~ Shards ~

If we don't wanna do something and resist, life turns back around and makes us learn it.


Facts are rooted in consensual mass perception, not truth or knowledge.


Circles, even circles of success, are meant to be broken.


Now that a fresh year is looming ahead, it calls for a snazzy new calendar too. Here's one, i doubt if you can have a more 'interactive' and fun calendar! :D
http://www.bubblecalendar.com/index.htm

If only..

The air carries the sweetness,
if only we would taste it.

The clouds shower all the meanings,
if only we would understand 'em.

The sun caresses us with energy,
if only we would feel it.

The river carries us forward,
if only we would let go.

The fire leaves only the purest behind,
if only we would melt.

The soil takes it all and gives back good,
if only we would value it.

They know it all, they show it all
if only we would be here.

Today's song is from the movie Into the wild. A song which pushes me to take another step everytime i think i'm done walking. Please put your hands together for 'Rise' in the bewitching voice of Eddie Vedder.


Such is the way of the world
You can never know
Just where to put all your faith
And how will it grow

Gonna rise up
Burning black holes in dark memories
Gonna rise up
Turning mistakes into gold

Such is the passage of time
Too fast to fold
Suddenly swallowed by signs
Low and behold

Gonna rise up
Find my direction magnetically
Gonna rise up
Throw down my ace in the hole...

Life-Lines.

"I think it's important to be irreverent and make a point of not meeting other people's expectations."
- Natalie Portman


"There's no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."
- Chris McCandless


"Along the way, education is trampled by degrees, work compromised by ambitions, love wasted by priorities, spirituality by religion and every philosophy of life laid barren by a paucity of insight."
- Aseembhai

-est no more.

There's an effort i've been trying to make off recent. The going aint that easy but the resistance is more external than internal, which, at least for me, makes the endeavor a tad easier. You see, the biggest fight is me against me. The world takes the cue from there.
It's a resolve to shun Superlatives, as much as i can. The urge to slot things/ relationships/ events/ feelings/ thoughts and almost any kind of experience that we undergo, into that one, which one rules the list, which overshadows all other of its kiln. To make a statement of such indomitableness that topping it would be next to impossible. Ever. And that's where i start getting uncomfortable.
I understand that a lot of times we pass such statements in an extreme state, good or bad. But how long does it stay? The status granted is as ethereal as that fleeting moment of unusual affairs. But the words remain. And live up to them, you have to. Expectations are created. And like their doomed fate, crashed and failed. Why start the whole cycle? Why not simply leave it to your deeds to declare what you feel? Why let the pedestals stand on the quicksand?
It's like 'never say never'. And that reminds of the song itself which goes by these words. The lyrics of which go like this:


Some things we don't talk about
better do without
just hold a smile
we're falling in and out of love
the same damn problem

together all the while
you can never say never
why we don't know when
time and time again
younger now then we were before
don't let me go,
don't let me go,
don't let me go,
don't let me go,
don't let me go,
don't let me go

picture, you're the queen of everything
as far as the eye can see
under your command
i will be your guardian
when all is crumbling
steady your hand

we're falling apart
and coming together again and again
we're coming apart
but we pull it together
pull it together, together again

don't let me go,
don't let me go,
don't let me go,
don't let me go,
don't let me go,
don't let me go...


The night seems set to release us, the drops fall and we fall with 'em.