The chime of rhyme

Santhanam is one of the comedy actors in tamil film industry. He is just too good with his dialogues and his dialogue delivery. He comes up with a counter statement for every simple statement and that is what adds comedy to the situations. He has a great presence of mind because of which his sense of humour impresses everyone. While watching his comedy I observed that he brings about rhyming words to make the dialogues more easy to repeat and remember.

 

Then I went back to my old childhood days when I used to learn poems, all of them rhymed at the end of every line. Rhyming has in fact been used to elevate the readability and the beauty of poems and songs in numerous occasions. That's why I named this blog as 'the chime of rhyme'. Chime is a kind of instrument that brings about sound that's quite persistent in our ears even after the source has stopped producing it. Similarly whatever rhymes also persists in our memory easily for a longer period of time. A very simple example is right in front of you in the title of the blog. Both the words 'chime' and 'rhyme' rhyme with each other and hence their combination serves as a worthy title. You might have even observed that some of the greatest statements told by successful people have rhyming words in them at the end of their lines. Rhyming just adds beauty wherever it is used aptly.

 

Try to incorporate rhyming style of writing in your articles as well. In fact the search or the thinking involved in finding the most suitable words which rhyme and still maintain consistency with the meaning is a bit difficult process but as time goes by and experience builds every word of yours shall seem soothing and enjoyable to the listener's ears. Please feel free to share your opinions on

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Thons not thorns

Marathons, triathlons, walkathons, cyclothons and other different types of thons are frequenting our daily news more and more nowadays. Some happen as a competition while some happen for a cause. These different thons test the physical strength of people. They provide physical exercise for people who participate in such a cause just for the sake of participation to serve the cause.

 

Such thons attract and gather large numbe of audience at a single place at a single time. They help strangers exchange their experiences and to know each other. Some of them are good fun to celebrate. Some of these thons have become regular habit of few people who have taken the decision to regularly participate in such thons. No more does a walk or a run for 5-10 kms sound as something that gives thorns to your legs. It becomes an enjoyable experience when done in a crowd. Even bigger advantage of such thons is that they bring about an awareness in people watching them because of the large number of people supporting the cause. Thons also differ in their schedule, time of conduction, place of origin and the challenges involved. Irrespective of these variations they are the best ways to bring about mass participants to participate in a single type of an event.

 

These thons have made the thorns of physical stress sound very negligible or probably seem unnoticeable in front of all the benefits that they provide. If you get any chance to participate in any of these thons that you come to know, do go ahead and enjoy them. As you know, experience cannot be explained. Do let me know if this blog was helpful to you on is.mohanbn@gmail.com

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Be natural not artificial

'Act natural' is one of the most common phrases that we hear during the movie shootings. Act itself symbolises the action to be an artificial one. Being natural is far from trying to act natural. When we take time to prepare then whatever comes out of us is artificial, when we speak or do stuff in the natural flow of things then all that comes out is natural.

 

We are the most natural with ourselves. With all other people around us, I think we most of the times put up an artificial presentation. Whenever someone questions us about something that we don't know, we would not want to immediately accept that we do not know. We want to show off that we know something else or the reason that we don't know what we were asked. The reason is because we tend to feel that the opposite person might undermine us if we directly declare that we don't know the answer for the question that s/he has asked. To maintain one's own prestige that is completely invisible, we pretened to give an answer that doesn't accept our unawareness or ignorance or negligence.

 

 

All that we make up to protect our own image just shatter when we are in front of a person who has surpassed such stages of life. When the highest truth of life is itself to be as you are, there is no point in trying to project an artificial image of ours that's not tangible. That which comes out without our thinking is what we are feeling at that moment and that's being completely natural. Do share about what you feel on is.mohanbn@gmail.com

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Admiration to aspiration

There are those worthy individuals whom we come across in life many a times who just carry their aura and influence us to admire them and their qualities. It would have taken a lot of hardwork and efforts behind building such a wonderful talent or skillset or success by such blessed souls. All that we have for such amazing people is a whole lot of admiration.

 

So what's the next step after admiration? Everyone of us admires those successful people who have made it big in the fields we are passionate about. When everyone admires that success or calibre, why doesn't everyone develop and achieve the same? The reason is here. They either consider that it was the fate that took the person to the pinnacle of success or it was the favourable circumstances that made it happen or the last option is of giving credit by saying that the person really worked hard to get what s/he deserved. I just believe it that if you admire you need to aspire for it. The natural reason you admired something shall be because your heart loves it and your mind likes it and hence it's natural that you need to develop it.

 

Successful people also have learnt some of the best lessons from other successful people. Hence it's no copying, if you develop an aspiration to become like someone. You shall reach that pinnacle of success through a different way and shall be admired for it by others who shall look upto you in the future. Make sure you start converting every admiration of yours into an aspiration so that you get lost in admiring yourself. You can share your admirations and aspirations on is.mohanbn@gmail.com
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Appreciate, if not at least acknowledge

It was just 2 days ago while I was conversing with my younger brother who is studying in 8th std, he was sharing about some experience of his in the cricket field. I just took the liberty of pulling his leg and made a comical reply for every statement of his. This went on for 4-5 dialogues between us. I was pulling his leg with every statement and finally he lost patience I think. He just said that he feels like bashing those people who counter every statement of ours at times. That statement was just a tight slap on my face and that too from a kid who is 13 years younger to me. Can't help! I had to learn another lesson of my life.

 

Even you would have been in such situations where in there is a counter statement by the person talking to you to whatever you say. Often such counter statements are funny, ridiculous and attempts to laugh at you. Probably we might have been in the other position also like myself in the case with my brother. We might have been those people who made fun with everything that a person told us. It seems funny and witty to do away with such antics. When taken sportively by both the sides, it might not harm much immediately but in the long run it sets in a cold feeling between the two of them. No one is perfect enough to remain perfect all the time or make perfect statements all the time. So, it doesn't mean that we have to laugh at the imperfection of someone else. It's just like throwing stones at someone while we are in a glass house.

 

It's important to appreciate people for what they share so that it builds their confidence and trust in you so that they can share more. Even if you can't appreciate just acknoweldge whatever the other person is sharing with a smile or nod else the frustration might build to such an extent that it gets converted into a negative action. Feel free to share your views on is.mohanbn@gmail.com

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All of us need an approval

While I was working out in the gym this morning, I had planned to work out double muscle. For past 2 weeks I was just working out on one muscle per day. I felt that it didn't give the required growth to my muscles and hence I shifted to double muscle workout a day. However it was my own decision to change the workout style. But at the end of my workout, I went and told what I was doing to my trainer although he hadn't recommended any. When I spotted this scene in my mind, I went back to all those occasions in gym when I used to perform my workouts and go and report about them to my trainer though he hadn't advised any of it. All I needed was an approval from him as I consider him a professional in the field of bodybuilding. I just wanted to make sure to myself that what I was doing was correct and hence needed an approval from an expert.

 

The same happens with all of us a lot of times. We work on lot of stuff on our own. Sometimes we are guided by others while sometimes we do things on our own. Whenever we perform things on our own, though we have learnt the same from some book or someone's experience, we tend to have a feeling to get it certified by someone who has the expertise in the field we are working in. I am sure that you remember those instances during your childhood when you used to write a page of alphabets or draw a simple picture on a paper and show it to your parents, friends only with an anticipation to get their approval that you had done it right. Be it at home or work, everywhere we need someone to approve of what we are doing. Else it just feels that we might not be completely right though we would have done our best. Hence I say that 'all of us need an approval'. Feel free to share your views on
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No option, you gotta FIGHT

I am a hardcore WWE - World Wrestling Entertainment fan. I have been watching WWE right from my childhood when I was studying in my 6th std when Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock used to contest for the WWE championship. I watch it even today and the fascination for it continues. Some of the best lessons of my life have been due to WWE. So, thanks to Vince McMahon.

 

In WWE, it's often observed that human emotions are at their extremes be it positive or negative. Anger, hatred, jealousy, trust, betrayal, love, and a lot of these are showcased with the highest power possible. It's natural that a wrestler who becomes the favourite of the people to have more number of people attacking him to take away his top position. In fact the title holders are targeted by every other non-title holder. Different people keep challenging the champion to fight against them. In such cases the wrestler has to agree to face the opponent irrespective of how stronger or how bad the opponent is. It's the law of WWE. The challenger must be faced, no matter whether you're prepared to face him or not. Likewise I feel that even in life we come across a whole lot of new problems or challenges at time. At such occasions we don't have any of our backdoors open and  all that we can do is only FIGHT.

 

Sometimes life gives us no other option apart from fighting the problem. If the champion in WWE is afraid to face the challenger, he will have to surrender his title. Similarly in life, if you are afraid of the problem in front of you and surrender, then you will have to give away your cherished dreams which doesn't make sense while you're alive. Hence everytime life corners you, just know that there is no other option and you gotta FIGHT! Feel free to share your feedback on is.mohanbn@gmail.com

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