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How’s the What Fun For Whom Now?
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How’s the internet fun for me on my mobile? OH. So that’s what you’re asking me. Let me get akin to my seat and answer your question most excitedly, my good sir.
FunTip#1
I live in a hostel; a law school campus to be precise; a land where the actual internet connection is almost never functioning. Thank goodness for mobile internet services because studying law is one of the most information seeking aspects of life and if not for access to a search engine with the click of a button on my phone, I would have been dead and gone by now.
There are times when I’m standing in a courtroom and I need a case on my fingertips to prove that the other party is simply screwing around; that IS an idea of fun honestly! (to each one his own!) and that’s when I can log onto the internet without anyone noticing, and figure some witty statement out, to make the judge irk a smile. (And that in turn is fun because it fetches me marks!)
FunTip#2
Law is not all that we study; we do hang out as well. My passion, or reflex action to be specific, is Googling things. It’s a habit, hobby, obsession even. Once, we were a group of about six waiting to be served at Mocha. The party was almost silent in the dead of the afternoon heat and to lighten things up, my fingers clicked at the mobile, typing the word ‘hookah’ in.
The day just took OFF after that, ricocheting into oblivion as pass after pass was made at all the ridiculous names that hookah has in different countries, how it was begun, the people that smoked it earlier on, jokes associated with it, and all that.
And not just that, it’s fun to sometimes sit and key in each other’s names on a website called Urban dictionary which provides modern day meanings to the most random of words. Little did you know that Raj actually is a Scottish term for someone going crazy with rage 
Oh we were cracking at one of our friend’s name: Abhishekh, which for very dirty reasons I’m not going to disclose here!
FunTip#3
Being an adorer of my acoustic guitar, life is complete when I’m able to find out chords and tabs for songs that I suddenly have a craving to play in the middle of the night. Who’s going to bother switching on the laptop then, the mobile’s there, the internet’s there, it’s FUN! And if I’m loud and good enough, I know there will be people in other rooms crooning to my music and enjoying themselves too!
FunTip#4
Somewhere down the line, if you’re stuck with some young toddlers that may be your cousins, kids or nephews and nieces, jut hand over your mobile, put on a game on the internet and keep them occupied and shut for hours on end while you enjoy the rest of your day and be loved reciprocally!
So yes, that’s how the internet on my mobile’s not just fun for me. Its fun for everyone around me!
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Change the Change
She fiddled with the knobs on her fancy camera; these days it is quite common to watch people handle digital shots and capture every moment of beauty revering in the world around them. Sitting atop a hillock, the sunset mesmerized the atmosphere around it, everything seemed to revolve around the hues of a rainbow.
The lake meandered below, catching the rays, as she focused with her lens, on a little duck paddling away. A few others sat a little farther, focusing on the sun with their toys, trying to grab a ray of the red before it sank into the water. One of them walked towards her, peered at her screen and exclaimed, “Why that little duck!” Annoyed, she turned away and continued with her brows furiously together. Instantaneously, almost, everyone else followed suit, curious to know why she concentrated so hard on the duck when all they wanted to take shots of the myriad of dying daylight. She got up with haste, walked over to the other side as the duck flapped into oblivion beyond the light fog.
It was a matter of perspective.
There are times when people find something attractive and appealing and that is the destination they finally seek; however, they fail to look at other options which just might run them by; and in doing so, they often try to convince others in changing their views about life and sticking to what they feel is beneficial for a next-to-utopian lifestyle.
But why change oneself? Who decided what was right, and what not so right?
Thoughts are for sharing, not imposing. When an individual goes to another and says, “change your attitude!” it’s because he is not able to adjust to another thought process, and not because the other person is ‘wrong’. Everyone has the freedom to focus on the perspective they like, to broaden their horizons as they wish to.
So what needs to change? The concept of change itself.
People need to understand that even though change might be for the greater good, it is a reflex that takes place according to a person’s desires. Why should I change into behaving like someone if they don’t take the pain to be like me? Why should I change my thinking and adopt someone else’s just because they think it is the ‘better’ path to tread upon?
Not saying don’t adopt new thinking, simply stating accept and think for yourself. Do you want to start believing in something more? Go for it.
“Every moment, the cells in your body are shifting, you are looking at newer things within the perimeter of your vision; people are born, people are dying, things are in a constant state of flux. You are a newer you every second of your life. From the moment that you began to read this, to now, there is something else going on in your mind, something new has been fed into the memory of your periphery. The world is moving, rotating, revolving.”
E v e r y t h i n g i s c h a n g i n g.
The difference lies in a thirst; the thirst to change, the power of which rests upon your shoulders. Don’t walk up to someone and tell them to change the way they think. Instead, understand why they think the way they think and ask yourself if you would want to change something within yourself and adopt that other perspective or mesh it with your own thoughts.
Don’t walk up to a child and ask him to stop jumping around and being hyperactive; it only irritates you because you have lost the will to act child like any more. Who gave you the right to ask someone to lose their zest just because you lost yours? We need less grouch and more excitement.
Be who you are and if someone likes it, they will pick it up. Change the idea of change … (at your own discretion, of course!)
Don’t change yourself to suit the world, because the world won’t change to suit you.
x EdgyShark x
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God is a U.F.O
‘Nuff said. God is nothing but an unidentified flying object, floating somewhere in the almost irrevocable piece of the unknown above. (Or below, however you’d like to see it.)
Just a thought that occurred to me with some Coldplay skipping.
x EdgyShark x
To Smell Freedom!
Every trip has a purpose for sure and if given a chance to win this one, I’m going to do the tickets so much justice by being with the people I love, from whom I’ve been separated from for so long … I’m going to be one with the city, with the people and with my heart and soul… I want this so bad !
Delhi’s a rush; it’s a literal mind blowing swift city where if you don’t stop and look, you can’t see or smell the sunshine, the black tar on the roads or the excitement in the air. The nip and chill persists, a big smile plasters itself on my face and I am able to smell freedom every time someone utters the word: Dilli.
I can’t believe I’ve waited for seventeen years to visualize and take in all the grandeur of the capital of our country. Waited so long, but it’s been more than worth it.
Driving around the power areas, I could feel the politics brewing in my blood; I could feel my history texts coming alive; I could feel all the culture like as if it was happening in front of my eyes, to me! It intimidates you, the beauty of its past.
My aim was one: To absorb into myself, the opulence and brilliance of the lush and rich all around me;
To delve into the lives of my loved ones, and to feel what they felt like, growing up in Dilli.
It made my adrenaline feel juvenile.
To visit every street, to stop and stare at the passers by,
To enjoy the cool metro rides, to be alone and feel wonderful.
My freedom consisted of all that and much more.
Getting lost in Connaught Place, admiring old forts and monuments with more wonder and awe than foreigners,
to feel the heat and to shudder in the breeze and chill,
to roam the nights and devour street food and fudge alike.
The vibrance emanating from the city made me feel like I was made for it, and I cannot wait to visit again.
Most of all, being united with that part of my soul again, something only this city can help me achieve. Something, I’ve been longing for, for the last seventeen years of my life..
And the best part? When I awoke from my slumber the next morning back in my bed, I saw my boarding pass on my dark table: Proof that I’d spent my dream waking life 
x EdgyShark x
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Mary Jane And The Green Fairy
I haven’t written in the longest time, not because of a lack of things to write about, but because of all the madness that has been persisting in the environment around me. I’ve had the time of my life in the last few weeks. Pertaining to the above mentioned title, and otherwise 
My birthday couldn’t have gotten any better than what it was. And I feel lucky, and I feel like the only eighteen year old to have ever had such a grand time. Not a lame club dance that lasted for a few hours, not some pseudo drinking getting high, no new gadgets as presents to scream and show off.
But a wonderful week away to a city, from the people I love, to the people I love. And there, I met MJ. As well as her Indian counterpart, locked away in the confines of a very familiar and sexy Beatles case
Winter wonderland, truly. And I can rightly say, I started the year with a bang-bang-pow And it can only keep getting better. After all, it’s your perception of how things should be. If you’re unhappy, you make everything around you seem that way. So keep your head cool, that’s probably why the calendar year starts in the snow.
And otherwise, every year is a new year anyway.
x EdgyShark x
Extreme Psyche
“I’m the one that has to die when I die, so let me live my life as I want to.”
x EdgyShark x
Tonight We Have The Stars
Rows of white
Lilies bled in the
Moonlight; Portraying
A beautiful cacophony of
Silence.
In the darkness they dwell,
Uniting hearts and
Stirring the thoughts of those
Who sleep, sound on their
Pristine pillows.
They catch glimpses and
Run amok the pure rows,
Run wild creating
Friction so dynamic that
The universe binds itself into
One and across the realms of
Each others existence.
The numerous spirits
Applaud their courage
As they sweep back into the shadows while
Dawn approaches again.
x EdgyShark x
God Is An Entrepreneur
Did you know that long ago, somewhere on the same land that you now tread on, a bunch of rivals got together and decided to create something new, and give something to people? One man stated a theory, another based the same in his language, and a third went on to become a legend like the rest of them.
What they did was simple. Preach a theory to the lesser educated, and create philosophical views and tales that gave people food for thought; because bread was a scarcity back then.
It was a task simple enough; they gave birth to words in the dictionary as we see them today. They made their own religion, profanity, faith and belief and got the rest of the population to follow what they wanted.
Their names were Jesus, Shiv, Allah and the likes.
A billion or more years later, another bunch of people began giving birth to a new kind of belief and faith. They gave rise to technology which slowly gripped the edges of the earth and encircled it through and through. They walked the streets and launched their products, and people willingly listened and bought without any reluctance.
Their names ranged far and wide from Bell and Ramanujan to Gates and Zuckerberg. They created widespread interest in a different kind of religion and at the same time so did others like Floyd and Gandhi.
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You know why they created something of their own? Because they didn’t want to follow merely what was going on without giving it any thought. How can you claim that something someone created a zillion years ago, forms the basis of your existence today? Isn’t it your turn to voice your opinion and form your own chain of thought? You do not require an agreement in tandem with your thought process from one fourth of the society that you live in. What you want to create will be your own, and if you have the power and strength to go on with it, those who are not able to, will eventually follow your line of thought in this lifetime.
Motivate them to make something of their own except for rattling out words laid down in the scripts. Those texts are there to provide your mind with some feeder, not glue.
It’s up to you.
If they are Gods, so can you be one.
x EdgyShark x
