To My Teachers

" Perfect Practice Makes A Man Perfect."
- Shiv Khera

And thats what I want to thank my teachers for. For giving me the perfect practice, for making me feel good about my practice and most importantly for believing in me. Its easy to just let go a student when he does badly, but to pick him up and start off, putting your 110% is not an easy job. And thats where these people have reached the highs of life. Today, all my success is because they were there and I wonder what I would've been without those hands guiding me.

To all my teachers:
Mrs. Siraj
Ms. Matthews
Mrs. Monica Joshi
Mrs. Usha Joshi
Bhatnagar Aunty
Ramprasad Aunty
Mrs. Kapoor
Mrs. Dalvie
Mrs. Beri
Mrs. Tanga
Mrs. John
Mrs. Dhawan
Prof. Mugdha Modak
Prof. Devdhar
Prof. Kelkar
Dr. Sule
Prof. Jha
and the list continues.......................
HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY

Remembrance

Today I talk about a special person once more. A person who taught me to love dogs and not be very afraid of them. This day, I remember Ttashi, my close friend's coccker spaniel who expired two years back. She was the darling of the family and of course, the apple of our (friends') eyes. I miss you little girl. Wish dogs had longer lives.....

"As a worker at the Engineering Research Building (ERB), I often passed this sign: "TO ERB". One day, I noticed that some philosophical soul had pencilled in: "Is Human, to forgib, divine." "
- "Peterborough" in 'The Daily Telegraph', London, taken from Readers' Digest, June 1984

Now this is an intelligent joke. And it is a joke of longetivity. You will smile every time you hear, for the sheer intelligence of that worker who came up with such a one-liner. And thats why, I love reading this stuff from Readers' Digest, over and over again....

"Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend,
Somewhere alone in the bitterness,
And I would have stayed up with you all night,
Had I known how to save a life."
-The Fray, 'How To Save A Life'

Its a song thats close to my heart, 'coz I believe that things happen in our lives, that drive people away from us. It might be just a small sentence, or an exclamation, or a just a small action which really puts a strain in your relationship with others. And where you know that, that person is the one you'd have stayed up all night with, just to save him, you've now lost him in the bitterness and you don't even know what you've done wrong.... There are friends I've got now, who were so close to me about two years back; so close that we'd share everything with each other. But now every time I meet them, I have the feeling of having lost them and don't even know what I did to make me feel so, or what they did to make me feel so. But, the feeling's there and quite real..