You Have Enough

One of our major mottos in life is to have more - more money,more fortune,more fame in least possible time.What we have adequate, we want in abundance.We want to own the latest iphone or ohhh is it already passe?The luxury Rolex watch looks good on our wrist.So does the Louis Phillipe shirt on our back.And yes, the new i-20 is way better than Santro.We want more loyalty from our friends, a damsel/hunk beside us is very reassuring & an unconditional support from our parents is our birth right. In short, we want life to be fair & just by all means. But the question is have we been fair to life?If we do a little bit of self-introspection,we can realize we have almost done nothing for people around us.Forget about others, how many of us have truly been fair to our own potentials? What then, makes us eligible for these possessions?You want something & you have to be worthy of it. It's o.k. to dream. But what we mistakenly take as our dream is nothing but our greed in disguise & it is so boundless & collosal that we slowly get immersed in it.We forget who we are. We forget to fly.Gandhiji once said-"the world has enough for our need but not enough for our greed". One of my friends sent me an sms the other day on similar lines.It read-"what makes you rich is not the abundance of your wealth but the scarcity of your needs".So the key to happiness is very simple. Alter your needs, lower your expectations & be happy. You must learn to be content. You already have enough. Just look around.The ever elusive happiness you are looking for is in your backyard.Have you experienced the joy of reading a book on a rainy day with a mug of coffee in hand?Or spent idle afternoons watching clouds change shape?Or simply have had a heart to heart chat with your mom & dad with whom you hardly interact beyond need & choose to abuse at the drop of a hat? Go right away.The dust clad book in the shelf corner you bought last year but never read, the monsoon cloud up in the sky & your lone mother is waiting for you.

There's Always a Last Time

Well, today is my first tryst with blogging & hopefully not the last. There are various forms of human communication as we all know & bloging is seemingly one of the latest. What makes me write a blog is an important question i asked myself before I decided to go for it. The answer is simple. I want other's to know about my personal beliefs & opinions as much as I would love to know their's. But why did I choose blog for this purpose? I could have easily chosen more conventional ways for expressing my feelings over blogs. This answer is simpler. It's because 'medium is the message'. No. This is not my saying. (if it were, I would have probably jumped off the terrace in ecstacy). This is of Marshall McLuhan's. According to him, the choice of our medium is much more important & telling than the content it carries. In that capacity, my opinions in this blog is way insignificant to the very fact as to why I chose blog to convey these opinions in the first place. If my message is loud & clear even before I started typing the first word in this blog, why continue at all? Therefore, let this be my first & last blog. I hope this is enough from me to confuse you.Goodbye.