Re-finding the strangers

Watching the movie "Before Sunset", on a winter evening cosily tucked inside the blanket, defeating the natures cruelty was me and the girl next to me. Both of us lost in the magic of the movie spelled upon us. The eagerness of the two characters to know each other and to open up like they have been bound in a nutshell for years made us think of us. 

The cafe in Paris reminded us of cafe coffee day in Bangalore where the noise around never made it to our ears. Eyes never faded from each other's face and every sip of coffee was dragged like Ekta kapoor's family melodramas. The strolls in the park of Paris reminded us of the late night bike rides around the empty roads of the sleepless city. 

During all these actions, there were conversations which made the actions memorable. Reading  one chapter of each others past after another, visualizing every moment told, reacting the way as though it was happening to you made us cherish each others company. 

The movie took us back to the times when we were strangers yet companions, arguers yet believers, perverts yet emotional. In the years of togetherness, we had found each other but lost those strangers and the movie made us realize that. After the end of the movie, the spark in each others eyes revealed that he/she is the missing stranger and I have found him/her again. 

Although, things cannot be the same as it was before, we'll it should not be the same as it was before, but cherishing such memories makes me feel special and seeing the girl next to me as my wife makes the life worth a shot.

Cherie

Me and my wife decided to get a dog. Till the time she came to bangalore, she always had a dog in her home. So I could not fail to notice the excitment in her face when I agreed to get a dog to our house.

Almost everyone in their childhood dream of having a pet. Let it be Dog or a cat, children somehow manage to find a non-human buddy for themselves. I remember that I had got two little
puppies from the street and started to take care of them in my grandma's house. All the kids in my colony treated as their own pets and we used to love the time spent with them.


Kids always see the emotional part of things and adults sometimes see the logical part of things. The same happened with me and I could not hold on to a dog for a long time. So the childhood dream of having a dog was buried like the bone dog burries in ground.


Then I grew up and with age you start to think logically. All the thougths of, if I own a pet, i will have to feed it, bath it, clean the mess it creates. Above all, i would lose my freedom and have to dedicate my time to it. Such thoughts chain you up, narrowing your sight towards negetivity.


The bone remained burried until my wife started off one day after we moved in to our new house that we should get a dog. I was not willing to pay for a dog and told her the same. Later she found a organization called CUPA. It is a NGO in favour of animals and they had put up a camp on Gandhi Jayathi in which we could go and adopt a pet staying at their shelter.


That was the day when we got Cherie. She is unusual. She looks like a pom but has the color of a german shepard. For the day we brought her she was quiet and we thought she does not know how to bark. But as the days passed by we realized that she is one notorious dogie, who always likes to be pampered. She goes to the extent of taking our hands, putting it on herself asking us to pamper her.


Lot of things changed after she has come home. Me or my wife has to return from work before 6pm just because we need to take her out for a walk and give her dinner. Our expenditures have increased. Our outings have become less. We take leave from work when she is sick. When we go out, we do not enjoy until we come to know she is doing well back home. My wife cries when she gets hurt.


These are some of the difficulties which we face. But on the other side, we are more happy when we are at home with her. Her every action makes us laugh. After a day of work, your stress goes off the instant when u see she is all over you right after you have opened the house door. No welcome comes close to the welcome u get from her. And the best thing is, We become kids when she is with us. The best part of our life, childhood, comes back alive.


Weighing the pros and cons of owning a dog would be useless. You give them a home. They give you everything. My freind one's said. "My dad did not cry when my grandma died, but he cried when his dog died". This just shows the space that a dog can create in your heart. Cherie has created that space in our hearts.
We will always be thankful to God to give us the sense to have dog and hope God gives the same sense to everyone else.

CNN Heros

Today, I just had a chance to have a look at the program "CNN Heros". This is the award ceremony organised by CNN which honours ordinary people doing extrodinary things. People who go out of their daily routine to help others, and by doing this, making the world a better place to stay. I was quite moved by the award ceremony which gave a platform for such people to get noticed and gain creidibility, even though they are not doing such work for any sort of recognition.

As all award ceremonies are, this one was also filled with celebrities. Some who are doing something for the community and some I am not sure of. Inspite of their presence, these ordinary people from all over the globe who had gathered with their families outshined the others. This makes me wonder sometimes, all the fame and money can earn you the charm and luxuries of life but may not necessarily make you a good man and earn you respect in the eyes of others.

In the ceremony, there were three kinds of people. The first kind were the ordinary people doing ordinary jobs, but contributing to the society in such a great extent that its worth getting noticed. I salute them for their efforts and they really are great, setting an example to every common man on earth. The second kind were the famous lot with a kind heart. They have the soft corner to understand that instead of spending all the money I have on luxurious things, let me spend some money on people/society who are in need. This may turn out to be a pubilicity stunt, who knows, but atleast, someone in need is getting benefitted. I have enormous respect for such people. The third kind were the CNN crew who understands the importance of highlighting such people and the work they do. In a way, they let the common man know, that everyone can be a hero in their own sense, in their own deeds and in their own eyes.

To conclude, I feel, anyone who can do anything good to any extent is a Hero. So dont stop yourself from doing good things. May someone appreciate you or not, but you will feel good about yourself. Thats the most important reward you can give to yourself.

First blog, Fastest blog

Hi,

Just a small blog to fill up the screen :). Also,
Dying to Live does not mean "I want to live". It means "I want to live my life to the fullest". Hence please dont misunderstand me as a dying/depressed person who is searching for life.

Time to start and I will try to write with my heart.