A Big hello to everyone. How have you all been? I have not blogged for some ten months and my horrible time management might be the only reason for it.
But I got time today. My all candies are finished, my new Chinese toys are broken, my colour book has no more pages left and all my friends are off to their vacations. I feel very lonely and solitary. Today, I again seek time to go back to My Better Half and I know she’ll be having something for me as always.
There is a strong urge to speak out rather shout out your mind. When thoughts start to overflow in your little brain, speak them out. A lot has changed in my life since past few months. I have become an engineer (the most important thing), I am a proud maker of Two Films and a Music Video, Founder of a Film Production house- ‘Two And A Half Moves Production’. God is kind.
Anyways, always at some point of time you feel low and distressed. And in my case, my brain tends to work best in such circumstances only (Silly little thing). There are sessions of introspection followed by that awful guilty feeling. Yak! But, I have learned something. Something that everyone knows yet no one follows or adapts. It’s called Ignoring.
We all remain unaware of the power that this eight letter word has (mostly). I was, to be honest. The key to remain happy is to ignore. Ignore what you hate, dislike, abhor. Ignore what you don’t want to see. Ignore what is not of your taste because if you don’t, you’ll sulk. You’ll sulk to the core. I have experienced that. This world is still a happier place given you ignore what all you don’t like. In Hindi, this would be stated as:
इस दुनिया मैं सिर्फ वही देखो और याद रखो जो तुम्हारे मतलब का है या तुम्हे ख़ुशी देता है. जैसे फल खाते वक़्त हम गुठली अलग फ़ेक देते है वैसे ही बेकार की बातें अपने दिमाग से निकाल कर फ़ेक दो |
An examples to illustrate my views:
Few days ago I read, my hero, Sachin Tendulkar had declared himself as an Artist and not a Cricketer in order to get a tax waiver. I was unspeakable. What the heck? If he is not a cricketer then who is? All his respect went for a toss. Few days later, I ignored that. After all it’s his C.As who decide these stuff and not him. So how can I blame him for this? I ‘Ignored’ it and guess what, he again emerged as a hero like before in my heart. All because I kept what was important to me and threw what was waste.
O.K., Another one: Recently, I learned that one of my best friend occasionally drinks (You know what). I being a teetotaller did not like it. I have my own sets of principles and consuming alcoholic beverages fall apart from that. I was not in a pleasant state of mind for few hours but then I thought about his good deeds, how close he is to me and his importance in my life. I ignored the fact that what he occasionally does. I must say I was relieved and happy.
There is a lot, lot and lot of happiness around us given how we see it. This world contains many things that are not of our taste. Don’t be unhappy for that. Look out for the best, something that you like and then ignore the rest. Close your eyes as you can’t see the darkness of this world. Make your little happy world. All happy and all well. Because we all are the same, more or less. My friend Aditya Sharma used to say on some unpleasant occasions, ‘3 idiots se kya seekha? Ignore kar, ignore kar’. Now, I know, he had the Gurumantra already. Putting all this in a nutshell; we are all prone to mistakes, we all do mistakes and we all lookout for other’s mistake but doing such will only arise complications and no happiness. Ignore and be happy.
In Kabeer Ji’s words:
|बुरा जो देखन मैं चला, बुरा न मिलिया कोए |
||जो दिल खोजा आपना , मुझसे बुरा ना कोए ||
Love and Peace. May you get all the happiness of this World.
Vinayak Shashi Seth
