Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!

To be true, I haven’t seen that movie nor I know what’s the status of “Milind Soman” as he runs from Ahmedabad to Mumbai, which is almost 570 km. What a guy he is! And what a guy I am, who could hardly finish 5k run(for the first time)! Yeah, you heard it right. I ran 5k this last Sunday and it was total fun.

It’s said that we have to start things for the first time, sooner or later. And so I started, started running. Sometimes from work to home at 8 PM, sometimes running around the new flat I live in with my friends, just to practice for the 5k run(the Main event).

On the event day, we left at 4:45 AM in our bikes and it was cold out there. What I love about Bangalore is its weather(mind you, this is one of the many reasons of loving this city). We lost path for a while but found one another soon and continued our journey to the event place.

On reaching, I had an expression of a big ‘O’ seeing so many participants and also seeing the Brigade Orchards(what a place it is). We warmed up. 4 teams(each team comprising of 4 members) had participated from Flutura(my new company).

2 months flashback, I left my old job and now I am at a new city, new company and without a cell phone(Unfortunately, I lost my phone and fortunately, I am away from WhatsApp and all the unnecessary chats).

Back again to present, I will buy a new phone soon, so wasting time is again going to be the headlines of my life 😀

Just so you know, I am not going to talk about the 5k run because it took me 35:55 mins to finish it. I think next time will be better 😉

I met some cool people there. The person who finished the race first was from France. He finished the race in 19:42. We danced on the latest beats and also did Zumba. It was fun and fun days are back again(Ache din!).

All I would like to share is KEEP RUNNING, if tired, KEEP WALKING but DON’T STOP. Progress is important(remember the tortoise & rabbit story).

Feel free to share some of your fun moments and let us all know about it.

Some of the pics are below.

Runners for life

Paresh(colleague) riding a mechanical bull. I rode too, but the bull had the better of me in less than a second so no pics of me with Mr. Bull 😀

partner-in-crime

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Victory moment with mates

“Cool” *Mikesh’s tone* #permanentRoommates

Cccrrrraaaazzzzzyyyyy!!!

P.S.: Today’s song pick is Don’t you need somebody of RedOne. Happy August and keep smiling.

 

Writer’s block

Difficult time always come

Why?

Do they love us?

No!

Difficult times want us

To fight and win and fly

Fly far away and high above

To yet another difficult time

All these accumulations

Of difficult times

Brings frustration

Anger and failure

and WRITER’s BLOCK

But we don’t stop

Because we don’t intend to stop

Because stopping is a curse

We fly

We run

We walk

We crawl

But we never stop

It’s not in our blood

It’s not in our mind

It’s not in our hearts

It’s not in our souls

As the saying goes

“One bad fish

Spoils whole pond”

So we gotta make sure

That none of us

Become stagnant

Stop ever

We gotta keep on writing

We gotta keep on running

Have to make it a habit

Even though it has it’s baggage

It will also have it’s toll on us

But who cares

We love writing

Ain’t it true?

So, let’s join hands

And try to help overcome

One another’s writer’s block

And share ideas

And finally I am out of the

Writer’s block at least for a while

What a relief!

But there is something

More important than writing

Which I focus on here

And that’s smiling

So wear a smile

And share your awesome views 🙂

P.S. : Happy weekend and this friday’s pick is Stitches of Shawn Mendes ❤

Allergic to ‘E’ Challenge & also the Very Inspiring Blogger Award !!

Hello guys !!

I was nominated for this awkward yet very interesting challenge by Kritika !! She is a wonderful writer & also has skills of painting & photography. So, all-in-all her site is perfect fun. Do invest your time in her site !!

Here are the rules of the challenge:

1. Write a whole paragraph (a paragraph sounds easy right?) without any word containing the letter “e” (still easy for ya?)
2. By reading this you are already signed up.
3. Challenge at least five bloggers to do the challenge. They must do it within 24 hours or it is considered as failure.
4. If you fail or pass, suffer in the Page of Lame.
5. If you win, wallow in the Page of Fame.

Instead of coming up with a paragraph, I wrote a poem(which also has an E) 😀 It was a tough one.

Laugh loud and
Finish tasks and
Grow !!
Stay Strong and
Broadcast Wisdom and
Don’t look at statistics as
Crowd ain’t got brains
You gotta fight
If you fail
All you gotta do
Is shout
PLOT TWIST
And run
Run towards
Starry Horizon
Bright humans
Bright brains
Bright YOU

Did you understand what the poem was about? If YES , then please make me understand in the comments section. If NO, then also add a comment about what you expected this poem to be & what it turned out 😀

My nominations for this challenge are :

Vanchula

Jeni

Geethu

Izza

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I was also nominated for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award by Jeni, good friend and a wonderful blogger. Do read her posts.

Here are the rules:

• Thank the person who nominated you for the award
• Add the logo to your post
• Nominate ten (10) bloggers you admire and inform them of the nomination

My apologies for taking so long to revert with the post. I am honored for this award 🙂

I am thankful to everyone of WP family for finding out time to read my works & encouraging me write better content. You all are nominated and rightly deserving for the Inspiring Blogger award.

Happy Sunday !!

Run more..

You believe in running?

Physically & mentally??

The wrong person effect..

Run

Run away from me

Put thousands of miles between us

But when you embrace sleep

And when you will think of putting your heart & mind at rest

I will be there in your dreams

To make you realize that you indeed chose the wrong person..

You define your own FEAR..

Your dream–

You think of doing 1

In the manner of 2

To get a result of 3

For which you’ll have a life of 4

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The reality–

What happens is 3

In the manner of 1

To get a result of 4

And you become 2

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After regular upsetting realities

all you can do is leave it all up to Fate

Leave it all in a heartbeat

Don’t FEAR.. Or atleast let this FEAR define you..

Instead YOU define FEAR for yourself..

Is it Forget Everything And Run..

Or.. Face Everything And Rise..

Choice is yours!!

Make things happens..

Can’t fly, then run..

Can’t run, then walk..

Can’t walk, then crawl..

Can’t crawl, then DON’T STOP!!

DON’T STAND!!

Find solutions, answers, remedies

but don’t stand and wait for things to happen..

Make things happen,

And while making things happen,

You will first crawl, then walk, run,

And finally your wings will be outstretched,

For everyone to look and awaken the angel within themselves!!

Run against yourself!!

All our life, we believe in running. Some run from home to work, some from work to home, some from one work to another, some on the treadmill, some in the games played in laptops, some from responsibilities, some from laziness, some towards comfortness, some towards each other, some towards one another, some from each other.. Whoa so much running and yet we’re never planning to stop!!

Take a break.. Have a deep breath.. Have a moment for your ownself.. Have a life.. That ideal Peaceful life..

Life is not about a sprint, it’s about a marathon. Running hard for a small period & then gasping for breath won’t help much. We have to be consistent. We have to run at a general average speed, so that no matter how pumped up we are or how tired we are, we must try to hold on to that average speed & maintain it. Hold on to the base speed. That’s what will take your far.

Competing is good. But we have to first make sure we compete against the right opponent.
Choosing the RIGHT opponent is difficult.. Him or Her or Them or Me??
If you make any other guy your opponent for competition, then you’ll aim to be like them & in the process you’ll lose your individual uniqueness or identity. And also, once you surpass them you’ll have to find another opponent & then again do the same drill.

But, let’s say if you choose yourself. You got many advantages like you will try to be(and you will definitely be) a good human being than what you were yesterday. You will try to improve yourself with such an opponent whom you know so very well & surpassing them will not only take wits but will also give you a profound sense of happiness. Run from the monster inside you towards the angel in you. You don’t have to keep on changing your opponent’s, because what you are today, you weren’t yesterday & you won’t be tomorrow. Tomorrow also you will evolve.. Today you’re evolving.. Yesterday also you evolved..

Choose the best for you.. Your friends, family, near & dear ones are the energy boosters in your life, who will help you overcome the hurdles you face in this marathon.. Seek their help, heed their advice but ultimately do what you think it’s good for you because you gotta face the consequences of whatever decision you take, not any of them.

Keep winning against yourself,
Darshith.