Talent? Better call it Awesomeness.

I believe we all are born the same; at least most of us. It’s the environment we grow in and experiences is what makes us who we are. There are some who are born with a silver-spoon but not all of us. We look at others and try to figure out what talent do we have. The problem is we aren’t born with it. It’s not about talent, it’s about what interests we possess. Working on an interest and making yourself good at it is what talent is.

Calling someone talented is offensive. Talent means natural skill and being a normal person I don’t believe in natural skills or god’s gift. When you call someone talented you take the work for granted because it comes from a “talented” person. I don’t consider being called talented a compliment because when you do that, you just appreciate the present him and ignore all the hard work gone into it. It’s not an overnight thing or they weren’t just born with it.

It’s very important to comprehend that it takes years of practice and hard work to acquire a particular skill. Our interest can never become our talent as long as we consider it natural and not something which comes from hard work. 

Endurance is the key. 

A diamond without polishing is just a compressed piece of charcoal. 

Clarity

It’s really hard to unlove. Even if you don't get it back in return.

The basic feeling of love is care. It tends to latch on to you.

Just because they don’t feel the way you do doesn't make them bad.

That is just how it is. Deal with it and do your part with purity. 
It’s not considered cool to be weak and vulnerable before the one you like but when you don't care about it; that’s love.
Embrace the pain. They deserve to be loved because for some reason you choose to do so.

Being sad, being hurt, being broken; it’s all important, brings a sense of clarity.

Your judgment is clouded when you are in the sky. Need to crash on the ground to see clearly.

The Mahatma

We just witnessed 69^th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi a few days back. Going through the facebook posts and comments I was really affected. We are so eager to hate someone. It’s  like we first develop that hatred and then find reasons to support it afterwards. Hate is a big word. I mean you can dislike someone but to hate someone like Mahatma Gandhi is just lame. I have begun to feel people outside India respect him much more than they do in here. 
We want to hate him! How could a person tell us to be righteous when we know how corrupt and degraded we are? I am not saying Mahatma Gandhi was a perfect man, nobody is! Neither am I nor you. He was stubborn and rigid but he was a man of his word and that is something I admire the most. He did what he could against the odds and that is something much more than anybody did for this nation. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings but we worship Ram and frankly he wasn’t a perfect man either (Valmikiya Ramayana) and apparently he didn’t do a lot for the nation or mankind.

So the point is we can find reasons to hate anybody but then aren’t you the glass half full chuckles! The worst part is that most of the time people don’t really hate mahatma for things he did or didn’t do; they do it because they are viciously politically motivated.  Political parties have called dibs on such figures, decorate theirs and defame other’s. In the bandar bant of great men, Congress got Gandhi ji, BSP took Baba Saheb Ambedkar, BJP took Swami Vivekananda, so on and so forth. They were all great figures and the fact is their work and ideologies are degraded by the followers themselves converting them into selfish motives.

 I hear people saying Godse did the right thing; I get links of Youtube videos and books about the justifications. It’s just sad! Selfish political motives can force you to justify cold blooded murder. What he did, he did. But what you are doing now tells a lot about your mentality. “A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.”(Proverbs, 28:17).

Violence can never be an answer. If it was, we should have had utopia long ago but apparently we don’t. It’s not a solution when blood of a common man is spilled. 
Just an endless circle.

Past Present Future

Expectations kill happiness. 
Most of the time we don't really enjoy the present expecting for a greater future where there is no guarantee of one. 

Living in the moment is hard, takes some serious guts but at least you can be sure of it. 

A few little moments of happiness makes a life. 

All our lives we tend to run behind closure, to make sense out of things but all we enjoy is the process and not the end result because we know where it all ends; it all ends in an unfinished business.
We love to marinate in the past. Maybe because it’s familiar. Familiar is comfortable. Past is attached to a lot of feelings, feelings that make you feel alive. 
Sadness is one of the strongest. I'll come out and say it. 

I love being sad!
Sadness is bliss. Sadness is the easiest feeling you can get because of course you can feel sad and sorry for yourself over almost everything and that pain makes you feel alive.
Sometimes you are at the very same place and suddenly everything you felt that very first moment, you feel it again. 

Those few seconds had a special part of you you could relive.

Creator

We live in a world created for us not by us. It has been created with the help of centuries of bloodshed and destruction. Yes we have learned from the past and made an order which needs to be followed.  But there is no harm in questioning that order once in a while because maybe it has gone corrupt or maybe we just need a new order with the change in time.

As the society changes, needs change. Even the Ramayana. There is a big difference between the Valmikiya Ramayana and the Tulsi Das Ramayana. It’s the concept of Device. Device is the person who creates a particular thing but the idea or motive behind it changes with the needs of the society.

Valmikiya Ramayana wasn’t a perfect story. Ram wasn’t portrayed as a god but just a man who was a king. He had his dark side and that is the whole point. Nobody is perfect and that is what we need to learn. But with time the society needed someone to look up to which Tulsi Das came up with. A perfect figure who could be considered a bench mark. The story tried to inflict upon our mind, thoughts and opinions where the motive is not to provoke religious views but to give an ideology about how to lead our lives.

They are meant to give a positive energy which is all about positive behavior of humans, actually the point of Bible, Geeta, Mahabharata, etc but people instead of inculcating the ideas from the story, created an entity named god who is the one who does those things and only he could do those things because of course he is god and shall be prayed to or you will have to bear his wrath.

Change is an inevitable truth and it’s a creator who bring upon a change. A creator knows nothing. He creates because he thinks he knows nothing. The one who thinks he knows can create nothing.

That is why creators are few.