L O V E...

All these days my blogs were about places i saw, but this time its all about humans i have met known seen etc.

These days ppl behavior around me fascinates me alot. There are all kinds of people around us, parents, kids, friends,relatives, colleagues, neighbors, your fav celebrity and a person who sits next to you in bus whom you will never meet in your whole life again..oh the list is endless and their behavior is very interesting.

Coming to human behavior, among all the relations i have seen so far, a parent's love to child is the only selfless love. there is no expectation in return, no grudge held when hurt and still will do and want the best to her child. Can the love be so selfless and pure? I recently saw a 85 year old women serving alcohol to her 67 year old son, just to make him happy, she must have given birth to her son at the age of 15-16, so its been 67 years of pure love, so tat exists!! But there is a catch, its a curse that the child will not love back its parent with equal intensity.

The next important person is your partner, In this country people do love, arranged marriages. Their relationship is a very long journey where it goes through lots of ups and downs,which has love, hate, anger, fight, support, sympathy, care all human emotions. I met a wise man other day who says 70% of Indian couples want to get out of relation, so does it mean the love has run out of its course? I would say yes, but I must appreciate the Indian society where the society norms makes the person to hold on to things till the last string is pulled out, the reasons could be many, it could be child , money or you are so used to your partner that you have a high tolerance to everything and you just go on with the flow. etc

In all the rest of the relations, i feel its mostly give and take, if you are good to me, if you help me in tougher times, if you save me situations its a thankful love which will be strong in initial days and gradually the impact on human mind decreases and over years it remains just as a memory.You will be grateful to the other person and will help that person in need but that thats all, you will not love that person purely.

The most selfish love is, love towards GOD!! Yes, you pray god endlessly, you worship god endlessly, but there is so much selfishness in that love that every time you remember good is when you are in need, you spend hours, days, years in worshiping him so that he does miracle to you, he saves your from troubles, he gives you the best, so i feel tats the most overrated Love :)

Even though we are taught to be kind to poor, love all in schools for as much as 20 years, i feel its just not in human nature tat he love all at all the time selflessly

I can't end the topic without mentioning the last but not the least love which is friendship. That is one relationship which turns more sweet over the period of time. but if there exists a pure friendship between two people no matter what happen in each others life, they always wish best for each other, isn't it the next best love after parent's love?

How many agree?

Me Myself and Gujrat

I am impressed with infrastructure (roads, industries, and lifestyle), discipline in Gujarat specially no non-veg restaurants and liquor shops in major part of the state (Its smuggled in milk exporting vessels but still the crime rates by alcoholics are meager compared to other states), hats off to the governance.

A week long vacation after a long long time was a good break from mechanical life :) and ofc it woke up my writer instinct :) Far from office, household, virtual world and daily soaps :)

A trip along Sourastra mirrored me a reality check of things which I/we are running behind. Major locations visited included Dwaraka, Somnath, Gir, Gandhi’s house in

Porabandar, Gandhi ashram, Akshardham in Ahmadabad.

Gandhi's house and Gandhi's ashram, Wow the simplicity in those places stunned me, those places question every man's obsession towards luxury where in 2 pair of clothes and simple vegetarian food can give u a content life!!!

Highly impressed with somnath and its history. A jyotirlinga to be remembered forever for n number of reasons. There was a 45 mins presentation of history of the Temple, around middle of the story Mohamed Ghazini comes and sweeps of wealth in temple, at tat moment i wondered if god really existed there then y did it allow tat to happen, but at the end of the story the temple was demolished several times and re-constructed. Hence I realized it not about wealth but strength of god to survive there. After so many attempts and today in 21st century it’s still standing there head held high attracting millions of devotees.

Dwaraka and its stories was always heard or seen in television series of Lord krishna, going to visit the lord by sailing in sea was different experience.

Lastly visiting Gir was an eye opener and made me question the man kind for several reasons. Firstly commendable effort by Gir forest authority to bring the lion count from 20+ to 411 in almost 100 years when this species was in the verge of extinct. Secondly good to know that there exists 54 village with various vegetarian tribal’s (yes vegetarian tribal’s) who survive in same forest along with those lions in 300km range. But in reality if they should grow beyond this count than mankind should give them enough space to survive. 

But the million dollar question is what the man kind (specially Indian mankind) should ask themselves is, why so much less space on this earth for anyone other than human species and ofc inside human species the rich has more right to live than poor. But humans are just another living being but since he can think and implement changes, he is driving the world to end by hampering the ecosystem? Humans are acquiring all the landscape, producing toxic elements which earth can’t digest, driving every other species to extinct, where are we going? The so called development is making us crazy tat we can’t differentiate between right and wrong kind of development. Hence the irony is we don’t breathe pure air, drink pure water and earth nutritious food we are on self destruction mode and guess what we are taking the whole planet down with us, though the developed nations and various organizations are working towards making man aware of his heinous crimes, the ground zero is still sleeping with loads of plastics, dirty water, and poisoned food. Sometimes I wonder if we are the ASURAS of kaliyug?

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed - Mahatma Gandhi

Will the real mankind please wakeup? How much ever we say we are the most intelligent species on this earth were we able to stop the meteor shower which happened on

Russia few days back? The universe surely has its way to get back on MANKIND!!