A normal day in Summer 2002

It's 2002, i don't know why, there is no specific reason I'm fond of Summer season. Maybe because of the summer holidays i get or that's the only time I play chess with my dad or mom prepares a variety of eatables that i can eat for the whole summer or playing with my friends from dawn till dusk without experiencing tiredness. Even now, not having all the above luxury , beautiful summer brings me a sense of freedom, calmness and the feeling that I'm alive.

In those beautiful days, during summer holidays you sleep late(12am) and wake up early(6am) with the same energy as Goku has in dragon ball z. But now, out of 8hrs sleep if you lose 30 mins, you are done for the day. Your mind and body go crazy. This is the only time mom encourages you to have more sleep so that you won't be a hindrance in her morning routine. When you wake up and come out of the bedroom , first thing  you will be seeing is your dad reading newspaper in the hall. With one eye closed, you just go and sit near him. Suddenly you bring all your energy in opening the another eye to search for the remote. That's the point your dad hand over you the two sheets of newspaper to read. That's how I started the habit of reading. Reading starts in the sports page and ends in the same page.

In schools, your class teacher rarely bothers you, if you submit your assignments regularly on time. Like that, your parents never bother you if you have your breakfast, lunch and dinner on time. If you try to skip any of these or not having them on time then you are done. If anything goes wrong , mom will correlate the incident with the skipped meals incident. Eg., Mistakenly if I drop my mobile phone, mom will say "See you don't even has the strength to hold your mobilephone". So, never ever skip or avoid your meal.

At 9.00am, you hear your friends calling your name. All ready with the bats, stumps and cricket balls. Everyone have their own bicycle. My bicycle name is "Ambush". Dark brown color, sport model. Minimum 3 and maxmimum 4 can sit. I got this as a result of losing an another bicycle. Match at 9.30, against our school senior batch, we are short of 3 players. This is a weekly routine. Our team always short of players. But somehow we arrange 3 more players by 10am. Match starts , mostly we win sometimes senior wins. 

Those were the days showered in sun rays with the temperature of 33℃. Those we the days, fetch and drink water from any source nothing happens, fall anywhere nothing happen, eat anything nothing happens, bath anywhere nothing happens, speak anything nothing happens. Basically nothing happens. You just have sit in the flow, you will be carried like a leaf fallen into the river.

TO BE CONTINUED...

The Way

Note: I'm too lazy to do the proof reading. Bare with me for the grammatical or spelling mistakes

Many of us never notices the series similar events which happen in our daily life. When we sit and rewind all the events which happened in a specific time period, they convey something. Something which we never thought about it or we see them in a different perspective for quite sometime without realising what kind of perspective it is. One of my favourite professors relate the rule of 1/3rd with almost everything. I totally agree with the rule when it applied on anything or anyone. I always reluctant to agree whenever I applies on me. 1/3rd of the people like me 1/3rd don't and the remaining 1/3 are in-between(sometimes they do like me /sometimes they dont) Where on this why the 1/3rd of the people don't like. I have not done anything to them, i have not disturbed them then why?? My brain always curious to know. Till now it hasn't got the answer.

This bloody brain never wanted to know why 1/3rd like me. It makes it's own assumptions and happy with it. So that, it never has to accept that a set of real people don't like me. It always tries to be in the fairy tale world. 

It's in our DNA, to search of something which is beyond our understanding. We force ourselves to understand everything. If we couldn't , we make assumptions and put a pull stop. The assumptions which we make for the things which don't understand going to create a big impact in our actions. The way we deal with people, making decisions and react to a situation. 

I moved to a new town. It's been 2 months. Daily i have my lunch in a small place which is run by a couple in their 50s. I guess. This is only place they serve food that fills my stomach and the place where I get a free smile from the couple. I never spoken to them till now since day 1. I don't know why. It's weird know. All transactions will happen in sign languages. Only thing I didn't like about that guy in the beginning days, along with sambar he gave lots of vegetables. I don't eat vegetables in sambar. Like i said , we miss to notice the series of similar events happening in our life. One day i was standing in the queue to collect the food, i noticed that, he never gives vegetables to anyone. I started noticing everyday, he does the same. You know, whenever someone likes you , your brain never questions. I have a similar experience with a lady who sells coconut water along with her husband. Here she talks a lot to me. Usually her husband cuts coconut for everyone. When i go there, she snatch the sickle from his hand and starts cutting the coconut. She knows what kind of coconut i like and he shouts at his husband whenever he tries to give a plactic straw. She knows i m the only one customer who drinks coconut by tilting it without a straw. I always get a free coconut in the end. Initially i thought, its a business trick. Really people do all the gimmicks  for 30 bucks? I doubt 

Another incident, totally in the opposite horizon of the above incidents. I joined a new office, it's been 3 months. One my colleague does not like me. That's it. No explanation. See, how my brain functions. It's hard for it to accept someone don't like me. 

The point here is, people like/dislike people for no reasons. No need of trying to understand the reasons for the like or dislike. Just accept it. Feel those contrasting emotions. If like/dislike comes with a reason, then it will fade away. There will be some reasons will come to challenge the existing like/dislike. Always try to understand the way of their expression, whether it is love , hatred, gratitude or contempt. Once we understand the way others express things, your brain can't trick you with something.

Stars Never Stop Shining So Do You

One day

We met 

We smiled

We fought

We spoke

We kissed

We fell in love

We cared

We made love

We met parents

We met friends

We stayed together

We cooked

We played

We traveled

We walked holding hands

We planned for future

You said now

I said need time

We fought

We cried

We were in pain

No words exchanged

Neither of us was happy

Neither of us wanted to leave

We kept breaking one another 

And calling it love

We began with honesty

Let us end in the same way

We don't try to find a reason

Why we broke

We reminiscence our memories

Though we broke

Our love is eternal

He, She and Salsa

Hold me till the rain stops
Be my shadow when I'm alone
I feel lonely when it's dark
Don't know from where i got these feelings
We had the longest conversation
We had the longest silence
We had the longest laugh
We had the longest cry
Reminiscence our old memories
Led to my soul discoveries
Say something to my eyes
In the end its your choice
You're the beginning, you're the end
You're the only flower blossom in my land
You're the rain , you're the pain
Make my life shine
When you dance, when you glance
I fly to trance
Thank you salsa

-RamanathanS

YOU

You are the one I can see even in closed eyes
You are the one who smiles for all my lies
Things change in the world
When you touch me I never feel the cold
Stay with me till the moon lands
Walk with me by holding my hands

You are the one I can see even in closed eyes
You are the one who smiles for all my lies
Remember those eyes which looked me last
That moment made me frost
All the dramas ended on that Sunday
I made my mind not to play

You are the one I can see even in closed eyes
You are the one who smiles for all my lies
Still I talk to you
Still I roam with you
Still I dance with you
In virtual dreams, in virtual worlds

You are the one I can see even in closed eyes
You are the one who smiles for all my lies