Just don’t take this as a quiz, just read straight. . It has got an Awesome message. . 

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. .
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners. .
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest. .
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. .
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor actress. .
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners. .
How did you do?

The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. .These are no second-rate achievers. .They are the best in their fields. .
But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten.
Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.

Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one: 

1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel, appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
6. Name half a dozen heroes whose stories have inspired you. Easier?

The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care. They are the one who you remember forever. Do something good for others every day. It might be not disturbing them for a day if it provides happiness to them. If you find difficulty in understanding someone, just try to put yourself in their shoes and you will find it much easier. Care for others, keep them happy. This happiness is even bigger than any other biggest pleasure in the world. .

May be I should Have Posted this earlier.

Maybe. . .we were supposed to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that, when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

Maybe . . . when the door of happiness closes, another opens; but, often times, we look so long at the closed door that we don’t even see the new one which has been opened for us.

Maybe . . . it is true that we don’t know what we have until we lose it, but it is also true that we don’t know what we have been missing until it arrives.

Maybe . . . the happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Maybe . . . the brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; after all, you can’t go on successfully in life until you let go of your past mistakes, failures and heartaches.

Maybe . . . you should dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you dream of, and want to do.

Maybe . . . there are moments in life when you miss someone — a parent, a spouse, a friend, a child — so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real, so that once they are around you appreciate them more.

Maybe . . . the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.

Maybe . . you should always try to put yourself in others’ shoes. If you feel that something could hurt you, it probably will hurt the other person, too.

Maybe . . you should do something nice for someone every single day, even if it is simply to leave them alone.

Maybe . . . giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don’t expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart; but, if it doesn’t, be content that it grew in yours.

Maybe . . . happiness waits for all those who cry, all those who hurt, all those who have searched, and all those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of all the people who have touched their lives.

Maybe . . . you shouldn’t go for looks; they can deceive; don’t go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

Maybe . . you should hope for enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to make you happy

Maybe . . . you should try to live your life to the fullest because when you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling but when you die, you can be the one who is smiling and everyone around you crying.

Make Your Moment, Live Your Life

Give it a thought. You are born, you spend most of your life working hard, trying to make something of yourself but when you die, you simply go back to where you started and you end up with exactly what you had when you started… nothing.  Yes, this world is ironic. Life itself is ironic.

So How can be life meaningful?

There is an interesting character in me. I have an interest to observe people in crowd. It might be because of my behaviour that whenever I am out and idle I just look at the people around me. The person who first catches my attention in such situation would be the one who is different than the other in the crowd, the one who seems to be in same situation as I had been in sometimes in my past or even some children.

Sometimes its really funny to watch, some people make us realise that how lucky we are, some are pathetic and some inspire me.

I try to go through the person silently, trying to know what might be in their mind. There are lots of people who had inspired me and they would be unaware of the fact that they just had got one more fan.

In my eagerness to know about people from different demographics, Grandma is different. She is my neighbor who lives just opposite to the place where I live.  She is 84, sick often and lives alone. By the time I have grown a good relationship with her. She has poor sight but still finds me the one who reminds her of her grandson. She does help us for in case we need any help. The thing to observe with her is that she is too weak to walk and often complains with me that she doesn’t want to live any more. I always tell her to have fun. And she finds it very funny. Lolz. She tries to make sure that we get the things we deserve in the society. It makes me sad that she always says she is no more living her life. She says she is just waiting for the day when she would be free from this world.  So I talk to her more often for the reason that she should not feel alone. Sometimes I even crack jokes so that it brings smile in the face of the person who is not living a life but just waiting for the time to go. She just smiles and say “Beta ab to kya , Umar ho gayi , aur kya kar sakte hain”. I never accept failure and so I continue insisting her to take care of her by anyways. I just try to take some time for this just because a little care would make her happy and smile, even though a little. God bless her. . And pray that her remaining life get colorful with more people bringing happiness in her life and making her feel that she is not alone.

“When you  pray for others God listens to you and blesses them..

And sometime when you are safe and happy remember that Someone has prayed for you”

I don’t say the above action will make me legacy. It not only about leaving examples. Its about how you spend your time, moment that makes our life.  I believe in making people surrounding me happy. Have you ever realised the happiness that you feel when you find out that your some actions have given some happiness to someone. Its an wonderful experience na. Try it.

Earlier I asked, “How can life be meaningful?”  The only answer that I can come up with is – if your life has meaning to / for somebody else’s life, then your life will continue to have meaning after you are gone, because the legacy of your actions for others will continue to live after you are no more. Think about all those great people who made a difference throughout history. The legacy of their actions continues to live on long after their deaths. Their lives had meaning simply because their lives have meaning to us…

Life is about happiness, your happines and the happiness you give to others. 

Life truly has meaning when you stop living for yourself and you start living for others.

Empty Mind

Many moons have passed since last I updated the blog.. it is just got really busy with a “Memorable Home Tour, Exams and a job (my first one),. It has been a month I started writing a post and it is yet to be completed.

There is one more year added to my age between these two posts. But after this milestone I am feeling younger and stronger  than the previous times( the curious case of Suraj Sharma - I have turned 21 now).  

It has been the case with me always that I do not believe in New Year, Resolution, birthday etc.   I don’t complain about those who wait for new year to make some resolution but it is that I just don’t believe in making a new resolution every year and breaking it. This year did bring some changes in me. The difference lies in forcing myself to be happy in case of some problems in those days to happening the same without any effort these days. I hope this continues .

And something funny is happening these days.  I have been getting a B.E.A.utiful  view of a place in my dream. It’s a place I have never visited -  I am traveling by bus, crossing a bridge where I see a fabulous sunset view of a red lake , amazed by the view I regret for not bringing my digi camera with me.  This has happened to me more than 3 times. I am not able to find the reason for it. But I will try that next time I visit that place I am there with my camera , will capture it and post the picture in my post. Lolz..

Wake Up Carrier

It was a time when VoIP used to be in the news and geeks used to like it just because it was a change and it did things in more techie way even though the quality of service it provided were substandard. In spite of its lousy quality people found it something interesting to try because it was free of cost in the internet.

And now again it seems like there is endless news around messaging, VoIP and video calling and lots of organizations actually implementing VoIP in their organizations. They are growing very fast recently and lots of companies adopting it in their products. Google Voice, Skype services, and Apple announcing Facetime Support for the Mac with 19 million such devices shipped since June, might explain how it has captured the attention of the big companies as they see a big emerging market in it. The issue in VoIP still remains because of a conception that still there are technology issues in it but it needs to be understood that it is the next generation of network technology and can’t be ignored.

The way messaging, voice, video, and chatting applications are on fire lately implies that VoIP will be the biggest competitor of carriers and finally the winner. It means that soon Carriers will become irrelevant in Voice and Messaging.

At present because of telco monopolies these companies are very slow to respond to the change and innovation. On the other hand VoIP is getting advanced both in technology and services day by day. And in Indian context, Gosh..! 3G is yet to be implemented by these companies.

Right now VoIP applications like Skype enable its users not only to make voice and video call but provide other services like enabling the user to view distant users desktop and lot more. Now Imagine the future of communication on your smartphone: you’re on a video call with your significant other across the world on different networks, you tap your screen, and instantly their phone screen mimics yours as you flip through photos of your trip while continuing your call. Or imagine sending out an MMS to a group, and when each of your friends open it they immediately tap into a live HD audio/video stream which you’re broadcasting to everyone. No delays, no dialing, and no going in and out of different apps—it just works. All of these amazing use-cases, and more, will be enabled by 4G wireless standards. This is because 4G is 100% IP-based, which is what the internet was founded upon.

Today, voice is routed separately from data on mobile networks due to  “circuit-switched” architecture. With LTE, the first phase of 4G, voice and video sessions will be packetized and sent over the network from a smartphone just like any other application layer data, which will open a range of new capabilities. This is because the future in mobile communication is being written at the application layer — both by innovative giants like Apple and Google, and smaller startups such as GroupMe and Twilio — not at the infrastructure layer. The carriers had a chance to provide a better voice and messaging experience with 4G, and to charge a toll for that experience, but they are missing that window. What the carriers really need to do is get out of bed and resolve how voice will be packetized, then move forward and deploy it but right now they are not interested in doing it because they have better profit at the carrier.

This kind of slow change and lack of innovativeness at the carrier will lose its customer to VoIP with new and better services to be provided at lower cost in future. This provides a scene that there is going to be some big Mergers and Acquisition at the telcos if they don’t provide the services at the application layer.

ShivaDMD Health and Education Trust

It was just few months’ back we lost a sweet and typical 13 year old boy named Shiva. He was living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a cruel and unforgiving muscle wasting disease that will cut short one’s life if a treatment does not come in time. Actually there is no proper cure for DMD. Like 35% of cases, Shiva DID NOT inherit DMD, it is because of his body's own spontaneous mutation that he suffered from DMD.

He was the boy with full of intelligence and determination. He used to be one of the top scorer in the class. He was better in understanding the purpose of life than other guys of similar age.

The words he used to say often was “There is no limit for dreaming.”

"Jab Sapne hi dekhna ho toh bada dekho na.. Sapne dekhne me kya jata hai..??"

And his principles were “When it is about dreaming then don’t get scared to dream too high. You are not going to lose anything but, by doing so, you are increasing your scope”. And when it comes about charity he used to be the first to help used to criticize the people not believing in charity.

 “Help others and you will get them back for sure.”

He never dreamt low. It used to surprise everyone around him that a boy of thirteen year had so much to dream about his life.

He is no longer with us but he left behind his principles for us to live with. On his name ShivaDMD Health and Education Trust was started.

Then Recently we met a boy named Shivam. Shivam could be described as your typical sixteen year old boy. Shivam is a ticking time bomb as he was recently diagnosed with DMD.  He loves playing cricket and he is one of the biggest fans of Sachin Tendulkar. He even has a bat signed by Sachin Tendulkar and inspires to meet Sachin ONE DAY VERY SOON. He loves other sports as well and wait till early morning to watch FIFA or Olympic in TV.

He is a popular member of his class at school, where he excels at reading, mathematics, art and computers. He used to spent spends his playtimes doing his best to keep up with his friends but he is becoming physically weak because of which he feels like he is losing his friends slowly. He loves playing Computer Games and these days he is more into it and watching sports. Shivam is fascinated with other countries, the people, and their way of life. He follows news more than us and used to have in-depth thoughts about them.

He misses playing cricket these days, and his body is losing strengths. He no longer can count on his muscles and needs support to sit, walk, write or eat. He recently passed HSC with very good mark of 73%. I personally checked his mark sheet and found it very impressive. His Doctor feels that he no longer could study and sit in exams. He needs regular exercise and is being treated for DMD. Unfortunately, medical science has not discovered any effective treatment strategies against the disease that is slowly destroying the muscles in his body. It is said that he will eventually lose the ability to walk followed by the ability to breathe. His heart will slowly lose its ability to function. At this moment in time, there is little that anyone can do about it. Sometimes a little improvement in him after stem cells, each injection costing 2 lakhs Rs, gives us hope that he would be able to play like his friends very soon. But everything looks dark when his doctor says If there are no significant research advances made soon or may be if not given a proper treatment, Shivam will face certain death .

As his mother with a big hope in her thinks that in future she could see Shivam finishing his studies and backpacking around the world. She dreams him commencing a creative career dedicated to his work, just as dedicated to his play.

Our dream for Shivam is to have a long, happy, and fulfilling life in relative health so that he is here with us to fulfill his dreams. WE have already lost enough children because of DMD and we don’t want to lose more. We have been working on it and for the dreams of every other child and their parents who has got such incurable disease.

But it will take the help of people like you to see this dream come true. Visit www.shivadmd.org to help us end Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

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