Faith & Imagination

“If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”
-Denis Waitley

Yes, it is true that man can move mountains with his faith! Many a times our dreams, our desires, our aspirations remain unfulfilled because of the lack of faith within us. Apart from following the roadmap to our goals, we also need to believe in what we are and what we are doing. Do you think man would have ever been able to sail across the Atlantic or fly in the air in the so-called airplanes or conquer the moon without faith? Or take for example the on-going research to find any trace of life on the earth-like planet Mars. All this would not have been possible if any of these achievers or to-be achievers would not have had faith in themselves. With faith and imagination in hand, man has always moved to conquer the untrodden territories.

So how are faith and imagination related? William Blake’s famous quote goes as “To see the world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower... hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour... is the power of imagination”. It is your imagination that can lead you to miracles and it is your faith that can help you achieve those. Only when imagination is intertwined with faith and unceasing belief will you be able to make your dreams come true.

To give you a better picture of the relationship between imagination and faith, consider this story. Most of us are aware of the famous Isaac Newton, the man who discovered that there exists something called as earth’s gravitational force. The story goes that Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple from the tree fell on his head. This made him wonder why the apple had to fall downwards only. And this trivial thought lead to the imagination and thereafter the discovering of gravity. It was just imagination and faith that guided him to prove the authenticity of his belief that “whatever goes up, must come down”. Isn’t this analogous to failures which make us feel that success is far from our reach, but if we have faith and the perseverance to achieve it, success will definitely come back to us.

It is said ‘do your best and leave the rest to God’. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
The Bible, Matthew 17:20, says:I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move.
It depends on us and only us to firmly hold the vision and the faith at every stage of life however challenging the process is.

[PS: this is one of the articles that i wrote during freelancing... This is for Rohan.. well, u actually wanted me to write abt fear and faith... but my first post on this blog is about fear... and this one is about faith... hope u get ur answers :) ]

hush... i need a breather... a breezer would wrk too :-P

Life's uncanny! In times when zillions are losing jobs... and having a real tough time, people like me are cribbing about their job ! I don remember the last weekend when i was at home ! I finally met maa tonight (thankfully) after a week ... either she goes to wrk wen i get back home by 11/12 pm or i am at wrk wen she's at home... !!! i dont remember the last movie i saw... i dont remember the last time i slept till 11 am ! I don't know whether i should thank God for keeping my job safe... or whether i shd ask Him to spare me atleast now... :)

So many things have taken place in these 2 months.. notime to ponder over what's over or what's new. Actually i feel like a robot now... sleep-work-eat-sleep-work-eat-sleep.......

I need time for myself.. i wanna slow down a bit... i wanna be alone... to analyse whether whatever is happening right/wrong, good/bad...

i have a lot of targets to be hit this year... and it's high time that i start working towards achieving my goals. i don't want to let down myself this time... At times it feels, life is just going on... i want to get the ropes of my life in my hand, i want to shape my life the way i want it... instead of letting life shape me.

Is this Love?

Well, i have been contemplating since long whether i should be blogging over this topic or not... and yes, i have finally decided that i will.. i dedicate this post to my cuz Gaurav :) Love u sweetheart... hope u enjoy reading and that it down the years, you too share the viewpoint as i do !

First love! The thought itself sends shivers down my spine. First love is synonymous in most of our lives as something which symbolised immaculate, innocent, immature feelings towards someone! I still remember having a crush on this hunky guy from my 12th class... :-) and me and my best friend yapping away to glory about out crushes. We used decide whether to attend a lecture or not depending on the presence of these guys. I remember the moment when he used to walk into the class in the mornings... and me blushing... ; I remember knowing about him having a cell phone (those days college students didn't have one.. And if they did.. they were considered to be rich dad's spoilt brats!) and a brand new RED car! And what a better reason to break the ice than to ask him about his guitar classes and how could I enroll into one. So that's how we started talking but this was practically at the end of the Ruparel days. But well, great times followed... and Yeah.. I was in love ! It is so uncanny that I still vividly remember each and every moment I spent with him... every date we went, every card I gave, every love letter that i wrote, every walk on the beach with him, every gift that gave,... ! But as all good things come to an end.. so did this one... and it was painful... very! But what i took away from my first relationship is that "love" is not the only thing that can make a relationship work.

Well.. years after this.., there were a few proposals but I didn't wanna step outta my religion to embrace that love.. so things never really bloomed. I still dunno how can so-called "love" be so blind that you can change your existence just to be with a man! Having said that.. I have great respect for those who inter-religion relationships but that's surely not my cup of tea... why it isn't?? hmm.. we'll leave that for some other time.

But yeah.. over these 5 years my understanding of love has undergone complete metamorphosis. I still do believe in love but it is more of companionship... sharing life with someone who will be there with you and understand you .. no matter what. I don't think I'll be able to do all the mushy things that i did before... because i kinda feel a void within myself. (Hopefully someone fills that up soon!) Basically.. I think.. i have given a lot in love... but never really got that reciprocated... so now, it's time to feel that unconditional love from someone. I don't understand men who say they love you but then can't live upto their words. Love is a commitment for a lifetime... and there should surely not be any "confusion", "don't know", "parents won't agree", etc. kinda of issues between the two people involved.

All I wanna tell you Gauri.. is that .. love is far deeper than what you are feeling now.. as you go ahead in life... your understanding of love with change with every passing phase... sometimes it will be good, sometimes horrendous.. but whatever it is... never play with anyone's emotions. Be true to yourself and her! :-)