ODE TO OUR FRIENDSHIP

Times roll by and
Bequeath me with reminiscences,
Of a trail of events
To be cherished always.

Nostalgia envelopes me

As I recall the day,

From where together we

Began our journey of friendship from.

Time and again I have relished
Your support and cosy company,
And at times, I felt low and lonely
You were always there for me.

My times of elation had always been
The moments I shared with you,
You have adorned my life just like
The Moon does to the stellar sky.

I conceive myself as “the luckiest one!”

To have a friend like you,
A friend to confide in, to count on
And savour the whole lifetime through.

IS GOOGLE=GOD ??

I am ubiquitous! I am omniscient! I posses everything you need! I am ever-growing! I am not GOD. Then guess who I am?
The answer quiet candidly is “GOOGLE”.
Be it college students, professionals, journalists, engineers or the scientists; the first and the foremost thing that comes in their mind when they encounter the need of any sort of information is “GOOGLE”. Whether we accept or not we have become inseparable and extremely dependent on it.
Today we thrive in such a feeling devoid world where the frontiers between the internet and human relationships have become murky, the “i-factor” has become gravely associated with our lives and as a result, the GOOGLism has emerged as a vital and prominent aspect of our lives. In the age of the Internet nothing seems impossible and everything is effortlessly fetched.
Wanna make friends? Facebook is there. Wanna travel? Make my trip is there. Wanna interact? Switch on to Google Talk. Thinking of getting married? Shaadi.com is there. Wanna complete assignments? Wikipedia is there. I think that’s enough......
A large section of people have even started to believe that Google should rightfully be given the title of “GOD”. The Church Of Google is an organization formed by such a section of people and they even produce nine proofs to prove their point. They boast of its omniscience, omnipresence, infiniteness, immortality, omni-benevolence, magnanimity, omni-reminiscence, envision-ability and also answers our queries. But the idiosyncrasy between the God and the Google can be indubitably stated . The veteran search engine is devoid of any feelings and bestows us with information and not knowledge, of which God is the only source. Information is just a transient data which might be altered in the very next minute! Knowledge on contrary is permanent, universal, beneficial and something abstract which connects the works with our soul. God is the creator and the Google is human-created. The Google had got such an importance in our lives due to our own tendency to make relationships, our very innate nature. The Googlists themselves claim Facebook, Twitter and their respective Spanish and Turkish counterparts to be among top five searches on Google in 2009, this very fact proves the point.
“God is subtle, but he is not malicious.” Albert Einstein once said. But Google is a versatile tool for hackers, an active cause of teen related cyber crimes, piracy, phishing and a platform for illicit sharing of contents etc.
In Economics, it’s believed that there is nothing so called a Free-Lunch. Everything has got its virtues as well as vices. It is us who are free to decide and of what we want to be a part of!

ATTITUDE TOWARDS LIFE

Attitude of optimism must adorn

The gift of the One –‘your life’ ,

The destiny with happiness would ensue

If with full faith and exertion you strive.

The need is to cultivate one’s mind

Unperturbed, you’ll blossom beyond expectations;

Discover, realize, admire your potentials

Enrich, enlighten and thou shall achieve new dimensions.

Time awaits none, it flows from

Our hands, like the grains of sand,

Wage war against vices, augment the virtues

And tread with the needy, hand in hand.

Respect the parents whose efforts and tutelage

Developed, nourished, gave you an identity

Shower them with gratitude for the piece of eternity.

Life is an opportunity, savor each day

‘It was him who…..’ let the world say,

Future beckons you for a miracle

Earth will remember thy deeds till it finishes it cycle.