Hum Hindustani

God has been grateful to me. I am born in a good family, I have good friends but most importantly I am born as an Indian. I am not saying because of Patriotic influx of feeling on the eve of Independence Day. I am saying this because Indians are by default spoilt for the choices. Although in most case you make choose something out the choices available, we don’t , we just embrace all the choices. I have the choice to wear a sari, salwar suit, skirt, trousers and shirt, business suit , I wear all of them without feeling out of place in any of them. I can speak hindi and comfortably switch to English when I like, I haven’t chosen any of them, I have open heartedly embraced both of them. For sweets we just don’t have 51 varieties of ice creams and cakes, we have 51 varieties of sweets/mithais whose ingredients are totally different from one another and not just the flavor. In relations we just don’t have uncles and aunts we have chha, chachi, tau, tai mausi, mausa, bua,fufa.I am spoilt because I can go to any of my neighbors ( we don’t just have one neighbor we have neighbors) without a prior appointment. We just don't have the festival season during the year end, we have it through out the year. I savour equally a sawai made at my muslim friend's place, cake at a Christian friend’s place, mithai at my place, halwa at a sikh friend’s place on our festivals(its not just theirs its ours). I am spoilt because of my nationality .

I am born in a country which enriched with multiple costumes , languages , literature , art , dress , manners. We are used to seeing variety , color in our everyday life. I ask to be born as an Indian in my next life and the lives after that.

Lets play Holi with life :)

I believe in myself. I believe in his gift, that’s why I think I am special."The hardest thing is to be yourself in a world that is trying it's best, day and night, to make you like everyone else” E.E. Cummings. Once we start believing in ourselves, appreciating our capabilities, accepting our limitations, we then start investing our energy, time and resources in doing what we want to do rather then aping what every one else is doing. There is a dearth of originals in this world. We were all unique when we were born, but somehow the world colors us in its color as we grow. We start living in the illusion that more we will look like this world the more we will succeed. But this thinking has bereft the variety in this world. We all look alike, dress alike, do the same things, go to the same places, even the places look alike (go to any mall anywhere all look the same).There is a clear logical flaw in this argument. We don't have put any effort to look like this world. The world does it automatically, effort is required in maintaing our unique identity.How can we achieve success in doing something which doesn't require any effort from our side. Need of the hour is out of box thinking, which we all did when we were kids. Remember we had our unique games, our rooms were different and so were our stories. Lets splash some color in this world, be your selves . “But how do I believe in myself?” is the obvious question that arises. We will have to first know ourselves. This is the biggest hurdle; sages have spent their life time in knowing themselves. But this doesn’t mean that we have go to Himalayas to meditate in order to understand who we are. It is a gradual process which starts with acceptance. We have to accept who we are. Acceptance is the key for the door which embarks our journey in knowing ourselves. Believe me, there is pure enlightenment in this path.