Searching happiness?

Happiness is a state of mind, it is contagious, it should be spread across by whatever means possible. Sometimes unintended and every time with intent. We have set our lives in such a way that there is a narrow room for happiness  to seek amidst our work, complex relationships, societal instability, whimsical weather (read: nature) etc. I do not know how to be happy or create happiness. All I know is the more I spread it, I am sure to get it back.

Such below priceless moments make me smile and get into the bliss zone. I pledge to update more, hope it spreads and becomes an epidemic in at least a small way.

I love babies. Period.

1- Bubblicious 🙂

 

2- The Poppy Bear

 

3- The Fashionista

 

4- The Hooded Cutie

 

May be this is one of those days when I just wanted to get down to my love for cuddles and chuckles. I would add up more such moments in the near future.

Share it across and just smile…!

Ash.

What was the last thing you said to your ex?

She – What is my partying gift?

Me – Your Freedom.

And, I winked her while she was in tears. Only if time could come back and change my mind. In God we trust and shoot the stars.

What are the Hardest things to do in Life ?

I was in a retrospecting spree , as usual, while I was on a bike ride to an unknown place once. And in order to know how strong willed I was or am, started noting down what are the things which make me or would drive me to go through pain ~ hard times , in fact hardest in ones life. I realized, sometimes its the subtleties which tests the human patience and calibre to measure one’s tensile strength. The collection below are ones which I am sure everyone would have faced or are going to face sometime in their lives. Few I have gone through, few I am afraid to anticipate… here it goes –

• Quit a well paying job to pursue one’s dreams.
• Apologize to people you have hurt.
• Accepting one’s own mistakes.
• Staying positive when you have lost everything you ever had.
• Staying away from family alone in an unknown place.
• Bouncing back when you have hit rock bottom.
• Being honest in job interviews.
• Making others smile when one has not smiled for ages.
• Keep a low profile despite being extremely knowledgeable about his/her profession.
  
• Attending a loved one’s funeral. – Letting go!!
• Taking responsibility in making a decision which upsets loved ones. 

When I actually am seeing it after a span of few weeks, I do feel strong and prepared. I suggest each one of you to jot down when they are in a mood of self introspection… and
I would love to hear out and enlist your take on the hardest tasks in ones life(however funny or gloomy it might be) . Do comment with your thoughts.

Life is one terrific journey of a roller coaster ride through the unknown. If one has been appointed to take it, Just voice out – Bring it On!!

 

Mindblowing facts about celebrities – Untold , Indigestible :)

Jack Nicholson grew up believing his grandmother was his mother, and his mother was  his sister.  Jack was an illegitimate child, and his mom was 17 when she  had him.

Jack didn’t find out until 1974, when he was 37.  Both his mom and grandmother were gone by then.

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Oprah Winfrey’s given name was actually ORPAH, after the sister of Ruth in the Bible.  But so many people said and spelled it wrong, she just gave up.

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James Franco
worked at the McDonalds drive-thru to make ends meet after dropping out of  UCLA, where he would practice his foreign accents on female customers  over the counter.

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​​Jackie Chan
This is the  face of universal entertainment. This is undoubtedly one of the most loved faces in the world. This is the face of our ever-smiling, charming Jackie Chan.

But how many of you know that this face has suffered at least 7 fractures?

Jackie Chan is known to effortlessly do his own stunts in most of his movies. However nothing heroic comes so easily. He has had several injuries in his body throughout his film career, his nose being the most fractured part.

The following poster was made as a promotion in Japan for one of his recent films, pointing the major injuries in his body, just the major few.
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The translations of the major injury list, starting with Chan’s eyebrow and going counterclockwise.

• Supercilliary bone (eyebrow bone!) damaged, almost causing blindness:Drunken Master (1978)
• Broken Nose: Young Master (1980), Project A (1983), Miracles (1989), Mr. Nice Guy (1997)
• Knocked out tooth: Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow (1978)
• Lip lacerated: Police Story 4: First Strike (1996)
• Lower chin injury: Dragon Lord (1982)
• Dislocation of the right shoulder: City Hunter (1993)
• Broken breastbone: Armour of God II: Operation Condor (1991)
• Broken finger bones: The Protector (1985)
• Knee damage: City Hunter (1993)
• Ankle (well, malleolus) injury: Who Am I? (1998)
• Eye injury: The Medallion (2003)
• Skull fracture, bone cave-in behind left ear, and brain bleeding from falling out of a tree: The Armour of God (1986)
• Cheek bone dislocation: Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992)
• Cervical spine damage from falling from a 25 meter clock tower: Project A(1983)
• Spinal damage from falling from a pole: Police Story (1985)
• Pelvis dislocation almost causing partial paralysis: Police Story (1985)
• Tailbone damage causing temporary partial paralysis: The Accidental Spy(2001)
• Thigh injury from being caught between two cars: Crime Story (1993)
• Broken ankle: Rumble in The Bronx (1995), Thunderbolt (1996)

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BRIAN MAY, Lead guitarist, Queen.  He has a PhD. in astrophysics Imperial College, London.

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Dolph Lundgren

from Rocky. He has a Masters in Chemical Engg. fromMIT and an IQ above 160.

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HEDY LAMARR, Hollywood star from the 40s. She is credited with the invention of Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum. Without her efforts mobile communication, Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi would have been unimaginable.
The biggest irony is that initially her efforts were rejected considering her as a beauty without brains. The importance of her work only came to light after her patents expired in the 60s. She never gained anything from her invention.

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Christopher Nolan

Director of Batman Trilogy, doesn’t have a cellphone or an email account.

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Sylvester Stallone – Debut movie was a A- Rated adult movie

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Woody Harrelson’s dad was an assassin.

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Jason Statham was an Olympic athlete before coming into Hollywood

Jason Statham has been an Olympic diver on the British National Diving Team and finished 12th in the World Championships in 1992.

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Bruce Lee’s Corpse Acted in his Final Movie!

Bruce Lee was filming Game of Death when he died unexpectedly. So what did the studio do? Well, they rewrote the script so Bruce’s character faked his own death to escape the mafia. Then they took footage from Bruce’s actual funeral – including close-ups shots of the open casket showing his embalmed face – and work that into the movie!

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Ben Kingsley is of Indian Origin

Kingsley’s real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is of Gujarati Indian descent.

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The Joker would have been Spider-man

Heath Ledger (who played Joker in TDK) was offered the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man but declined because he didn’t want to risk being typecast as a super-hero.

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Brad Pitt is banned from China

The People’s Republic wasn’t happy when Pitt played a real-life friend of the Dalai Lama in Seven Years in Tibet. They blacklisted him from entering the country.

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Tom Hanks is a third cousin, four generations removed, of Abraham Lincoln.

Their common ancestor is John Hanks, who is Abraham Lincoln’s great-great-grandfather and Tom Hanks’ great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.

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Steve Wozniak was so good at Tetris he got banned from Nintendo Power

At Tetris’s 30th anniversary, the one and only Steve Wozniak dropped by to regale the tales of his long reign as America’s #1 Tetris champion. He was so good, Nintendo Power magazine stopped accepting his score submissions. So Woz had to get crafty.

I constantly had the top score for Gameboy Tetris in the Nintendo Power rankings. It got to where they wanted fresh names in the list and said they would not accept my submissions any longer. So I spelled my name backwards (Evets Kainzow) and changed the city from Los Gatos to Saratoga. Sure enough, they printed that name at the top of the next list of scores. I even have that issue of Nintendo Power, thanks to a thoughtful fan who gifted me with it recently.

Wozniak: Co-founder of Apple, designer of the modern home computer,

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Ashton Kutcher, the actor in hit TV series Two and a Half Men and That 70s show, also starred in a variety of box office hits on the big screen, includingWhat Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, Valentine’s Day, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.

Less Known Facts

• In 2009, he was the first Twitter user to obtain 1 million followers, beating out CNN in a highly publicized race
• Ashton Kutcher has founded a venture fund, A-Grade Investments, which has invested in multiple tech companies including Spotify, Airbnb, Foursquare, Fab, Uber, Dwolla and Path.

• In 2010, Kutcher was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People.
• In that same year, another company of his, Katalyst (a media company creating original content for digital media, television and film), was named one of the year’s Top 50 Most Inspiring Innovators by Ad Age and one of Fast Company Magazine’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies.
• He has a fraternal twin named Michael, who has a heart condition. Ashton enrolled in the University of Iowa to pursue Biochemical Engineering, so as to hope to find a cure for his brother’s condition.
• Kutcher is collaborating with Lenovo on the new Yoga pad series of laptops.
  

  In his new role as a Lenovo product engineer, Kutcher will work with the company’s engineering teams around the world to develop and market the Yoga line of tablets by providing input and decision-making into design, specifications, software and usage scenarios.

• Kutcher along with his ex-wife Demi Moore founded DNA foundation which works to prevent children sex trafficking. DNA Foundation was renamed Thorn Foundation after their divorce.

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Quentin Tarantino’s IQ is same as that of Stephen Hawking — 160.

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When “Lose Yourself” won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, Eminem was home sleeping because he didn’t think he’d win!

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  One perfect example of beauty with brains.

Actress: Natalie Portman

Alma mater: Harvard University (Psychology) 

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Jim Carrey

The comedian dropped out of high school and lived in a VW bus with his family. They used to park the bus at different places in Canada. The family moved to Jim’s elder sister’s house. Jim’s sister had a lawn to live.

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 Daniel Craig
The 007 star used to sleep on park benches when he was a struggling actor. Today, Daniel Craig’s worth is $65 million.

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 Jennifer Lopez
She revolted against her mom. Her mom didn’t want her to join dancing classes and attend college. She left her house when she was 18 and joined the dance classes. Thankfully she got to sleep at the place where she learnt dance. This was her struggle.

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 Hilary Swank

Before she started a career in acting, she stayed in a car with her mom for many years.

These people didn’t gave up and achieved whatever they wished for. So, push your limits always and the universe will conspire for your victory.

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  Rahul Ram :- Bass Guitarist and Vocalist of Indian Ocean.. the band who sang masterpieces like Kandisa.

B.Sc. from St.Stephens College.

M.Sc from IIT Kanpur

Ph.D. from Cornell University on Andrew White Scholarship.

Was active part of Narmada Bachao Andolan 

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Dilip Kumar, the Tragedy King and one of the foremost actors to employ the Method acting.
After playing the doomed lover in Bimal Roy’s Devdas, Dilip Kumar found himself facing an acute depression. Later he admitted that he got dangerously close to his character’s personality, and had to seek psychiatric assistance. The doctor advised him to do non-serious roles for a while. From playing intense roles in Andaz, Mughal-e-Azam and his home production, Ganga Jamuna(which he is said to have ghost-directed), Dilip Kumar went effortlessly into flippant comedy in Azaad, Kohinoor and Ram Aur Shyam. He was as successful at the grin as he was at the grim.

In 1962 British director David Lean offered him the role of “Sherif Ali” in his film Lawrence of Arabia (1962), but Dilip Kumar declined to perform in the movie. The role eventually went to Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor.

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Princess Diana’s death is quoted as an example of globalization.
She was an English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend. They crashed in a French tunnel, riding in a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Frenchman who was drunk on Scotch whisky, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi on Japanese motorcycles, treated by American doctors using Brazilian medicines.

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Harrison Ford
Not happy with the roles being offered to him, Harrison Ford became a self-taught professional carpenter to support his then-wife and two small sons. While working as a carpenter, he became a stagehand for the popular rock band The Doors. He also built a sun deck for actress Sally Kellerman and a recording studio for Brazilian band leader Sérgio Mendes.
He was then hired to build cabinets at the home of director George Lucas, who subsequently cast him in a pivotal supporting role for his film American Graffiti (1973).

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ROBERT DE NIRO

1. Robert did not have a healthy family to grow up in. His father turned out to be homosexual and divorced his mother.

2. His first role at the age of 10 was that of The Cowardly Lion from a school production of The Wizard of Oz. It was when performing this character that Robert fell in love with acting.

3. Robert De Niro’s favorite actress is Meryl Streep. He said that working with Meryl Streep is easy and fun as she has an incredible presence on the set.

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4. In 2003, Robert was diagnosed with a prostate cancer. The disease, however, was no challenge for Robert, who successfully managed to defeat it.

5. Robert dropped out of high school. He did not want to waste any time and went straight to an acting school.

6. Rumors say that Robert De Niro is a very bad tipper. Limousine drivers even came up with a nickname for the actor – “No Dinero“. 😀

7. For his first role, Robert got payed only 50 dollars. His last role, however, got him 20 million dollars.

8. Robert De Niro used to be a part of a New York street gang. However, he quickly decided that should do something meaningful with his life and focused on acting.

9. Robert De Niro was a direct witness of the 9/11 attacks. He saw the twin towers falling from the window of his house.

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He is one of the greatest actors in Tamil Cinema, Who Truly personifies Versatility, Dedication and True Acting Soul. He’s none other than Kamaal Hasan.

We all have accepted his greatness, but there are certain facts that are truely un-known to many [and the last one will stun you for sure].1) Only actor to get 4 national awards and three international awards

2) Four national award for nayagan, indian ,moonram pirai and kalathur kannama.

3) Three south asian international best film award for virumaandi, swati muthayam, saagar sangamam

4) First actor in indian cinema whose 7 films made an official entry to oscar, this itself is a record.

And these movies are as follows :

1. Saagar (1985)

2. Swati Mutyam (1985)

3. Nayagan (1987)

4. Thevar Magan (1992)

5. Kuruthipunal (1995)

6. Indian (1996)

7. Hey Ram (2000)

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  AB de Villiers, SA batsman and Wicket Keeper, is more than what you thought. His unceremonious, bizarre out of the box shots are thanks to his good football & hockey skills.

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1. Mr. Bean can fly plane.
In 2001 while on a trip in Africa, the plane Rowan Atkinson  and his family were in started to go down because the pilot had passed out. Atkinson managed to gain control of the plane before the pilot woke up. The plane landed safely

2. Holds a degree in Electrical Engineering.3. His Father-in-law is Indian.
His wife, Sunetra Sastry,  is Half Indian.

4. Rowan Atkinson went to the same school as Tony Blair.

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Ke$ha 

 The pop star dropped out 1 month before graduating high school ,,. and later scored 1500 out of 1600 on her SATs(Scholastic Aptitude Test) … the star claimed to be having an IQ of around 185 also

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• During the filming of The Avengers Robert Downey Jr hid snacks everywhere. The food he kept offering people in the movie was the actor’s own personal stash – it wasn’t written into the script, the actor just got hungry and would pull out food. The crew couldn’t keep up with all his hiding places, so they finally gave in and let him do it.

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  Freddie Mercury,

the lead singer of the British band Queen, is Parsi by birth. He was born in Gujarat, India and his name at birth happens to be Farrokh Bulsara.

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• Matt Damon is a Harvard university dropout. He attended Harvard University from 1988 to 1992
• Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are not just friends, they are also related. Matt Damon is Ben Affleck’s tenth cousin, once removed, through a common New England ancestor. Damon grew up near Ben Affleck since childhood. They collaborated on several films.

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Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, commonly known as ‘Charlie Chaplin’.

A few months after Charlie Chaplin’s demise, two robbers burgled his coffin from a Swiss cemetery and sent his wife a ransom demand of  $600,000. When she refused to pay, they allegedly intimidated her kids. The bungling robbers were soon taken into custody, however, and the coffin was recovered. It was then reburied in a theft-proof concrete vault.

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  This may not fall into the category of mind-blowing, but perhaps surprising. Actor Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Iron Man 2) used to be a professional boxer in his younger days.

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James Cameron, the director of Titanic and Avatar has a frog named after him. Pristimantis jamescameroni, is a newly discovered frog species in Venezuela named in recognition of his efforts to alert the general public to environmental problems through pioneering high quality blockbuster movies and adventurous documentaries. Pristimantis jamescameroni is a tiny (adults measure 20 to 27 mm in total length), orangish-brown frog covered with numerous tiny white flecks. It is only known from the summit of an isolated table-top mountain (tepui) in Bolívar state, Venezuela.

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Seth Macfarlene, (creator & actor of Family guy, American Dad, Ted, A Million Ways To Die In The West) had a ticket for one of the planes which crashed into the twin towers on 9/11.
He missed the flight by just 10 minutes, after oversleeping from a hangover.
(This was before the creation/flourishing of the above shows/films.)

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He’s named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was in a museum in Italy looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting when he first kicked.

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Robert Downey, Jr. almost ruined his career and got arrested several times due to excessive drinking and substance abuse in the late 90’s. One night, he was so dazed that he entered a random house in the neighbourhood and went to sleep in the bedroom, convinced that he was in his own house.

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Photoshopped Images – A spectator’s marvel and creators ingenuity.

Photoshop – This is the best toy for any person who has an eye for tweaking what their minds generally see or perceive. The result is the marvellous, well most of the times!! 🙂

This is one area where being a spectator stuns me everytime just like Messi’s game and the alert , my salary ‘came’ !!

Here below are few images which made me marvel at the amazing creative thinking and skills of the actual creators.

• An aspect of your life in two shades 🙂 One is colour’ful’ and one is colour’less’

• This brings a sense of freedom and fear come together so beautifully.

• WYSIWYG – Read wiz-ee-wig – Means ~ What You See Is What You Get!!

• You can Sketch , Re-Sketch your own destiny… isn’t it ??

• Who said water can exist in only 3 forms – Solid , Liquid and Gas — Hence proved wrong 🙂

Funny Bones:

• I am your Brother from another mother !! 😉

• I now declare Hitler as – ‘A Complete Man‘

The Audacity of Hope

Well, I love the feeling that word audacious brings when pronounced. It empowers a sense of thump to being hopelessly brave. The only thing I have learnt in my 2 decades of existence in this life is I was born for a cause that only I know and I can derive. I am responsible for my actions and reactions forever till the end. And hence I have to stand tall to face the adversities created by me in response to my previous actions. I face life as it comes and I am brave enough to safeguard myself and my loved ones.

This blog contains my thoughts and feelings which are random or sometimes accidentally well thought. If somebody anyhow catches a glimpse, do not mind to ridicule me, I might surprise you. 🙂

#Ash_Dash

 

 

Being Restless…

I would have never realized that I suffer from a  ’restless’ state of mind  if I would not have met a doctor 4000 miles away from home. After our conversation I concluded that she was absolutely right, not because she has degrees which approves of her to diagnose things but also because she proved it through proper question-answer feedback method. I used to think of myself as a confused person and acutely indecisive. But over the years of what I have done and what I achieved and I forever want to achieve in future, There is not one instance where I have stopped thinking about what I can do , should do, should be doing, should have done. could do etc… I almost feel dizzy when I actually think of all these now,because what I lack is REST of MIND. My close friends have approved that my mind would blast one day since I  think a lot about any given situation or rather non-situation. Not because I am afraid, but because I am in search of making a difference (may be for no reason).

So, When I googled (shame,still not qualified as a word!!) restless I was bombarded with the links suggesting that it is completely unhealthy to be in such a state of mind. For Example – http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-Yourself-from-Being-Restless

All the 5 points mentioned above really helps in soothing your mind for a favorable amount of time. But then I ask myself, if it is a good or bad quality after all? I say it does have a positive side to it. Being restless does not guarantee a good health but definitely guarantees a healthy soul. By which I mean, you can only feel the urge to think of 10 things at a time if you want to achieve and complete 5 of those at any cost to prove something to someone, including yourself. I did my research(google) and fell upon many such articles which share the same views as me. Like , from the word of Peter Graham Dunn –” I would also contend, that while being restless may not necessarily be a pleasant state of mind; it is the irritant, and the motivation, to drive one onward, the grain in the sand of the oyster to shape the pearl”.

In other words, Being restless could be termed as an opposite to being complacent. We feel restless because “something new” often means we want to do something different, something we’ve never done before. Something we possibly don’t know how to do. Something we haven’t experienced before. I believe in, lets do the undone. Another quote I liked – “If I am restless and longing for a place I’ve never seen, then perhaps I was made for this other place” – by C.S. Lewis  . When I see the waves of an ocean or a sea, I see my thoughts and my mind in it. Not even once it seizes to excite me. What is the point of still water,only to take in the heat of the sun? or the lets say, get disturbed by man made miniature boats ?? Well, the restless wave tries to challenge the existence of everything and is hence ‘unstoppable’.    

I ask myself now, and given the fact that I am restless, what all can one achieve in life? The answer I boast is – Everything that he really thinks of. People ,be restless,be edgy,be impatient, set your mind on adventure mode, do not get into a box, commit and do hard work with persistence towards it and it will under your control one day. Although I have still to achieve many things in life, but I love to advocate the above facts. Hence, I got restless when I actually go to know that I have a restless self from a person who has rightfully diagnosed hundreds of ailments.

 What is better than pinning down the thoughts in your mind. Hence this blog would be all about my restless self, What I think , What I do , What I plan to do and What I leave in the middle and so on. Its been long that I have penned down my feelings. And believe it or not Its always by accident that I start my blogs in my office cubicle,after work hours ( trust me! its a nice feeling). I expect to capture many things in this time. My life, my journey to a different culture, My mistakes , My love for the materialistic world , My affinity towards food and My basis of being restless i.e. Ideating. I am a Sagittarian and I believe and trust the 546 rule:-

I Hope this blog unravels more mistakes than correct things about what I think. I am not a Pro in any thing, I am not a gifted writer nor an efficient story teller , but I would love to try my potency in this, Because if being Restless can propel me to blog again, I am not looking back this time…

#Ash_Dash

 

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