I Can Go The Distance !!

I have often dreamed, of a far off place...
Where a hero's welcome, would be waiting for me...
Where the crowds will cheer, when they see my face...
And a voice keeps saying, This is where I'm meant to be.

I'll be there someday, I Can Go The Distance !
I will find my way, if I can be strong...
I know ev'ry mile, will be worth my while...
When I go the distance, I'll be right where I belong.

Down an unknown road, to embrace my fate...
Though that road may wander, it will lead me to you...
And a thousand years, would be worth the wait...
It might take a lifetime, but somehow I'll see it through...

And I won't look back, I Can Go The Distance !
And I'll stay on track, no, I won't accept defeat...
It's an uphill slope, but I won't lose hope...
Till I go the distance, and my journey is complete.

But to look beyond the glory is the hardest part...
For a hero's strength is measured by his heart.

Like a shooting star, I Will Go The Distance !
I will search the world, I will face its' harms...
I don't care how far, I Can Go The Distance !
Till I find my hero's welcome, waiting in your arms...

I will search the world, I will face its harms...
Till I find my hero's welcome, waiting in your arms...

Written and Sung by Michael Bolton.

Volatile !

I am surprised how feelings can be so volatile. One minute, you feel something about one person and the next minute, it is gone. People say, time and again, that love and friendship are forever. But it doesn't look that way. Sometimes, we are happy with our glasses half full, sometimes we see our glasses half empty, though the latter happens a lot.

However hard you love a person, the minute you know, that the person has deceived you or lied to you, the feelings seem to diminish. Again, I guess they don't vanish completely. Over time, maybe you learn to forgive them. But for the time being, you seem not to be able to stand them whatsoever. And when time passes by, and you are able to forgive them, you find them too far out of reach.

Ironically, I see we get more attached to material things. A pen, a mobile phone, a favorite dress.. we find it hard to let go. We yearn for stuff that we can never have. I don't say we don't yearn for people or relationships..but material yearnings are always on a high.

So Dark the Con of Man...

So Unfathomable ..The Desires of Man !

Are we still human ??

It is a busy Thursday Morning. The time is 9.20. Crossing the busy main roads is a circus event truly. Music accompanies me on my shuffle as I try to traverse through the chaos. And all I can hear, dotting my music are the honks of the vehicles and a lone siren. The wail of an ambulance siren. Persistent as it may be, it stimulates an unease in me immediately. I shut off the music, cause it seems so indecent to be even listening to it, while someone out there is suffering. I ease out of the way, wanting the ambulance to pass and wait for the siren to diminish. But I can still hear the persistent wail. I was waiting for the people around me to clear and let the ambulance pass. But, I was shocked to see, that people were actually trying to race across the ambulance and in front of it, because the siren clears the way for the people to move quicker through the traffic.

The first thought that occurred to me was - What is wrong with all these people? Cant they hear the siren? Dont they feel the unease that I feel? Have all of us suddenly turned deaf and blind? What happened to words like Humanity and Compassion? Is this where we are all headed ? Is there even a bit of humanness left in us to actually stop and think and see and help all that is happening around us? Or have we all become so immersed in lives, that the wail of a siren, which demands attention towards the serious condition of a fellow human being, has become so mundane to us? Will we be doing the same thing, if the person in the ambulance were our near and dear ones?

What has happened to humanity and compassion? Did all those people who taught us these words and gave their lives to this cause, die a meaningless death? I Wonder !

God help us !!

Fear !!

A word that is common to all of us. A weird feeling, that we experience, and understand very late. A feeling, that could be categorized as intuition, instinct or just plain gripping fear ! It is a general question that pops up when you talk to anyone or be with someone for a long time. What are you scared of ? What scares you the most ? Sometimes we play around with people's fears and sometimes, we fear them as well and learn to empathize.

What is fear tho' ? I have always had this question nagging the back of my mind. Fear to me, is not being scared of a thing or phenomenon. I have been inquisitive. I have had the fear of the unknown as they say. The jitters that happen cause of not knowing towards what or where we are headed. People have asked me this question. What scares you the most ? The fear of losing someone. Completely or to circumstances. Either way, I have always been scared of losing them. Another fear, which probably a lot of you might share, is the fear of disease. I have never wanted to be weak and dependent on someone, cause of a disease. Otherwise, the biggest fear of mine, have been insects. Wasps, cockroaches etc..

Some people ask me, aren't you scared of death ? Of dying ? When you fear the unknown, why aren't you scared of death ? Of Ghosts ? Of After life ? True, these are unknown to me. But these are things that interest me or rather, I'm curious about. They have failed to scare me though. Ghosts, I don't know if they exist. I would like to find out. Death, as I have come to understand, is something that everyone of us have to go through. No matter what ! So why be scared of it ? I go by the adage - " Live everyday, like your last. Someday you will be right". I guess that applies to our fears as well. When we learn to live everyday of our lives as our last, then why be afraid of anything at all ?

So, tell me. What are you scared of ?

Classroom !

The Paatshaala of Life
Teaches us Life and Death
Ecstacy and Agony
Karma and Nirvana

No better teacher
Do we find anyday anywhere
Gives us horizons
That we change or cross

The Paatshala of Life
That has taught me all the stuff
That I have always needed to know
Waiting to learn more...

Touching Tunes

The tunes that have started coming up in Indian movies have definitely become different. Gone seem to be the times, when music from movies was nothing but a lot of noise. Except for a few geniuses like Ilayaraja and A.R. Rahman, the rest of the music sounded like gibberish.

But some of the songs of recent times, I have noticed, don’t just sound good but imbibe themselves into your system. A few good examples are Pogaadhe from the Tamil movie Deepavali, Pesugiren from the Tamil Movie Satham Podadhey and Saiyaan Ve from the Hindi Movie Tara Rum Pum. You can’t call these songs essentially Pathos. But these rhythms have such a soul in it, that they attach themselves to yours.

These songs have become a part of my daily routine and just humming them along…makes me feel better.

Try them. Maybe you will feel the same way too !