Favorite songs over the past year

1. Somebody loved – The Weepies
2. Someone else’s life – Joshua Radin
3. On the floor – Jennifer Lopez ft Pitbull
4. 3 Wishes – Dave Thomas Junior
5. The Riddle – Five for Fighting
6. Need to be next to You – Leigh Nash
7. Thinking of me – Olly Murs
8. Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis
9. Firework – Katy Perry
10. Money is not a thing – Chase Holfelder
11. Learning to Fly – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
12. Just the way you are – Bruno Mars
13. The sound of missing you – Wildboys Ft Ameerah
14. When you know – Serendipity
15. I’d Rather be with you – Joshua Radin
16. Is it any wonder? – Keane
17. They bring me to you – Joshua Radin
18. If I had you – Adam Lambert
19. Half of my heart – John Mayer ft Taylor Swift
20. Slide – Goo Goo Dolls

Smiling

Smiling always makes you feel better about yourself, even if you don't feel like it. And it always makes other people think better of you!

-Author unknown

Strength

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

-Greta Garbo

Solitariness

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

-Eric Hoffer

Loneliness and Communication

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

-Germaine Greer

The Wait

I’ll wait for you to come and find me,
I’ll wait because I know you want me,
I’ve been standing at a distance,
It’s not that I don’t care,
Just that in this instance,
I want to fight fair,
I know that I may be misunderstood,
It’s not that I can’t explain,
I’d just rather wait to be understood,

So I’ll wait, till you come and find me,
I’ll wait, because I know you need time,
I’m using all of my patience,
I won’t even try to fake it,
I know what it’s doing to you,
So I’ll also take it,
I’ll wait till you come and find me,
I’ll wait because I know you want me,

I’m tempted to pick up the phone,
I’m not sure just what to say,
I know that you need time alone,
I’m sure someday you’ll say,
What I’ve always known,
So I’ll wait, for you to come and find me,
I’ll wait because I know you want me,

I know you feel me,
And you so can heal me,
It’s been far too long,
I want to be a part of a world where I belong,
So I’ll wait, till you come and find me,
I’ll wait because I know you want me,

I’m now close enough to taste it,
I can almost embrace it,
I can feel you falling,
I’ll wait until you’re ready,
It’ll take a while until you’re steady,
So I’ll wait till you come and find me,
I’ll wait because I know you want me.

-Poppy

Trust

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

- William Hazlitt

Appreciation

You must speak to be heard,
but sometimes you have to be silent to be appreciated.

-Author Unknown

Doubt

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

-François de la Rochefoucauld

Lies

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

-Austin O'Malley

Guilt

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

-Geoffrey Chaucer

Honesty

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

-Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916

Jealousy

He that is not jealous is not in love.

-St. Augustine

Relationships

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

- Hugh Walpole, Sr.

Honesty

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

-Author Unknown

Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.

-Mignon McLaughlin

Sex Appeal

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

-Sophia Loren q

Choices

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise!

-Robert Fritz

Memories

A part of you has grown in me, and so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart! Miss you Dad!

-Dedicated in memory of my father on his 6th death anniversary.

Marriage

If you are a young man or woman of marriageable age in India who still hasn’t settled down, then when you step out of your house at any point in time, night or day, you can be accosted and asked the following question.

'WHY aren't YOU getting married??!!!!' (This will be said in a voice which is part concern part nagging with stress given to all the words in Capitals.)

Now this question can be asked by ANYONE, and I mean ANYONE, from the neighborhood aunty, to the security guard in your office to some person you are meeting for the first time in your life! (Remember, we live in India, where it is not too personal to ask people you barely know any random thing, as long as you make it sound like it is of grave national importance!)

I’ve also found nowadays, that my bored expression seems to get through to most folks and hence they provide multiple choice answers to make the questioning process simpler!

So here go the answers:

a) Do you already have a girl friend/boyfriend? Just that you haven’t been able to convince his/her parents or yours about the idea of marriage? (In the beginning the person asking the question is always hopeful!)

b) Don’t tell me you are waiting for the right person to come along! Do you think u will find the perfect person??!!!! (The person asking the question will then stress, “A perfect person doesn't EXIST, you just have to compromise!” All the while looking in the direction of their spouse, as if to explain how they got stuck with such a loser in the first place!! It could be for support too, but I prefer my theory!) :-)

c) Do you NOT believe in marriage and never intend to marry??! (If u choose option "c", which I sometimes do for fun, I've found it back fires because then am forced to listen to long lectures about loneliness and the importance of marriage for the human race!!!)

d) Are you gay or lesbian? Hence you are unmarried because you are waiting for it to be completely legal in India to marry! (This option is never there when old folks ask the question but it would be funny to introduce the idea and watch the fun!)

I keep choosing different options every time to keep myself entertained! After all, everyone is entitled to some fun! And it’s always good to keep people guessing… ;-)