An Idea For the Rest Of Life !!!

13-11-1987
These three prime numbers make my birthday.
It was my birthday today.As soon as the clock struck 12 , my friends and family started to  wish me.
I was elated as I did not expect that so many ppl will wish me. It always feels good to know that your friends remember your birthday and they care to wish you.
I thanked them all and later I made sure to note their birthdays so that I wont forget to wish them back when it is their turn.
But of all the wishes, two wishes appealed to me the most. 1 by my sister and 1 by my friend NiKa.They  both told me to go visit a temple nearby and pray for my well being for the year ahead and thank God for all that I had.I would have never thought of doing this for my birthday, but thanks to them. And thanks to me as well, that I listened to their advice.
I woke up late than normal as I was awake till late the last night. By 3'o clock I had the lunch. Then I decided to visit a temple nearby. I searched for sometime here and there but I had never seen a temple in Antop Hill and it was a tough thing for me. It was like finding water in a long barren desert.
Thought I should better go to Wadala Ram mandir, the nearest temple from my house. Just when I was about to fix this plan of Ram Mandir,I saw a road where no-one would go. I dared to go in. Then I saw about a hundred of stairs going up, which were leading up to a hill. Now I knew why this place was called Antop Hill. I was actually climbing up the Antop Hill. ( I doubt not many ppl know about this hill . I slightly had the same feeling which Columbus might have had when he discovered America. )
And at the tip of the hill, I saw a temple . It was very high. When I entered the silence zone, I heard the ting ting of the bells and kow kow of the birds. Otherwise it was absolutely silence there. I could feel the cool winds touching my body.  It was an awesome feeling , to say the least.
I did the Darshan and all , asked God to take care of me and my family, asked him for  a girl friend ( at least 1 ) and pleaded him to forgive me of all my sins.
Sister had said to take some sweets while going to the temple and give it to the poor ppl or beggars there.
But somehow I forgot.
Well about Nika, She's a management student , very funny and entertaining. And above all, my best friend. Someone who really cares for me.
Anyways, as soon as I finished my demands with God, I sat near a Baba's samadhi. I was wearing sandals. The sweeper there asked me to remove the sandals outside. He was an ardent Baba fan. He told me that the day his Baba took samadhi, the whole mumbai had drowned in the Tsunami waters. I dont know how far this is true but I sort of believed in him. he looked to me a good person.
And one thing I must admit is that I realized enormous peace while sitting there.
Cool Breeze touching you in the hot and humid afternoon.
Birds coming to give you some company in their breaks.I went to touch them a couple of times, but they must have thought that I am a bad man and will fry them for dinner. Partly because I did not shave that day , making me look like a bad boy. So they fled away everytime I went near them.
There was nobody to disturb, nobody to see what I was doing there, nobody complaining, nobody asking me the status of calls and SIP's . I was all myself. It was all peace.
I realized that it was this moment that I longed for months in Mumbai and it was all coming true.
From the top of the hill, I could see the traffic, the slums , the crowd, the races. the dirt , the politics and much of the real world. I really felt that I should never go back again.
But the thing about time, good or bad,  is that it changes.
And I had to go back to the  materialistic world. Near the crazy , lazy and selfish ppl.
However, this incidence gave me a really important lesson .
Now I'll make sure that I'll go visit a place of such composure whenever I feel down, dejected , demorallised , desolate, and some more de'ssssss.
The places can be , I imagine, a silent beach ( not the crowded one ), a hill station nearby, a temple like this one where almost nobody goes , a park of something not known to many ppl, a forest or something,  or even the office in a public holiday.
You'll definitely come across brilliant new ideas to fight against all the miseries of life.

To all my friends, thanks for bearing yet another of my worthless blog.
Who reads my Blog anyways,..... But writing it down , publicly, helps me....