Risking It

There is as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. Just because something is going to end badly doesn't mean you cant enjoy the ride. I think we don't have analyze everything all the time, sometimes we could just let it be!

Most of us are too afraid to do much in life because we believe that the odds are not looking that great. But how will we ever know for sure unless we let go of the fears and embrace them?

I have met some people in life with whom I knew I wasn't going to get anywhere but it was nice knowing them. I have done some things which failed to give me the desired results but it was worth the experience.

I don't want to live with the "what if's" in life. What if I had gone out with friends that night? What if I had took this photograph from that angle? What if I had experimented with cooking? What if I had asked him out? Fine. I will crash and burn, and then get up and do it differently but I WILL do it.

I am not implying that we should not learn from our mistakes and keep taking the most absurd risks but just because you didn't get what you wanted one time doesn't mean you are never going to touch that subject again. Just don't do what isn't working.

I cant just sit here and not try out playing battleship again just because I lost last night. I dont want to not stop speaking my mind because I was shunned one time. I wont stop believing in love just because I had been hurt before. I am going to learn and do what works for me, without being afraid of the consequences. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life, people.

Twenty years from now we will be more disappointed by the things that we didn't do than by the ones we did. So throw off the ties. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Life is not as bad as it seems.

Life Is Funny 12

Since these are becoming increasingly popular, I have created a separate tab in the menu bar above-- if you'd like to read more funny quotes.

*real incidents and quote from the crazy little thing called life.. enjoy :-)*


Laura: I have a cold and I am not happy about it at all
Amy: Yeah, I know... I am just recovering from a cold
Laura: Was it a bad one?
Amy: Yes, a very bad one.
Laura: You shouldn't be surprised, you live with a germ incubator.... a.k.a a small child
-Mothers at work


Amy: So are you going to buy the iPhone or the iTouch?
Jeff: No, no, I am talking about the iphone. I--Touch... that is just inappropriate
-the new iphone craze gets to the older generation


Emily coming out of the shower, looking flustered...
Emily: If it rains outside today, I cant go out.
Raaji: Why?
Emily: This is the first shower after last night's haircut and I forgot my hair are short now and I think I might have over done the shampoo and there is a big chance my hair will foam up if I go out in the rain.
-she doesn't do well with change.

"Coordinating limbs in a limited amount of time is not my thing"
-Rishav, refusing to dance

Isaaq enters class, clearly drunk, walks up to the professor and says,
Prof! I am so f*king Hammered!
*goes and takes a seat*

*dead silence follows*
-explains why they tell you its ok to skip class on house party weekend

Raaji (to the coffee machine): "stop making noises!"
Couple in the next room over: "sorry!"

"Do not incorporate additional material from outside of our course, including Wikipedia,
your mom, the Pope, or anything God has told you personally."
-Religious Studies Professor, on extraneous inspiration


Mike: Mike is getting fat because Mike eats a lot of ice-cream
Raaji: No, Mike is getting fat because he is married now and he doesn't have to worry about it anymore.
-Just keepin' it real

Realizing the friend was sleeping before I called,
"No sweetie, I will talk to you later. You don't function well while you are sleeping"
-explaining the basics

Denial

"Wilson: How is everything going?
Cuddy: Everything is fine. *Pauses*. Yeah, everything is fine with me kissing House.
*Pauses*
Cuddy: Its not big deal. I was feeling vulnerable. He is a friend... and I leaned on him.
Wilson: Its funny. I have leaned on friends in the past. Never leaned on friends in such a way that my tongue fell into their mouth.
Cuddy: I dont think of House that way, I never have.

Wilson: Why not?

Cuddy: You know exactly how it would go. It'd start off exciting. We'd get caught up in novelty and the hostility and the forbiddeness. And then we'd realize that the flirty hostility is just hostility and his inability to open up is no longer exciting, it's just frustating. And...and then it's the inevitable blowup and the recriminations and we don't talk for two months.

Wilson: Yeah. Well, it certainly proves you've never thought about House that way."

--The Itch, House M.D

Making Mistakes

Here's the thing about mistakes. Sometimes, even when you know something's a mistake, you gotta make it anyway.

Sometimes you have to touch that hot plate even though you know it will burn your hand. Sometimes you have to get a hair color or a hair cut we know will look awful, but you get it. Sometimes you have to taste the disgusting food to make it better the next time you cook. Sometimes you have to forget your purse in a restaurant so you can learn to be less forgetful the next time. Sometimes you have fall for the wrong person in order to find the right person for yourself.

Sometimes you have to make the mistake in order to avoid making it the next time around. A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Someone gave a very good analogy: What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, don’t you? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

You know, there are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake but you don't really know it's a mistake because the only way to know that it really is a mistake is to make that mistake and go, "Yup, that was a mistake". So really, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake because then you'll go about your whole life not knowing whether it was a mistake or not. Got it?


Inspired by: How I Met Your Mother :-)

Cat, n.- small mammal with an attitude problem.

I can never decide if I am a cat person or a dog person. I grew up with all sorts of dogs (currently living with two big Labradors) but my sister happens to like cats and currently my family is proud owner of a beautiful 9 month old tabby cat named Phoebe. No scratch that, I have learned from experience that you can never own a cat. You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. Here’s how:
(if you have any experience with cats, you will know what I am talking about)

Dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you. If the cat is not in the mood to come play with you, no matter what you do, she will not come and play with you. Live with it. For someone to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. She is best at it.

I have learned that one should never let the cat sleep in your own bed. Cats are fond of sleep, and when they are in your bed, they will gladly share it with you but know that you will only be given the edge.

A cat does what she wants to do and there is no stopping her when she wants to do something. In a cat's eye, all things belong to her. The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. Sometimes I look at Phoebe and realize that down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats just have the courage to live by them.

This time I went home and my mother announced a new rule regarding Phoebe: Never feed your cat anything that doesn't match the color of your carpet.

The most amazing thing about a cat is that she can drive you nuts with her attitude and then can purr her way out of anything. I have yet to find a person who can stay mad at cats for long if she starts purring. And a cat knows that. Phoebe only has one rule for herself: When in trouble, just purr and look cute.

I keep Phoebe in my room at night when I want to wake up early the next morning. There is no better alarm clock than her. There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast, because cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

If you have a cat or access to a cat, I would suggest you look closely. The smallest feline, ladies and gentleman, is a masterpiece.