Did you mean it?

I was talking to a friend of mine. She said "Sorry I couldnt get back to you earlier. I was having my exams." I had asked her a favour some 2 months back. Actually I had forgotten all about it. You think she really meant that "sorry" she said? I doubt. Even if it had been me, I wouldnt have meant it cause if I had felt so sorry for not getting back to my friend, I wouldnt have let that come to this stage in the first place.I mean I would have responded immediately.Another example.I was walking with a friend of mine in the colorful Pondy bazaar lane and we were talking about one new shop and that we have to visit once. She immediately told that she had already been there and she stopped, realisation hitting her ( She had not planned on telling me that she had visited this shop for she had come with her bf). I realised what was going through her mind and started talking about dumb stuff so that there is no embarrassing pause and she suddenly stopped me and said " I'm really sorry, I should have told you. But he didnt want me to tell." I vigorously nodded and assured her that if thats what he wanted then thats what she ought to do and we walked on. My point here is, what is the point of sorry here? I mean she perfectly knew that she is not spsd to tell me then why sorry?Sorry that she told now? or sorry that she followed his words(I'm sure its not the case) or what? I totally dont get it.
Sorry is a very powerful word. But nowadays, its used too commonly that it has lost its significance.Even when you really mean it,it just does not bring in that effect anymore. Ppl have modified it and now say "I'm REALLY sorry"(Otherwise what- are you not REALLY sorry?) or " I apologise"(A substitute which is not as much damaged as sorry?).

Another ill-treated word is "Thank You".
When somebody says Thank you, it should give you a feeling that what you have done to earn this thank you is something that means a lot to the person saying thank you. Only then does thank you have a meaning. But we use it too carelessly. I do and I hate every time I have to use thank you that way. It has become a courtesy act which has become a symbol of politeness(If u say thank you, then you are polite!!!!). Nobody seems to understand that it has to come from the heart.

The most insulted words in my opinion "I love you"
Thanks to movies, the words "I love you" has totally lost its meaning. It has become this fancy phrase that if you tell it to someone(especially to opposite sex), it makes you cool! You see someone and you immediately fall for that person and the first thing that you want to tell her/him is "I Love You". I honestly dont know what the person means by that at that time. Love is a very complete, complex, pure and well, sacred word.
I found this in wikipedia -
"Love is any of a number of emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my wife"). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states."

When it is so difficult for so many people to even understand what Love really means, I am at a loss to understand how people use it so casually. And telling it too often also loses its impact.Many seem to use this phrase to reiterate the feeling of "love" which they might forget if not told 10 times in a span of one minute. Many people prefer the subtle Ron-hermione track in Harry Potter than the obvious Harry-Cho romance. I do. Never once in the book, would Ron or Hermione say that fatal "I love you" Phrase. It has a beautiful touch to it. Subtlety always scores over the obvious(atleast in my opinion).

Well, I'm no exception to this. I have murdered these words a lot of times too. But I am learning.

The arena of Dreamers

The Dream....
always begins in the blink of an eye. Imagine you are a 10yr old standing by d side of an athletic track, holding ur father’s hand. Then you watch this magnificent athlete, striding down the runway, the pole gripped in her hand, her teeth clenched, her eyes focused, her muscles trembling wid the effort of the run, her hair flying, and suddenly she soars. You crane ur neck and it seems she is going up, up, up…… forever, towards the skies, towards eternity. Suddenly, there is a break, it seems she is snapped bak to mother earth as she turns her body and comes down and falls, on her back, spread-eagled on to the foam. You quickly look up. The bar remains where it is, even though its trembling. You look at her and she is standing, hands raised, face glowing in a crowd; the sounds roll down like waves on a sea shore, one after another. You ask ur dad why ppl r clapping and he says, “She has broken a record”. Without your realizing it, the hair on ur arms and legs stand up, like a porcupine, and then and there u decide that u want to be like her, this beautiful women, who is grace in motion, the cynosure of all eyes….
And it is from this small opening that the dream unfolds. With proper support and luck u, cud make it in life like this unknown athlete u have seen. B it any field, any thing, gripped by passion and the desire to succeed u can make it BIG in life…

Little drops of happiness

What makes a person happy?
It can be anything. A small smile from a stranger, a song, a passing comment, an appreciation, a surprise meeting of someone when u least expect it, high marks, bunking of classes and getting away with it, escaping a surprise test AND......... reading a comment for ur post in ur blog!!
When we actually take time and look at these things, its all small things that make our lives.Now the reason for this post is abt the last point I mentioned above - posting a comment for a post you read. Who wont love an appreciation. Well. ok. it need not be appreciation but the sheer happiness that there are actually some ppl who take time to read ur post can make the blogger really happy.

So kindly do share ur thoughts by way of comments when you read any blog. You never know what might inspire a person and put a neat smile on their face!

Wish List..!

This Wish list has been in my dairy for more than a year. Actually I dont remember since when I had started penning this down . But I'm now posting some random ones here.

To walk in the beach at 1 'o clock in the morning.
To watch a night-show movie in a theater.
To stand on top of the Eiffel tower and shout my throat out. :D
To ride to a far off place in my wonder pep on a cloudy day.
To buy a BMW(or a Ford or a Honda city-ivtech) and write "The Happy me:)" in the back pane.
To start a bookshop(You've got mail style)
To be a news report reader in cnn or bbc.
To surprise someone outta their life.
To Attend a midnight Bday party.
To read someone's diary without them knowing it ( I am keeping mine in the safest place possible!!)
To be hugged so very unexpectedly.
I wish someone would read my mind and say it perfectly and then look at me and say "I know u".
I wish someone would read my above list and fullfill it :D:D

And the list goes on..