The Rising.. for..

We might face many difficulties, hardships and disappointments in our lives. Things do not always go our way. If we listen to the discussions of others and review our own words and thoughts, we find that many of them are complaints about how life is treating us. There is a bitter feeling.
Most of us have love for a small circle of people which includes our family and close friends. However, as we grow, our heart must expand to embrace society, country, world and beyond. The ultimate state of love is having love for the cosmos.
With my experience with UncleSam, for people here -
Water is thicker than blood; while for most of us in my homeland it is always blood which is thicker than water.
Water accounts to the social circle called friends and love for the nation and more subjective to being selfless. The blood accounts as me, my family and world around it.
I would like to quote an incident I read somewhere - During the Great Depression in America, a government representative travelled through some of the poorer parts of the country to provide financial assistance to farmers to buy seeds, fix their homes and run their farms. The agent came across an elderly woman living in a shack without flooring. She had covered the broken windows with tarpaper. She barely managed to survive. The agent asked: “If the government gave you 200$, what would you do with it?” The woman replied without hesitation: “I would give it to someone who is homeless.”
A different perspective would reveal to us how fortunate we are. I always wonder why people back home are centered on building villas and shutting down opportunity for helping others in need. What makes people take such rigid decisions to run a rat race of pride? Is luxury all in life? A nation which stood for values and ethics today has a very little to offer.
If we could accept the cloudy days with the same gratitude as we do the sunny days, we would find our lives to be filled with more love, peace and happiness. If we could appreciate the weeds as well as the roses, we would get enriched. Not only do we need to learn to be content, we need to expand our heart to embrace all creation.
No matter what happens to us in life, we have a fountain of nectar within us from which we can drink at any time. This is the gift we can achieve through our determination. These thoughts are something which keep me engaged of what I can do and how I could be of some help. Though it’s just a drop in the huge world around, I wouldn’t stop myself from expressing that I am awakened and would live for a meaningful life rather than just a self-centered life. With a ray of hope…

Down the dark cloud...

When I was in school there was a tradition which I followed for sometime, I visited the temple.

On one particular Thursday, I did the normal routine; I noticed something pass-by me. Little effort it took to my intelligence, I found out that it was a funeral mass. While that was not strange, normally funerals had 2 alter boys or more. Then I realized that there was only the usual hand full of regulars. There didn't seem to be anyone from the deceased family.
(I seem to remember that it was an old woman might be wrong)
I stood by to look towards the grave-yard, there were even fewer people there and although I was only a kid aged around 11 – 12, A sadness came upon me because I thought that if there was no one to go to her funeral - was there anyone to visit her when she was alive.

That was about 12 years ago and that memory has stayed with me all this time. While it is an old memory, some thing like loneliness would always spark that memory.

I suppose that most people would think that loneliness mainly affects the elderly and while that is true for the most part I think that it covers any age and gender.

People can feel isolated when they are away from family and friends or from their normal surroundings. e.g. working abroad, studying.

I was listening to a radio programmed about the remote islands once and the topic of being alone came up. This woman that sounded about 50 or so was saying how her husband had died had her daughter, who was married had to leave the island for work and school for the kids. The woman was nearly in tears telling how lonely she was and that her daughter could only come once or twice a year. It would break the hardest or hearts, it brought a tear to my eye.


There is a distinction between loneliness due to emotional isolation and loneliness due to social isolation. Emotional isolation appears in the absence of close emotional attachment whereas social isolation appears in the absence of an engaging social network.

I haven't experienced a twinge of loneliness myself in a long time - but now when I am loaded with a heavy load of sorrows by life and another time out of the blue when I was left by my friend to pursue his dreams. Both lasted long & the latter being stretched.

People’s personality comes into it too. Some are perfectly content to be on their own for long periods of time while others are totally unsuited to it.

What do you think?

I know it is a bit heavy of a topic but some thing to think about?

Par shayad tum samjhoge nahin...

I have started to feel so in the recent times, i am being very concerned about this. I think, I am being ignored. Is it really the case, or is it just the way I am looking at things, donno. But I am getting that feel now. The very taste of being tipped off from some thing which was very close and which was very near.

This is totally an opposite one as compared to what I felt to the most honored credit that somebody had given me some time back. Dont have a clue as to what is the driving force behind all this which is making these changes. But the things have changed for sure. I know.

May be, the realisation of the facts to u would be more far than what I expect it to be. But eventually u wil be there, with the measure of height and depth of my true friendship. (actually u will not have measure of that even then). That day, I may not be here sitting next to u to listen to you.

As usual, the great Kishore has sung a few beautiful lines for this...

"Hamse hai zinda wafa aur hami se hai teri mehfil jawan,
Ham jab na honge toh ro ro ke duniya doondegi mere nishaan"

Shayad tumhe ek din mehsoos hoga ki how nice it is to express if you really care for somebody. I had my pleasure in that. Even though they all say it to be very filmi (which indeed is), but I dont mind. I express myself in all the ways possible to make sure they have some one who is atleast next to them during good/bad times.

Par shayad tum samjhoge nahin...