The Yardstick For Success...

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The Judge named Success
Is very nit-picky
Disciplining its contenders one by one

With everyone in the rat-race
There are few who make the cut
Some are its favorites - biased towards none

One rule's abidance by all
It DOES NOT Come To You
YOU Go To It



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The Blog-o-sphere for instance
Is a melting pot of success stories
Each a winner in itself

Each has their own interpretation
To their dream montage of success
Each an inspiration of its own

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Ask the 'Blogger Me' in regard
Success is already there for me
Blogging is there for me

With a new journey in tow
I set out in April 2013
I've come a long way through

Whatever I've achieved
Through the means
Seems so little yet so much

Success came steady
To aid me win the race
Realizing along - it's iceberg's tip

Each day - a new journey
Into alleys of Success
Each day - a new step taken



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Success in the Blog-o-sphere
Comes in spurts but
Stays for real long

All I can say is
Success is not one
But many dreams

All I believe is
I have miles to go
Before I sleep

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This post is a part of the WordPress Daily Prompts : 365 Writing Prompts program where the aim is to post at least one post a day based on the day's prompt.

The Prompt for August 25 was a 'Free Prompt' provided to all of us, Guest Authors.

The Prompt is, Secret Of Success - 'What would it take for you to consider yourself a 'Successful Blogger'? Is that something you strive for?'

This is my Nineteenth Post as a guest author to Project 365 : We Post Daily!

Match Fixing Or Mind Fixing ? - Bringing The Nation Shame.....

Our nation's pride is to have won the World Cup Cricket Tournament in 1983 & 2011.

We Indians are so crazy about the game that many take leave from the office to watch the match on television, many take and give stress to themselves and other family members - less interested in the game to watch the match instead of any other program on television. Many waste hard earned money (once kept aside for buying any important article for home) to buy front row tickets in the stadium to watch the match.

       So many efforts and time and what do they watch? Not a real game  but a pre - fixed match where so many moves of the batsmen and the bowlers are manipulated - at times to make their team win and at times to lose - as guided by the BOOKIES.

        Players - few had come in light in the past years, few are in recent days and few will be in future too - but these few are only those who got caught. Many of them are still doing it and couldn't get caught. They have become puppets in the hands of these bookies and should not at all be considered as sports persons.

         Secondly, players now-a-days are after money - whether from match fixing or from commercials or from franchising. They are more interested in after match parties - girls and liquor.Game has become secondary for them. It's passion is gone and it has become the source of gathering money only.

           I wonder after seeing and hearing all this for the last so many years , why do people still go hysterical for this game? Why do they give so much importance to a single sport that all type of misuses have erupted out of it?

          Cricket has become a game of the bookies now and has lost its status of a Gentlemen's Game, sadly. Here instead of players, bookies play the game. Then what do we see? Why do we feel elated when our favorite player makes runs or a bowler takes or perhaps doesn't take a wicket? Why do we feel sad that our hero batsman had a bad day and that is why he got out at duck! Maybe he earned lakhs for doing what he did and hence it was not his bad day (as we presumed ) rather a lucky day which he himself earned.

          So, don't you think that this is MATCH  FIXING for the players & the bookies but MIND  FIXING for the people? Our minds are being manipulated and we are being made fools of to believe what we see. Although the irony is that  'What we see'  is not actually  'What it is'.

            Where is the end to this all? Why are we increasing the shameful acts in each & every field of life? Why are we running after money so blindly?  When will it be that our pride will gain more importance in our life than the worldly pleasures? When are we going to feel CONTENDED?

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Spanning The World And Beyond - Chatting Beyond Boundaries.....

A Great Opportunity - thanks to WeChat With Anyone, Anywhere.

Now I can have those people on chat with whom I always wished to converse - to unfold many mysteries, share many thoughts for the upliftment of my society and myself and have a good time of my life too.

First name --- (I wish I could or any company in the world could do this) --- is GOD whom I want to ask soooooo many questions but Alas!

OK. So now the feasible list :-

1. Guru Nanak Dev ji - Such a simple and pious soul he was - I want to chat with him to get my daily dose of life skills to attain solace and spiritual peace within myself and how to increase empathy among all which is the need of the hour.

2. Siddhartha aka Lord Buddha - Daily chat with him can certainly provide me clues to spread contentment which is required in plenty by the people of our society who are selling their souls to attain perishable amenities.

3. Madame Marie Curie - The ultimate female genius - to share the intellectual thoughts which she utilized to do so many discoveries and I hope can perhaps guide me to do something of that sort in future .She rightly quoted "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

 4. The Iron Man of India - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel - Chatting with him to get useful tips to unite our nation again which is crumbling to pieces thanks to (or certainly not to!) our modern day corrupt politicians who are dividing the nation again into new states to fulfill their infested interests.

5. Birbal - The ultimate combination of  intelligence, diplomacy and wit. I certainly want to share with him various problems haunting our nation and would ask him for the purely logical yet witty solutions which he used to give to Shahanshah Akbar.

6. Stephen Hawking - I salute his strength and willpower to live life so meticulously that millions can derive inspiration to overcome their disabilities and keep on churning their brains to shell out something progressive for the society. I would discuss the new innovations on daily basis on chat.

7. Charles Darwin - The biologist who worked hard and concluded The Survival Of The Fittest in Natural Selection. I want to chat with him and ask him how to conduct more research in today's scenario as all the corrupt ones are surviving well in the society. Are they the Fittest Ones! Should not be or society will crumble under their bad weight.

8. Nelson Mandela - The man who fought for the rights of his society with courage and conviction and succeeded too. Chatting with him shall help me to find solutions to all the existing problems prevalent in our society and nation.

  

9. Tom & Jerry - Now I want some leisure time too. Hey! My sweet, cute Tom & Jerry... Where are you ? I long to see you at the idiot box but you are not in sight. Instead I find Shinchan who is determined on bullying others and resorts to lying to his parents to make a fool of them and other cartoons who use filthy language and pollute the brains of the future generation of our nation. Hence I wish to relive the joyous time of my childhood when witty chases of Tom & Jerry used to give us the hilarious time of the day. I would love to chat with them.

10. Last but not the least - The Invisible Man - Corruption, fights between nations, politics, ego manifestations, economic slowdown due to illegal fraudulence by few crooked brains - all these termites hollowing the world are growing  day by day and not a single solution is in sight. Only an invisible man can stop all this. He must stop all the misdoings of these people then and there. Punishment procured on the spot shall certainly desist these people. While on chat with The Invisible Man, I shall try my best to see that no injustice is being done to anyone.