APPRECIATION : Appreciate It .......

When i started blogging ,i thought i would write on all topics under the sun ,but i don`t want my blogs to be a miscellany and would rather stick to writing on metaphysical topics.
Appreciation , one word which is most appreciated by everybody ,is something for which we all are extremely covetous and crave for whole or any part of it or should i say live for !! This might seem an exaggeration but more than often its true .We expect it everytime sometimes hoping against hope, but never lose the hope . It becomes a need sometimes irrestible enough to turn a person eccentric indulging in whimsical acts to make his presence felt ,to make himself conspicious ,to get the accolades (deserving or undeserving ,it hardly matters) .This need on the other hand also seldom acts as a catalyst driving the best out of a person at his workplace or home .Each word of appreciation makes you happy ,contended but paradoxically it also leaves you asking for more and from the next time its not one but two words that you need to satisfy your striving soul .The number keeps on increasing till the culmination is reached which is surprisingly different even for non-different people .
But there is darker side to it too.Every piece of cake that you get from your boss comes loaded with expectations and resposibilities which forms the cream ,to get the cake you got to take the cream first and fortunately (if you love the cake toppings ) or unfortunately the cream stratum keeps on increasing while the cake pith remains the same .
Oops am i forgetting something, to get it ,there must be someone to give it ,the latter always less in number than the former ..Its often more difficult to give than to take.To give whole hearted appreciation without malicious intent is a big task itself ,and very rarely would you find somebody executing it to perfection. and that somebody needs to be appreciated because he deserves it and owns it .But WHO will ??????

Unfulfilled desires ........,the Urge within..............

I believe there will be a few ,exceptionably lucky people ,who would`nt conform to the above title ;the rest would surely be able to relate to the title at some point of their life .Everybody has been sent for a very special purpose ,a purpose which is abstruse ,crypted and generally unfathomable ,something which normally a person dies discovering .At various times in our lives we realise that what we are doing isnt what we are supposed to be do or what we can do best ,but the realisation omes late ,we almost get trapped in the mores of life leaving us with no option but to reject the realisation as a fanciful idea and get on to what we are doing .
But the realisation once realised is indelible ,it continues to poke you everytime you keep your cereberrum at rest and nearly everytime it leaves some traces which refuses to efface out no matter how hard you try .The monotonous job and society led restrictions also aggrandize the feeling and waxes the frequency of realisation .Then the punches become real strong ,you start feeling anachronistic ,out of place ,everything but normal and an urge develops to DO something ,Do something to satisfy the urge itself ,what an irony !! .a perfect imbroglio !!The normal human perplexed by this thought rambles for a while ,stops to ponder for some time ,and when fails to arbitrate ,rejects the whole idea as specious and goes to slumber .but the thought doesnt leave him and unfortunately he lives with the feeling of an underperformer ,surely an unsatisfying life .
The one who is not normal ( the society calls him abnormal) tries to satisfy the urge and because the urge itself is reponsible for that trial ,his trial has to be a big one ,big enough to satiate the urge .Such a person who tries ,is DOing something in the real sense of doing and he is the one who achieves the culmination of heroism ,HERO not of the society or country but of himself ,his heart ,his soul .

Times of India lead campaign :My take .....

Its quite some time now since i wrote my last blog.....got busy following the mundane mores of life .
What puts me into writing again is the lead india campaign launched by times of india ,quite a remarkable and thought provoking campaign which does require a little more ponderance .
To begin with ,when i first read the theme of the campaign: "Domination begins with DO ,so getup and DO" on the front page of TOI `s15th August edition i felt quite good about the whole idea ,it seemed different and looked like it does have some promise .As i deleved more into the campaign it transpired that they would be using SRK to promote the whole programme and that he would be acting as one of the arbitrators .This relevation ,sort of ,acted like a decatalyst for me ,for i found the protagonist unworthy of the huge responsibity that this campaign invloves .
One of my friends recently reiterated the fact that only two things sell in INDIA like hot cakes and they are as is known to everybody "SEX and SRK" ,but is TOI really aiming to sell anything through this campaign ?Is it more of a publicity stunt for their paper to remain the best selling newspaper in Delhi or are they really looking for some dynamic maverick youth of our country who believe that change is the only unchanging fact of life and are ready to take the government by horns .If they conform to the latter then i must say using SRK as the brand ambassador for the campaign , to me, is an outcome of some specious reasoning and a decision taken in haste .
If the rationale behind the decision sits on the assumption that SRK would make the campaign popular and more youth would listen to him they are very correct but perhaps have forgotten that the campaign aims to look not for people who impressed by some eminent personality but for those who feel oppressed and dejected at the current political and economic condition in INDIA and who envisage and want to build a future in which INDIA would be a developed nation in all its connotations .
Abdul Kalam could have been the most suited person for this job, for his popularity is out of the tremendous work that he has done for his country in the past ,not forgetting the fact that his latest role as president of India has made him more propular with the common people of our country .The Indian youth and children see him as an idol and he very nearly epitomises the word, patriotic .
But having said all of the above , i still believe in the campaign and hope that it brings forth people ,thoughts,ideas that would help our country attain the pinnacle heights and grow into an economic superpower with the common people as the beneficiaries .I end my blog here ,wishing TOI my congratulations (for successful launch of the campaign) and all the very best that they end it by DOing something .

(To all the diehard SRK fans .I am not against him ,i m against the idea of using him for this campaign) .
(Comments invited .....)