Have you ever tried sitting by the sea face in sheer chill, shivering all night, looking at sea and letting go your senses?

Have you ever tried walking miles and miles and miles without thinking about your destination or purpose, for that matter?

Have you ever tried forcing yourself to stay awake for days stretched?

Have you ever tried to be mad at everyone around you without any particular reason?

Have you ever tried to convince yourself that you are the only living sample whose life follows Murphy’s law?

Have you ever tried to do something impossible and laugh at yourself for even thinking of doing that?

Have you ever tried to be numb, analogous to a rock, not affected by anything?

Have you ever tried to live your life the way you want it to, go by your heart and not listen to anyone else?

Have you ever tried to be yourself?

I have. And if you have not, try it once

Well Well Well … I am literally in love with my current playlist. Both in Winamp and in my life. Starting with the former, which is much more predictable, sensible and reasonable – the tracks which I am audience to right now is surely going to send everyone of you back in the timeline, back by quite a few years. In the age of Kolaveri and Ooh La La, this is surely a bliss. The tracks which constitute the same are as follows :

• Hothon se choo lo Tum … Mera Geet Amar Kar Do
• Kaheen Door Jab Din Dhal Jaaye …
• Kya Hua Tera Waadaaa …
• Pyaar Deewana Hota Hai Mastaana Hota Hai …
• Zindagi K Safar Me Guzar Jaate Hain Jo Maqaam … Wo fir Nahi Aate …
• Ye Jeevan Hai … Is Jeevan Ka … Yahi Hai Rang Roop
• Main Pal do Pal ka Shaayar Hoon
• Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Me Khayaal Aata Hai …

Beautiful isn’t it? .. For those of you who have curiously started their attempt to link all of these songs to land upon a concrete conclusion as to what is fishy in my life, I would like to say that there is no connection whatsoever. Just that all of these songs somehow relate to one phase of my life or other. Don’ believe me? Well try it out for yourself. Pick any of these songs and try to relate it to your life, and I am sure there will sprung up many incidents in your life, a few beautiful one, a few not so beautiful one and a few which you might wish to go back in the time machine and delete them from the very face of the thing called existence.

Whatever the case it be, these are the memories and you have to do with them. Whether you like it or not, your life is nothing but a bundle of these memories. Make sure to collect as many as you can, because in a long run you will realize that in your effort to extend your life, you actually never gave it a chance to grow.

Of late I have been involved in equity trading. SENSEX and NIFTY, once, had been the only two things which I used to think about Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 4 PM. The funny thing about trading is that I haven’t yet met a person who has actually made a profit from the stock market. It has this very peculiar tendency to be very nice and fair to the new entrants, attract them by showering profit of few bucks on them, passing on the addiction to them in due time and then feast upon this wonderful prey of it forever. The one who earn something keeps on investing more and more to earn even further, while the one who are at loss also appear to do so, in their case to make up for their loss. And in the end, the one who comes out at the top is the primary financial market.Yes, that is a technical term and I ought to use that more often, as suggested by my Corporate Finance Professor

To draw an analogy, once again I find a peculiar similarity between Life and Sensex. Which of the two is more liquid, I can not comment at this point of time. Both of them are as unpredictable as one could get. Both of them have a lot to offer, a lot to lure everyone in, a lot of unkept promises to make, but in the end one who plays it sensibly and limits the extent of greed, is the one who emerges a gainer rather than a loser. Just like in stock market, everyone is insatiable when it comes to life too. No one appears to be satisfied with whatever he has got. Ye Dil Maangey More is not just related to Pepsi but has also crept in the life of every Homo Sapiens.

Sensex may rise and fall, Life will also have it peaks and valleys. More the risk more is the gain, it just boils down to your greed and satisfaction. Both of them make and break heart. But the point to note is >> Sensex will always give you a second chance, Life might not. I have lost a lot in the market till date, but in life, I only have assets to show against my balance sheet, no liabilities whatsoever.

Every day is an adventure. Enjoy it to the Core.        ~ Baba Harsh Singh

Do unto others as you do unto you … A very old saying isn’t it? .. One of our very own which we use to pass on to others .. One of the thousands of ingredients from our intellectual cart which we rarely use .. But frequently pass on to others …

Well did it ever happen to you that someone approaches you for an advice to his or her problem … You were all ears and after listening to the problem you were like “OMG … Such a trivial thing and you are ruffled by it?? Unbelievable” … And then you become all philosophical, give out real life examples, inspire the other person to be brave, take it to be destiny, stop thinking about what has happened as it can’t be changed and blah-blah-blah … And a few days later you are hit by the same problem and all your preachings, all your philosophy, all your practicality and all your rationality goes to drains and you find yourself caught in an undertow, transfixed and helpless … The same question to which you had thousands of solutions a week back appears to be impossible to solve now …

Then why do we do it? … Why do we try to console someone even when we know that being there, we would have done the same … Why do we say but never realize that after all “it’s easier said than done” …

When I gave it another thought I found quite a few explanations to this irrational human behavior … May be when we approach someone for help, that’s not one of our primary concerns … We are not exactly looking for a piece of help or advice … All distressed and gloomy, solitude appears to profound the effect and hence all that we need at that particular point of time is to be heard, to have someone to empathize with you, to realize that there is someone who is by your side even during the darkest of times…

And there is no perfect solution to any of the problem … It’s all about how you respond when you know that this is a question which will continue to haunt you until solved, and there is no way to solve it … We try something … We test something … And then finally we adapt … And this happens to be the solution most of the times … All the other things that you get as an advice are just a few drugs which help you survive until you are out of it … You never want to solve it on your own … But ultimately you have to … No one can give you an ultimate cure … The onus is always, and always on you ….