Diwali.... is it the same fesitval of joy ...??

Hello Friends,

                         Happy Diwali !! This time around I didn’t think too much about the topic, as it was obvious it is festival time. Diwali :- the festival of lights, the festival of joy, the festival of “sweets”, has finally arrived and more importantly so the Diwali breaks have arrived and no wonder we can see the smiling faces .

This time, in my article I want to focus about how Diwali has changed. I still remember around 6-7 years back, we used to feel Diwali is knocking 10 days before its official day. We could see the glitter and the lights on the “shopping roads” and the overcrowded garments shop was the sign that its Diwali time. The fire cracker shops were over crowded with parents and their respective wards and we can literally see the kids doing tantrums, so that they can get their favorite fire crackers. The sweet shops are literally over flowing with people fighting so that they can get their delicious sweets first. When we enter anyone’s house we could see the big colorful “Rangoli” which symbolizes the festival of peace, joy and laughter has arrived.

The thing was we could feel the excitement in the air. After all the preparations, finally the epic 3 days arrive Diwali, New year, Bhai bij and all the family members meet up and celebrate this auspicious festival. As a kid, I was always very excited about Diwali, I always used to complete my Diwali homework before Diwali arrives and finally when Diwali arrives, I will be full of excitement, going to elders, touching their feet and getting a handsome reward was just so much fun. I still remember how I used to compete with my brother for Diwali rewards. Then comes Bhaibij and all the family members meet up and the excitement in me pumps up, meeting up all the cousins and having a hell of a time was so much fun and you just feel that life is so much fun …!!

But nowadays, is it the same Diwali are we celebrating ?? Times have changed and so has people’s lifestyles and the word “Diwali holidays” is been given more importance than “Diwali festival”. The recession is something we can see in shops. I was just going through a famous shopping road in Ahmedabad called “C.G. Rd” and I was shocked to see the shop keepers having a good big yawn two days before Diwali and I was just pinching myself whether is it really Diwali time?

The fact is that people are so stressed up in their day to day schedule that holidays is what matters and not the festivals. Diwali breaks are now seen as something kind of a mini vacation where even before Diwali people plan their holidays going to an outdoor destination and relaxing. With fire crackers getting costlier day by day, I hardly hear any fire cracker bursting. All of them are so busy in their lives that the feeling of brotherhood is lost, people don’t remember that when was the last time their whole family met up and had a good laughter.

I pity the younger generation that they will never be able to experience the Diwali we experienced, they will never know the importance of Diwali instead Diwali will be just a term that will be associated with the more important term “vacation”. In the quest for success and in this fast life, the festival once that shared joy laughter and feeling of brotherhood has been reduced to merely a festival that provides good holidays. Diwali, the festival of lights is lost somewhere and with that the excitement is lost ….!!

Wish you a very Happy Diwali & Prosperous New Year,

With Smiles, Sweets and Laughter,

Purvil

Comic side of social networking sites ....:D :D

Hello friends,

                           I am back again for my 3^rd post, but first of all I would like to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart due to the overwhelming response I am getting from you people. The day I posted my 2^nd article, I started thinking what my next article will be and had plenty of ideas but none of them helped me in setting up my mood for writing my 3^rd article, just then one idea just struck up and got me writing. This time around I decided it won’t be any philosophy or serious stuff, this time around my topic is from my observations on a lighter side of our day to day lives.

In this era, the biggest boom is created by the social networking sites. We get up every day and log into our social networking accounts and check the updates. Here I will be talking only about facebook as it is the most preferred social networking site. We all know the good side of facebook that it helps up in maintaining contacts and birthdays and blah blah. I will be concentrating on the funnier side of these social networking sites.

I have often marked or observed that the person whom you are chatting (here I am not talking about the best friends, here I am concentrating on some stranger or someone we hardly know) on facebook is totally different then his original self.It is something like when you meet that person in personal and you will find out in most of the cases that  person is totally different in 2 very basic ways i) in language:- he will be never be good at speaking the words or language he/she was writing. ii) looks:- he will be never be as good as his fb profile picture.    

Nowadays I find lot of “wanna be’s” on fb and I burst into laughter on seeing their language. The main thing I burst into laughter when people write “mah” instead of “my” eg. “mah pics”, “its mah life” … roflmao … Barack Obama though being such a big personality wouldn’t even write mah in his dreams instead of my. Imagine people saying “mah” instead of “my” in their day to day life, the sentences would be like “he/she is mah friend”, “this is mah apple” .... phew I can’t stop laughing at this. The next is people posting their pics, we would understand if there is some good scenery or some good place or some good funny pose, but I find people posting photos of drinking sodas with soda in their hand and the caption “mah soda” ….Seeing this I am like no one is interested in your pics of drinking sodas, I request fb people to have an option call “report wanna be” .

The most misused word is “cool” in 9 out of 10 “about me’s” you will find I am an cool person, I am like hell no …:D. The best part is status updates, I still can’t figure out what is the point of facebooking your problems..?? Still statuses like I am not feeling well or I feel betrayed is still acceptable, it’s like you are too frustrated and you have to post it. But what is the reason behind posting statuses “I feel betrayed, I will never trust people jabhi kaam hota hai tabhi yaad karte hai baaki nahi yaad karte” or something starting from “kuch log aise hote hai, waise hote hai” … First of all this kind of statuses will only be understood by two people, you and the person indirectly you are pointing to, 98% of the people will just skip it as they are not interested what is happening in your life, and the rest 2% are those who know or will start gossiping who was he/she, what happened?? And you get the topic of gossiping. The worst part is you will still find people liking it.

On that note, I will like to end “mah..(:P)” article, there are plenty of observations around you on the social networking sites, just find it and entertain yourselves. I would like to apologize to people, whose sentiments have been hurt by my article as many of them will feel that they are doing the above mentioned things of which I have made fun of, nothing personal it’s just fun…J. Just find these kind of observations and you won’t need anyone to entertain, you can entertain yourself. Not everyone is like this, there are normal people but among normal people you will find such fools, who will think they are sounding cool by doing such stuff …!! I would end my article on a SMS forward, which I am pretty sure most of you have read but still , “No one is as good looking as their facebook profile pic and no one is as bad looking as their voter id’s pic”

Keep Smiling…!!

With Love & Smiles

Purvil 

A walk on the street of Vegas that changed my life ....!!

Hey Friends,

                             I am back again with my 2^nd post. I thought a lot for the topic of my 2^nd post and finally decided to write on this topic. I still remember it was 29^th of June 2011 and the next day was my 2^nd sem results, and unfortunately or fortunately so I was in Las Vegas at that time. It was the last day of my trip in Vegas and it was a typical Vegas night with all the glitter and glaamer surrounding me and as I was under 21 I wasn’t allowed in any of the casinos. As I mentioned it was the last day of my trip I was given this freedom to have a free walk around by my parents, as sitting outside a casino is a pretty boring job.

I was going through a bad phase in my life during that time, lots of questions I had in my mind which had to be answered and may more things. Moreover it was the result time. By 10pm I was on the streets of Vegas flying like a free bird. I had a prediction that like by 12 the result might get out so I decided to roam for about 12 30 am and return to the hotel room. I was roaming around and was almost lost seeing the glittering city, I sat on a roller coaster which was build at the top of a hotel called New York New York built on the theme of US. After doing all this I looked at my watch and it was still 11 pm and I had another 1.30 hrs to pass out the time. Already butterflies in my stomach and with a messed up mind, I decided to put my favorite music on and decided to take a walk on the famous “Vegas strip” and boy what a walk it was….!!            

Vegas:- the most happening place in this world, was suddenly a very silent place for me, as the music in my ears was kind of a collection slow and soothing songs. After turning on my music I did nothing I just observed the glittering hotels, saw people gambling on the streets, some were shouting in joy while some were shouting in agony, there were entertainers who did some antics to earn their living, there were some musicians and some music band playing a genre of music, which I wasn’t familiar with. I had a camera in my hand and earphones in my ears, I started clicking photographs of these hotels, of the people on the streets and everything around me.

A cold breeze blew past my hair, giving me a soothing feeling and I didn’t stop to click pictures and observe people around me and suddenly when I analyzed my photographs and my observations and concluded that there were people who were losing their money in gambling, there were poor people who were doing some joker antics for their living, etc, but one thing common in them was, they all had a smile on their face and actually seemed happy and they made me think that they all are going through much much bigger problems in their lives than what I am going through, still they are smiling and finding their solutions in the lap of nature. Suddenly all the messy things that were running in my mind which needed an answer were answered, suddenly by this observations I founded answer to all my questions and actually found out that all the answers were actually deep buried inside me, the only thing was I had to find it.

My aim of sharing my experience is only one thing that no matter how the big problem is, the solution lies inside you. The only thing is you need to find these solutions and for finding these solutions sometimes you need to just take your mind off your day to day schedule and take a walk with your favorite music on, on a silent path, a road that is very close to nature, or sit in your balcony and observe the traffic aimlessly or do something that will bring out your true self and not the person which is working aimlessly in day to day life and u will find the solutions which are hiding somewhere inside you. I will end my 2^nd article on this statement “You are the solution to all your problems”

With Love & Regards,

Purvil

My wicked observation in the process of making my blog...!!

Hey friends,

                     Finally the day arrived, the day when I finally started my blog. The thought of making up a blog was revolving in my head since the past 2 yrs. But the lazy attitude in me never really allowed me to put up an effort. But finally here I am posting my 1st article and it feels gr8..:) .  I could have made my blog before 2 yrs or so, but the only obstruction was, the topic and content of the blog and the public interest, that what should I post so that I get the love and support to continue writing and so I went through many blogs and observed that people made blogs on the topic they were good at, some people made on some gadgets stuff, some had their collections of poetries etc. The thing I concluded that if I want to put up a blog, I need to find that one topic that I was best at and it took me 2 yrs to find that and finally I concluded that I was only good at writing the tiny miny observations I make in our day to day life which we often neglect. So I decided this is it, finally the right time has arrived. So to make this blog first and foremost went through Google in order to understand the process of making a blog and to my surprise the process was a split second process and took me just minutes to make up the blog as I had all the ideas and names in my mind and then I concluded that making a blog is not difficult but to maintain is the most important thing and in order to maintain it, you should know how to express yourself which I am still learning and will learn till the day I take my last breath. 


The main aim of mine to write about this process was as I mentioned that it took me 2 yrs to find out what I was good at, except for some particular favorite subject in short in extracurricular and I was taken by surprise that are we so much into the cramming stuff and so busy in our monotonous routine that we actually need to take off our mind from all the day to day stuff and find ourselves which we have lost in this fast running crowd.

That is why it is necessary to take necessary breaks at regular time intervals and find ourselves and no wonder in this fast life when someone asks us how well do u know yourself, we would gladly answer 100%, but is it the reality ?? ask your heart and you will get your answer. On this note I will bring an end to my 1^st article and hope to receive some love and support for my writings. I will end my 1^st writing with this question how well do you know yourself??

With Love & Regards,

Purvil