Top Ten Favorite Songs for the Month of Feb

• Put your hands up 4 Detroit – Fedde Le Grand
• Sunrise –Norah Jones
• For an Angel –Paul Van Dyk
• More to Life –Stacie Orrico
• Lost for Words –Ronan Keating
• Yellow –Cold Play
• Heaven –DJ Sammy & Yanou
• We are alive –Paul Van Dyk
• Let you go –Atb
• Insatiable –Savage Garden
  

Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever!

Strange isn’t it, that one minute you are closer to someone than anyone else in the whole wide world and the next you don’t want to have anything to do with them again because they’ve hurt you in ways you didn’t even think were possible. And even though the decision was yours to break away, it still feels weird. How odd it feels to suddenly cut off all communication with someone whom you were so connected to that you knew what they were doing every minute of every day. So what does one do with all those memories and all that one knows about the person ? What happens to all that one shared with that person which is just between the two of you ? At one point all those memories were a source of joy and now even thinking about it causes pain. The secret code that existed between the two of you that no one else could decipher is lost forever. One wonders if the person will ever share the same with someone else and what it would mean to them then. Would it be the same? Would it have the same value? One wonders whether the person will ever think about it and wonder how and why things turned out like this. Or is it all conveniently forgotten like some bad dream ?

I’ve always believed in keeping my silence once things are over because whatever transpired is between the two of us and no one else has a right to know it, now or ever. I hope the other person feels the same way as I couldn’t bear to think of any third party being privy to my innermost feelings, thoughts and emotions other than the person whom I chose to share it with. I wonder if I would have shared all that I did, if I knew that someday that person would no longer be a part of my life. I guess some things one will never know and if we keep anticipating and worrying about the future it’s very difficult to enjoy the present. I know the smart thing to do is to look ahead and to move on and I have. There is no point in dwelling on the past, but sometimes when things are quiet and my mind wanders, I think of old times when things were so different and then it hurts to feel….

Fairness & Integrity

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

-H.Jackson Brown Jr.

Taste

To possess taste one must have some soul !

-Marquis De Vauvenargues

Let these be your desires

Love one another, but make not a bond of love
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup, but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping;
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together;
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Poem by Khalil Gibran

Facade

Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend.

-Ani DiFranco

True Reflection

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

-Ani DiFranco

Weak

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

-Abraham Lincoln.

Crying

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

-Oscar Wilde

With Power comes Responsibility

When a person takes up a position of responsibilty they must realise that with it comes the onus of acting in a mature and sensible fashion for the great good of the group and admitting your mistakes when you are wrong.Yesterday for the first time in my life I met an individual who was so incapable of taking responsibility for her actions that it was appalling. Inside of admitting that she had made a mistake she played the famous blame game where she pointed fingers at people who were not even present and could not stand up for themselves, then she screamed and accused people who were present for her mistake and finally went on to crying and creating a scene to get sympathy. And the sad part is, men are so weak that when they see a woman crying irrespective of what she has done, all other women present are at fault because we made her cry. I detest people who use tears to get their way, if one is so weak then one should not take up positions of responsibility. It is sad to think that a person can behave so childishly and then expect people to respect them.If one is planning to get into an organisation and behave in such a juvenile fashion then it is very clear that they are not going to get very far in life.

Also what is even more horrifying is that some men are completely spineless, one day they are your friends the next day they change their loyalties because it's convenient.I was so disappointed yesterday to see two of my "so called friends" behaving in a rude, aggressive manner for no reason when all we were trying to do was have a polite civilised conversation with the weak woman. No one was expecting anyone to take sides, but they did and they made it very clear.

These two guys acted like body guards and were refusing to let anyone talk to the weak woman. They just made things worse by constantly answering for her and shielding her from the entire group who wanted some concrete answers from her. Funny how people will jump to help the weak and ridicule the strong, just because we all can't stoop to that level and cry like idiots. They say that some people will get out when they hit rock bottom, others will begin to dig. These guys have started digging.

The Human race has only one real effective weapon and that is laughter

When I was younger I had a strange habit of doing the dumbest things, like trusting people implicitly and assuming that because I trusted them they wouldn't let me down. Then after being badly let down a couple of times I became more worldy wise. But I think old habits die hard, because I made the mistake of trusting someone again without really understanding what kind of a person he was and I paid the price for it. There are some people who lie blatantly to get what they want and some stupid people like me, who believe in the innate goodness of human beings and get fooled. I can't tell you how stupid I feel now for taking everything that was told to me at face value. I really hadn't met someone so diabolical or cunning in the past and never thought anyone could fake so many emotions without meaning a thing.I now realise that people will go to any lengths to get what they want. I thank my stars that I've been lucky to get out of this whole thing before it got any worse.

Initially I was feeling very depressed and upset at being made a fool of and then I spent some time with some of my close friends and had a good laugh. And once your able to see the humour in your stupidity then it's easier to move on and forgive yourself for being so gullible. Afterall everyone is entitled to a few mistakes and having the ability to pick yourself up and move on is what differentiates a mature person from a fool !

Bizarre

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more entertaining it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show !

-Paraphrased from something I read some place

Belief

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

-Blaise Pascal

Honesty is the best policy

Everyone always says that one should be honest, at all costs. But where do you draw the line ? How do you know whether you should tell someone honestly about something you know that could save them a lot of heartache or whether you should keep it to yourself ? Strangely enough people don't appreciate honesty because for starters they think that the only reason that you are telling them something is that you have vested interests or are bitter about past experiences. And i've thought about this for a while and debated with my conscience about it and even subtly tried telling them that they might be making a big mistake. But people have a tendency to see only what they want to see. I think sometimes it's better to let people make their own mistakes. Maybe it's a part of their karma, one can't save everyone !

Winning

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

-Vince Lombardi

Violence

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

-Fracois de la Rochefoucauld

Poetic Justice

Someday we'll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we'll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we'll know
Why I wasn't meant for you
Someday we'll know
Why Samson loved Delilah
One day I'll go
Dancing on the moon
Someday you'll know
That I was the one for you !!!

-Lyrics of Someday You'll know

Despair

I've got it all,
But I feel so deprived,
I go up, I come down and I'm emptier inside,
Tell me what is this thing that I feel like i'm missing,
And why can't I let it go,
There's gotta be more to life,
Than chasing down every temporary high,
Cause I'm more than that,
There's gotta be more to life....

-Paraphrased from lyrics of "More to life"