Remembrance

Be Bold. Always. That's the mantra to live the way you want to or else others will start dictating the terms of your own life to you. They will be soon in the driving seat, and you won't even be asked for navigation. You are literally giving away your power, your life to someone else. How foolish is that? If you don't like something, be bold enough to say you don't like it. Have the courage to refuse to do things that you don't want to. Else you will end up doing things that you don't want to do. And, even start hearing others complain how you are not doing the thing that you didn't even want to do properly! Save yourself from all that unnecessary pressure. Just be bold and say, "NO", loud and clear. Time and again we are presented with certain opportunities in life - better career prospects, lifestyle, life partner et al. - and time and again we refuse to take the plunge, for the fear of unknown, fear of taking risk, and sometimes, innate guilt of...

Sometimes it is necessary to applaud others and that too publically, especially people who make a difference in others’ lives – the valiant ones. These unsung heroes often don’t even realize how they touch someone’s life, how their daily battle to uphold their principles create a dent somewhere and how they are so important for maintaining a balance in the world. These people are the insane ones, the courageous, the brave ones, those who do not care what the world would say or where they would get their next salary from, they just do what their heart tells them to, they follow their dreams, and they live by their conventions. When the world laughs at them, they still warm them with their smile. They give them hope, they make them look at the future, they are rock solid and their foundations are built on their love for everything good. They are the idealists we all look up to. So many of them touched my life too and I salute each one of them for their sheer grit and cour...