Gone are the days.....

This morning when I was surfing the net, I visited a YouTube page showing our old Doordarshan logo being formed slowly, and in related videos many clips of old doordarshan time. This made me remember those days, when there were no mobile, laptops, ipods or ipads, and life was more exciting and still calm and relaxing.


On the same subject some one sent me following words in mail, which I would like to share with you. Hope you will enjoy it.-

Take time to read it patiently, feeling each line, its amazing......

Gone are the days......

 

When the school reopened in June,

And we settled in our new desks and benches.

When we queued up in book depot,

And got our new books and notes.

When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet

Managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.

We learned writing with slates and pencils, and

Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and then micro tips.

  

We began drawing with crayons and evolved to

Color pencils and finally sketch pens.

We started calculating first with tables and then with

Log tables and advanced to calculators and computers.

When we chased one another in the corridors in

Intervals, and returned to the classrooms drenched in sweat.

When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors,

Playgrounds, under the trees and even in cycle shed.

When all the colors in the world,

Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays.

When a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,

Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons.

When cricket was played with writing pads as bats,

And Neckties and socks rolled into balls.

When few played "kabadi" and "Kho-Kho" in scorching sun,

While others simply played "book cricket" in the confines of classroom.

Of fights but no conspiracies,

Of Competitions but seldom jealousy.

When we used to watch Live Cricket telecast,

In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks.

When few rushed at 1:45 to "Conquer" window seats in our School bus.

While few others had "Big Fun", "Chock-o-bar","kulfi ice" and "Pepsi"

At 2:00 Clock.

Gone are the days Of Sports Day, and the annual School Day,

And the one-month long preparations for them.

Gone are the days Of the stressful Quarterly,

Half Yearly and Annual Exams, And the most enjoyed holidays after them.

Of tenth and twelfth standards, when we Spent almost the whole year

Writing revision tests.

We learnt, we enjoyed, we played, we won, we lost,

We laughed, we cried, we fought, we thought.

With so much fun in them, so many friends,

So much experience, all this and more.

Gone are the days when we used to talk for hours with our friends.

Now we don't have time to say a HI.

Gone are the days when we played games on the road.

  

Now we code on the road with laptop.

Gone are the days when we saw stars shining at night.

Now we see stars when our code doesn't work.

Gone are the days when we sat to chat with friends on grounds.

Now we chat in chat rooms.....

Gone are the days where we studied just to pass.

Now we study to save our job

Gone are the days where we had no money in our pockets

and fun filled on our hearts

Now we have the ATM as well as credit card but with an empty heart

Gone are the days where we shouted on the road.

Now we don t shout even at home

Gone are the days where we got lectures from all.

Now we give lectures to all... like the one I'm doing now....

Gone are the days

But not the memories, which will be

Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and Ever and ever and

Ever.....

No matter how busy you are,
Don't forget to live the life that still exists.
It wont be there for ever.'

Yours sincerely




Saurabh

Life is like a Pineapple

Today I bought a pineapple. Of course I have had this fruit many times and I like it, it tastes good and is an excellent source of manganese and Vitamin-C, but today I tried cutting it myself for the first time. 

As expected, it was really difficult (for me) to peal this tasty fruit properly. I found that it is almost impossible to separate the prickly fiber from delicious soft edible part, more I tried to separate prickly part, more I lose sweet edible part and finally I had to eat some prickly fiber along with the sweet fruit. Also, the fruit closest to the prickly part is sweetest.

This pineapple actually gives us an insight about our life. As sweet part cannot be separated from prickly part of pineapple, similarly in our life the good part, our happiness, enjoyment, amusement, cannot be separated from its hardships, failures (life's prickly part) and sorrows. And when we are going through a hardship, it also means the sweetest fruit (our happiness) will be lying next to it. The more hardships we have more will be happiness. The good parts mostly come with something we do not like, for example Morning Jog for a healthy body, day and night study for that one exam and so on. But if we learn how to deal with the bad part, we can really enjoy the fruit of life.

This is applicable on our relationships too in most cases, there are always some characteristics/habits of our loved ones which we do not like and we want to remove those disliked characteristics and change  the person to all good (for us). And no one is actually always all sweet. Like pineapple, if we keep trying to separate the bad part from good, we might end up losing all the good part too.

So whenever you are not happy, facing a hardship, think of pineapple. And when your close one is sometimes not behaving as you like, think of it as the prickly part, which will definitely be surrounded by the sweet fruit, the things you like.

Wish you all happy eating and happy living.  :)