Life within

Every new learning brings along a feeling of being energized and a feeling of growth and its amazing to feel good for yourself with a bit of progress you achieve every time.

I have been for some time now being keenly interested in people growing around me. Peoples growth in their beliefs, evolving in their thinking patterns, having a sense of way ahead in life in context of the way they look at their life and easing themselves expressing close held worries, fears, insecurities, inadequacies and sometimes its surprising that many of us also hold back joys. Sounds strange, strange it is.

For some time now I have realised, that I need interactions outside my immediate circle of reference to experience diversity to swim out of my own pond and experience the harshness of the sea and in the process both bring in new energies to my own circle of reference and a sense of realisation and growth for self. When I say so I do not take my own pond for granted but I guess I would want my pond to have routs and ways to navigate away and back.

With people another source for immense inspiration for me has been the nature and the out door. Might sound a bit old school but I feel I have always learnt a lot in life form nature and that space is close to my heart and will always be.

After a long long time (years don’t matter just that it seems really long is good enough) an amazing amalgamation of both my experiences and process of growth with people and the nature amalgamated for me. For me it was both very curious and an anxious moment. Cause though I had looked at both the facets closely in my own life, was a bit nervous about its culmination.

But after the experience something amazing happened. It brought back my old self the positivity back to me. It took me back to my sense of people being people with out any color or shade. Also experiences of others around me got me in touch with how this has been so integral part of me and my being and my growth as person. It feels like taking a step ahead.

Metaphorically the nature out their also welcomes you without conditions and smiles back to say hey! no rules will apply. May be I can go on and on this. But what really has come to me is the sense of comfort with uncertainty and preparedness to take up things with a need of design without being fanatic about it.

Like nature invited me and everyone around to be spontaneous and took care without making much noise. Also This experience was an amazing melody of both high and low notes with just experiences with self and the feeling of togetherness, the sense of achievement and a feeling of breaking up. As I write this I feel mostly it might sound like cliché but what really happened is I Experienced life and got in touch with Life within me.

Bombay a Story

After a very long time a couple of days back i took my chance of being a traveler with no specific purpose or objective into a place not much know or familiar. Though i have always preferred the greens and the wilderness as my thing to explore this time i chose a completely different destination.

A city bursting with people, every one in his or her own mind involved in a world in a way very personal to all. Sill lot and secluded form most things happening around. I had a 10 MPS 15X lance in my cam but just could not click picks felt like would intrude on to some one. It was amazing being in different locations form Malad to south Bombay to the campus of one of the best know colleges to government building and many more, though the most interesting of all i found were the streets of Bombay. It was a life and experience in itself.

It was such an amazing thing to see that the city pushes you to the brink and situation where in you are just a nut and bolt of the metros machine but that in a way also makes or helps people explore life where ever they are. A lot of our Indian picks have used statements like 'there is a story behind every face...'

For once i was not over whelmed by the city, nothing much bothered me i was much at peace enjoying my experience as a traveler. It for me was a experience of being lost but also relating with people on impulse.

One experience though i would put at as top of these couple of days experience was a a Irani tea stall. I was served by a a very interesting youth, who dosen't seem to ask questions about the realities he is in, dosen't complain and was so much in sink with himself and his realities, extending his SELF to customers reaching out without any surety 'how the other will react to me' this was something remarkable and made me think and explore what in him makes him go so easy on/in life. Ya! there might be deeper stories behind him, but here at work in this place he know its a different life space and looking at him a thought struck me and i feel that is my learning form this life experience and this experience with Bombay - Here you have to FEEL A WORLD ABOUT YOUR SELF TO BE IN THIS WORLD. And i guess that is what i take form this trip of mine.

Thanks to him :)