No seriously...Is not writing a story about...

                                              Is not writing a story about... a man with super sperm which he releases into a water reservoir and gets thousands of women simultaneously impregnated and raises an army  of  hell spawn with intentions to  take over the world...only to be thwarted by Chuck Norris,Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme.

On second thought...its a good idea...not to write that story.

But he wishes he could...

Tested 'OK'

As a kid you were told that you had to pass the test, get good grades so that you could move on to a good school.

You were happy that you had to endure it only until you got into a good school.

But you were wrong.

At school, you were told that acing tests was important to get into a good college.

You were happy that once you got into a good college, you didn't have to worry about being tested.

You were wrong again.

At college you were told that the results of the tests you took got you the jobs you wanted.

You hoped that once you got a good job, that would be the end of this burden of being tested.

You were sadly mistaken.

At work, you were tested for promotions, a bigger pay packet, bigger responsibilities.

You got all of that.Now you hoped you could relax.

Instead you were being tested harder.You were being judged more than ever.

You slowly realised that you'd be tested all your life and it only got bigger and harder.

But somewhere you forgot that you were ignoring life's more important tests.

You somehow never realised that you failed...

only

When you hurt the one you loved.

When you failed to heed the voice inside.

When you ignored your dreams.

When you lost touch of your humanity.

When greed and hate took over.

In your quest for what you never wanted,You never understood that the most important tests in life were not the ones you answered on a sheet of paper.

You never really realised that you'd be tested all your life.

You never really realised that each test was as important as the last one.

You never really realised that life gave you a second chance sometimes, that failing was just a part of the game, just like winning.

The important part was to keep on playing and have fun.

You never realised that your own judgement was more important than what others thought.

At the end of the day, if you still felt you failed, no one could convince you any better.

Or if at the end of the day, you returned home to a smile and a warm hug, no one could convince you that you have failed.

In the end, we all want to be tested.

Its true.

We want to be tested for our self-worth and judged.

We want to be tested and found OK.

In the unlikely case that I'd be buried, I want my epitaph to read "Tested, OK"

The Joke

I've realised that for a relationship to be deep or meaningful, it need not always lead towards any final conclusion.

Not every friendship need turn into love...not every relationship needs to end in a marriage...nor every love needs to last forever.

Many a times, it is just being with the other person that makes it all worth it.

Love has a cyclical nature...it flows in and out of your life, just like the ebb and flow of tides or the seasons of the sun...

On some days you will feel love flow, while on others you feel its lack.

Some days you are sad for no reason, while on others you are a kite soaring happily over the deep blue skies.

Go with the flow of your life, and don't wish for a final conclusion and never force one if it is not forthcoming.

Also I have learnt that one has to choose a person who chooses you

You are only punishing yourself when you want to be in a relationship with a person more than they want to be in a relationship with you. 

Of course, you must discriminate between whether he/she is playing "hard to get" or whether s/he is genuinely less interested in the relationship than you. 

 If it turns out that he/she really doesn't want to be with you as much as you want to be with him/her, then it is time to realize the relationship won't work.

It is better to move on and work with your hurt in this case than to obsess over lost opportunities.

Although I've begun to come to terms with my destiny, I recently witnessed a glimmer of cosmic humour when a joke was played upon me by the supreme court of human destinies.

We weren't meant to be associated, but in a flash, I saw that our names were etched together on electronic memory in a matter of a few bits and bytes.

A wistful and wry smile passed over my face when I saw the minute irony of this  association when I finally had disassociated from you.

I protested.But my protests went in vain as the person could only remember me through you.

He went on to explain that this association of names was the only way he could ever hope to remember me.

It was a sad realization that I alone had not much of an identity unless I was inexorably associated with you-something which you precisely never wanted to happen !

The sublime cosmic irony was that,irregardless of our reluctance to be associated with each other- that is exactly how I ended up being - associated with you, in their memories.

The final irony is that no one cares of the so called 'association'.

I think I have developed a  keen eye to notice cosmic ironies in life...because all ironies are cosmic.

Heaven: A fool's paradise

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/faith/heaven-a-fools-paradise-1949399.html

The Maharishi Effect

The source of this article is a book called "This Book is Not Real" by Chris Campbell. (An excellent read, by the way)

'This Book is not Real' is a book which aims to unify all fields of science - all the way from spirituality to physics and from medicine to mass media and to glean  out and separate Reality from myth,illusion or maya.

Excerpt:

       "Regardless of how different they may appear from one another, every mind contains the pattern of the whole consciousness. And through that link we each have direct access to the entire pattern, in other words, we all have the power to change the hologram of our world. Scientific studies support these principles and have found that when people within a group share acommon experience of consciousness, the effects can be detected beyond the group itself. One example of this phenomenon is Transcendental Meditation (TM) and its effects on large populations. (Braden, 2007)

             Studies date back to the 60’s that show that when groups of people meditate on peace,and feel it throughout their bodies, it affects the environment, and people around them.This ‘theory’ has been proven over and over by top scientists and universities. It is what is called Transcendental Meditation, a technique where you keep your focus on one feeling that creates these results. 

                        Over 500 studies have been completed on the physiological, psychological, and sociological effects of the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation (‘TM’) and TM-Sidhi programs, making it perhaps the most intensively studied technology in the field of human development. These studies have been conducted at 210 different universities and research institutions in 27 countries, and articles have now appeared in more than 100 scientific journals. These studies have been gathered in Scientific Research on the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, Volumes 1-6,containing over 4,000 pages of scientific papers (TM.org, 2002)

                             The ‘Maharishi Effect’, which was named after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi about 50 years ago and states that the meditation of one person using correctly these TM techniques can affect about 99 people, according to their studies. Meaning, someone feeling extreme peace can calm about 99 people around them. Brain scans of unexpecting people in surrounding areas of meditations have shown this to be true. 

                        It was 1983 when Dr. Singh, the founder of TM.org and the creator of the TM-Sidhi programs assembled 7,000 trained meditators in Fairfield, Iowa for three weeks. During the three week long retreat there was a huge drop in violence and crime. These trained meditators were instructed to meditate solely on peace and to immerse themselves in nothing but peaceful thoughts. Everywhere the crime statistics dropped, as if a peaceful virus spread throughout the entire Earth.A global Maharishi effect was seen whereby conflict reduced worldwide by 30 percent and the effect was seen all over the world….

….We are convinced that we can create world peace by having a few groups, two to three, of 8,000.

Dr. Singh

                Another experiment done in the 1980’s was aimed for the war in Lebanon. This time only about 200 experienced meditators gathered in a facility near Lebanon. During the experiment, war deaths in Lebanon went down seventy-one percent, war injuries dropped sixty-eight percent, and the level of conflict stepped down to forty-eight percent.

                         Immediately after the experiment the violence rose again. When they stopped meditating, people fell back into their destructive habits.Studies show that EEG readings of people in the surrounding area have been affected by the groups from even 1,000 miles away! They also noticed that the brains of the people meditating and the people in the surrounding area produced more serotonin, the ‘happylove- peace chemical’. The serotonin levels rose and dropped in line with the times the meditators started and stopped. Low levels of serotonin is said to lead to aggression, depression, substance abuse, and crime. When the experiment was going on people were more peaceful and apt to be more optimistic. But, when the peace wasn’t in the area anymore they began to run old patterns and became more pessimistic. Somehow the meditators were able to raise the level of this chemical, and create peace all around them.

                   Studies all around the world prove this phenomenon over and over again. Even Washington DC got a taste of TM when Social Indicators Research predicted that an eight week long experiment with meditators would decrease violent crime in our country’s capital by 20 percent. They were close. During the eight-weeks, rape, murder, and violence all dropped by 23 percent. The odds of this happening coincidentally were calculated to being less than 2 in 1 billion. 

                David Edwards, a professor of government at the University of Texas in Austin says:“I think the claim can be plausibly made that the potential impact of this research exceeds that of any other ongoing social or psychological research program. It has survived a broader array ofstatistical tests than most research in the field of conflict resolution. This work and the theory thatinforms it deserve the most serious consideration by academics and policy makers alike.

                                        They concluded that if you took the square root of 1% of people in an area, that’s how many meditators it would take to affect that specific area. Claims have been made by many professionals in many different fields that since the square root of one percent of the entire Earth population is 8,000, that’s how many people it would take to create world peace."

Imagine! Meditation techniques like Sudarshan Kriya or Transcendental Meditation done correctly inducing peace in the society!

And proved by science!

Also see: Permanent Peace: How to Stop Terrorism and War — Now and Forever by Robert Oates. 

That book reveals 19 scientific studies that proved when groups of people meditate, the crime and violence in their areagoes down. 

Oates writes:

“ The basic idea is simple to state: Like ripples on a pond radiating outward from a pebble’s splash, ripples of orderliness and harmony

radiate outward from concentrated groups of meditation experts. And the evidence for this idea has been repeated and is statistically signifi

cant. Not only do signs of social disorder go down — such as violent crime, fires, traffic accidents, warfare, and terrorism — but signs of 

coherence and progress go up. Patent applications, for example, stock market levels, and economic indicators have all been shown to rise. ”

Fatso:Define your own reality

I'm no longer looking for the less than 10% bodyfat model as an ideal model.

Roman gladiators used to favour beans in their diet.

One reason was that eating beans gave them a layer of fat on their torso...which protected them in their fights.

Th other was biological warfare.

Low body fat is good if you plan on wearing swimwear for the rest of your life, but nothing much else.

I like soft women.A good 16-25% body fat makes them soft to touch.Keeps them healthy and glowing.Definitely keeps them more womanly.

I don't want six packs on my woman.Nor should her biceps be bigger than mine.That would be plainly wrong.And scary.

It would also be smacking at the face of womanhood.

I want real women who is proud of her real curves.

Is there anyone woman enough?

Men...I don't care.Do what you like.

I had long ago defined fat as 'Not being able to see my six packs'

So I took a good hard look at my abs in the mirror once again.

One, two, three, four...holy shit!

I've become fat! 

I can't find the fifth and the sixth pack.They are buried under layers of fat.

I guess now I was fat by my own definition.

Now there were two things I could do.Change myself or change my definition of being Fat.

I followed the americans on this one.(onion movie - obesity clip)

I changed my own definition.It is much more easier.

Now, I consider myself fat the day I cannot see any more of my abs.

And once that happens, I'll change my definition once again.

This way, I can go and never be fat.

And when people tell me I've become a Fatso, 

I'll go 'LALALALA-I can't hear you-LALALALALALALALA-I can't hear you-LALALALALALALALA-I can't hear you-LALALALALALALALALALALALALALA'.

Fatso:In search of Sunken Cheekbones

A part of the story that I had told Fat Henry was true.I worked on a rustbucket, and many times for long gruelling hours , sometimes even forgetting to eat , or going hungry wilfully just to finish my work.And as a result, I lost unhealthy amounts of weight...

Sadly people thought that my cheekbones had risen and that suddenly I looked much better than before...

Mass media and advertisements had made anorexia a positive desirable trait- even among males.

I had sunken hollows under my cheekbones that made made my cheekbones stand out in prominence.

My cheekbones stood out like perky nipples on a cold day...I looked emaciated...And I looked good.With some rouge and mascara I'd look" Fashion TV" good.

I had resolved right then and there that I'd never go hungry for the sake of my work...

And now, my cheekbones are missing...buried beneath tissue once emaciated.