The Diwali Magic

Diwali Magic 

It suddenly feels boring, dull, stuck and still. We all are back to our customary lives post Diwali and i know most of us are experiencing any one of these emotions i have just mentioned .Yes??

Yes, finally its over... Yes  Diwali 2014 is over. :-(

During the pre Diwali days this time I keenly observed that this unknown surprising and never ending Festive excitement and joy is there all around me every damn year, its the same, in fact increasing but never has declined in all these years.

Diwali is my favorite Indian Festival. I remember the preparation of this big day used to get rolling 20 days in advance at my home. I easily memorize my mother and elder sister starting the Diwali dusting of whole house room wise room. All old junk items were suddenly out. Being the youngest in the family I was not for much of help to them so my favorite job was to discover those old toys, old clothes, and interesting antique things. Every year I used to argue with mum to keep them for few more years instead of throwing. I literally used to argue with her to not discard any of my old toys and deny to share my old clothing’s with anyone else which she religiously used to share with orphanage home every year.

Playing on the soap filled slippery floors… ,listening to scolding of elders to not play in slippery places as I would get hurt :-) Enjoying with my own set of crackers 10 days before diwali with my friends and still keep asking dad to bring lots more on diwali day. Keep waiting for the new dresses mother would bring to be worn during laxmi Pooja on diwali day and day after when people would visit our place. I loved flaunting it on the big day getting ready by 7 pm sharp and getting excited within to burn crackers with friends and cousins and then roam around to see lights across the city and lots more as childhood descriptions are endless and words are never enough to draw it.

It's the "Festival of Lights" today,

It's again the day of Diwali,

It's time to dress up folks, 

It's time to adorn the thali,

Its time to burn cracker and light up diyas,

Its time to flaunt the new me,

Its time to run ,giggle, smile and laugh

Its time to bow down to goddess laxmi

Its time to take blessings of elders,

Its time to light up our life, 

Its time to wish and hope  the best, 

Its time for a New year again.

Wish you a Happy Diwali and New Year :-)

(A half remembered poem i had written during my Diwali break of 5th standard, please excuse the bad rhyming:-))

That was my detailed definition /thoughts about Diwali when I was a kid. I really don’t know how much it is close to the thoughts of today’s kids but one thing is for sure whether elder or younger this festival brings smiles and excitement in every body.

Being married now like every other female my definition of Diwali celebration is changed to decorating home to look at its best on the Diwali day,  buying loads of decorative things, making different Rangolis, deciding on various outfits for different days ,taking loads of selfies with friends and families (don't smirk, i know we all love doing that..:-
) LOL) , posting pictures to share with friends about our celebrations, making home made nashta sweets, different kind of diyas, lanterens and much more my list of shopping and imaginations would never end.

While making these visits to market this time i was surprised to notice the same magical excitement over years and years is still the same on people’s faces and hearts. The smiles, giggles, and hopeful faces. The shops well decorated days before Diwali, the rangoli and diya wallas standing till late night with hundred of colors and designs, variety of Diyas. Shopping mall flooded with offers. The roads are full of traffic jams due to crowd every where out to shop clothes, decorative, furniture’s, jewelry, home appliances, nashtas, variety of mukhwaas, sweets and much more. The environment is just crazy outside. And it doesn't last for a day or 2. This madness begins 15-20 days prior to Diwali.  Every country I guess share such madness once in a year and in India Diwali is the biggest festival like Christmas Madness begins in western countries from December.

So close your eyes for a moment and relive the few days just passed by, am sure you all with agree that yes all of us experienced that electric, positive, joyful festival feeling around us and we are definitely missing it now. 
 
I still cherish all that described above and strongly believe that festivals are times when things around you are different from usual. Festivals unite people. People smile in front of you, they wish, they greet; they forget all their worries and resentments. There are dinner parties, office celebrations, exchange of gifts .There are exchanges of good positive wishes all across, the environment is swamped with positivity. Yes I experienced it and loved watching smiling faces, twinkling eyes of wives, mothers, kids, sisters, fathers while buying joy for their families just because it was Diwali and beginning of Indian (Hindu) New Year - the magic of Indian Festivals.
 

 I just wish that such positivity keeps floating all around us forever in our lives.

Wishing you all a very Happy , Joyful and  Prosperous New Year!

 May your life light up and get hugged by positivity and divine light.

 May all our wishes come true this year and hoping the same every year.

Happy Diwali and a Prosperous New Year 

 Stay Blessed- Goodluck- J

I make mistakes

You mess up things…you clean them. But always remember, the experience of cleanliness after the cleaning is always soothing- Self

Feeling like I have left, forgotten, missed out on something … I missed something very auspicious and my heart is burning…. I could have opted to stay back … to spend some more time … could have changed this’s happening today… could have been a bit more practical then emotional. Could have decided something else then this, could have said something else. Yeh aise bhi to hosakta tha. Main aisa kar deti toh acha hota.. mujhe wahan jana he nahin chahye tha… I could have stayed quiet… may be quieter. Could have reacted better? Could have said this? Err…. Sounds similar?

Yes, we all touch those loosely  hanging thought strings many a times after something is done, said, happened , over. We are left restless by our own thoughts. The more you don’t want to think about them , the more it teases you with its flashes in your mind.

The fact is nothing happens perfect. If it perfect for you it might not be perfect for someone else. These are all the mistakes we are tend to make or god makes us do to learn,to train ourselves. To make us strong. 

However, badly we dismiss our elders advises… There are times when we have to taste the medicine which we always hated to have and we feel like Yuck!! So damn true???? Yes, they made mistakes… they taught us, we became better.. We make mistakes we teach our next generation and they become better.

But the point is each one of us is suppose to make those mistakes in our lives… That’s gods training. Depends on who deserves what kind of training to face what’s coming next in his or her life or what’s your life disease is like .It’s a simple understanding.

Then why to remorse, regret crib about what’s happened. They occur for a reason. We make mistakes, wrong choices not just one but two, Three may be even more and a series of them finally helps us reach to a conclusion which eases our lives for ever.

I thought and thought about it and after continuous Regressions’, crying mourning, feeling sorry for myself eventually a piece on my left side of body (my heart)calmly concluded  that what I am today is because of all those stupid things I did, experienced in my past and this will continue forever making me a better person with time and indeed  each one of us because we are humans.

"We are Humans , We make Mistakes, they make us learn and we become better.

We make mistake ,

We are not perfect

We try , We rise

We stumble , We fall

We hurt, We rise again

We try again

We learn

We grow

Which means we are alive

Which means we are living

which means they are meant to be made by us 

which simply means

"We are Humans , We make Mistakes, they make us learn and we become better.

"He who makes mistake is a fool for a minute or for sometime but one who does not , remains a fool forever and can be called Wise Fool"  In interest of all by Jaya Pathak Stay Blessed!