Music

Music
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It was rainy season and I was returning home late night from office. I got down at railway station and my favorite Yanni's composition "The rain must fall" started playing. I came out of Railway station while it was slowly raining outside. I didn't open my umbrella, just wanted to enjoy musical beats along with water droplets. Wow, what an amazing feeling it was! It was only 5 minutes of walking distance but that music composition and rain had drifted away my tiredness. I felt fresh after reaching home.

Every late night, whenever I am returning home from office, when I am not chatting with anyone on WhatsApp or Facebook, at that time I love listening to music with lip sync. It is crazy sometimes but yes it's indeed enjoyable.

Music plays a vital role in society. It controls moods of human beings and changes them drastically. We work like being robot, following procedures, processes and get bored with them sometimes (actually most of the times). To feel some change, people take help of music. There are few good phases; there are indeed bad phases in life. During bad phases in life, that feeling of sadness can be washed away with the help if music itself. Famous Jamaican singer Bob Marley once said “one thing good about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain”. My friends use to study till eleventh hour of the examination and I start listening to songs, listening to instrumentals just before 10-15 minutes of entering examination hall. The motto is to control the tension and appear exam easily, so that I will be able to remember all those things which I studied till date.

                Music is everywhere. Where there is rhythm, there is music. Music is almost heard at every place such as restaurants, malls, shops, trains, buses, houses. Often times, music is tuned or ignored. Did anyone hear music created by railway wheels and track? Did anyone hear music created by wind? Did anyone hear music created by Sea Waves? We ignore it most of the times. It carries rhythm and hence the music. Nature is the biggest and greatest composer of music which uses instruments such as Sea Waves, Winds, Trees, Plant leaves, birds, animals etc to create best music. We, human beings like being close to the Nature to feel fresh and it’s because of this natural music along with Fresh, unpolluted air.

                People use to listen to music during aerobics or exercises. They use to listen to music during morning walk or jogging. They use to play musical instruments to express feelings such as, sadness with the help of violin, calmness or romantic feeling with the help of keyboard or piano, dancing with the help of drums etc. They use to play music during picnics for fun. Music is to be felt; it is to be heard by ears and not to be watched through eyes. Doctors are also using Music Therapy nowadays to heal patients, to help in pain management, to help ward of depression, to promote movement, to calm patients, to ease muscle tension, relaxation, stress management etc. This is not so much surprising as music affects the body and mind in many powerful ways.

                Music is the best healer. Music is the best friend of everyone. Music never lies. We are divided from each other with the help of religions, country borders, but music itself is a religion. Music unites people of various thoughts, behaviors. A German poet, composer Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “Without music, life would be a mistake.” And I think yes, music is life.

Sunit S. Pendse

26^th Feb 2014

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Time Management

Time Management
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“So, what’s the topic of your next article?”

My friend shoots me with question of which I had no answer. It was Sunday and till then I was not having even the topic ready. How would I be able to write anything till this Wednesday? What will be my post? What about my resolution to write something on each Wednesday and improve English?

Oh my God. Many questions were there in mind. They were not helping me find out the answer, to show me a way. They were just increasing tension. The time passed by. I got busy in office work, got busy in training and couldn’t figure out what to write till today. In the morning, my friend asked me again, “Did you write something for article? Is your article ready?” The answer was negative. After sometime, I tried to phrase out something and texted her. She read it and gave me a go ahead. Tension was still there. As time passes second by second, tension was getting higher.

So, I realized that questions are related with tension. If questions remain unanswered for long time, then tension increases. And of course, tension affects your health too. Tension affects mental health first following your physical health. How to tackle this situation then? How to stay healthy by lessening our tension? Is it related somewhere with time management? Is it related somewhere with importance of those questions? Is it related with critical situations that could cause a black out?

Sometimes, mentally we are so stressed due to overload of work, overload of meeting our expectations to achieve targets, not taking proper rest. And it causes this black out situation. Due to which, we are unable to manage time properly. We are unable to prioritize our work accordingly. And everything gets messed up.

Planning of our work is the most important thing which can help us in this. If I would have planned for article from last Wednesday, then I could have managed to write something till today and there would have not been any tensions this morning, at least regarding the article. Planning of work, time management, prioritization of works, all of these play major role in avoiding this kind of situations. But, what about ad hoc situations then? What about any urgent issues? How to tackle them from this well planned work? Answer lies in planning itself. Plan your work properly with extra time period, so that if any ad hoc situation comes in, you will be able to spend that free time with it and rest of planned works will not get affected. Indeed, in some situations you had to make few adjustments whenever needed, but that is understandable.

So, yes, I realized it today. I have to plan for next Wednesday’s article well. I have to allocate some time for it. I have to give it some priority to save myself from critical situation on next Wednesday. Then there will be no questions and no tensions. So that when my friend will ask me, “Do you have your topic ready?” my answer will be “Yes, I am ready with it dear, would you like to read it?”

Sunit S. Pendse
19th Feb 2014
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Love

Love
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                He was sitting at Dining Table and waiting for the morning breakfast. With newspaper in hand, he was looking for her in Kitchen. After few minutes, she came with breakfast. He had it, exchanged few words with her and said, “Today’s menu was awesome, will leave for office now.”
                She smiled and asked him, “Do you have a minute? Can I ask you a question?”
                “Yes darling, sure. Go ahead”.
                “How much do you love me?” She asked with straight face, no expressions at all.
                He was shocked with the question and after seeing her face, he kept quiet for some time. Few moments passed and then he answered with fake smile, “Why this question? We are married for 10 years and you know I love you.”
                “Yes, but how much?” Her next question was just like bombarding to him.
                “I love you a lot, Baby. I am getting late for office. We will speak in the evening. Ok? Bye.” By saying this, he just ran away to get rid of this awkward situation. And as usual she waved her hands with “Bye” and closed the door.

                He said to himself, “Thank God, got saved. But have to think something till today evening.”

                He caught bus and luckily he got window seat to sit. During his journey, his eyes were watching outside and mind was searching for his wife’s question. Near traffic signal, two bikes stopped right close to his window. By their discussion he could figure out that those boys (bikers) were discussing about their girlfriends. This discussion took him back to his college days when he didn't have girlfriend and his friend would tease him. He never liked it. He never liked friend’s “a new girlfriend every 2 weeks” formula. Coz love is something different that just fun. It’s a feeling to feel not to express.  And most of them don’t have feelings. They just come closer to have fun, to enjoy sex. And love and marriage is all beyond that. Having girlfriend/boyfriend has just become a status symbol. It is just to pass time nowadays.

                Love is different. Love is an eternal divine thing. It’s pure and may be one of the best things in life which everyone gets and enjoys. It has no room for selfishness. If it’s there then it’s just to feel good with loved one. Love has no definition. No one can define love in words rather definition of love is beyond words. It’s a nice world where person is much more important than ego, anger, jealousy etc even than beautiful face.

                With these thoughts, he reached office and greeted everyone. He was having coffee with his friends but had no attention to their words. He was physically present there and mentally present somewhere else. They asked him the reason and he said “Nothing, just not feeling well today”. During lunch time, he opened his Gmail account and started reading poems from drafts, which he has made for her. One after the other, memories was occupying his mind. He was floating around them. He visited all places with those memories again, just to find the answer.

                He remembered, on one evening, before marriage, she asked him same question. They were on seashore, a romantic place for all couples. And he answered with a rose in his hand, "I love u as much as this rose honey!  You made my life as beautiful as this rose. Every petal of rose represents happiness which I used to experience in your company. I have seen different colors & shades of roses likewise have experienced different shades of your nature too sometime sweet & sometime bitter too but still I don't have any complain about it because you are much more important than anything else. Your sweetness cannot keep me angry for long time because it disappears after seeing your sweet smile. You know, the unique fragrance of rose keeps surrounding fresh & happy, your presence does the same for me in my life. For me, you are the most beautiful girl of this world but this rose adds more beauty in you when you wear it, same way you have added beauty in my life which is long lasting. That’s why I love u as much as this rose only”.

                The reminded answer put smile on his face. “Shall I repeat the answer?” he asked himself and the answer was no coz it’s been 10 years now and the answer will not be relevant here. Somehow with his tensed situation, he could manage his work well and head towards home. During return journey, again he tried to find out but search was never ending.

                He returned home in the evening. She welcomed him with smile and went to kitchen to prepare coffee for him. He got freshen and came to balcony where she was standing and taking a sip of coffee. He just took cup in his hand and started watching outside. Since he returned with no answer, feeling just like failed student, couldn’t dare to look at her. He was trying to avoid discussion about morning’s conversation.

                Suddenly, she turned at him and asked laughing, “You also didn’t get answer right?” Her laugh made him confused. He couldn’t utter a word. She continued, “It’s ok sweetheart, even I didn’t get the answer. I was thinking about this question from last two days and yet no answer. So I asked you to just check whether I am at fault or not. If you get answer then surely I am at fault. But you didn’t get as well. How beautiful we are! We think same. We are not two, we are one. And our love need no words, rather it went beyond words.”

                With these words, she hugged him. Satisfaction was there on both faces even they couldn’t find the answer. Coffee, two love birds in balcony with each other and sunset, such a romantic moment it was.

Sunit S. Pendse
12th Feb 2014
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Faith

Faith
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10 years ago, when we were returning from final exam of networking course from Jetking Institute, we all were tensed and afraid of results. Alan sir was with us. He looked at us and said with a smile, "Have faith in God, God is great."

His dialog was just confidence booster for us and it changed our thinking from being negative to positive. We chatted a lot that day, many jokes, much laughter and day ended good with smiles on every face. Few days after, the results were displayed and we all scored good marks. Most of us got placement and their career had started.

Dictionary meaning of the word “faith” says that, it is a feeling, conviction, or belief that something is true or real, not contingent upon reason or justification. We experience this many times. We believe in something that is not real, that does not exist. We always believe that something good will be happening in our bad time. It does not have proof or justification but we still do believe in it.

We believe in God. I have never seen God just like people around. But I see God in every one. We say God refers to goodness from every one and Devil refers to badness. There is power up above of all of us in this world and to that we refer as God. Everything which happens in our lives, whether good or bad, we always believe that God has made it for us. He has planned for us. And at the end, it will be good since he planned for us. That’s how we have a faith on God.

In my case, faith is nothing but positivity in our thoughts. During our bad times, when we are frustrated, when we see nothing is happening as per our plan, we pray to God. We have faith that our prayers will be answered. We will be out of this bad phase of our life and will be happy again. In pursuit of happiness, while working hard in every situation, either working on a project to achieve something, or tackling an incident in our life, we make plans. We believe that our plans will work even though we are not sure what will happen at very next moment. Positivity of mind, keeps us believe in our plan and working hard to get desired outcome. And this positivity is due to faith.

Whenever I am in trouble, whenever I see no way to get rid of trouble situation, I try to keep calm and try to build that positive feeling in negative situation. In that case, I always remember Alan sir and his smile. With his smile in front of my eyes, I say to myself “Have faith in God, God is great."

Sunit S. Pendse
5th Feb 2014
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