“A physician buries his mistakes, a dentist pulls them out!"

If anyone were to ask me which is the place where people suffer from nervous breakdown or apprehension,I should be inclined to answer 'A dentist's waiting-room'.
There are all classes of people meet and very few of them look forward to what they have to go through without some qualm or shuddering. If you ask a dentist he will tell u that even the bravest of soldiers express the same amount of dreading when he is asked to sit in the moveable chair and open his mouth.
That waiting room may be comfortably furnished and bright with books and lovely pictures of hot females smiling and showing off their magnificent set of teeths,not to mention their glossy breth-taking lips yet such things make little appeal to u for ur preoccupied with anticipated pain agaisnt which you have no armour to defend urself,but to advance forth,like a lamb to the slaughter.
The atmosphere in the room apart from the previously mentioned hot chics with breath-taking lips is not much enthusiastic,its low,dull and blue.There may be a lttle boy with a swollen cheek which shows the tracemarks of dried tears,moaning and groaning as the dull tootache escalates into pain less bearable,or there may be an old man in his 70's accompained by his more inquisitive wife striking a rapid fire-like conversation with the swollen cheek's mother as the swollen cheek stares at their faces cluelessly,or there may be two old spinster sisters in their girly pink dresses one giving 'dutch courage' to the other while keeping a tight hold on her hand to make sure she does not take a grand escape in case her courage parts her.
As u sit there,u wish u had never come,and blame urself for all those million instances when u had all those yummy chocolates inspite of regular alrming warnings from ur mum. You hear the clock ticking away,occasionally you hear a drill machine like screeeching sound which gives u goosebumps and then again the breath-taking lips come to ur rescue! ( God bless those females,may they never have to visit the very place the are now posing their smiles for!)
As just ur thought comes to an end,the door to the dentists sanctuary opens,a strange sharp smell of medicines and antiseptics float into the room and u catch a glimpse of the washbasin and a table with shining instruments in readiness for the evil deed.The detist makes his appearance and u feel like a child who is asked by his teacher to solve a tedious math problem all of a sudden in the middle of a class!
However for ur suprise he calls out for the old man and you give a sugh of relief for the little respite granted to you!
The old man comes out with shining glowing teeths the reflection of which can be best seen on his old lady's face as her face glows when she notices her love in a shining not armour but teetharmour instead! ;)
The glow on the old lady's face however cannot lighten ur face which is now pale and apprehensive.You enter the room with knocking knees and quaking heart. But to and behold even before you are aware of it the traunt tooth is out.
What a relief!!!

And then u discover the irony of the entire situation..which is that
'it is in the WAITING ROOM that people suffer the agony of anticipated pain and not inside the goodman's den!

So the next time u visit ur dentists just avoid the trauma of the 'WAITING ROOM'
what?? oh..u worried about those hot chics on the wall??..'oh cmon dude u having will be having ur own sets of pearlies right soon'

cheers!!!

Happiness...

Very often it happens that we use few words so frequently and easily in our day to day life least knowing the fact that there are so many deep feelings that can be culled from these profound words.

Happiness for instance is one of them, for me completely defining the word happiness and unfolding its universal and ultimate meaning would in itself be the happiest moment I guess!

Every individual has his own concept of happiness; it’s therefore a highly individual thing.


Happiness an Illusion:
There are few individuals for whom Sense of happiness is just an illusion...as everything else in life.

This reminds me of a Marathi song which was a part of a famous play. It goes as follows:

Khara sanga sukh mhanje nakki kaay asta?
(tell me the truth, what do u exactly mean by happiness?)

Te kaay asta je ghar baslya milta?
( Is it soemthing which u get just by sitting at home?

Sukh mhanje dukhacha urelela gandha..
( Happiness is nothing but a feeling which persisits with us after sorrow)

Radta radta hasnyacha avdta chand..
( Its just a practise of smiling through your tears)

Manapakharu jagnya sathi asuslele asta..
( Our wandering mind is always craving to live in happiness)

Sukh mhanje mrugjal,sukh mhanje para,
(Happiness is a mirage,its like mercury u cant hold it in ur hands it justs runs off.)

Sukh mhanje shabd bapuda,sukh mhanje kewal vara..
(Happiness is just another word, its moves away as fast as wind)

Kuthlya shani muthimadhuni nistun jaat asta..
(happiness is like sand the harder u try to hold it the more quickly it slips from ur hand.)


This song always hits me when I meet or come in contact with people who consider happiness nothing more than an illusion.

For them happiness is unachievable not because they are weak or lame not to find it, but merely because something like happiness never exist for them. For them it’s just as any other feeling like noise, heat or cold which lasts only for a while and disappears. As the regular science goes that u can’t feel hot or cold as per ur wish similarly for these people u can’t feel happy as per ur wish, it’s something which u may feel or u may not. They are far away from analysing and discovering the aspects of happiness or ways to achieve it. They prefer flowing with life and experiencing what it gives them and forgetting it the very next moment.
They don’t go into deep realities or vast scienctific or philosophical reasonings regarding the pleasures of life. Ofcourse this nature of theirs may be natural or due to some bitter experiences they have faced previously.


Exploring happiness in the outside world:
Some individuals believe that happiness is something u don’t receive, it’s something u have to find and attain, this I think comes out of their propensity to explore beyond their own horizons.
They travel miles together in search of joy and happiness, they try to seek happiness in their surroundings, few of them try and extract happiness through their hobbies, few of them do the same by learning new things, others believe that if they could help others and make others happy through their kind deeds and words they will attain true happiness as my one of my friend rightly said.
These individuals strongly believe in the concept that ‘LIFE IS AN ECHO’;
Whatever u sow so shall u reap, they therefore always are kind and gentle in their approach to the outside world and helpful towards their fellow-men.
Many of them do receive what they hope for; they indeed are happy and contented with their life and in turn they are successful in changing lives of other people too in ofcourse a more better way.



Finding happiness from within one’s self:

While there are people as I have mentioned above there are few who make an desperate attempt to find happiness without depending on someone’s company or running helter skelter for it. They not nessciraly oppose the view point of the former category but they surely don’t believe in the concept of finding happiness in the outside world. They firmly believe that nothing and no one else can make you happy, that happiness only comes from within one’s self. I would like to mention here about a friend very close to me, she is a female who can survive in almost terrible conditions one could ever manage too and still when she is back she will tell you amazing stories about how she enjoyed her stay there in a place where a normal person would have been suffocated to death.
People like my friend are blessed with the ability to be happy in any weird conditions, this is only because they are happy from within,their soul helps them to see the best of every adverse situation and neglect the negativity.
These people achieve permanent bliss. Their truly happy soul flinches not in times of sorrow, nor does it surge with ecstasy in moments of joy. Theirs is a state of equanamous being, tranquil and joyful. Pain, pleasure, heat, cold, noise, silence all are same to them. They rejoice in the knowledge of the spirit and the contentment of everyday living.


A new insight on happiness when two ends meet:
Blessed are those people who are successful in their struggle to make these ends meet.

The best example one can cite here is of Siddhartha Gautama, he was born in the lap of luxury in the kingdom of Kapilavastu around 566 BC. Siddhartha enjoyed all the pleasures of life one would hope for while he grew up in his lavish palace, but soon he became disillusioned with his life and leaving behind his riches and loved ones he became a wandering monk and set out on his journey to explore the outside world in search of happiness and enlightment. (As our first category goes.)

For six years he practiced severe asceticism thinking this would lead him to enlightenment. But soon he realised that overdoing things can not lead to happiness. He sat under the Bodhi tree in deep meditation and came to the conclusion that in the ends of suffering alone lies happiness.
With this supreme wisdom of his was born Buddhism a religion which helps sentient beings, end suffering, achieve nirvana, and escape what is seen as a cycle of suffering and rebirth ultimately leading to true Happiness!
(very similar to the thought process of our latter category, that only when u get rid of negativity which comes from sufferings and start nurturing positivity is when u are happy from within)

The combined effect of these two extreme beliefs certainly leads to the insights of true happiness, wherein material comforts and luxuries are shed off and true happiness is seeked from within ultimately taking care of the interests of our own as well as our entire society.

Gone are those days...

gone are those days...
when in June the school re-opened
And with a smile we welcomed the rainy season,

when there were new shoes,new bags,new books,
And wen we stood curiously in those long curvy queues..

when the day began with "in the name father"
& ended with a chorus of "vande mataram" a tribute to our mother.

When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays,
And when thursday was awaited more than anything else.

Wen pens,slates,pencils & crayons were our valueable possesions,
And teachers wooden scale was a dangerous weapon!!

When we chased one another in the corridors in reccess.
And returned to the classrooms drenched in sweat.

When we had our tiffins,yet grabbed a vada-pav
And when sumone asked for a bite we wud say "chalo chalo aage jaao"!!

When we played cricket with writing pads as bats,
with papers,neckties and socks rolled into balls.

When we never knew our time-table chart,
But days we had our P.T period we knew byheart!

When we used to watch Live Cricket telecast in the adjacent houses,
And each wicket and six was followed by our noises!!

The little fights we had were soon forgotten,
The biggest mistakes were quickly forgiven.

Gone are the days of Sports Day, and the annual Day ,
And the long preparations for them all day..

Gone are the days of the stressful
Half Yearly and Annual Exams,
And the most apprehensive OPEN DAY..
Which was followed by our long holidays...

We learnt, we enjoyed, we played, we won, we lost,
We laughed, we cried, we fought, we thought.
Through out those years U were not just U,
And I was not just ME,
But it was always 'WE' !!

Gone are the days we will see them never..
But memories of that wonderful past will linger in our hearts forever & ever!!!!!