We All Need An Ananya !!!

Being a fan of romantic movies " 2 States " is one movie that I couldn't have missed. Though i read the book earlier and didn't find anything new in the movie except a few facts ,the movie in itself gave me a message.

When I look at my life today , I find myself on the verge of a change . College getting over , friends moving to different parts of the world . Some will stay in touch and some will casually fade themselves out of our life.
As we move from place to place, leaving homes and other geographical locations; and as we break up or are being broken up with, leaving people who knew us “when”; and as we change careers, leaving behind a part of our talents, skills, and dreams, we lose the witnesses to our lives .

At the end of the movie , I was left with a strange question . So I decided to take a sneak-peek at my future - " A corporate slave working for some MNC the whole day , eating at some food-joint in the evening and then sleeping my ass-off to get ready for another day of slavery ". The utter monotonicity of this activity just shook my rock-bottom .What was missing in there.. I'll tell you what was missing . It missed the " thrill of fight". A fight for something I badly want .

From our childhood we all have had to fight for something pocket-money,boards ,girl-friends,entrance exams ,college exams .Its in our system . We all land up with a job and pretty much all will have the same life as I mentioned above . I do not want this life and i think neither of you guys will want to lead a life . Thats why we all need an "Ananya" in our lives.

Who is "Ananya "??

For me " Ananya " is

Something you " fall in love with on first-sight" ,

Something you are "Crazy " about ,

Something you can fight for against all "Odds",

Something which makes your life " Beautiful ",

Something which makes your life " Meaningless " without it,

Something the very thought of which makes you "Smile",

Something which brings " Happiness",

Something you just " Got to have",

Something you can can cross all your " Limits" for,

Something the feelings for which "don't fade or go away". They continue to grow stronger each day,

Something as the new Nike ad says you can " Risk Everything" for.

How amazing will be life with an " Ananya" on your side. For people wondering why i used "Something" instead of "Someone" and that I am gramatically wrong , "Ananya " may not necessarily be a person , it can be anything , anything you are passionate about and are ready to fight for till you just get it .We all know we need the "Thrill of Fight " and the " Fear of Lose" to drive our lives .
So rather than being afraid of just losing our petty jobs , be afarid of losing your " Ananya", love it and fight for it till its yours's and life will be much more adventurous and meaningful .

That's why we all need an " Ananya" , start searching for your's..

Lets Be Honest !!!

“Our lives only improve when we are willing to take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” ~Walter Anderson


For almost two-and-a-half decades, I hid behind masks. I sensed as a very young child that I lived honoring my true self, like most children do, but as I got older, I started putting on masks as a way to fit in. We all do that somewhere or the other. Its not something wrong but it becomes when these masks raise questions on the credibility of your sheer existence and define you as an entity that hardly exists.
It's hard to be honest . We all have our faults and its difficult to admit them. Sometimes we are so blindfolded by the mask itself,that we don't even realize what damage we are causing around.Its hard to be honest and i am not saying to be honest everytime . But at least be honest when you know that stakes are high.At least be honest when you know that even a single wrong word may change the dynamics of your whole life , let alone others around you.
Many a bonds have been broken just because we are not ready to give up our masks. Masks which we let define ourselves so much that we even forgot who we really are.So much so that we are scared that taking them of will leave us scathed , tattered and may demolish all our bonds. What we dont realize that relations are a two way affair. A word of honesty can lead to a knot in the thread which can still be opened but if the mask of self-delusional lie is not removed at the right time,it may just as well break the thread forever


I wouldn’t say that we have a “one size fits all” mask removal strategy, but I have found that when we are willing to step out of our comfort zone, good things will happen. We need to trust that.
We may need to take a leap of our own to get in touch with our true self. It doesn’t need to be huge, as long as we move forward in some way. Like the Nike commercials says, “Just Do it!” What’s important is to find what works for us and start moving, inch by inch, beyond our fear. Lets just be ourselves.Lets Be Honest.