Path Of Substance

What fear to take the path untrodden,   
              when what lies at its end is unknown,                
      what we think is ours,          
       is not our very own.        

       

Live for a reason,
           as good as it can be,            
    at the end of everything,   
         it will surface back to thee,      

  having crossed every path with just a clean heart,
  and no inkling as to what the result would be,    
  this is but another path to be travelled upon,   
  albeit to a place none like before.      

   
  It is a road everyone has to take,     
  some early,some late.                
                                    

  With a smile on your face,           
              you have jumped over every obstacle on your way,                  
  is this the last one, you wonder, 
  and leave everything to the One you have always believed in.  

  It may look a road full of thorns and stones,    
  but thats just a perception, you see,
  once you make your destination your destiny,
  the journey has nothing to be feared by thee.

  Realize each step that you take, 
  as it is more precious than the one you took before,
  as each one takes you closer to nothingness,
  a conjunction of peace and satisfaction  never more.

                               
 If good deeds have carved your life,
  there is no fear left to feel,
  the path is trodden with just one thought in mind,
  and the end we hoped for is known and turned into real.

(P.S This is on the blog on Nisha's request :). This is one of the most thoughtful and deepest ones that I have written....something really really close to my heart)

Abode of God

Never ending diamonds on a  field of greens,

Sparkling to the tune of the birds’ song,

That is the sound of music,

That is the sound of dawn.

Those leaves rustle in a familiar way,

Those birds descend on your path,

That silence in itself, music,

That peace in itself, God.

Can the sky be so clear,

With no cloud in sight,

Maybe the man has cleansed his heart,

Soul and mind.

That gust of wind brings storiesfrom far far away,

It even takes back the stories that I narrate,

The leaves have stopped their motion,

the birds make sound no more,

my thoughts have a reached a standstill,

at the place so longed for before,

I have found my destination,

My feet need no longer trod,

As I realize I have reached,

Reached the abode of God.

(P.S. I thank the green lane and the nature filled campus that I often walk through for the inspiration and those walks where I just had my thoughts accompanying me.)

You know you are in SP Comps 2012( F. E. ) if..

                                        After a whole series of LOLs and comments on my previous post, my mind can't help jog backwards to my first year( my brain needs exercise too after being subjected to torturous COA and EDC). So this post delayed by a year appears on my blog at last.(Dramatic, ain't it? ) So, You know you are in SP COMPS 2012( F. E. ) if

1)You pronounce structure as "Stackture"

2) You are found saying "Thees is thee breedboard and thees is the sirkeet".

3) Your measures of water include 1 litre bottle, 5 litre bottle and...............titu bottle

4) the sentence "You will get THE  jheero mark"  haunts you

5) You go for bowling or to Fun republic as often as you write your assignments (:P)

6) You write psuedocodes to torture jail inmates in the game on your class community at 2 in the morning

7) The attendance of most of your classmates( including you) is 90% and above in every subject possible.

8) You spell angry as "angree" and pronounce new year as "nivear".

9) You keep saying  "Yeah, yeah" in a fake american accent.

10) You expect your CS professor to chit chat with other students when your GD is going on.

11) You keep gossipping about seniors(especially the immediate ones)

12) the IV reminds you of.................................you are already remembering :P

13) writing 'i' or saying "i theta" is second nature to you

14) the complex polymers in chemistry have "snack" like structures.

I guess this will be of some use to you as some of these signs are still shown by some of us even after first year. I guess you can use these to find us too.
My teeth are flashing at the thought of what I have written. Hope yours' are too . :D Have fun and a great exam season. :P

You know you are in SP Comps 2012( S. E. ) if..

                                                  The whole of my last two weeks were submerged in submissions and practicals and studying feverishly for those dangerous vivas.So,I came up with some things you can totally associate my class students with ;maybe even our seniors..

1) If your status updates and chat contain lines of C++ or JAVA, mostly consisting of infinite loops
 
2)If you suffer from zerumderigophobia- fear of null pointer exception

3)If you can hear nothing but a high pitched voice and see nothing but a haunted face wherever you look after  a DSF lecture or practical in second year.

4)If  your last wish is to haunt the owner of that screeching dreadful voice(:P)

5)If you ask them what a dangling pointer is, they stand straight with their hand parallel to the floor and move their hand along with themselves left and right.

6)If you pronounce zero as "jheero" and m as "yum".

7)If you are an expert at carrom and table tennis.

8)If you expect a teacher to say  "Attend maai neaaxt leakcher" at least 10 times if someone enters late

9) If when you see a cockroach, you wonder whether it is drunk and write a code to calculate the time in which it would reach the other end of the hall.

From now on, if you have to look for a SE Comps student of this year, all of you have to do is look for these signs. Happy finding!

Journey or Destination?

                              I know my last post was very unlike what I have posted all these days.They were just a conglomeration of the different thoughts I had..Everyone seems to be in a thoughtful and reflective mood nowadays. Maybe that is what PL does to you.So many things that I have been trying to observe this semester, thought I'd share my contemplations.

                   Sometimes, the journey is much more significant than the destination.No, always. Look at these situations.

You meet a friend who was in the same 12th standard classes as you.You start talking about what each other is doing nowadays. But have you ever noticed how small that conversation is? Because your this conversation immediately shifts to those "good old days"  and how much fun you had and then there is this period of silence. You are already back to that place and time.

Why,even when we are having a casual conversation with our long time friends,the conversation slips to the time we first met, our first thoughts, our first opinions before we knew them he way we know now . .the surprising fact? You are never bored of repeating this conversation and it brings a smile to your face in an effortless attempt.

 

Let me narrate an experience I had this semester which strengthened my ideas.

 

This semester we were divided into four batches in anticipation of the diploma students against the usual 3 till last sem. Result? There was no one in my batch who I knew too well and I was totally distraught at the fact that I am gonna be stark bored at the end of this semester. Maybe my journey had different plans. There were two guys I knew somewhat better than the others and the same, likewise. So,we kind of hung around together during practicals et al. We were similar in our thoughts and both of them  weren't people who would mock me for the way I do things so religiously because they do too. So it happened that we are the only people in the batch who performed the practicals properly and were considered prudent and responsible. The whole semester, the togetherness bonded us and practicals were much more fun. At the end of the sem, we had not only got A+ in most of our journals but had also earned the wealth of being in the good books of our teachers.

 

So what did I observe? We didn't be with each other in pursuit of the grades....our journey together led us to this result.

 

The point is all of us are so obsessed with materialistic things that we forget to notice the smallest things in life which can give us the same happiness. Most of the students in the same phase as mine are thinking about getting into a college committee, attend workshops so that it will give them that extra edge in the job interview. Me included. Accepted these things are important but so important that you consider everyone around you competition and forget that they are your friends first??Absolutely not. What we fail to realize is we are lucky to have got into this college, we are lucky that we have friends who understand us so well and that itself is a good sign and it would take us to the destination we want to reach.




Let's say that a person's intended destination is money...Lots of it..He will work really hard to get it. Maybe he would study and do various activities just for that.Once he gets it,more money. He will pursue money like nothing before.There will be a time where he has lots of money.That time, if that person looks back, what would he have missed?? ..He would have missed that small sign of someone wanting to know him,someone who wanted to have fun with him, that small innocent smile of a child, small gestures of love, the feeling of achievement when he learnt something new,the novelty of a subject maybe... not all of it but significantly yes. So even if he has the money,he doesn't have the satisfaction of having attained it nor did he enjoy the process of getting it.




The 12th standard classes were meant for us to get into the best colleges. but the journey gave us something much more invaluable..friendship.You may be taking your best friend for granted. But that journey gave you something..memories.


It is proved time and again that if we give importance to our journey and keep the destination in mind, along with the destination intended, by just one path we reach many more wonderful places. If the person hadn't been so obsessed with earning money, maybe he would have lots of money and people to enjoy it with. Maybe if he had given his friends some importance, they would have put their ideas together and earned money faster along with strengthening their relationship.




There is a journey, maybe the only one which all of us never want to end,an example which stares you at your face.....LIFE..Life is a journey from birth to death. If the destination was what mattered, we should have been running closer to death than away from it.Just like Harry Potter needs a happy memory to produce a patronus, we need happy memories too. We need people.We need love.We need those small happy feelings when someone praises us. We need that feeling of worthiness when we finish studying what we wished to finish that day. We need to make every journey of ours great just to enjoy the destination. Why, even when you wish to attain God, the journey is what makes us realize who He is, why we need Him, He exists. So when you attain him( by His grace), you have reached your goal with peace and realization.




Maybe we muggles don't have to fight dementors, but we do have to make our
"The Journey " worthwhile so that when it has to end, when death comes as is the nature's will, we not only have reached our intended destination but also have a reason to have taken the journey in the first place. :)