Holding on and letting go.....

There is a  time in life when you have to decide whether to hold on or to let go...of people, of memories or of relationships. These are tough times and even when i have found myself at such cross roads..there's no clear answer....no single option to accept...just no easy way out. And unlike the numerous reality shows there's no 50 50 option, no phone a friend...you just have to roll up your sleeves and face it yourself. Weather we accept it or not most of us have been through such times and most of us have gladly held on the pain and the hurt waiting for times to change. I am no expert on this topic but i will just narrate a small event that happened once, when i was a little boy i climbed a tree, all of a sudden i lost my balance and fell down.....i desperately tried and finally held onto one branch.....i was stuck and frantically calling for help but no one was close by, i held on for almost fifteen minutes and then could take no more, i fell down and fainted. When i awoke all i remembered was the pain of holding on.......and that feeling, that amazing feeling of letting go!  

Super Heroes..with a dark side

its a bird!! no, its a plane!!....no its superman.....all the people who grew up in the 80s n 90s should have heard these lines again and again......in my childhood the tele was filled with toon superheroes of all shapes sizes and having all sort of superhuman abilities ...and almost all of us had favourites and i remember most of my class fellows liked superman and guys like that but for me he was too good to be real...way too perfect to be inspiring.....but i always liked heroes of a different kind, I've always fancied heroes with a dark side ....characters like batman, the hulk and in recent times the wolverine have always seemed much more real, much more inspiring. 

My be it is so....because we all have a dark side to us! a side that we hide, despise and try to do away with. We are scared of it, without remembering that it is as much a part of us as flesh and blood. For some it is their past that haunts them, for some it is their highly inflammable anger & rebellious thoughts and for some their dark side haunts them as unfulfilled wishes, desires and destiny. 

It is only now that i have realized why those characters seemed much more believable than the Mr perfects. Now i know that all of us have a hidden dark side and only those are superheroes who accept it as a part of themselves yet never shy away from saying or doing whats right. This might be a scarce breed of men but look around.... you may find some, better still look inside and you may find one!!

Saving energy......power minister's style

I come back home and turn on the tele and there he is ... a smile on his face...starched clothes... that smile glorified by the many thousand watt lights and he is standing there telling me that i should turn off that extra light that i installed in the street so that next time someone shouldn't trip and fall into that gaping main hole.....hhmmm good idea 

i listen intently to his golden piece of advice ..he delivers a great lecture and lays down some responsibilities for the people ...we have to save energy he says!!  and he has some great plans.... lets shut down all the useless appliances starting with that microphone he's using...he's repeating that same speech everyday so whats the use of the microphone......so now lets decide whats next...hhmmm lets switch off all the street lights.. the people have become so trained to continue their lives in the dark... they'll surely manage walking in the streets and driving on roads ..... now lets look around what else is wasting energy......ah well its my laptop...so I'm turning it off ...this post will have to stop here.......