Don't give up

This is a story i got through a group some time back.... this is something that i loved soo much .. so thought of posting it in my blog...


Don't give up...

One day I decided to quit... I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality... I wanted to quit my life. I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.

"God", I asked, "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?" His answer surprised me... "Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo?"

"Yes", I replied. "When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year the fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said. "In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit." He said. "Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant... But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle." He asked me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots".

"I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you". "Don't compare yourself to others" He said. "The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful". "Your time will come", God said to me.

"You will rise high!" "How high should I rise?" I asked. "How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked in return. "As high as it can?" I questioned. "Yes." He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can". I left the forest and brought back this story. I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you.

Never, Never, Never Give up; for Prayer is not an option but an opportunity. Don't tell the Lord how big the problem is, tell the problem how Great the Lord is!

Oh My Dear ....

When im cold , his embrace gives me warmth...
When im happy , he smiles with me...
When im sad , his presence gives me consolation...
When i cry , he holds my tears and craddles me to sleep...
When i watch a movie , he sits close by my side...
When i sleep , he holds me close and watches over me...
When i wake up , he's still there for me greeting with his warm smile...

What did i do to have you in my life?? Who can ever replace you??? I'll have sleepless nights without you by my side ..
I'll always be thankful to my dad for giving u to me ,
Oh my dear Blanket ;)

Simple things

A passing child's simple, innocent smile at its mother's lovely face ...

The peace on a child's face when resting on its father's shoulder within his warm embrace ...

The thankful smile and words of an elderly lady for whom you got up and gave the seat in a bus ...

The kindness of a stranger who came voluntarily and gave you a lift to your office ...

A street puppy running towards you wagging it tails and jumping with joy at your feet ...

A kid on the road waving at you and saying ta ta ...

A clear sky scattered with stars and the moon shining bright in the midst - and may be a shooting star just as u r watching ...

These all might be just simple , everyday things .But i have learnt that they all give me grt happiness and manage to change the mood of the entire day :) Its like they remind me that happiness is all around and simple things like a smile or a flying butterfly or a kind word or just a beautiful scenery can light up ur life.All we have to do is open our eyes and take the time to notice . Remember - happiness is just around the corner :)

The Times .... Flashes of memory

The first time i met u all : i would not have imagined how close we will become - i dont even remember who told the first hello and how we started to hang out together but ill always be happy for that special moment which started it all :)

The times we danced together : our own ballroom dancing and poses for pics.. i still cant forget P teaching us all the mozhi dance step and the video shoot we had .. with u ppl i could just be whatever i wanted to be :)

The times we posed together for pics : Man !! we would have taken hundreds of pics together in K's room itself .. till today i just cant stop laughing whenever i remember our grt 'charlie's angels 'pose ..hehe.. that one will be saved in my memory for a long time :)

The times we ate one huge cup of icecream together: can i ever forget that wonderful sight??? we breaking our icecream sticks in trying to eat faster than the other and then even using the smallest piece of the stick left to take out as much as we can from that poor cup caught between us :)

The times we walked around the campus in the evening : All those comments about the pairs sitting along the way ... the teasings ... the beautiful cool breeze ... also the walks along the sea shores...the loud laughters..they were truely some walks to remember :)

The times we sat on the wooden bench near the park : we had our own bench out there - we even fought with some juniors for it... It was there where we talked for hours watching the sunset , sorted out problems between us and opened our hearts out to each other... that bench will surely be missing us :)

The times we had our own sleepovers : oh god!! how we used to cram together in one room , watch movies, eat someone's snack , have pillow fights and talk through the night!! We wouldn't even have space to roll over when we sleep... K even managed to frighten me with the story of rats biting off hair and even toes of people sleeping on the floor!! but ofcourse nothing mattered when we were together :)

The times we sat together to study during exams : Actually its more of we 'tried' to study - hardly succeeding, atleast that was the case with me .. can't include D in this as she was just too sincere :D . We ended up going to nescafe for a tea or coffee more than we studied :)

The times we shouted and cheered in the auditorium: Can we ever forget the grt clash of hostels -zephyr ?? We would shout like hell .. But none can beat D at this - she was the voice of the hostel ;) you really need guts to sit by her side when she shrieks and we all were brave enough for it inspite of the slight ear damage it could cause :)

The times we ate together : how can i forget it?? the wonderful schezwan chicken!!!the finger fries , the bad soups ;) , the late night snacks , the chocolates which we had to guard so well ...just delicious moments :)

The times we celebrated together: the damn good b'day parties , the best cakes ive ever seen :) , the dance parties , the silly dares , the grt surprises , the cool treats ... its just incomparable ... nthing could be more fun and thrilling compared to them :)

Those were the times we laughed , we cried , we danced, we fought , we loved , we hated , we won , we lost , we ate , we starved , we studied , we played , we fell , we rose - but through it all our friendship survived and the bond grew stronger each time we thought it will break. We learnt to accept one another just the way we are - each one different , unique and special in someway. The best part is , through it all we stayed together and still are - just the way people envied us :)

Roses at my door step

That sounds quite romantic naa??? It happened this year on 14th of october - my birthday. The day started wonderfully as all of my b'days do - with everyone calling to wish me and thereby trying to wake me up early at least on this day :D . Finally after many such wake-up calls i got outta my warm , lovely bed (man that thing is just too good!!) This birthday happened to be the first one after i started working - so i was missing my college b'day celebrations - the midnight parties , the delicious cakes , the silly dares , the grt gifts , the surprises from friends , all the wishes and smiles - wow!! it was all too good and how i missed it all!! With all these thoughts in mind and hatred towards this working life i got ready and somehow managed to cheer myself up and reached office...then the day went as usual though i wasn't doing any much office work ( come on! after all its my b'day - I'm not supposed to work right?) .But u know what?? they say that in every dark cloud there just might be a silver line .. i just managed to find my own silver line which turned to be quite a lightning in an other wise boring day :)

It was about 11.30 a.m or something when my dear old nokia vibrated indicating that i got a message(being a nice girl , i have my mobile always in silent mode :D). I read the message thinking that it will be another nice wish from a friend - i was partly right , it was a cute b'day wish but only this time it wasn't from a friend - it was from a total stranger!!Ahem! don't think i started floating in the air with dreams .. I've been through this message stuff during b'days before - these friends of mine always try to fool me like this ..btw i have to tell abt my dear friends here ..we are a close gang of 4 - me , D, P and K (identities are protected :D ). I'll tell abt them some other time.

So coming back to my b'day.. this time my brain was quite alert and i was sure it should mostly be either D or P who could do this.Anyway i played along and replied back asking who it is and things like that ... my secret admirer as expected refused to tell his name but wanted to meet me sometime..Grt i thought - by this time i was quite sure that this is the work of P ..so i called her and told that i found out her game . But she stubbornly refused to accept that she's doing this and said that she had no idea abt it ... she even started teasing me with this secret admirer guy :( poor me!! anyway i still was convinced that its her grt game and just thought to go along with it and see what happens .. So this messaging went on for sometime and then i got involved with some office work. By the time it was evening i had quite forgotten this secret admirer stuff.

But u know - they say that love doesn't leave u , though it wasn't exactly love here .. i got another message from the secret admirer after i reached home -guess what?? it read "hi, open your door and see " and i was like "OH MY GOD!!" Can you imagine?? That admirer guy just is real!! My heart beat so fast i could actually hear its rhythm! i got all possible reactions - a chill down my spine , butterflies in my stomach , and shivering hands . I was thinking - what could be there when i open the door?? will the guy himself be there smiling at me or is it some kinda gift that's awaiting??? oh god! oh god! i really couldn't take a step towards my door.You just should have seen my face!! Then i gathered all my strength and went to meet the destiny awaiting at my doorstep.I opened my door ..and there it was at my doorstep - a beautiful bouquet of red roses!! It was just too lovely .. i took it and looked for anyone around who would have brought the gift - but couldn't find a soul except the aunt two doors away who was looking weirdly at me .. i didn't get the strength to ask her - how can i ??? I went in and frantically called my admirer's number but he wasn't picking it up .. oh my!! i went out of the door again and looked around .. was running in and out of my house - whats happening to me?? then finally i calmed down a bit and decided to go ask the security abt this ...

I stepped out of my house - you should have seen the grt scene that happened ... my dear friends D and P jumped outta nowhere singing "happy b'day to u" and laughing their hearts out .What???? It was all your doing???? i shouted at them - they were like rolling with laughter and were proud of what they had accomplished . And me???? what else to do?? was blushing like hell for believing in the secret admirer stuff and patiently took in all their teasing with a smile - what else can you do when you are silly enough to expect prince charming waiting at your doorstep with a bouquet of red roses??

Everything in life teaches us something.Lesson learnt here by me - i might have left the college and may not be exactly having all the same fun and celebrations that we had there but "friends are always friends" - they are the soul and life of college days and every celebration that happened there ...as long as they are with me - its always fun. Again , they say that its the company that matters and not the place or anything else.Believe me this was one thrilling b'day i ever had .. full of surprises and excitement - just the way i like it :)

The Me , the Machine and the Database .... 'A Date with Database'

So this is about my date with "The database" ..it was all arranged through my machine - the grt inter mediator.I was just too excited - it's been a long time since i actually did any active interesting work. I was happy that i finally got to do something nice ( which i was soon going to regret by-the-way). It all started quite fine... i came fresh and full of energy in the early morning ( early according to my standards) .The machine was all charged up and ready to connect two wonderful ppl - me and the db ( ill call the database as db from now on - quite a long name .. wht to do??) . Finally we got connected and started getting to know each other -it was all quite fine at first with grt data sharing. I even started to think that this could be what i have been waiting for all this long!! (see .. sometimes the takeoff to dreamland could be quite fast ) Then as i wanted more data from db , things started to change.. db's response time increased and i grew impatient(turbulence time...). In all this discomfort , the machine too started to groan and made all heads turn towards us - what an embarrassment!! By now the db has become totally unresponsive and the data transfer seemed to be taking ages ... the poor machine was struggling to keep us connected . As for me - never mind .. somethings can't be explained in words - they include not just things which make you spellbound but also things which irritate you to the core . I lost all my patience and shouted at myself for thinking that this could all be exciting and entertaining . How did i think that this could be what i've been waiting for?? things are all not what they seem to be at first sight baby!! Finally my brain worked and i came back to reality- but it was too late ... seems like some processes cant be stopped when started - but this one didnt seem to give any sign of ending or for that matter even any sign of progress ... so i decided to take the ultimate step - "KILL IT" .... finally the happy ending of my date with db goes like this : i killed db , shutdown the inter mediator (the machine) , and ran off from the place to my home sweet home deciding in my mind "no more dates with any database -never!!"

But .......somethings in life............ never.......... leave u

Hello World!!

There goes my blog starting in the modern computer way!! :) But believe me this blog is not gonna contain any computer stuff. It's just about the thoughts , beliefs , imagination and stories of a normal , not-so simple ( meaning quite complex) girl who's taking life the way it comes and trying to give it her best shot with a smile :) .guess thats already too much self-talk .

Now abt this blog - "The night sky" .Why this title?? hmmm..lemme try my hand at explaining. It doesnt stand for anything dark and scary.It's about how 'the stars shine brighter when the sky gets darker' and 'how the moon always grows back after getting reduced to nothing' . Thats the way i see things ( or atleast try to )in life.