Snippets of the mind by Gagansvaid

Beginnings are beautiful..  in some cases, it is a heart which falls for someone.. and that moment remains special forever!  Whether you are able to convey your love or not, the feeling and memory attached to you stays dear to the heart. You can't really walk away from it for longer. And even if you do.. the love gets better like wine gets better with age.  But here I talk about the first love.. the first time you gave your heart to someone.. or maybe it could be third or fourth time you had a crush on a girl. It is always some one special person who takes away you heart like none other.. haha yeah I talk from experience and as I write, her face dazzles in front of my eyes.. as if she's around.  As I hear, she is in Singapore.  Not far, but why does it even matter. It doesn't really.. we have matured up. She probably doesn't even know I still think about her. The last time we talked was when I told her that I had liked her. It took me strength to tell her my fee...

In a random rush of thoughts and feelings, I tend to express myself. The moment when I sit to work on my laptop, and open Chrome browser and I see Instagram icon at the left side. I open it and find a red colour 1 appearing above my messages box. I open it in expectation of someone dear writing to me. Most of the times those are forwarded posts of various digital creators; and sometimes Youtube videos as well. I look into them and send back my reaction to my friends. That goes as a custom, to let them know how I felt checking something they had sent.  Then again I see 1 appearing on the messages box, but this time there is no such message. I check the General as well as Primary messages section and I sit to realise that all of it was actually a mistake by the browser. I refresh to be sure, it was a mistake by the browser. This practice goes on for sometime, because deep down I expect someone to strike a conversation. But no, there is not one. I try to read a book of a gangster, I p...

Looking into the dark passages within oneself, walking into the empty street, we echo thoughts of all the extremes. Some find anger as a company, some find tranquility as a revelation to explore how beautiful life. Both are fighting and finding an inward battle of existence. The happier ones aren’t forever happy, the sad one’s aren’t forever sad. With time situations change and so does the mental frame. It’s okay!  The pendulum of life takes us by surprise, especially when the control in our own life is lost. That’s when we need to speak up, not hide our thoughts to ourselves. Hopes of a better tomorrow should stay!   💗 -- Gagandeep

Life has much of work to do,   not because I am the busiest of all,  but because I am still finding out directions in life for myself.  There is a deep calling which I am following daily, although I have realised what exactly my passion is, what my skills and qualities are.  What has worked out the best in all these times is, the thought, that I have agreed to change myself. That I have understood that I need to wait and reflect, what is right and not for myself. And that,  I can make wrong decisions. There is no denying this important fact. But that is how we grow, I realise.  There can appear some confusion on my face, but deep inside, it is the joy of finally reaching the shore I had set for years back. And it feels good for a moment, to appreciate the journey that has been. I am grateful for the experiences that life brought me, the insult that I faced. It ’ s for real. It made me grow multiple times as an ind...

School friends are always special to us, and so it happened that we three had planned a meet-up after a long gap. I was excited to meet Ankur and Himanshu and our plan was almost on (proof being our WhatsApp group) but suddenly I had to change the outcome. I messaged in the group, "Guys, just got to know that I am selected for a competition. But the thing is, I need to be there for three days - it starts this Monday.") The best thing about friends is that they turn out to be the most supportive people on the planet, especially when we need it the most. I was tensed regarding what they would say to me for delaying the meetup, but what I received were congratulations and good-luck messages! I left for the competition on Monday and then finally we planned to meet on Friday! This called for excitement when I took my camera bag along while leaving from home to see them. All I remember is telling Ankur to take me to the Hanuman temple, a very famous temple in Jhandew...

The day when your light meets you.. when all your worries are left behind and you have the urge to learn and succeed. You don’t want to be looked down upon anymore, and it doesn’t even matter how you are seen by people around,  because you are crowned, as a princess of your infinite possible dreams.. you are the power, you realise..  and you don’t count your happiness,  but feel the magical streams, touching your life in magnificence and belief!  YOU ARE A WINNER, REALISE IT!

16. You could feel lost as much as you feel found like in life a new awakening seeps in. There is not much to think than responding to the situations around. Some people see challenging phases at a young point in life while others see these phases later on! Some achieve greater things at an early age while others see struggles before settling. Everyone takes one's time in short, and that is the spirit. They say that "believe in the process, it will all be alright." Then there is a thing about belief. Every person needs to believe in the potential of one's dreams, to see things happening likewise. Another inspiring thought goes like this, "if there is a will, there is a way." There could be instances that you don't reach those heights where you had been aspiring to reach, but that doesn't mean that you lose hopes. Getting to the top of your aspirations should not be how success be defined. The process is a beautiful thing, so it should be lived w...

It had been a warm day, not that it was about the summer season alone; but also because I had a pleasant day since morning. The last day at a work-assignment is always meant to be special, starting from the nostalgia that strikes—to saying the final byes to other fellows at work, it can be sentimental too, for some.  "Would you come again sometime?” She asked me with curious eyes. “Yes, of course. I will come to see you all, one day again.” I had said, changing the emphasis from her, to everyone in the workplace.  “Nice!” Saying this, she got lost in her cabin; knowing that I had been lying. At last both of us were free. Free from letting love hurt us anymore, we would be free birds in the coming days. No longer waiting for each other at the train station, and going for lunch together. I had told her, that you will find another friend who could be as good as me, or better; but she always said, that the spaces created by me would always remain empty.  Thi...

14. The father waited for his son to come and sit next to him, so they could interact about life ahead of him; the son a great achiever didn't have time for his father, since he was busy updating his bio on facebook, to tell his friends what he was doing. His virtual friends congratulated him, and he spent time in thanking them for days; only to take away that moment of glitter and the proud feeling from his father, on his son's achievement. A relation was at one place built  with the world, whereas a relation that should have meant the world stood secondary to the son. "The times have changed, or have we changed them for ourselves?" Something to wonder and think about for oneself, isn't it? ‪#‎ artistaddress‬ Snippets of the Mind, Mindful Stories To read all the Snippets, click  here

13. Facing Troubles to Breathe Easy! Every day is a new date with struggle. Every afternoon, every evening, every night—one word, struggle, struggle, struggle. This is what penetrates, this is what remains; struggle is in every lane.  By writing about it what do I want to show? That I am afraid, or am I not able to cope up with the times or simply, is my way of working incorrect that I am trying to pace up things, and am not able to do what I am trying to, or that it is taking time? What is it that prompts me use this sort of speech in this very writeup?  I have asked many questions and think that it is the time to answer them for me, for no one can do it better for me than me, myself. I write it because I find peace writing about it. It is not only to add another blogpost to my blog, it is also to add one experience that I am living at the moment. For I believe in writing things because they would make me happier to read days later, when I am well off in one way or the...

"Connection bhi na badi kamaal ki cheejh hai.., " this dialogue captures you in its vibrance and vivacity. It is indeed true that it is connection only that makes you go back to watch the film of your favourite actor, the Baadshah of Bollywood. The film is moreover based on a fan of the superstar, enacted by him only.  "Jabra Fan", the song which hit the blockbusters prepared the fans to eye towards the releasing date and finally the date is here. "A date with your star" , would not be wrong to call this day. After looking at the fan following of Shahrukh Khan, it can be understood that the release date of the film actually means a lot to his diehard fans. When I use the word "diehard" for his fans, I mean it in a way that these fans have stood by him through thick and thin. Whether his films hit the blockbuster figures to a high or didn't win many hearts, his fans were always there as his greatest support system.  Although it came a...

12. Many sides within of you lie unknown to the world. As much as you hide yourself, that something unknown that lies in your heart pinches you a little, and a little more. You feel combustion in your heart, your mind begins to boil like iron—then finally you say it all. Now you are free, you are calm, once you have let it all out, that you have released finally what otherwise created problems for you.  In saying the truth maybe you shall lose some people you thought would always understand you, but you came out honestly at last. You said all that lied in your heart, you are free as wind is with no strings attached. The people who were to stay, are still there while others have left behind or their own ways.  You are smiling now, knowing that you can be who you are with your people and that there is nothing to worry; you are home with yourself, and yes your people who understand you, would never leave your side. They shall guide you, and never let you become who yo...

11. Being there, not being there, you are still there. All lies in your mind, what you want to see, that you see. ‪#‎ presence‬   ‪#‎ artistaddress‬ ———— To read all the Snippets, click  here

10. (Meeting Yourself) "Those eyes looked up at me once, those eyes no longer look up at me now. Those eyes are experienced now." Life comes to all of us in different volumes. We are never so easy to be read, we are deep or at least I am deep. Some people would be straight forward in their interaction with others but I do feel that even they would be lost in their understanding of life. I am sure even they would be left to ponder over who they really are and what defines their identities. For as much as they try to be clear, they face the reality of the world which isn't always familiar to their conscience. They are not the God's that they can predict the world or their destinies, they have to live up life, and write their own stories. Hard work is required, struggle is required and the willingness to accept and work the challenges is very much required, to knit our stories.  "To be who you dream to be, you have to knit your world that shall take y...

9. A Walk Into Your Destiny! Maybe the walk was conscious enough of its route. That it knew where it was treading , but what about the walk that I carry within of me? Within and outward of me, what difference lies in the "walk" that I talk about? Is this walk of the soul only or is it also about the people who accompany  me in this walk? These questions I ask myself given the fact that most of our day is spent talking to other people. We listen to them, interact with them and understand the world better. So where does the very notion of "soul" step in? I ponder about. But then I get the trick. The trick is that the soul introspects over those thoughts that are talked about with other individuals . Also this brings us back to reality , the connection that is formed amongst the people on ground. Later on we ponder over those thoughts when we are alone and comfortable thinking over them with our innate self, our conscious and subconscious mind. When we t...

8. —FINDING MYSELF What is this emotion? Why is this emotion? Why am I not behaving normal, and what is being normal? Such thoughts come to my mind time and again. I feel incomplete yet I don't want to make efforts to bring things in order. I just wish to breathe free but I cannot—that is what problematises the situations for me further. I like this order of things, i.e., no order at all. All haphazard like, and nothing definite about life in my sight.  I think Meditation can make things easier for me. I think I need not think too much and not go diverse ways, but at this age I cannot be so logical. Or even if I need to be, I don't want to be. I want to explore the reaches of my being, I wish to see diverse regions and search what is the best for me.  I wish to see what I see in the wild pictures, I wish to roam around the places which make me wonder, and I want to be of help to those who are far away or nearer to me. Distance doesn't only interest me, i...

7. There are those moments in life when I want things to fix but it appears that things are immovable. I feel lost, I feel like I am powerless; devoid of any energy to go beyond. There is a lot of work that I long to do; there is a lot to perform, to achieve in life. So much so that the thirst or call it passion does  not disappear into anywhere. It just comes up, it just makes me stronger but guess what I lose on the part of life where I have to actually move things. At the same point, it is not that I am unsuccessful fully—all that happens is, that somewhere or the other I am adding to the river, droplets of my toil. This toil is towards my dream, a dream that I see and have been seeing for a long-long time. For me people become barriers and they appear immovable to me—but that is how life is I feel. Maybe they are the forces who make this life worthwhile. They are the ones who bring as much energy to me, as much strength to me—that later on in life I would be prepared to st...

6. There are commitments in life, and then there is commitment in different forms. One is the commitment that we make in personal life, and one if the commitment which we make in the professional life. In my view there needs to be a difference between the two and if two friends are working together, then they need to follow a different relationship at the work-front.  The next important topic I want to talk about in my article is, values. I think values can't be taught but should be felt. I feel, values need to be there in the real sense of the term; for the goodness and wellness of this world. I feel so! UNDERSTANDING. There needs to be that space within our hearts to accept the other person as one is. Not to completely let that person over rule you, but while you give that space to breathe to the other person, that person should also provide you with that space. It has to be a mutual thing and if it is not, then there is nothing happening right between you. There ha...

5. I have always been inspired by my mother. In childhood the way she started her day, with preparing breakfast for me and lunch for school. The way she taught me late nights, prepared meals for me with all her love and heart. I have always been so much inspired by her.  Then I grew up, from school to college and there came a point in life when I started disagreeing with her. Her ideas about my life and my ideas for my life clashed many a times, but she always found happiness in my happiness. Although she had many dreams for me, but I couldn't stand up to her expectations. Still she never left my side.  When I look at this bond between me and my mother I thank God with all my heart for giving me such a close friend in my mother who could play both the roles perfectly. Like mothers are and we have seen in films or real life—the best film, we can see how a mother can sense what is cooking in her child's mind instantly. Now that child grows up into a man like me, throu...

4. Today when we are no longer in a relationship of love, we are actually in a relationship of love. Breaking the ties of being considered lovers, we tie a knot of being considered lovers. We tried to understand what we meant to each other, and finally in this journey I can say that we have found our place in each other's life. Friendship was a word over which I always pondered, but with you in these last two years I have felt it, I have lived it and yes I have understood what it means.  A wonderful feeling which gives rise to a craving for each other. A craving to see the sunshine in each other's eyes, to feel the warmth of friendship in your presence. I couldn't have asked for more in this college life, than a friend in you. The present gives me an enriching feeling to be proud of my luck, which brought us close.  Starting from the time when you made me realise what it was to love, to the time you made me realise what it was to be friends. I had been a wanderer sea...