Aren't we tired after a day's work?

During weekends, I used to travel to Mumbai to buy some fruits and fish meat. It is obvious that anyone in Mumbai would travel in a local train(electric train). I noticed a guy in front of me - he was sleeping and he looked so tired. 

A humanitarian would think to wake up this guy. But I am just an ordinary guy who is afraid of the looks of people. I did not wake him up at first, but when the train started moving and when many people came in, this guy woke up and realized that his station has passed. This is what happens when you lose yourself due to tiredness or to some drugs. Every moment in life is important and if we lose that moment, we lose something that is of ours. His belt says "OK" but he really isn't.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. - Newt Gingrich

Rusted!

It is not a good sight to see the fences of great buildings getting rusted due to improper maintenance or due to lack of funding(only the structures maintained by Government). The following is one such kind from one of the palaces in Maharashtra.

If you rest, you rust - Helen Hayes

"Ancestors" - We just know them through text books!

Whatever we are now is because of our ancestors. They invented lots and lots of things and we are the one who manipulated their inventions and bragging about our advancement in technology.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children - Wilfred Laurier

Everything they have done, is for our welfare and for our future. They did not expect anything as we do in our life. Their expectations are negligible.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers - Roh Moo-hyun

One must follow the trend of our ancestors, since they have invented things and at least we can innovate. I am not saying that we didn't improve. But we are not following the correct path to future of mankind. One day, the Earth would be destroyed - not because of natural disasters but because of Humans(Ourselves).

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom? ― Amin Maalouf

Labor equals or not equals Money?

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity - Thomas Marten

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing - Theodore Roosevelt

Enchanting Ellora

The Ellora caves, locally known as ‘Verul Leni’ is located on the Aurangabad-Chalisgaon road at a distance of 30 km north-northwest of Aurangabad, the district headquarters. The name Ellora itself inspires everyone as it represents one of the largest rock-hewn monastic-temple complexes in the entire world. Ellora is also world famous for the largest single monolithic excavation in the world, the great Kailasa (Cave 16). The visit to these caves is enjoyed maximum during monsoon, when every stream is filled with rainwater, and the entire environ is lush green. The monsoon is not only a season of rains in this part, the local visitors are attracted to visit these ideal locations to have a glimpse of the mother nature in full bloom.

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves - Arthur Ganson

So another ride happened...had a stomach load of BBQ Nation delicacies. I started at around 1.30pm towards Ghoti. My first pit-stop at Kasara Ghats for about less than 10 minutes. Then I began chasing the roads toward Ghoti, where I took an en-route to Aurangabad via Sinnar. Till Sinnar the road was in 'Not Bad' condition. However once I took the road to Kopergaon, the road worsened..it was like a river basin with huge potholes.. This continued till 70+ kms. I have to air up the tyres...Then the road to Vaijapur started, which is again in similar condition but not as worse as the Kopergaon road. 

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one - Bob Parsons

It was getting dark and I played catch-up to the rain which was running away from me. Its a beautiful sight to only on flat planes you could get to see this. Soon I got caught into it - huge massive cold drops like icy daggers piercing me. This continued for 50 odd kms till Aurangabad, where I found a pretty old hotel(Hotel Ellora), nice food and surprised by the Cemetery view from the Hotel window. Had nice sleep. Its morning (2nd Day), I started towards Ellora. The road to ellora was just awesome and I did not reduce the speed till I reached ellora. I spent about 2 hours at Ellora, which is more than the time that I had decided. Had nice Aloo paratha in canteen, which is the best aloo paratha that I ate till now (may be I was starving, who cares!).

A struggling life of fishermen

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray. 

At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.

But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward - Terence McKenna.