soulstirringexperiences

My Blog is an attempt to share,gather,learn from experiences that have touched my soul in some way.It's a new found voice to my thoughts and how I feel about life and everything related to it.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The unshakeable ocean

This morning I felt as though nature revealed to me a beautiful secret. As I sat by the sea side admiring the vastness of the ocean and wondering about it’s depth, something peculiar caught my attention. The ocean almost looked like it had 3 distinct colours. There was one patch of the ocean that looked like a dark, sad and dirty muddy brown, the other was a beautiful shimmering glamorous blue and the third a calm angelic white.

I was very intrigued by this peculiarity of the ocean and tried to understand why it seemed so. Just then I noticed the sky above that almost teasingly seem to break into a big naughty smile. The three distinct colours that I saw on the ocean where actually the refection of the sky above it . The dirty muddy brown patch was reflection of dark monsoon clouds, then there it was the clear blue sky that reflected it self making the ocean look like its was flaunting its glamour and youth and last but not the least the candy floss looking patch of white clouds that reflected the third calm angelic white ocean.

It was a beautiful sight. What really stuck me was the fact that ocean continued to do what it was needed to…flow aimlessly, make new waves, be expansive, stay calm in its depth, accept what was offered to it yet choose not keep anything within itself, be joyful and playful on it’s surface creating one wave after the other. My perception of what it really seemed, it’s darker side, its glamour or it’s calmness didn’t not bother the ocean. It just consistently continued to do what it was needed and meant do.

This unshakeable trait of the ocean just inspired me. It almost felt like nature shared its secret with me…telling me to keep flowing and continue to do what I was needed to do irrespective of what perception people around me had about my being and the choices I made

This unshakeable trait of the ocean just inspired me. It almost felt like nature shared its secret with me… Thank you my darling ocean for re-instilling my faith in believing myself and doing what my heart truly desired

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Saturday, May 10, 2008

The Bucket List

Like it is rightly said about books, that ‘Books come to you only when you need them’ I would say that I can say the same about messages. Messages come to you from where ever and only when you need them. Messages from the universe that is. Today I got yet another one. I just watched the movie ‘The Bucket list’ . It’s funny how it got released a while ago and though I wanted to see it just couldn’t manage the time. I guess it was waiting for the right time to show up to me.

The Bucket list – It’s a story of two strangers who met at a hospital room and realize that they are terminally ill. Death wasn’t really far for both of them. There was nothing in common for them yet they decided to together do all the things they ever wanted to do before they die according to their Bucket list. In the process both of them heal each other and ultimately find joy in life.

I loved the idea of making a Bucket list …a list of things that you want to do before you hit the bucket. We all have this list ready in our heads and hearts just that we get so caught up with life and it’s demands that we put it aside. Logic doesn’t permit us to be unreasonable and follow our hearts. Fears and funnily most of the times fears of others (i.e fears that people have for us and try build it in our minds) stop us from exploring simple joys of life. Most of us hit the bucket without even giving ourselves a chance to explore our true desires. We cover up or blame situations, life, people, responsibilities etc. Which suddenly made me ask myself… Why wait to realize that time is running out?

As for me, I realize I could have gone forever last June (’07)…and the thought of dying without even getting a chance to live my bucket list is making me uncomfortable. But I am Destiny’s child ( I love this phrase… it’s a name my dear friend Suranjana and myself have given ourselves) and I am right here Alive and writing this post. That is a miracle of life, isn’t it ?

So, I have decided to create a Bucket list for myself and as each desire of mine keeps getting fulfilled I will strike it out from my list. At the same time I am going to continue to add as many more as I wish to. I will live each desire of mine surpassing fears, circumstances and people. Because, today I understand what it means when it is said that ‘Life is true gift and you are the happiness you seek.’

I know my dear friend Sushma is going to be very happy reading this post of mine and say
“ Welcome to your life !”

Friday, May 09, 2008

Living in the Virtual world !

I have head this a couple of times from my colleagues when they introduce me “ She lives more in the Virtual World than the real one ”, “Virtual world queen” etc. I find these introductions strange, curious and even funny at times. It’s a perception that they seemed to have build about me as I am socially more active on chats, networking sites, mails and my blog.

I believe that I am more ‘real’ than most people are but yes very few and close ones really understand or know about my reality. Perhaps I am more visible on the virtual world than I am on the so called social real world. I guess it’s a choice I have made.

Well who in today’s time isn’t living in the virtual world (unless of course one is technology challenged). Not that this post is meant to promote living in the virtual world … I don’t encourage it but I believe each one of us have two sides to us …A Superficial one and a Real one. The superficial side is our guard and the real most times we reveal only to the loved and trusted ones. Virtual world I believe is really the mid path.

It’s a world that lets you express what you truly believe in but don’t generally land up stating with the fear of being misunderstood, it’s a world of no judgments (of course if you are trying to read between the lines), it’s a world that makes it easier to keep in touch or keep track of people who matter in our lives, it’s a world that opens up doors and makes it easier to reach out to like minded people ( which I think is GREAT ), It’s a world where we seem to respect people’s opinions and views and treat them at face value rather than trying to be reactive or defensive or being righteous about our own views, It’s a great world of sharing, it helps u see different perspective, it makes you go in awe of how passionate people are about life and a lot more that revolves around it., it’s inspiring, it’s creative, it’s expansiveness, it’s exploration and a lot of fun …the more you give the more you get. Well I can keep going on and on about the same.

I quite like the Virtual world …it’s a world of new possibilities, opportunities and beginnings.

Cheers to the Virtual world!