A walk to remember

If feel that the time spent in the wilderness is the best time in one's life! A person might feel more secure and definitely more comfortable sitting beneath a fan in his living room or in an air-conditioned environment in his car, but the true and pure feeling of happiness originates from the scent of the weeds and smell of the dampness in a forest!
Even now when there are too less forests left and too many cities, the tranquility and serenity of the woods attract the wild being that sleeps in us 'like a bear, waiting for the summer to arrive in order to walk again'... yeah...okay...  read this in a poem somewhere!
People now-a-days are too concerned about their health so they refrain from what they call dirt, mud, grass, weed ( the real one! No drug abuse intended) and such things and still they require vitamin pills, calcium tabs, energy caps, and such crap!
I believe that if a person had too be healthy, he would refrain from gelatin pills rather than twigs!
Its in the wild that wee feel free, we feel out-of-the-chains and we feel 'ourselves'!
Now why do I suddenly get writing about forests and trees? That's because I, along with some of my friends went to a temple on the top of a hill close to our town, called 'Syahi-devi'!
Now its a mile and some to climb to reach the top after an hour long car journey and tell you what... Its amazing!
Despite the fact that I was mostly puking on my was to the spot (Due to the hideous, treacherous, 'beep' 'bee' 'censored' 'censored' songs played in the car by the driver!), I clicked a million photographs on my way up, got lost, ran in the fear of being chased by a leopard, shouted a lot, fell tired and ultimately met my friends! All this in a mile long climb! Phew!
It was I, Pankaj, Bharat, Anshul( the holy son of god... if you've been reading my earlier posts!), Gaurav, Cdt. Dishant, and Akash, who ventured to reach the top of the hill. But we did a lot more than simple soporific and tedious climbing... we wreaked havoc in the hills!
To be honest, it indeed was mostly a rough climb to the top with little incidents like Dishant holding a snake in his hand and me almost being lost... well it doesn't really matter now, does it?
Then we tried to eat some noodles cooked like rice with some sauce that smelled like turpentine oil but was probably nothing but stale vinegar! But before all this we prayed in the temple... for general things that everybody else prays about!
But the actual fun of the trip was on the way down. We halted in a clearing and decided to play hide and seek in the forest we knew nothing about, which probably had a few leopards and with no signs of civilization for about half a mile! But that is what life is all about!
We fell
and we rose, we jumped and crashed( really badly!) we brushed our wounds and played again all this we did despite all the calls from our driver who was getting late!
After an hour of playing we got tired and sent Gaurav ( alone!) all the way to the top of the hill to fetch some water!
After all the fun we had in the wild, I was getting late, and frankly we didn't want to be eaten by the surely frustrated leopards of the forest, so we descended from the hill to the spot where the car and the really crabbed driver!
I might not have gone many places but this was surely one 'heaven' of a trip!

The necessary Immobility!

India is a country of diversity in every aspect of life! Be it festivals or attire, our country is a way apart, there are millions of colors, millions of people and yes, millions of mobile devices! Mobile has now become a part of every household. A device that was very exclusive in the last decade has now become the new revolution! 
There are bureaucrats, doctors, engineers, shopkeepers, housewives, small children, punks, drunkards, drivers, policemen and many many more... each with one hand in their pockets and the other stuck to their ear using a mobile. A mobile is, to be precise, a device that makes you immobile! 
Yeah! It is... i'll tell you how!
See, earlier you used to wake up and shut down the alarm clock, now this (you might not have noticed) required great deal of hard-work... now you just touch the screen and the alarm turns off. WHO THE HELL wakes up after that! Not just this, the alarm tune is something like 'While my guitar gently weeps'... That make you even sleepier!
Apart from that, earlier there was computer to check you mail, Walkman to listen to music, A watch to see the time, a calender to look up the date, and something called a dictionary (People haven't started calling it "GOO"ctionary only because it looks rather crude!).
And to get to all these darn things, you had to walk. And then you lost the calories. And then you stayed healthy.
But all that you find written beneath 'Health' in Wikipedia are terms like 'Non-living', 'organisations' and stuff like that when you search it... oops... 'google' it!
Talking of health, I see in newspapers every other day, reports claiming,
Mobiles fuel Heart attacks, brain dysfunction, liver failure, kidney failure and many more things!
But still mobiles are growing and so are diseases!
You know what this means..." MOBILE IS AN EPIDEMIC! "
You can't keep it in your breast pocket... cause your heart will fail and you will die!
You can't keep it in your back pocket... cause your back will be burned will fail and you will die!
You can't keep it in your frond pant pocket pocket... cause your kidneys will fail and you will die (or get impotent... in case of any other scenario)!
So you are necessarily dead and should stop worrying about insurance policies because you'll end up giving all your money to your children who'll probably buy costly mobiles out of what they get!
I wanted to write a little more, but since I've got a call on my cellphone... maybe I'll write later!

Walking along the freeway of life...

I've never been quite interested in the mysteries of life. For me life has mostly been a random set of riddles... sometimes I am able to fathom them and sometimes I am not, but still, I realize something, mostly I am not able to comprehend why, in the name of sonny jesus, am I solving those freaking puzzles in the first place!
I guess this is the story with most of us who think life is almost as simple as a pie, but mostly we don't understand what has got into making the pie so simple!
Now since I don't like to talk of serious matters to the readers, I usually resort to simple means to convey my actual story!
What I need to talk to you about today is actually a question that i've never actually been able to understand all through my life.


What the hell am I doing here!?


Okay guys, its not that simple. I not here to earn a living. To get married. To have children. To have a house. And frankly, to die!
If death had been the motive of our birth, we wouldn't have born in the first place! There would have been no light bulb had Edison thought that the end result would be it fusing up!
There are many reasons behind us humans all being born with a certain purpose. The first, and most evident, reason would be our frustration at doing certain things. Had we all been machines, all built to do the all the same things, we would have done all the things with the same sense of joy! It wouldn't have been like us having a face of a troll while painting the yard, but since it is, we must conclude that we all are different and built for different purposes!
I've come to think of all this crap today out of no particular reason. I just wanted to write something that was indeed of some use! i guess I can't write useful stuff longer than this, because I realize that things run out of their usefulness when they get boring... look at the comedy shows on Indian television!