Love, at last revealed!

It's been a long time since I have posted anything over here in my blog. Not that I didn't want to, but I couldn't! Call me crazy, lazy or anything you want, I just couldn't write a clean blog post on several topics I'd wanted to. :( But TODAY is a very important day of my life and I just DO NOT want to waste the opportunity by writing nothing about the day that it was!

Today, the 25th day of March, 2012 is a day to be written in red letters in my life. For today is the day I ultimately dared to propose my long time friend, love-crush, Ms N. You can also say that I only revealed to her about my feelings and the love I have towards her without actually knowing anything about how N feels about me. Nevertheless, I am feeling so very much in Love now! N could totally understand my feelings. But I felt she wanted to tell me about something which she couldn't tell today. But I am hoping that in a few days' time she tells me something that I am dying to hear from her, wanting to hear from her though all my senses have no belief in this hope thingy!  To a person who had gone out without any expectations but to have returned home with a smile and hope of making someone he has so dearly loved for so long his own and forever is a thing to be cherished for a long time. I shall surely enjoy this sweet moment for as long as possible, by protecting and nurturing it to the best of my abilities. :)

Oh Boy! I am feeling so much in Love today! I just love the day, the night, the air, the light, the language, the letters and words that make up the language, the nature, the world, the universe. I LOVE YOU, N.

What I did today has been the bravest thing I have ever done in my life till now! Just a few years back, I used to fear appreciating a person who truly deserved it. But today I am happy I have told N that I love her.

N is a very sweet girl. There are many simple things that I have liked in her. For e.g. I like her complaining when the coffee is too hot and when the same coffee turns cold after a while! I like her for her interests in movies, food and friends. I like her for narrating her life's bad experiences in a funny manner that brings about a smile on the face of the person listening to it. I like her when she, instead of telling the end of the story she is narrating from past 15-20 min, tells "...actually, I do not know the end of the story as I used to sleep-off by the time my grand mother finish narrating the story to me when I was a kid...(giggles)".

I also like her for the complex modern woman she is. N is witty, beautiful for me (;-)) and at the same time she is a responsible person and a dutiful daughter to her parents. She is intelligent and a good story teller ;-) At times I feel that she is a living drama queen since it seems to me that a lot of drama is involved in whatever she does! She is also empathetic and can read and understand a friend's mind without asking much questions! And she is also a little dumbo at times!:D

N is, for me, a 100% package who is everything I'd ever expected from my life partner + some cream and chocolate + some nutty toppings + a cherry at the top :D

My vocabulary doesn't allow me to write more than what I have already written over here without repetition of words, sentences and meaning. But my feelings towards N are 100% natural and unique and I feel no language ever created by a man can be enough to express them!

Here is a very beautiful song from movie Manasaare which is apt for the way I feeling now! The lyrics for the song can be found here.

My views on Rahul Gandhi's public speech in UP

Before writing anything further let me clear myself - I am neither against any particular person, India National Congress nor working for any other political party in India. In-fact I hate politics and anybody and everybody associated with it. Though I avoid talking about politics and politicians as much as possible, sometimes, I do feel like expressing my stand about what is happening in India.

Recently in a leading national daily I read about Rahul's take on BJP and its India shining slogan.  Here is a gist of what was said by him in a rally in UP.

"In 2004 (during the general elections) the opposition had launched 'India shining' campaign...They can give this slogan as their leaders do not visit your houses, don't eat food with you, drink dirty water of your wells...they can say India is shining. It is shining in their houses and air-conditioned cars but not in villages. India will shine only when no poor person is left in the country. Go to the poor, under privileged and others. Reach out to them. Hold their hands and get to know their problems. Then fight for them. Only if poor people get good quality of life, then the country can progress"

Source:

1. The Times of India

2. IBN Live

Rahul had been to a lot of villages in the North and a few villages down South in the past and he still continues to do the same. He has talked to a lot of people from financially poor background. There's been a lot of photographs running around in the internet in which Rahul is shown helping poor people or talking to them! Good. He seems to be doing something for the poor citizens of this country when it seems that the rest of India's politicians are only gobbling up money and/or running into and out of jail for various reported crimes! Here are few photographs to support my above words.

I was not the photographer of the above photographs and also I can assure you that I haven't edited any of them either. These photographs are all available if one does a google image search.

Yes, I accept Rahul Gandhi has eaten food provided by a poor farmer. Yes he has carried some stones on his shoulders along with a woman helping her in doing something (probably construction of a building or a road or something else). Yes he has interacted with children, men and women from various sects of the society. But he hasn't done any of these for long and hard. Not even for a complete day. In that case how can he ask the rest of the politicians (or people of India) to go and reach the poor people and uplift them. Rahul has not improved the situation of a single person by visiting him in his village or by helping him in the farm. Has Rahul ever donated his blood to a person who has met with an accident? Has he ever given his shoes/shirts/pants/watches to anybody in need of it? Has Rahul ever taken any poor children along with him in his costly car for a drive around the city? Has he taken the responsibility of educating the poor people against the ill effects of drinking and smoking? Has he taken the responsibility of making children attend school and become literate? If he hasn't practiced any of these then why does he preach? India doesn't want somebody who only preaches, we have enough of them. We want people who practice good things and show the result of their good actions.

I am not denying the fact Rahul had mentioned in the UP rally recently. But stating facts do not get rid of the problems a poor man is facing on a daily basis. In fact, though not to boast, I can give a lot of examples from my own life wherein I have gone out and helped quite a few people on a regular basis. No single person has enough strength to change the world. Lord Buddha, Lord Krishna, Sai Baba, Mahatma Gandhiji, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and many more great people could not convert all the bad people of their time to good or reverse the fate of an unfortunate soul. So how can I, you or anybody else claim to get rid of the problems of the country and its countrymen by just talking to a man or eating with him or sharing his problems for a day or two?

Of-course India shining slogan doesn't take into account the state of mind of each and every person in this country. But, according to me, it gives this hope of finding something positive for each and every person who gets touched by the slogan and the advertisements carrying the information. Life isn't always a bed of roses. Not for Indians, not for Americans, not for English, not for anybody else in the entire world. But then a ray of light called hope is what helps a lot during the bad/worst days of life. If I, an ordinary citizen of India, can see positiveness in the India Shining slogan why can't Rahul Gandhi see the same? Why does he, instead of building the nation by bringing people together, is sending wrong messages across the country by making illogical and blunt statements about another political party, system or any other person. Being an asshole is easy but being postive and looking at brighter things in life is difficult!

A famous saying goes something like this - Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. According to me, neither Rahul Gandhi nor anybody else with good intentions should go around spreading negative messages about others or even think or ask others about giving up their fortune to the upliftment of anybody else. Instead they should focus on teaching people how to survive the worst of times and come out in flying colours.

Disclaimer: Here are a few advertisements I could get by doing a search in Youtube for "India Shining". These videos may not be the videos created by BJP political party. I do not own these videos and hence please pardon me if in case you are unable to view them due to various reasons like unavailability in your country or removal of the video by the original owner.

Bah!! Love is really strange :)

In my first blog post I had mentioned that I had fallen in love and that the life had become difficult in its own way for me after the love had happened to me... I still haven't yet told the girl that I love her nor have I told anybody else that I am in love... and hence my current situation is as good or as bad as it was when I had written the first blog post more than a year back!

In these past few months (to be read as months from the time I wrote my first blog post to till now), I have seen a lot of changes in me... a lot of changes have happened in the world around me that has truly affected me... like for example... job change, purchase of a plot of land for the construction of our dream home, etc. And then my love had also changed, it had waned actually... I had started liking another girl who works in the same office... but then one day there was this flash of light in front me... a kind of sudden realization that I was doing wrong and the only lady other than my mother I am in love with was my original girl and not the new one!!

I am still trying to tell my girl about my love. The problem is whenever I am with her, my tongue automatically gets tied and I am unable to tell her my feelings. The same thing happened last weekend. I had taken her to a movie. And while returning home after the movie, I tried so many times to tell her my feelings. But each time I opened my mouth to tell her that, the words didn't come out! I used to talk to her about something completely different from what I had intended to tell her. But one major achievement is that when she was about to get down from the car, I told her that I have to tell her something. She did ask me what it was and told me to tell her. But then I went completely blank! I didn't know what to tell her! At last I managed to tell her that I shall tell her on some other day and just drove as fast as I could from her place! So much for all the love I have for her!!! :(

Though I am scared that she might not acknowledge my love for her, somewhere deep within my heart/mind I am quite sure that she too likes me, she too loves me. But how do I find out that I am correct? How do I find out that she loves me or at least she likes me more than a friend?

Bah! Love is really strange! I had never realized how a simple love for a girl could affect a man. I wonder how the girls who had proposed me in the past had ever dared to do what I am trying to do now? Are girls(women) really braver and stronger in taking rejections in their stride than boys(men)?

Joke of the day

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason. :)


Guess another joke for the day wouldn't be so much, so here it goes!!


What would be the name of Manmohan Singh's autobiography?
3(G)  Mistakes of My Life - CWG, 2G, SoniaG

Joke of the day

Reason for India losing all the test matches played in England this year:

Team India shall NOT win any of the matches till JanLokpal bill is implemented by the Govt. of India. :)