Encounter with heaven

Floating clouds, green mountains, waterfalls, rain drops and cold wind in my hair, what else could i ask to make my Sunday perfect.I had a blissful encounter with heaven where nature was all set to sweep us off our feet.
It was me, junu, neishaa, bhabhi and bhaiya and we were out on road for a weekend escape. Tired of the pollution in the city and kitchen at home, we just decided for a runaway.The rains had already boycotted but it could not deter our enthusiasm.
We just moved on the very favorite monsoon picnic place for Mumbai, "Lonavala and Khandala".
We were actually disappointed when we reached there as we saw the whooping crowd and the disappearing rains."God please send the rains!" exclaimed my little sis and we all said "Amen!" but God did not open his shower to wet our thirsty eyes.
We still managed with the cold breeze and tried to get us happy by titillating our taste buds with hot tea and bhajia.It was good but still did not have the power to rekindle our enthusiasm.
We then rushed back to our car in search of greener pasture till we reached resort named "Velvet Country". We were still full so we decided to go on for a walk.
We just moved a few steps and God sent our smiles back by sending a mild shower.Too little to wet the ground but good enough to wet our drying enthusiasm.
The liveliness was back and singing, laughing and teasing each other , we walked and walked and the ... we stepped into paradise.The scene was breathtaking.Clouds were sweeping across the mountains as if nature was slowly wrapping the earth with a white chiffon cloth. It was awesome and amazingly refreshing.
"Yeh dil mange more"! So we just moved on and on to reach as far as we could.I just closed my eyes and spread my arm to capture the freshness.
We all were totally entrapped in the serenity of the site. My eyes have captured all the beautiful moments and stored them in my quick links.
Whenever i feel the heat of life/work getting on me, i just close my eyes, it gets the moments back in front of me and the freshness takes over.
Well, all the credit to click such beautiful snaps goes to my sweet sister Neishaa.We were just too lazy to carry our camera's.
Also, credit to my dear husband who has the instant formula to get the smile on my face.It just added on to the magic.
Also, bhaiya and bhabhi without whom this trip would have been incomplete :) :)
This day has already been saved in my "Sweet Memories" album ...

Take a Break: Be An Angel

Its so difficult to stay in touch with life in such a grilling professional life.We get so engrossed with daily chores that we start loosing the basic fun of life.As we run hungrily to shape our financial life, we start loosing the beautiful shape of life.And when the run is over and we look behind; we see what we have missed in the long run.Its like building a mansion with none to stay in.. or .. landing in heaven with no peace of mind.
Go slow in life, take time to understand your loved ones. Its rightly said that life happens when we are busy planning for it. Even a friendly call, or a surprise creates happiness to relish throughout the life.Smile and happiness is contagious, if we can make one person smile, imagine the number of faces that will be lit with it.
Be an angel spreading happiness in everyone's life and the euphoria will be unimaginable.

Two minutes recipe to an instant smile
- Give an unexpected call to just say that you care
- Silently cook the favorite dish and give a spurring surprize (esp. for guys)
- Take break from office, get late sometime to enjoy the good weather
- Forget everything and just relish the present
- Go for a long walk and get lost in woods .. away from all problems.

Welcome to my Blogs!!

I just realized that I started blogging without any good introduction to this blog. Here is what I feel I should do here:

Hi! This is Aditi and I would like to welcome you to my blogspot.I am here to share some of my thoughts and feeling which have been developing in the cocoon of my mind and has eventually found its exit grounds.I am not a poet, not a critic, not a mastermind and not even a diarist.So you must be thinking what am I here to write about?A human being with very human feelings and thats how I can relate with you.I have noticed that human life follows a pattern.We face similar situations, have somewhat similar responsibilities, its just the decisions we make each day which makes a difference.
While I keep blogging I would like to welcome you to share some of your experiences related to "Encounter with Life"."Life just happens when we are busy making plans", so lets share some of our small happiness of life and keep that smile entact on our ever charming faces.

Keep smiling !!! "Its a crooked line which sets everything straight"

The Present

Today is the third time I read the book "The Present". I have developed a special bonding with this book since the first time I read it.
I was on my normal Pune -Mumbai journey when I first bought this book which has brought a wave of change in me.In this run of life, from school , college and then job ,I somewhere lost the "purpose" of life. I won't say that this book made me realize the "purpose" of life, but it helped me clear out the mist in my mind and entangle my thoughts.
I have been too much engrossed in my work since last 2 years. Working hard each day, I somewhere just messed up my life with over-expectation. Expectation from job , from life and worst over-expectation from "self". Pushing myself too much to get things "perfect" , I just lost the right track and started dwelling in fear of future with adverse experience of past.Just lost the present somewhere till the fine day I got "The Present".
"Count your blessings and not your sorrows" is one of the few lines I can recall from the moral science classes.Its now I realize what it means.Finding and focusing on the "right" things rather than things going wrong. Its just how we perceive things which makes a difference.
A negative person always finds the glass half empty but an optimistic views it as half full and also opportunity to fill it.Be in The Present, realize what is Right and Important "NOW". Learn from the past mistakes to make the present better.And last but not the least "Create Your Future", by focusing on the present and working towards a goal.