The Pursuit of Triumph

His throat was dry, his thirst crossed the limit,

His stomach hurt, the reason being his hunger,

He couldn’t remember the last time he rested.

His feet were pricked by thorns,

He bore the pain, couldn’t stop to relieve the strain.

But he still kept moving, in quest of his target.

His eyes had the vision, his heart held the passion,

He firmly believed; success won’t elude for long.

He kept on striving, moved at the pace of lightning,

He had miles to go before he could sleep.

His motivation was strong, his every step inspired the next,

He made up his mind, didn’t believe in destiny.

He set the mark on his goal,

He’ll stop only when he gets it,

He’ll rest only over there…

-Raj Mckay

Lost everything - Is suicide the answer?

Life is tough, its not a beautiful journey to anyone in the world, no matter how successful he/she is. It comes with its own share of pain, tears and heart-ache; sometimes all of these at once, very hard and for a long time. Its never easy to sustain so much of turbulence at once. How can one keep to one-self at such a time? How can one feel strong at such a point when all his energy is sapped away by the ongoing agony in life? Thats when a person wants to leave, leave all behind and go onto a peaceful journey, away from everyone and everything.

Few days ago, a movie actress, just 25 years old, ended up her life by hanging herself to death. I just can't imagine the pain that went through her. Jiah khan; I admired her. Very beautiful, well talented and nicely disciplined. I always thought one day she would be the reigning queen of Indian cinema. Its sad, she's no more. I read her suicide note, I couldn't stop the tears that rolled down. "I just want to go to sleep now, and never wake up again". She was deeply in love, which wasn't reciprocated  back to her. She was hurt so bad and so much that she couldn't take it anymore. Her last note was written in so much pain that made me support her decision to end her life. She had a strong career, stronger reasons to live perhaps but none overpowered her decision, none gave her a motive to hang on to life. If only she knew that there were people to whom she meant the world. But love is strange, it would want attention from the only one person who tends to ignore. 

I am so sorry she had to end her life this way. Sometimes we admire someone so much but we have no idea what goes on in their personal life. If only I had one moment with her where I could convince her to and give her the strength back which she needed. Now I can only wish her soul is resting in peace and I can only hope happiness keeps coming her way, wherever she is...

Reading Doctor's prescription

Ever tried to understand a doctor's note and thought that it might not be english what he/she had written. The surprising thing is that the sales person can understand it very well. In any case, you can learn their font below and then have no trouble figuring out what they have written or rather scribbled.

Decision Making

Decision making is a challenge for every person at some stage of life. It is tough and at the same time it is something that cannot be avoided. An improper decision made could have a severe impact not only on the person who took the decision but also on others involved, directly or indirectly.

Every act that we perform and every thought that occurs in our mind would always come with two options, one is being completely selfish and the other is being completely generous. We always need to choose the option which has a perfect balance between these two. We should keep in mind how much responsibility we take for ourselves and how much responsibility we take of our people. We should also note the amount of love we have for our family and at the same time give proper importance to our rights. All these points need to be considered before an important decision is taken. Such major decisions need to taken by one-self and not by any other person. Our decisions should never come out of anger or vengeance, there should not be a place for injustice in them.
Everyone should gain the maturity and ability to make such decisions, making which, one becomes strong and independent.

The Story of Ruth - Retold

She took the new born child into her arms and felt grateful to the Lord; she was pleased with her daughter in law who decided to stay and serve her until death parts them. She looked into the eyes of the child and remembered the past, from where she came.

Naomi as she was called, was wife of Elimelek, a man from Bethlehem in Judah. Due to a famine in the land, they decided to move to Moab and live there along with their two children, Mahlon and Kilion. Within the span of the next ten years, her life changed completely when the Lord’s hand turned against her; Elimelek passed away, Mahlon and Kilion married Oprah and Ruth, two women from Moab, and then her two sons also breathe their last. Marred as she was, decided to leave Moab but told her two daughters in law to return back to their parents and get married again to lead a happy life. Lord was only against her but not them, she knew, life has been bitter to only her. Oprah reluctantly obliged but Ruth could not, she told Naomi that she wanted to stay, forever with her, taking care and being there.


"Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me." (Ruth 1:16–17 NKJV)


Having no choice, Naomi agrees to let Ruth stay with her. Upon their return to Bethlehem, people recognized her and called her Naomi. She told them she’s not Naomi anymore, but Mara, for, empty she is now, went out full but returned alone, Lord afflicted and brought her misfortune.
It was the time of barley harvesting, so Ruth went to the fields to pick up the leftover grain and it turned out the fields she worked in belonged to a clan of Elimelek, Boaz. Boaz enquired about Ruth and came to know of her noble deeds. He showed kindness to Ruth, offered her help, protected her and blessed her. When Ruth told Naomi about Boaz, she informed that he was one of the guardian-redeemers of the family and advised her to go with the women and work for him as she would be protected from harm.


Naomi one night was quietly there on the threshing floor waiting for Boaz to come and lie down. She was doing exactly what Naomi told her to, to wash, put nice clothes on and wait for Boaz to come and sleep. Then she went to where Boaz lied down and uncovered his feet. Later that night, Boaz woke up and found Ruth at his feet. He felt pleased to see her and told her that if the guardian redeemer who is more closely related than him does not redeem her, then he would gladly do it for her. He told her to stay until the morning and she obliged by lying at his feet, but got up before anyone could recognize. She returned to Naomi next day with six measures of barley and informed her about what happened.


At the town gate the next day, Boaz offered the guardian redeemer to redeem the piece of land that belonged to Elimelek and in doing so; he also had to acquire Ruth to maintain the name of the dead with the property. The Guardian redeemer declined the offer in order not to risk his own estate and hence Boaz who is next in line to do so, redeemed the piece of land, that belonged to Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon and married Ruth, the Maobite. The elders and the people at the gate become the witnesses and bless the uniting of Boaz and Ruth.


Upon the wedding, Ruth bore a son, who will now be redeemer and heir to Naomi. They named him Obed, who is the father of Jesse and the grandfather to David and thus Ruth is placed in the ancestors of Christ Jesus.

The Book of Ruth-Old Testament- Retold by Raj McKay

This Saturday for myself

I always wanted to have one full day which I spend completely for myself. No connections, no work tensions, just to be free for myself. I decided today to be the day and the first thing I do is wake up late. How long has it been since I had a proper complete sleep. The time gap between coming home and getting back to school is less that 8 hours always, so forget about having a good sleep. So today I woke up late and then I wanted to cook something good for myself, I'm fed up of all the food that I bought for myself all these days, today am gonna make my own food. Oh wait, the phone is ringing, should I pick up, no no today is just gonna me about myself, no phones. Anyways, I started well with cooking but I think I accidentally put a lot of salt. Damn it, everything is fine with my dish except the excessive salt. I ate it still and now I think my stomach is hurting. Oh, lesson learnt, food with excessive salt leads to stomach upsets. Done with the food, now lets get back to the horizontal position, what should we do now?

Success Stories

Recall all the success stories you have heard until now. Whats the common thing, its just that a very very poor guy from somewhere had a dream which he pursued and then became successful. The common thing is that every success story we have ever heard starts with a poor person. hasn't there been any person who had a decent amount of money, worked hard and became big, why don't we hear those stories. Even the interviews of these people are such a load of BS, Oh I used to do my own laundry when we had no money but I have so much money and all that crap. Why do we need to know that. Why aren't we ever told the story of the person who became successful though he was born in a rich family?