Seven Spiritual laws of Superheros

            I am reading this fantastic book..Isn't the name itself intriguing? I just saw this book in the library and immidietly picked it up.Could not resist!! This is a wonderful book by Deepak Chopra.
          Some people are just too creative..Almost all of us have read or followed some superhero movies/comics.I still remember those scenes from the indian serial "Shaktiman"!! But I never thought of superheros in this way!!It reminds me of a nice song by Sandip Khare, "Superman"..He tries to explore more about superman, his loneliness, concerns..Coming back to the topic, This book talks about seven laws that are common in all superheros.
           I have just finished reading the first law.The law of balance! I wont write much about it here.But trust me it is a good read..In the first law he talks about balance in life..Every positive side will have it's negative counteropart..Every Superhero has his own shadow.The darkness within him..It is upto him to make sure that the shadow does not win over him..I can go on writing about it..I am still trying to digest the first law..Lets see what is in the remaining laws..Will write more later..

Dallas with friends

Two of my friends visited dallas this weekend.Had a great time with them.It is very different feeling of going to same same places with different people.Had a lovely time..Had nice dinners especially as I was with the biggest foodie I know, we visited nice places..Had some serious talks..Feeling good..Sometimes you understand new things about the same people you already know..It was a nice weekend..

MAVS

            Be it any nation, people are very very passionate about games!! Like in India when there is an interesting cricket match, you can get your favorite place at your favorite restaurant!! There was an SMS during the world cup. If a guy asks you out on the day of some important match, marry him!!!
We are that crazy for the game of cricket!
           I think, here in Dallas, Its basketball for now! Throughout the season, people discuss game every where and today was the peak!! When Dallas Mavericks won the game last night, people went crazy, all the emails with crazy photos of celebration!! DART proudly displayed MAVS. Newspapers were filled by MAVS..Cheers MAVS!!Keep it up

काही अर्रेवा moments!!

            There is this term I keep using many times..Sometimes I have been into embarrassing situations because of this.But generally, they are great moments I want to remember..The famous अर्रेवा moment has been trademarked by sapna!! When she sees food, she says, "अर्रेवा खायला!!"

Last week I was in India, I had some fantastic अर्रेवा moments there..

Just listing few of them sequentially..

अर्रेवा India!!

पहिल्यांदा पोचल्यावरची excitement जरा वेगळीच असते!! 

अर्रेवा पुरणपोळी!!

पोचल्या पोचल्या पुरणपोळी!!

अर्रेवा गाडी!!

सकाळी सकाळी गाडीवर भटकायला खरंच काय मस्त वाटतं!!

अर्रेवा टेकडी!!

न बोललेलंच बरं..कारण टेकडीवर जे नेहमी जातात, त्यांना खूप दिवसांनी गेल्यावर काय वाटतं ते त्यांनाच कळेल!!

अर्रेवा पेपर!!

इ-पेपर ला पेपर ची सर कधीच नाही येणार ना...

अर्रेवा रिक्षा!!

अर्रेवा लक्ष्मी रोड (I have a very very special connection with Lakshmi Road!!)

अर्रेवा तुळशीबाग!!

रिक्षात बसणं, लक्ष्मी रोड वर फिरणं, तुळशीबागेत जाणं, खरेदी करणं!!

अर्रेवा TV!!

अरेवा सपनापरवेझ!!

त्या दोघांना भेटून इतकं भारी वाटला कि शब्दांमध्ये लिहिणा अशक्य आहे..

सपनाची treat..रात्री उशिरा पर्यंत मारलेल्या गप्पा!!सापनाचा मधेच झोपणं..

खरंच काही गोष्टी नाही बदलत..अगदी झोपायच्या जागा, गाडीत बसायच्या जागा सुद्धा!!

अर्रेवा गुडलक!!

गुडलक चा बन-मस्का आणि चहा..सोबत रागिणी आणि श्री असतील तर मज्जाच..

आणि इथे campus मध्ये भेटणारी सोनिया, गुडलक मध्ये भेटते..अर्रेवा!!

अर्रेवा  पाऊस!! 

दीपालीच्या लग्नाच्या दोन दिवस आधी इतका जोरात पाऊस पडला कि सुरुवातीचा अर्रेवा, बापरे मध्ये बदलला..त्यादिवशीचे सर्व कार्यक्रम विस्कळीत झाले..इतके कि आम्ही शंभर सव्वाशे लोक घरातच जेवलो!!

सगळे लिहित बसले, तर वाचायला सुद्धा कंटाळा येईल..

आयुष्य

चाललाय प्रवास..

कुठे कोणत्या दिशेने किती वेगाने..

कदाचित गणित नसेल मांडलेलं..

पण गणित मांडलं नाही म्हणून प्रवास चुकत नाही..

समोरच काही दिसत नाही म्हणून थांबता येत नाही..

गणित मांडाव म्हणतात..

म्हणजे मिळेल एक दिशा..

पण सगळेच parameters आधीपासून माहित असत नाही..

constants सुद्धा कधी variables होतील सांगता येत नाही..

statistics चे theorems मग आठवतात..

Random variables सुचायला लागतात..

शिकालेले सगळीच तत्वं लागू होतीलच असं नाही..

theorems/ exceptions सगळं मांडू शकतील असंही नाही..

निर्णय सुद्धा घ्यावे लागतात..

कधी खूप सोपे तर कधी अगदी कठोर..

decision making ची तत्वं लागू होतातच असं नाही..

पण म्हणून निर्णय घेणारच नाही असही करता येत नाही..

आयुष्य fair नाहीये..

हे काही बरोबर नाहीये..

प्रत्येक वेळी गोष्टी logical असतील असं नाही..

पण म्हणून त्या चुकीच्या असतील असंही नाही..

माझा वेग ताशी सत्तर..

मला लागतील तास दोन..

रस्ता सरळ असेलंच  ह्याची हमी नाही..

मजा सरळ रस्त्यावरच येते असं तर त्याहून नाही..

खूप झालं आता कंटाळा आला..

काय हे मी कुठे पोचतही नाहीये..

अर्ध्यात प्रवास सोडता येईलच असं नाही..

पण उरलेला प्रवास पूर्ण होईल असंही नाही..

खरच म्हटलंय कुणीतरी..

हा प्रवास आहे अज्ञाताकडे..

लांबचा पल्ला गाठायचा म्हणून धावूनही चालत नाही..

बरंच पुढे आलो म्हणून थांबूनही चालत नाही..

Sunday filled with dreams

Truly had a sunday filled with dreams!! 
Firstly, Today both my favorite authors posted about "dreams" on their walls..What a great start for Sunday morning. Early in the morning, Robin Sharma wrote 
"i just thought this and wanted to share it immediately with you: if we were living our dreams, we wouldn't have any dreams. And where's the fun in that? What do you think?"
and I started thinking. This is a very different perspective to look at dreams. It is human nature to chase something new, once we get whatever we want. Sometimes we do not even realize that we have achieved the goal as till then we are running behind a new goal. Aren't we forgetting to celebrate that small win? 


Then after some time, Paulo Coelho posted in his Sunday reading about "killing our dreams".. Completely contradictory ideas on one single Sunday morning. He discussed three symptoms of killing dreams..
1. Lack of time : Busiest people have enough time to do everything!!
2. Certainties : We don't see life as adventure.
3. Peace : leaving life like sunday afternoon..


As we all are aware of Paulo Coelho's style of artistic style of writing, it will be a good read. Here is the link.
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2010/07/31/3-min-reading-killing-your-dreams/


Now the third dream thing of the day,
My friend called and shared his dreams with me!! 


The fourth dream thing
I was walking to the pool, and somebody was listening to a nice song "Dreams come true, they do!!"


WOW!! Had a great dreamy Sunday.. At the end of the day I am completely into the DREAM MODE!!

APPEARANCE

          The title seem vague right? Today I went for a very long walk with a dear friend of mine. While walking we were discussing certain issues related to our lives. She has a very unique attitude towards life. I don't remember how, but the topic of appearance came up!! We were discussing about people and their first judgement through a photograph..
           I totally feel that if you are judging a person just by the way he/she looks, you are making a mistake. I know the face/eyes depict certain characteristics like decency, but not always!! What if the person who took the photograph, couldn't do a good job??
          Then she gave me an example of a book. Unless the cover or name is not attractive, you won't even go closer to that book. Then you read the back page. Then you decide whether you want to or not want to buy it.You might not even like the book once you start reading, but atleast you started the reading with the book!
          The discussion then lead to marketing, packaging and stuff. I remember a friend of mine always says, "Its all about packaging". I do not agree with him at all. Its not about packaging always, I won't deny that that there is a certain amount of packaging or presentation necessary. But it is not the only packaging.
My mother always says, it is very important that you serve well, whatever you have cooked.But that is not the only important thing. Serving is beautifully is important but that does not mean that you can cook anything. The food needs to be delicious.
           Back to the discussion of the walk. My friend then told me about how her cousin lost a lot of weight to get married. It is a harsh reality that people still give first preference to the looks!! I don't understand how does one base a decision on just looks. Isn't marriage about meeting your soulmate?
I still strongly feel that even we, "the educated people" need to think about it. I am not saying packaging or presentation is important, rather people who know me well will surely say that I will be the one to look into presentation details! What my point is lets not get carried by the presentation, and lets look inside. Lets look deeper..