Tuesday 13 October 2015

God wants you to be high!

There is an intention behind it all...
There is an intention behind all the people you meet,
And every conversation you make..

The conversations are louder than this line,
The people are brighter than this day,
Why else, If not for this high of a kind?
God knew you needed it now!

In his little own ways didn't he already say it?
God wants you to be high!

There is an intention behind it all...
There is an intention behind each road you've touched,
And every journey you've made..

Those clouds will be filled with the best drops,
The roads will be filled with the fog of your favourite kind,
Why else, If not for this high of a kind?
God knew you needed it now!

In his little own ways didn't he already say it?
God wants you to be nothing but high!





Friday 5 June 2015

Pledged it, Lived it!

As soon as everybody gathered in the playground for an assembly under the scorching sun, The Principal took over the mic. That wasn't a very good news. He would either paste us for something  or announce new rules for the new year.

But when he started talking about the importance of green, it striked to us that it was, "The World Environment day"

The day we were all supposed to talk and discuss about the importance of keeping our environment clean and all of that.
But this year they started a new formality. The formality of taking an oath.

The oath read something close to this...
"being a citizen of this country,  I take a pledge that I will not litter, dirty or spoil my environment. I will, to the best of my ability protect the trees around me and save our planet"

The principal read this and we all re-sounded him with our hand up. That took a few minutes and ouch, that hurt.

This was 7 years ago and i proudly say that I have kept up with my pledge!

Photo courtesy:

memecenter.com, google.com

Saturday 4 April 2015

A sealed packet of Air!

Who knew that one day air could be sealed and sold?

What is he charging for? For, capturing air? To recover machine maintenance cost? Or for his other fixed expenses? 

Maybe, a proportion for all of it. But he is charging for capturing some possibly fresh, hopefully clean and omnipresent AIR!

For what? No! I am not here to tell you that.

We all buy a number of gadgets on a number of E-commerce sites and we know what difference that packet of air could do!

But go back by a few 100 decades!

Could be - Take whatever you want from wherever you want and do whatever you want with it! There is no gap between demand and supply whatsoever!

Could have changed to – Barter System – Take this from me and give that from yours. Because… Boss! Everything can’t be for free.

Is – Trade – Let me give you this at that cost and you could decide the cost at which you could sell that. Ofcourse…. Too much demand and too little supply.

Evolution it is! This is over a lot of years and beyond imagination. Now, keep that sealed packet of air (No! I Do not mean a packet of lays) in front of the guy in first scene and how do you think he would react?

Before you continue reading, think about his reaction.

This is what I could imagine.

Being the curious ones that we humans are, he picks it up and takes a closer look at it. Finds it funny but not at all appetizing and hence, decides not to eat. But since there was just one, it was more like a souvenir and he decided to preserve it.

With time, he died and entered The Earth and after passing a number of generations, now just an empty packet entered the earth too. 100’s of years later, that is now… someone were digging the ground and found this semi-decomposed polythene cover.

No! Not a lot of us know that polythene and plastic takes over a few 100 years to de-compose.
You litter and leave but that stays and hurts the planet for the next 100 decades to come!


Do not litter! There are better ways in which you could be Immortal.

Wednesday 4 February 2015

The Joy in being "A Dustbin"

(Around 12 year ago when I was a school kid)

I aimed at a stone on the road and spat the chewing gum from my mouth straight onto it. Like most of those aims, my chewing gum landed short of my imagined destination. I looked down with disappointment and ‘raaaap’ went a strike on my head.

Someone hit me!

 Fierce fully I turned back to face my older sister.  She had a very irritated look on her face and she looked straight into my eyes angrily. Before I could recover from all those scary looks, she screamed... “Sai... what did you just do?

I very promptly confessed that I spit out a gum and that I was trying to aim it at something. She closed her eyes for a moment as if to think something and said, “Didn’t you know that you should always wrap a gum in a piece of paper before throwing it?” and looked at me questioningly.

“Ummmm no... But why?” went my answer straight.

“Because a gum thrown just like that can get stuck to someone’s foot wear, body or even worse… imagine it on your hair?? I’m sure you don’t want that to happen. Next time you throw a gum; you will wrap it in a piece of paper and throw it. Alright?”

My sister who was just another girl around me looked a little too cool to me that moment. Whatever she spoke made sense. And because it came from an “elder sister” her words automatically made a little more meaning. Without another word I nodded to her and decided to take the word seriously. That was the last time I ever spat a chewing gum without wrapping it.

One good practice and one halo on my head. It made me feel good.

(Around 9 years ago when I was a high school kid)

After attending a wedding, the whole family was driving back home. I finished the last sip of water in my disposable glass and left the glass flying outside the window. Oh!  that ‘raaaap’ again and no marks for guessing who gave it.

I turned around to look at her with a puppy face. She was as angry and irritated with me. Being a high school kid, I was not needed to be told about the harms “plastic”/ “polythene” cause to us and to the environment and how important it is for us to keep our surroundings clean. This time I was not explained or told. That look made me understand. I raised my hand apologetically and promised her not to repeat that again. That was the last time I threw waste anywhere other than a dustbin.
Two good practices and two halo on my head.

But with the second practice I had to counter quite a few consequences. I picked up fights with relatives and friends for throwing waste on roads during trips. I had arguments. I had a couple of nicknames too. One of which was “dustbin”. This was because I had a separate compartment in my bag only for my friends and other members to put waste. They fondly called me that. We had a laugh over it. But eventually it all made sense to everyone. The same friends and relatives make it a point to carry an extra bag to drop waste in, during trips or atleast handover things to me when they don’t find a dustbin around. The change in them is what gives me more joy!


So bottom line… we all know the importance of keeping our surroundings clean and most importantly the harms of throwing polythene outside.  A result of which not only makes the surroundings dirty but pose a remarkable threat to our environment. If you are still one of them who don’t dispose waste properly, now is the time to change and add a halo! J