On "40th Birthday"

Age 40 is a milestone in anyone's life. Five questions are very important at that milestone:

1. Are you earning livelihood of your choice (Your career).
2. Are you married to a person you like.
3. Is your lifestyle in synchrony with your beliefs/values.
4. Are you living in a city of your choice.
5. Beside your daily job, do you have at least one hobby which makes you happy.

People who love Kids

Woh sakhs bura kese ho sakta hai jis se bachhe mohabbat kerte hon!

Curse

(After one true incident)

And he got a third-degree burn while celebrating his 4th marriage. 
Was it a curse?

Payoffs

Be nice to kids in younghood to avoid embarrassment in the old hood.

Psychology and Economics.

Aurat ko uski 'Nafsiyat' aur mard ko uski 'Muashiaat' ke saath jine do.

(Let a woman live with her 'Psychology' and a man with his 'Economics')

On "psychotic perception"

Is it true that "Pagals" (as labeled by us) - like people with schizophrenia, psychotics, epileptics, and mental people do appreciate other people's aura better and can see hidden evil better?

Age 17

We all face the dilemma of choosing our career path at age 17. 

Please teach our kids: "Money will follow the labor of love."

A Fine Balance

Philosophy's path starts from optimism and ends in despair (as happened to Voltaire) 

and 

Religion's path arises from hopelessness and leads to hopefulness 

- But

an ordinary man's life runs somewhere between these two

A Fine Balance

Mard ke dil ka Ra'sta

Aurat ye kiun bhool jaati hai ke mard ke dil ka raasta, us ki Ma' ke dil se ho ke jaata hai!!
.

5 AM

Is it true that around 5 A.M - man is most near his inner self and cosmos? Answers and peaceful solutions to difficult situations in life come at this time. Didn't Grandma say:

Early to bed, early to rise

It makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise

Not wisely but too well;

(Do all lovers have the same tragedy as Othello said:)

Of one that loved not wisely but too well; 

Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought 

Perplex'd in the extreme;.......

On 'Engagement Ring'

"I lost my engagement ring. I have been looking for it for the last three days."

"It's Ok. You haven't lost your engagement."

"Oh! You don't know my fiance - if he knows I have lost that expensive engagement ring, he may leave me."

"Hmmm.. then you better not find your engagement ring!"

Stars and Travel

Kiya aik safar ker lene se SitaroN ki gardish mit jaati hai
Kiya muqa'm badalne se TaqdeeraiN badal jaati haiN

-(Jesa ke Rabindranath Tagore ke saath huwa)

Et tu, Brute!

Though Caesar was shocked when Brutus stabbed him though Antony explained his deed:

This was the noblest Roman of them all:

All the conspirators save only he

Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;

He only, in a general honest thought

And common good to all, made one of them.

His life was gentle, and the elements

So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up

And say to all the world 'This was a man!'

Debate may never end - was Brutus right or wrong? But it tells us that truth is very relative, and that's what drives and carves the babel of human history.

Getting old

Nature wants us to get old before dying, so we die with some humility in our hearts.

Split Sociality

Have you ever seen someone very nice to you at 'place A' but altogether refuse to acknowledge you at 'place B'?

Should I call it 'Calculated Sociality' or 'Split Sociality'?

Let them go

Probably the most challenging part for parents is to let their kids GO, but as Khalil Jibran said: "They are not your but children of time." Trust them and let them learn their lessons in the ocean of life. Just pray for them.

Ritualist

She said: "I am very religious."

"Is it so?"

"I perform all rituals of my faith every day."

"Oh! So you are a Ritualist. Being Religious is so personal, deep, and buried that no one should see it."

New model of a car

Never buy a new model of the car early in the season unless you have no issue with frequent recalls.

Update: The car was Lexus RX-350. It gave me a lot of headaches and frequent repair issues and cost me a lot more money than its worth. Finally, I sold it and bought two cheaper cars! - Toytota RAV-4 and Hyundai Accent. Knock on wood for seven years!

Nice?

Is he nice or weak?