I am That.
... Love. yes, I am Love....
not in love with a thing, a person, a place. I am Love, and I am loving.
That is my natural state of heart, of mind, of soul.
And it's a choice to leave everything and everyone else behind, 
which is not in a way promoting, supporting, enhancing, uplifting that state.

So that means, I choose always, sooner or later,
love over sadness, 
love over anger,
lover over depression,
love over fear,
love over frustration,
love over jealousy,
love over hate,
love over escape,
love over numbness,
love over addiction,
love over pain,
love over compulsion,
love over absence,
love over emptiness.
Any other choice would be crazy, 
loss of my human time,
loss of myself,
loss of the beauty and essence of life.

And once I found out that anything else rather than love costs so much energy and time unnecessarily spent,  life has become so full, authentic, present, energetic, dynamic, colorful, joyful, without much effort other than connecting with that Self daily, that Love that I am.

the 15 books tag..

the 15 books tag..

i get to do a brand new tag after a long time thanx to tangerine... here i have to name 15 books i loved and i cannot take more than 15 minutes to think up the titles... here i go

1. An Autobiography - Lee Iacocca (found this one extremely interesting and motivating.. its the perfect success story)
2. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (don't think this one needs an explanation. I went on to read it thrice, and watched the movie almost every day at one point)
3. The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (this has influenced my mail IDs, Blog name etc etc)
4. The Famous Five Series - Enid Blyton (I grew up with Blyton books, and loved these best)
5. The da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Was mesmerized after the first read, although later realized that I might have overreacted)
6. Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling (they won't write books like these in the next 100 years!!)
7. Tintin Collection - Herge (the lovely lovely books :) )

8. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (a brilliant classic.. read it in school and became a Bronte fan)
9. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (I simply love the Bronte sisters)
10. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I made the mistake to reading Emma after this one and was extremely disappointed.. nothing parallels Pride and Prejudice)
11. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (typical Hemingway - brilliant storytelling)
12. What Katy Did series - Susan Coolidge (thanx to these books, Katy became my childhood friend.. i still read parts from the books.. )
13. Uponyash Shomogro - Sharatchandra Chattopadhayay (i loved almost all the novels in this collection...)
14. Abol Tabol - Sukumar Ray (I am not much of a poetry person, but these were just awesome)
15. Gora - Rabindranath Tagore (my favourite among his novels I've read)

there you are.. am done.. in a hurry to go to college now, so I wont sit and choose 15 random people for this tag.. i tag anyone who reads this tag :D.. now if u r a reader, please be honest and go do the tag.. :)

Earphones

Earphones

Earphones block out the world.
The television blares on,
The woman talks about her woes,
The man arrives and orders his food...
With my eyes I hear all;
With my legs I feel the bed I am on.
Yet, the earphones make it all unreal.
With each day they make me short of hearing
and take me closer to the other world.