“Smartness Guide for Intelligent Dummies” - Confession of a Honest Soul

       My very first realization after entering the real world (post my graduation) was that I have very little knowledge about the real world. For a very long time I lived with the pride of knowing more than my peers, being more honest, being sincere etc only to discover it means nothing without the knowledge of what life really is and how to deal with the people (mostly jackasses) and conduct yourself amongst them.

       Imagine my plight when I came to know that all these years of efforts, all this bookish knowledge, all these qualities which I was so proud of had zero value in "the real world"; my world came crashing down. Since then I have been a combination of humility, under confidence and openness to taking others opinions and advise seriously. My brain had become a "mandir ka ghanta" which anyone and everyone would come and "bajao".

       Years and years of observations, experiences and lessons learned by burning my finger, hands, heart and soul I came to a conclusion that these so called "know it all" people who I have been listening to and taking their every word as an advise know very little (even lesser than me), worst thing is that what they know isn't even right but the level of confidence (read stupidity) with which they believe in it is absolutely hilarious.

       It’s a great journey of self-discovery so far and I hope rather I know it'll continue. Now I do listen to all but today I have the wisdom to figure out what to imbibe and what to consider as a joke and laugh at.

       It's a journey from being a intelligent person to being a smart ass without losing the intelligence (more important without losing your real identity).

Eyes of beholders see perception not reflection

       Any form of art can't be judged or graded. It's funny when people discuss how good or bad any artistic piece of work or performance is. I just don't get it how does one grade it; what are the parameters?

       From where I see when an Artist judges his/her artform on the basis of others opinions, somewhere down the line they insult their own passion for their work. One should do what they want, the way they want with utmost passion irrespective of what anyone feels about it. The quality of work has nothing to do with the audiences’ likes or dislikes; who are the audiences to judge an artform? Who gave them the right? What makes them capable of giving the verdict? They offcourse have a right to express their opinions but it’s foolish to take that as the final verdict.

       Cheers to all the artists and creative people who fill their hearts, their lives and the world with such beauty; can't imagine a world without creativity, everything would be so clinical without you beautiful beautiful minds