The first task I do in the morning and the last mission I accomplish before going to bed – check my email.
Something that I’m pulled towards every time I get a chance – browsing.
One thing that helps me kill time whenever I’m bored – the WWW.
See a pattern there? Yeah, the virtual world is what I’m hooked to for a jolly good part of any given day. I’m sure many of us can relate to that, right? Doesn’t it sound like an addiction of some sort?
Sure, google answers our every query. Wikipedia helps instantly feed our hungry minds. Youtube makes it easy to share videos of all sorts. And, definitely, facebook or orkut carves the path to network with everyone we know on this planet earth.
But it used to be just as much fun before all that, right?
There was always the dictionary that we carried around to improve our vocab. What about the encyclopedias that we owned to quench the thirst for knowledge? There’s always the library to turn to when we need some research done. What about friends and family being just a phone call away?
Whatever happened to those days of not being connected 24×7 !
Well…I’m gonna try and see if I can go without the internet for a while. Ok maybe not totally without, I would still check my emails at least once a day, but that’s about it. Nothing else…no chat…no pointless browsing…no meaningless roaming around the WWW. And NO blogging either.
I will see you all in a week. Or maybe ten days…I don’t know.
Have a great weekend and an awesome week ahead.
Tata.
I used to, but not anymore. Because I observed that whenever I carried a purse, I ended up dumping anything and everything into it to fill all that extra space…and it got too cluttered and heavy that way. So I figured that I would be better off without it and gave it up. No purse. No handbag. I only take my wallet and keys whenever I head out. And life’s been easy this way. I carry less load…I don’t accumulate unwanted things…and thus, everything’s good 
.
Why am I saying this now? Well…giving up my purse made me think. Yes, I do need something like this to happen to make me think 
. And in some weird way, I ended up noticing how my mind (my brain) and a purse are similar.
Like a purse, my mind is an empty space, unless I give it something to work on or I squeeze it for some creativity juice. And for all that time that I don’t have anything constructive to feed my brain with, it wanders into unwanted territories…gathers negative thoughts…becomes heavy…and, eventually, gives me a bad headache. Now, unlike with a purse, I cannot abandon my mind as and when I wish. It is something that I’m stuck with for life. So, all I need to do it keep it busy and away from the pointless drifting.
Did that make any sense? If not, all I’m trying to say is that an idle mind is, in fact, devil’s den…and this is something that every one of us must have heard over and over.
My father always advises us never to let the mind just be…to always keep it occupied with something productive. And I’ve come to realize the importance of this advice only in the past few years because of all the extra time I seem to have in the evenings and the weekends.
Summer fades out before I can enjoy enough sun. Spring and Fall vanish before I can savor the chilly breeze against my face. Winter…it’s the winter that’s the hardest…and the longest. And it’s already here. So, in efforts to not let the mind drift into the undesired world, it’s time to take some classes, start regular workout sessions, get books stacked up, make a list of good movies to watch, and such…anything to fuel the brain, I say.
Tell me…what do you do to keep spend those few extra hours everyday?
Watch this…I liked it 
, let me know if you do too
Well, not exactly…but sort of.
Enlighten me…is first love really that special? Every now and then, I hear people saying how close to heart their first love is, how it never dies or how nothing can ever come close to it.
Is that true?
Am I alone to think that it is NOT that big a deal?
I’ve been in love…during teenage years, college days and what not. And hey, even now, at any given moment I’m in love head over heels. I readily fall in love – yesterday, it was the guy at the coffee shop with the cute smile; today, it’s the guy from the train who looked super smart; and tomorrow, it might be the guy who appears mature and acts rational. But let’s not digress…we shall discuss my love life some other time, ok?
I’m sure most of us have a heart breaking love story to share. And, I totally understand that it takes time to get over a relationship and all that. Been there, done that. But once you make your peace with it, you move on…as simple as that, right? At least, I think so. As special as it might have been, when it’s over, it’s over for good.
And so when it comes to that one relationship close to heart, I would always prefer voting for the one that I am in right now rather than going with the one that got away. What’s gone is gone. Why bother spending time thinking how that was special and that it will never cease to be special?
Doesn’t it make more sense to move on rather than clinging to that lost love? No matter how good it was when you had it, isn’t it more important to let go of it and embrace the present without any regrets? Won’t be beauty of the present and the mystery of the future all be lost if we don’t free ourselves from the broken heart from the past?
Maybe my heart is designed so I can forget easily and move on quickly 
. Maybe I’m not getting the important point as to why it is such a big deal. I don’t know. Tell me…what do you think?
True love lasts forever, I hear.
My love for you will do, my dear.
I wish to share every smile every tear,
Only with you, year after year.
With life’s many peaks to climb
And to make it a harmonious chime,
I carry my doubts and my fear,
But I can conquer it all if you are near.
A love that lasts a lifetime
can be nothing but sublime.
I know mine is true love’s mime
And I will prove it with time.
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This is my entry for Carry On Tuesday #27 prompt – Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
