Let’s Sneak-Out

“Yay! Finally the exams are over… come down guys.” This was the common dialogue running through the lobbies and the passages of our societies when we were in class 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, or 10^th. “Tonight we won’t sleep. Hell, YEAH!"

Let's Sneak Out, Play!

Normally, back then, in the late ‘90s and early 2000, we were maniacs; like what a crab is to water and holes, we were to Cricket or playing. On a slightest window, we all had sneaked out from our parental monitoring just to be with our friends and hit a few balls. We were no different.

Adolescent got us friends for life; those imbecile groups of boys and girls incessantly vying and thousands of unsaid protocols to be followed, which we worshiped reverently. Coming up with codes which only the group would understand and even worse was the tagging of a name. A name tagged once, was tagged for eternity. Nonetheless, the adolescent was playful with every excuse for getting down, to be madly in love in an one sided love affair, attending schools and tuitions post school; bunking classes to go take a match, or to watch a movie, or to end a skirmish, or the most dreadful one, to take a girl out.  A thrill for the chase made life jubilant.

Now, the tables have turned, times have changed, whenever an exam ends, we hit to the nearest bar and get our drunk-brains out. Ranting about the miserable life, the upturns, the lost love, the broken-hearts, the cheats, pretending to be happy, dancing until we crash in beds and not waking-up before midday.  

A miracle took place, when we, just after the exams, unanimously agreed onto going out to play. Cricket!  

Cricket!? It won’t be wrong or far-stretched to say that none of us had played for a really long time. In the daily survival for the mundane, we had lost the definition of fun, enjoyment, excitement. Playing for an hour meant endless fun followed by two days’ of body ache. Body Ache?

Challenge accepted!

Location was set: a friend’s society with our pitch – a concrete based. Superb Bounce!

Without much dilly-dallying, after our exams, we headed for the location. We began and lasted for nearly 150 minutes with everyone going out of breath. Panting!

We are not the best players, none of us, but we definitely are a fun to watch and play with. We ran at our pace; panted more than the covered miles; the jiggling protruding bellies and asses; the fight over water much to one’s delight. No meaningless drunk nights and dancing in the clubs could give you that what a fatso friend (Vinit Shah) of yours, running like a Rhino, between the wickets just to be on a safer side.   

For a brighter side, how much fun would it be to first get drunk, all of us, and then make that fatso run?

Evil, I’m!  

Acknowledgement | Gratitude | Acceptance

Ludwig Wittgenstein once quoted, "Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.'' 

Humans know, don't know or deny the very fact and power of Acknowledgement. It is an impetus for perpetual altruism. 

Add this to your life to change your life!

How often do we do that? Or let me ask how often do we acknowledge someone who doesn't concern us? Answer yourself! You will know what I mean. I know we all are totally absorbed in our mundane activities and simply love to crash in the bed by the day's end; but as we go through our day, we actually end up owing more and more to the people around us, to the society, to the elements which we come across our lives in that particular day; basically to the Universe!

Let's take a few examples-

1. Imagine, just missing that '7.45' local train in the morning would change your 'I'm having the best day' to 'I'm up to kill a thousand' in a fraction of second. You know, now, if someone whom you hate, god forbid it to be your ex, pops up out of nowhere and starts vexing you on the platform itself; what would you do? I know what I'll do and I take the liberty to say it for all of us as well. I'll charge on that someone yelling "SPARTA! AHOO... AHOO… AHOO! 

2. Despite how much ever we deny, we know we ache for that like; especially from that one special being. The state wherein you know that the uploaded pic on social media is for your just-turned-into-ex-because-of my-own-mistake girlfriend, maybe taken by her and with her, for which she had always asked you to upload, but you never did; and now, in desperation, wanting to woo her by uploading the same. It aches to see the marvels of that pic not acknowledged and appreciated by others and especially her. Why the HELL did I not get any Likes? This was my best picture ever!

   

3. That one day of the week, where you keep your ass up in the air and face dug deep into the pillow for most of the day - Sunday. You only cease to do so when the fan automatically turns off. What the F...? It's Sunday and no one is allowed in the room, not even parents; then who dared to cross the borders. It's our bai, maid, who got veto powers to overturn every rules as per her convenience and who, meticulously, only forgets to turn on the fan again after she is done. 

4. The late night homecoming with a company of other sex. I'm sure, we all do it quite often. Be it 2 or 3 or 4 o'clock in the night, when we get home in an inebriated state, we must have embraced the smoothness of the dark, the beauty of the night and a man standing quite far with a bamboo stick in the dim light. Seldom, barging into our privacy. 

5. The little drinking plans, in the corner of your society's lawns, right under the moons and stars with your pals lying on the silky, smooth and soft grass; taking shots.  Remember the sighs we've had saying, 'Ah! God bless this cushioning grass.' Going all this long only to get busted! 

From case 1 to case 5 we could only be happy and thankful, instead of being sad about the undesired outcomes. Our exes only teach us patience and tolerance through a hard way. If we miss the train, we must not lose it all, it's all right; the world won't come to an end. That is a beautiful picture, and you know it. Trust me! Show it off for yourself and not for others. Why bother? Be proud of the fact that even your pictures can be this stunning. Rather than cursing the bai, who is not always innocent, hone the skills of sleeping without fan; for she is the one who keeps your room the way it should be. That watchman, whether we know him or not, knows us and keeps our secrets safe with him; without turning it into a scandalous gossip of the society. Do we even know the gardener of our society? He is the reason we have cushioning grass under the sky. It is no shame getting caught drinking, it is only fun to repeat it; repeat it with the same gang!

I believe, "Being acknowledged is magical." You know how it feels once you get acknowledged, so why miss it? These fast paced lives of ours, already, has its watertight compartment of hatred, competition, anger, jealousy, revenge; to which there is no immediate soothing. Let’s spread the good vibes, let’s mingle, let’s hold hand, and let’s walk with ‘ear-to-ear’ smiles; as life is too short to notice everything. Saying a ‘Thank-you’ or a ‘Sorry’ won’t cost us anything, but would definitely cheer up the other person; as being humans we all share one similar trait-Expectation.  

I'm, here, not telling you as to how one should behave but asking you to observe the flip side and accept it, acknowledge it and show gratitude towards it; for everything these three actions can make someone's day. Do it not to make them happy but yourself, as George Orwell rightly states, "Happiness can exist only in acceptance." 

OBSERVATIONAL DELIGHTS?

'You must speak to the world, let them know what you think, irrespective of it being right or wrong. Put your perceptions forth,' advised my dad, on a regular basis.

After a lot of nagging and a continuous persuasive attempts of unfailing genial nature he managed to get my mind molded and made me talk to the world, i.e. to y'all. Thus, I'm here to put forth my views, observations, perceptions of everything ranging from the existence of the tiniest of the atoms and the different universe altogether in it to the flying of a bird in Rio de Janeiro to a blossoming Tulip in Netherlands to a grandmother meticulously massaging her new grand
child in Tokyo to a  music gig in Pune, to the sleepy eyes of that old watchman in our buildings, to almost anything that entwines with us in our walks of life in this universe and many more across the bigger universe of which these are the part of; to infinity, obviously!

Fill the Void!

Small things that we often miss out despite running through them every day, not because we don't see them, we do, for-sure! We just don't observe them! I will only try to fill that void with various perspectives and excerpts.

Hello, All! I'm Sagar, a boy next door, pursuing MBA from a reputed college in Mumbai. The above mentioned reason is surely the one big reason behind me coming to write on this very platform and the others being my sole love towards writing and reading and mostly criticizing on the events that take place in our lives on a day-today basis. I've found, hitherto, often than seldom, that I always have contradicting views among my peers, in my family discussions, in a lair, almost everywhere. Not saying I'm correct and they're incorrect. There just can't be any evaluation done here, as this is solely based on one's perception and the way one analyses it based on the background one has grown in.
At times for being an outspoken personality you have to face the brunt of words and sentences which are hurtful, often poignant. People will take you as a crass personality, but why bother? Stay put with your views. It's no crime to be different!

Ta-Da, here I'm putting forth whatever runs through my mind, based on my analysis. You may like it or you may dislike it; you may agree with it or  you may disagree; I can only tell you that there are always two sides to a coin. There're Devas and Asuras- Devas finding Asuras evil and vice versa. There is no full white or full black, at least not today, there is always a little black in every white and a little white in every black What is important is that we analyse our whites and our blacks and try to work for its betterment, choosing on our inclination towards the White or the Black or the Both!

I firmly believe, no matter wherever we're from, despite the upbringing we've gone through, the practices we've undertaken, the deities we've worshiped and the scores of other differences among us; at the rudimentary level, we are equal, lit by a small fire -desire- within us and a countering power as a drop of a water -contentment- to keep it balanced, varying from person to person. These two elements, according to me, despite having five elements mentioned in the scriptures, are the nucleus of a healthy soul. They're the ''White and Black'' of the soul. It is often believed, '...that a man with a grey soul, a man with an equi-balance of the fire and the water in his mind has achieved the ethereal joy of life- Inner peace. He won't overjoy a victory or over-mourn a loss. He is believed to have achieved- Samta. The last one to have achieved a complete state of Samta, walked some two thousand five hundred years ago on the face of the earth, changing its way of life, enlightening the many in his wake of walk of his journey. He was Gautama Buddha.

Let us try to understand and appreciate the efforts put in by others to make our lives so comfy and secured and give them the rightful gratitude that we due them. Only by appreciating others we can shine ourselves, not only from within but also from outside. Let's try to fill the void. The key is simple- small things. Do them, take a dip in it, smile over your follies, run errands to do them, bring smile to others, smile yourself, let loose. Just do it! The difference will be well apparent in no time. Let's walk, talk and grow to move towards Samta.

"Observational delights!" is a small attempt of mine to get you vis-à-vis with the beatific vision of the small unnoticed things that we do but we don't realize. It would be my attempt in the most sincere way to bring you the insights of the lost, unnoticed, undervalued, castaways, once loved. To cherish the ones which always got our backs but got overshadowed. To light the gusto within for the forlorn hope that we killed eons ago.

Right here, with your indefinite support and contribution, Let us aspire to achieve the ultimate truth of the motion- The walk of life. To set our Fire and Water in the most near perfect order. To play with our Whites and Blacks and achieve both from time to time, to travel the neo-Human world unraveling eclectic human touches; feeling one another.

So, we shall begin our journey on a good hope, better intentions for the best world.
Let's Notice the UNNOTICED!
Let's OBSERVE!
Let's tour the OBSERVATIONAL DELIGHTS!