Back with a Bang..!!

18th March , it was a very big day for me. After a long time the Trichur unit of  Xbhp (Indians most popular Motorcycling portal) was having a meet. A pre planned event, to be frank i never expected a big number as the Trichur unit was in hibernation for about 3-4 years, with no meets or group rides what so ever. And me being just joined 2 years it was tough to get the team back together, however with the help of a few friends who are active we managed to get it going.

The Plan

The plan for the day was to have a meet somewhere around Trichur where we  could accommodate all the bikers, ample space to park and have some chit chat. So finally from various suggestions we fixed on to Trichur Town-hall.The Perfect space indeed. Ample space to park our bikes and plenty of shade too. Being a Sunday the place wouldn’t be even crowded, now that just made everything perfect.
Now after the small introduction session we planned for a short ride, we had quite a few suggestions, some long,so…Read More

Reflection

I prayed hard for a speck of light,
I was then greeted slowly by the truth,
as it slowly dawned upon me like the morning sun,
gently yet mercilessly burning through the illusion of my life.
Lighting up the………Read More

Snehatheeram,Trichur

March 1st 2012, quite an eventful day for me. I have been part of the biggest Indian Biking group Xbhp for nearly 2 years now. Lack of members from nearby areas meant that my participation in this group would be restricted to a bare minimum, that is online patricipation. I used to silently watch members from Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram  having meets,making new friends and going for rides. I cursed myself for being at a far away place and not having members from my area.

But the Biking scene down here at Trichur is changing, a few new members have popped….Read More

Coldness

The chilly wind wraps me in its
Aura, mercilessly breezing
Through into the cold windy
Twilight.

 

Shuddering in the coldness, eyes
Closed, I bite into my own lips
Feeling betrayed by my own
Blanket covering me.
 

Mimicking the coldness I feel in my
Empty heart seems to be natures
Idea of fun.

 

As the numbness seeps through,
Feeding on me physically and
Mentally like a parasite,
Obliviously I slip into my own past,
Crucifying me to my memories.

 

Irony as it seems, the numbness
Becomes my lone companion,
Absorbing my pain, an ear
Shattering silence watches on.
 
 
-Krishna
 
 
 

One fine day.

One fine day I was sitting in my room,windows and door shut feeling miserable, I was thinking to myself ‘This is not the life I wanted,I never pictured myself like this,whats the reason for me being like this’ I thought on, and got lost in the thought.

Suddenly I was feeling suffocated,Nah, I want choking to death,but at that moment it felt much inviting. Jokes apart,the windows were closed,so I opened them, looked out, what a beautiful day it was, a kind of day that demanded to be spend with friends and family,but alas I was not able to do so, wasn’t in the mood. Well the reason being that I was practically spending a lot of time alone in my room,feeling that my life is being wasted to its full potential and making it worse a feeling that none gave a freaking heck of what happened to me.Yeah.! Imagination runs wild baby..!! Thats what it is all about,our whole life is about.

Well lets not drift away from the topic here.

Coming back, so really what a waste it was, feeling miserable, it was really exhausting. Well the reason was obvious,many of you might have guessed it.

To the others who dint get it and are starting to wonder what the heck is this bloke aiming at here ? Well I’ll tell you,I’m just being as blunt as I can over here(it comes naturally).

What im trying to get across here is, Dont be a loner,it really spoils the fun in life, its miserable and exhausting and such a waste of time, fill all that void in you with people around you, people who are near and dear, well making it half full itself is like having an corruption free government. Well getting back, we are really surrounded by many people in our life,well make their existance just more than a mere physical presence in your life, we have the power for that.Its just that we never care to bother about them, yes its an arguable point that everyone might not see us as a priority, but we can always make them a priority in our life, it might be a very rare thing that you might get any kind of recognition from them,but heck,the personal satisfaction you can get from that is just too much better than handling the stress of being a loner,trust me, that stress is something you dont want to have,i have been through that,well not actually done with it, more or less even I am or was a loner, I’m still not sure.

Yes, I’m not comfortable admitting this but here is its importance to say it as it can show that I’m not just some other bloke blogging around because i dont have anything else better to do,its to show that I know what I’m doing and I know what I’m saying and am in a position to give advice on this front

Take it from me mate,its a free advice,dont be a loner, if you find yourself in that position ,change for good. Yes it does have its pits and falls,but then everything does, and it is much better than having to be alone. Have someone in your life,for whom its worth living, it makes them feel happy and you feel even better.Well you can take it from me if you want,im just an another bloke who wishes to see others happy and having a better life.

Signing off

Krishna

Something to think about

Observing people is something I love to do, its like bringing down the pace of life by a few notches,the most common thing that you would find puzzling is that everyone is in so much rush, and it also provides us some opportunity to witness something special like this, these are some thing that you don’t normally get to see,because you miss it completely in your blind rush. 

Since that incident, I have started to be more observing, freeing myself from all the hustle, and looking around I find this rush, horrible rush, just a lot of noise, and then suddenly I realize that even I was a part of this rush.

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“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.”

-George Gurdjieff

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This Truely made me think how come i also got pulled into this chaos ? And somewhere along the line I got an rather revolting thought,a thought I din’t want to accept myself,but due to its sheer clarity i had to, I simply was not living my life.!!! I was merely just creating an mirror image of the life of others, no, ignorant would be a better word. I like many other people was following them, being a part of the system.

The worst part is that its you are unaware of it, its such an involuntary action, its just so mechanical in nature, you don’t really think about it,i wouldn’t call it instinct,its more like we were conditioned this way. Sad, but true.

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All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
Graham Chapman

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A trip to Alappuzha…

The reason you are reading this is because…it happened,Yes.It happened.My long wish of going on for a long distance solo bike trip.First of all let me thank my dad and mom for being understanding my passion for bikes and travel and letting me do it at such short notice.

All set to travel...

Now so let me start penning down my trip log. Till then have a look at some of the pics i took during my trip.

Watch out for more.

Watch this space for more…

30 seconds of magic..

How much can witnessing something great can change your life?  or being more realistic, change your your day ? Well, not many of us might have seen it or more importantly paid attention to it.So this is what I’m going to do.I am going to share with you a priceless moment I witnessed yesterday. I was travelling to Trichur by bus, a bit gloomy I was,many things in my mind. The bus made a stop at a place for about 45seconds. I was sitting on the left side window seat and looked at a house casually and this is what I saw.

A mother and her son of age maybe 8-9 years old were getting out of their house and reached the road side,she was probably waiting to see him off to his bus to school and go to work.Pretty casual scene as till now.

Now suddenly a sweet little girl,this lady’s daughter comes out of the house calling out to her mom loudly, she ran out from inside the house and stood near the entrance of her house with a angry yet sweet expression on her face. Her mom turned back and looked at her, the magic starts here,the girl smiles and runs to her mom, hands outstreched, the mom hugs her daughter tightly and gives her a soft kiss on the tip of her nose.

The expression on the little girls face was magical,she was so happy, I wish I could have seen the mom’s expression too but I couldnt.

All this happened in a span of 30-45 secs, just as this happened the bus started moving taking me to my destination, but it had totally changed me, suddenly I had a smile on my face and felt much much better.A feeling of fullfillment of having witnessed something special yet very subtle. The positive energy that spread into me just by witnessing this simple form of love was overwhelming, i’m still amazed that how 30sec thing I saw had an lasting effect on me throughtout the whole trip which lasted about 5 hours.

I would just like to thank them for brightning up my day by allowing me to witness it. I think it will be a worthy share among you guys.If it made you smile then please share it. Might bring a smile to someone elses face too.

 

Cheers,Take care friends.

KP

Mix a little fun in your life.

It’s been a while I have been thinking about something. “How do I make my life a little more interesting , less boring ?”.  Now I have wondered about this for long time now, how to find a solution to this nagging problem because its really a depressing thing to live with, the boredom. So during my daily long commuting to college I would think about many solution but never actually hit an appropriate solution.

So as random it could be, Just the other day I saw an video, a one I had seen before long time back, but this time around it was different, something clicked in my mind when I saw it, and suddenly I had the solution right in front of me. Having something fun to do can make a huge difference in your mental attitude towards that job or work, improvise , improvising is the essence of havng fun, do something different, do something new, do something crazy, its exciting , its fun.

Let me break it down to you. Take for instance anything that you have been doing for sometime now. Try doing it a little different this time around, add some fun to it. It definitely makes a difference.This simple fact can help students too, Me being a student definitely will require this skill to convert hours of struggle with boring lectures and subjects into something worth my time.If you find fun then you can easily convert the slow moving hours into interesting hours of your day.

Well nothing more to say about this, Ill leave behind the video so that you guys can also get an practical idea of what I’m talking about.

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Krishnaprasad.

Words Lie, Eyes don’t

Someone once said  ”The face is the mirror of the mind”. Well that someone was very damn right. the face is indeed the mirror of our inner self. In this era where most of the conversation between friends and families have shifted to phone conversations and text messages, don’t you think we are lacking something here ? Sure it might be a conviniance to be able to have contact without actually meeting up in person everytime we have something to share.

The reason for this tendency is that we find it easier to tell something to someone when we are not facing them. This if converted into a habit gets into a serious problem. Let me explain why i said ‘serious’ , the tendency to lie is very high, you feel comfortable enough to lie when you are not having a face to face conversation. Because the very minute details that we can observe when we are having in an face o face conversation is absent here. The conversation becomes emotionless. The listener cannot be sure if the speaker is being truthful or not. This is a fact that most of us are ignorant about.Ignorant because we know it and still heed no attention to it.And you never know that if the person on the other side is ‘listening ‘ to anything you are saying. That is a very important thing, sometimes when we are saying something seriously the person on the other side might be fiddling with something else. Doesn’t that just kills the whole point of a conversation ?

Then now let me get into texting. Firstly let me confess one thing. I am an vivid texter, I text  lot, it is the way i stay connected with others, it has a lot of +points but i want to highlight the negatives relevant to this thread.Now to the main part, one can always leave a conversation or not respond when one feels its going to an uncomfortable ground for them, its an act that we all do, we do it cause there is nothing the other person can be done about it. At time it might be helpful or the right thing to do, but at times it can also be a very wrong thing to do.

Now compare it when having an face to face conversation, as we all know its really easy to understand if a person is lieing to you if he/her is right in front of you. Only highly accomplished liars can get away with it. But in case of your friends and family you can clearly understand. When talking to someone look directly into their eyes, you will be surprised how much you can get to know about the person you are conversing with. and most importantly, eyes dont lie, they never do.Then the satisfaction you would get talking directly to someone is also much better than having a phone conversation.You might have not felt it before, but it is true.

But now a days, knowingly or unknowingly the value of having a face to face conversation is being lost.To avoid becoming like that and to avoid such things not to happen with you its best that we find an balance between these gadgets and  the old fashioned face to face conversation.So its best that we try to change this habit.This is what i have been taught,by my parents and by life the hard way. And now im passing it on to you. Hopefully my words will of some use to you in your way ahead.

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-KRISHNA

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