WE and ADS!!

A treat to the eyes… Its sight makes you smile… 

It makes you reflect… It makes you think… It creates a relationship…
Yes, I am talking about the ads, be it posters or commercials, we do have a strange relationship with them…

Ads or advertisements are a significant part of our lives… Some ads motivate and inspire us… Some ads just make us smile… And some ads just make us enjoy life… Though, these preferences vary with person to person, yet they are intriguingly appealing…

A person riding a bike. He has dreams. He has aspirations. He has aims. He has seen failure. He has seen success. He is a person who has a goal in his life. He has a hero in himself. Yes, this ad just brings out the ‘hero’ in us. It brings out the leader in us. It makes us aim our dreams. My sir says, "there is definitely a Hero inside you, and if its not yet awake, give it that push". http://zubinrashid.blogspot.in/2011/10/hero-in-you.html    Or take the ad which asks us to make our life ‘large’ because it’s our life, and only we can make it big. Yes, they say, we have reached our aims, but we have to keep on dreaming, aiming and achieving… One of my brothers thinks that this ad makes one say "Yes, I have done something in my life". http://sankarshan15.blogspot.in/2011/12/its-your-life-make-it-large.html 

An ad that says ‘Drink Positive’ is definitely a winner. Or an ad which has a tagline as ‘For those who do’ will certainly encourage, arouse that positive energy one might need at that moment. A sunshine confidence and faith instills both courage and happiness in oneself, amplify our craving for knowledge and wisdom, and then he or she also spreads that happiness around, and thus it becomes a link, which knots everyone in an optimistic inspirational and blissful life…

I am also a admirer of an ad telling us if one has courage, he or she will positively attain and accomplish his or her goal. I also am fond of the add saying if something negative irks us, then we should modify and amend it, so that we have something positive. Also an ad which says that one is a winner if one overcomes the fear is surely at the top in my charts…

Yes, ads do motivate and encourage, inspire and arouse our self belief, our inner faith, and passionate ideas.

There are ads which makes me go to my ‘so cute, so sweet’ mode. Yes, I am talking about the baby ads, I mean, the ads which feature cute sweet cuddly babies, which makes us want to coddle and to cosset those little ones just then. I do sometimes, want to go inside my television set to just, you know, hold those toddlers, pamper them, and shower them with my kisses and love…

Sometimes, they bring our favourite heroes to our homes, which I thoroughly enjoy. I personally don’t understand why we need fairness creams, because, I do love my skin colour. But I do love those ads which show those products of makeup and deck up…

Ads make us say wow, create a sensation of triumph, shows us how happy and encouraging life can be, and how optimistic we can be…

WE and GOOD BYE...

I bid adieu… Good bye.

An end or good bye to our relationship, to our dreams, to our aspirations, because this ending is not a happy ending, it is not an ending which we crave for…

We all want a happy ending… We all want this ending which they say is near to impossible… But happiness is not impossible to get… Happiness is always there even in the small and tiny things… But why do we say, a happy ending is impossible, a happy ending is unattainable?

End… It means something ended to start something new… But an unhappy ending doesn't mean an unhappy start… We should be bold enough to thank those good byes because it is in our hand to get that happiness, those dreams, because it is our own life!

Yes, you might say, I didn't launch my dreams to have a dejected end! I worked hard but my failures are more than my successes. I do not deserve that! 

Yes, you deserve the best. You deserve the happy ending that you dreamt of! We all deserve that! We all are worthy for that!

But ending doesn't always mean failure. Does it? An end may occur because of the circumstances, we may have to bid adieu because sometimes we just have to let it be…

We leave school for college, college for work, even our abode, but there are always plenty of opportunities waiting for us, ample chances for our dreams to be accomplished. Yes, we leave behind our friends, but we do make new friends.  The moments stay forever even though the time never comes back…
Even a relationship ends, because we do not have the heart or mind for the disappointments it offered.

I bid good bye to my sad ending,
To welcome my new start.
To be present to make my mistakes right,
To be there to aim until I grasp.
So that I enjoy my life.

I bid good bye to my failure.
To embrace it as my success.
To aim my dreams high.
To be there to love myself.
To an encouraging life.

I bid good bye to my wants
To make u a person of my dreams but
To accept u as who you are
To be the person I wanted to be.
To be there to hold your hand.

I greet my life with confidence
To lead with optimism.
To be present in every situation
Whether it is sad or happy, miserable or blissful.
I bid adieu to the pessimistic attitude to enjoy my life…

WE and EXAMS.....

Learning and knowledge go alongside. We learn and gain knowledge everyday of our life! We face exams every second of our life! Be it a job, or college, or school, or our homes and relationships, we are always assessed & appraised!

Exams! Mine are over at least for now! The college one, I mean!! Being a renowned university student I had my share of fearing exams and even studies sometimes. But should we fear exams? Should we run away from that knowledge of wisdom? My friend had some time back said that life would have been easier & blissful if we didn't have exams!!

I sometimes try to imagine, whether life would have been that easier and blissful, if we didn't have exams?! What would have happened if we didn't learn anything? Our life would be standstill... We wouldn't move forward!

For us students, school and college exams were not heavenly! We were never happy with the question paper and the teachers were never happy with our answer sheets! And we were never content with our marks even! We wanted more! Wanting more is good!! Desiring more is always welcome but we should first be happy and content with what we have got! Anyways, Exams were never our best friends! Yes, past tense because I have learnt to love exams! Studies and exam were not my best friends! But if I enjoy those exams, I would love that college and school exams? With entrance exams, competitive exams, and God knows what exams, studies and exams nowadays are more than our little brains can cope with... Yet, still, should we not try enjoying??.............

One may say that jobs are always tough and hard-hitting when it comes to assessment and evaluation! The always judge and criticize and never praise! Well, as my friend has said, one has to learn to enjoy that review result!  One has to enjoy that work, whether it’s praise or analysis! So, in this way we face exams, but we always pass with flying colours at the end of the day!

I always had the thought that if my teacher’s told me how they wanted the answers in the answer scripts, how and what the examination board will assess for the allotted marks, it would have been more easy and blissful as my friend has said! Suppose, if we had an assigned class, where we were asked of our problems, what we wanted like marks or fewer syllabuses, and also taught how to write an answer which the assessment board will evaluate, would have been better! All that hard feelings wouldn't be there, the wrong methods would not be used!

Relationships are tricky! Here we expect more than we get! Here we want more than we gain! But a relationship should be watered with love not pricked with desires and wishes! Any relationship, when faced with troubles, would be asked why! So that we can rectify it and make that relationship strong and enjoyable! A relation exam needs care and attention, which we should give, if we want to sustain that relation!

Exams teach us how to live our life! With the hurdles and hardship we learn that optimism is the core of success… We learn that failures and difficulties are part of life which when enjoyed proves to be an achievement… An achievement of joy, happiness and wisdom… Ecstasy and contentment of doing what our hearts want… Knowledge and wisdom of following one’s own dreams and aims… Achieving that perfect dream…

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

WHITE....

I was really happy when I got my selection letter for my post graduation degree course. But the mere thought of leaving my Kolkata life brought me to tears! I was at loss!

Just then, my eyes fell on one picture. White waves splashing on the shore... Immediately, the white bubbling foam of the sea waves that crashes on the sand came to my mind. It reminds me of the poems where the poet gives description  about white bubbling sea waves crashing on the sea beach and leaving behind shells, pebbles etc.. The white water makes me ecstatic, for some minutes I lead a carefree life without any worries, any tensions…

A mountain, as well as sea, gives immense pleasure to the eye, and the heart. Mountains when covered with snow give an ecstatically pure pleasure…  Mauna Kea in Hawaiian, or Mont Blanc in the Alps are heavenly experience.

The colour white is one of the primary colours, the most tranquil colour. Whenever I think of the colour White, the words Peace, Harmony, Pleasure, Contentment, Satisfaction, Innocence, Happiness comes to my mind. As if, I lead a peacefully content life… Like I have every happiness……

 

White…… In Church weddings, a beautiful woman in a beautiful white wedding gown with a nice bouquet of white lilies looking marvelous… Such a beautiful sight...! I wish I were that girl!!

I think of the angels attired in white, seated on the “Elysian Lawns” with happiness, joy, comfort and contentment, watching and blessing us.

Speaking about white, I was thinking about white wine. A relishing moment, & top it up with soft cheese, its heavenly! Talking about food luxuries, for me cheese cream chicken delicacy is the best option. In addition, white chocolates are another threat, which are creamy and delicious! It is like experiencing magic!

White also reminds me of Holi when everyone wears White, to play the festival of colours. Everyone ecstatically plays with colours, throwing and pasting red, blue, yellow, green, pink colours on each other and splashing coloured water on each other. White is made colourful that day. It looks like the seven rainbow colours have come down to earth.

The seven rainbow colours are refracted into its component colours when the white light of God passes through the prism. The colour white is my remembrance of Sarojini Naidu’s “Soul’s Prayer” – “Life is a prism of My light”

White… so pure, so graceful, so enlightening, so divine. However, the colour white has other connotations also. In Hindu religion, the people are attired in white whenever they go to a mourning house. Though White is the symbol of sadness, sense of loss, yet White makes me feel very happy, calm, contended. White makes me feel closer to God!

“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton.