A Solo Smile

"I am not interesting in competing, I hope we all make it" - Erica Cook. Once in a while you come across a few lines, that leave an impact, that reverberates in your body. Late night yesterday, i was scrolling down my favorite Facebook page when I was forced to think upon the quote, forced to think whether the people follow it, whether this line has meaning for me. In a world like today, where we start obsessing about the 1st grade since the I standard, where we have become stringent in sharing any information which is beneficial for us or which might not be of any use to us but may prove useful to others. We think that the only way to reach to the top is to prevent others from reaching there, or the only way to speed up is to reduce everybody's pace. We don't trust ourselves with winning, we trust ourselves with making others lose. Our greatest achievement is not in succeeding, but in being the only one to succeed.  What we keep forgetting is that the jo...

"It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there.   If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around." - Hugh Grant in the blockbuster Love Actually . Last week I watched this movie and these were the first lines in the movie, they immediately intrigued me. In this world of heavy traffic jams, moody weather, intolerant bosses, impatient clients, bickering spouses, complaining parents and insatiable kids, somewhere in between we fail to notice the women who let us overtake her, the sun which hid itself when it was our lunchtime, that small smirk of appreciation from the boss, the trust which the clients put in us, the tasty dinner which the spouse made, the prayer which the parents said when we left the house and the hug which the kid gave us when we returned home. Amongst all creases on our forehead, we have forgotten to put a smile on our...