Are you Fair and Handsome......or Either?

It is said that Success doesn't come to you......you go to it. Quite true and somehow the way to Success goes through "Fair and Lovely" cream if you happen to be a girl...and worst of all with a dark complexion. Atleast that's what the ad claims.

Whether you want to be an Air-Hostess or a Pilot or a Dancer or a top-shot Executive you have to be Fair to be there. Unfortunate but quite true. We Indians are so obsessed and enchanted with the fair skin (this applies to me as well) that somehow our brain automatically refuses to accept dusky complexion to be "good enough".

Good Lord, as if that was not enough...now we also have "Fair and Handsome" for the men. Very Soon....we'll have all the Fair and Handsome men roaming around every street and corner...with finely tweaked eyebrows and Salon sparkling faces. And guess what would be the conversation b/w two guys:

Guy 1: Hey dude...where have you been all this time?

Guy 2: Arre yaar...I was in this salon the other day. I had an appointment for manicure and pedicure .

What abt u?

Guy 1: What say dude...I had a little tiff with my girlfriend. She says that all her friends tease her coz they

think I look prettier than her. Thanks to that new cream my Mom got for me.

Why can't guys be like guys....as if they are less annoying already , now they even want to compete women in the beauty business.

Oh come on guys back off. Go back being your orignal self. Afterall, thanks to the genetic constitution men are quite adept at annoying women in most of the age-old ways like : Never asking for help, especially when they really need it. Ditto for directions when they are lost . Scratching , spitting , belching and adjusting themself in public and at the same time being proud of their unique abilities. Remember that they are men. Therefore, no matter what, it wasn’t their fault.

Long Live our Fair and Handome men!!!

Ever Ever After

Story book endings, fairy tales coming true
Deep down inside we want to believe they still do,
In our secretest heart, it's our favourite part of the story,
Let's just admit we all wannna make it to
To ever ever after!!!

Admit it or not....but somewhere that little child in us still wants to believe in all those lovely fairytales that we have grown up reading or listening to. Whether it was Cindrella who finally finds her Prince Charming...or a Snow-white who manages to escape from the clutches of her evil step-mother....or The Alibaba's rags to riches story. They all speak of wildest of their dreams that came true, probably that is why they are called fairytales, because they seem so much like an illusion, so unachievable, and so far from the reality.

But what if wildest of our dreams do come true!!! Even if we believe it for a minute.....what happiness it gives us. BELIEVE!!! yes probably that's what we need to do. We just need to BELIEVE.

BELIEVE in our Dreams.
BELIEVE in Miracles.
BELIEVE in all that is Good.
BELIEVE in GOD.

and above all BELIEVE that BEST IS YET TO COME.

There's a saying that God does not give us a dream without giving us the Power to make it true....we may have to work for it however!!!

So Keep Dreaming and Keep Believing in your Ever Ever After.

"No wonder your heart feels it's flying
Your head feels it's spinning
Each Happy Endings a brand new beginning
Let yourself be enchanted, you just might Breakthrough

To ever ever after"

In search of Solitude !!!

Solitude...a dictionary defines it as "the state of being or living alone" . Not the same as loneliness although. Loneliness is more of a depressing feeling of being isolated and absolutely alone, without company.....all by yourself. But solitude to me speaks of absence of those others, when you can be with yourself. You are not lonely when you have YOU for company. And others could be people, friends...or thoughts...bad , ugly and disturbing ones.
Absence of all this, with only the awareness of your being is what Solitude could be.

All my life, I have had this strange feeling of loneliness...as if there's more to my life, like I am missing out on something, something very important. As if something is absent from my life. I don't know what it is, but I do know that there's this huge void somewhere, that needs to be filled. And somehow, I've felt that no matter what I do, wherever I go, this void goes with me.

I feel that we all have some Higher purpose to our lives. For some it could be to be rich and famous, or to be a great leader, to be social activist or to be a great dancer...musician and many such. I have not yet discovered my Higher purpose of life but I do hope that this awakening would come to me sometime soon maybe in that Solitude.