Stepping Up

It's another Sunday today, but a bit more relaxed yet critically thoughtful. I spend normal weekends (when I get so much free time) watching movies. It's another such Weekend. Yesterday, I went to a movie theater with my wife on a local train in Mumbai. It was around 9 AM in the morning. It was the same crowd that you can expect in Mumbai; however, it would be much more if it would not be the Weekend. We stepped into the train and did the same thing that any other would do, searched for the vacant seat. Reena (my wife) called me from somewhere around, "Kartik, here it is; come fast." I quickly looked at the seat and approached just in time but stopped when I realized that a kid who expected to get that seat had stepped back to his father seeing me. I signaled the kid to take a seat and exchanged a smile with his father. These are very normal scenes you will come across while traveling in Mumbai locals. What I did was similar to what anyone would have done if they had ...

As I'm writing this, I'm really feeling low with the only question repeating in mind, "Is this how Kaliyug looks?" Then, I start to think about the existence of this universe. The cause, "Why these things that I'm living? What's the purpose? Why is this needed? Is life really valuable, or it's overrated?"  What is going to be my role in this universe? If I matter to this universe? If NO, then why should I be born, if YES "What change am I able to make?" From my life experience, I have learned one sure thing, and I am confident about it, and that is destiny. Your destiny is already defined. But will my destiny change with my changing deed? I am feeling low right now just because I am not accepting some things about this universe, about the people around me, and I cannot change the way they think, I cannot change their beliefs but wait... I am asking, "Can I? Can I change their way of thinking?" I have been a really optimistic ...