Photographs: Windows to a soulful past

We were not very financially capable but still, since my birth they gave me those photographs as a memory for me to look upon my past.

"You want to know how your first Birthday was celebrated?", said my Mom before placing those beautiful pictures of mine with my family in front of me.

As I grew up I don't know how my maternal uncles got hold of a camera (that old one, which needed a reel to work). They must have bought it borrowing some amount from here and there. And all this happened just to capture my childhood for I was the newest and first little member in their family. From the age that I remember ( may be I was as young as 6-7 years of age) those photographs were the only time when they all used to come up together and pose, the cutest family ever. One of my Uncles was so fond of clicking photographs and even get it clicked that he used to wear all sorts of stylish  (self-made) accessories and even spectacles for that matter before getting a picture clicked. I still remember his funny and yet adorable clicks.

And how I remember such minute details of a time nearly 15 years back? Through those photographs that my family left for me to relive my past. The time I look at any one of them, you will find me lost in imagining the previous and the later scenes of that moment that was lying captured in front of me. I sort of relive that moment with all of them in the same ambiance that existed in my village 15 years back, the ambiance which is lost somewhere in wake of modernization and industrialization. That joint family which is no more "joint" for people were to leave for work and got settled in different cities of the country. So the only way to feel the presence of my loved ones "always" around me at this point of time is by hopping into my past through these pictures.

Understanding this from my kid-hood I developed a habit of capturing every moment of mine in my phone's camera right from the day I received a phone from my Dad (that was the day I joined my Graduation). Then I met the best self-chosen relationship of life, that is, Friends. I somewhere knew that we tend to loose these gems in the run of life as we go ahead, hence I never missed grasping any special moment of our lives in my camera. Those pearls (I do not have enough words to denote them, every adjective is incomplete) are my life. This is not an adolescent attachment towards friends, but my sincere love and gratefulness towards them. This love and belongingness overflows from the photographs that we have, it depicts our journey to the most difficult phase of life.

Today we are far away from each other, in different corners of the country but still our journey is jailed in my laptop and in my heart.

If you love someone, these photographs would help to keep them in your memories even when they are not by your side every time. Memories are precious. Ask me, they have served me happiness several times!

This beautiful life surely needs a window to re-visit and relive our soulful past!

Introspect !

Sometimes I just feel that I want to go into a phase of stagnation, leaving all the dynamics of life behind.

Sometimes I want time to stop at its place for me so that I am able to stop worrying about past, present and future.

Life will become a burden if it stops anyhow because its beauty lies in it being dynamic, ever changing with new dimensions every moment. But still being a Homo Sapien heart demands peace, love, care, (list is endless) and if anyhow it gets all these things then it do not want to move on leaving it aside.

Life is a struggle for us to achieve something, which is called "Success" in simpler terms, success with respect to material things like money, fame, position and even abstract things like Love, relationships etc.

If I look upon my days, I spend it doing something, not always fruitful.

Then I want to ask a few questions.

Do we have to do fruitful things things every time?

Is it a pre-condition to success?

Or a pre-condition to attain satisfaction?

Well, I don't have exact answers of all these questions. But I think our mind will wear out if I stress it out with the burden of doing only things which going to yield me something. Don't be so selfish with respect to your own body! Selfish, to risk your health for obtaining or achieving something every time.

I am talking generally about the things which are in our framework and control.

All of our planning go in vain automatically with respect of things like Fatal disease or Death.

There is nothing we can do to prevent this kind of terrifying situations and who wants to loose people around them anyhow? Hence I want this time to cease here at this moment.

Just Pause for a moment or two and introspect. Look upon your life and make sure you are not wasting it just for your achievements and who knows you do not even live to enjoy the fruits of your hard work!

A Beginning

If I have to define life I can do so in two words, "A Dynamic Struggle".

Why?

I think I have just began living life with my own thinking and perception and the first thing which I realised is that there must be a Goal in one's life for something called inner satisfaction. And your aim can be only that thing which you enjoy and when you are engaged in that action you submerge yourself completely into it.

Moving ahead, To realize a dream you need to follow your will. Hard Work plays an important role here. And as you move towards accomplishment of your aim do not give up till the end.

(You can say that I am inspired by Paulo Coelho)

People like me face a lot of difficulty in finding out what we enjoy the most. But once we are convinced that a particular thing is our passion, just give it your everything.

Life has various phases, be it joy or sadness, struggle or smoothness, daylight or darkness, see to it that you never slip away from your path.

Actually you can give any definition to life. This is mine!