Here's to the crazy ones! Part II

Here’s to the crazy ones… The Misfits, The Rebels, The Trouble Makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world - are the ones who DO

 

How simplistic yet powerful these lines are. Truly dedicated to the section of human race who is always told by others that ‘You can’t do it’, ‘This is impossible’, ‘You must be kidding’, ‘It is impractical’, ‘It has no future’. And guess what, they are right!

It may impossible, it may be unrealistic, it may be impractical but what they don’t know and therefore what they can never tell us is that ‘it can be changed’. Impossible can be made possible, what sounds unrealistic today can become a reality someday.  

Greatness lies on the edge of destruction – Will Smith.

You got to go through the destruction to achieve great things. And once the job is done, you will always feel a virtual crown on your head and the walk you then take will not be any other walk. It will be a King walking with pride!!

Sometimes we ask too many questions to ourselves because we fear that these are the questions that people will ask us and we don’t have a rational answer. We worry too much about what others feel about our goals – ironic, isn’t it? Their perspective become so important that we lose our interest in what we really want and ultimately give up fully convinced that the job can’t be done.

Don’t ask too many questions to yourself. Sometimes it is better to figure out answers on the way. Most successful stories will tell us that successful people never knew how to get success. All they knew is that there is a possibility of success and our job is to simply explore these possibilities. Answers will come automatically.

Cheers to all the dreamers – The Crazy Ones :)

Jini

Here's to the crazy ones! - Part I

I will certainly write on this subject very soon and hence the subject line comes with a 'Part I' suffix. Read the lines pasted below which were lived by Steve Jobs and mind you, they are just no simple lines. They are wrapped with power & immense passion.

Read it, Feel it and Live it.

It is dedicated to the rebel in us, to the misfits, to the trouble makers!

Here's To The Crazy Ones. 

The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. 

The round pegs in the square holes. 

The ones who see things differently. 

They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. 

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. 

About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. 

Because they change things. 

They push the human race forward. 

And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. 

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world - are the ones who DO

- Jini

Fire in ME!

One of my all time favorite poem by Dushyant Kumar on 'Change', on 'Courage', on 'Revolution' is pasted below. These divine lines always help me do my reality check. It brings me back to square one - from where I started to where I am really heading.

Even in 21st Century, when we have technology at the tip of our finger, medical science so advanced, sources of earning money are in abundance, but in reality it is difficult (but not impossible) to earn our living and where life offers maximum comfort, yet we still struggle within us. Struggle to stand up for our moral, for our values and for our principles. And the challenge is that now people around us 'Are Practical', 'Think Practical' and 'Expect us to behave Practical'. Everything is judge by keeping 'I' in context. There is a sudden scarcity of 'US'.

When we leave our house early in the morning for work, we encounter millions of people, millions of circumstances and twisted challenges that will test our limits to the core. By the time we are done with the day, we for sure have passed through the test, either victorious or failure in literal sense but our inner conscious will tell us the true story. Did I stand up for what I believed in? Did I act with courage to what I should have acted upon? Did I fulfill my moral obligation without giving second thought? Was I fair in my routine transaction today? Did I do something for others today? Did I do something for self today? If the answer is ‘No’, then it raises many questions. Where is this divine ‘FIRE IN ME’? Why is our conscious not questioning our character, our inner self?

Honestly, this is not an era of Technology, Speed, Science – the so called ‘21^st Century’. This is in fact an era of “How we are handling ourselves after having these ancillary means?”. It is time for “Character Check”!

हो गई है पीर पर्वत-सी पिघलनी चाहिए,
इस हिमालय से कोई गंगा निकलनी चाहिए।

आज यह दीवार, परदों की तरह हिलने लगी,     

शर्त लेकिन थी कि ये बुनियाद हिलनी चाहिए।

हर सड़क पर, हर गली में, हर नगर, हर गाँव में,
हाथ लहराते हुए हर लाश चलनी चाहिए।

सिर्फ हंगामा खड़ा करना मेरा मकसद नहीं,
सारी कोशिश है कि ये सूरत बदलनी चाहिए।

मेरे सीने में नहीं तो तेरे सीने में सही,
हो कहीं भी आग, लेकिन आग जलनी चाहिए।

- दुष्यन्त कुमार