A Chance...

I remember my childhood days playing cricket or the marbles with my 'galli'(street) friends. on getting 'out' we use to say 'one more chance! one more chance please!' or 'if i got another chance i would have won the match for my team'.
...I wonder why do we always need another chance. is one chance not enough..? is one opportunity not enough..? if we are not able to accomplish something in the given frame of time then how are we so sure that we'll do it if given another chance. yes and we ignorant people play this gamble with our own lives too. like for example i have seen few people that almost have seen the death angel coming in front of their eyes to pull away their souls but then going back saying you have been granted a CHANCE..., by chance!. than this makes the person really understand the motive of his life and the value of the chance he has been granted. a person meets with an accident or witnesses a horrible accident in which he or the other person narrowly escapes. this incident shakes his complete senses..and forces him to realize what would have happened if the person really was hit by the car...or what would be the case of his family, if it was he in place of the other guy. what would have been the next episode if it was he in place of that guy. is a kick like this really needed for each of us? why cant we understand the true meaning of this beautiful life granted to us first hand..? if this would have been the case then the world would have been a beautiful place to live, without the fearful thought of the very death that shakes us now.
The life is so valuable for oneself. struggle to spend it the right way so that we wont have any regrets later...later here refers to the infinite time come.
This reminds me of a famous story of a man who says to a barber seeing a dirty long haired man in front of his shop. "barbers do not exist. other wise people like this dirty long haired man wont have existed." listening to this the barber says.."barbers DO exist..but if the people are not interested in coming and seeing them, then thats how they end up dirty".
we are bound to remember the ONE so that everything goes smooth and fine with us.....and yeah, break the queue and rush....don't wait for a chance :)

Trip to India !!!

O yeah! I went to India finally after 2 years. hmm..its 3 weeks i came back but was so lazy to pen down the golden moments i spent. yes 3 weeks is a very short time for such an awaited vacation....but couldnt risk my job so had to return early. It was a whole family gathering, my bro being in India same time. and this time i wanted to hear something new from my family coz i had a stylish beard grown which was new to them. and yea, i got comments like " you are looking more mature" :P.... i always was! :P

I was expecting unbelievable change in hyd but didn't find any except the traffic condition getting more worse and few shopping malls and grocery stores everywhere. reaching in the wee hours of the morning. after waiting more then an hour for the missed luggage, the moment i came out of the new hyd airport, the smell of the breeze was a sweet gift to me. the cab driver was complaining about the severe cold, but i was feeling warmth in the air :). so the $10 ride to home started with the view of charminar on the way.i didn't call home as i didn't wanted to disturb my parents sleep. so just reached the door and rang the bell :D.
Two weeks just passed by so quick. I took whole family n other close relatives to a picnic. went to a village and spent a day in the farm. went to my college to look at the present youth and co-relate what i have been hearing. but i didn't find any thing new. or may be i dont have the eye to look for the things people speak that surprises me :). i wanted to visit each n every corner of hyd but couldnt do so bcoz of the time constraint. went to a shopping mall and finally saw something which surprized me but might be mundane for others. a girl with 2 guys, may be college students, wearing a sleeveless with a scarf on head. my sis told me that its called Hijaab (lol). then again to my surprise, same girl in complete burqa in the parking lot before leaving....great..!
nothing changed at my home, except the kids getting more natorious. had to spend 2500 dollars on toys to keep them happy. Oh! sorry, did i say dollar? nah, its Indian rupees! :D i did this mistake many times while recharging my cell or buying something from any shop :D well what didnt change is the customer service. same pathetic behavior of the storewalas. for example i went to a bakery near my home. i asked for yogurt once and waited..5mins...10mins...then a guy who was the bakery owners friend asked...did your yogurt came? i said no with a smile. then he shouted with his full capacity to help me get it right away. another funny incident...i went to the new stores called 'MORE'. took a twin pack of toothpaste, came home and when i opened it found the other piece missing! lol...i showed my sister and just laughed and told her not to tell my father :D.
well now m back to ground 0 again. same schedule, nothing exciting. i missed those mornings, those callings of the tarkari waala, the paan wala etc etc. i miss the 2 yr old going to masjid wearing a diaper! yes, that was one of the kid at my sisters house. he reminded me for one of the Asar prayer in her house. :)
Alhamdulillah m bak and everything is on the go again. i still have the job in hand which is the biggest thing now a days. i remember the dua that my grand ma gave me on my farewell, "Allah kare sarkari naukri lagjau bete tereku". LOL that would be the last thing for me.. to work for US sarkaar.