Amazing people, Tragic ends

The other day one of India's top fashion model "Viveka Babajee" committed suicide. Hanged in her bedroom, with diary notes testifying her emotional turbulences and loneliness. There is a huge list of sucessful, have it all people who died or killed themselves tragically.

Marilyn Monroe before her `probable suicide’ said in an interview - “Sometimes I’m invited to places to brighten up a dinner table like a musician. You’re just an ornament.” Lucy Gordon (Spiderman fame) also suffered the same agony. An immense sense of loneliness, hopelessness and lack of belonging seems to overpower even the most gifted ones to end the beautiful gift of God, Life.

Things like this are extremely troubling and compels me to count my blessings. Family, friends, my town, my garden, my pets, the soothing morning breeze, the sun rise, the chirping of birds, the moist grass of the morning... there are so many reasons to live and make life more beautiful every day.

May God always be with all of us.

Paul vs. Parrot..!

An octopus named Paul is predicting the winners in this fifa world cup. He is supposed to have psychic powers.

I just can’t understand why an octopus is at all interested in a football match? Or Paul is appointed only for prediction of football matches not for other things. :) Octopus has 8 legs but no hands it may also be the reason Paul loves football. lol

Nobody’s even thinking that these predictions can just be a coincidence. Great. :)

Indian astrologers have been predicting the future accurately with their parrot but they never received such publicity. Our Indian Astrologers may plan to buy these kinds of Octopuses for their Business development. :)  I would prefer the parrot to the octopus. What would you do??? :)))

Things that make me happy :) (4)

28. Enjoying being single and loving it.

29. Spontaneous inspiration.

30. Believing in miracles.

31. Knowing that I can do everything.

32. Working on new plans for a great future. :)

33. Taking pictures.

34. Rain and clouds.

35. When somebody comes to me for figuring out his/her problem and I don’t have slightest of idea as what to say now. :)
36. Watching comedy circus.  :)

Parrot

Yesterday I noticed a parrot in cage in my neighbor’s house and it made me recall that two parrots have died in the same cage and it’s the third one they bought recently.

I am forced to think that human beings are horrible to animals. What if somebody puts us in a small cage for all our life? What’d be our life after that? I think it is hideous practice and should be made illegal. Whenever I see birds in cages I feel very sad because I can’t let them out. If one has to keep bird in cage then its ok as long as you let them out for exercise flights in the house. Cages should be large and proper care must be taken.

But it’s damn cruel to clip their wings and never let them out of their cage. I'm not happy about keeping animals or birds in small cages and so I would never keep a bird. If we had more compassion for animals we’d be better people and we’d be happier too.

If you would read only one book in your life?

Firstly, I strongly recommend that all of us read much much more than just one book in our life :)... (of course other than the school books) But what if I were to read only one book in my entire life time? Which book should this be?

I am not the most voracious reader type (many people I have met actually read one or more book per week) but from whatever reading I have done, I have following preference --

1. Any religious\spiritual book in which you believe... may be Bible, Gita, Quran or any spiritual books. (Hinduism believes that the ultimate aim of human life is to seek God, and hence if we just want to read only one book then why not devote it to the ultimate aim)

2. For more materialistic humans like me :), I would recommend "The magic of Thinking Big" by David Schwartz.

This book has the potential to change our thinking and affect every possible dimension of our life. I read this book long ago and I keep going back to read certain chapters to pep up myself. More on this book sometime later... :)

Let me know which book would you read if you are to read only one book in your life???

Stray Dogs

During my early morning walk today, I saw a girl with her cute pet puppy. Suddenly a couple of street dogs started barking at the pet. Unfortunately street dogs or stray dogs are still a reality is most cities of India. These are the dogs born and raised on streets with no one being owner or caretaker. And as the herd mentality goes, hearing the barking sound a few more stray dogs from nearing areas joined the chorus. The girl was a little perturbed and as it was morning there were very few people around (hardly any I guess).

I went up to the girl, consoled her by the old saying that barking dogs seldom bite, called a cab to make sure that she along with Silky reach home safely. (by the way Silky is the pet's name). I felt like a hero who just rescued a little girl and her pet...but I was about to see another hero....

As the cab drew away, one of the stray dogs, who seemed to be the leader of the pack, ran behind the cab for a distance. Constantly barking and waging his tail, after running a while he came back with a sort of winner's smile of face :) ... Happy that he shoo away an intruder from his territory...

Meanwhile I have found an NGO on internet dedicated to the cause of Stray dogs... Time to call them up....

Things that........... (3)

20. Comedy movies.

21. When my friends say – you’ll sure go on top and I pray God please listen to them. :)

22. Sitting on the bank of Ganga (river) and feeling it is heaven on earth.

23. Missing past with a smile on my face & realizing how mad I was, sometimes I still am.

24. New ideas of making money.

25. Helping others.

26. Greenery and fresh wind especially of Tea garden. :)

27. Looking out over my entire hometown.