Uttarayan – Is It Fair To Mourn the Lost Souls on this Festive Day

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Uttarayan, the famous kite flying festival is around the corner. For me it is my favorite festival, as a child we would have started flying kites as soon as we finished Diwali celebrations. We were kids then, and had lot of time. How I miss those days when we would meet up at friend’s places on weekends to celebrate the coming festival. Even today, the festival has not lost its meaning to me, though time is less, still I make it a point to celebrate the festival with lots of kite flying and Undhiyu (type of mixed vegetable).

While I await the festival for all the fun it will bring to our lives, I lament at all the families which mourn the death of their near and dear ones on this day. It hurts to see parents scolding or restricting their kids to celebrate the festival because on this day they lost someone dear. I want to ask how fair is this? How do you expect your kids not to fly kites when others are enjoying it so much? How can you see them unhappy on the day of the festival? How can you take away their happiness, just because you feel like mourning the death of a loved one?

Festivals are celebrated to bring joy to the world, by doing this, what we bring in is more sadness to our lives.

It is said that those who die find a permanent place in the heavenly abode. How sad, how unhappy they would feel to see you mourning their deaths when it is actually time to celebrate. In fact they will be happier to see you happy with all others in your neighborhood.

I understand it is really difficult to lose someone you love, their thoughts never live us alone, but they can be also remembered by being happy, why mourn?

Please, parents it is fine to mourn the death of someone special on this day for some time, but please please do not stop yourself and your children from celebrating the festival, it does no good to them, neither to the ones living the moments today nor to the ones who have lived the moments of yesterday. 

Happy 2012 to All I Know and To All You May Know

Happy 2012, Life is Too Short to Enjoy, if you Hold on to Yesterdays Sorrow’s you will Never Enjoy the Joys of Today (Image Source Not Known)

Happy 2012 to All I Know and To All You May Know

Bye to Sorrows of 2011 and Welcome to Happiness of 2012

To Everyone I Know and to Everyone you May Know

Life is Too Short to Enjoy, if you Hold on to Yesterdays Sorrow’s you will Never Enjoy the Joys of Today

So for 2012 Lets Make a Resolution

To Not to Look Back at the Sad Memories of 2011 but to Look Forward to Change Each Day of 2012 into Happy Memories for Tomorrow

AGREE

You Might Have Had Some of the WORST and the BEST Moments of Your Life in 2011

While Some Moments would have Made you STRONGER, Some Moments would have made you WEAKER

You Might have LOST some, but would have also GAINED some people

You Would have Shed Lot Many Tears of HAPPINESS and Lot More Tears of SADNESS

While it might be DIFFICULT to Empty your Mind with all those Memories

BUT, there is No End to Trying,

Let’s TRY to Atleast Forget and Forgive all Those Things and People who Brought or Made Us Sad in 2011

And be Optimistic of Getting Back the LOVE and CARE we Shared with the People we Know in the Year Ahead, in 2012

Wish you All a

Happy and Prosperous 2012

I am not a great poet, but nothing is wrong in making an effort. Hope you all like it and enjoy reading it, from the bottom of my heart HAPPY 2012 and Sorry to all those whom I might have hurt in 2011, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Please feel free to Leave me Your New Year Wishes in the Comment Box below. 

Finally Anita’s Prayer Was Heard

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26-12-2011 something unexpected happened.

The clock had just struck 8:00 in the morning and I was getting ready for the office, my phone rang, it was Anita’s number, I picked up the call instantly. On the other side I could hear her say “Gayathri make it fast to the hospital I am in labor”. Quickly I called our HR and asked for 4 days leave next I called my Project Manager to inform him about the leaves. I packed in all the important things and left for the hospital.

Over there I could see that Raj was in the waiting area, it also meant that Anita was already taken into the operation room. From the beginning doctors had told that she would have to get C-section done. So I did not get to meet her when I reached the hospital.

My heart was racing fast, I was worried what would be the result, will it be a boy or girl, and was praying to God requesting him to give her a boy.

After about 30 mins we could hear the baby’s crying, my heart started to beat even faster. The nurse came out and was calling Raj, he was not around, I looked for him, and finally found him sitting near Shivjis idol in the hospital. 

Quickly we went to the nurse, she handed the child to Raj saying it’s a baby boy, “Oh my! GOD is Great! Really!” Were the first words that came out of my mouth with tears about to flow from my eyes, I silently thanked God.

The little bundle of joy looked so cute, though “little bundle of joy” is just a phrase, it cannot be used better anywhere else, because had it been a girl, she would have been accepted with some disappointment no more being a “little bundle of joy”. Just hope, like Anita God has the will to help several other Anita’s out there, who need a Boy for the family.