::STILL ALIVE::

This blog isn't actually like the other ones. The previous ones were just expansions of my ideas. This time I planed to get a bit motivational and I've managed to compose my thoughts in a rhyme! Hope you like it :)

So it goes:

"I Am Still Alive"

I can still stand up on my feet,
I can still walk with my head held high,
In spite of all my devastated dreams,
I know, that I'm still alive.

Hope is all I have with me,
And behind the ruins of my heart hides my pride,
And with every step that I move ahead,
The more I believe, that I'm still alive

No matter what hurdle comes ahead of me,
No matter how malign deed Fate has for my life,
I shall face it bravely and I shall not be hopeless
because it's not the end; I'm still alive

No matter how fast the minute travels
No matter how swiftly the hours drive
Because with every passing moment I believe
That I am, and will be alive.


Conclusion: If you feel like you are in pieces; if you feel like a loser; if u feel that you are worthless and 
not fit enough to occupy this space on earth, don't forget one thing- this is not the end. All these thoughts are transient, my friends. Failure is momentary. Even if u fail, do not worry; there is no reason to be hopeless! Let the ray of wisdom enter through the cracks in your broken conscience. From this wisdom, courage shall emanate, and you shall be brave enough to face anything that comes ahead of you. You will become a better person thereafter. 
The most important thing is to believe in yourself; to believe that you can win; to believe that you are the most gallant warrior. We are the results of our thoughts and so, our thoughts reflect us. We become what our thoughts make us. Hence, believe that you are the best!
Stay strong; be proud of who you are.

#Peaces

- Jatin Jawale

::CARING::

A boy, as usual, picked up his phone, hoping to receive millions of notifications on Whatsapp. But Fate hated to work that way, and as usual, he had no notifications (except for messages sent on the family's group, which doesn't really count). He surfed through is contact list and looked at people's statuses- which included birthday wishes, emo quotes, exclamations over their favourite football team's victory, etc. But one particularly caught his attention. Ironically enough, it was a mere dot. He understood that that friend of his was in a bad mood, and he knew that because he often did the same thing when he got depressed. (How funny- a mere dot is the tool people use to express their emotion when they are feeling a mixture of so many things!) So, he asked that friend about it. "Nothing...chuck" was the reply. He insisted, but it was of no use. Though they were't that close, that dot bothered him more than words would.   
The same thing happened a few days later, and he asked about it again. The reply was synonymous. He wanted to know what was wrong, just so that he could help out! 
Another day, the same thing happened but this time, he got very curious, and the depressed one got very furious. "Stop troubling me, man! Leave me alone! No one cares for me!"
After he read this, the boy started wondering, "What have I been trying to do?" Just think how he must have felt. How immensely wrong we are when we say 'Nobody cares'...some people DO genuinely care. When we say 'nobody' does, we probably mean that the person we expect to care for us doesn't. (Expectation- one thing that ruins everything.)

All over the social media, we can see quotes that tell us not to care about others; that we must give up caring just so that we don't have to get involved in their problems and thus, remain happy. And this thought has taken over the minds of millions. Someone is depressed, most people don't care; someone fought with their bae, they don't care; someone's relative dies, they do express fake sympathy, but they don't care. Though this trick works on the ones we aren't close enough to, we tend to deny this when it comes to our close ones. We might get emotionally constipated if we don't give too much of 'shit' and so, we flush all the shit on them. We over-care for them.

Even though great personalities agree on 'not giving a F-TripleAsterisk' thing, and they are freakin right about it, some people misunderstand that. The Great probably meant not to care about things that bother you too much- about things that demotivate you or stuff like that. They probably meant not to give a damn about things that turn you sullen, like failure or something. I don't think they meant 'Don't give a damn about any freaking thing!' Nowadays, I've heard people give 'I don't care' as a reply to many things. 

Humans are gregarious, we need people in our lives... and if we dont care for them, how can we think that they will remain with us? Not giving a damn about stupid, puny things is good; but not giving a damn about ANYTHING is bad, and practically impossible.

Caring is a mere act of kindness, and which religion doesn't support kindness? (unless you consider SWAG as a religion). Care for people...unless it doesn't cause you any harm. Care for people, and you will be looked after by them when needed.  

Give it a thought! 

#Peaces

- Jatin Jawale

::CHANGES::

An old adage says, "Change is the only constant". True, ain't it? Seasons change more or less monthly, weather changes daily, wind changes its direction regularly, but people change more frequently, and that too in a way we are uncomfortable with... Do you think this way?

At times, we feel that a friend of ours, or perhaps any person, is getting away from us, and when we don't have a logical reason for this, we say that he/she has started changing even when we aren't sure that they have! That is the only alibi. I know most of us feel this way, but it is not necessary that it is really what we think it is. We are bounded by the walls in our mind, which don't enable us to look beyond. And perhaps, we don't even want to look beyond, because we believe ourselves to be right all the time, don't we? We convince ourselves that we are smart enough to notice the signs and jump to crooked conclusions. We become over-confident, omniscient judges.
The point is, we aren't ALWAYS right; and who knows? Maybe we are right while judging such a situation....but there will always be that 'maybe'. We might be 99% correct, but there is always that 1% to prove us wrong. And we need to be 100% sure....

Suppose we are 100% sure about the change.... So what? We don't have the right to stop them from changing, do we? It is their life! They can do any F-triple asterisk-ing thing they want to! Changes WILL occur. We have to accept the truth. We can either adjust ourselves according to that change, or just be ourselves and move on...its our choice. The latter would be better, I guess. Because if we 'adjust', we merely change ourself, just like the person whom we accuse to have changed and in that case, we have no right to judge them, because we ourselves are doing the same thing. But it also depends on the value of the person in our life. If they are very precious, you would feel that the first remedy is better. But if WE were valuable to them, they would do something about the change...but that is when we TELL them about it, instead of just making mental conclusions. What do you think?

We are hurt the most when the people we value the most goes through a change. We want them to be the same throughout. But this can't be possible. You remember hurricanes, right? Hurricanes will change things. The way the person changes, even you will change someday. The adage will never go wrong! (now, the next line will sound really stupid, but who cares??) Everything and everyone that matters is matter, and matter is nothing but energy (Einstein said so), and energy changes its form and manifestations. That is the law of nature; we cannot do anything about it. (Laugh at this if u want to! :P)

But you know what the awesome thing is? Changes are always for the ultimate good! ALWAYS! We might be hurt at some point, but ultimately, we will be happy. That 'ultimately' might be years later, but it WILL come someday. We just need to be hopeful.. Trust me with this. Don't let that thin string of hope break. If our friend has changed, obviously we would be hurt and perhaps they would even go away from our lives in a while. But that place would be filled by someone more worthy of that place, who will stay with you for a longer time. Isn't that a good thing?

Give it a thought!

#Peaces

- Jatin Jawale

::HOPE::

At times, we end up clinging to a thin string called hope, which helps us from falling off the cliff of desires.... Sometimes we think the string is too weak to hold us, and it will break after a while; but that is not true! That string is so strong that you can return back safely! 
Such is the strength of hope...it can keep you from falling down.

The story of Pandora's Box gives such a strong message to us! In a nutshell- Pandora was Zues' daughter and he presented her with a box for her wedding, but told her not to open it under any condition. But curiosity proved to be more powerful than obedience, and she opened the box eventually, and as soon as she did, all the vices came out of it and engulfed the world. She tried to close it, but it was too late (Zeus did that because he wanted to seek a revenge from Pandora's husband, who was a brother to Prometheus- The one to give fire to humans. Pandora wasn't even his real daughter; she was created for the sole purpose of seeking his revenge). When her husband came back home, she told him what happened and opened the box again. The box seemed empty, but it wasn't. In a little while, a tiny spirit came out of the box. This was the spirit of Hope.... (For the proper story of Pandora's Box, click here!) This story tells us that despite all the bad, there is always hope. Nothing can ever be irreparably wrong. There is no need to be hopeless!

Hopes and expectations are not the same thing. When we expect something, we go all out to fulfil it at times. But when we hope for something, we leave everything in the hands of fate. Expectations often leave us unsatisfied and depressed when they aren't fulfilled; but hope is an optimistic state! When you hope for something, you are well prepared for the consequences.
Simple example- When we gift something to someone, a mind full of expectations would probably be like, "I know he/she is going to like the gift! I think he/she is going to be in tears and would never forget this gift ever! This is probably the best he/she is going to get!" But a hopeful mind would be like "I hope he/she likes the gift. Even if others' gift are better, I don't mind! At least my gift would matter, maybe less than the rest, but definitely more than none!"
The difference is kind of clear.

According to me, there is nothing like 'False Hope'. What exactly does 'False hope' mean? Meaninglessly hoping for something that is never going to happen in reality? Isn't that mere expectation? False hope is the string which breaks; we fall down when it does break and we are broken, which is exactly like what happens when we cling to expectations. 

False Hope is just expectation; because addition of the word 'FALSE' before Hope, makes hope a pessimistic state; and Hope is MEANT to be a positive state of mind. If we are broken when our hope fails, we weren't hoping at all...we were expecting.

There is absolutely nothing wrong in hoping for something. But the difference between hoping and expecting should be clear. Hoping won't let you down, expectation probably will.... Give it a thought :)

#Peaces

- Jatin Jawale

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