Positivity leads to Happiness!!

Follow your heart.

Have a sense of wonder.

Find people you love.

Set goals.

Help others.

Sing & dance.

Pamper yourself.

Face your fears.

Exercise.

Get in touch with nature.

Lighten up.

Get a good night's sleep.

Read good books.

Don't compare yourself with others.

Be open to new ideas.

Don't focus on negative thoughts.

Focus on creating what you desire.

Make time just to have fun.

Keep the romance in your life.

Love your Mother Earth.

Want what you have.

Be true to yourself.

Source: a video on Fb titled "Be happy" by Shaimaa Ali Abd El-Aal

I wish for a just and beautiful world.

I wish for a just and beautiful world.

I wish for a world with no paper currency.

I wish for a world where we have only "moral" & "character" currencies.

I wish for a world where the good people are rich and the bad people are poor.

I wish for a just and beautiful world.

"Daffodils"

"Daffodils" by William Wordsworth is one of the other poems I love.

William Wordsworth was a great romantic poem and this poem reminds us of happiness and joy in life that nature brings to us. We should take time out of our busy lives to appreciate the beauty of nature.

Here goes the poem ( source: http://www.poetry-online.org )

"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."

A bit of analysis of the poem can be found here.

"Sweetest love, I do not go"

April is the National Poetry Month in USA. I know no poetry. But I like to read poems.

I had been searching hard for this poem for months and finally I somehow got lucky today. Thank U Google.com !! I think it was the "right" search term or may be it's just that Google has "gotten better" !! :)

This is amongst one of my favorite poems from Xth standard. I was particularly struck by the concept of comparing " a long journey away from one's beloved" as "a feigned death". This is by the English poet, John Donne.

The poem goes like this ( source: http://www.online-literature.com/donne/348/)

"Sweetest love, I do not go,

For weariness of thee,

Nor in hope the world can show

A fitter love for me ;

But since that I

At the last must part, 'tis best,

Thus to use myself in jest

By feigned deaths to die.

Yesternight the sun went hence,

And yet is here to-day ;

He hath no desire nor sense,

Nor half so short a way ;

Then fear not me,

But believe that I shall make

Speedier journeys, since I take

More wings and spurs than he.

O how feeble is man's power,

That if good fortune fall,

Cannot add another hour,

Nor a lost hour recall ;

But come bad chance,

And we join to it our strength,

And we teach it art and length,

Itself o'er us to advance.

When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind,

But sigh'st my soul away ;

When thou weep'st, unkindly kind,

My life's blood doth decay.

It cannot be

That thou lovest me as thou say'st,

If in thine my life thou waste,

That art the best of me.

Let not thy divining heart

Forethink me any ill ;

Destiny may take thy part,

And may thy fears fulfil.

But think that we

Are but turn'd aside to sleep.

They who one another keep

Alive, ne'er parted be."

I am so happy to have found this on web. It's such a lovely poem.

I feel like writing today:)

I am writing after a very long time.

I am still in College Station. But am no more a student now. I am transitioning. I graduated on Dec 19th and am ready to step into a different world. I know how it looks like. Because I have already lived in it.

By the God's grace and wishes of my family and friends, I have a good job offer and if everything goes well, I will soon be moving to California. Hope nothing comes in the way.

These last few days at College Station have really been great. And I am sure of more of such great days ahead. And it's all thanks to a bunch of great friends I have made here. Life is meaningless without friends.

I came to this school (A&M) knowing no one here. May be a few. But just online. During the course of my stay here, I came to know a lot of beautiful people, a lot of inspiring people, a lot of kind-hearted people. I am fortunate that they accepted me as their friend.

I have laughed with them. I have cried with them. I have traveled with them. I have danced with them.I have consoled them and been consoled by them. I have partied with them. I have argued with them. I have embarrassed them. I have fought with them. The list goes on.

Yes, life is meaningless without friends. I will miss them when I leave this place. Yes, I will miss them a lot.

I am a very emotional person. I feel we should let emotions play the same role as intellect in our lives. It helps us to explore the irrationality. It helps us to be non-robotic. It provokes us to do things "Just for the heck of it". I mention this because the most part of life I have lived here, I along with my friends have explored doing things "Just for the heck of it". And we occasionally talk about our silliness and care-free attitude. I guess this is the unique beauty of student life, the unique freedom of the world a student lives in. I will surely miss these things when I step into the world waiting for me.

I think I will write a few more blogs before I leave this beautiful place and part with my awesome friends. I might always be e-connected with them but the physical distance will make me miss them:(

I am writing after a very long time.

Why did I choose to write this one?

The prevailing good times at 314 is one reason.Talking to a few good friends further provoked me.Reading the protagonist Susan from Dean Koontz's "The House of Thunder" talk about how badly she missed her childhood/adulthood by being scientific and rational all the times and keeping emotions at bay, finally sealed the deal:)

I am now off to enjoy a potluck dinner with my friends. We plan to go to Dallas tomorrow to watch some recently-released good movies and to spend time together with some good friends living over there. We are yet to plan for the New Year eve. We will do that soon:)

More to come. Love U My Friends. You Complete My Life.

Not the way to start the Day.

I have been awake almost the whole night - thinking about something that happened in the night earlier and in the excitement and hope of the surfing trip today. The latter didn't happen. And I feel very guilty for the former.

It's not the way to start the day. In fact it's a depressing way to see the sun light the day.

Many at times, things don't happen as you plan.
Many at times, you learn a lot -the harsh reality of yours- through the eyes of others.
Many at times, you end up hurting others for reasons not in control of you.

You feel bad as well as sad about all these but this is what is called Life.
Life has to go on, you have to dream on.

Wish U a wonderful day!

Love u Arpita & Vedant!

"I am alive because of you. My heart beats because I know you are always around me. Be it sunshine or thunderous storm, I am always gonna be by your side, holding your hands.". Wow! Vedant, how romantic of you for Arpita! Almost brought tears to my eyes looking at you guys yesterday!!

When sun was desperate to come out from behind the clouds, when rain was willing to pour down no more, when breeze was blowing its kisses to everyone on the bank, we witnessed a sweet couple with promise of ever lasting love reading vows for each other. What a wonderful moment!!

Arpita & Vedant, I know it might sound now a cliche for you ,hearing for last six years, that how gorgeous you guys look together but I would like to repeat it again, "you guys look fabulously gorgeous together". I love you guys very much:)

With each passing day,let your vows strengthen your love . Do this for yourselves. Do this for us. Because your love inspires us:)