Rebirth

Rebirth, a concept of mythical proportions. A concept with scientific impossibility. A concept of many a religion. The Phoenix, an epitome of Rebirth. Burns in flames to be born again from Ashes . Rebirth does challenge the concept of "ashes to dust".

But this is not about the life and death and..... life again story. This is about Rebirth of thoughts. Every now and then we need to rethink, reevaluate and rethank God for everything he has offered to us. I did, last week. I went to this bakery near my place. And I saw these three kids playing, all siblings , all girls. One probably about a year and a half old, the other about 3 and the other about 5. They were covered in dust, they hadn't washed their clothes for years probably because they had only one pair. And they were playing in the hot sun with a small red bottle cap. There were apparently no rules, but there was all fun. And I thought to myself about how lucky I am. And I also knew life is what you make of it. Here they are , nothing in their hands, no future and no past , and nightmarishsly scary, no present. But they were happy with what they had , a sole red bottle cap.

Someone was right when he said " Two men look out through the bars, one sees mud and the other the stars!".

Rebirth, Rethink, Reevaluate and Reprioritize what you want in life!

Today and God!

Everything that could go wrong. Did go wrong. Today. Long story short. I realised that there was one minor error in the job I was assigned. But that minor error which didn't effect the end result anyway made me spend a lot of time in finding it and correcting it. So, that isn't a problem isn't it? A mistake that didn't cost much was rectified. But here's the big picture. Today I was leaving for Hyderabad, and I took a holiday on Friday which also gave me the Saturday and the Sunday. But because I was delayed by this , I had to cancel my trip. So I went out in the rain on my "new" bike, got drenched all over, got the ticket cancelled, but couldn't get any money back, because if you don't cancel 24 hrs early , you don't get a refund.

So here I am, a mistake that was not a big problem atall, made me cancel my trip, which I could have gone on. Add to that I get wet all over, and don't even get any money back for my ticket for all the effort. Go figure! All the effort coming to nothing atall. Now I have a holiday on Friday, and I have nothing to do on Friday. I had planned a trip on Saturday with a bunch of old friends. That's off the menu now. Because I was wet and I had to get back to office, I decided to change my clothes. And take the bus. That took even longer to get back.

And add to that my manager was helping me doing something. He is a great guy, and he spent a lot of time with me, we were trying to get something done, but couldn't. After about 3 hours we found out that the software has a bug. See, all the effort for nothing again!

So Nothing takes a lot of effort and that's the lesson I learnt today. It drove me crazy but I am happy. I didn't want to say " Oh God! why me? " because I have so much more to be thankful about. It is just one bad day in my very lovely life. And I ask for God to give me more, but I shouldn't complain for "nothing". I am sure, God gave me these small obstacles to trip over , so that I don't fall into a pit that is lying further down that road.

Thanks God , thank you for this lovely day!

A dream , A bike, A victory

If you have read my previous posts ( out of some wierd coincidence!) you would know I been searching for a bike that I love. Sadly they don't make it anymore, it is Yamaha RX 135 , a 2 stroke bike that has the pleasantest of noise and a heart of a lion. After a lot of looking around for a bike that is absolutely good in condition I found one atlast. It is probably one of the last made and it is the newest I could buy. A 2005 , March made model.

I could write a thousand lines of poetry on it, but then nothing can surpass the pure rhyme of this bike. I hope God gives me plenty of nice memories on it. It did come a little expensive for a second hand bike but then it is worth it. For now I don't have much time, I need to go on a long drive again!