Bucket list...the unsaid!

1. Go on a road trip with my college friends..
2. Live my life for atleast a year with my school friend, live eat sleep shop and have time of our lives together.
3. I want to do scuba diving in Mauritious
4.I want to visit Paris, Greece Chicago, Melbourne, Switzerland, New Zealand, ....and the list goes on..so      basically i want to see each and every corner of this world.
5. I want to perform my dance show live.
7. I want to live the hostel life ones during my lifetime in my dream mba college, IIM B
8. I want to for ones live my life king size, without having a constant fear in my mind. Just calm composed happy and full of vigour. Right now i am just a timid person who seldom feels unfettered.
9. I want to turn into a graceful dancer and be a part of the dance society of my(to be) college.
10. I want to be the best cook, I can already cook Italian and according to my family its pretty good :P but i want to learn different cuisines as well like Lebanese, Indian, Chinese etc. Apparently, I am a foody. Big one!
11. I want to read  the best of novels before i die.
12. I want to make meet SRK and hug him tight.
13. I want to help make Grab Aims happen.
14. I want my work to involve lots of travel so that i can visit experience the paradise (atleast most of it) called Earth!
15. I want to open up more with my close ones. I want to be more cool and chiller. I seldom talk in a group hangout.
16. I want to open up my soul, spirit, feelings, thoughts and mind to the person i love. (Person-Still virtual :P)
17. I want to go on a "only" bachelors trip to Goa with my besties..Kriti and Kshitij.
18. I want to do all of the above in my 20s.
19. I want life to inspire me at every point and keep surprising me in my journey.
20. I want to get married to the person who loves me more than i can imagine.

Life is about..letting yourself free on the dance floor!

Life is more than what we think it is about.

It is not about surviving, it is about living it brazenly, full of vigor and excitement. Fill each day with so many activities that at the end of the day your heart calls out loud to you.."I would not mind even if it were the last day of my life". That's how hard it should beat.
Life is about Friday night movies with family, Saturday night party with friends, early morning coffee with your soul mate, yearly vacation to your next destination with your best buddies, the work you do 5 days a week, turning all the stones into milestones (as said by Sachin Tendulkar), staying perfectly healthy and fit ( if you believe in fitness or rather i should say if you are a foody like me), playing with your niece and nephew, staying awake the whole night to finish the book that evokes more inquisitiveness, your dance or guitar classes if you're a music enthusiast or the football match you dreamed to play all your life. It's about letting yourself lose into what you breathe , what makes you happy or what makes you heart beat fast.

Dance, the best form of expressing our thoughts expressions (for me), makes me go crazy, literally. Its sets my mind free. Dance opens up my mind and soul. I let my body move to the rhythm of music and its not the feet or hand moving, its my heart breathing into my moves! Best feeling in the world is post the performance, when i am high spirited, with a heart beating thousand times faster, only wanting more and more of DANCE.

You will find many stern people in life,who will sing lectures about what is right or wrong. But believe you me, nothing is wrong until your instinct tells you the same. Follow it and that's enough for you to live your life the best.Its your journey and you absolutely need not explain it to anyone. Your passion doesn't have an expiry date, it will live with you till your last breath. So don't think, just make it happen!

PS-In life you don't meet people whom you want. You meet people whom you need, to love you, to guide you,  to be friends with you, to leave you, and to turn you into a human whom you were exactly meant to be. 

Hold on to your dreams, they will never let you down.

Hi. So here is my first blog post. Even though I don't know much about blogging , i shall give it a shot. After all its about making yourself heard to your own self first by pouring it out here.Coming to the topic very quickly, everybody has heard the saying:"Never give up on your dreams". I believe in it completely not because i have heard it from people around but because life's experiences have made me believe in it.

My family, teachers, cousins and close friends love me unconditionally. I have spent most wonderful moments with them, some yet to come, which i will cherish for life. You have your family to look back to whenever you need support in life and everything seems perfect when you get a hug from them. But there are times when you feel nobody apart from yourself is able to understand you and is able to see through your dreams, desires and emotions in some phases of life. I have had such phases in my life and I am experiencing one presently as well. At this juncture we feel, atleast i do, that our emotions or goals aren't just important anymore.  The reality is we need not try to explain ourselves to people around or get too emotional about it, rather we should hold on to our dreams in our heart and keep slogging for them until  they are achieved. Only thing you can hold on to forever is your dream, it shall never leave your hand only if you don't slip it away.

I am studying for MBA entrance exams for the fall of 2013 and i wish to go to my dream  B School , IIM-B. Few months back, i had quit my job in order to give my best shot for the entrance exams. In the beginning,  I was ambivalent about quiting my job as i wanted a two year work experience, but i still i quit my job and today i can say it was the most appropriate decision. The amount of learning and development that has happened in these few months was tremendous. Since i was not satisfied with the desk job i was given at my job,it was a correct decision to focus on my academics right now rather than run into the rat race, lose my identity and do something unproductive. Period.

I feel i am going too much into details and digressing from the topic. Its amusing how, in the blink of an eye, our dream get deflected to become someone else's dream . Just because a colleague of mine is performing well and receiving laurels for her work doesn't mean i should strive for the same. I should rather focus on my capabilities and work accordingly. When we step out in the world to see people working their ass off, we are stunned and  somewhere deep down we all  feel insecure. That insecurity is a temporary and it is the partial reality of life. I think being there and having felt that, we need to focus on ourselves rather getting swayed with the crowd. Ultimately what matters the most is that you live your life king size rather than just survive. A very famous quote by Steve jobs explains it well:
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

To be candid, i don't know how to close the topic (that's something i have always been bad at) because you can dream forever, and writing a good blog is one of my small little dream. Bliss.

Dream, dance, travel and create your life yourself.

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