Ganesh Chaturthi

The festival is celebrated in the memory of how Lord Shiva killed Lord ganesha by cutting his neck off, as he was stopping Lord Shiva from entering his own house while Parvathi was taking a bath. Lord Shiva did not know that Lord Ganesha was a creation of Parvathi for guarding the house when she was taking a bath. After seeing the headless body of Ganesha, Parvathi was broke. Seeing this, Shiva, ordered his men to bring the head of any creature that is lying with it head in the South direction. They only found an elephant doing that and got its head. It was then attached to Ganesha’s body. This is how he has the elephant head.

  When Parvathi first made Ganesha, she made him out of flour. Not out of Plaster Of Paris or some non-biodegradable material. We celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi in memory of this incident and another incident where the Moon, on lord Shiva’s head, laughs at Lord Ganesh’s huge belly.


     What we learn from this festival, is that we shoulnt laugh at anybody and hurt their sensitive feelings. We are not taught to use POP or white cement to make huge idols and dump them into the local water body to pollute it and to filter and purify the same later for consuming.


 
  It is nowhere said that the bigger the idol, the more blessed we are. Then why use such huge structures and pollute??? Why use non-biodegradable stuff to make these temporary structures??? Why uses the old, left over last year’s idols for our puja this year??? Cant we use the small, fresh, mud idols nd go on with the small scale puja...



     The essence of the festival is to worship an idol for a short time and immerse it on the 10th day of the puja. Let the idol be small or big!!! Then why pollute the water using these big, huge structures which dont even dissolve in water!!!!
Cant we just keep it simple? Cant we just use a small, mud idol and pray whole heartedly? Wont we be blessed if we do it?? The small scale, eco friendly festival!!!!


    The idol can be made up of so many eco-friendly, bio-degradable products like the Indian clay, paper mash, Salt, etc. These dissolve in water, once immersed, and merge with the water and the soil, causing minimum damage to the environment!!! The mud idols are available in the morning of the festival!!! They are freshly made in front of our eyes and, like in everything else, the fresher, the better!!!! And when we see it being made in front of our eyes, the experience is amazing.. Let us use these eco-friendly idols to make our festival more ethinic and natural.


      Why cause damage to our society and make life miserable for the next generations. Let us do our part in keeping the earth Green!!!!

                                 

A Best Friend

   Best friend is someone u share anything with.. irrespective of it being relevant or irrelevant to this buddy.. You keep sharing everything with this mate, at every walk of your life… Your thoughts, impression on every random person, likes and dislikes, every little thing. 


“A true friend is someone who you can be transparent with, who is transparent with you, who does not expect you to change and whom you never expect to change”

    This might sound a lot similar to a lover.. But there is a lot of difference.. With your lover, everything changes with time.. We meet them as acquaintances, makes friends with them, get attracted to something about them, talk to them and stay with them as much as we can, try to impress one another, get into a relationship with them, get committed, get married, become parents, grandparents…… At any stage the bond can break.. The involvement and commitment changes at every stage.. But with a best friend, there are just three stages.. acquaintance, friend and best friend.. 

   Not all acquintances become our friends..not all friends become best friends… At any stage, this thing can get cut.. but once we are true best friends with somebody, we will remain best friends for the rest of our lives.. There will be a lot of ego problems with our partner, but with our best friend, who knows us totally..we will not have any…

   Best friends also have issues, they too fight, they too stay away from each other without staying in touch for a long time.. But if they are real best friends, they will know each other well enough to understand and sort the problem.. It might take time..but in the end, best friends will be best friends… 

   A best friend cannot be lost.. it is totally in our hands to bring them back as out best friends.. We have every right to slap them and ask them why they are doing this.. It just needs true love for your friend to do it.. To make the rest of the journey beautiful, we need them.. 

   Some people are too lucky to have so many such beautiful friends.. but to maintain them for the rest of our lives is not so easy..Like in any other relationship, friends fight. But the issue should be solved as soon as possible. The later it is, the more difficult it is to get back the friend.. 

   Everybody will have a best friend at some point of time.. The challenge is to keep them in their Awesome position as long as we live!!! 

   Some people get married to their best friends.. In a way it is good. getting married to friends and best friends is totally different. With friends, we are what we are!!! But we don't open up like how we do with our best friends. But with best friends, we are ourselves.. The child in every person comes out in front of the true love and the best friend!! Best friends know us the best!! Even better than the spouse....

   Getting into a relationship with a best friend, is not always right. If everything between the two is mutual then there is absolutely no issue. but when it is friendship for one person and love for another and this friendship upgrades to a relationship, then a lot of differences and understandings arise when it comes to the expectations point of view. One person has feelings for the other person but behaves like a best friend. The other person who treats the former as a friend slowly realizes the love for the later. And when they then get into a relationship, things will not be the same.. The friend from the beginning person, expects something more from the lover acting as a friend. but that is all that lover can give because for that person it has been love from the beginning.. 
This totally disappoints the friend.. The lover acting as a friend will be very happy because that person is getting what he always wanted.. but this friend, will be so disappointed that they'll think that "If my best friend couldn't be the one I wanted, can anybody else be that!!!" This phase the person goes through is horrible!! Even the Lover will be hurt because he is not able to reach the expectations of his Love.. If this thing doesnt work, people break up!! But only true friends, continue to be what they were before the relationship, realizing that they were better off or best as BEST FRIENDS..

   Losing a best friend is like losing a part of your body.. It hurts like hell.. Then why lose them?? Why cant we just talk and sort it out!! We become friends because we wanted to!! because of some third person or some misunderstanding, if we break our friendship, that doesnt make any sense. Value friendship!! value Friends!! Sort out things.. The sooner you sort it out, the better!! Misunderstandings and guilt keeps haunting you otherwise!! Let us get back our friends!! They are our Friends after all!!! We have a right on them!! We wont let them go just like that!!

To understand a woman...

It takes a lot to understand a woman.. 

       A woman is very sensitive. Her feelings are very delicate... If something goes wrong, out of track, she feels really bad...especially when it is because of someone she really loves..be it a girl or a guy.. And if her expectations are not reached, she feels low.. really low..

    Sometimes to understand a woman, it is even difficult for another woman.. Her emotions.. u just cant say how she would react unless u know her really really well.. If her mood is good, and she likes the other person, she will accept anything.. And if it is bad she just does not care who it is and what they have done!!!  She might regret later but at that particular point, she just reacts...

   She tolerates anything for the one she loves.. Even if she thinks she loves somebody, the sky is the limit to do anything that pleases him.. She just needs to believe that the guy loves her truly.. 

She also works, just like her husband, she also goes in the morning and comes back in the evening, she still cooks, takes care of her children and their emotions, keep the house clean, put everything in its place, satisfy the entire family, her in-laws and other relatives... And if she is lucky enough, she will get someone who really really loves her, who will share some of these responsibilities and this makes her really happy. It takes so much to understand what she does, what she deserves and what actually pleases her.. You need to love her truly to understand what she actually desires and what makes her tremendously happy.. Her little things are much more important for her than most of her other things. She is possessive about her friends and her Love, only because she cannot afford to lose them or him.

She expects her husband to understand everything she does and says and feels really happy and secured in his arms. That's her favorite place.. And the way she hides her sorrows is totally Amazing.. Her smiling face, need not smile from the inside all the time.. She, with so many problems from the society, home, personal life, faces everything and still smiles like nothing happened just to assure to her people that everything is fine and one need not worry about her. True that she needs help and support all the time. She tries to get it from her husband. And in case she cannot, she keeps quiet. She does not complain.

Most of them complain that a woman is crazy and she gets everything easily unlike a man who has to struggle to get it. But its her sweet way of talking and her innocent smile that flatters people. She is just so amazing...

The best form of a woman is "MOTHER". As a mother, she does so much for her children.. She tolerates the most painful thing in the world.. the delivery pain.. The way she takes care of her child is truly amazing.. A man is nothing compared to that of a woman in this regard. "God cannot be present everywhere.. hence he created Mother" How true it is!!! mother is the best best-friend you can ever have. I, for instance, share every damn thing with her and she guides me in the right way in the right method. A woman is just so Amazing...


Her sacrifices, her deeds, her struggles, her faith, her pity, everything is to be remembered. She needs to be respected and treated the way she deserves it. Every woman is special in someway or the other. Only someone who loves her whole heartedly will know how beautiful she is from the inside. the outer beauty is so very artificial. She puts makeup to boost her confidence, to make herself more presentable...not just to deceive somebody. Every woman is beautiful in a special way. You just need to know her completely to realize what about her is the most beautiful character.. Her smile, her eyes.. It could be anything..

Respect woman. It is not so easy to be one. Respect her demands and give her what she deserves. Make her feel special.. There are so many women around you... your mother, sister, friends, teachers, anybody.. let them know how beautiful they are.. It is not so easy to understand a woman...

My childhood summers

From my childhood, every summer has been very productive for me. I joined various courses right from my childhood. I really thank my dad for that. It all started with swimming for three years n then dance, 3 camps, veena classes, craft workshop, carnatic music, yoga, IETE course, swimming again, another camp in my inter first year, spanish in my first year again....These r the things i did only in my summer...apart from things like kuchpudi regular, keyboard and things like that.

This summer I was worried as I dint join or learn anything. I had many plans to learn driving, horse riding, dance and many more things. But i could'nt join anywhere. For some reason I went on visiting places like vizag, Bubaneshwar, Vijayawada, Chennai, Warangal and Vijayawada again within a span of 20 days! (from 21st June to 16th July 2010). Most of my my friends, joined swimming, driving n other courses.

I then realised that traveling so much and adjusting to different kinds of food and climatic conditions is not easy. I traveled to places like Bubaneshwar without knowing anything about the place and I enjoyed their kind of life style and the adventure with my dad. This itself is a new thing to learn. The experience taught me so much.I am glad about it and i thank my dad for making me what i am...

And this summer (May-June 2012), almost 3 months of solid holidays, i have interned for a month and a half, had friends who stayed at home for 3-4 days and had a lovely time staying with them all the time.. Even attended a camp on study cum training program on "Social Media" organized by Cardijn Community International, "CCI" held at Secunderabad. This was a lovely experience. I now am a member of this wonderful group, which is trying to change the world...