Strings attached

"If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them-just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept."


No, those are definitely not my words. That is an extract from "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Undoubtedly one of the best books that I have read. The book has so many varied characters. Each is defined by its flaws and its strength. Among the many powerful dialogues in the book, this one hasn't left my memory. It is the absolute brutal truth of life. The only thing that we have in our hands is our freedom. As long as we stay detached from everybody around yet enjoy their company and provide good company to them, we are free. As soon as we desire somebody, love somebody, we become dependent on that one person and indirectly to so many other people. Our happiness becomes completely dependent on them. Our freedom is no more ours.
Their thoughts govern our minds and we ourselves give them the power to hurt us and cause pain. As long as you depend only upon yourself, your life is yours and so is your happiness and your failures. You are at no one's mercy but your own. There is always someone waiting around the next corner of your life to wrench your happiness away from you. Happiness never lasts. It will if it is yours. Share your happiness with everybody around but don't expect, don't get attached. Life is short and if it is spent depending on others, it cannot be lived fully.
Although these are perfectly correct, unfortunately the human heart does not permit it. As much as we try to stay detached and not let others around us affect us, somehow or the other they manage to get to us and be a factor that determines our happiness or sadness. Emotional fools that we are. All we can do is try to achieve a balance on our dependence on others and on ourselves. All the best!

Twinkle

The faint drizzle charming my forehead. Head held high. A whistle in the heart, just not making a sound. Walking with a spring in my step, reveling in my own insignificance. Butterflies fluttering about. Trees smiling, flowers blushing, crickets cheering. Leaves glistening, dogs lazying around, goats munching on the leaves without a bother. Each and everything a small part of this beautiful world, yet each significant in it’s insignificance.

Moving away from the beauty of my college campus, onto the busy city streets. Nothing can dampen my spirits, nothing can stop my smile gradually reaching out to touch my eyes. Out with the headphones, no more droning horns, no more buses growling. Sweet music, making my world dance. Walking on and on, don’t know where. All I know is the happiness my heart feels. Happiness in being alone yet being a part of something so grand as this world. Happiness in being able to see, hear, touch and feel. Happiness in every smile that I see and every smile that I spread. Happiness with every spring in my step. May the journey of life go on forever like this. Nothing but happiness in the heart with my smile having reached out and touched my eyes…

Writers block

I have been bored as hell! There is the never ending strike and political issues going on in college. Im feeling older with every new first year kid getting admitted into my college as a junior. With age comes insecurity. I have no clue as to what I am supposed to do with my life. Fourth year has arrived and now I am much more confused than I ever was with my future degree options. All I do is crib and complain about how useless I am. The crappy 2 Mbps net connection that our college provides for a zillion computers to share has finally agreed to open this site and now since it is open I think it would be a colossal waste to not write anything.
But then again I can't even think of anything to write other than how useless and old I am. I am so bored that I am actually bluntly asking people who are online to entertain me! One genius of a person actually told me to follow him to do the Hakuna Matata dance! Well, that is when I decided that I should just entertain myself (sorry Siddharth).
Let's talk about Architecture. Architecture is basically designing buildings. Everybody knows that and even though I am studying it I don't really know too much to actually write about it without sounding even more bored than I am already sounding. So, let's not talk about architecture.
Let's talk about men! They are the most stupid and immature beings to ever have walked upon planet Earth. Oh wait, everybody knows that. Another topic gone down the drain.
Life is a pain. Sometimes you have so much to do that you wished you had nothing and sometimes you have absolutely nothing to do that you wished that you had something, anything, to do!
Yes, I am a pessimist. All I do is complain. I told you right at the beginning. I warned you!
Alright now I'm bored of this also. Ta!