May be God tests you.
Or may be he tests himself.
May be he wants you to experience.
Or may be he wants to experience from you.
If he is inside you,
you need to stand tall, and let him experience.
Or if he is not inside you,
you still need to stand tall, and tell him that you are not the weak one.
Take me anywhere God, throw anything at me;
if I am you, I will fulfill your role,
and if I am not you, I will fulfill my duty.
If you want to get your mind blown, do watch ‘Love, Death & Robots’…!
I assure you that you’ll find your gasps back.
My favorite episodes are (in sequential random order) –
1. S1E01 – Sonnie’s Edge
2. S1E08 – Good Hunting
I had already read this short story in Ken Liu’s marvelous book,
The Paper Menagerie and other Stories.
3. S1E12 – Fish Night
4. S1E13 – Lucky 13
5. S1E14 – Zima Blue
This one is Awesome
6. S2E02 – Ice
The visuals in this episode at the end! God!
Actually, every episode is a treat in itself. The whole series, a must watch!
P. S. – By the way, the producer of Love, Death & Robots is David Fincher. The same David Fincher who has produced two of my favorite movies – Fight Club & Gone Girl. Gone Girl is a must watch.
I’ve got a few e-mails regarding my new phase of life. I am in a jeopardy now, I share less of my private life and more of my mindful-life. But because of your mails, I’ll share a brief account of the events.
I’ve got engaged on June 20.
Usually, I don’t remember the dates much; but still, for the sake of the timeline, I’ll mention it here.
On 21st March, I attended an engagement ceremony of my cousin brother. When in the functions, I tend to be an extrovert. In that engagement ceremony, I voluntarily chose to wash the feet of my new Vahini (wife of my cousin). This privilege usually goes to the youngest brother of the groom of the family, but I stole it. Earlier, they had presented her (Vahini) to me for a marriage proposal. I had rejected it. Now she is marrying my cousin brother – stupid marriage system, awkward. To break the awkwardness and the future barriers, I chose to wash her feet. I was teasing my new Vahini in the feet washing ceremony; and I was having fun with all the people. I was jolly at that time. After washing the feet, you have to bow to all the people (we call it Ram-Ram). Every feet washer feels shy while doing it. He does it in a very low voice and in a snap. I did it laughingly and having fun, calling Ram-Ram to the individuals too. My Ram-Ram went for 5 mins. I know, I was the center of attraction. I owned the function.
In that ceremony, I got an at least 10 marriage proposals from the relatives.
My soon to be the fiancée (now fiancée) was overwhelmed for me. Her family was overwhelmed for me.
In the after-hours of the ceremony, my Mothi Aai (Elder Aunt) introduced her to me. Mothi Aai teased, “Will you marry her?” I pierced directly into my fiancée’s eye, I flirted back, “I’ll take her right away.” Fun times. Nobody was serious.
So, it began…!
Intermittent details aside, we got engaged on this 20th June.
Our Wedding is fixed for the Dec 1st.
My fiancée is from Wardha City. She was selected for B.Arch, but instead she chose to pursue arts. She had been studying Bachelors in Fine Arts from Hyderabad. She has completed her final exams this summer, after being our marriage fixed. She is an Artist, truly. Here’s her rangoli. This is a generalized art though, she is damn awesome on Digital Drawings, 3D Modelling, Animated Drawings and Perspectives, Mandala Art, and Mathematical Visualisations. She is pretty young (she is 21 only), so she doesn’t have much of her art portfolio organized, but she will soon.
Do you know this my dear readers? She doesn’t even know that I have a personal website. She doesn’t even know about my battles and wars. She doesn’t even know my deaths and resurrections. She doesn’t even know that I killed myself every moment to be what I am right now. She doesn’t even care too…! She is a free bird. Workouts, Meditations, Readings, My Journeys – All the efforts to fight against my lost youth – she brought my youth back.
I believe in co-incidences, I believe in the synchronicity of this Universe, I believe in providence. Remember this post, here I wrote – “For He answered every single test I gave, even to the tiniest details.” He truly has answered everything to the tiniest details.
Cheers and Adios… … …!
Here’s our engagement photograph.
God has answered every tiny detail, yet another detail.
Nov 30th, few years back, a part of me had left me. My wedding is fixed for 1st Dec.
1 Dec comes the next day of 30 Nov…
Haven’t I told you that I believe in co-incidences and synchronicity?
He has answered even to the Tiniest of the Tiny Details… … …
There was the storm, the thunder, the lightening…
There you could fly,
Run, you could die.
Hard, tough, it was a no ordinary portal.
Are you afraid of dying?
Or are you afraid of living?
The first sip of the coffee,
hits like a flood inside your brain,
music drops like a thunder,
Are there any other pleasures in this world…!
… … …
ये लम्हा कहाँ था मेरा
अभी है सामने
इसे छु लूं ज़रा
मर जाऊं या जी लूं ज़रा… … …
खुशियाँ चूम लूं
या रो लूं ज़रा
मर जाऊं या जी लूं ज़रा…!
I know what courage means Man, I know…! Be a Monster, always…!
I am very scarce on time these days. I am not busy; yet, my schedule is going tight and upright lately (new factors, new obligations, new time). That’s why, I am not able to write and post on the website lately. Still guys, I am right here, and more monstrous than ever.
Adios…
Long Post Alert! Not my Original, but something which I find True.
These are the photographs of the two most amazing pages from the book by a theoretical physicist, Sean Carroll – The Big Picture. This book stands among the giants in my personal reading list.
Get a cup of coffee, throw time out of the window, sit and enjoy…!
Desire has a bad reputation in certain circles, but that’s a bum rap. Curiosity is a form of desire; so are helpfulness and artistic drive. Desire is an aspect of caring: about ourselves, about other people, about what happens to the world.
People are not inanimate rocks, accepting what goes on around them with serene indifference. Different people might exhibit different levels of care, and they might care in different ways, but caring itself is ubiquitous. They might care in an admirable way, watching out for the well-being of others, or their caring might be purely selfish, guarding their own interests. But people are inescapably characterized by what they care about: their enthusiasms, inclinations, passions, hopes.
When our lives are in good shape, and we are enjoying health and leisure, what do we do? We play. Once the basic requirements of food and shelter have been met, we immediately invent games and puzzles and competitions. That’s a lighthearted and fun manifestation of a deeper impulse: we enjoy challenging ourselves, accomplishing things, having something to show for our lives.
That makes sense, in light of evolution. An organism that didn’t give a crap about anything that happened to it would be at a severe disadvantage in the struggle for survival when compared to one that looked out for itself, its family, and its compatriots. We are built from the start to care about the world, to make it matter.
… … … Our instincts and unreflective desires aren’t all we have; they’re just a starting point for building something significant.
… … … We aren’t slaves to our desires; we have the capacity to reflect on them and strive to change them. But they make us who we are. It is from these inclinations within ourselves that we are able to construct purpose and meaning for our lives.
The world, and what happens in the world, matters. Why? Because it matters to me. And to you.
… … … The finitude of life lends poignancy to our situations. Each of us will have a last word we say, a last book we read, a last time we fall in love. At each moment, who we are and how we behave is a choice that we individually make. The challenges are real; the opportunities are incredible.
“I’ve never been lonely. I’ve been in a room — I’ve felt suicidal. I’ve been depressed. I’ve felt awful — awful beyond all — but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me…or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I’ve never been bothered with because I’ve always had this terrible itch for solitude. It’s being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I’ll quote Ibsen, “The strongest men are the most alone.” I’ve never thought, “Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I’ll feel good.” No, that won’t help. You know the typical crowd, “Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?” Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn’t want to hide in factories. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have. Let’s drink more wine!”
Charles Bukowski
Formula 1 is not only about out-right speed. Formula 1 is not only about the greatest mastery over laws of physics. Formula 1 is not only about the best drivers. Formula 1 is not only about the technology and innovation. Formula 1 is not only about the sheer excitement. Formula 1 is not only about adrenaline.
Formula 1 is about the team and human strategy as well. This. They say you can not overtake in Barcelona. But Team Strategy did it.
Toto Wolff (Team Principle & CEO of Mercedes Petronas AMG Team),
James Vowles (Chief Strategies of the Mercedes Petronas AMG Team),
Peter Bonnington AKA Bono (Senior Race Engineer for the Team)
and finally, Lewis Hamilton – The driver executing the strategy perfectly.
“They say Formula 1 is a game of chess played at 200 miles an hour, isn’t it true!”