The Rule Breaker

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are 

one of the lights, the light of all lights.” 

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

It is a beautiful sight to see the city illuminated with lights,lightening of crackers everywhere. The city looks ecstatic. The days of festivals are very special to us as we light up our houses  and our heart is too lighted up with the spur of happiness and delight. I know of many such instances in life when people try to extinguish the light within you. Today I am a little intrigued and I feel darkness is trying to invade me, its trying to swallow me up to non-existent. It happens to me every time when i confront the darker side of the world and the people. People I thought can be positive prove that they are shallow from inside. However light we might have inside, there are people who with their darkness will try to invade you. But I want to say no to them and I still want to shine brighter then I ever did. After all Diwali is all about that a midst darkness we light the candle of hope!

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw 

After all, this is the time I am breaking the norms for myself that I have set so far. You can say it was due to my fear. But one by one I am doing things that I have refrained from doing. So last day I wanted some adrenaline rush. So when I went to Imagica it was unimaginable fun experience, the rides that has always scared me away and I remember of history where the people used to get me down of rides because I would cry, scream and beg desperately to put me down. I took dare to drop, nitro (roller coaster) ride and many other rides that I never expected could exist. But you know till the time I did it I thought it is scary, but once I did it I realized that I have been missing something. I drew my inspiration from ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA and I have started saying yes to myself for everything that I never tried, everything I feared. I have taken up dare game in my life.

I think our fear stops us from doing lot of things that we think cannot but trust me there is nothing we cannot do, it is all in our mind. The day we start saying yes to our selves and believe that we are strong enough to handle all the situations that we find scary life will be much more better.

I would like to apologize for not being able to write so far but I have been travelling a lot. I went during Durgapujo to my home, met my family and as per ritual met my school friends and the long lost ones too. As soon as I came back I went for an Official trip for a week commencing from Chennai to Hyderabad to Bengaluru to Guwahati to Kolkata then finally to Mumbai. Now I believe my readers and friends know why I have not been writing so far but if you believe my words I have been trying very hard since then to write my blog. So I am happy to let you know, I come today with my latest post. Honestly I am in the space today in my life when I found my calling. As I am doing things I never could one by one. Sometime back we went for a road trip to Vikramgad. I went with my colleague turned out to be my best pal Vedakshari and the group. We witnessed the sun rise and came back after sunset. We visited the seven points and the point which is at the edge of the hill top is a water fall which was 25 km away from the second last point. We were starving but we decided to go for it anyway. When we reached there we were made to belief that there is no way we could reach close to the waterfall as the way towards it to reach was steep and rocky and slippery too. But then we took a chance and the entire team took 45 minutes to reach there but the mission was accomplished finally. The feeling of achievement was out of the world and it gave us extreme rush like hitting the bulls eye.

I cannot explain in words what is the feeling of achievement that you gain every time when you do something new, something that you never tried, something that you have been always scared of. It is not the world, not our friends, not our parents, not our relatives who set the rules for us but it is only our fear. This fear is originated of course within ourselves may be somewhere it is a part of our nature or may be because of our experience. If you ask me the fear was a part of my nature always, something that was inseparable from me. Someone I cannot mention here, who taught me by making me live the hard way how to overcome my fear and how to make your worst nightmare your best friend. As much I can complain about that person but today if I look at myself and the person I have become I cant stop thanking. Life is interesting and challenging only when you are ready to take up those with your head held high and a mind that is rock solid enough than your body is! My question is are you ready for the challenges that destiny throws at you?

"We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us."
- Unknown

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.Robert A. Heinlein 

P.S- My writing will be always a dedication to Former Miss. Universe and Talented Actress Sushmita Sen for her motivation. Thank you Mam for the inspiration!

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Authored  by,

Priyanka Saha
Date- 5.11.2013