the race against time

...long days at work...an unending to-do list...some chores at home....some studying in the midst... music...time for leisure...reading...a whole lot of people to catch up with...a whole lot of places to go to.....spending time with everyone at home....some experiments in the kitchen.....basically trying to cram up as many things as possible in a day or week...in an attempt to make life more meaningful..interesting....enjoyable...
been an absolute race against time.....hopefully worth all the effort at the end of it all !!

monsoons!!

a welcome respite from the unrelenting heat.....those big drops of water falling...all the trees and plants around looking lush green...bathed in the rain...the cold breeze brushing against you...
....to just sit in a corner....cuddle up in a blanket..read a book..listen to some music...watch a nice light movie...take a quiet walk down the road in the rain...to jump in the puddles of water around......or go for a trek in the hills.....to be in the midst of nature, to savour the fresh air..to play in the waterfall...to swim in the streams...to walk through the green fields.........
the rain blurring my sight...the clear drops of water on my window pane.....i'm enjoying every moment of the monsoons ......
sigh! if only there were no traffic jams because of the monsoons!!!

cherished dreams....

running a marathon..atleast a half marathon has been a long cherished dream ...was almost on the verge of running one last year...couldn't make it finally....
now, running being all the more difficult...seems all the more a distant dream...a more cherished one .......a burning desire to be able to do so......
each jog...each attempt to run makes it more obvious to me....may be gives me a lot more motivation....the zest to try n make sure......one day in the near future i can run....run a long long way!!!! :)
read an article in "the hindu" recently....about how sportsmen are true inspirations..how they seem to influence are lives....how their determination, achievements...their undettered efforts make a difference...be it..lance armstrong, martina navratilova, venus williams, saurav ganguly .........

it only says.....all it takes to achieve something is an iron will!!!! like nike says..."JUST DO IT"..........

the beauty of mundaneness!

bored...tired...life's so boring....these are things you'll possibly hear from any teenager, student, working professional quite often....all those things that are part of routine life....work, studies, meeting friends, household chores, eat outs....being able to move around and do whatever you could want...the race against time to do whole lot of things.....have you ever wondered how life would be without these things??
how would it be to just stay home for a long time...not go out to where you want..not go to work...not go out with friends...not go out to buy some small little things.....how cut off it would feel from the rest of the world....more or less a forced vacation if i could call it so!:)
well..believe me..its not too bad this way too.....one could catch up on a lot of reading,music etc...but then the immobility, the dependence...its definetely one of the most difficult things...
recovering from a fracture, a long 7 weeks of complete rest ..and over these weeks i've realised......the so called "boring mundane life" is not so bad after all!! :) its beautiful!!
like they say.." WE SELDOM THINK OF WHAT WE HAVE BUT ALWAYS THINK OF WHAT WE MISS"

finally........

after a whole lot of contemplation finally decided to start blogging....hoping that it'll be a long and interesting journey....just a small attempt to share my thoughts and views about life as i see it through my looking glass!:)