Stay Lit at Perspective

 There is nothing that is called an early success. You have to begin early working on it. I have often contemplated over the last few months during my early 24s how I have not yet achieved anything in my music or writing career. And then look at these motivating and inspiring stars like Durjoy Dutta and Armaan Malik. They are already doing things they want. Earning from their passion and most importantly fulfilling the dreams of their parents and buying them everything they deserve. How astonishing! How focused them must have been right from the beginning. And here I am boiling milk in a bartan  and hoping that a miracle would do some kirtan! But, not that I am writing this to you is not because I am sad or at a state of contemplation. Remember I once said? Feel whatever you are feeling and let it pass. The more you hold back a feeling and resist it, the more it amplifies to raise delusions. I follow that.  My feeling of contemplation has passed and then it reckoned in my...

  Defeat is not death. Delay is not denial.  Gone are the days when a king had to run for his life after losing the battle. Life these days do not rely on one such decisive battles. There are regular such nuances, regular such fights, regular such battles. A defeat is but a one more chance to redo all that you have done with lesser mistakes and probably more efficiency. When you do not win, it simply suggest a lack of effort, or maybe someone else did that better than you. But that doesn’t take away the chance of another trial. Does it? If you want something strongly enough, you would try that as many times as Time demands. Letting it go is not a choice when your desire is a burning desire. A defeat is rather a chance to reconsider all your assets- your skills, your knowledge, your strategy. Use them full. Sharpen your weapons and commence again from the beginning. Has not video-games made us habituated with this! A life lost is but a matter of fact till the heart revives ag...