4 years & counting......

yeah, next month, it will be 4 years for me from the day I started my professional life, rather, my professional journey. I wont talk about the "professional" but about the "journey" in this post. Its been more than 4 years when I left the cool, happy, careless & comfortable life of New Delhi & came to Bangalore. Well, I have retained most of the above mentioned adjectives but maybe less careless now(at least I hope so).

These years made me realize that life indeed is a journey. We are just travellers, its us who choose how to travel & with whom to travel. Frankly, I can write a book on these 4 years, but lets save that thought for some other day(don't wanna scare you). If I think of the years on the timeline, they past rather quickly than I anticipated. But if I think of how I changed & how much I learnt, these 4 years were the life changing years for me.

I travelled a lot for work, 3 years were spent in South Korea, a country I love the most after India. Beautiful people & beautiful life. During this journey I visited many other countries & everywhere I found new friends & new bonds which are still tied with me. We just walk on this path , we find travellers who start walking beside you. Some of them hold your hands too & walk with you for some point of time. Suddenly the hands just get separated , you realize that they are not following the same road as you are. You were together for the common part of the journey, both ignorant of the fact that the paths are different. That separation can be very gloomy. Your heart sinks but we have to move on. And we move on.

During all that, some people are always next to you. Comforting you, empathizing with you. These friends light up the journey & don't make you realize that the journey is difficult. I have met numerous wonderful people like them who are still with me & hopefully we will go a long way together. You learn a lot from them & also from the obstacles which you encounter in the journey. Maybe among these people, someone might hold your hand again & this time both follow the same path together.

I don't know if I am able to get my point across to you or not, but I think you will be picturing what I am writting. Maybe one day I will try to take a break from the journey to take rest. Don't know when that will happen. But right now I just want to walk on......

All the fellow travellers who ever crossed my path, walked with me or are still walking with me, that thread of contact will never break,that's my assurance. Maybe your paths are different but we will stay in touch. Someday it might just happen that our paths cross , when that happens, I would love to recognize you.

DEDICATED TO ALL THE PEOPLE I KNOW, WHO WERE , WHO ARE AND WHO WILL BE WALKING WITH ME.....YOU MAKE MY JOURNEY WONDERFUL.

--keep walking.

still Rocking ON.....

Well... I never expected that I will write a blog on a movie I saw, but somethings affect you in such a way that its impossible to escape their impact. I waited for one week to write this blog, maybe I was waiting for the infatuation to get over.... but guess what, it hasn't. I am loving it.

I am not describing the story of the movie, so those who have not seen it can chill...:)...
Before I say something else, this is purely my perspective on the movie. May be others who watched might have a different view....

I love simple stories....No exaggeration, nothing unrealistic. This movie tells you such story, yet for me, it was surreal. Nostalgia grips on & off while watching the movie. Sudden flash backs & then present, then another flash back, helps to connect the past with the present. Circumstances are the villains here.
A dream for which 4 people lived their lives just shatters in a moment. They were very close to achieving what they dreamt of, yet just as it was about to be real....... all is lost in a spur of moment. Lives change. Four paths that were together have taken there own separate ways.
Egos.... when they clash, man vs man, are devastating. Personally I have that experience. Its more like a divide that can never be joined again. Its like 2 tight fists that can only be joined to punch but never to shake.

Ten years on, life gives them a second chance to relive their dream. When people realize that happening, egos take a back seat, or rather thrown out of the vehicle. Four separate paths join again for good.The last concert of the movie was a spectacle to watch, I think that's why I went to see the movie second time. Climax created in the end pumps up the blood out of your head.
The stage performance has charged me up too to perform with my guitar in a great stage. It has inspired me to pursue my 6 yr old hobby of strumming the guitar to take it to the next level. Now, not a single day passes when I don't touch my guitar.

I loved the songs of the movie long before the movie was in theatres, my favourite is "Sindbad the Sailor". Instantly, I came back home & tried to play it.... I love the feel of the song & the message it conveys. The rhythm is gripping & has a very expandable melody to suit your interpretations.

I would suggest everyone to see the movie at least once. Its a movie which is not everyday stuff, but a benchmark movie in years to come.
it has somehow charged me to convert surreal into the real.

happy watching...
ROCK ON..