Fear of Missing Out..!!

This very morning I came across this article which talks about the types of motivation . The good, the bad and the best motivators in the world. And I strongly believe that nothing can keep you running in the absence of that inner fuel of purpose, desire, thirst and excitement.

You know, I have thought about it a number of times. And there are a lot many people who asked me about my fears. I have been fearless for the most of my life, I don't fear almost anything in life but whenever I think about this word, the single biggest fear I always find myself struggling with is the "Fear of Missing Out" -- missing out even a single glittering chance of jumping of the cliff; the cliff of uncertainty, challenge, nuance, bizarre and what not.. There are so many different things to do in this world and a tonnes of experiments to be done and the fear of not being able to participate/witness even any one of them is daunting.

Somebody has said:
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream..!!

But I have no fear of the number of miles, what I fear is to fail to experience participating in one of the races in life. People recommend of not settling down in the comfort zone and to break those shackles once they get tied up. But, I am among those bunch of people who fear that they will get stuck in the comfort zone if they don't keep moving, rather running, I don't care if this constant running would make me pant. I fear that thought of comfort, that nightmare of monotony, that wind of purposelessness, the night of sinking challenge ship and everything else in those lines..

You didn't Go for a Walk Today?

I went out to buy some stuff a few minutes ago. While coming back, I was thinking about something, gazing around the vicinity as I was passing by. Suddenly, I heard this, when I was still submerged in my thoughts "You didn't Go for a Walk Today?". Seemed as if the sentence was directed to me. Suddenly, I came out of my thoughts to that moment, to spot that person out, who just said that.

I turned around to find out a cute little girl. She repeated her statement "You didn't Go for a Walk Today?". I looked at her to reconfirm if it was directed to me. Yes, it was.

I liked her sweet gesture but was a little surprised, but simply replied "I did". Then she added "I see you going for a walk across this road everyday. I did not see you this morning. You did not go for a walk today? ". Then we shared a small talk for about a few minutes, before she bid goodbye and took off riding her bicycle back, straight to her home :-)

Place Value vs Face Value

I have been thinking about writing this one for a while now and surely could not come up with a better or more apt title for this post.

Place Value vs Face Value, the meaning is pretty much the same whether it's barely numbers or people..

While most people like to be only around people with a higher place value, I respect people who weigh higher on side of face value, reason being pretty simple, their value is independent of place, situation, time or context, come whatever it may be.

I get an impression (not enough data points to generalize) that a change of position, sometimes
--> make people douchebag
--> people tend to not see obvious things
--> they get wings (borrowed from one of the conversations with my school principal), are no longer grounded
--> forget/override the basic rules/courtesy

Random Rambling / Short Poetry

Chalak jaaye ye jaam to

aawaz nahi karta

Ittefak ya inayat hai

waqt imtiaz nahi karta