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Happiness lies in little things 😌 (at Golden Gate Park)

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Happiness:

April 26,2018 @ 3:30 pm Today I am again greeting various thoughts gushing in my head since morning, numerous topic to write on since I left writing my last post... I was thinking I can beautifully and moreover willingly would love to write on all these topics that are screaming in my head like : “ Please pen me down somewhere, and make me rest in peace. Second thought stroke just after that was, OK I will try to start writing and will start recalling all topics that have been waiting patiently in my thoughts.But very next moment, I realize that am I good enough with english to express these topics/thoughts with exact intentions and would portray the honest writing that universe or oxygen around me wants me to write? Now question is why these thoughts? Firstly, I am not new in this world who gets such ideas or creative force driven within, there are many established authors, professional writers, successful casual bloggers, degree holders on writing, etc etc... Will I be able to do justice with all this through my writing? But honestly I need to admit and have to state here in words that I have been pushed by someone really hard and that energy is not bothered about how I write, it seems like it just want me to hold a laptop or a pen and go on and on.. and want me to give life to these thoughts. Today I feel claustrophobic with the same force/energy that I have been trying to ignore and divert my mind in various other normal things but it just not happening...  :(      I can’t clearly explain what’s it like but kind of the huge waterfall of such emotions that begs me to please write and you will feel that your are alive... not sure where will it take me but still I have to write for my peace and calmness within me.. can’t win over ignoring this driven force that hit by universe upon me everyday I wake up and go back to sleep without greeting these thoughts... Today as I mentioned above I was hit by many thoughts/topics like about Sun in sky, A lying paper’s story, handle of the most opened doors, definition of success, etc and etc. I know these look weird but I am being honest I was forced to write on them... One of those topics was happiness.... with a question that arose in me and around me.. firstly I asked myself what is happiness... obvious answer to that of anyone’s would be and so was mine that whatever things/people/places around me makes me happy brings happiness.  But in the very next moment a question again fired was; Really? Is that all? Are you sure? Then I started to jot down within me without pen and paper, while rushing to keep an eye on boiling water i kept on stove to make a cup of tea.. and once I got my tea I was back in couch watching a netflix documentary while panicking and overwhelming feeling that oh am I wasting my time? Getting late again to prepare dinner or something else that I had planned to do today... immediately next second I say to myself maybe after this documentary ends.. and while I was enjoying watching it throughout I was also feeling apologetic of watching it... result was that I stopped watching it and went to kitchen.. But during my cooking today, I realized that true happiness lies in “The Moment”. Period. Yes when you be in the moment with all that you could give to that moment with all heart without thinking about past, future but only present.. is happiness and that’s when your heart rate is normal and unknowingly a smile in your face. And as a matter of fact I know that, this definition is not new to anyone from ages we have been reading this,listening it from great saints and sages, philosophers yet hard to actually imply it in our lives. It’s not easy to be in present may be because we have so many strings attached to us in our lives which come with n number of responsibilities and lately somewhere we tend to find our happiness in other people’s happiness ( I meant people who are important to us). And the great part is even a  5 year old kid or 75 year old man goes through the same scenario and feeling... It’s truly hard to practice it in our daily lives but not the impossible one( a voice echoes inside me).. maybe this is what all spiritual gurus ask to realize and practice through meditation I believe. And most of us find it difficult to sit with our eye closed more than 2 mins in absolute zero space.. many of us just can’t do it ,I know... But on the contrary while I am counting my responsibilities and defining happiness I know that I can and I easily can live in present and be happy but to my realisation it was for f=very few mins in a day and mostly while I am doing my yogic kriya for 30 mins by being in absolute space and actually at peace..I love being in this state(difficult to explain to one who has never experienced mediation). And for the matter of fact,this is why look I forward to mediate everyday because in those 30 mins it’s only me and vast universe with some positive energy. I strive to meditate and can sit for hours(what I am sure of so far) with my eyes closed and would love doing it till I die, but that’s not possible because I definitely have to open my eye and get back to life that demands my presence. I don’t want to detach with meditation ever and find easy to detach with world but can’t do so only for MY HAPPINESS :) Did you see I came back to same point where I began :) But all I want to say and repeat myself is that happiness lies in the moment when you are absolutely present in PRESENT... try to find few such mins consciously in your daily lives and it’s okay to live few mins for yourself and your happiness..

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not sure who is she... Late night sketching on a go.. #dowhateverbringsyoutolife #randomness #pencilsketch #notprepared #noundos #daretowelcomecreativity #aftermanyyrs #sketchitout #instapost #latenightpost #livelovelaugh

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#1                                 08/14/2017

Dear Friends,

As we are celebrating our 71st Independence anniversary, I choose to express my strong feelings that I have been keeping inside me since I was grown up enough to understand and realize our country’s brave men, soldier brother’s sacrifices, dedication and deadly stubbornness to protect us with historical and current facts.

Being honest to all of you who might read this letter ever and godly hope that it somehow reaches to all my brave and courageous brothers who must be indulged in their duties towards our motherland and safe guarding our borders while we are sipping the coffee or bed tea in our cozy bed. Before I make any unaware or coincidental mistake while putting down my feelings I request all of you to forgive me considering this my first attempt to express my true feelings in such a platform.

While I am writing this letter, let me tell you about myself in very brief words... I am Kriti from Raebareli, U.P., India but currently living with my husband in Foster city, California, USA from past 1 month but with unchanged intention and love for my country. It’s my first attempt of blogging (hopefully) which has been a long time thrive for me and finally started with some driving force within me pushing me to type down something heartfelt without thinking too much or choosing correct words/English (and that’s the reason of my above disclaimer :)) So yes its 23:30 while I am typing the next word with immense pride and love as soon the clock will tick to 00:00 when I can see 08/15/2017 everywhere here :)....

Now as India already started celebrating the Independence Day post the speech given by our Respected Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at Red Fort,and people are properly awake by switching on their mobile internet (the first action mostly by all, especially young generation like me) they started forwarding the what’s app msgs like “Happy Independence Day”, “Jai Hind Jai Bharat”, clicking their pics in ethnic wear while saluting to the camera... which were pleasing my eyes with tint of funny or you can say sarcastic smile not because I don’t respect their feelings but I feel like questioning their genuine intentions while sending/forwarding these msgs which could be casual and very much in celebration mode. But the immediate thought that was parallely running in my head was, that what’s the point in wishing me or forwarding such msgs within family/friends groups? Secondly, do all of us really care about the nation and are little responsible for our actions in daily lives not for the entire nation but atleast within the home, colony,society,neighborhood,schools, colleges, universities, markets, shopping malls, traffic signals, airport or railway station queues,trains, buses,zoos, parks, beaches, etc..? I understand not the entire population can go and stand at the border or fight for everything that’s against our nation but i am sure they can be sensible enough and can count their actions in such places that I just mentioned above by being responsible and taking sincere efforts to make other people’s routine living life/circumstances protected, peaceful and unharmed... I tried to follow this with my little actions in my personal life so far and would continue doing so and would be grateful to serve the nation if ever I can in any large platform or medium. I strongly believe that if we can make these small places safe and secure we will definitely be strengths for our soldier brothers protecting the nation with our real enemies so that they don’t question themselves that why we chose this life and protect such people who don’t have any serious idea what we are going through. As of now we all feel proud being Indian mainly on these two occasions:

1) On Independence/Republic Day eve

2) When Indian Cricket team wins match or world cup 

But what about then when our nation and people go through some serious crisis and trauma in small incidents like elections, helping girl/boy being molested or raped,giving respect to elders at home, senior citizens in trains, buses, roads airplanes, choosing the right way to get our work done instead of paying bribes,basically standing with what’s correct and right which we have been idolizing now for 70 years in our great freedom fighters by worshiping and remembering them on such days. Isn’t 70 yrs enough lesson learnt to be helping hand for our country’s peace in small forms while protecting it’s dignity and being responsible of our pride?

On this day, apart from celebrating Independence day in school,colleges,offices by singing our national anthem and being patriotic in our respective way, I would request and ask all of us to make this promise to support people in need and to support our nation in any which way by being more responsible and doing things in right way for all the living beings (including trees and water/rivers) within our reach and help people who are in need of your attention,care,love,protection or any sort of help. Let’s bring peace within ourselves first, before we are talking to try it maintain it in India or any part of the world.

Please respect all armed forces brothers and their families and give them real time salute whenever we get lucky to cross our paths with them.. it’s all because of them who are protecting us unconditionally till their last breathe.. 

It’s 01:05 am time to sleep; so would share this post with the last thoughts..

Being part of democratic nation, I would choose to say “I promise to help my nation, my soldier brothers and their families however I can instead of reviving the same old sacrifices of great leaders that our homeland holds with none resulting in our actions”

A Proud Indian always and anywhere :)

Vande Mataram!!