Excerpt from the Speech given by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis.

"Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth.
If the marble falls, there is no point coming first.
Same with life; where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life.
Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.

One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously.
Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity.
If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years.
And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends.
Do we really need to get so worked up? It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love.

We are people, not programmed devices.

"Don't be serious, be sincere."

Start Enjoying from this very moment................"




"We never work too much. We never work as much as we can ,we never work to the maximum potential. The more we work, the more we are capable of working. The less we work, the less we become capable of working. Life has its own logic. If we work hard we will get more energy. If we don't work at all and we avoid it even the energy that we have will disappear. Whatsoever we want to do, we should do it, and should do it to the optimum. Soon we will see that more and more doors are opening and more energy becomes available. Always try to reach beyond our grasp. That is how one grows. If we always try that which we can do, we will always fall flat on the earth, we will not be growing . Try the impossible and it becomes possible and we don't try possible even the possible becomes impossible."

Beasts Bounding Through Time

Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief
Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town
the impossibility of being human
Burroughs killing his wife with a gun
Mailer stabbing his
the impossibility of being human
Maupassant going mad in a rowboat
Dostoyevsky lined up against a wall to be shot
Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller
the impossibility
Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato
Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun
Lorca murdered in the road by Spanish troops
the impossibility
Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench
Chatterton drinking rat poison
Shakespeare a plagiarist
Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness
the impossibility the impossibility
Nietzsche gone totally mad
the impossibility of being human
all too human
this breathing
in and out
out and in
these punks
these cowards
these champions
these mad dogs of glory
moving this little bit of light toward us
impossibly.

By Charles Bukowski

Amazing... ... i love it!

Here is an excerpt from a poem i really liked it called An Essay On Criticism by Alexander Pope:

But as when an authentic watch is shown,

Each man winds up and rectifies his own...

- Line 9.

One science only will one genius fit:

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

- Line 60.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,

And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

- Line 152.

prudent Chief not always must display

His Pow'rs in equal Ranks, and fair Array,

But with th' Occasion and the Place comply,

Conceal his Force, nay seem sometimes to Fly.

Those oft are Stratagems which Errors seem,

Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream.

- Line 175 - 179.

Part II

Of all the causes which conspire to blind

Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind;

What the weak head with strongest bias rules, —Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

- Line 1.

Trust not your self; but your Defects to know,

use of ev'ry Friend — and ev'ry Foe.

- Lines 13-14.

A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:

There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,

And drinking largely sobers us again.

- Lines 15-18.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,

Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

- Line 53.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed,

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

- Line 97.

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,

Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

- Line 109.

Such labored nothings, in so strange a style,

Amaze th' unlearned, and make the learned smile.

- Line 126.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold,

Alike fantastic if too new or old:

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,

Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

- Line 133.

As some to church repair,Not for the doctrine,

but the music there.

These equal syllables alone require,

Though oft the ear the open vowels tire;

While expletives their feeble aid do join,

And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

- Line 142.

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught

With some unmeaning thing they call a thought,

A needless Alexandrine ends the song,

That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length
along.

- Line 156.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,

As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense;

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

- Line 162.

Yet not let each gay turn thy rapture move;

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

- Line 190.

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then

Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

- Line 212.

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be,

In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me!

But let a lord once own the happy lines,

How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

- Line 218.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night,

But always think the last opinion right.

- Line 230.

Fondly we think we honour

Merit then,When we but praise Our selves in Other Men.

- Lines 254-255.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue,

But like a shadow proves the substance true.

Part ii. Line 266.

Be thou the first true Merit to befriend;

His praise is lost, who stays till All commend.

- Lines 274-275.

All seems Infected that th' Infected spy,

As all looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye.

- Line 358.

Part III

Learn then what morals critics ought to show,

For 'tis but half a judge's task, to know.

- Line 1.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

- Line 6.

Tis not enough your Counsel still be true,

Blunt Truths more Mischief than nice Falsehoods do;

Men must be taught as if you taught them not;

And Things unknown propos'd as

Things forgot.

- Lines 13-16.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,

With loads of learned lumber in his head,

With his own tongue still edifies his ears,

And always list'ning to himself appears.

All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

- Lines 66

But where's the man who counsel can bestow,

Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know?

- Line 72.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view,

The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame,

Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame,

Averse alike to flatter or offend,

Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

- Line 182.