અઠ્ઠાવીસ વર્ષ ની જિંદગી : લાઈફ નું background music આટલું ક્રૂર કેમ હોય છે ?

Thanks . . .

દોસ્તો,

તમારો ખુબ - ખુબ આભાર જન્મ દિવસ ની સુભેચ્છાઓ માટે . . .

આ વરષે દિવાળી પણ સાથે હતી . . . એટલે ખુશી ડબલ થઇ ગઈ . . .

એવી ઢગલો વાતો અને પ્રસંગો જેને વિતેલા વર્ષ ને એક નોવેલ ની જેમ જ રોમાંચક બનાવી કાઢ્યું . . . છેલ્લા દિવસે જયારે વિચારવા બેસીએ ત્યારે લાગે કે " બોસ શું વરસ હતું એ . . .! "

તમારામાં થી પણ ઘણા ની એવી જ હાલત હશે . . રાઇટ ?

આપ કી ખિદમત મેં પેશ હે - કેટલાક આડા અવળા વિચારો:

જિંદગીની સૌથી મોટી ઉપલબ્ધી એ હોય છે કે લોકો એમ માની બેસે કે તમે હવે તૂટી ગયા છો . . . અને તમે મર્દ ની જેમ બેઠા થાવ . . . લોકો ને તમે મજબુર કરી દો એમની આંખો ના ચશ્માં ના નંબર ચેક કરાવવા માટે . . . જિંદગી જીવવી એ એક ગર્વ લેવા જેવી વાત છે, . . જો તમે એને એ રીતે જીવ્યા હોય તો . .!

દરેક ની જિંદગી નો એક અર્થ નીકળતો હોય છે। . . . એ અર્થ - જેની વાહ વાહ લોકો ને એના માર્યા પછી કરવી ગમતી હોય છે। . . અને તમે જાણો છો કે એનો કશો અર્થ નથી . . . છતાયે . . !

તમારે છેવટે સ્વીકારી લેવું પડે છે કે તમે એક યોદ્ધા છો અને તમારે પણ જાણે - અજાણ્યે એક યુદ્ધ લડવાનું હોય છે, . . . જીવન ના દરેક ક્ષેત્રે : ચાહે પછી એ સમાજ સામુ હોય, પોતાના બોસ ની સામે કે પછી પોતાની સામુ જ કેમ ના હોય . . તમે એ વાત સ્વીકારો કે ના સ્વીકારો . . . તમને ગમે કે ના ગમે . . આ દુનિયા તમને એ રંગો એ રંગી નાખે છે કે જે તમારા જીવન ના સિલેબસ માં નથી . . . અને ધીમે ધીમે એ જ રંગો તમારા લોહી માં વણાઈ જતા હોય છે, . . . તમે એક આદર્શવાદી હતા, જેને હવે દુનિયા એ નવું બિરુદ આપ્યું હોય છે : " એ તો બહુ પ્રેક્ટીકલ માણસ બની ગયો છે . . . " જીનેટીકલી હવે તમારા રંગસૂત્રો બદલાઈ ચુક્યા હોય છે . . . હવે તમે એક એવા માણસ બની ચુક્યા હોવ છો જે લોકો ના હાસ્ય માં પણ રોદણાં શોધી સકે છે . . !

ઈનફેક્ટ, લાઈફ માં રોદણાં રોવાનો કઈ જ અર્થ નથી . . . એ પછી એ મારી લાઈફ હોય કે તમારી . . . જિંદગી - એક જ વાર જીવાતી હોય છે . . . અને એટલે જ તમારે એ રીતે જીવવી જોઈએ જેવી તમે ઈચ્છો છો . . . અહિયાં કોઈ અવેજી ખેલાડી નથી મળવાનો જે તમારા બદલા માં દોડી લેશે . . . પોતાનું motivation જાતે જ બનવું પડે છે . . પોતે જ પોતાની ફિલોસોફી બનાવવી પડે છે। . . (અખો કહે છે એમ જ તો : તું તારો ગુરુ થા . . !) . . . પોતાની નિષ્ફળતાઓ પણ પોતે જ પચાવવી પડે છે, . . પોતાની સફળતાઓ માં પણ જાતે જ પોતાને શાબાશી આપવી પડે છે, . .તમારે સીખવું પડે છે કે જયારે બધુ અવળુ પડે ત્યારે પોત જ પોતાનો ખભો થાબડવો પડે છે . . . interestingly તમને એ પણ ખબર જ હોય છે કે કોઈ પણ વાત જે તમે કહો છો એ ફક્ત તમારી એકલા ની નથી હોતી . . . દરેક ના મનોરાજ્ય માં એક ધમસાણ મચેલું હોય છે જ . . !

આ જ જીવન છે . . અને અને તમારે જ જીવવાનું છે . . . આમ તમારી કોઈ બહાના બાજી ચાલતી નથી . . અથવા કહો તો ચાલી સકતી નથી . . . ખાડા માં પડ્યા પછી પણ ઉભા થવા માટે પણ તમારે પોતે જ મહેનત કરાવી પડે છે, . . . તમારા દોસ્તો કદાચ હોય છે ખાડા ની આજુ બાજુ પણ એ વખતે તેમનો રોલ ફક્ત પ્રેક્ષક નો હોય છે, . . . અને તમારા દુશ્મનો તો આ પ્રસંગ ની રાહ જોઇને બેઠા હોય છે . . . તેમના માટે આ ઉત્સવ છે . . . તમને કદાચ ફરક સમજાઇ જાય છે : who is really - યારો, બદ્શાહો . . . !

હસતા માણસો ને જોઈ ને નાનો હતો ત્યારે ક્યારેક વિચારતો કે આ માણસ આટલો ખુશ કેમનો રહી સકતો હશે? . . હવે એવું કશું વિચારવાની જરૂર નથી પડતી . . . (આપણ ને ઘણી બધી વાતો માણસો ના ચહેરા જોઇને જ ખબર પડી જાય છે . . . )

અઠ્ઠાવીસ વર્ષ ની જિંદગી : 3rd Nov - 2013

કદાચ, હવે તમને સમજાઇ જાય છે કે લાઈફ નું background music આટલું ક્રૂર કેમ હોય છે . . . ! ( . . ઉફ્ફ , . . સો મચ ફીલોશોફીકલ યારો . . .)

લેકિન, કિન્તુ, પરંતુ; . . .

facebook એક પ્લેટફોર્મ છે જ્યાં મિત્રો ને મળતો રહું છું . . . જ્યાં મેં મારા વિચારો મિત્રો સામે મુક્યા છે . . . નવા નવા પ્રતિભાવો મળે છે, , , જ્યાં રોજ કૈક ને કૈક સીખવા મળે છે . . . એવા ઘણાય મિત્રો મને મળ્યા છે કે જે હંમેસા તૈયાર હોય છે કૈક સીખવવા માટે અને એ પણ કોઈ જાતની અપેક્ષા વગર . . .

જલસા પડી જાય છે દોસ્તો તમારી સાથે . .

વીતેલા વર્ષે કઈ ખોટું લાગ્યું હોય તો . . . બોલ્યું ચાલ્યું માફ !

નવા વર્ષ ની ખુબ ખુબ સુભેચ્છાઓ . . .

ફરીથી, . . . આભાર દોસ્તો, . . .

યોર્સ,

નિમેષ પ્રજાપતિ

Some Funny Short Stories

 

The child and his mother:

A curious child asked his mother: “Mommy, why are some of your hairs turning grey?”
The mother tried to use this occasion to teach her child: “It is because of you, dear. Every bad action of yours will turn one of my hairs grey!”
The child replied innocently: “Now I know why grandmother has only grey hairs on her head.”

Wrong email address:

A couple going on vacation but his wife was on a business trip so he went to the destination first and his wife would meet him the next day.
When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email.
Unfortunately, when typing her address, he mistyped a letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away only the day before.
When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint.
At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
P.S. Sure is hot down here.

Will’s experience at the airport:

After his return from Rome, Will couldn’t find his luggage in the airport baggage area. He went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that his bags hadn’t shown up on the carousel.
She smiled and told him not to worry because they were trained professionals and he was in good hands.
Then she asked Will, “Has your plane arrived yet?”

Clever kids:

A police officer found a perfect hiding place for watching for speeding motorists.
One day, the officer was amazed when everyone was under the speed limit, so he investigated and found the problem.
A 10 years old boy was standing on the side of the road with a huge hand painted sign which said “Radar Trap Ahead.”
A little more investigative work led the officer to the boy’s accomplice: another boy about 100 yards beyond the radar trap with a sign reading “TIPS” and a bucket at his feet full of change.

Mouthology:

A Professor was traveling by boat. On his way he asked the sailor:
“Do you know Biology, Ecology, Zoology, Geography, physiology?
The sailor said no to all his questions.
Professor: What the hell do you know on earth. You will die of illiteracy.
After a while the boat started sinking. The Sailor asked the Professor, do you know swiminology & escapology from sharkology?
The professor said no.
Sailor: “Well, sharkology & crocodilogy will eat your assology, headology & you will dieology because of your mouthology.

Elephant:

The class teacher asks students to name an animal that begins with an “E”. One boy says, “Elephant.”
Then the teacher asks for an animal that begins with a “T”. The same boy says, “Two elephants.”
The teacher sends the boy out of the class for bad behavior. After that she asks for an animal beginning with “M”.
The boy shouts from the other side of the wall: “Maybe an elephant!”

~ Collected Stories

Two frogs in the milk

This is the story of two frogs. One frog was fat and the other skinny. One day, while searching for food, they inadvertently jumped into a vat of milk. They couldn't get out, as the sides were too slippery, so they were just swimming around.

The fat frog said to the skinny frog, "Brother frog, there's no use paddling any longer. We're just going to drown, so we might as well give up." The skinny frog replied, "Hold on brother, keep paddling. Somebody will get us out." And they continued paddling for hours.

After a while, the fat frog said, "Brother frog, there's no use. I'm becoming very tired now. I'm just going to stop paddling and drown. It's Sunday and nobody's working. We're doomed. There's no possible way out of here." But the skinny frog said, "Keep trying. Keep paddling. Something will happen, keep paddling." Another couple of hours passed.

The fat frog said, "I can't go on any longer. There's no sense in doing it because we're going to drown anyway. What's the use?" And the fat frog stopped. He gave up. And he drowned in the milk. But the skinny frog kept on paddling.

Ten minutes later, the skinny frog felt something solid beneath his feet. He had churned the milk into butter and he hopped out of the vat.

Author: Melissa D Zartman
(Collected Stories)

Salt, Glass of Water and the Lake

“ Each morning we are born again.
What we do today is what matters most . . . ”

- Buddha

Once an unhappy young man came to an old master and told he had a very sad life and asked for a solution.

The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.

“How does it taste?” – the Master asked.

“Terrible.” – spat the apprentice.

The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake.

The old man said, “Now drink from the lake.”

As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the Master asked, “How does it taste?”

“Good!” – remarked the apprentice.

“Do you taste the salt?” – asked the Master.

“No.” – said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, “The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the ‘pain’ depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”

~ Author Unknown

Masters of Our Mouths

Once an old man spread rumours that his neighbour was a thief. As a result, the young man was arrested. Days later the young man was proven innocent. After being released he sued the old man for wrongly accusing him.

In the court the old man told the Judge: “They were just comments, didn’t harm anyone.” The judge told the old man: “Write all the things you said about him on a piece of paper. Cut them up and on the way home, throw the pieces of paper out. Tomorrow, come back to hear the sentence.”

Next day, the judge told the old man: “Before receiving the sentence, you will have to go out and gather all the pieces of paper that you threw out yesterday.”

The old man said: “I can’t do that! The wind spread them and I won’t know where to find them.”

The judge then replied: “The same way, simple comments may destroy the honour of a man to such an extent that one is not able to fix it. If you can’t speak well of someone, rather don’t say anything.”

Moral: Let’s all be masters of our mouths, so that we won’t be slaves of our words.

Birthday Thoughts : 03.11.2013

• We celebrate a Birthday for many reasons, for joys we have known through lots of reasons, for friends who share in all we do, for the road ahead that makes our world new.
• A Birthday is a time to makes wishes for all good things – Brightest hopes, warmth and joy of love and pleasured moments.
• A Birthday is a time to create special memories that are warmly woven into our hearts, and cherished forever.
• A Birthday brings new dimensions, that enable to see, all things within a kinderlight and more perceptively.
• A Birthday means some time to spend, on things you’d like to do, time to use in special ways that mean the most to you.
• It’s pleasure having Birthday’s when you know without a doubt, that living each day fully, is what life is all about.
• A Birthday is a brand new chance to start fulfilling all the hopes and dreams and to begin making more wishes from the heart.
• A Birthday is a time to celebrate, to find a quiet moment or two, to relax & take it easy, and enjoy whatever it brings.
• A Birthday is a million moments, each holding a promise of fulfillment of your dreams, and accomplishment of some special plans.
• On your Birthday you get to celebrate yourself with smiles, frolic, songs and cheer.
• A Birthday is a day that brings you special joy, a day that lets you know, you’re always loved & cherished.
• A Birthday is a thoughtful day from dawn to close when you sit back and remind yourself of the days before.
• A Birthday is a day, so happy, sunny and bright, filled with pleasant surprises, fun, and delights.
• A Birthday brings with it nicest kinds of joy, happy hearts, cheerful words, and loving smiles.
•  A Birthday always brings, the bluest skies that touch spring, the kind that fills the world with fun from break of day, to setting sun.
• A Birthday wish can add a special touch of sunshine to the hearts and lives of those who mean so much.
• A Birthday is a time to look back on wonderful times, good friends and dreams that come true.
•  Each year a Birthday comes, to make us wise and kind, and help us judge all people with the heart and not the mind.
•  A Birthday is a special day, filled with all the beautiful and nice things, that happy memories are made of.
• Every Birthday is a dream that’s cherished by the heart, in which your brightest hopes and wishes play a part.
• An extremely wonderful day, that’s what a Birthday is, coupled with good luck, happiness & joy, beyond pleasure.
• Birthdays are special occasions for letting people know, how much they mean to their loved ones and how much they are cared for.
• Birthdays are special days when you reminisce the past, and think about the wonderful things that will always last.
• Birthdays are times filled with dreams of tomorrow, which will touch your life with new experiences and moments worth cherishing.
• A Birthday is the time to remember the triumphs and pleasures, the laughter and cheer, and the joys shared with the loved ones near.
• Birthdays are a chance to enjoy nature’s beauty – Like sweet smell of flowers and the warmth of the sun, that are sure to please your heart.
• A Birthday’s a good time to put into words, the thoughts all too seldom expressed, for the one who is loved so much.
• Birthdays are occasions for compliments and praise, and saying all the nice things we don’t say on other days.
• Birthdays come and birthdays go, with each passing one we grow, they teacj us to look forward, too, as with each passing year we see out dreams coming 

 ~ Thoughts Collected on 03.11.2013 - Diwali (Birthday Boy's Day) 

Thoughts : 03.11.2013 - Sunday (Diwali)

1. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill 
2. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost
5. The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’ -Jeffrey Bezos
6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan
8. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
9. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
10. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
11. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
12. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
13. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –John Maxwell
14. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins
15. The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha
16. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb
17. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
18. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
19. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. –Napoleon Hill
20. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
21. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
22. Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
23. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
24. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
25. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
26. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
27. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
28. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

~ Nimesh Prajapati Collected Thoughts : 03.11.2013 - Sunday (Diwali)