Jumps from space and lands on feet , Felix Baumgartner.Salute mankind for grit and perseverance.

One learns more from his loss than his win.Trick is not to make a habit of it.

~A, Learns.

You are

"You are just your intelligence" - Late Kalpana Chawla, NASA astronaut, while in space.
How profound ! While we go through life obsessing over a perfect body size ,  in space it literally  doesn't matter. You are just your intelligence. It's not easy to rid the earthly life of its eartly miseries.But once in a while the real self deserves to take a step back and appreciate the real you.

Some people have luck on their side the day they are born. I am just going to persuade her to be on mine; or atleast I will die trying !

Saw a bumper sticker -

"If you are going through hell , keep going ".

When I hear Adele , it's so plain to realize that honesty needs no effort.

Seek and you shall find.

~ You definitely will , you will.

One of my fav songs 'Beth' released in 1976

Beth I hear you calling
But I can't come home right now
Me and the boys are playing
And we just can't find the sound

Just a few more hours
And I'll be right home to you
I think I hear them calling
Oh Beth what can I do
Beth what can I do

You say you feel so empty
That our house just ain't our home
I'm always somewhere else
And you're always there alone

Just a few more hours
And I'll be right home to you
I think I hear them calling
Oh Beth what can I do
Beth what can I do

Beth I know you're lonely
And I hope you'll be alright
'Cause me and the boys will be playing all night

I just have to say one thing to Beth - O Beth , aren't you glad there was no facebook
to find out how much all your friends were having fun while you were alone at home ?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

~One of the best known sentences in the English language.

Living in a city that never sleeps , doesn't mean you don't have dreams.

~A , inspired

And there was four

~A , 8th Jan

Strange Dreams and Stranger Facts

We all dream.We remember some and forget some.Zip back fifteen years.An excited teen poring over an article published in the Sunday edition of the paper about the Bermuda Triangle.The article spoke about how mysterious and unexplained the Bermuda Triangle was.Fodder for thought , all kinds of explanations popped in my teenage imaginative head - Scientific to mystical.And the mystical version was my personal favorite.But with so much excitement in my inquisitive mind , it was quite inevitable that I ended up dreaming and solving the mystery in my dream that night.Since it was a very vivid one and since it made me so happy that I solved the mystery I still remember the dream very clearly.I was in flight and at one point , I was amidst a thick envelope of clouds-I was moving in a tunnel of clouds and I lost consciousness.I crashed and died. I was a hero in my own dream.Zip back to now.A day off and wanting to watch a dose of Discovery Channel , I ended up watching an episode of Bermuda triangle.Small point , but I see in the series a guy who actually survived the triangle.The unusual event he reported was of moving in a turbulent tunnel of thick gravity-less clouds and having only partial consciousness all through it.He did not crash and burn.He survived to tell the story.There was an uncanny similarity between my dream and the survivor's story.Very very strange.Maybe dreams do speak.Are we listening though ?

~A , Fascinated

Don't underestimate the power of good intention.

~A, noticed..

"Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance,
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know...."


~Human , The Killers

Living life on your own terms , listening to your heart ; Following it ? Hardest things to do even though seems like they would be the easiest...Sometimes you need to start all over again in order to fly !..

~A , and it's my way....

After 3 years , I have stopped complaining about the cold.And it works.I don't feel so miserably cold in the winters anymore.I have started actually enjoying the winter.The most lovely part is the white blanket that covers up everything. The pretty little shops with decorations from c'mas still hanging and a whiff of white snow blanket covering them.Flakes of snow now and then sweeping across the city.People still dressed warm.And there is absolute beauty at night in the city.People hustling across to different events,friends sharing a drink or couples huddled over coffee whispering sweet nothings.Probably what gives me a warm feeling in the heart is that everybody is indoors all warm and cosy.It's winter and cold outside whereas it's warm and lovely inside.

~A ,glad to have made peace with winters forever....

3 and proud...

I am the patron saint of mediocrity.

~Antonio Salieri ,'Amadeus'

What we think and thank about , we bring about.

I have always heard 'Hope Floats'.I never really knew what it meant until I decided to look it up.Give hope a chance to come up to the surface because it always floats or else it would always sink under the burden of life's trials.So with this thought I hope I am not hoping for much when I say I hope for a year of a little more peace , a little less pain , a dash of joy and a shot of love.Hope there is more good.You don't always need evil to let good triumph.Good in itself is a towering concept which can exist the moment you want it to.Cheers to this canvas called life.

~A , hope floats