Shine on you crazy diamond

I heard the first few lines of this song first time in toast master's meeting at DeeJay's Toastmaster's Club, Bangalore. I was so impressed with the first few lines that I came back home and listened to the whole song, and to my astonishment it is one of the best thing I've ever read and what surprised me is it came from a psychedelic rock band's album and not some great writer. It was the Pink Floyd band's truibute to their founder member Syd Barrett who went into self imposed seclusion. Today I'm qoting these lines very aptly for one of the most important people in my life who is going through not the same but one of the bad phases of his/her life. He/she has talent but is just not sure about it. He/She has accomplished a lot in life but is going through "nah, I'm not so gud" phase. I'll end my words here and let the Floyd take from here.........

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom,Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger,You legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Treatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter,You piper, you prisoner, and shine!Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers and i'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,And sail on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. This is a famous quote by Heraclitus, the great Greek philosopher. Now, wat it says is really relevant for a lot of us here. Think of stool, not being thrown out from the body, it would create stench, make one sick and intoxicate the person. Now analyse the situation. The stool was once the food we ate and savoured with so much pleasure. But if we keep thinking about how much we savoured the food, we wont ever be able to get it out. But as the thing goes, now the same thing which was nutritious, life giving and an elixir of life has became an intoxicating, malignant substance. So to remove it is very important to remain in good health. Now as it goes its more important to have a healthy mind than a healthy body. What stool is to body, past is to mind. A lot of time we had savoured a particular thing in the past, enjoyed it and extracted from it elixir of life for the mind. But as it happens, some bad experiences can turn the same thing into a venomous serpant lurking through the senses and making one more prone to injuries. Now, what is important is to throw out this corpse of past life and move on. If we dont throw it out, we wont even know when this venomous serpant will become fatal and take away all the joys of our life from us. As it goes the baggage of past is the toughest to carry. So lets leave it behind and enjoy the presents extended to us by the "present". If we ignore these presents for our past, thr will surely be a day when we will regret missing those presents and will have more baggage to carry eventually. I'll end this here with another quote by the mighty Heraclitus "It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish."

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As soon as i'm free, there are a lot of unanswered or rather unanswerable questions which start fogging my mind. The questions like who am i? What is my purpose? Is it to become great? How will it matter if I become or do not become great?

My personal belief is questions like these are the result of an empty mind. We have a very famous saying in Hindi which says "phad phad ke siye jaa". It means if you dont have nething keep tearing apart ur clothes and stitching back. Even doing a worthless work is better than not doing nething. People call me workoholic but the fact is as soon as I'm not doing nething, these questions start troubling me. I hate free time. Unfortunately from a last few days, I had a lot of free time and havnt been feeling gr8 'coz of this.

I'm trying to occupy myself now, lets hope I can come out of this torturous phase.

Pulkit Totla

P.S. I'll start writing gud articles soon.. Just warming up the machinery first..

blogging

HI ppl..
Not sure how will this blog thing work, but i believe it shud be gud..
I hope it'll prove as a gud platform for sharing my thots..
Made this back in 07 but tat time was busy with a lot of other things..
Cudnt write..
nehow, now i believe i'll
C u soon with a gud article..
Pulkit Totla