LIFE THROUGH THE EYES OF AN 18 YEAR OLD...

This is something that i wrote when I had just finished my 12th Standard in 2002 and 7 yrs later now i came across this in my comp and realised that little has changed, if at all that is is life has become more competitive. The yearning and the desire to make a place in this fast paced world is burning bright in our hearts. Thought of sharing it with all...

EXAM- the four letter word that had terrorized us for the past 1 or rather I should say 2 years. Since the moment we entered class XI, the sentence that we have been hearing was “you must perform well and get really very good marks in your class 12 boards and get across in some good college.” This was the sentence that we heard on and off from not only our parents but also our relatives, family friends and ‘n’ no. of other people. Life starts getting screwed up right from the moment we put forward our first step towards class XI. Story of class XI over. Then comes the BIG class. CLASS XII. Well now the above sentence is spoken by just about everybody who seem to know you even that is just by your name. At family gatherings we are asked to stay away and study and study and study. At any get together there seems to be just about everyone who will tell that this is a big class and we might as well work hard. There seems to be no other discussion apart from class XII and Studies. Simply no break.
Then comes January. Life totally centers around studies, as if everything else will be on ice and u can recover that after the exam. We forget just about everything. After the really BIIIIGGGGGG boards, we have our Entrance exams. The month from January were spent just slogging and studying real hard and attending classes. But after all these months of hard work that u put in, everything that u have done goes down the drain as MONEY and other things definitely seems to get everybody their own way.
But now as I have almost finished my entrance exam, life definitely looks better. U seem to enjoy the beauty around you which u have almost neglected for about an year. U began to feel the beautiful breeze that brushes your face when u walk out, the sweet fragrance of flowers lurking in the air touches your nose, the stars in the sky seems as though the moon has given the sky the gift of diamonds which the sky has festooned on itself, trying to seek your attention and tell u about the gift that it has been given. u feel that u have been released by a real long captivity. But now as we are blissful, this lasts for only until we are captivated again but this time we are the prisoner of the Result Tensions. Then we have the college admission and then college exam and life goes so on and so forth. In our day to day bustle little do we notice such things. God created us to enjoy these creations of his as he contemplated that he needs someone who can enjoy his creations and enjoy his life on his own. That was when he created MAN. A person who will lead a simple life and will enjoy his creations with passion. Alas!!!! The simple life that we were supposed to lead got lost somewhere and man complicated his life beyond limits. Today our life revolves around rat race and about the ways to come first in that rat race that we forgot to enjoy the small pleasures that life offers.
Hey while reading this just try to think of the last time when u noticed all this. WHY DO WE HAVE TO LEAD A LIFE FULL OF TENSIONS AND COMPLICATIONS? The answer for this question is probably even not with god, merely because he did not create this question. But human race certainly does not have time to stop and think about the answer to this question because we all are a part and parcel of this selfish world which pulls even the unwilling into the RAT RACE, year after year…….

There come many a moments in one’s life. Some we want to treasure but some we want to forget. Often heard people saying SWEET MEMORIES. I just wonder how can memories be sweet. When u look back at ur memories they always remind u of the good times but then they also bring tears to ur eyes. U feel that u could still have been thru that phase. So invariably we often end up crying. So how can memories be sweet. Life is bad. It has really got no meaning. We toil around day and night but what is the reward that we get for all that work we do? We run around save money but for whom? For ourselves or for the kids who don’t even bother to look at their parents once they are old? In the end we are said to achieve some unknown so called eternity. Have we ever known what is that? What a baseless life….
Just come to think about it. We are born, people around us rejoice and then there are celebrations all over. When we live we face all kinds of hardships. Firstly get our education and then get married and get kids and the whole cycle repeats all over again. I mean u spend 40-50 years of ur life with a person and then he leaves u behind for some unknown eternity. I am surprised. Then why do we say that marriage is the union of two souls. But it is not. If it was then both of them together should have left. Why leave one behind? So that that person just thinks about the person who has left her/him with only memories to look back on. Pathetic. Then there is left no meaning for marriage and the so called union of two souls. I do not know but I feel I have lost my belief in everything that life has to offer. Life is a big betrayer it gives u but everything that u need. Once u fall u fall flat on and take a long time to recover. A REAL LONG TIME……………
I really wish life was all about candy stuff and being young all the time. But I know that cannot and wont happen. Coz EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. At times I have wondered that it is a unsubstantiated statement. But quite contrary I found that it was exactly applicable to not only my life but also to every living soul existing on this earth.

An Inspiration....

Here am on the shore

Watching an old put his oar

Waging a war

Which ends never

Teaches us

To try ever

And fail never

To hope ever

And lose never

FRIENDS FOREVER

We met

Became best friends

Fought a lot

Possibly the destiny was

Putting us through a test

To show our endurance

To survive the hate

For friendship to triumph

And for us to proudly say it,

WE ARE FRIENDS FOREVER.....

THE STORY OF OUR FRIENDSHIP

Days which were our best
Days which were our worst
Days when our egos thought
None but us to be the best
Days when we thought
Each other we hate
but i still bet
Our friendship is the BEST
Promise it to keep it in our heart
Till we last