PURPOSE OF LIFE

People might come up to you and say you are fat, you are dark, you are short, you are this , you are that. When you are growing up in life it actually sort of matters to people how you look. Then it matters to you because it matters to others. Why does it matter how you look?

Because if others don't like you, who will? If they don't accept you, the who will? And you fear that you mightlmight end up lonely for the rest of your life. You believe that you are not good enough. You try to change for others.

When someone tells you, "Dude! You cant do this", you actually believe that you cannot. People put you down and you start believing that you are not good enough. Then you will have 1000s of questions in your mind without any answers.

There are some things in life that are out of your control, that you cannot change. You have no other choice but to live with them. The choice you will have is either to give up or keep going.

What are you going to believe? Are you going to believe in yourself or in other's judgement on you? Are you going to believe when others say no one likes you or no one really cares about you. People might not even look you in the eyes.

To succeed in life or to meet something you have to work hard. It is not that you close your eyes and meditate and in the next moment you are in the spotlight. No. It doesn't work that way. You have to take one step at a time towards success. You can only take one step at a time no matter how big your step is. Try taking two steps at a time and you fall.

Sometimes you take a step in the wrong direction and you fall. What do you do when you fall? Get back up! But there are sometimes in life when you fall face down and you feel like you don't have the strength to get back up. What happens after the fall? You sort of isolates yourself from the rest of the world. You feel pathetic. You pretend everything is okay when it's not. You feel like the safest place on earth, your home, is no longer safe for you. You have no idea what to do next. May be you fear what others think and say about you and that scares you. That fear pushes you into a numb state. You no longer smile or laugh or have fun. The question that comes into your mind is do I have hope? You feel it is impossible to get back up.

If you try 100 times to get back up and you fail and you give up, then are you going to get back up? Absolutely not. But if you keep on trying, the chances of you getting back up is more and it is not the end as long as you don't give up. It doesn't matter how you started or how you are doing now. All that matters is how strong you finish.

When you start losing yourself, you start putting your security in temporary things. You can get drunk all night but when you are sober in the morning you will still have all the problems with a headache added to them. You can get high on drugs to escape reality, but you don't realize that once you are normal you would still be lost.

We depend on three temporary things in life ,namely alcohol, drugs and sex, to escape reality but the fact that you don't understand is that these things actually take you away from your dreams. You will reach a level that these things wouldn't satisfy you and then you start something new. You don't realise that with each new temporary satisfaction that you go in search of, you move closer to the ultimate pit with no bottom. You will keep on falling forever. You will start believing in the lies around you. You will start believing that you are not good enough.

Instead, if you keep doing those things you love doing and not try to escape reality, you will get stronger to fight through the hardships in life. If you are a girl reading this, you should realise that you are beautiful no matter what others feel about it and if you are a boy, you are the MAN.

Life is not always good. Life is not always cherries and butterflies. Everybody around you will push you down. But you can do something about it. Life is worth living when you find a purpose.

Sometimes you might have no idea about the purpose of your life. You help an old man with his luggage,  a blind person cross the road, an old woman clean her house, don't you now understand this could be the purpose of your life?

Imagine that you have a problem in your life and you want to give up. You happen to meet a person older than you who has been through the same problem that you have now and yet moving on. Wouldn't that urge you to fight through the problem? You have two choices in your life everyday. You can either tease and gossip about somebody or you can go up to them and encourage them. It can even save a life.

Can you imagine how many around you hate their life or want to shut themselves down forever? A word of encouragement or love or care can even save them. Don't you think it is the greatest purpose of life?

It doesn't matter how you look but the only thing that you should know is loving yourself first and then others can change the idea about life.

The LOST Light.

" I don't want this friendship anymore and I mean what I say ", said the girl I am in love with.

"You've figured out the stupidest way possible", said my best friend.

"You have goals to meet in your life, right?", asked me my little sister.

"Read my messages and don't give me heartache", said my new friend.

"I wanna see you successful in life. I want your dad to be proud of you. I wanna see your six children. Do whatever you want in life but never play with a girl's emotions anymore" said my ex-girlfriend.

I was shattered... devastated... wanted to end this life. But I am not a coward. I will fight through my emotions and be successful in life. 

I realised how the choices I made or preferences I gave played their part in taking the light away from my life. Whenever I took 1 step towards the wrong choice, the light moved 10 steps away.

My whatsapp status read "always the wrong one" . Yes, I preferred to choose the wrong one over the hundreds of right options I had in front of me. It has always been like that. Btech over BA, the girl I loved over my best friend, lie over the truth, bad over good, so on and so forth.

Being bad was a choice I made in life. 

Yet people miscues me as a good person. Now they will know the truth. Some have already known.

"I am a bad guy", I said, "I know that" said the girl in love with me.

story of every basketball player you dont know

The Incomplete Jumpshot.

This is the story of every Basketball player you don't know of.

I let one fly from downtown which "swished" through the net. God! I love this sound. I bet it is the only sound every Basketball player in this whole world would want to hear, after they take a shot.

I was out practising with my team one day when my eyes got caught on a lean guy watching us practise. He looked a little older than the oldest guy in my team who is 23. He wore a pair of worn out basketball sneakers.

After the drills and shooting practice we started scrimmage. I should say I was in the form of my life. I dropped 30 plus that day. I danced over my guard with combinations of hesitation moves and crossovers. My hardwork was paying off.

Next day when I reached the court for practice I found the very same guy whom I noticed the previous day in the very same spot, but with his basketball uniform on . He did not step fast to the court even though he gradually moved closer. By the time he reached us we were about to scrimmage. He asked us if he too could join us. Since we were short of a player we let him join us. Trust me, if we were even on both sides we would never have let him in.
It turned out that he was in my team. From his looks we did not expect much out of him.

He told us he plays the position of a point guard. Coincidentally we did not have a point guard in the team, so we let him "handle" the business. He left us awestruck with the very first pass he made. It was so fast and powerful that I moved 2-3 steps to undo the momentum of the pass. And yeah! My hands did ache.

With every move he made, he left us speechless. I should say he was the best ball handler I had ever met in my life. His moves were like poetry in motion. He hit more than 65% from downtown. I felt if Golden State Warriors had seen him play , Steph Curry would have been jobless by now.

His assists were such that all we had to do was lay the ball in without any contest. His defence was always the key. He made his counterpart look like fool. He sure had the talents of a true point guard. I was sure he must have played for one of the top teams in the state.

After the game I decided to get acquainted with him. I was appalled to know that he never even tried out in the district team selections. With his talents, I am pretty sure he would have made it to the Nationals. I blamed him for not trying out. He had a very sad story of lack of support from his family to share with me. Now when he did not want any support, he was well above the age limits.

I really felt bad for him. I was also glad that I had a wonderful family which supported me in every ways possible.

I met many people like him in my basketball and I felt pity for them. I wished to bring about a change to this. But I was clueless on what to do.

I am gonna work really hard to do something for those who went unnoticed.

Well... this is not a true story. But I strongly believe there are people with great talent struggling to get through. I will do whatever it takes for more talents not to go unnoticed.