Dancing Feel Good Tryst

Have you ever wondered what smiling, indeed, is all about. Well, it is one of the most beautiful state-of-existence every one of us wants to be all the time. But it doesn't happen so quite often. Right?

I have always been wondering how one can prolong this state for more days and months and years and not the other extreme i.e. for hours, minutes and seconds. Its like a Sudoku puzzle with the 3 Levels : Easy, Medium and Hard. Sometimes, its so simple, sometimes, its so not-so-simple and sometimes, its not-at-all-simple.

On the other day, I was watching Dance India Dance, a program telecasted in Zee TV. There was this guy named, Yashwant from Rajasthan, whose sheer innocence and charisma, pounded my heart to beat atleast 3 beats faster for sometime. There was this-something in him, which made me wonder "If there are more people like him, I wonder whether Oxford dictionary alikes would be able to maintain the word 'Sadness' in their word-list for a long time"

This is what happened :
Yashwant from Banswada(Rajastan) gave his audition. He has done all his practice from TV. His dream was to meet the judges of the show and see them through his live eyes. When he came to the stage, his eyes were showing the excitement on seeing the judges. When the audition ended, the judges were of the view that he should come next year. His response was something which made me think and remember him for a long time for the smile he carried throughout :
"Sir, main rajastan ke ek chote se shahar se hoon. Maine practice sirf aapko TV pe deh dekh kekeeya hai. Main sahee mein truly bol rahaan hoon kee main yahaan ke layak naheen hoon. Kyonkee iss program ka level bahut ooncha ho gaya hai. Mera sapna tha kee main aapko real mein dekhoon. Jab aap bahar bheed mein se aa rahe the, tab main aapko haath bhee naheen de paaya tha. Main aapko promise karta hoon sir, kee agle saal aur mehnat ke baad pheer aaonga. Bus ek request hai sir (there was a cap which he used for the audition). Agar aap yeh topee mere sar pe takdeer ke topee samajh ke pehnaa de (Actually, the person who gets selected gets a cap from the judges as a token, called 'Takdeer Kee Topee') to mujhe…."

Forget all the above conversation, what was evident from his face was that his was a character who deserves to be applauded for being so simple and straight. The judges, of course, applauded him and gave him his version of takdeer kee topee and said they can’t forget him. And the guy went out with the same genuine smile with him.

Sometimes a small deed, a small gesture, would make us think about the different facets of the people. I just wanted to capture this beautiful one in writing, less it shoves away in the sands of time.

Faith Walks

Some stories turn your heads towards them. Because they have something in them which makes you think "Wow!!!This is something !!!".

As told by Jude Stringfellow(the owner):
Faith was rescued by my son Reuben on January 21, 2003, when he and his friend Johnny, the owner of Princess, jumped over the fence of the flea market area that Princess was raised to guard. Princess wasn't exactly the mothering kind. She was literally terminating Faith's life because she knew instinctively that Faith was unable to battle the other puppies for a place to feed. Faith was weak, small, runtish, and mostly she was nearly dead. Reuben grabbed Faith out from under Princess and smuggled her under his jersey.

When Reuben brought Faith to us she had 3 actual legs, but the left front leg was badly deformed, placed backward, upside down, and it had more toes on it than normal dog legs. The leg was removed when she was 7 months old when it began to atrophy

Her owner, Jude Stringfellow, using a spoon with peanut butter as an incentive taught Faith to hop but Faith decided on her own to walk.



And the sentence which I want to emphasize again and again is "Faith decided on her own to walk". She walked her life with her. Let us all Live and Walk Our Life the way it should be.