a heart-to-heart

I was talking to one of my very good friends the other day.

It is never easy opening up to somebody.

We all have our own deep, inner most feelings that we keep to ourselves; sharing them doesn't come easy, not even to siblings or family or close friends. But if you can manage to do it, it is wonderfully relieving. You feel so much more lighter and free :)

It feels wonderful to know that somebody in the world understands your deepest fears and anxieties.

You realize a lot about yourself. It is like looking at yourself in a mirror and finding some unpleasant things, but you know it is there and it is true. It is like looking at yourself through a new pair of eyes, not your own, but ones that truly show where you stand, unclouded by your own feelings and desires and ego.

Most of us hesitate thinking we might find something unpalatable, or people might make fun of us and we might get hurt. But, in fact, it is the catharsis that is the window to freedom.

I think the world would be a much better and happier place, if people would just talk to each other ( and I mean talk, not chit chat about the weather and politics)

We keep too much inside, piled up. We live too much with ourselves, when the world is so full of wonderful people.

We think nobody will understand, when the truth is that they don't even know. Sometimes they are just waiting for you to tell them what it is that is worrying you

So the world is not such a dark and bleak place :)
There are lots of nice people out there who genuinely care and want to help out.

Just reach out and grab them :)

The amazing thing called friendship

                                                          A friendship means so much

Friendship is really a matter of time...
The time that it takes to be kind,
The time that it takes just to listen and talk,
To help someone find peace of mind.

Friendship is really a matter of time...
The time that it takes you to do
A thoughtful and generous favour,
That wasnt expected of you,

The time that it takes just to answer a call,
To let someone know that you're there,
Friendship is really a matter of time...
The time that you take when you care

                                               - Amanda Bradley

I dont know who Amanda is, but I came across these lines n i loved them.

Friendship is such an amazing thing!! but do we actually find such friends around us anymore? People who genuinely care about you, who are not thinking of using you for their own ends all the time, people who would put aside their issues to be there for you when you need a helping hand?!

In the commercialised value systems where money and time matter more than human beings, people are always busy chasing knowledge n money n all kinds of material luxuries. Spending hours inside cubicles we are becoming islands. People have no time for each other.

So friendship has lost its meaning these days, often it is reduced to posts on facebook n chats online.

Very rare, I would say, but the species has not yet gone extinct :)
All is yet not lost :) Hope remains for people who are still willing to take that time out of their lives to spend with people that really matter in their lives :)

I can say for a fact that it is wonderful to have people to share with and anybody who has found such frienship is the luckiest person on earth!!

So get out there, what are you waiting for?

Realities of life

Yesterday I met a girl in class.

Her parents are jobless, her mother is bed ridden with a fatal illness, she is 31 years old, unmarried, gets up at 3am to do all the work at home and then comes to class.

made me wonder how lucky I am!!

not that I dont have problems and worries of my own but it is nothing compared to what she is going through

we often think only about our own problems when in fact they might be trivial. There are so many people out there with far greater problems dealing them with much greater fortitude and resolve.

Makes me rethink on my own issues n gives me strength to go out and meet them head-on.