HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Standing a year short of almost spending two and a half decades on this ever-changing earth, I realized where I stand today. Two days back when I was celebrating, apparently with just one friend, birthday just did not seem to be the same. Apparently this time I was somewhat not really too eager about my birthday. Well I still do not know why I was’nt but somehow it seemed that another birthday adds on responsibilities, more composedness and what not.

Ironically enough, the same day, that is my birthday, I landed up at Dilli Haat, where this thing for the new leader for India was going on. Trust me this added on to my quest of finding the real reason of my survival. This entire thing seemed to be so fake. When inside the place people where trying promote about this entire leadership thing and trying to evoke patriotism among people, a poor, street side kid was being badly behaved with by the guard because he had managed to close the entrance gate while playing. The kid tried hard to run away and while doing that he fell and hurt himself, but did not complain. I too witnessed that and walked away. It did leave an imprint on my mind, the imprint says that today also, we need to evoke patriotism; we need to make people realize that we are lagging behind.

I guess a leader is not made to born he just takes his own birth. We all are low profiled human beings, but somewhere or the other we have a leader, a hero hidden in us. At least I realized it, this small but eye-opening incident made me realize that I should also fight for my rights and fight the odd, the wrong. Patriotism is not all about shouting out your country’s name, it is about realizing that you stay in a country that can do a lot, in fact, you can also contribute in her prosperity. Gifts are not just material, they can be anything, only you will have to realize that it is a gift. So, happy birthday to me.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

Happy Independence Day........but paradoxically even on the 60th year of India's Independence barely do we realize the real meaning of independence.....15th August 1947 India acheived her independence...but anyhow today also we are as dependent on small things as we were dependent on an entire nation sixty years ago. Back in my room when I was struggling to find out for a way to pass my time on this independence day, I felt like a prisoner tied up i my room. Thats when I realized how much my life is dependent on my friends, on my offic work and on the trivial things that I do on a regular basis to spend the 24 hours of my each day.

Sad enough, however, this one particular day of this year tuaght me that we are an independent nation and I am an independent individual....and I am the one who has to independently lead and live my life...so why be dependent on my friends, my work and the small, trivial gossips to pass my time....so HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY to ME..............