My 21st Birthday Gyaan

It's the time of the year I keep anticipating with every passing minute, when will the days go by; when will I hit the shops and the parlour for a makeover; when will I get all the attention and call it a day, My Day! And so, it's here! It's my Birthday - just the same feeling everyone around the world waits for, as much as you deny. And when the day nears by, you feel old. You start feeling desperate, desperate enough to try pushing it away, to another month or so, just to remain younger, to evade all the responsibilities of the world you may be burdened with. But who can stop the forces of the nature to erupt and bloom the way they should be. And then you are, suddenly, a year older, a year wiser, and a year grateful to have lived so far, a year wishful waiting more fun, more love and more of everything you ever had.

And so to sum it all up, I've come up with the 21 lessons I've learned in my life. Inspire. Influence. Illuminate.

1. Whoever you are, whatever you may be, YOU are the most important entity ever existing, not for others but for yourself. Love yourself more than anyone else, unconditionally, dearly. You are not selfish, but confident!
2. Live today like you'll die tomorrow. Don't wait for things to happen but make things happen. This is neither from any book nor from the Internet, rather from the heart. Because it's your heart that decides what you actually want while your head places other options, confusing you all the while.
3. NO ONE in this world is born ugly. It's the situations they encounter in their lives that mould them to what they are. Go deep within, you'll definitely find a reason to love them. Everyone's compatible to you and vice-versa.
4. LOVE is not a huge word, HATE is! So remember where you pronounce it.
5. "Money may not buy you happiness, but it definitely satisfies your thirst, unquenchable by human emotions". Your parents would never have thought of the monetary benefits you would place before them someday when they conceived you. So forget about the statement above and live for humanity, rather than moneymaking!
6. Go with the flow of nature, but once in a while STOP - TURN AROUND - WALK BACK - REBEL! Not because you are different or unique, but just for fun, damn it!
7. PAIN KILLS PAIN - NO NEVER! Stop over-reacting, like you are the last soul who has to bear all! Start honing the more creative side of you, be it for yourself or others! Just do what you love and JUST DO IT!
8. The more you are tempted to do something, the more you are drawn towards it! Toss a coin! You'll know what you are supposed to do. As Simple As It Should Be!
9. The moments you laugh or the moments you cry should be termed as "MEMORIES" and nothing else. Because these are the memories that'd give you the extra dose of laughter for being stupid, crazy and madly dumb!
10. You are a STRONG person even if you have a longer list of weaknesses; because they are only read by others to term you weak and not by yourself. So learn to metamorphose them into something stunning leaving everyone speechless.
11. Patience! That's the word, my friend! Spell it out, loud and clear!
12. Being pleasant is not a virtue to some idiots on earth sent to find ways to destroy every reason to your existence. Chill, you are not born to please the world! The world was created to please you!
13. Stop regretting. Start appreciating. That's the key to life. Every decision in life teaches you something vital, and that is, to LIVE!
14. You want to cry. You really want to cry. You really, really want to cry? Okay. Cry! It doesn't hurt - neither your eyes nor your health. Just let it go, just let it flow!
15. You can’t, no no just CANNOT change the world. Look at you! Just a little thing and the world is such a big place serving every minute creature like you. Be what you want the world to be. Treat others how you want to be treated. That's how you bring change. That's how the world's going to be a better place to live in.
16. The littlest trait is what surprises you the most, and that's why it brings you the most joy! It's not how you see it, but how you feel it that makes it more worthwhile.
17. Never try your level best to gain the limelight. You are just wasting your energy over unwanted and unnecessary things that's going to do no good to you than those that you gain by staying out and creating your own limelight, away and better!
18. It's NOW or it's NEVER. And if it's none of them, then it's FOREVER.
19. You will be let down, always, every time. You will face a lot of defeats, always, every time. But stay focused, because that's what annoys everyone around. Be yourself, that's what irks everyone.
20. You never HATE anyone, you just DISLIKE people, because you are either jealous of what they possess or selfish to share what you possess. It all arises out of INSECURITY!
21. Lastly, it doesn't matter what you wear and what you don't. Without a SMILE, you are just nothing!

Start knowing yourself, that's the hardest job you could ever take up. Start loving yourself, that's the simplest gift you could give yourself. And most importantly, be aware and alert of what you do, that's how you INSPIRE INFLUENCE ILLUMINATE!

Savaged from my erstwhile blog http://inspireinfluenceilluminate.wordpress.com/ 

Bow Wow --> Be My Friend, Will You??

How difficult is it to show love to another dog right in front of your own? How difficult is it to make your pooch understand that she would be loved forever like always no matter whichever animal or creature comes in between? Ummm ask me, it's really difficult unless your dog is a really understanding one. Well, I was in a similar situation lately and after it all I felt the urge of blogging about it too.

My sister's friend and her husband had to go out of town for a day and so asked us if we could take care of their dog which happens to be a 7 month old Pocket-Pomeranian(I'd like to call her PP for now). We readily agreed since I was really fond of her :) But obviously we had only one thing troubling us and that was - how are the 2 dogs going to take up the feeling of each other's close proximity? Dog Lovers out there and everyone else who know about dogs would know why that is important. 

The day finally came when PP was coming home and so I instructed Dabboo (my pretty little 1 and a half year old female Yellow Labrador Retriever) that she is supposed to behave when the guest arrives. Now, Labs are really friendly dogs, be it with humans or even other dogs (check this Animal Planet video to find out more  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cj81wHmfXc). PP comes like a princess and Dabboo goes around sniffing her to get to know her. One growl, and Dabboo moves back, starts barking. Now since PP is really tiny, we thought she would not be able to fight Dabboo who is much huger than her, so we put her out. Now Dabboo sees PP licking my hand and feels threatened. She starts barking at the top of her voices. There you go Mother of Insecurity!!! That incident makes me a "Traitor" in the eyes of my ever unconditionally loving dog Dabboo, which is very very remorseful (Have pets and feel that, it's crazy). So I take her out for a walk and also do stuffs we always love doing, and i.e., sit on our favourite spot on the terrace and talk. Yes, I did talk and I do that whenever I feel low, and believe me that's the best time ever, because I cry and I know there is someone listening to me though that someone can't actually talk back to me but at least wipes my tears off placing her paws on my palms, sort of assuring me saying "Don't worry everything will be fine". Now to such a friend who is feeling sad over all this it was my turn to do the "consoling" bit. So I went on to tell her how much she means to us (especially me) and how much we'd love her more than any other pet on earth, all because she was our first :) :) And seriously, believe me, she did understand me a little. 

Dabboo was fine sleeping out near the door but PP would go get her attention and then run back to us, as in for support against the bigger bully, and in case we did give her the much-needed attention she'd back back at Dabboo with that rather cute squealing voice. Once we sisters found out it was all a intently performed ritual to show off to the other of the security and affection the pooch enjoys from its human masters, we stopped heeding to it and "minded our own business" then. The night passed out, so did the next morning.

Finally, we sisters decide to let the dogs be friends so we take them to the terrace holding our hearts in our hands (Ok now I don't know why we got so scared then to let the 2 of them open up to each other). We still wish we'd known it was not that difficult. As not actually expected they ran around the place, one after the other, and in no time became really good friends. We were glad and also relieved that we could now concentrate on our usual household chores. 

But then, sadly for the new pals, it was time to separate. It was time to say "Good Bye" with a lot of whines and barks. Well as it's always said "All is well that ends well", I went in for a 12 hour sleep after the really tiresome day. But not everything was good. The 2 friends were really sad after that. What makes me say that? They didn't play around like how they did normally, just not interested in doing anything. Maybe dogs do have feelings. They do know what it means to be in peer groups too. They do know what it means to be friends and what it means to get isolated. They do know how it feels when you don't have that one friend with whom you spent some really beautiful moments of your life. We humans feel that every now and then, right since our childhood. So this blog goes out to all my dear loving sweet close and not so close friends, the ones I know since ages and the new ones, the ones really far away and the ones who I don't see often as well as my once-upon-a-time friends, whatsoever it is 

I miss those old days 

When we had loads of fun 

Under the sun 

Not fearing what may come 

Acting really dumb

Laughing out loud till we went all numb

I miss those old days

Let's get back to our old place :) :)

Sometimes all you need is

1. A cup of coffee --> just when you feel you have no energy left :)

2. A hug from a loved one --> just when you need that reassurance that there's still hope left somewhere like a ray of light coming through the corner of the room :)

3. A crazy verbal fight --> just when you are extremely happy so you realize you've not forgotten how to cry :)

4. A walk in the solitude --> just when you are feeling low or depressed so you find yourself back :)

5. A wake up call --> just to get up and get going to work your dreams out ;) ;)