Life Changes

Life changes every minute of every day... 

you lose friends and you gain friends...

You realize your friend wasn't ever really your friend... and that person you used to hate can  make a really good friend.

You look for love, you find love and you lose love..

you realize all along that you've been loved. you laugh, you cry, you laugh so hard that you cry..

you do this, you do that....you really wish you hadn't done that.... you then learn from that and are glad that you did..

you have your ups... you have your downs... you see good movies.... you see bad movies... you wonder if your life is just one big movie...

you look at others and wish you were them... you then realize who they are and are glad that you're you...

you love life.... you hate life... in the end you just find yourself happy to be living life..no matter whats thrown at you...

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I Wish

This is not written by me. But by Rya. After i read it i decided to put it into the book. After ashima's boy friend leaves her and goes away.

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Wish, someday you could see
The silent tear in the corner of my eyes

Wish someday you would notice

The pain in my eyes, sparkling with joy

The pain thats inside of me

Wish someday you could see.

Wish someday you could hear

The way i cry out at nights

When people think i am fast asleep

I am so wide awake

Wish someday you could see

What meant nothing to you

Meant a hell lot to me.

Wish someday you would come

And see what i dream when i am asleep

You would be surprised to see

I am still there where you left me.

Wish someday you would know

I still think of your voice

And smile to myself and cry

No, i don't have the strength

To think of those days, over again.

What you said you forgot

What i said i kept it sacred

Of all the lies that you said

"i love you", was my favourite.

I know what were the best times of my life,

Where just another three months to you.

I know the words, you didn't mean them

But yet i thought them to be true.

I knew for sure, that we were not for ever

We had talked it through

But i wish someday you would look back

And see what i felt for you.

No, its not love, for sure

Give it some other name

Call it anything you want

But it will still hurt the same

But whatever it is, it hurts

maybe it will not in a few months' time

But i just want a few questions answered

I seek no love in return, no sympathy

Just answer me what i was for you?

I wish someday you could feel how

I had learnt to accept your departure as fate

But you came back, yet again for a few days

What did that mean to you?

Look at me, see what i've become...

Undo my pain... Can you? No, you can't.

So answer me face to face.

I wish some day you do.

All said and done, i remind myself too.

A wish is a wish & doesn't come true. 

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Welcome Speech @ JVM Shyamali

written by me, delivered by amit...

Good morning!

I, Amit Sarkar, the school head boy, am really privileged to have the pleasant task of welcoming the distinguished gathering, today, here at jawahar vidya mandir, shyamali. I deem it an honor to stand before you today and welcome you to this amazing diversifying community.

I remember clearly, it was 17^th june last year, that I was one amongst you, sitting in a group of 700 and having feelings and expressions similar to what I see on your faces now. If you are anything like I was when I started, you are sitting there feeling a million different emotions and asking yourself a million different questions.

“Did I make the right choice?”

“Is this worth the sacrifices I have made to get here?”

In fact, I can assure each and every one of you that you are here because you deserve to be, and because you can bring something new and exciting to this diverse and vibrant learning community. So welcome!

Indeed, Robert frost, truly said:

Two roads diverge in a yellow wood,

And I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference...

I imagine some of you are just like me in that you have arrived knowing exactly what you want to study and intend to stay focused. I think that’s great. But I also encourage you to be open to new ideas, experiences, and directions. You are learning from the greatest in the field and with the best and the brightest surrounding you, and will undoubtedly be challenged to think about new topics or view old topics in new ways. You never know when something might pique your interest.

I came to JVM expecting an education. I will leave with so much more. I reckon the same will be true for you. The community of friends and colleagues you will find here is like no other. Everyday I learn from my teachers and my peers and feel supported by an amazing group of mentors and colleagues.

And if life throws you a curveball, the entire jvm community will rally around you to offer support and guidance. Like the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts, the jvm family appears when you need it and remains in the background, though always present, when you don’t. Not once have I felt I was alone while I was here.

Look around you. The people sitting in this room¹ will be your friends, your colleagues, and perhaps most importantly, your peers. Don’t hesitate to call upon them when you need to — personally or professionally. They will be your best source of support and they will help you make the most of your experience here. I guarantee,  there will be times when you wonder why you’re here (I still have those days); that’s natural. But the people on this campus will be there to remind you of the reasons. The relationships you develop here with the faculty, staff, and students will also help you build your career. You are all here because you want to become the movers and shakers of the future. I urge you to make this happen by meeting new people, tapping into new resources, and joining the jvm community open heartedly. The benefits will follow you forever.

Thrilled with joy and excitement, a bit of nervousness, we all find ourselves in a state of dilemma what is to be done and what not. But as you start studying, gradually, with the blessings, support and cooperation of our teachers, learning is easy and relishing challenges ought to come on the fate of going ahead. To face them properly and surmount them finally should be our strategy, as overcoming challenges we get a new dimension which gives ultimate satisfaction. In fact, it shows us a new direction like a preacher of multifarious opportunities to go forward. The overwhelming support and encouragement instills in us a spirit of enthusiasm to reach our goals, accomplish our task and above all believe in ourselves. A sublimated education gives sufficient freedom where the spirit of enquiry remains scintillating. The meanings of things lie not in the things themselves. But in our attitude towards them.

It is an appeal that we make to our young charges today. Help yourselves! Make the most of the fantastic educational opportunities that you have. Throw as much paint as you can on to the canvas of your education this year. If you can do that, then one day, you will be in a position to respond to the pleas of others who may need your help!

“HELP”  Four letters that mean so much. You must help yourselves so that ultimately you can help others. Each young lady and gentleman here today, in their own way, will need to help. You will need to help yourselves. You will need to help us. You will need to help your family. You will need to help the environment. You will need to make sense of the world when sense and reason go missing. You will need to help solve problems through innovation and invention. And, you will need to help turn indifference into motivated, helpful action

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Finish each day and be finished with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old mistakes.

I conclude by offering you some simple advice for how to make the best of your experience here at jvm. Share your knowledge and skills; don’t keep them to yourself. Challenge yourself and your peers on a daily basis. Embrace and respect one another’s passions for education, communities, policy, and practice. Absorb everything. And above all, enjoy what you do!

As a boy of 11, Harry Potter was told he had the power to change the lives of all individuals in the wizarding community. You, too, have the power to change your life and other’s too — the lives of students, faculty, and staff in the public education system. And we all look forward to doing this with you!  

Once again we welcome you all……

Best of luck to each and every one of you!

Thank you.

Letter to Bapu from Generation Next- Chetan Bhagat

Dear Gandhiji,

You left us 62 years ago. If you were still around, you would have been 140 years old. However, we have not forgotten you. You are on every banknote and most stamps. There are many statues of you. Prestigious roads in almost every city are named after you. Our politicians try to model themselves on you. They wear the fabric you promoted, they quote you at every instance, they've got a photograph of you in their office and some even eat and live like you. There are books, TV programmes and movies about you. Seriously, you'd be impressed at how much we still adore you.

However, there are things that won't make you feel proud. The India you spent all your life making free, is far from free. True, the white guys are gone. But there are still millions of poor people. In 60 years, we are still among the poorest nations on earth. This lack of money leads to a lot of problems in healthcare, infrastructure and education. In education, for instance, many children still don't go to a good school. Those who do, don't get into good colleges. And those who go to college, don't get good jobs. We need to get rich, and fast. Not only to make more schools and colleges, but also because most Indian problems are linked to lack of money. Yet, it is considered un-Indian to think that way. The young generation, which thinks like that, is considered materialistic and greedy. The older generation takes the moral high ground - slowness in work is termed patience, non-stop discussion and no action is called careful consideration and lack of improvement in standards of living is countered with claims about the need to live with austerity. And yes, in many cases politicians who speak like this claim to be your fanboys.

The younger generation wishes you could come down for one day and clarify these points. Is progress un-Indian? Is change bad? Is a desire to see my country as rich as some other nations materialistic? Is getting things done fast impatience? If you blessed our purpose of making a developed India, the job would become so much easier.

The young generation needs you down here for something else too. We have a new battle here, just like the one you fought with the British. The enemy is not so clear like it was in your case - the white people. Our enemy is the old school of thought, or rather the people who defend the old school of thought. They do this in the name of antique Indian policies, culture and values. You could help identify this enemy more clearly. Many people who are at the helm of affairs now have served India for decades, maybe with good intentions. But obviously, they don't want to accept they screwed up. We wish they would though and we'd have a national day of shame. It won't be easy, but from there we can make a new beginning. But they won't, for they are in power. And to defend themselves and their ways, they don't mind crushing the aspirations, ideas and talent of an entire generation.

Yes, there is a lot of talk of India being a young nation and youth power. However, youth power is the biggest myth going around India right now. Of course, youth has spending power - we can buy enough SIM cards, sneakers and fizzy drinks to keep many MNCs in business. But we do not have the power to change things. Can the youth get a new college opened? Can the youth ask the government to give tax incentives to MNCs to relocate jobs to smaller towns? No way. We are wooed, used but seldom heard. If you came down, you could unite us. You used religious festivals as social events and propagated your cause. You understood that people need entertainment to bind them. Perhaps, we could integrate colleges in the same way, link all colleges - maybe for their annual festivals - and the message of change could be channelled through them. We have amazing technology such as the Internet now.

You would use it so well. If the youth unites, there could actually be youth power.

With our purpose blessed, enemy identified and youth united - we could take the first steps towards the new Indian revolution. After all, China had one, and only after that, did they get on the path of true progress.

But if it is not feasible for you to come back, we'll have to try to bring about change ourselves. If we can be inspired to do that, we can say we have not forgotten you and understand the meaning of your birthday. We hope you had a good one up there!

Lots of love,
the younger generation
(also known as Youngistan, Gen X, Gen Next and Gen Y depending on the brand you're talking about)