3Comments Decisions

I hear people saying "This is the most important exam/year/decision in my life. My whole life depends on it."

Just wanna say - No. Its not. Life never depends on one particular point.

Once you realize this, you will take decisions without fear. You will live life as it's meant to live.

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. (via @abinashtripathi)

4Comments Peace is..

Like dew drops on sunflower..

Like watching a smooth flight of a kite..

Like sitting on a beach at night..

Like listening to sound of waves..

Like watching a bird building his nest..

Like playing a soft harp in background..

Like sitting alone on a mountain top..

Like raindrops on glass window..

Like listening to classical guitar..

Like driving on a straight empty road...

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4Comments Understanding Sméagol...

Sméagol, in my opinion, is the best character in Lord of the rings series..
Most of us consider Sméagol (gollum) as an evil character and tend to hate him at one point or another. But we really need to understand what that character is all about. What exactly he has gone through.. This is how I understand Sméagol -

Now, its very difficult to defend him n say he was not evil because it all starts with him murdering Déagol... But consider this, Sméagol as we know was a son of a thief (as mentioned in tolkien letters), a mean son of a thief.. And you know how mean people behave.. they don't care as long as they are getting what they want.. So it is possible that ring affected gollum so much so that he ended up killing Déagol. Its not entirely his fault then, is it? 

Ok lets assume that ring didn't affect him at all.. It was all by himself. But after that he spend not just 13-14 years but 500+ years alone.. 

What happened in those 500 years? Quoting FoTR -

The murder of Déagol haunted Gollum, and he made up a defence, repeating it to his "precious" over and over again, as he gnawed bones in the dark, until he almost believed it. It was his birthday. Déagol ought to have given the ring to him. It had previously turned up just so as to be a present. It was his birthday present, and so on, and on.

I guess I'll call him 'clean' after these many years.. evilness percentage back to 0.

In the hobbit book, in revised edition, tolkein made him nasty n dark.. previously he was not like that.. In previous edition he was more like how peter jackson has pictured it.. not exactly evil.. not exactly charming helping personality either.. I guess that's how he was after those 500 years..

Now.. consider a situation, your father stole something from me and gave it to you. You know that, I know that. I want it back. So why am I the evil person here? There was nothing wrong of Sméagol for wanting the ring back.. I probably would have done the same thing...

So Sméagol tries to get it back. Frodo and Sam capture him. Sam suggests to kill him. Frodo says 'no.. lets use him as a guide instead..' (wow! very noble of him) 

Still Sméagol agrees. He had no choice anyways.. Frodo says "Its the only way.."

Sméagol must be thinking "dude, I kept it secret for more than 500 years nothing happened.. now you showed it to the Sauron n now everybody's at war"

Anyways, Sméagol keeps the promise n shows him road to the black gate, stops him from going through the gate (really pointless n ridiculous idea) and tells him that there's another way.. 

At this point Sméagol must be like - "Wtf?? They stole the ring from me. and why am I at their mercy? And why am I showing them road where they can destroy the ring they stole from me? Chuck it! I want the ring back.. one way or another.."

Here gollum tries to I'll not say 'kill Frodo', I'll say 'get back the ring from frodo'...

And it was actually his right to do so.. He fails..

Then Sméagol waits till they both come to mount doom. Frodo Cries "The Ring Is Mine.. m not gonna destroy it.." Imagine what Sméagol must have thought that time - 

"W0ot!! Dude, you told me My ring must be destroyed so I can't have it.. so I showed you the path.. now you say its mine? WTF! Give it back to me"

n So they fight and you know the end.. 

Here, at any point, I don't think he's nasty or you know, evil for no particular reason..

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Side note: I agree with people who think Gollum is kinda like a warning to Frodo. Gollum was created for showing frodo what he could become if he has the ring for too long..

5Comments Guilt..

Today, I was going to withdraw some money from one ATM on my way home..

I was walking with earphones in my ears, listening to songs.

Suddenly one man popuped up in front of me, and with him, his wife n two children..

The family was looking poor.. n most probably outsiders..

He was saying something to me. so I removed earphones.

He asked (in Marathi): 

"Do you undarstand Marathi?"

"Hoah" (yes)

"Aho. Aamhi jara dusrya gawavarun aloy.. ".. [we have come from another village..]

"Damn!!" said I. I assumed these guys are 'professional' beggars, so I earphones back and walked away..

While withdrawing money from ATM, I thought, I didn't even listen to them. I was not in a hurry or anything. May be they are in some money issue that I could have solved. May be they are not just beggars.. May be they are just beggars. But I at least should have listen to them once..

Still in confused state I walked out of ATM and looked. They were gone.

I don't know why, but I'm feeling guilty for some reason. 

I should have listen to them... 

8Comments Fit in

When I was young, I had this geometry blocks game. You know, you have blocks of different shapes like circle, rectangle, square, triangle n on big block with the exactly opposite holes of same shapes.
One day, I wanted to fit a rectangular block in a square hole. But it was not exactly fitting in. So I broke that rectangle shape in two. *zap* it fitted easily (if not perfectly). I was happy for a sec n then I removed that piece again. n tried to fit in original rectangle hole... Then I realized twas not a good decision to break the piece just to fit in the hole it never belong.

When you shift from one city to another; When you start hanging out with new people,  you have to change some habits of yours or some things that you do. But now-a-days before changing that, I ask myself a few questions. Is it really worth? Do I really wanna fit in? Do I really care if I don't? Do they really care if I don't?

Life, I think, is like that plastic block. It definitely fits somewhere you just don't know it where. Its up to you to decide whether to change yourself to fit in the first thing you come across or to wait and look for a perfect match.

9Comments किम्मत

माणसाच्या प्राणाला किम्मत आहे. कुत्र्याच्या पिल्लाला किम्मत नाही. वाह माणसा, सर्वात मोठा मेंदू मिळाला म्हणे..

एवढ्या इमारती केल्या.. रस्ते केले. गाड़ी चालवायला शिकला. त्या बिचार्या कुत्र्याच्या पिल्लाला काय कळणार रे..

फुल्ल अल्टो चालवत आला न त्या बिचार्या कुत्र्याला धड़क मारली. मेल ते बिचारा पिल्लू.

आता त्या कुत्र्याच्या जागी माणूस असता तर लगेच पोलीस केस. ५ वर्ष जेल मधे. 

पण हे माणूस नाहीये ना. त्याची चूक. मग काय? आज तिथेच कडेला पडून राहील. लोक जाता येता disgusting look देतील. उद्या कचरा उचलणारा त्याला उचलून नेईल.

प्रॉब्लम असा आहे की लोकं दिवसेंदिवस वाईट होत चालली आहेत, अन कोणाला ते कळत पण नाहीये. लोकांना वाटते आपण  प्रगती करतोय. शाळेत शिकवायचे ना तुम्हाला 'इतर प्राणीमात्रांवर  प्रेम करा'. तेव्हा प्रश्न पडायचा  प्राणी'मात्र' म्हणजे काय? आता पडतो 'इतर प्राणी' म्हणजे काय... 

'माणुसकी' आता फ़क्त माणसांनाच applicable राहिली आहे हे कळण्याइतपत डोक आहे का तुम्हाला?

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त्या कुत्र्याच्या पिल्लाची आई 

[म्हणे भारतात फ़क्त १२०० वाघ राहिले आहेत. (प्राणी वाघ; वाघ आडनावाचे  लोक नाहीत) फ़क्त १२००? अरे आवरा लोकहो.. ]

3Comments There's no right or wrong..

Sometimes, I think Lord Voldemort was 'right' saying -

"There is no such thing as right and wrong. There is only power and those too weak to seek it."

When you actually think about it, you'll understand how weird the concept 'rightness' or 'wrongness' is..

Why its not as simple as truth or lie.. The truth is a fact. but Rightness is a relative term.. hmm.. thats why...

You can't be just right.. you will have to have a set of rules which decide whether you are right or wrong. I find it interesting that even if you are telling truth you can be wrong.. on the other hand even if you're lying you can be right..

Also, to make it worse, its not even a boolean term like true/false.. you can be 'totally right' or 'kinda right'.. :) May be that depends on how closely are you following those rules.

From this.. I can see how difficult a job of jury can be..

10Comments Creating virtual reality

Ok. I like some funky post titles. Here, by virtual reality, I don't want to say anything about Life2 or other virtual reality game. I want to put my points on human behavior (again big words :)
So, after spending 16 hours, I've come across some really interesting things that I'd like to share.
Rather, I wanna put those in some place like blog so that I can look at it after few years n check whether those were true for me.
See, how I live my life, and how my friends/family think I live my life, is ideally should be same. But I think, its impossible. In fact, I purposefully, consciously,  make sure they don't know about my 'internal affairs'. [And I think this applies to everybody].
Let me explain, you share your thoughts, experiences, emotions with people you care. Do you share everything? No. you share only those things that you think are either neutral or really nice. You also share some bad thoughts  'As long as it's not related to them'. I'll not go n tell my friend that I hate this this you do.. If I can, I'll most probably just ignore it.. You still hate it.. but you ignore it.. Same thing is other way round. You know or you think this person will hate me if I tell this thing. You choose not to share it.
So the thing is, say you have a big friends group. You always meet in a group. In this case, you cannot tell a single thing you hate about any of them. and you cannot share anything you did, that you think they will hate. So the things you share is less than 50%
These people know me less 50% .. They know the image of myself that I'm creating for them. n vice versa.. I'm sure if I don't know these guys as well as I think. We live in virtual reality.
Crazy eh?

I'll surely enjoy my life now with this realization (sarcasm).. Fake Me gotta go.. so cutting it here.
Enjoy your life now, if you can. or.. curse 'virtual' me if you want.
If you do not think its true, I'm really jealous of you.

~ By Prajwalit, that you think you know. :)

5Comments Creative... Really ??

Too much smallville yesterday... almost till 0300 hrs...
Dunno if i was dreaming or something else, but I guess I was thinking about what superman can do with his powers...
Apparently, out of infinite things where he can use his powers, first thing that popped up into my mind was - he can take his own picture without putting camera on timer.
(u know, click n use speed to go to position)
:P

Creative minds...
what crap :)