For My Love of Skies

Watching the skies is one thing I love. The clear blue sky has such depth to it that you feel you are under a grand protection and yet so free as a bird. Sunrise and sunsets have always been awe-inspiring and we never failed adoring them at sea beaches, river sides or from a high mountain peak (often do we come across 'Sunset points' around hill stations). But look what I found here...
 

Watching the sun biding bye towards the dusk, the sunlight romancing through the clouds and all this in the middle of a city! With the tress, buildings, motored vehicles, those electric poles and that one branch curving only to find its position in the frame ;) 

These clicks are an inspiration somewhere and the joy taught me something... You don't have to plan to go places far and away to find beauty or to appreciate nature... Our very own concrete jungles have much to offer, all you need is to look up and about... So the next time you are out in the balcony, off for a stroll or the lucky one not driving, don't miss to incline your neck upwards and watch for some colorful play of nature :)

P.S. I clicked all these siting at the back of my brother's bike as we moved around the city... and while the second last click I was in a bus!

Bright is Beautiful

My feel good rendezvous with colors one night...

"For when someday you will be struck by dullness 
and lost in a your old melancholy,
I shall come to you dressed up with joy and vibrancy
and you will love me and you will  know how Bright is Beautiful <3 "

Dreams...

“Do you have a dream?” she asked.

“Yes, I do!” he said.

Before she could know what it was, he asked, “What about your dream?”

“I think I have. Every time I see people with a passion, the one which drives them to toil hard and follow what they called dreams, I wonder if any similar passion is there which makes me dream too.
It was only sometime back I did realize there is so much I want to do in this lifetime, that the very span of life seems so short!”

“Perhaps you have a lot many aspirations!”

“No, not the so called ‘aspirations’. It’s like when alone I want to read, when with someone I want to speak my heart out, when no one’s there to hear I would write. I feel like expressing all the overflowing thoughts in a way they assume a form… a form which leads to creating something… Perhaps creating a building! Not concrete boxes to live in but spaces with a meaning, a purpose. Think of a house you live in and it seems to be breathing like you do. A creation which amazes and to understand which you require no effort; both at the same time!

There are times I want to sit by the river and hear its water sing while I sing along with it. Singing such that it does no matter how bad I am at it or if someone hears! Then at times, I feel like dancing to the silent tune playing around and then dancing hysterically to the loud music at parties!

Every morning in winter, while I sip the hot ginger tea I would enjoy the chilly breeze. In afternoon, I would cook for you… dishes which I learnt from my mother and the exotic ones… The ones I would learn while travelling to islands, cities and towns far away. Places where I would meet people, befriend them, learn their language, and teach them ours… where I would know how their culture is different for ours and still how we all share the same relation of love and cheer!

Not just this, but I would also go on to fly… not by a plane, but for real, with some real wings to go with! Yes, fly for real over those islands, gliding through the creamy clouds, reflecting in the azure, shining sea. Not to forget that all this while I will be clicking…. Clicking pictures to let you know later what my dreams looked it!”