My success was in my journey,not my arrival

when closing the path to follow,
I selected the road heading west

It began in the forest of childhood,
and ceased at the city of success

My bag was packed full of knowledge,
but also some fears and some weights

my most precious cargo was 
a vision of entering the city's bright gates

I reached an impassable river,
and feared that my dream had been lost

But i found a sharp rock.cut down tree,
and created bridge,which i crossed

It started to rain,and I was so cold,
I shivered and started to doubt

But I made an umbrella out of some leaves,
and kept all the cold water out

The journey took longer than I planned,
I had no food left in my dish

Rather than starve before reaching my dream,
i taught myself how to fish

I grew awfully tired as I walked on and on,
and I thought of the weights in my pack.

I tossed them aside,and I sped up again,
Fear was all that was holding me back.

I could see the city of success,
just beyond a small grove of trees

At last,I thought,I have reached my goal!,
the whole world will envy me!

I arrived at the city of success,
but the gate was locked.

the man at the door frowned n hissed.

"you have wasted your time,
i cant let you in.your name is not on my list"

I cried and screamed and I kicked and shook,
i felt that my life has just ceased.

For the first time ever,i turned my head,
and for once in my life faced to east.

I saw all the things i had done on my way,
all the obstacles I'd overcome.

I couldn't enter the city,
but that dint mean I hadn't won.

I had taught myself how to ford rivers,
and how to stay dry in the rain.

I had learned how to keep my heart open,
even if sometimes it lets in some pain.

I learned facing backwards,
that life meant more than just survival.

My success was in my journey,not my arrival.

P.S. Read somewhere long time ago 

A road trip with no destination

All my trips till date are with destination. I arrive at my destination, visit it and come back. Or set our for our next destination.


How about hitting the highway without deciding the destination, with your friends?

Yup, this is what I want to do. Driving on the highway, stopping when we wish to and driving till we get tired.

Capturing all the beauty and life on the way. And only come back when we get tired of this road trip. :)

I know its sounding very wild. The life we are leading is not like that. We only start our journey or any other quest with some destination or aim. And we try everything to reach that. Sometimes these journeys are more enjoy full and sometimes hard and sometimes our journey just cut short by some reasons. And we again set out for our next destination.

I know it’s not possible to lead a life like that. Without aim we are not going to arrive anywhere, we will just keep wandering in our journey or life.

But we can go on a road trip like that... So just full you gas and hit the road.!!!!!

Exam Time Again...

After two years i am going to appear in exams for my masters. The preparation is going .. don't know how well.. but will tell you after exams.. First I thought it would be difficult for me to study again as lot of people around me think that once you leave study its very difficult to study again.. but trust me i am really enjoying studying again. Its more fun now when you know that you day to day life is much boring then studying.

I have taken 4 days leave to prepare and i am just loving it, staying at home sleeping, eating and also studying and also I am managing to watch movies in these days. Its pure fun :)

I have 4 exams in 2 days, never ever given back to back exams,  Its just like boom boom bang bang and over. Don't know how i will manage them but going to be a new experience. 

I am already started waiting for my next exams and hence the another stint at home.

Oh i supposed to be studying the writing blog :)

Its all in the First name, not the Last name.

Just got the morning newspaper and my eyes got wide open to see Mr Shah Rukh Khan was detained in USA. As i don't like him i was so happy to read the full news.

So Mr. Shah Rukh Khan got detained because his end name is Khan, a muslim. And USA is takes extra precautionary steps against the muslims now. As I completed the complete article, as it was on front page of both main newspaper and supplement, I got confused.

The fuss is because of Khan or Shah Rukh. I say its because of Shah Rukh. If some another Khan from India got detained no one had really cared so much. As per newspaper the Bollywood Industry, India and his fans are disappointed, i can't stop laghing after reading this. Few weeks ago our Prime Minister was frisked at some airport and it was not such a big news as it for Shah Rukh.

So its all in the First name, not in the Last name 

63 Years of Independence

Today we are celebrating 63rd Year of Independence. My simple question is...  What sort of Independence we are celebrating?

We failed to develop our country after independence, the baseless laws and believes are not crippling our country but already have crippled it. The roots are too deep not that it can't be cut. Just for example to apply for a job of peon one should not have any law case against him, but for a job for Prime Minister you can apply from the prison.

Politicians are seen as corrupt people (except for a few). The justice have gone completely blind. Gandhi and Nehru repeatedly got arrested voluntarily because they trusted British justice. But todays politician resist arrest even though he is innocent, because he is liable to get stitched up like Omar Abdullah.

Britishers left six decades too early. The system that is existing today will never let our country to develop. The quota system, i am unable to understand why we have quotas when we shout that India is a secular country. If not religion than why cast?

After a terrorist attack last year, the security in increased for five star hotels, but not for country as a whole. Why we always fail to understand the things even when we copy from the western countries. USA, after 9/11 increased security of their all important building but also increased the security of the country, that we can see even today.

Being Britishers colony, India has really developed. They abolished the Sati ritual, trust me, no Indian can ever do that(If you know how much people believed in Sati that time).

Indians are more happy by migrating to different countries even when they don't have any right to vote, because almost all Indians now believe that "Nothing good can happen to India!"

There is so much to debate upon, but i am leaving here. Let people think themselves where we are reached and where we are leading... and where we end.

Life a long Journey....

Life is like a long journey on a train. On every station some fellow pessenger get off and some new come. With some we have good time and they leave their traces on our memories and we only wish to travel with them a little longer or might we meet them again on next station. This goes on in our whole journey.. from station to station.
Everyone in this world is traveling their own journey, and we meet lot of people on our way to our destiny. All these people coming from their own different world and have different stories to share. And the small time with them we create our own story, some are good and interesting and some we want to forget.
Sometimes we get so much involved with them that parting them is always painful. With a slightest thought of leaving them makes us shiver and remember all the good and bad times we shared during this time. But life has to go on and every has to complete their own journey called life. So always make this small time memorable with all the people you come across :).

Revenge of the Fallen

No its not a movie review of Transformers 2. Its what had happened in my office yesterday.
Three duds resigned back to back from the job, and the whole management is shivering now for the ripple effect.
Two out of these three were asked to leave the company in December last year with other six-seven people. At that time my respected management is not that sad or worried about losing a workforce of nine people. But anyhow later they were asked that they can continue.

Time has changed, all three got assigned to a same project that is a main project for my team. So all the eyes are on this project and they resigned. Two have worked on the same project from the beginning so they are not easily replaceable as they have knowledge and had worked for more than a year.
The managment is really worried now for two reason. Firstly how to fill these positions and how to avoid the ripple effect.

Now there are around 15 contract employees in my team (And i am one of them). So they have to give some assurance to them. They have to confirm them. If they don't confirm all the people then rest will try more to leave. So the management has lot to think about and work on.

I am happy that management who is sleeping and deaf about our concern will wake up. And was really happy to see the worried faces.

Lets see how they come up and what they tell us.

So 5 star to this movie. :D