Bonjour lecteur,

Before I am any late, I want to take a moment and first, wish you a very Happy New Year. There is no need to mention what all we have been through last year, but one thing that should always be in our memory, this too shall pass. I wish, we all get a safer and secure vaccine this year and our lives get back to former normals.

It has been 67 long days now since I have written the last blog. Honestly, there hadn’t been any single day when I would have not felt to write, though feelings can do nothing if they can’t be transmuted into actions. I tried to write, about Dreams, but it just got stuck.

A Mind is like a parachute, It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Frank Zappa

And that’s what happens when the parachute doesn’t open in time, one falls, and maybe over some tree and damn, stuck. Longer you’re away, longer it takes for that word to come in your mind to express the very emotion you want to express. It really gets tough to get along being out of touch for long. Interestingly, writing is not the only thing that gets dusted with time-off, relations too.

All creatures are special, but we humans, are something strangely especially I believe. A human, in his all conscience, can go against all the evens (yes evens and not the odds), and do that particular thing that’s the most oddly ever possible. Yes, we are special. And so, I am here to talk about us, the people, the humans!

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Marcus Garvey

History, a very important part of us, teaches us a lot, but sadly, we don’t teach it to our next-gen, as important as it should be. If we look back, we have gone so far. From the stone-age to the Millennial. We came so far, yet we haven’t learnt that much of our rich history that we can do something better. We survived the horrific world wars TWICE! We survived all the famines, endemics, epidemics and the pandemics. We survived through the atrocious acts of mankind like Auschwitz camps. We survived with the heroic acts and valour in the miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk. We, humans, survived through the scariest of times and seen the world growing. Yet, sometimes we think of as mere as not getting a reply of some idiot person who doesn’t even care whether the other mad person survives or not. Yes, I know that’s actually weird comparison. But that’s also our important part, the weirdness.

Okay, enough of the bragging. But this is how the world around us is. Our character and personality are built upon different pillars, and two of them is experiences and people. Experiences, that we have had in our lifetime, in the highs and the lows; our reflexes and responses to the situations when we are highly elated and our acts when we hit rock bottom. People, that we get along in the beautiful journey called life.

If we take a moment right now to look back on our personal lives and remember the variety of people we have met, have studied with, have celebrated with, have fallen in love with, have worked with and have lived with, quiet contrasting, right? We may have met with someone who was dead lazy, but extremely talented and never did any being lazy. We have also met someone, who you can say the greatest stupid in mankind and yet popular because he/she wasn’t lazy. There must be some people who have been your support system all this long, but you never acknowledged them. And some of those too, whom you always count, but they are never ever there when you need them. The “Yay” sayers and the “Nay” sayers. And this list can keep going, and we have all of them.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I, being a hobbyist musician, loves to attend live music events. Every time I talk to someone about the fun, entertainment and joy of live music, they always say to take them too sometime. Recently… finally, after a long pandemic time, I managed to get to know about one event at a very beautiful place in Delhi. I thought to ask a few (maybe 12 people if I am correct with memory), and I got one yes and 10 no. Huh! contrasting! I can’t stop myself of a few of the reasons I got… Bro, no time for enjoyment and leisure. Bro, going for shopping. Man, I have an exam. and few were like, who have such a mundane life that they themselves can’t say a word about and dying to change it, though not brave enough to take a step for it and giving reasons like have a COVID test tomorrow before travel so avoiding to meet anyone! No words!

Our life is not a destination to reach but a journey to perish!

I know many people, who have been living life, even in this pandemic, and then I know people who have been breathing. No, I am not interested to talk about the second one, who may be going to attain Nirvana with the mediocrity. I have been reading a very popular book “A Man called Ove”. There are few excerpts that really inspire TO LIVE and not just BREATHE.

• You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away.
• They say the best men are born out of their faults and that they often improve later on, more than if they’d never done anything wrong.
• We can busy ourselves with living or with dying. We have to move on.
• Every human being needs to know what he or she is fighting for.

Maybe a ray of light to enjoy life as it is before we ruin it with the way we want it. And doing this, even if we fail and make mistakes, we will improvise and become better if not the best. In any way, may we all move on being busy with living and not dying to the mundaneness. May we know what we are fighting for!

It may feel like I am here to target someone or the other, with the lifestyle. Honestly, yes maybe! But I am not your enemy, you are because if you like this life then why do you cry about it? And if you cry about it, then why not change it?

Think of it, Cheers!
– Navneet