MAYG & UTP - The Blog

We have finally launched our shared blog where we will be ranting about how good (or bad) our lives are together hehhe…me and Mayg (my wife) have activated something that we had wanted to do for quite some time. Our shared blog. here is the URL,

http://maygandutp.blogspot.com

Add to favourites, add to google reader, whatever makes you happy….

Dont worry, I will still be blogging over here…with my usual regular frequency. But I have a feeling it is going to get much more interesting there. Hehehe….excited? I was talking to myself ok…Yes I am excited…Lets see what this develops into…

Don’t Forget to Live

Dont Compare Yourself With Anyone…

I read a quote some place which goes as follows,

“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” - Alan Strike

I do not know who Alan Strike is but the thought is beautiful and much in line with my beliefs as well. I believe Allah made us all different for a reason. Every single person in this world adds a distinct flavour to this place we call ‘The World’. Even if you pick up twins you will notice they are different. So one shouldn’t compare himself, or for that matter anyone, with someone else. We are not made to be the same. There would be no use if everybody was the same.

It would be insulting to yourself if you start thinking that you should have been somebody else or you should try and become someone else. Firstly, its not possible and secondly if you do manage to become someone else then who would fill the gap that you would have created. That gap is to be filled by you and you only. As I have written earlier also, its a world with cause-and-effect. That hole could have its different repercussions.

Everybody is here for a reason and one of the first jobs we should get on is not to work in the best multinational company in the world but rather towards finding out that reason. Why am I here? Whats my role?

Only when you are able to answer the above will you start focusing towards the correct route and the useful route. Success then follows. You can be that expected somebody.

Just while writing this post, I just remembered my school principal and with that the famous line “It’s OK to be different…” which is on her office door. You read it while you enter into her office. I have already written about this before so am linking it to this one again.

Be yourself, everybody else is already taken….

All my world in a Raindrop

I have never been a fan of rains or the cold. I am more of a summery and sunshine guy but one can’t avoid the other moods of the weather either. Everyone must have found one way or the other about the rains in UAE these last few days. The crazy rains and the floods. But this isn’t a post about them.

Its more about what the long drives home these last few days led me to remember about the rain when I was a kid. As the rain poured onto my car windows I was able to see raindrops pouring down. Going back in time when I used to sit and see the rain on the car windows when mom was driving through it. How each raindrop had a world in itself. The colours would lead me to a chain of thoughts that I used to get as a kid seeing through them. The thought would last from the time the raindrop hit the window till the time it dripped down till the end of it. Then I would catch another thought in another raindrop from the top.

Each raindrop, a world of its own. In our daily lives, we come across a term called “dejavu”. Has anybody wondered when could they have had the thought or caught a glimpse of a future happening which has come to them now as “dejavu”. It couldn’t be the recent past as you would have remembered otherwise. It had to be some time….way back. Maybe when we were kids?

I know nothing seems like it connects up there….but it does. It might not be raindrops for you, it may be a boring classroom lecture, or a dinner time with a non-favourite vegetable. Anything that led you to a chain of thoughts when you were kids and let to a “dejavu” now that you are a grown up.

All this life, each instance, each thing that happens is linked. You may realize it or not realize but everything that happens has an effect. The cause and effect rule applies to every-body’s lives. It becomes interesting when you actually start looking through it.

It’s Not About How Hard You Can Hit…

I was finally able to watch the much desired movie of my movie-watching life. “Rocky Balboa” is the 6th in the Rocky Series and it did not disappoint at all. It may be because I am such a big fan of the character that I try to base my life on the projections made in the movie.

No that doesn’t mean that I am a boxer which the average movie goer assumes. I have heard comments from people when I ask “Have you watched any of the Rocky movies?”. I get a lot of “I don’t like boxing movies, they are filled with violence and not the right thing….” etc. Those people don’t deserve to watch Rocky anyway cos even if they do, they just wont get it.

The character Rocky Balboa and the movie series is not a series about boxing at all in fact. Its more about life. In fact its more about life than life itself. Its about how we are all fighters in the ring of life. Each one fighting their own battles and it’s the heart, the stronger heart that prevails. Its the heart that keeps us getting up again from each punch taken. Its the heart that keeps you fighting that one more fight. Just that one more. It keeps getting you going on through all the hardships in life.

I am just a huge fan of the series and call me whatever you want, I am. I have taken lessons from the series and try and implement it in every walk of life. Hey if I had the chance I wouldn’t mind being him, of course I couldn’t ever be.

Before writing anything more, I will mark this one as a tribute to Sly, the guy who has affected my life in more ways than one by just making such a great series of movies. I will leave you with one of the lessons I learnt from this last movie.

“Its not about how hard you hit….its about how hard you can GET hit and still stand up…”