Sunday 15 May 2016

Managing the Mysterious Melancholy

          Well, how can melancholy be mysterious? Actually, why can't it be? Okay, so how to obviate the risks of depression? Indeed mysterious happenings do occur with myriad interrogations.
 
           Depression, true to its meaning of suppressing or lowering something down, does the same with your feelings. Yeah, for a difference, it presses down your hopes and optimism making your heart conducive for a breakdown.Contrary to the actual meteorological context, depression makes your heart to become a low hope region and high blood pressure region. Finally, depression drops you in a station of despondency with no interconnecting transport for you to escape.

          But how do you thrive this melancholy and rise back? Can you just stay stagnant at the station? Don't you have to pick your strength and courage and run away from depressing moments? Being static should never be an option as it will hinder your limpid thoughts and put you into disinterestedness forever. One must put in the effort to swim across the pool of depression by doing bold strokes and laugh back at you doleful demons.

          Divert your thinking, channel your ideas and keep yourself busy to beat the depressing devil. Pour your heart out to someone close, do something that interests you and seek happiness in small things. Never let your feelings to become high tides but just keep them waltzing so that your heart feels light. Stay strong and strike a bong!

Saturday 2 April 2016

From seething to soothing!

   Well, it's not the rhyming set that I'm intending, through this title. The thought I want to deliver is far beyond that. It's almost human tendency to get upset over some incidents of everyday life. Well, to be precise,it's quotidian. But what's important, is the way we silently attack and weaken this negative force so that the impact on our life is very minimal. 
       
    There may be persons, moments, thoughts and actions that tend to spoil our day. They may still remain, no matter what. But do you have to give a damn to every single thing? Well, that's your choice.They may be the reason for your momentary frustration but there's always a healing at hand to curtail that pessimistic impact. 

     But did you know something? The events/people who ruin your day are not at danger. It's you, who respond to them,are at danger. Do you even realize that at the first place? Well, mostly it would be a "NO". We always say bad incidents, worst people, gloomy days. But have we ever pondered over the fact that even after they have made their impact, we still keep appending the "negative" term alongside each of those? So the problem is really with us. Why couldn't we tackle that negative agent with our positive antibodies? Don't worry, it's something really common to most of us. 

     It's not the disease that is detrimental , but it's the way you react. Have a confident approach and deal your medical sessions with a cool heart. There comes a difference now. It's not the excess salt in the food , that's the risk. It's the additional spice/vegetables you add to balance the taste, that matters. It's not the people who insult you, acting as spoilers. It's the option you choose. If you ignore them, you live in peace. 

     Convert every single harrowing incident of your life into a soul stirring one, but in a positive way. Your hobbies are excellent antibodies to attack the spoiling agents. They are your stress busters. Divert your mind, fill yourself with positive thoughts, calm your mind and brush the dust off your brain. Don't let anything ruin your day. 

    With this attitude, change anything in your life from seething to soothing! 

Tuesday 9 February 2016

Kaleidoscope

        Why this topic out of all ? So am I going to go back to the bit of Physics that each of us would have learnt during our school days? Kaleidoscope is an instrument where three mirrors are set at 60 degrees ....blah blah . But hey wait! I'm not going to take this concept in a physics oriented way. So now , coming back to my first interrogation, as to why this topic - Because Life is a Kaleidoscope!

         I can validate this statement. Let me explain what I've to say. So what does this Kaleidoscope do? It has bits of glasses , bangles , colorful beads and other types of glittery accessories filled within a tube like structure. Now , take the kaleidoscope in your hand and rotate it. Keep doing this continuously. What do you see ? As you rotate it , light strikes on the surface of the tube like structure and the various fillers within this instrument reflect light and hence portray colorful patterns. Woah! Just a small construction with easily available materials . But how come we get different variants? Keep changing the position. Rotate and witness the beautiful patterns.

       You can ask me how this is coalesced with our lives. For each of us , our life is easily available. But the fact is that we do not use the full potential of life and hence it goes as waste. It is important to understand that life is vicissitudinous. Yeah , keep changing your patterns in life. Try something new and take up a new activity. Break what is called routine. Yes , routine is boring! Crazy is fun. Give your views , your activities , your habits, your mindset and finally yourself , a makeover. Have you understood now? Your life is a Kaleidoscope. The more you keep altering it , just like the positional change in the latter , you get more beautiful outcomes in life. Nice right ? :)

Monday 11 January 2016

You're worth it!

                   
Caution:  The following is a story which is creative and not a real one. Enjoy and read fully to understand the thought delivered.

                At last the wait was over. It was time for the organs to confab and discuss about their functioning and well-being. The first few ones to engage in the conversation were - the heart, the lungs and the stomach. The blood was always a tête-à-tête companion for each of these organs and it also entered to listen to their conversation. The blood thought that this was yet another normal meet, but things were different much to the surprise of the blood. The heart started complaining that it was the only organ, despite being small in size did much of the work by regulating blood flow. It said that it was bored of being the only one to do the entire job and also sulked at being only about a fist's size. The heart wanted to take the function of the lungs, for it considered the lungs to perform the most easiest and superior job. Hearing this , the lungs got infuriated. It exclaimed that it had the most tiresome job of handling carbon-di-oxide and oxygen. It also wanted a role change, and this time a change with the stomach's function. The stomach on hearing this was happy for the fact that it no longer had to secrete acids to digest food, a boring mundane job. It was already planning to take up the heart's role and  was so excited to perform the lubb-dubb action. 

                  Having been hearing the conversation quietly, the blood didn't know how to respond. It tried to explain to the organs that each of them had importance and that each of them were unique to be compared. But all the talks were useless. The organs already took their decision to change roles and they were waiting for the consent of the blood. Now the blood was confused. It reached the brain to ask what should be done. The brain understood the complexity of the situation and told the blood that there was no other means than for the organs to realize their importance themselves. So it told the blood to accept this change , but on one condition- It should still flow only in the appropriate amounts into each organ as it earlier did , without any concern about the new role. When the blood conveyed the news to all its fellow unsatiated organs, all of them were overwhelmed. They did not care about the future consequences and all they wanted was to step in to the shoes of another organ, whose work they thought was superior and easier than their's. 

                 The day one of their new roles began. The blood flowed through the stomach ,in the same amount that it would flow to the heart earlier. The stomach could not handle this. It was just a fleshy organ with no valves, unlike a heart. It didn't know how to regulate the blood flow to it's fellow friends. There was only a single inlet and outlet for the stomach and it struggled very much. That moment, it felt lost. Yes, it wanted to return back to its original form. Meanwhile, blood saw that the lungs were incapable of secreting acids. It tried its level best, but it could not. It was connected to the wind pipe rather than food pipe. So all it could do was nothing but repent for its impetuous behavior. When blood flowed through the heart , the heart did not know how to perform for it could not convert the gases. It could not function like how the lungs would do and was clueless of how to obtain and send the gases. All the three organs could no longer retain their positions. They immediately called the blood and apologized for the blunder that they did. This time, each of the organs understood its worth and also realized that it was unique and that no other organ could imitate its role. The blood thanked the master brain for its timely help.

                     Well, the above story is just out of creation but to deliver a strong thought. I would like to juxtapose each of the heart, lungs and stomach to the people. Also I would like to compare the blood to the situations/experiences and the brain to the lives of people. Many a time, people forget to realize how important they are and they try to imitate others. In the process of becoming like others, they tend to loose themselves. When we forget to be ourselves , it is then that life would give us experiences/situations that make us understand our worth. It is then that we understand that we are unique and that no one can take over our ideas , our thoughts , our efforts and our being. It's high time that we realize the statement- "It's our differences that make us unique and beautiful".