What's up with my life

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Long time since I updated you people about my life. For starters moved to my new place which is quite nice and joined my new division which also has a lot of nice people.

Also played a little bit of soccer and scored a goal with my first touch ad got a bad injury in the next. Funny part is I've played a zillion hours of street soccer, practice etc. etc. without any form of protective gear. Then my dad advices me in the morning to wear a shin guard and I in all my cockiness don't and bang, a very robust looking gentleman plants his studs into my ankle and my ankle swelled up like a balloon which meant a painful few days and losing the ability to kick hard with my right foot.

We unfortunately didn't qualify for the next round partly because Andy and I did not play the last match simply because we had just joined our new department. Second time ever in my life that I could not play soccer because of some other commitment. Both times were matches for ITC which we lost. Felt realllllly bad.

Also celebrated my nephew's first birthday. The little guy was a little sick and so stuck to my dad like a leech. He did love my gifts. One was a monster truck with a construction kit and the other was a mini basketball set. Kids of the Rao family learn to play football before they start walking. This guy has already started kicking a little football, made his first hoop or slam dunk (don't really understand bball) and had a cake shaped like a cricket field.

BTW felt homesick a few days back for the first time in ages. Can't really figure out why.

Luv,

P.R.

Life means more than this

I stepped out of the Subway at Elgin Road to receive a call and then made a few. There is this table just outside where a family was sitting. The kid was about a year and a half and his father was playing with him when a kid around 12 years old, peddling some Chewing gum walked up to them.

From my position I could see the contrast between the kid dressed in dirty clothes who asked us to buy chewing gum to feed his little brother (or so he said) and on the other side was this kid who was well dressed and taken care of by his parents.

It was at that moment when I felt a strange kind of guilt. God was kind enough to give me a childhood which gave me everything I needed to live in comfort and opportunity to do whatever I want in my life.

Years back I promised myself that I would help those who were less fortunate than me. Years later I haven't really done much.

BTW I did buy the gum. I spent Rs. 10 to appease my guilt. After which I bought a Rs. 200 ticket and snacks and laughed my head off to a nice movie.

- Pranay

The meaning of my life

Life waited as I gathered my thoughts,
Static I was as the moments passed by.
Thunder greeted me as I looked heavenwards,
My senses tingled as I felt the raindrop from the sky.

My heartbeat slowed down, the mist enveloped me,
The moment was mine to live, mine to share.
Nothing mattered, not the rain, nor the sunset glow,
Life was mine to live, without a worry, without a care.

The world seemed different, distant yet very close.
As I had transcended to a state of absolute peace.
Each raindrop shattered the silence around me.
I clasped my hands and fell to my knees.

Guidance I wanted, guidance to walk the path.
Guidance to help me read, to understand the signs.
Guidance to tell me what was my existence all about,
Guidance to tell me what was I for and what was mine.

Then the truth dawned upon me, in a trickle of raindrops.
It was my existence in a world full of love and endless strife,
Which would temper me, teach me, prepare me;
For the moment when I would know the meaning of my life.

- Pranay