Time capsules

I was home sweating, breathing heavily cursing myself all along the stairs about how i was a fool to choose 4th floor to live in, cursing myself about my college, and wher i had gotten my life stuck, and all about my carrier choices.

This continued until something very un-routinely happened. I saw some old cartons, the cartons that had items of utmost emotional significance since my childhood. In particular, i was recollecting the memories of the time capsules

Mrs. Meena told us about the amazing time capsules when we were in 8th grade. She said that those pieces of paper were a way of communicating with our future self. She gave us some capsules to get us started, and all we had to do was to talk whatever the fuck we wanted, as these were not a school assignment, but for us to keep and preserve

And that was it. I was so compelled by the idea of time capsules that i even dreamt about waking up and writing my time capsules. This obsession reached a height that i had written a time capsule for every person i knew, talking to his/her plausible future self.

So i picked a blue capsule out and i was suddenly drenched in a strange cocktail of emotions.

It read - "Hi me, i hope you made it alive.. lol please my sense of humour. Have you made it big in life yet? Please say yes! Well nevermind even if you haven't you are on your way maybe, i dont want to live a poor life come-on.

Is tathagat still your best friend, recently we have not been spending time together. He kind of likes a girl and havent even told his mother and father. I will help him once he breaks his heart

Do you learn to control your laugh? Today i was being punished by the principal and i slipped a smile, then a big laughter. They are calling ma, pa tommorow. This is a real problem man, this happiness, it comes to me at all times, no control. I think yoga can help with this."

Well, reading all this was insane. It was extremly difficult to not cry while i read all this. The note reminded me of what i had actually lost over the years - ' My innocence '

I had lost that zeal for life, that exitement in every moment that intoxicates you with so much joy that you cannot even control your laughter.

Then the capsule went on a little further,
"Hey how do you like power-rangers and Ben-ten now? Mummy says i can study now and watch power rangers later when I grow up and earn myself a living. But till then there will be a lot of episodes to watch, so i will keep watching anyway.

Hey i hope you have become little more amazing, even though i am already so amazing but you know. Learn to control that laughter and if you feel sick or hungry, go to poonam didi. Poonam didi makes good food."

Reading all this made me feel how dis-aligned i was towards life. Time is a precious commodity. Tc and have a good day

Rakshabandhan

It was rakshabandhan season recently and needless to say, boys will be boys, absent from all colleges/schools(yes many schools still open up on rakshabandhan). Well you might be visiting your cousin or celebrating it with your sister at home but we all know there is more to the empty colleges than just rakhi celebration.

Well this incident i get reminded of whenever rakhi season passes by, happened when i was in class 9. We used to sit side by side on our way back to home from school, and we adored each other's company. They were jealous, she was beautiful ,they wanted her as some sort of prize. On the eve of rakhi, they said tu isko rakhi bandhegi, she denied. They again poked - "is it because you love him sexually", everyone was laughing and I could see it was too much for her. She picked out a rakhi from her bag and i gave her my hand like it did not matter and seriously it did not to me. That day on i was laughed on, like even kapil sharma would be jelous of my popularity - "apni bandi se rakhi bandhwa li".

Why do Indians attach everything with their ego dude!
Rakhi bandhwa li sundar ladki se to bezaati ho gaiye.
Well my mother still to this day, ties rakhi on my father's hand, i used to laugh out secretly at this when i was a small boy, but today it has weaved into a long thread of sweet memories of their innocent love.
Ma and Pa promise each other their everlasting love and support, afterall no one is complete without the other.
The day i was returning hostel from home and i saw 2 boys offer seat to young girls maybe with due respect on rakshabandhan eve. I felt good in my gut to see that

I don't preach religious values, but some rituals in our culture and values attached to them must be preserved at all costs. These small festivals and sentiments attached to them are a uniqueness of our indian culture. Love, respect, live, peace

Meet your meat!

I have repeatedly been poked for choosing a vegetarian lifestyle over ("baal-kaatna") non-vegetarian food. To the point of irritation, it is often assumed that this vegetarian lifestyle is inspired by religious values. So today my lovely friends, i declare before thy, yer opinions are misguided, i am a vegetarian by logical choice, pure logic based on reason- kind of choice.

1.    "Kisi ko nahi batayenge, tu kha le, sabb khate hai"
Okay i was a non-vegetarian, i choose to not be that same non-vegetarian now!
Mera dharam bhrashta nahi hoga cause i don't have a dharam, i am religion free kind of guy. So don't give me - "sabb khate hai" i never cared eghh!

2. "To jabb pehle khata tha, to ab kyu nahi. Ek baar to kha liya na, ab kya farak padta hai? Pehle khata tha to taste acha hi laagta hoga"
I just stare when someone recites these insanely illogical streak of dialogues. Aap pehle bhi wo** they, aaj bhi wo** ho. I am a change and progress kind a guy

3. "Galat kya hai"

Haan aab aya na unth pahad ke nichey, thoda aur and ispe kitaab likh du mei
Okay first things first, why do we not kill tigers, rhinos, whales? Is it wrong to kill animals!
Ek macchar insaan ko hinjra bna deta hai, so we kill those bastards anyway
Look humans are "specist", they care only about only their species and discriminate based on species-dependent differences. When something disturbs the ecological balance, we oppose it, as we will be the victims in the long run, so we stopped hunting deer, lion, tiger, rhino etc. But when something does not bother our survival, we are on killing spree. As one philosopher once said, the planet existed before and it will continue to exist, it is the survival of human species that is being endangered by the felony of careless human beings. So stop the "Save the planet" bullshit and start saving your asses real fast.
Whites in their time, considered blacks useless, hitler considered jews useless, and such never-ending list of examples, only speaks to us that all discrimination was wrong, but people realise it too late.
Racism was wrong but people supported it, followed it in their time nevertheless. Discrimination based on religion was wrong, nevertheless people did it. And so is "specism" wrong, we might not accept it now but...
Humans are empathetic beings and are hurt when they see a living being in danger, go ahead crush an ant and squeeze its life out, you will feel something, some cringe in your stomach maybe, we were designed to be empathetic as it poses a survival advantage, we cannot do with killing fellow living beings for so long. We pay for a cut/halal animal, and eat it when it is already dead. A research concluded(don't know which one XD), that 70% of us would stop eating non-veg if we had to do the honours of killing the animal ourselves. We still know it right, that we pay to kill so ultimately we are the murderers, but somehow many of us have figured out a  way of ignoring the fact and letting it not hit our conscience.

4. Hey my chicken was anesthised before killing, so no wrong!

Hey, if i meet your sister in a club, play with her, impress her, dance with her, make her day the most fun one and then mix a drug in her drink to rape her, is that not a rape? I mean she was not hurt, she was sleeping believing the last night to be the most fun night ever. Taking a life is taking a life. Maybe we feel comforted by these silly facts that the animal was not scared at his death, but it does'nt make this right
How right is it to seperate a child from its mother very young and only allow it to drink small amounts of milk, so that more can be extracted out of its mother.

5. So what! If i don't eat it, who is going to take care of it, it is going to die a horrible death

Hey hey hey!
If you dont eat it, the farmer won't farm that chicken, if people stop eating, who the hell will a farmer raise and farm a chicken. Oh okay for the most of us who dont know 94% of our chicken, cows and goats are farmed, i.e grownup in sheds, to be one day be killed and be prepared into a delicious halal, served in Karims maybe.
Don't you see only a few animals are allowed to enter our societies be it dog, chicken, cow or any animal that is of great use to us. Cows and chickens don't die a horrible death cause they are abundant, we farm them and some of them escape or are released, then they die a horrible death, this is just not their habitat.

Social uploads!

They say - "Aap social kaam karne ke baad pics upload karte ho, aap fake ho"

When you successfully perform a skit on teacher's day, you post pictures. Maybe your parents and friends are really proud of you. People are inspired and want to be in theatre group themselves now.
When you visit a beach in goa, you post pictures. People are "J" and they plan their trips too inspired by your sizzling hot, and fun pictures.

Infact facebook is a platform that has inspired people from all age-groups to long for something, get up and do, be more proactive and make a mark

Then why is it that, we are frowned upon on posting pictures of some social work that we do for our own happiness (same as in a skit), in which our family and friends will be proud too, and possibly we might get people inspired to do the same.

Why is it compulsory to act 'extra-mature' and 'over-saintly' and 'over-humble' and 'extra-serious' when doing some social work. Does it not defeat the whole purpose. I mean i think people do it to connect more within themselves and experience the real joy, otherwise what is the meaning of all this studying and striving, and that that we get a big package, and then struggle to decide where to spend it, if we are not satisfied with us and with life. As i once read somewhere - "Money is what keeps our physical bodies alive, but songs, poems, love, relationships are the entities that gives us a purpose to live life"

Ofcourse there is a place and time for everything. One cannot start clicking selfies in a camp where people are dying, but what is wrong with places like an orphanage or other places we visit.

I read a FB post which went something like "life is short, so get into relationships, have breakups, feel the pain and click a lot of selfies, to weave a beautiful string of memories, wherever you are"
Keep inspiring people, keep posting