Experience

Experience is the name that everyone gives their mistakes!
-Oscar Wilde

Good bye

You know you are in love when the hardest thing to say is Goodbye.
-Unknown

Passion

Never underestimate the power of passion.
-Eve Sawyer

Acceptance

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are!
-Unknown

Favorite Songs for the Month of December 2009

• My Everything - ATB
• Life After You - Chris Daughtry
• If you only knew - Shine down
• I know you want me -Pitbull
• Fireflies - Owl City

Ingratitude

I wondered why I was dead ?

I stood alone inside my head,

I remembered how he leaned on me,

He seemed so lost, he couldn't see,

I helped him get back on his feet,

I made him one and put him back on his seat,

When I needed a friend I looked to him,

He'd found new friends, he didn't care,

He looked through me, like I wasn't there,

I wondered how ungrateful he could be,

I guess life is full of men like him,

Now I don't wonder why I'm dead,

Atleast it makes sense in my head!

-Poppy

Forgiveness

I forgive small mistakes,

I forgive big mistakes,

I forgive all mistakes,

But after a point,
I forgive nothing,
For forgiveness is overrated,
And those who forgive are taken for granted!

-Poppy

Betrayal

One of the most unbearable feelings in the world is to feel betrayed. But what is more painful is not to have the right to feel betrayed but to feel it acutely nonetheless.

-Paraphrased from the book " Marrying Anita" by Anita Jain.

Respect

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

-Billy Graham

Conceit

We often boast that we can never be bored, but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

-Fracois de la Rochefoucauld

Suffering

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

-Paulo Coelho

Old Friendships

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

-William Somerset Maugham

Love

Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.

-Unknown

Top 5 Favorite Songs for the Month of August

• Let Me Go -Three Doors Down
• Feels Like Tonight - Daughtry
• Release Me -Agnes Carlsson
• Second Chance -Shine Down
• You Found Me - The Fray

Life

The unconscious is the key to all of life's pursuits.

-Carl Jung

Food

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating !
- Luciano Pavarotti

Divine Intervention

Sometimes we are forced into directions which we should have chosen ourselves, because sometimes we need that push to make tough decisions in Life.

-Poppy

Complicated Love

I met this really awesome guy, so great that he’s everything I could have wished for and more. But you know, life, it’s complicated. You would think that when someone so amazing comes into your life then things would just fall into place, well, no such luck, that happens only in the movies. So instead of the universe conspiring to help, it does exactly the opposite, it makes every single thing harder!

I think we spend our whole lives planning; there is always a grand plan. But how many of those plans actually work out? I mean really, how many? For, as far as, I can remember none of my plans have worked out till date. If there is an award for that, I’m getting it for sure. So instead of spending our time planning, we should spend our time planning to be surprised, so that when things don’t go our way, we are able to handle it better.

And love; well it’s an irrational feeling, when you feel happy and sad at the same time. It is one of the best and worst things that can happen to you. Definitely not recommended by me, but then who am I?

So then why do people bother falling in love, well I think love is like a light house, it keeps us on course when we cannot see anything else. And love can never be planned, it just happens, even when you don’t want it to. So even if you try your best to be aloof and assume that love will pass you by, when you least expect it, it will happen and then there is no escaping it.

I been trying to ignore it for a while thinking that the feeling would go away, because like I said, it’s complicated. But somehow the feeling keeps getting stronger and stronger. And then I see him and suddenly for the first time in weeks, I don’t feel like crying and I ask myself, what are we doing?? Life’s too short! What are we doing??!

-Poppy

Life

When your young your whole life is about the pursuit of fun, then you grow up and learn to be cautious because you could break a bone or a heart. You start to look before you leap and some times you don't leap at all because there isn't anyone to catch you. In life there is no safety net, but when did life stop being fun and start being scary ?!

-Paraphrased from "Sex in the City"

Passion

There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.
-Susie Switzer

Choices

When we make choices, we also choose the consequences !

Love

I just realised that being with someone you love is like eating an icecream. You just know that you don't want to be anywhere else doing anything else right then!

Favorite Songs for the month of May

• I Feel You -Schiller
• I hope you dance - Lee Ann Womack
• Heart of Mine - Peter Sallet
• Come Back to Me -David Cook
• By your Side -Sade
• Gotta Be Somebody -Nickelback

Change

I’ve realised in life that sometimes everything has to change in order for it to be the same. We need to move, grow and if we are lucky the people we love are moving and growing too so that at some point in the future we’ll all find ourselves right back at the start.

- Paraphrased from the Book , “You are Here” by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

Mothers

All that I am or hope to be , I owe to my mother.

Happy Mothers Day Mommie !

Dad

Any man can be a Father. It takes someone special to be a Dad.

-Dedicated in Memory of the Most Important Man in my Life

Moving On

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.

-Author Unknown

Memories

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

-From the television show, "The Wonder Years"

Life

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.

-Poppy

Understanding a Relationship

What ultimately defines a relationship, is another relationship.

-Poppy

Thought for the Day

Sometimes we are so busy helping others with their lives that we save our lives for later.

-Poppy

How do you know when it's right ?!!!

In matters of the heart how does one know when it’s right? Is being comfortable with someone a sign that they are right for you or is it a sign that there is no chemistry? Is liking someone a good enough reason to marry them or should you feel passionately about them? Is being able to talk to someone important for a marriage or is it more important to be with someone whom you find it difficult to stop talking to? Is having a well educated mate more important that having a considerate one? Is having the same interests important or is it opposites which attract? Is it more important to find someone you can live with or someone you can’t live without? Is it better to be with someone who never disagrees with you or someone whom you fight with regularly? Is coming from the same type of family background and value system important enough for you to marry someone for those reasons or is it just a pre-requisite? Is a relationship which looks good on paper as good in real life? Is hesitation a sign that this is not the right person for you or is it a sign that you are just not ready for commitment?

I’ve thought about it a lot and I think maybe there are no right answers, right moments or right guys. Maybe you just have to go with your heart….

-Poppy

Relationships

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I feel that at the end of the day all that anyone really wants, is to be close to someone. So while most of us who have been hurt make appearances about keeping our distance it’s all an eye wash. For at some point you have to make a decision, because making boundaries doesn’t really keep other people out, it just fences you in.

So instead of wasting your life drawing lines and making up excuses to keep people out, it’s just easier to go out there and meet new people. And as you get to know people better, you’ll find that there are certain people who stick by you no matter what happens and those are the people you need to identify and hold on to. Those are the ones worth keeping.

And yes, there is the chance that you will get hurt. But maybe we all need some pain, maybe we are just made that way. Otherwise we wouldn’t know a good thing when we saw it.

So at the end of the day, there are some relationships which we would sooner forget, some which we can’t keep silent about, some which we keep to ourselves, but every now and then there comes one which just speaks for itself!

-Poppy

Love

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

-Agatha Christie

Lies

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

-Baltasar Gracian

Happiness

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

-Unknown

On Being Single

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free till they find someone just as wild to run with them.

-From "Sex and the City"

Top 3 Favorite Songs for the Month of March

• Right Now - Akon
• Human - Jon Mclaughlin
• My Life would Suck without you - Kelly Clarkson

Life

If some lives form a perfect circle, others take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.

-From the Movie , "Message in a Bottle"

Future

Here is the thing about the future. Every time you look at, it changes, because you looked at it, and that changes everything else.

-From the movie "Next"

Comfort & Consolation

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

-Unknown

Beauty

Beauty is a summation of the parts where nothing is needed to be altered, added, or taken away.

-Elio Carletti

Moving On

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

-Anatole France

Looking Ahead....

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

-William Wordsworth

The Sound of Silence

During the Christmas holidays I went to a jungle resort nestled in a cosy valley, high up in the hills of Kerala. The place is completely cut off from civilisation with no phones, no internet, no roads and no traffic! It was so incredibly peaceful and quiet, that after a long time I got a chance to slow down and enjoy the simple things in life like the lovely view, the star lit sky, the cold breeze, the warmth of the bonfire, the fresh air, simple food and the overwhelmingly beautiful sound of silence.

Going on a holiday like this at the end of the year somehow made so much sense. It gave me a chance to slow down, re-cap the year gone by and plan for the future. So often, we go through life stumbling from one situation into the next, hardly aware of what is happening with no plan or direction in mind, when ideally we should stop and think. But few of us make time to think. Most of us make time to eat, drink and sleep, but some quiet time to think is something we leave out. Somehow it’s the last priority and seems almost absurd to schedule time to think. But it can make such a phenomenal difference, for only when we have some quiet time to ourselves are we able to think about things which are important to us, such as what we want out of life, our hopes, desires, dreams and how we plan to achieve the same. When we function without thinking we are moving and reacting based on our original plan, one which was probably made ages ago and has mostly changed over time due to other things that have taken place during the course of time. Hence we make it harder for ourselves to achieve our goals, dreams and desires as we are not working towards them based on the current circumstances.

To be able to think clearly one needs to have some quiet time to oneself, with absolutely no interruptions. For answers to some of life’s mysteries come to us only when we are quiet. And with silence comes peace and acceptance of life as it is….

Fathers

It does not matter who my father was, what matters is what I remember he was...

-Unknown

Secrets

If we knew each others secrets, what comfort we would find.
-Unknown