Hopes...

Hope is a good thing...may be the best of thing...may be defines the beginning and end of life...may be the essence of life....may be the only ingredient which keeps you alive. This lesson was taking longer than ever to reach me. The whole book of my life has pages of few tears, smiles, laughter, struggles, achievements, failures, aspirations and dreams. The page of hope seemed like completed but it wasn't. The easiest task for a human being is to crash all his hopes and the most difficult one is to crash himself. And living without hope is just like a body with no soul. At times, I have acted deceased...working towards something..don't know what..success comes..its good...if it doesn't...hopes get crashed. It is unfair friends. We need hopes only in the time of despair and we kick them out so easily...at least I do.

Few years back in India, I appeared in IIT-JEE with my full fledged efforts. I didn't get selected and the failure devastated me and my spirits. My family and few people close to me know how difficult the situation was for me. With my dear ones' love and care, I managed to start living a new life afterward. And trust me, my confidence level never soared to the level where it was before IIT-JEE. Till date, there has been no disaster befallen upon me of that severity. Ma never worried for me that much before that and after that. Di was continuously trying to blow spirits in me.

Baba was almost in an impatient state after observing me behaving with no hopes and miser for5-6 months when one day he burst out.." Is that what I have taught you for years? Lose hopes, be a prisoner of your own failures and think life doesn't have anything else to offer you? It is just a beginning dear. Remember, when everything crashes then it is the best opportunity to prove yourself. Unlimited doors are opened in front of you now. Take any of them. You have nothing to lose because you have already lost everything and to gain...you have the world." Those precious words were the stepping stones of the foundation of my to-be-built structure of confidence.

I consider myself lucky to have been around people who have experienced misery, crisis and tragedies more than what I have faced. Amongst them, someone lost whole family in earthquake at the tender age of 17 years, someone was born in a financially challenged and miser family, someone had to work as a peon and had to leave school to earn livelihood for family at age of 10, someone was blind by birth and forever, someone became physically challenged afterward, someone had to take a truthful path of failure to survive deceitful destination of success. I can keep talking about some more of this kind for ever.

The common factor I found among them was these people never left the hand of their hopes. The hope which says a new dawn will arrive soon...a new world is waiting for you. And after remembering all these angels I feel...I am crying because I have no shoes....what about the one who has no feet. Life is full of blessings and sometimes we are just too blind to see them...just having hopes can get us closer to the beauty of life.

The people who read this blog entitle me as a philosopher. But friends, I have never tried to be one. I have only conveyed what my life has shown and taught me. Yes, I agree I think a lot. I agree sometimes I don't talk that makes much sense...but I don't agree that talking real is philosophy. And I like to talk real. Recently, one of my dearest friend sent me these lines that I would like to share with everyone.

" If there is a solution, find it.
If there is none, never mind it."

And remember between these two lines...never lose hopes and even after that. Hope is the best thing one can have.