Finally received Amazon Kindle I aspired since years...

1999th BLOG POST

I remember when Amazon had launched its Kindle device in India for the very first time. I was so excited about it and had thought of asking my parents if I can get one as I was just a student and didn’t earn much except few bucks here and there through content writing and blogging. But somehow, I was brainwashed by friends and I went for purchasing something multipurpose like Samsung tablet. The tablet couldn’t survive for long as someone pushed me with great force in Mumbai local and its display got damaged. I used that Tab to read few e-books during my affair with it. The Kindle was still in mind but when I went back to check it, it had started becoming costly with its new versions launched every few months. I somehow got a calling that I can get it through some other means and I don’t need to spend money on purchasing it. I can still not fathom how I got such a strong calling.

 

Some years later, one of my author friends said that Amazon has gifted him a Kindle and if I would love to have it. At that point of time, I had started receiving lots of paperback books for reviewing. I thought I may never have time to read e-books and I don’t know which demon had possessed my mind that I said a clear “No”. I regretted this refusal just after two months of the event and somehow managed to ask the author again if it’s still there so I can have it. He abused me friendly and conveyed that it has been given to his sister on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan and he can’t ask her to give it back to him. I understood the situation and felt really bad for disappointing my inner instinct which had told me years back that I could get it without having to spend money on it.

 

Later, I started earning and thought I can get it now. While window shopping at a mall, I found a whole section which had all new versions of Kindle devices displayed in style. I checked each of them and tried the devices for the first time. I was mesmerized with its look and how even after being digital and having lights behind its screen, it still gave an impression that you are reading from a real page and not a digital device. While I was thinking of finally getting it, once again I got a calling that I don’t need to spend money on this yet. I respect my intuition a lot because it is right 99% of times. Again, years later, I saw an author announce a Kindle Giveaway recently where he asked to share the best advice one has ever got in life. I shared something thinking if this post can get the Kindle for me but I was also skeptic because many Indian participants would participate in this. I am always very low in confidence so I thought maybe this is just another turn on the road for finally taking me to the destination sometimes later in life.

 

Luckily, I was announced the Winner and after submitting the details, on the very next day, I received the latest version of Kindle. I could just not believe what happened here. The amount at which this particular 11^th generation is sold is almost double the amount of the device I had thought of purchasing initially. I got an expensive one by just being patient and believing in my intuition. The purpose of telling this whole thing is not to boast because the thing is not very expensive that one can’t afford it or I couldn’t afford it now. But what I mean to share is how you can make your manifestations and visualizations work for you. If I would have just thought of getting Kindle, I would not have got it ever. My intuition with it would have also become weak with time.

 

For years, I kept reading regularly and let the Universe feel my commitment and dedication towards reading automatically without doing it just for this purpose. I read more than 50 books every year since more than a decade without failing even once. When Universe could see my efforts towards the love of reading for which I sacrifice so many social elements of this society just to be with my books, it put me in the merits to get what I dreamed of possessing since years. It put this giveaway competition from an author I follow on Instagram. I don’t participate in giveaways but I did this time even when I wasn’t really high on confidence.

 

But when you put in your efforts every day for a long period of time towards something, anything you manifest towards this goal gets accomplished for sure. It may not get delivered completely but you get something for sure. Though in this case, I got exactly what I had thought of. And this makes my Belief and Trust in God and Universe grow more and more. Even before this, I kept getting books for free just because my love for reading couldn’t be ignored by Universe at all. I would request all of you to trust your intuitions towards whatever you are dreaming for a goal on which you are really working from the bottom of your heart – even when no one is watching you. It will surely come true. It may take years but you’ll get it eventually. Before ending the post, THANKING UNIVERSE AND GOD for always loving me more than anyone else. 😊

 

Thanks.

 

WRITING BUDDHA

What "LIFE of PI" teaches us in that one single scene...

1987th BLOG POST

2021 – The year I think will always stay with me as a memory – a memory – bad or a learning one – I don’t know – but the date whenever I’ll have to mention 2021 will give me goosebumps. It has been very difficult in all terms for me – either personal or professional. Luckily and I should also give credit to my resolution towards bettering my health that this department stayed great for most of the times. I also tried many experiences for the 1^st time such as a long road trip of around 3200 kilometers which is something I always wanted to do since we started owning a car as a family. But all of these examples are like few good scenes from a bad movie which you’ll never recommend to anyone. At times, I think why did I even had to have these few good experiences in the year which I would always rate as one of the worsts for myself. I could have kept it due for 2022 or maybe for 2023 or well, 2024.. and so on…

 

You must have watched the movie – “Life of Pi” starring none other than Irrfan Khan who is no more with us. I always wanted to watch it but I think it was destined for me to watch it only in 2021 i.e. 9 years after its release only after I have suffered same experiences. Thanks to Amazon Prime otherwise I don’t know how much time it must have taken more for me to reach the movie. Obviously, the whole movie is worth watching and every scene is a delight but something that stuck with me is one of the last scenes in which Irrfan Khan cries while narrating it. Even I cried in that scene and it tore my heart like anything. He speaks of the instance where their boat finally reaches the shore and the Tiger finds a forest nearby. He feels that Tiger will once turn back to see him before getting back onto his life as he had done everything possible to protect him for months in the middle of the sea. But Tiger doesn’t turn back even once and enters the forest without giving a damn to Irrfan Khan’s character. It hurts him so much that even after years, it makes him cry remembering the event.

 

Seeing that scene, I felt as if it was so much about me. No, I am not trying to portray myself as someone who is always good to others but still gets ill-treated. I am talking only about one-two people here with whom I tried my best to ensure that the relationship gets strong and beautiful gradually or instantly, but when it came about showing the same love back to me, just like that Tiger, they didn’t think twice about me but went ahead in creating a great life for themselves without caring about my feelings. It made me understand that movie so well because it wanted to tell us about the basic nature of few human beings who doesn’t care about what you did for them but the moment, they find a good opportunity for themselves, they’ll move ahead without worrying or giving a damn about you.

 

And the recent two cases had happened with me in the year 2021 itself and I just couldn’t stop crying watching that scene. I could feel the pain Irrfan Khan was trying to portray for the only time he cried during the whole movie. You see people choosing a different set of people than you when it comes to their priority irrespective of whatever efforts you have put up to include them in your life. You see people not even coming to say a good-bye to you for whom you did everything for every day you were with them just to make them feel pleasant and not miss that broken part of their life. What is the solution or remedy to this? Is there something which can provide you immunity against such people who cares and loves themselves more than you even in conditions where a small gesture could have made you feel loved?

 

I don’t think there’s anything that can ever protect you against such gestures of people. You are bound to get hurt hence you should never ever expect. Yes, the same old cliché advice but we don’t know how we end up having expectations in relationships and keep on punishing our heart, mind and sometimes, even our soul. And let me tell you – healing a broken heart and mind is still easy and time-limited task but healing a damaged soul can take your whole life. Wish we had little sensitive people around us to understand that. Maybe they aren’t wrong. It is we who lack understanding of people or the circumstances lead us in expecting from them. Something needs to be corrected within us and in our lives to ensure maximum happiness from relationships we indulge in. Well, that’s it. I know the start of 2022 is getting quite depressing on this Blog but I am unable to get away with the pain 2021 has left upon my soul. May God bless me soon with a happy soul.

 

Thanks.

 

WRITING BUDDHA 

Starting New Year 2022 with THIS POST...

 1986th BLOG POST

So its 6^th day of the New Year and even after trying to be regular on this space, I couldn’t manage to be here for more than 35 days in a row now. There has been no post in December 2021 at all. I feel so bad for it but then things don’t work out as per your plan sometimes. Few things take all your energies and attention even when you don’t want to commit yourself to it. Life happens and we are just an observer to it. 2021 was a very horrific year for me and I would never be able to forget and forgive the Superpower that made it happen with me. You can’t always judge yourself, but I can judge this much that I didn’t deserve a bit of this. But then, the Superpower is not in our control, but we are in control of it. You must accept few consequences and make yourself come to terms with it.

 

Since 2009, I have started journaling my life and I know every good and bad days of my life. It has been such a great phase where my graph only went upwards since then till 2019. But 2020 came up with things I had never expected to happen with me. I know whenever we talk about 2020 and 2021 – we only talk with troubles Coronavirus caused us. Coincidentally, these two years got me into some other situations which made my life a living hell. May be, the planets and stars were not in good positions for any of us – hence, some suffered in 1^st wave of covid, some suffered in 2^nd wave whereas few like me suffered due to some other scenarios in life. But SUFFER, we DID! I got my job switched twice along with bigger concerns than this in life.

 

I wanted to write my 2000^th Blog Post in 2021 itself and had planned so well to get onto my target but it couldn’t happen as I mentioned, I was away from all this and was fighting a difficult situation back in my life for 6 weeks. My grandmother left us during the same timeframe which made it little more difficult as I didn’t have my parents with me for some time. I had my sister with me during this phase but even she had to leave abruptly which happened so sudden that I couldn’t respond to everything happening in my life the way I should have. Too many movements sometimes distract you from what you had targeted to reach upon. Your destination becomes blur and after a point of time, you leave it for God to show you the way you must walk upon.

 

Every time, I am so very excited to welcome New Year with open arms but this time, it seems nothing prominent has shifted in my life. This New Year doesn’t even excite me. I have yet not worked upon my Resolutions nor have I gone through my 2021 Resolution list to understand how I fared. Because what matters to me right now is that I survived everything I went through. Whenever you go through shits you were not prepared for, you automatically prepare yourself in becoming a strong person you could have never been otherwise. If everything starts working the way we expect it to happen, where will the craziness of life go? One of the biggest properties of life is its randomness. If you take it away and things start working the way you want, you’ll destroy more because of the realization of how powerful you are – that- things always happen the way you want it to happen. Let ourselves be the puppet of life and enjoy the ups and downs it asks us to go through.

 

I know the 1^st post of the New Year has sounded quite depressing and confused in a sense, but I can’t be one of those who put a fake face to the world whereas they are going through something completely opposite in their personal life. At least, I don’t pollute my Blog Space at all with such pretentions. I might certainly do it on Instagram. Haha! That’s one of the reasons why I stayed away from writing a Blog for weeks because I can’t post reviews and posts talking about entertainment and success when I am failing at things personally. I hope things get normalized soon in life so that I can again expect things to happen at its own pace rather than throwing 10 bowls at a time at me to play all of them with just one stroke. God, I am still not that strong. Take it easy on me. At least for some more days. With this, wishing a very Happy New Year 2022 to all of you reading this. Hope your life is sorted out and you are enjoying another property that it has – BLISSFULNESS! My prayers and wishes are with all of you. Do pray and wish for my betterment too. I am suffering a lot. Hope 2022 brings a new light for me to walk towards it with the same enthusiasm and power I have always shown in achieving things for myself. 😊

 

Thanks & Sorry for this Post.

 

WRITING BUDDHA

 

Isn't ROAD TRIP and LIFE the SAME EXPERIENCE?

1974th BLOG POST

Long time since our family bought our first car in 2016, we were planning of some long road trip which we hadn’t experienced yet. The most that we tried was a journey from Mumbai to Daman which is not that exploratory as its around 200 kms something. I always wanted to achieve something like 1000+ kilometres by driving all by myself. After thinking a lot, we had this trip last month where all three of us went to Jhansi which is 1000+ kms away from where we stay. I still don’t have confidence on how to drive on mountains and ghats hence I wanted straight highways and didn’t want many adventures to take place. When you are with your parents, even walking on an empty road can lead to 100 warnings. You can imagine the state when you are on a road trip with them and that too driving on dangerous steep turns. Hence, to save myself from millions of instructions and taking care of my mental health, I chose a simple road to travel on my first ever Road-trip.

 

When you drive for 12-15 hours on a stretch all by yourself, there are numerous thoughts that run through your mind. Some stays whereas some disappears in the black hole that must be located somewhere in the brain – otherwise where does all these thought goes which we keep on thinking regularly. I ended up comparing the Road-trip with Life and found so many similarities in both these journeys that I got to understand why it is said that you learn a lot when you travel. Yes! But No for the people who travel only for social media. Traveling is like Meditation – in a form – where the way you see things are specific to you. The experience of seeing the very same thing might be different for everyone who are looking at something. Hence, to experience something vast within you, you must travel for yourself and not for digital platforms, friends or selfies.

 

There is a moment when you are running at your fastest speed say 100-120 kms/hr and you notice that you are not able to view the sceneries around you. I realized that I was missing on so many things- the cloud, the mountains, the greenery, the temples, the different colour formations in the sky etc. So, I slowed down my Car and started enjoying the view. After a point, I remembered that I also need to cover a specified distance on the same day to reach the destination I have to reach at. I speeded up again but with a conscious attempt to be at both the places – Driving fast as well as enjoying the things around me. I think about Life now. Isn’t it similar? We keep running in this hyper-professional target-oriented culture and realize after a point that we are missing time with family, children and friends. Then we try to rectify that and find that we have ended up screwing our professional life which have impacted our family life too. Then we understand how to maintain Work-Life Balance all by ourselves and walk on this path which keeps us sane and peaceful. How interesting, isn’t it?

 

When I was driving, I was thinking of not taking a break at all and try completing the whole journey in one-go itself but after my right shoulder started aching due to 6-hrs of continuous driving, I realized that taking break after some hours is essential if I have to drive so long. The same thing happens with life. We think of working a lot for weeks and months without taking break. We get into this hustling mode and perform our tasks like there’s no alternative to it. But after our medical reports tell us that you have become a successful person but at the cost of your health, you leave everything aside and make your health the priority over everything else. You, then, understand the importance of being healthy and making time for your body irrespective of being howsoever busy you are.

 

When we drive on highways, we get smooth roads as well as bumpy ones. The smooth road comes at a price – yes, I had to pay toll amount of Rs. 2800 in this journey. The bumpy ones are free. You can also avoid these toll roads and chose to travel by alternate bumpy roads – but, you have to travel few extra miles which also damages the condition of your car. Before starting this trip too, I had got my car serviced and spent another 10,000 bucks on it to ensure a smooth ride. In life, too, we must pay for a convenient lifestyle otherwise you can’t have the smooth days and nights – the way you dream of living. Life also shows you some good days where you just pass them off smoothly whereas sometimes even an hour is so bad that it’s more dangerous than bumpy roads. You must bear both if you have chosen to be on this journey. Alas, Life is a Journey which is not a choice but mandate.

 

While taking breaks, I assured that I don’t eat much so that I don’t feel sleepy. But still, on one of the many breaks, I ended up eating more than I had decided to fill myself with and it resulted to tricky situation for me as I was fighting back sleep for some hours while driving after that. In our daily life too, sometimes we end up consuming something more than we need which results into some difficult moments in life. If you end up spending a lot of money on useless things or time on people/mobile/television, there comes a judgement time when the experience of living life becomes terrible. You keep on regretting why didn’t you stop yourself from consuming unwanted stuffs more than you needed. It takes a lot of time after that to come back on track and experience the smoothness of life again. And then you decide that you’ll restrain yourself from being into bad habits even if they are meant to happen occasionally. You learn the art of living life.

 

The Road-trip has taught me more than this and many other aspects of life. I don’t know if anyone of you have also experienced the lessons of life being delivered to you while you are traveling, if not, then please try to travel next time with yourself without gadgets, useless friends or at places where there are less crowds and more monuments. Try reading your mind when you are traveling than sharing about your location with your friends and relatives. I’ll share more experiences in upcoming posts. Thanks for now. Hope you could relate with this post too. 😊

 

WRITING BUDDHA 

My experience of following Shrawan Month rituals for the very 1st time...

1861st BLOG POST

Yesterday, the month of Shrawan ended for all of us who follow the Hindu calendar as per Purnima. The folks who follow Amawasya calendar shall be following the religious month of Saawan until 19^th August, 2020. The month of Shrawan is an auspicious one where all of us pray in complete devotion of Lord Shiva. When it comes to Lord Shiva – whatever you do for the God is always less hence in the month of Shrawan, we devote ourselves as much as possible in the Lord and pray for his blessings. Lord Shiva is known for his bholapann and forgiving or blessing his devotees. I have always been mesmerized by Lord Shiva’s presence since I saw the idol of the divine in the Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur at Uttar Pradesh. I had remembered the idol and its image since childhood and always felt that there is only one God and it is Lord Shiva. It is later when I realized that there are other forms of God too.

Frankly speaking, in the last 30 years, I never followed the month of Shrawan by prohibiting non-vegetarian food and following other small sacrificial activities such as fasting etc. First of all, I always questioned this logic of not eating meat for a month and eating for rest of the 11 months as I believed that God is omnipresent in each and every moment – either it’s a day/month of festival or not. Also there has been another reason that in case you even take the pledge of following the prohibitions and sacrifices but as soon as your friends start enjoying their life who aren’t following the month, you end up breaking your promise with God as you get compromised by their endless requests immediately. According to me, this is a bigger sin than not following at all. Being unaware is okay but being aware and still committing the sin isn’t.

This year as we are working from home, I knew that any such negative energies are away from me so let’s try it out as I am anyway trying to follow as much religious practices as possible since the lockdown began in March 2020. And I am liking the process of learning my religion and following it to the best of my capacity. There is an altogether different feel to it. The temple at home has never given me the kind of feeling as it has given me in last 4-5 months. There have been times when I have ended up crying and weeping while praying to God or reading some mantra or shloka. Such has been the devotion which I hardly remember if I have ever experienced the same. Things with life has not been great in this phase but still – the belief in God stays intact. Now I realize that nothing is in my hands or my parents/friends but the almighty. Hence, the most we can do is to pray and ask him to give us the life which is best for us.

I had abstained myself from eating non-veg, eggs and drinking milk in Shrawan. In this month itself, I also did religious proceedings needed for the festivals and occasions such as Nag Panchami, Raksha Bandhan, Guru Purnima and others. I also fasted on the five Saawan Somwaars (Monday) as it is been done as the day is associated with Lord Shiva. The kind of poojas that I have performed on these Mondays have made me feel so special. I have also read Shiv Chalisa twice- morning and evening – throughout the month. Before this, I never did any kind of rituals or prayed Shiv Linga but this is the first time I learnt about it and performed it on every Monday in this month. I offered water on Shiv Linga daily though. Along with this, there were two Ekadashis that had come in this month- namely, Kamika Ekadashi and Putrada Ekadashi – on which I fasted for both the auspicious days dedicated to Lord Vishnu. I never knew about Mahamrityunjay Mantra but now, I remember it by heart and chant it every time I am aware about my presence and the moment.

Doing all of this makes you realize that you are in hands of a power beyond us and our understanding. I understood that life happens the way it has all been planned by God. I also realized that your scripted life is re-written as per your practices, Karma and Dharma that you are following. In case you are still suffering a lot, may be God is punishing you for some of your past sins. It is still good as that account of yours is getting closed. Once you are being tested by God in such difficult circumstances and you stay as truthful to your Dharma even then, you become one of the favorite devotees of God and great and magical things start happening with you. It is all about beliefs. Now, something has happened internally which makes me believe in everything I read about our God. Earlier, I used to question each and everything. Today, now, when I realize that Shravan has ended, it seems as if I am missing something and I wish if the days continued. But now I am waiting for next auspicious occasion as the next 4-5 months are all going to be festive, so we have multiple opportunities to be as close to God as possible.

I just wished to share my feelings I had after following the rituals of the month dedicated for Lord Shiva and wrote as it came in my heart. Hope my feelings were clear to everyone who read it. I request everyone to not be proud of being an atheist. Have some belief as per your gut feeling but please believe in a power above you.

Thanks.

WRITING BUDDHA  

Sushant Singh Rajput:- You may not be RIGHT but You are not WRONG...

1849th BLOG POST -->>

On 14^th June, 2020, I was sleeping in my bedroom because I was feeling low. After getting up, I scrolled through my Mobile’s notifications and read about the demise of Sushant Singh Rajput. I could not believe it at all as he was one of the leading actors in the new generation of Bollywood and everyone knew that he is going to be one among the Top List after a decade or so. It made me suddenly cry as I could not decipher anything out of it and felt as if I have died and I am reading people write good things about me. People use the word “coward” for those who die by suicide but have they ever thought why do they have to take such extreme step? What goes on with their mind and heart that compels them to not think about anything else and take that step which shall end everything?

The people who leave us like this couldn’t think about their parents, siblings, spouse, children, friends, colleagues etc. because they become so weak that they are not even able to think about themselves. They get lost in a world where they are unable to even identify themselves and forget what they are meant for and what they wanted to do in life. For them, life means only death now. And death looks and sounds more promising and peaceful than life. Every person is built with some kind of strength unit or say, a person has made him/herself strong only up to that unit. Once the measurement surpasses that mark, a person howsoever strong, positive, successful or brave he or she was, starts reacting to things negatively – either some of them start behaving aggressively and spoil their relationships with the way they behave in public whereas few people tend to get quiet and isolated.

As soon as someone gets quiet, people around him/her should be identifying this and give the strength this person is missing. Your few words might make the person see things that are disturbing him/her in a different light. May be this person who was not wanting to face something in near future or didn’t know how to deal with it starts taking it as an opportunity to test him/herself and become stronger than before. But it all depends if someone around them who is stronger identifies this person’s behaviour at the right time when he starts going into recluse. But it is all about if we have such selfless and patient people around us in this time of competition and almost negligible attention span. How long can someone entertain this person who has lost all his strength and talks only the negative side of life? How long can someone contain their irritation of daily going through this cycle of depressed talks from the other side and then giving sweet talks controlling his/her frustration?

And this is what a person in depression thinks – he feels that there is no-one who would be able to hold him for a long time as they realize that they will take a lot of time to get better and stronger. And that is what triggers them to happily leave this world as it is by just subtracting themselves who might create more problems for his loved-ones if he goes on living. The loved-ones always feel that they would have supported the person who has gone but it’s a harsh reality that very rarely such people get continuous support from family. Even family starts raising expectation after sometime and blames on this person directly/indirectly for any failure that happens in the family. All I can say is that sometimes Death looks better than Life and if not treated at times, such people always have courage to go towards Death than having the same courage to deal with situations going in their external life or within themselves.

I am someone who often gets depressed even when there’s no stress or pain-point in life and therefore I understand such people who find this way more pleasing than usual way. But then who are left behind are no one to judge such people. We can only feel for them and we shouldn’t call them names. At least not COWARDS or LOSERS. They were better than many and could have been better than many others also. May be even we aren’t at a level where the person was when he gives away his life. As in case of Sushant- majority of us don’t have the kind of success, money, fame, talent, skill and knowledge that he had. So, calling him anything shall only make us look smaller. We should try understanding why someone at that level will do THIS. And if we understand that, we understand LIFE and DEATH and the cycle of it. That either makes us Spiritual or Practical- but it makes us something that helps us in dealing with ourselves and others who are weaker than us emotionally. So, it’s better to understand Sushant and various others who have left us or are going through the same rather than calling Names and leaving all the vulnerable souls to heal or die by themselves.

Sushant, you may not be right but definitely, you are not wrong. I understand you.

- WRITING BUDDHA 

13 Years Back.... on 6th Feb, 2007..

1820th BLOG POST -->>

Some people ask how in this worst do you survive… How do you live the way you do.. Do I ever answer to back my lifestyle? Do I have arguments to make? I do but do I have time to explain? If I even explain it to them, will they understand me? Is my past of any relevance to anyone? Does anyone else’s past affects me? Temporarily, it does. But permanently, it is only our life that matters. A soul protected within these muscles, bones, skins with blood flowing all around with a cycle of air coming in and going out. This is all that we are and this is all we should be believing in. Some days in your life remain with you no matter how many years pass. They just don’t leave you at all. They want you to be reminded of your vulnerable self. They tell you where you were and what you are and what you can be.

Should these days be kept with yourself or left behind to be forgotten as many small moments of your life? I think not. 6^th February, 2007 – The day I was been called back home from hostel as I was portrayed by the nature of events as someone who is cheating onto everyone on the name of studies but doing everything apart studies. People see the prima facie and judge you. I was considered to be a bad son – a bad student – a bad individual. No one ever tried to get into what made me go to that level which took away my identity of a student and left me with unclear future. When you don’t know or you can’t comprehend what your next step would be or what you would like to become in life, it is such a dangerous event. No one should ever face it. I say it now because I faced it.

The city Pune from where I was brought back still remains to be a city where I wish like proving myself again and again. I am just not satisfied with whatever I have. I wish to do more. I wish to show it to the city that it deserved me. I deserved it. Life deserved me there. The world could have happened there. The city could have fallen in love with me. I could have fallen in love with the city. Alas! All that went into vain because I was termed to be someone who liked sleeping in hostel or surfing Internet in cyber café but not attend college. No one bothered to ask why I did what I did. There was just perception. The perception that took another 2-3 years for me to come out of the day that changed my life for worst.

But now on 6^th February, 2020- after 13 years, when I look back, I find that some days are meant to be bad to churn out good out of you. Some days are meant to be life-changing to make you realize what being a failure is. Some days are needed to be the days that turns out to be page-turners in the book of your life. These days needs to be kept cherished in your heart always. No one needs to be blamed for it. Because that’s how life unfolds itself. Some good! Some bad! But in the end, it leaves you more educated out of the decisions you yourself make- out of knowledge or out of ignorance. But it’s you. People can take away from me the days of success but I shall never give away the days of these kinds which have made me less vulnerable today and more educated of myself. I cannot guide someone else’s life but surely, I can manage myself with more maturity than before. This day and date shall always stay special in my heart no matter whatever I achieve and howsoever high I climb the ladder of success. That’s all I have to say on this day after 1.3 decade.

Thanks.

WRITING BUDDHA

I am just a Nameless Emotion..

1816th BLOG POST -->>

The happiness and sadness are a periodic cycle which comes and goes as per it’s will. If you and I can change it, then there’s no fun in living. It is only when things strike you at unexpected hours do you realize the kind of change it has done to you. The most that I saw myself changing was a decade back and I don’t think I have ever seen such low ever in life after that. Even before that during childhood there has been many humiliating incidents but I never broke then. I always felt that life is easy but it is only when I was 17 years old when I couldn’t register when I went so deep while diving into this thing called life that I couldn’t handle it and wasted my years coming out of its depression.

That is why I relate with the movie Kabir Singh so much. The madness and aggression that the character of Kabir has is always there within all of us but we can’t live the way he started living by throwing things away just like that. We have a society around us about which we keep thinking and can’t express our pain and frustration the way Kabir does. That is why after that incident I became an emotion myself. Yes! I know saying this is odd but I became a person defining and understanding whom has become difficult. I know I am sounding poetic but I will say it today without any shame. I am what you can only think but can’t hold and say this is it.

Every person who considers me close to them will agree that after meeting me, they just couldn’t think of ever getting separated from me because they get a person who talks about himself the way no one does and also understand the person sitting in front of him the way no one ever understood them. This empathetic value in me is because of the number of books I read. There are so many characters I have met through the books that no other person in real life has been able to shock me with his/her behaviour. I have seen all these people in the books I am always peeping into. Hence, the mind and soul in me which talks with anyone does it the way the character is being treated in the book and is able to leave an impact that the person believes that the person he/she just met is not a person but an emotion he/she would keep wanting to experience.

I have analysed myself a lot from 3^rd person’s point of view and I can only say that whatsoever I do, I ensure that there are no regrets ever of not attempting something. I might succeed. I might fail. I might end up hanging in between of success and failure but I end up putting myself into the shoes and walking the future which I keep analysing in my mind all the time. And once the future becomes present and then past, I know, it was all the illusion the mind had created and nothing is ever permanent. Everything is just passing by. If someone has gone today from this planet, what are you crying for. One day even you are going to go. Are you here to stay forever? No, right? That’s when I realized if I ever leave, how would I be remembered?

I believe I shall be remembered more as an emotion- an emotion which is not happiness, ecstasy, sorrow, joyfulness, anger etc. but something which is distinct in itself. People would want to hate me but they won’t be able to because of that genuity and gentleness that I carried with myself even when I did things wrong. I may have troubled people but I have also given them the moment of their life. I may have hidden things with people but I have also shared something with each closest person that I have shared with no one else. There are times when people have broken me but I never complained about them but considered it destiny and walked with smile on my face. When I abuse twice in each sentence, the person knows these are just words and, in the heart, I am only expecting good to happen with everyone including myself. 

It’s New Year and I hope that with each year the Emotion that I am keep on becoming stronger that whenever someone experiences it, they shall remember me only with some kind of awkwardness that they are all bare in front of me and nothing is hidden. Similarly, they could also experience me bare but still, they won’t be able to understand what this emotion actually meant. I am that character of your favorite book who keeps everyone happy but no one ever understands if he is himself happy or not. A reader just lives that character during the journey of reading and after that for whole life, always remembers that character in terms of emotions and not as a person. Yes, I am that character only. Oh Sorry, Emotion!

Thanks.

WRITING BUDDHA 

Attended KAUN BANEGA CROREPATI - Witnessed AMITABH BACHCHAN Again :-)

1793rd BLOG POST -->>

Since childhood, I had always heard my mother being fan of Mr. Amitabh Bachchan and I had no such attraction towards the Superstar as he didn’t belong to my era and had never seen his work seriously being a child. I grew up being fan of Salman Khan and then Hrithik Roshan. But regularly watching #KaunBanegaCrorepati in my childhood, seeing the kind of personality Mr. Bachchan was, I started dreaming of looking and becoming like him one day- Dynamic and Perfect. I started considering him as someone who is as perfect as God. Later, when I shifted to Mumbai and got my first Internet connection, I didn’t know what to surf after creating my accounts on few Social media accounts such as Twitter, Facebook etc. Then I remembered that I had heard a lot about Mr. Bachchan’s blog on which he writes something for his fans. I searched on Google and landed up on his blog page.

When I started reading his Blogs, I was surprised to find that he had not missed a day since he started Blogging for around 300-400 days. And when I read what he used to write, initially, I didn’t understand much but later when I myself got inclined towards #Spirituality, I started understanding the meaning behind his difficult sentences. Since then, I am one person who has not missed a single Blog Post written by him i.e. 4225 blog posts till date.

I then got this big desperate desire of meeting Mr. Amitabh Bachchan- if not meeting then at least seeing him once in my life and make it possible for my mother also who has been his fan since childhood. The only difference between her and me is- she is fan of the person on-screen and then what he is off-screen whereas I am fan of what he is off-screen as a person and then what he is on-screen as an Actor.

I got to know about one of his concerts which was arranged by Mr. Aadesh Shrivastava, the music director, who is no more with us. But I got to see Mr. Bachchan from very far as the concert was free and you can imagine the crowd strength. Still, the desire didn’t die. And finally, in 2017, I somehow managed to find the set-up which helped me attend one of the shoots of Kaun Banega Crorepati, yes, the show which made me admire and fall in love and respect with the Superstar of the Millennium for the first time. It was an amazing experience. We sat as an audience behind Mr. Bachchan and hence we got to see him clearly only in breaks when he looked towards our side and in the end when he came for photographs. As soon as I saw him leaving the set, a sinking feeling trapped me badly post which I was sick for 4-5 months. No one would believe it but yes, that was the reason, though my parents and few close friends understood the reason.

I wished to see him once again after that to remove this feeling that he is gone, and I would not be able to come as close as this to him ever. And God heard me. This year, in 2019, I again got the opportunity to attend an episode shoot of Kaun Banega Crorepati on 26^th August ,2019 with my parents. This time luckily, we got the audience seat opposite him which made it a great experience as I got to see my Legend, my Role Model, the person because of whom I have been able to scribble around 1800 blog posts, for 3-4 hours continuously. I grasped the whole moment this time in such a positive way that now I feel contented that I have Mr. Amitabh Bachchan around me always. Though again I am sick since then and regularly having doses. 

I still wish if I can talk with him once and share my feelings I have for him. Let’s see if it is for this birth or some other but Mr. Amitabh Bachchan was, is and will always be a phenomena in my life due to which I have been able to manage little success and achievement in my life otherwise I didn’t understand what it meant working for 16-20 hours a day, assuring that certain things need to be executed every day etc. And yes, I would like to thank #KBC team for making this dream come true for both- my mother and me by arranging our entries for the shoot and experience the biggest star perform live in front of us.

You can call it craziness, madness whatever but this is the feeling which doesn’t need any validation.

 Thanks.

WRITING BUDDHA 

COMPLETED A DECADE OF BLOGGING!

1780th BLOG POST

It gives me immense satisfaction and happiness to share with all of you that my Blogging journey has completed its 10^th Year today. On this completion of a decade and 10^th anniversary of this beautiful journey that has not only been just another thing for me in life but almost life itself. I know the dimensions of life is very vast and cannot be defined with just one factor of it with what I do with my Blog and writing but this makes my life feel purposeful. When I had joined my Graduation after completing my 12^th standard, I was aware of the leisure time I would be having as we generally study only when exams are near. I wanted to do something which could give me a pleasure of utilizing both- my time and skills for something better which shall make me proud someday. This thought gave birth to this platform you know as WRITING BUDDHA which has almost 1800 posts now.

When I write here, I write for myself and as soon as my heart says whatever I wished to speak has been scribbled and I go for the round of editing, it is when I think of all my people who follow this portal and like knowing my perspective on things, books, movies, products etc. It all comes from heart. Many people say that Bloggers are just for earning through their influencing platforms but let me tell you my friends, this was started with no knowledge on monetization and even if you shall go through this website, there are no advertisements except few Amazon banners of the books that I have reviewed so that it’s easy for the readers to go and purchase it from there easily. With time I got little bit of opportunities to connect and collaborate with few brands, authors and publishers but it has never been out and out advertisements but posts full of content talking about both- good and bad about the stuff I considered for the write-up. Hence, I have always written it for myself, first, but keeping in mind people who follow this medium religiously.

You would think why I am going on a defensive mode all of a sudden to clarify all of the above. Well, I understand that when your work is not just your work anymore but becomes a part of everyone’s life as I know people who seriously wait for my posts and even ping and abuse me when I am off my blog it becomes the responsibility to make people know the purpose behind this medium. And what good occasion can I get then this- 10^th Bloggaversary! I am always thankful to all of you for staying by even when you know that I am not getting time for my personal opinions and life to be shared with all of you and what comes out is just the Book and Movie reviews that too on an average of once a week. I have promised many a times in my previous such festive posts about my seriousness towards giving lots of personal posts but failed due to tough job life and other things I am associated with. So, this time I won’t be promising anything but still I say, I’ll try to fulfil everyone’s wish by trying to speak my personal thoughts as much as I review books.

On this occasion, I would like to talk about the hobbies and passion that you have. Yes, YOU! Why should this post be only about me and Writing Buddha when it has been possible to stand tall even after 10 years because of YOU, isn’t it? I would request everyone reading this post to not waste much time on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Whatsapp, Instagram and other digital platforms but concentrate upon how you can create something of your own of which intellectual property rights shall be with you and no one can take away from you. I feel very sad for people these days as I find them only investing time in following stuffs others are creating but not creating something from their piece of life as I believe everyone has an artist or skilful bone in themselves. Hence kindly identify if you have not already and rock with your stuffs and show people what you are capable of rather than only liking and sharing stuffs created by others. Definitely do that because you shall get inspiration from there but surely do something of yourself. Enough for you. Bas! Haha!

Before ending this post, I would like to inform all of you that I have finally managed to create a Youtube channel for this platform with the same name- Writing Buddha. I have embedded the first two videos below which I have published as of now. This is something which I wanted to do from last 4 years but the confidence was something that held me back. I finally picked up my DSLR, recorded the video, edited it using a video editor I had never even heard in my life and published it on Youtube. The feedback has been fine and hopefully, this Youtube channel shall not only have book reviews but I shall be discussing and talking on many other topics and my views upon things I have strong opinions on. I want you to please subscribe the channel and comment your views and let me know whenever I go wrong so that I can improve myself and get better with each video.

With this, I wish the nature to allow more positivity to be around me so that I can generate more contents and stuffs and share with all of you and hope this blog shall stay for many more decades. Please keep supporting.

Your Support is my Success!

WRITING BUDDHA 

The Experience of Meeting The Man Who Changed My Life- ROBIN SHARMA!!!

1742nd BLOG POST -->>

Sometimes few people or books or things change your life at the most unexpected time and your life doesn’t remain same after that. I was in 12^th standard and had no goals or objectives in life. The only thing I loved was to be on text messages with my loved ones and spend as much time as possible over it. Similarly, cyber cafes in India was a new thing then and I loved surfing Internet and exploring new websites every now and then without even realizing the amount of money, time and energy I was wasting in it. One day, someone asked me to read this book by an author called Robin Sharma named “Who Will Cry When You Die?”. I liked the book’s title like anything as I was having suicidal tendency then and I thought it is something which I would like to read and know.

The very next day I went to the railway station’s Wheeler Book Store and asked for this book. I saw that the book has 100 chapters of a page each which seemed easy to finish. I finished that book within a night and when I turned its last page, I was a self-realized and self-evaluated person already. I had got changed for life. I understood how important this small thing called Life is and how big we can transform it into with just few basic manipulations in our daily routine. I went to the Railway station again on the next day and bought “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”- the most popular book of Robin Sharma. After reading this one, I just couldn’t sleep for some days in frustration and irritation of how much I have already ended up wasting myself.

Few days after this, the first Big Bazaar got opened in our city and I went with my mother for some shopping. There was a small book section there which luckily had only Robin Sharma’s books and one copy each of only those books which I had not read till then. I went to my Mother and requested her if she can buy all of them for me. They were quite sum of amount considering the middle-class budget. My mother rather than giving silly excuses of buying and finishing one and then going on for purchasing the next book, in a hope that at least her only son is thinking of reading something allowed me to put all the books in the cart. After some days we went for vacation to our native town which has 36 hours of railway journey. I carried all these dozen books of Mr. Robin and finished all of them in the journey and at my native town under open environment in my maternal grandfather’s farmhouse.

After reading all his books which were published then in 2010, I was someone with whom even I started enjoying the company. I had become so positive and wilful. I never said NO to any challenge post then and did some tasks I believed earlier I would have never been able to even discuss them leave picking them up and actually executing them. A boy who was failure at everything started getting better. The one who failed twice in his Junior College passed his High-school, bachelor’s degree and two Master’s degree without failing in any subject even once. Even with Blog that I created myself, I have been able to take it up to a certain level all by myself just with the belief, confidence, inspiration, energy, motivation and will this man called Robin Sharma has charged into me.

He is the only writer in whose work I find every sentence a motivational quote. He just does not know how to write a normal sentence. Every sentence he writes is like those great carvings on Taj Mahal. It seems he has taken a lifetime to craft each sentence. Every sentence is legendary and special and impactful and what not. His words are epitome of energy and there can be nothing over that which you can point at and say makes you feel limitless as human being. I had wanted so much to meet him since I finished completing just his first book which had changed my thought process for the very 1^st time but I knew it was nearly impossible considering he stays in USA and comes India very rarely. But fortunately, with an event being arranged by Jaico Publication and Crossword Book Store, I booked my tickets for this special workshop which was to be conducted by the man himself on the principles he has discussed in his latest book named “The 5 AM Club”.

I had gone with so much of emotions that I am going to experience a person live who has changed my life that I was uncertain how I would react on seeing him in flesh and blood infront of me. And how should I express my feeling of seeing him speak in front of me and providing so much of motivation, inspiration with his great insights on life. He is a man with such positive vibes that the moment I saw him in front of me and till now after 9 hours of it, I can still feel the vibrations and energy within me. And this is not a normal excited feeling which shall go away after some time. It has 100x impact than what his book has had over me. Now I am beginning to look at my life ahead with more excitement and energy. The handshake opportunity that I had with him shall stay with me all my life to pull me up whenever I fall down in life.

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 It has been such a Dream Come True moment for me. 16^th February has become an immortal date for me now which shall be celebrated each day in the memory of this special day which has surely transformed my life little more the impact of which shall be visible sooner and stay for the longest possible time. I thank the organizers for making it possible and also would like to appreciate Tisca Chopra for conducting such a beautiful session for a short period when she was on stage with him.

Thank You God and Universe for Providing Me This Opportunity.

Some pictures from the event:- 

ABHILASH RUHELA