NOVEMBER RAIN

Last evening was a little different from the ones that I have been seeing this November. There was a time when I would feel the cold air of winter around me. The breeze used to blow against my face with full force and I would always know that was November. But now I no longer can feel the winter the way I used too.
Last winter I had all my woolens out and I used them a lot. Last year was a lot different from this year. Lot of things have changed since then. A part of the change is also the place where I hang out these days. The amount of work that I have has increased. So this winter I am mostly sitting at home working on what I call my “Work Table” The most outing I take these days is to go down the lane and sit at Barista with my friends, that to inside, so again there is no chance to feel the winter.
As I said last evening was different, as always I was working at my Work Table, I have this submission which I have to complete and submit by Monday, when a friend of mine called me to meet her at Barista for a coffee. It was cloudy outside, the sky has been cloudy for some days know. As I was walking back home from my meeting it stared to drizzle, cold drops started to hit my face and the ground, there was thunder and lighting. I started to walk faster so as to get home where it would be all warm and nice.
Ones I reached home I got busy with dinner and then my work. By the time I got-up to take a stretch it was 1.30am, I got-up and went to the balcony. The building in which I live is on a slope, for additional height the flat that I live in is on the fifth floor, some windows open to a beautiful hill view and the others open to the view of the city that I call home. From my balcony you can see both these view, when I walked on to it last night I walked to the side of hill view side of the balcony. There was this soft breeze which carried with it the freshness that u can feel only when the clouds pour a little bit of themselves on mother earth and my thought went to a song by “Guns and Roses” called “November Rain.”
The breeze was blowing against my face, though the breeze was nice it was also cold and it made me want something warm. The hill at night seemed pretty lonely with all its tress fast asleep. The loneliness in me started to push its way up, it’s the kind off loneliness that you feel when your all alone at night, the only on awake, the world around you is sleeping, then when you look at the lonely hill in front of you and the silent street blow from where you stand everything seems to be not wroth it. All the thing that you have done to get where you are seem unreal, stupid and then your thoughts start moving towards the people who are a part of your life. You wonder where they are at that moment, whether they are awake or sleeping, whether they are remembering you or dreaming. Slowly you start smiling and turn to look at the city which you call home, with its street light still on, its awake, watching you, giving you company, you feel like it understand what you are going through. Somewhere in you, the song starts playing “NOTHING LASTS FOREVER NOT EVEN COLD NOVEMBER RAIN”
The glow of the yellow street lights fill you with Hope, a kind of Hope I can’t explain, but I am sure that each one of us at sometime has felt it or will feel it I don’t need to talk much about it. If you have not felt it as yet it’s my advice that when you do feel it TREASURES the moment. It will last u a life time.
You know winter being my favorite season I will not hear anything against it. I really don’t like it when people say thinks like winter depress them. For those of you who are like these people I have an idea, make you bed, take a comfortable and warm rug, then cuddle with a loved one and read a book. Let their warmth fill your heart. Then I am sure winters will not seem so depressing, on the other hand you mite just start looking forward to winter.
So if you’re feeling low today or any other day just remember the lines of the song “NOTHING LASTS …………….” I sure you have got the message.

LIFE IS A JOURNEY

Yesterday was one of the most difficult days of my life, these difficult days come along some times to make us realize the value of the good easy days. There are about a hundred or two hundred more such days to come in the journey of our life. Emotions play an important part of our journey, they are like tools that help us shape ourselves and define us in the eyes of others as well as in our own eyes.

Today was one of those days when my emotions were running wild all over the place. Making me feel unhappy, I was almost going to cry. I was one of those people who used to cry at the drop of a hat, I would cry even when I was fighting with someone. There have been some major changes in my life because of which it has now become difficult to cry in front of someone. I don't know whether I have grown stronger or whether slowly I have become indifferent to the circumstances and situations around me. I feel almost like a stone that is not allowing the natural course of the water to flow.

I am sure that everyone of us in our life, leave some of our loved ones behind and move on to build a future for ourselves. I have made some of the same moves. I have left behind some close and loving people. Some of them with time have come back into my present and I am pretty happy about it, these people are meant to stay with me for some more time, maybe till the end of my journey.

Someone told me that there will be a lot of people who will come in and out of my life because life is like a train which starts at the station of ones birth and ends at the station of death. At the start, some people get in like your family members, from there on the train journey of life keeps on stopping at different stations. At each station some people get on and some people get off, but the train keeps moving on towards it destination. Some people stay from the start of your journey to the end, some join you in the middle and leave you in the middle of your journey, but some other join in the middle and stay till the end. Each one of these people leaves a little bit of themselves with you, for you to remember that they traveled on your train for some time.

Each one of these people who come into your life come for a reason. They take you from one point of life to another and when their time is up they move away on their own journey. A journey which each one of us has to take on our own. The journey of the soul. Whatever happens you must not forget that each one of these people come into your life at a time when you need them the most, they help you in the journey, they teach you the things they know and understand about life. They are with you till you need them and then somehow time takes them to a different place.

All I am saying is that don't cry when you lose a friend or a loved one because he/she has a journey of his/her own too. He might be a passenger on your train, but at the same time he has a train of his own on which you are a passenger, you both have your own train routes to follow. So just go with the flow, you never know what awaits you ahead. Let time and tide speak for themselves and if time wants you to meet a person or people you have left behind on your journey, then one day your train will stop at a station and to your disbelieve the person will walk back onto your train. This will give you a chance to keep the person with you for as long as tide wants you to.

Remember that with A GAIN OF ONE KIND THERE IS A LOSS OF ANOTHER AND WITH A LOSS OF ONE KIND THERE IS A GAIN OF ANOTHER.
I hope I have helped you in some way after all there is a reason why you are reading this blog, maybe you don't know it right now but soon you will know. Through my writings, I am a passenger on your train too.

THE DIFFERENCE

While watching a TV program on the History Channel, for the first time I saw the great difference between the two major religions in my country. Living in India I have come across and spoken to a good number of Muslims. I have gone to school and college with them and to me they seem to be a normal group of people, who learn to read and write, they have faith in God and they are scared of him more then anything or anyone.

But as I said, I was watching a program on the Hindu’s “Kumbha Mela” and immediately after that I saw a documentary on Al-Queda. While watching the Kumbha Mela there were talks about God in peace, love and joy. Whereas the Al-Queda message was also about God, but some how there was only violence and killing in the name of God.
In one of the statement I heard an Al-Queda member along with Osama-Bin-Laden say that 4 million Americans have to die, out which 2 million have to be children. At that given moment I started wondering how could they have thought that killing innocent people, who don’t believe in Islam, they would get them a place in heaven.

It seems to me that they care more about their lives after death then the ones they have now. To me the power of giving and taking of lives is in the hands of God and no human being, even if he thinks that God has told him to or given him the right to, has that power. I feel that if you want to show that you are a messenger of God and that spreading the message is the way of your life, then do so. But do so in a clam, peaceful way and you will see that more and more people will come your way to learn from you.

But by force and killing you will only increase the negative. People will start looking at your belief in a negative light. They will resist you. It is important to carry your knowledge forward and spread it, but by killing and forcing, people will move away and will tell people to stay away from you and your group.

God as far as I know wants to spread love and peace through Islam. Unfortunately some misguided Muslims are spreading terror.
I had a Muslim friend who would ask me “Why as a Hindu I always looked at the negative group of Muslim’s and not at the normal simple Muslims, living their life’s in a peaceful way.” At that time I didn’t have an answer to that question, but today I think I have an answer. “When the most powerful groups- the Al-Queda, SIMI, Indian Mujahedin and other terrorist group are showing us that they only believe in violence, killing and force. How can we see anything positive, You are what you leader is right?
How may of their famous non Al-Queda leaders have said something about peace in a peaceful, non-aggressive manner. Their aggressive nature has always come out even when they talk about being peaceful, non-aggressive people. I would like to question the Al-Queda leader who said that 2 million adults and 2 million children have to be killed, what would be achieved after their killing?

What wrong has been done by the innocent people being killed ? The answer may be that they are Non-Muslims and by killing them we will find a place in heaven for ourselves.

So does this not show that Islam is no more about Peace. It must have been about peace when Prophet Mohammed was alive but now its only about JEHAD. Jehad not in terms of the fight against ones own negative but JEHAD as in the killing of non-Muslims.

To tell you the truth I believe that there is only one God, but not in a narrow minded way of some of the Muslims. I hope in the future I get to learn more about Islam because I am sure that under all the dust that is on the surface Islam is one of the most beautiful religions today.
I hope someday this fight between religions stops, we all with our different faiths, beliefs and traditions live together in a happy and peaceful world. Cause somewhere in our hearts we all know that we are “THE ONE WORLD FAMILY”