I was hearing this song today by Owl City called Fireflies. As I interpret it, the singer is talking about an adult talking about his childhood and how he would like to go back to it. Sort of like Peter Pan singing! I have heard that song so many times now and i cant seem to get bored. Even the video is beautiful. Reminds me of all the toys i used to play with. Also the main instrument used is a Keyboards, which i absolutely love. Amy Lee of Evanescence, The Fray both use the piano a lot and I love most of their songs. Another subtle message which i most associate with is how the singer feels caught in a crazy complicated life not knowing weather to be asleep to stay awake. Of course its just a personal interpretation! Its something I am feeling everyday these days. Trapped in a giant supernova of broken asteroids and dust all swirling in a circle under a powerful force. I have been living in fear everyday, carefully treading with every action of mine; I still manage to make the wrong ones every now and then. As i was hearing the song, I was also browsing through images of various location (as part of an assignment). 3 out of the five were beautiful untouched beaches located on the earth as tiny specks in vast oceans. I love islands and beaches covered with thick green forest all over ;reminded me of my vacations this summer to Lakshadweep.
Being in my second year of college, i certainly expected more out myself. I thought i would be spreading my wings in different directions in life and going crazy. Instead I am tied to my chair in a 9to5 college where the only thing that is being trained to fly is my imagination. Its so ironical that people feel Design Colleges are supposed to be a battlefield where your imagination clashes with reality and run wild galloping and conquering the unknown. Is it weird then, that feel stuck in a cog machine being ground in monotony? Its been a while since i lived my live without fear, burden and the blanket of suffocation. Without thinking about that semi-solid platform and taking a leap of faith.
I stand in the mirror and I find myself Lost in my life. I wish i could step on a plane crash land on a remote island and understand myself better. I want to break free. Like someone once said, when you get addicted to drugs – blaming the drug or the creator of the drug is pointless 
Ah the dilemma of life.. We feel that we are the only ones with these thoughts yet almost everybody has them… kind of like.. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sheeple.png i guess.. but the point is we all have them and it would be indeed a great boon to get away from all these thoughts… achieve the true freedom…but there are constraints.. different for different people .. mostly its fear… And in the end it all boils downs to a choice i.e to “jump” or not to “jump”.
And to end on a lighter note …
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Aah so many times xkcd has spoken to me !!
xkcd??….ok whatever….
beautifully written as alwaz…..
n ya u sound depressed wich is very evident.though u did attain happiness though it ws short bt y give up it will cum bck to u. i mean isnt dat life? ups n downs…believe me yaar you aint the only one out der with problems we all have them n trust me ppl hav had it worse MUCH WORSE and still managed to c d sunlite….gettin anythin or shud i call u now….???? :p
every time i look at a bird, i wonder how free it is. literally, it epitomises freedom. however, once i was forced to wonder, is the bird really that free? it happened when a bigger bird tried to scare it away….jealousy? plain and simple oneupmanship? airspace ownership? no answers there really. an idiom goes…”the other side of the fence always looks greener”.
well lets leave the birds and bees(no pun intended) aside, and talk abt human beings. most human beings want to have the cake and eat it too ie fly and also remain tied down(need to be needed), and why not? after all they are intelligent!!. at times it complicates things. but some simpletons could simply be content with what they have, like the birds may be.
some are bestowed with such a quality. they dont think too much, analyse even lesser, and take life as it comes. my father and eldest sister belonged to this category. They might have been belittled for being not too analytical, but i think they lead a less complicated life, experienced more freedom and had lesser fears. i am trying to emulate them, but the thinker in me, i find is a bit of an inhibitor. being an egoist i try to work it out differently, employing the dictum”dont give the liberty to any event or any person to make u unhappy”while it seems to work, it address my internal fears. so freedom still eludes me. freedom from fear, as most say, is the way forward.
Further to my “freedom from FEAR theory”, let me share a few thoughts based on what i read in the sunday times. The scientific community has made some fantastic discoveries on the power of human thought, ranging from being able to move(literally) matter, to the possibility of communicating with aliens.In our ordinary mundane lives why cant it be used with great effect to overcome adversaries. Louise Hay, in the book “Affirmation of Power” writes “our thoughts create our feelings , beliefs,and expiriences. We can change our expiriences by first changing our thoughts. If our thinking is negative, we can drown in a sea of negativity: if it is positive, we can float on the ocean of life”
“You cant wear rose-tinted glasses all the time in the fond belief that thinking positive will automatically take care of all obstacles in our way” , is what aman will say…and how right he is!! However, approaching life with positive frame of mind will allow the mind to think better. On the other hand, by thinking too much abt the negative aspects of our lives,we end up amplifying the very things that anger, frustrate or depress us.
Modern psychologistC Lexander writes “When thought is brought to a focal centre by the use of the will, it acquires a thousand-fold the force it manifests under normal circumstances” and Gita said it long back “you are what u think, hence thought is action, Being and becoming: what one thinks, he becomes” Krishna helped invoke the power of thought in Arjuna to overcome his sorrow.
But the greatest tragedy seems to be that we ignore the fact that thoughts alone create actions.
The human mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance—and life is so circumstantial!!!
While positive thinking can not be a panacea for all ills, it can pave the way for to positive emotions that can help us think clearly, set achievable goals—(dont worry we all suffer from the angst of mediocrity), build resilience and move closer to happiness.
Thoughts enable us to heal or harm, create or destroy, love or hate. It is up to us to unleash and employ that power of thought in the right direction.
If thought is understood to be capable of being able to communicate with aliens, why not use it to communicate with ourselves and guide us to noble and glorious actions that define us? THREE IDIOTS SHOWED US THAT IN A LIGHTER VEIN & IN THE MOST APPEALING MANNER