Rejuvination

The past few months have been quite hard and stressful for me personally. Things have not gone the way i would have liked them to go. I could look back and tell my self "You know it was coming" but somewhere i chose to ignore it in the hope that things would work out.. Nonetheless life is full of crazy surprises and painful decisions but it has to go on RIGHT!!

Post the mid year trauma and me trying (and i still am) to get my head right i chose to do something for my self. Something that i had postponed and postponed and postponed ever since I landed here. Something that has captivated me & my imagination ever since i was a 4 year old child. Something that gives you the experience that no man can actually pen down in simple words. Something that in the true sense is out of this world...

I chose to FINALLY learn “SCUBA”. Earlier this year saw Dubai empty out for a week long Eid vacation. While the rest of the world was relaxing and flying of to destinations. I chose to suit up and dive down to the depths of the Arabian Gulf.

The PADI Open water course is a 5 day programme and then you’re a certified diver anywhere across the world. An overnight read up of the material 2 classroom sessions and I was of into my first pool dive.

The feeling is strange the weight on your body is much more than it seems. The air you breathe is difficult to comprehend at first. But once that last ripple of water covers your head and your eyes open your mind goes into a calm surrender, every breathe of air is loud and clear your worries melt away in the calmness…. Imagine the sensation while actually swimming through this world in the open seas.

As a part of the course you need to 4 pool dives. Each dive helps you put into practice various skills that you have learnt about and studied in the classroom sessions. And its very important you do them once or twice so that when you out there they come naturally to you….

Enough of the learning I wanted to out there into the open sea and I got my chance…

As I strapped my self, put on my mask and sat at the edge of that boat.. my head ran through all the rules but heart beat fast not with fear but with excitement and a bit of anxiety. I felt like a 2 year old boy getting his first present something that he wanted for himself… A hand on my mask and another around my weight belt and quick back roll and I entered a world that I can only describe one that can leave every one speachless… as the cold water engulfs you and with each meter you descend a new layer of life begins to unfold your mind body and soul are lost in your surroundings, what are the troubles that I had what were the heart brakes, what was the pain.. I forgot everything… I was like a baby ready to be born again... Ready to smile again... … This is where I want to be this is what I want for myself.. This is how I want to rejuvenate my life…

I know every dive will end and the burden of life will crawl back on these shoulders every time I undo my harness but I know that there is another time and another place where for those 45-50 min I shall relive my life I shall be rejuvenated.

Things so simple yet true ...... Murphy's Law

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner.

Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way.

Long for you Forever...

Beautiful eyes, beautiful face,
I'm shy to talk to you.
You're the eagle I must watch
No matter what I do.
You're the beauty, wild and free,
The mistress of my eyes,
Rolling through exultant air,
Alone in pristine skies.

I would take you for my own
Could I but have your wings,
Could I but go where night begins
And frozen sunlight sings.

Could I but have you for my love,
How might we fly together!
But I must watch you from below
And long for you forever.
But I must be the one below
And long for you forever.

Love.....

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived".

[William Parrish] from the movie, Meet Joe Black (1998)