point but I kind of think myself as one of those people in drama where the character is always misunderstood. In the end, the misunderstood character always falls and has to restart again all over. I believe this is the character that I can relate to myself. If not, am I that person who is very impatient not knowing when to act and when not to act? Or, are my words like a blunt knife which can hurt a person badly?

In my opinion, arguments can only be classified into two categories: 1. Positive and 2. Negative. Anyway, it is a universal truth...  In the morning, as I was getting ready for my work; I had a very heated argument with one of my closed one. I won't disclose the name nor will I ever elaborate to an extent of assassinating character. However, the fact that I'm writing about the incident is not going to be in details rather the lesson I learnt from it. The lesson kept on bugging me unless I share with my new friend, my blog.

No matter whether you have the best rational decision in your mind or you have agreed within yourself it is the right thing to say however if the one to whom it is addressed is not ready for the big talk, you end up being the villain in their eyes. And what a crime to be part in it! I have never doubted the love of my closed family or relatives. But today, the principle of believing in your family without any doubt is a false truth. Can you ever agree to the formula when two is treated as one however when outside of the territory, one is still one? I mean how is it possible at all two can be one unless it benefits the one who professed. It is really appalling when one only thinks for itself when you can see clearly that the other person is suffering. And I really do not want to be part of this system. If you don't value the things around you, how is it going to be possible that you will make it on your own?

For God sake, words are to be spoken out to eliminate pre-judgment. It is in fact that truth can be bitter and no one wants to taste the bitter part. Sometime the truth words always come out in the form of frustration or when you start thinking I can't tolerate this anymore. And when the words started rap out of your tongue, maybe it is too blunt, it doesn't mean that the truth can be ignored. The words spoken are usually pre-mediated. As the other person has been ignoring the fact, I felt I was absolutely right to speak out the truth. Say for example, I can afford only five pencils and my best friend can afford ten pencils for the drawing class. One day, our teacher informs us to bring 7 pencils each without fail for drawing competition. What do you think my best friend would do in this case? He can either let me borrow his two extra pencils or does not anything in spite of knowing that I can afford only 5 when he can afford 10 pencils.

This is all I have to write for today. And I hope you all will think about the last paragraph because this is the scenario that led to the heated argument that nearly ruin my day. Anyway I had a good time here in office with my friends and colleagues. And last but not the least, music can sooth any emotions in our life. I'd recommend all of you to listen 'All of me' by John Legend before going to sleep.

Thank you.