random crap

- everyone is busy. most people are busy working towards the goals set in life or something they want in the immediate or not so immediate future. people are motivated to achieve something in life, they have goals and are working towards those goals with more or less passion. everyone is immersed in something or the other most of the time. hmmm...

- i don't seem to be passionate about anything in life, have no set goals, no real direction, haven't yet found out what i would really like to do with my life. but don't mind doing what i am doing right now - things are fine by me, life seems to going along quite smoothly. but...

- believe everything in life is a question of balance - balance leads to harmony and harmony leads to peace. one needs to have a balance in everything - work, rest, play, effort, service, passion, relationships, materialism, spiritualism, ...

- smoking seems to be akin to alone time for me. there's just me, the cig, the breath and the smoke... now people who know will say - surely you are joking, how can you possibly need any more alone time - to them i say that with a cig its different.

- think we all knowingly or unknowingly put on a mask in front of people. its something that comes very naturally to us, we don't even have to think about it - we behave differently in company of different people. so this makes me conclude that our most natural, unmasked, original self comes out when we are alone. that is the face behind the mask. also the "thinner" the mask we put on with someone, the more closer we are with them. our ideal or real friend would be someone with whom the mask is almost not there, ie someone with whom we are comfortable enough to be just ourself...

- you can learn a lot about people - their lives, cultures, habits, likes, dislikes, possible idiocyncracies, etc. - from the movies. movies can also teach you a lot about life itself...

- music can provide you with something to go along for any kind of mood you are in. its like the perfect company - you don't have to put on a mask with it, you can just be yourself. it has something for every state of mind. sometimes even silence can be like music to your ears...

- this is all one needs to get through life: the strength to change the things one can, the courage to face the things one can't and the wisdom to know the difference...

- most people have a certain goal or aim in life. that is akin to having a destination, ie they want to go to a certain place. in other words they are not really happy where they are standing right now, otherwise why would want to move from that place. now when you want to go to a certain place, you try to go in that particular direction. you may get lost, wander around a bit, find obstacles in your path etc. but if you have no specific place to go to, then you are never lost. you are exactly where you want to be at all times, because you are perfectly content being where you are. but then again, you would never come to know the joy that one feels when one does manage to reach the destination. and harder the path one has had enroute the more joy one feels at the end. but how many of us are able to reach that destination in life. there are so many things that are not in our hands, all the things thrown at us in our path influence us a lot. so i guess the ideal thing would be is to have a general idea of our destination, and not have a very specific destination point and also be flexible enough to change the goal as and when circumstances dictate. and always have a broad sense of the direction you are headed...

- ultimately all i've said in the previous paragraph doesn't make any sense to me too. i have no satisfactory answers to life's questions. but i do think that if we stop trying to make sense of life, stop trying to find all the answers we'd be better off in lots of respects. but then again...