Paper Planes

“So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”                                                                                              ―  Andrew Sean Greer ,  The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells The world is changing with a high pace. Its moving towards being much modern, contemporary, liberal and a tougher much better place to survive live. But then, so much said and so much written, the question is are we, as well moving with the world? Are we able to give an equal pace to our thinking as well? Are we able to match up with the speed of the changing world? I guess no! This comparison may be applicable to many things. But then, I only have one thing in my head for now and I have no intentio...

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."  -  Theodore Roosevelt Have just recently finished my MBA. No, I am offcourse not writing this post to brag about it. This post is regarding a thing that I have been thinking since I have enrolled for this course. In every semester, there have been atleast one subject which spoke about "Leaders and managers". There is so much being said and taught about them, glorifying the leaders and criticizing managers. But then, honestly how many leaders, I mean "real" leaders do we find around? Very rare... Right? Why? Even after teaching so much about the importance of being a leader and not just task masters aka managers, why do we still have dearth of leaders? Sitting in the classroom, we all aspire to become leaders. Infact many of us, being compelled by enthusiasm, even promise yourselves to become a leader. And the moment we become slaves of corporate, we f...

Hold my hand, let me make you feel what I feel Come, come in my arms, let me hide you in my heart Look into my eyes, let me show you what lies deep in them Touch me, let me reveal whats hiding beneath this smile Walk with me,  let me take you to my world Make me yours, let me share a part of my soul with you Leave the meaningless part of your life, be mine...

I am back with a guilt of not penning down anything since so many days! Anyways, what bought me here today was a realization. A very basic one though, but important enough. And the realization is that what we consider as normal and regular can actually be special. Now, let me be specific by contracting the vague horizon of this word "normal". Lets take an example of the 'normal days' that we so deliberately take for granted. At times, we do not understand the value of having a regular day. In fact we feel irritated because nothing special happened on that particular day: no rendezvous with friends, no party, no movie, no date etc etc.  What we don't realize is that even those "normal" days that we disregard and do not value, are indeed 'special' days! It takes an incident to make us realize that and start respecting these same "normal" days. Ok then, let me continue this through an incident that opened my eyes to this realization, ...

Me and a friend of mine were having a very out of the ordinary chat today. She was telling me some very interesting stats about her friends. She told me that 90% of the male friends of her husband are really tired, stressed out and completely frustrated. No, not because of work load but because of the unnecessary pressure at home! Confused... Right? Same was my reaction. But then I am amazed the way wives have started torturing their husbands. And you will be amazed too, when I tell you for what. Let me tell you in the exact way as the wives torment their husbands with stupid and insane complains, like: "My cousin goes to vacation every alternate month!" "My friend's husband gifted her a solitaire on Anniversary. And you gave me a diamond one!" "They got a new Volvo!!! And we still own an old Honda City" "They went to New Zealand for their honeymoon. Even I want to go there" "They go pubbing every other day and we, we are alway...

How do they write such amazing words with so much depth, so much intensity!!!!