Wishlist Wednesday - 5

THE SECRET WISH LIST is the latest offering by Preeti Shenoy. Going by its reviews, one can surely say that it is going to be the bestseller soon. And why not, its a book to which everyone can relate to, because everyone has some wishes hidden deep inside their hearts. Its a book which everyone will enjoy reading, even if you are not an avid reader!

 

Preeti is hosting a writing prompt "Wishlist Wednesday" on her blog justamotheroftwo.blogspot.in 

This post is in response to this week's prompt which is 

"I wish I had one more chance to ........................"

Many times in our life, we wish that we could go back and delete some events, undo our actions, take back our spoken words which hurt someone or just go back and re-live some precious moments. But unfortunately life doesn't give second chances.

I wish i had one more chance to believe in love and relationships - I don't know when and how, but somewhere in the journey of life, i lost faith in love and relationships. Its not that i am completely against it, i do believe in love when i watch it in movies or read it in novels, i do believe in love when i see my friends with their better-half/boyfriend/girlfriend. I do believe in relationships when people get married, i do believe in relationships when people call themselves best friends forever but i believe in it only when it happens with others. May be i am being too practical but its like love, marriage, friendships, relationships are not made for me or so i believe.

I wish i had one more chance to live my childhood - I didn't even realize when maturity snatched away my childhood from me. At an age when i was supposed to be innocently engaged in playing games with friends, i came face to face with the harsh reality of life. That single moment changed everything and transformed my innocence into maturity.

Since i won't be getting a second chance in reality, these wishes would not get fulfilled ever but even after that i am satisfied with my life. No matter what i have gone through, no matter what i have lost in the journey of life; I still, am proud of who i am because for everything i have lost, i have gained something better. I lost my childhood but i gained the strength which not many grown ups have. Struggles are part and parcel of life. 

If you lose something, you gain something much better; 

If your wishes don't get fulfilled may be you deserve something much more than what you wished for;

If you fall short of achieving your goals, may be its time that you put in more hard-work than the last time.

Its all about how you look at a particular situation. At the end of the day, 
whatever happens, happens for a reason and most of the time that reason is good. though it's a different story that we take a lifetime to understand the "good reason" !!

Wishlist Wednesday - 4

Happy new year everyone :)  May this year bring lots of happiness to everyone and may it fulfill everyone's wishes.. lets hope this year turns out to be a "HAPPY 2013!!"

This post is in response to the creative prompt "Wishlist Wednesday", hosted by renowned author Preeti Shenoy on her blog http://justamotheroftwo.blogspot.in/ 

Her latest book "The Secret Wishlist" has been released. It's a must-read for all readers specially the fans of Preeti Shenoy. 

Congratulations for the success of your book Preeti :)

 

The prompt for this week is "I wish everyone loved..."

Love is something which is scarce in the world but also in abundance. Scarce because people have forgotten its meaning and in abundance because its still present in every nook and corner of this world , waiting to be recognized and appreciated.

We have forgotten how to love. When you ask someone what is one thing that you don't love/like or the one thing you hate you get hundreds of replies:
i don't love myself ; i don't love my job; i hate the everyday traffic; i hate corruption; i don't like my neighbor's dog and what not! 

But when you ask the same person what is the one thing you love, they go blank!! I mean in this entire world there is absolutely nothing that you love? Then they give answers like i love my parents, i love my siblings, etc.. Its good that you love them and you should love them but my question is if you don't love yourself then how can you love anyone else?

I wish everyone loved themselves. Why wait for someone else to tell you that they love you? You should appreciate yourself for what you are, for your looks, for every single thing you have done till date, for every battle that you have fought with yourself, for every mistake that you committed, for ever single tear you cried and for every thing that made you smile because eventually it helped you grow, it helped you become what you are and most importantly it made you strong. You might not be perfect but then, no one is. Love yourself because you are unique. No one was , is , and will be like you ever. 

I wish everyone loved each other. Once you start loving yourself, try loving people around you, because just like you, they are imperfect. Just like you, they are struggling in their respective lives. Just like you, they are fighting their own battles. And just like you hated yourself, others are hating themselves too. Show some love to others, bring a smile on someone's face, if you can't help them at least support them. This might not solve their problem but they'll be happy that they aren't alone. 

I wish everyone loved their lives. If you love yourself and people around you you will ultimately love your life. After all life is not that bad, all it needs is a little love, little struggle and lots of patience. Love your life and it will definitely love you back, may be not today but eventually it will. Whatever you do, be it your job; your hobbies or simply living your life, just do it with all your heart and you'll love it. 

Smile, appreciate and spread love, its the only thing that makes life worth living.. :)

Wishlist Wednesday - 3

This post is in response to the creative prompt "Wishlist Wednesday", hosted by renowned author Preeti Shenoy on her blog justamotheroftwo.blogspot.in. Her latest book has been released and going by the reviews, i feel it's a must-read for all readers specially the fans of Preeti Shenoy.

 

 The prompt for this week is "The one thing that i wish everyone would learn is.."

We live in a society where,

• We crave for a son, daughters are treated as a burden. 
• We allow sons to go out at night but our daughters should be home before 6pm. 
• We tell our daughters how to dress, how to talk, whom to be friends with but we never tell our sons to respect women 
• We all want a sister, girlfriend, wife, mother but we don't want a daughter 
• We pray to Goddess Durga to protect us, we pray to Goddess Laxmi to bless us with money and prosperity, We pray to Goddess Saraswati to give us knowledge BUT we don't want a girl child. 
• A single mom is looked down upon but a single dad is showered with praises
• A woman is robbed of her dignity and fingers are still pointed at her not at the man who committed the crime
• A daughter is not allowed to live her dreams but a son gets everything without even asking
• The decisions are taken by man and woman is bound to follow it, if she doesn't, she is punished.
  
  and so the list goes on and on and on...

The one thing that i wish everyone would learn is to treat man and woman as equals

It's high time that society starts giving woman the place that they deserve. We are in an era where man and woman are equals and they should be treated as equals. Today's woman not only manages home but also goes out and work. She is independent and has a voice of her own. People really need to change their mindsets. We should stop discriminating between a son and daughter. There is nothing which a son can do and a daughter cannot. And lastly DAUGHTERS ARE NOT A BURDEN. They love you and care for you selflessly. They care for you when your own son disowns you. 

I am a GIRL and I am a SINGLE CHILD. 

This is something which i am proud of. I am proud of my parents. I am proud of the fact that at a time when the whole society was/is busy in killing girls in mother's womb, they went ahead and gave birth to me. They never treated me as a load. The are proud of me and i wish i continue to make them proud.

A man might be stronger than woman physically but mentally and emotionally a woman has much more strength than a man can even imagine.

This is one song which i absolutely love.
Composed by Vishal Bharadwaj and sung by Master Saleem, this song is an ode to the multi-faceted personality of a woman.
In this male dominated society lets not forget the contribution made by woman in our lives.

Wish that came true :)

Some wishes when fulfilled gives you so much joy that can't be expressed in words.  
My one wish that came true and gave me immense joy was when i got my best friend back. 

I spent two years wondering what went wrong between us, why she was angry with me..i blamed myself that maybe i had done something wrong. But in these 2 years all i wished was that for once she came and talked to me so that we could sort out things. Even in those two years, she used to wish me on my birthday, or when my semester results were announced but never for once she came and talked to me personally. I felt bad, real bad not only because i had lost my best friend but because i knew that she knew, i being an introvert would never be able to talk to her and despite that she never took the first step towards mending our relation. I used to cry on my birthdays, i used to cry whenever her topic came, i just wished she knew how much she mattered to me. I hoped that someday we will be friends like before. I missed her, i missed the sandwiches she used to make for me, i used to miss all the crazy things we did. I wanted to go and confront her but when i saw that she was happy with her other friends, i just couldn't gather the courage to spoil her happiness.

But life surprises you with something good when you least expect it. Two years later when college ended, i messaged her and poured my heart out, and the funny thing was she was never angry with me!! All these years she too wanted to talk to me, she too wanted to end every misunderstanding, she too suffered as i did, she too wished that i talk to her just once! And if hadn't messaged her that day , maybe i would have never found out the truth. If i would have gathered the courage before, may be we would have never grown apart in the first place!

We lost two years of our beautiful friendship and that too because of a stupid misunderstanding by a third person!! The day i learned the truth i was on seventh cloud!! My best friend was back in my life..but yeah the two years we lost changed the equation we had..but it doesn't take much time for two best friends to bounce back and be crazy like before ;) 

"when destiny forgets to tie some people in blood relations, it corrects its mistake by making them great friends"

Sometimes in life, you reach a point where some misunderstandings ruin your relationship with people who mean the world to you and the most frustrating part is when you don't even know the reason why you grew apart. 

It just happens out of the blue. Suddenly one day, two best friends decide to stop talking to each other. Why it happened? How it happened? No one knows. Though they both still care for each other. They feel happy when something good happens in other person's life, they wish each other on birthdays, but still they don't have the courage to go and talk to that person. What is it that stops them? 

Ego? Friendship and ego don't go hand in hand.. 

Fear of not being understood? Maybe..

They spend all their time thinking about each other, cry their nights away, fight with God as to why he made them best friends-turned-strangers; without realizing that everything can be sorted out if just for once they sit face-to-face and talk. You realize the real worth of a person when that person is no longer a part of your life. You realize how much he/she means to you when you spend night after night just wishing for them to be back.  

Life gave me a second chance but not everyone is that lucky. Never ever let go of a relationship due to misunderstandings. Talk, fight, scream, cry.. but don't just let it go so easily. 

 

This post is written for the creative prompt "Wishlist Wednesday", hosted by renowned author Preeti Shenoy on her blog justamotheroftwo.blogspot.in.
Wishing her all the best for her new book "The Secret Wishlist" :)

Wishes - Your best friends for life

"Har kisi ko mukammal jahan nahi milta, 

kisi ko zameen, kisi ko aasman nahi milta.." - silsila

Everyone does not get everything in life. May be that's why wishes never end. Everyone has wishes not one, not two but innumerable. Be it a millionaire or a beggar, wishes don't differentiate between rich and poor. Wishlists just keeps on increasing, even if you have achieved one wish, a new wish comes up to take its place. And we humans survive more on wishes rather than oxygen!! 

But on second thoughts if you don't have a wish, your life turns out to be quite boring as then you won't have anything to look forward to.

 

"The Secret Wishlist" is the latest offering by the renowned author Preeti Shenoy and i am sure people are going to love this novel just like the previous ones. She is hosting a creative prompt "Wishlist Wednesdays" and the prompt for this week is  

"the three things i badly wish i could have are..." which made me thinking about my wishes.

What are my wishes?  Though three wishes are too less, but the things i badly wish i could have are:

1. My life - I want my life back!! I wish i could live my life on my own terms without bothering about what others feel, what society thinks, what is right, what is wrong, what should i do, what i should not do, etc etc. It is my life and i should decide how to live it, no matter whether the outcome is positive or negative, at the end of the day I'll have the experience. If i won't make mistakes now then how will i grow! Its a long battle. *sigh*

2. A mini-library - With so many novels in my room i will need a library soon or else i would have to sleep outside!! :D

3. Mind Reader - Wish i could read minds, life would have been less complicated but much more interesting. Imagine people being extra sweet to you and you can read exactly whats going on in their head! ;) :D

Wishes reminds me of this dialogue from the movie Anjaana Anjaani:

woh wish hi kya jo aasan ho,
woh wish hi kya jo aasan ho,
jise paane mein na ho thodi si ladai,
mile toh lage kuch hai paya,
warna zindagi toh humne bas yun hi bitayi..

P.S. I wish everyone's wishes come true :)