Once upon a time in a rainy day...

Rainy season is one of my most favorite of all the seasons. The blossoming of flowers, the chirping of birds, the breeze carries a sweet fragrance of earth and the surroundings around you gets transformed into magical moments.

It was one of those lovely days when something brightening happened. I was all consumed in my work with no time for anything. Rushing up and finishing the deadlines of reports. While returning to the office, I got stuck in a downpour. I was waiting to let it slow down just a little bit, when an acquaintance called me up for a tea, in this amazingly great weather.

It was a usual office chit-chat when something magical happened. I saw her and everything vanished. It felt like nothing exists except her. The conversation seemed meaningless with no coherence of thoughts. The only thing perceptible was her graceful ways and she dazzling her way into my closely guarded heart. I was charmed to death.

The rain slowed down and I had to leave. But the whole moment felt as if it would never end. Her sugary voice, her resplendently astounding eyes and the whole conversation were constantly being repeated in my head. It was like a Déjà vu. While walking balk to the destination, the drizzle seemed more blissful than ever.

"Memoirs of Unrequited Love- Part 2"

Don’t know whether this incidence, will make my Romanticism with Romance to another level or is it the end.


My mind questions me whether it was love for her or the fact that I am so in love with the idea of Love...

Or a strange illusion, that finally serendipitously the Lover’s unite and it continues everlastingly like an Eternal Love Story...

Strange are the ways of Love or is it my heart that led me to assume what was never mine…


Strange are the ways, when almost unexpectedly you meet the person of your dreams and till the time you get over that Phenomenon, they are gone like air... Making you still believe in their presence even after they have left a long time ago…

Strange are the ways, when you caught me gazing in your mesmerizing eyes...

Strange are the ways, when I see her face ubiquitously…

Strange are the ways, when even after a decade the feelings are still as fresh...

Strange are the ways, when you understood what goes in my heart and mind, but never recognized my feelings for you…


When flurry of tears stroll down from my eyes, I try to stop them, Question them for why they behave in such a dim-witted manner… They reply almost in an instance that they are just expressing oodles of priceless moments cherished with her…

Strange are the ways of Love…

May be someday optimistically I will be able to understand them… Whether it is my Idiocy or Love itself is a fallacy…

"Memoirs of Unrequitted Love"

“I know you are afraid, as much as I am,

From the so-called society, from friends and family,

Of a future uncertain, of life filled with struggle every day,

I don’t have much to bestow you,

No fancy possessions or fake promises or countless material goods,

The solitary solitaire I have is my infinite eternal love for you,

Loving you as selfishly as I breathe,

You can always sense it,

By the manner I gaze into your mesmerizing eyes,

The way I converse with you,

With every sparkling smile that comes on your face due to my idiocy,

I know, I have never told you in person about my feelings,

Reason being the fear that how you might respond,

For me the fact that I can make you smile is more than enough…

The pragmatic says that I should give up, move on and set off for a life without her,

But what they don’t realize is the truth that, she is as much in me as my breath, if I have to forget her then I have to forget myself… ”

Personal or Professional ?

THINK ABOUT IT
*-- Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and unispiring professional life ?after pondering over the above issue think about this scenario

*----- Since so many place great emphasis on a happy private life, why do people often wind putting more energy into their professional lives? If you feel your private life is more important to you, do your priorities support this? Are you simply unwilling to admit that work is more important ? Do you use work as a substitute ? Do you hope professional success will somehow magically lead to personal happiness ?
hmmmmmmmnow think about these issues n answer them to yourself only

What is Beauty?

well another question to reflect on
*---- For an all-expense paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautful butterfly by pulling off its wings ? What about stepping on a cockroach ?thinkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkknow think about this scenario

*--- Why does a beautiful creature merit more compassion than an ugly one ?
Does it damage us psychologically when we destroy something we find beautiful ?
*---- How meaningful is the difference between pulling the wings off an inect and stepping on it ? Is the decision of how to kill something a minor decision when balanced against the decision of whether or not to kill at all?

~QUESTIONS 2 REFLECT~

INTRODUCTION
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THINK OF IT N ANSWER D REFLECTION THAT FOLLOWS. There are no correct or incorrect answers to these questions,only honest and ones.

Can u know what u would do in a strange hypothetical situation? of course u can't but Y let that inhibit u?
Don't simply answer "Yes or "No" to these questions--probe and explain ur responses and pursue interesting tangents. Use the questions as a point of departure n give ur imagination full rein as u play with d situations described.
Take an active role in toying with d conditions presented by extending them, changing them and expanding them. If u feel a question lkacks detail or is unclear,make an assumption that will correct d problem. As u explore and challenge ur values and d values of ur friends, u may soon discover questioning has become much more than just an entertaining past time

This is a chance 2 get insight's without actually living through predicaments decsribed:

*--"IF U COULD SPEND ONE YEAR IN PERFECT HAPPINESS BUT AFTERWARD WOULD REMEMBER NOTHING OF THE EXPERIENCE, WOULD U DO SO? IF NOT Y NOT ?


AFTER ANSWERING IT REFLECT ON D FOLLOWING QUESTION

*--"WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT: ACTUAL EXPERIENCES, OR THE MEMORIES THT REMAIN WHEN D EXPERIENCES ARE OVER?


WAITING 4 RESPONSES

"THE ART OF DECEPTION"

‘Deception’ as we decipher it comes across as a word which is always taken in the negative connotation in whichever references we take it but here I am emphasizing on the fact that how so many people have this great Art of Deception and their knack of doing things so effortlessly that the people believe in them so readily.

The Oxford Advanced Dictionary explains this word Deception as “the act of deliberately making somebody believe something that is not true” or “a trick intended to make somebody believe something that is not true”. These definitions points out the same things that have been discussed above i.e. making people believing in things that is not true. Deception involves concepts like propaganda, distraction and or/concealment. Fiction, while sometimes manipulative, is not a deception unless it is portrayed as the whole truth.


Our parents who always tell what to do and what not to do, they try to control the lives of their children by their own ways. Like when we were kids they try to teach us that listen to us or else the ghost will come so that the kids listen to their orders or the times they lie and tell us not to lie. Also in a society like ours where marriages are considered as a sacrament, our parents try to deceive us and convince us that don’t marry this girl or boy whom we love and tell us if you marry according to your own wishes then you will be thrown out and cut out all relations with the children they have born and brought up.

Look at our politicians, they are master of this art and how they have no shame in deceiving the people and garnering the votes by hook or by crook.

Another example of people using this art is our so called religious leaders who create such a hostile environment which makes people believe that only there religion and god is true and the rest are bad and inhumane.

The thriving market of Advertising, Entertainment and our Booming Economy is based on this art of deception and how to effectively plan a campaign or a strategy which can deceive the people and the people think that they are actually have a bucketful of things from which they can use but they neglect the fact that these demands are being created by these companies.

In many cases it is difficult to distinguish deception from providing unintentionally wrong information. One of the reasons for this is that a person or an entire organization may be self-deceived.



Leonardo Da Vinci, the great Sculptor and Painter once quoted that “The greatest Deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

If we carefully look at this scenario, then everybody in this world has this art of deception through which we manipulate things to get the things done but we hardly acknowledge the fact that we are actually using this art.

Look at our own self, we daily deceive people to get our things done or say things that are never true but we are saying it just to appease the people and get our work done. We say that we don’t care about what the world think of us but is it actually true. We ourselves thrive in this society by wearing multi-facet masks of our personality which differ from person to person and their varied interactions in the environment with us. Like the differences that we have in our personal and professional spheres of life.

“When people say that they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.” William Somerset Maugham (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)

But here I would like to add that some people uses deception in a very different way, they use this as a shield so as to protect them from the prying eyes of people. They don’t want anybody to know about themselves and share their problems, insecurities, etc... With the world becoming cunning and selfish day by day and for materialistic and vested interest, people’s feelings are crushed day in and out. So they use this as a defensive technique and remain a mystery to the world.

“I love walking in the rain, so no one can see my crying”. -Charlie Chaplin.

The above statement was from a man who was considered one of the funniest in the world; he too had a life which no one knew about him and still he entertained people across the globe with his own unique style.

In the end, we can say that we hardly acknowledge the fact that deceptions are not bad at all and with due time it has been ingrained in us to use it effectively to woo the people. The statement given below will summarize the whole concept of using this beautiful art of deception.

“It’s better to get something worthwhile done using Deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth” by Carlos Castaneda (American author and writer).

COMPILED BY:-
Prady