When you sit on the bank of river and let yourself watch the flow of water there are different kind of feelings that arouse inside you, the flow of water and the sound both touches heart. At the same time, you feel the flow of water is similar to the flow of life, somewhere it flows like a slow stream while at other places, it becomes flood and at some places, it flows with a speed that is mesmerizing.

Year 2018 was similar for me it went like a slow steady water, not much contribution to the blog, no poetry, and no travel blogs not much into the writing. The year went where I did not able to give anything to the readers. This will be the 7^th year of my blogging journey and I want to keep writing keep telling the thoughts, the daily shores and the day-to-day activities that captures our life. This blog is not based on any particular niche, I write from all corners of life, and I want to be like that. There are thousands of instances came when I thought to close and start on particular niche but did not find any that can be accepted by my soul. This is the place where I write not to tell gain audience but to tell the stories from every walk of life mostly happening around me, it can be a story of a friend, a walking stranger any event or anything. Thanks for your love and support to keep coming and visiting blog for different articles. Although I did not contributed much last year but still your support helps this blog getting traffic from all over the world.

There were thousands of event happened which I was part of but not able to write a single story defining those moments. There are so many things happened to the world although the world is still finding a key to happiness by burning all the 24 hours in a meaning less tasks. There are so many things present around us still we do not enjoy them but want to gather more belongings.

There are so many parameters for judging our success but still we remains unsatisfied throughout the time. We always switch between career, family, health and social status to differentiate and define our success. We compare ourselves with the other through these parameters to judge where we stand but always find ourselves in the standing a bit lower position because we compare each parameter with a different personality in which he/she is good at. We neglect the fact that there might be some parameters where we are better than him/her.

There are no shortcuts of success and we should see life like a flowing water, there can be some hardships and there can be some easy pebbles. We should stand our head high and hope for the better. Life is not always about running sometime we just need to sit and enjoy our surroundings and success of others.

Time changes, it changes very fast. We go so busy in our life that we ultimately lost our purpose of living life, a life that we created in our dreams with our own imagination. A life full of travel, adventure, crazy and bumpy rides. Time is the real culprit; we start our journey in hope of something else and end up doing something else. There are diversions, distractions and people who helps us to forget our dreams.

Every year there are hundreds of ups and down in our life as each of it changes us a little and those little changes change us completely. Why we are so busy in a race that we completely neglect our soul to think of, to think about our ambition, goal, journey and life that we always want to have. We are in so hurry about finding new things that we completely stop giving attention to the things we already had. When we look 4-5 years down the line, we find ourselves completely different. If we had given a choice, we would never choose our future like this.

Laziness seeps into our body and morning routines no more in the schedule. Whom do we blame when we lost in our life? Exactly we blame the environment but no we should blame to ourselves. We should blame to the greedy person that reside inside us who is killing all the things that use to rejuvenate once. The person who killed all the hobbies, killed all the ignite that use to be the cause of participation in extracurricular activities, killed zeal to play sports and do exercise. The person who killed the inspiration to move butt and do something of our own. We have to blame the person and not the environment, not the neighbor, not person sitting next neither the culture nor the religion. It is we who made our life miserable and we have to accept it; we are the losers who killed ourselves just for the sake of little comfort.

Whenever we saw our future in the past we always saw ourselves of some value but when we see ourselves in the present we are nothing but a person with no aim , no goals , no ambition nothing. Our final target becomes just to earn money, earn money for what? When we sell our time earning money we get hardly any time to enjoy it. We sell our souls and involve ourselves into the activities that we never thought of and never ever imagine that we will do it. We go in the trap of this vicious circle of sitting and watching Netflix, ordering online and doing nothing. Not even a single activity that can truly tell our soul that yes this is you did for me.

We hardly care for anything and never sit to see what is going on in ourselves. What we actually wanted to have and we are trying for? What are my passions and targets and where am I investing the time. Not everything in our life is to please others. Sometimes we need to please ourselves, we need to look into our soul and we need to plan what it wants from us.

Our whole life productivity depends upon this single word “Focus”. A person who wants to attain and achieve something from life is need to be focused towards his/her goal but my question – is it possible in the era where so many distractions available at the fingertip?

We are not getting bored in today’s world, even for a second if we have nothing to do our automatically search for mobile phones start processing and soon we are into the world of limitless knowledge and garbage both. When we don’t allow us to think and spend time in silence what actually happens to our thought? Yes, actually we kill them. A bored mind can lead to a thousand of ideas to work on but a busy mind none.

All the classrooms we ever attended back in life, the grasping power was very dependent on this word, and the more focused we were in the classroom the better we were at the subjects. There were distractions in the times from the window , from the backseat , from the front seat , from the side and from everywhere but still we kept our focus on the board to learn what teacher was trying to teach but the case is no more now. We do not read books anymore if we read also we cannot concentrate for long time, we do not sit and think about all possibility that we can do in the time we have. We do not priorities things and always get indulge into the activities that kill our time which we call with proud as a time pass.

Do we really stopped focusing on the things? There are people still there who are so focused into their work and life that they hardly care about anything going around them but they are few in numbers and number is large for them who are so unfocused about their life and work that they continuously keep putting their nose in everything around the corner. They think themselves as intellectuals and never have any followers other than the virtual ones. They never get bored and thus they do not have their own thoughts but a thought borrowed from someone else.

The basic instinct of human to focus is decreasing gradually because of automation, our mind is not moving for the thoughts, and we do not memorize things anymore, as google is always present for us. The technology that was created for us to help in our day-to-day problem is eating our brain.

There is no harm with the technology but using technology for believing every false propaganda, every photo shopped images, every tempered audio and video clips, every non-sense thing that people post on Facebook and twitter is really a concern here. As we stopped focusing anymore, we do not go behind the facts and believe everything. We do not get bored anymore so we do not think what is happening around us is right or wrong. We just flowing with the flow without even thinking about our destination and journey.

The responsibility don’t come only when you are deeply involved in something but sometimes it comes naturally to you if you are in a profession of communication. A profession that deals with communicating thoughts, ideas, stories, meaning, revolution or anything. Mostly writers are the one who communicate with rest of the world very often. People read them and get inspire from them. They get to travel an era of some 16^th century or sometimes even go to the future with the way writer pursue the scenes in writing.

The responsibility that I think should come to writer is-

There are lot of people search multiple things everyday on the internet and it is our responsibility to provide them accurate and correct knowledge. It is our responsibility to help them in finding the solution for what they are searching for rather than deviating them for any other path. We are the people who change the world and is our responsibility to say bad to bad and good to good.

Welcome in the year of 2018. It has been a wonderful journey in 2017 with all of you, although I was not able to write as much as what I promised but still I got a very good response on the little I have shared with you, Thanks for that.

 This year 2018 is going to be a different, while in the previous year I had written on multiple topics this year it is going to all about philosophy, psychology, history, book reviews, and personality interaction.  There is so many depression, hopelessness, dullness; poverty is all around us, this year let us try to do something to eradicate it. I will be writing on the topics that is going to touch these points.

For College students I will be starting a separate blog in a view of entertaining to them only. That will be a mixture of technical topics, soft skills, interview preparation and job hunting. I am trying to cater them separately as there are very good number of readers who want these on a regular basis.

This year I am completing 6 years of this blog that itself is possible because of your regular interaction and love you have shown to me. When I started the blog in college, I was not aware of where it will go. I was writing topics on multiple things from experiences to journeys to travelling to technical knowledge but soon I found genre when you accepted articles that revolves around everyday life. A life that we common people live. There are some characteristics that are common to every human whether he/she is some high-class businessperson or low class labor. We all have emotions and feel different moods at different times. We often interact with each other and find ourselves in different situation where there is no formula to act. We feel betrayed, neglected and ignored. We also sometimes get loyalty, happiness and welcome from others. It is all part of life, with this blog I am just trying to tell you that do not lose hope in your worst and do not put ego around you in your best.

Life is a journey and it is meant for us to feel every situation. It is meant for us to fail and learn from it. There is no shortcut to success; we have to do both smart and hard work to attain it. I wish you all the best for this year and hope that you will maintain your calm in both good and bad situation. I hope you will progress and achieve your dreams by progressing the society. There are so many people who do not get the fruits of life, I hope this year we all will help them to move forward in life and will respect everyone with dignity and without judging them by their profession. The world is already have lot of hatred , this year let us try to spread the love , affection and dreams. Let’s remember this year for sharing and caring.

The stories behind every person is different. Every single person on the earth has traveled a different journey. The worst thing we do is to judge a person by his action in present while we do not know even a single bit of his/her past. Life is tremendous cool when everything is going good but it is tough when nothing works according to you.

We built beautiful relationships when we move forward in life and it takes a second to break it just by judging the small actions of other person. We are not god but human. Anger, frustration, hatred is natural to us but the main point is all about how much do we have control on it. Most of the times relation between two people get disturbed when any one of them is in emotions. Decision taken while having some feelings are always wrong. Time is the one thing that heals everything.

Most of the time a moment comes in our life when we sit and look back to find mistakes in ourselves but in no one else. We were the one responsible for ruining all those beautiful relations by blaming others. If we are the one who is commenting on anything, we should be ready to take comments on ourselves as well.

 Life does not give second chances always but what it gives is a chance to not commit the same mistake again. We do not learn from our past but we always tell stories that how we ruin our past. In life if one thing that is going to help you forever is how you behaved with people and what relations you built over the time.

A time comes when people are busy and do not give ears to you. It is a time to keep patience and wait for them not to go forward and ruin everything what you built over time. People care for you if you care them. Every time the expectations are from both sides not from one side alone. If you are expecting something from others, you should be ready to do the same thing to others.

Yes, one more thing happens to our life when we meet bad people who sucks everything out of us but there is a solution for it and that is not to look back, not now, not next but never. You should avoid people who are poison to you. There are tons of people you will encounter in everyday life like these but before making any decision make sure that what you are thinking is actually correct and is not based on some random actions or a talk from someone else.

Life is beautiful, yes it is. Our 90 percent of actions mostly comes out because of the reactions to event that is happening around our surroundings. Even if I write this long article, it means something happened in recent times. Something that spark something to do in our mind. If anyone is scolding you it is hard to stand still and listen, definitely you will do something for it. If anyone is betraying you, it is hard to sit in front of him or her with a smile. If anyone is making sure that you always fail, it is hard to have good relations with him or her. Life is nothing but understanding how you deal with environment and dealing with people around you.

Life gives us lot of reasons to fight back. Fight back for the self-respect, self-evaluation, prestige, pride, motto and identity. It is very easy in today’s world that anything related to our soul can be shattered by anyone around us. It might be rejecting our existence or rejecting our own ideas. People are full of with the tremendous jealousy all around us.

There are goals in life that we want to achieve, the goals that help us to move forward in the life. The goals that are important to us for making the future beautiful. The goals that help us to create an identity we always wanted to develop. The goals that are very building blocks of the discipline we follow in our daily life. The goals that gives us pride in chasing something. The goals that differentiate us from the rest of world. Our life is so complex that we do not stay hard on one goal and keeps on changing goals based upon the situation we faced in our life. Goals are something that we do not require to change on the bases of temporary problems. We should fight with the problems of our daily life in order to save the goals. The goals are like our identity, it is not require at all keeping changing every other day. Fighting back with the problems, with the odd situation, with the people just to save goal is OK. It is not only in sports we have to keep the spirit high but also in our life we should keep it high.

Figure out the passion in life and fight back with everything to save it. It can be painting, photography, music, theatre, any kind of art or anything in the canvas of world. Fight back to save it in you. Whenever you feel nothing is remaining in you just indulge yourself into the very hobby. Time will pass in a fly and you will not feel the boredom and rejection at all. Life is all about fighting back, fighting to save the passion in you. Fighting to save the hobbies in your soul. Like a child who do not give up for toy, we have to stand and fight to not give up our hobby.

Some people in our life become the core part of our journey as we move on in life.  Whatever the situation we are in, they always come and rescue us from getting broken. Do not let them go of. Fight hard and fight back as many times as you have to but not let them go from your life. Connections are important in our life and they are like any other traits of our character. The people whom with we spent time defines who we actually are. There will be people who will connect and leave as per their easiness but the people who connect and leave as per your concerns are important. They are god to your life and do not let them go off. Fight hard for the survival of you basic instinct associated with them.

Fight back not for anyone else but for yourself. To save the truth in you, to save the human in you, to save the greed, to save the attitude, to save habit, to save the love and to save every other characteristics that defines you a human.

There is no logic in human’s connections. Yes, you read it right. I came around this question several times that what it works for one people why it not works for other. The interest in every individual are in plenty of numbers that it is nearly impossible to find two people of exact same mindset and behavior.

If you sit with one group of people, for them not all the mindset is right. If you sit with some different bench, it is a same story there. Roots are somewhere inside the brain which keeps on telling about right and wrong, the meaning is different for everyone. People have a tendency to mock others who do not behave like their mindset. It all depends on numbers; the large number in mindset wins the argument. Drinking beer or going to a club is well-accepted thing in west but not in the conservative society.

If you are an introvert or a person who is shy, it is difficult to survive in the world that keeps on talking. However, there are standards for everything that makes the society what it is today. The connection between two people depends on the love, affection, mutual respect with each other. If it is absent in any of them the connection will stop at one point of time in future. Today’s world more care about gains from each other rather than doing self-service. For everything, a person wants his/her motive to satisfy whatever the case it may be.

If you put logic between the dealing of people, it might be dangerous because logic works exactly same for everything but with humans it deviates terribly from person to person. One can have a love for movies other can have love for games. Getting a movie ticket for the person who enjoys games is not something that is the expectation of his gift. The irony is that nobody tells each other the exact thing because of fear. A fear of getting type of response.

There are people who can be nice in front of you but are the one who talk many bad words behind on your back about you. There can be people who are rude to you but are the one who loves you more than anything and having rude behavior is just a part of their personality. I tried to find logics in relations thousands time but not able to find any.

Except the people who know you since from your childhood none other person can have same repo with you except yourself. When you meet an old friend after a long time, it is hard to find the same connection because both have changed a lot during the time in different circumstances and different environment. Maybe you will have a cup of coffee or something together but it is hard to get the same repo again. The people are different and their mentality is entirely different, some are blessed and some are poor. You cannot judge anyone just by seeing them, they have their past and you don’t know what journey they have traveled.

"Failure stories are as important as success stories and nothing is wrong to have it."

We often see web is full of success stories and hardly any success story helps then what is that thing which helps the most. Yes, it is failure stories. We do not learn from our success but we learn from failures. You remember when first time you start practicing to stand, each time you fell you find out a way not to fall again then there came a point where you learnt the actual way to stand.

Life works in a same way but because of fear of failure, we do not even try for a success. We knew in the childhood how person looks like standing, we saw all the people around us who can stand easily but still we learnt it by trying by our own selves. Similarly, web and books are filled up with lot of tricks and tips, which can tell one the magic to succeed but person will not get success until he/she will not try.

A person who gets success after lot of failures is having a taste of great results and hard work. Accidental success also happens but they are rarest of gem, most of the time success comes after working hard day and night continuously without any break. Each of us saw failures and success both but to make the world better why not start-telling failure stories because there are so many who are telling their success ones.

You should pen down your failure story because:-