For one last time...

"Say cheeseeee...",the photographer asked all of them to pose for their class picture . For one last time..All dressed in robes and caps. A picture that could take everybody to a nostalgic world." Three cheers to 3Bcom B , Hip Hip Hurray!Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray! ", they cheered for one last time for their class. They slowly dispersed after all the selfie sessions.  

While these 2 cute friends had not finished their episode of  teasing each other till she almost cried. They had travelled from corners of the world to attend their convocation and relive those moments of their 3 years' journey. They had planned their future in different countries too. And it was time for them to say goodbye for one last time.
 He hugged her tight. 
She was almost in tears and said " I will miss you monkey". 
All that was running in his mind was "I can't control anymore. Can't control myself from saying those three magical, golden words. Every time you came close to me, my heart skipped a beat. Every time you looked into my eyes, I was lost in your world. Could see nothing else. Every time you held my hands,  I wanted you to walk with me forever. Every time you laughed, I wanted you to be with me for all my joys and sorrows. Every time you spoke about your ex, I wanted to tell you that you're just mine from now. Every time you hugged me, I wanted you all to myself. I'm feeling the same now. Should I say it or not? Did you feel the same for me? Will you leave me if I say it to you? Why don't you understand yourself what I'm feeling for you cuz nobody has ever understood me like you. I'm dying every minute without knowing what to tell. If not now I might never get to say it ever". He was in pain and clueless and said " I'll miss you more mental" wanting her in his life for one more time. They parted and continued their journey of life.
One sided love could be too painful. More painful than break ups. We never know how to convey things and what the consequences would be. With the fear of losing that person we remain silent forever.There can be nothing more hurting than those words left unsaid. 

 

Sonder-Every smile has a painful tear for the words left unsaid

"So cooool bro! Your life is all settled now. You're so lucky you've such encouraging parents. They do everything for you. We are not so lucky like you, we have to do things unwillingly. Anyways bro don't forget me once you go there. Tc". He received a text from his old school friend on his way to the Airport. He smiled reading it and thinking of the truth and how his life had been perceived by people.
 He replied " Haha.Thanks bro. Will surely not forget. Will Skype you".

He got down from his Maserati while his driver assisted him in unloading the luggage and waved a good bye to him.

He finished his formalities and sat down till his flight arrived. An old man sat next to him. They exchanged smiles initially and the conversation began.

"Your good name Hero?", the old man asked. " Rahul, Rahul Vivek Gupta", he said.
“ Myself Gopinath. So where are you flying to?", the old man inquired. "London", he replied.
“Oh well, so both of us can even travel together. I’m going there too. It's a very expensive place. I’m going there to visit my cousin. He mints money there.”, the old man shared his little knowledge about the place.
He further questioned “So what's your purpose of travel ?"
“I'm going there to study and might settle there”, he answered it again, for the 999th time since he had decided to leave India.
“So you must be a rich chap.Hmmm… By the way did you say Vivek Gupta ? I think I've heard it somewhere. What exactly does your dad do ?", the old man asked him curiously.
 " Business” , Rahul replied
“What business ?”, the old man asked
“He owns the Gupta group of companies” , he said wishing for the conversation to end soon.
“Woaww! So you must be having a royal life. We all dream to live like you and struggle our whole lives striving to experience luxury”, the old man expressed his dissatisfaction towards his life and then quickly paying attention to the announcements, they both headed towards their flight as it had just arrived.
 Rahul was not surprised as he always had conversations with similar responses.

Rahul ensured that the old man was not sitting anywhere close to him. Meanwhile, a beautiful young girl was directed towards the seat vacant next to him by the cabin crew. She introduced herself and then the conversation began. " You look very handsome so how many girls have you dated till now?10-20? Isn't it ?”, she began her conversation adding humor to it.
He laughed.
“Was the count too less ?”, she continued .
“No”, he said and gave a sharp look.
On the arrival of the food the girl was lost in satisfying the cravings of her stomach.

He was lost, lost in his world of reality. While the whole world dreams to lead a life like him, he wanted to escape from it. And his escape route was London. He had millions of words unsaid.

How could he tell his old school friend that the mother whom he had when he was in school had been replaced with a modern young step mother? How could he tell the old man that Vivek Gupta had only money for his son and the royal life that he was given could not heal his mental pain. How could he tell the girl that the only girl whom he had taught would give him unconditional love had loved him only for money and had left him shattered ?

A lot of us wish to lead our lives like others. Sometime like the ones that we idolize. But we never know the struggle, the pain, and the humiliations that they are undergoing. Appearances could be deceiving. 

Every random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as our own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness. With passageways to thousands of other lives that we never know existed, in which we might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway.

 The so called "perfect" life is not perfect. It is mostly perfectly flawed. Instead of being judgmental or trying to crib about things which we don’t have a control of, we could try building a meaningful life and it could magically lead us to the place that we deserve to be in.

Imperfection is beautiful

 He looked at her. She looked at him. He looked at her but she didn't. He was just 1 foot taller than her,after all tall boy and short girl make a cute couple. There began their love journey in the tanker with their uniforms on and tired faces. Camp was their place of date. The place that brought them together. The place that made them look the least best with least makeup,with least hair gel and yet brought them together. They ran, marched, acted, sang, danced, ate, flew in the microlights together.She imagined him to be the pilot of her life and he imagined her to be the co-pilot of his life forever.In their barracks filled with people nobody even existed to them as they were lost in each others world waiting for the next meet looking through the window. Their show day was the only day they got to see each other in civilian dresses. Both looked lovely in their unpressed clothes, unwashed faces, unset hair. It was just another day with colorful clothes. Nothing mattered to them as they had already fallen for each others imperfections because it was all about loving beyond imperfections and imperfection is beautiful. <3
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Low-carbon economy

The growth of economies today, generally, pertains to high industrial growth and modern luxuries dependent on high usage of coal and other fossil fuels, inadvertently leading to high carbon emissions. The Low Carbon growth is a novel concept that challenges this linkage, and promotes economic development based on industrial energy efficiency and low carbon technologies. Thus aiming to reduce the carbon-footprint and sustain economic growth in an ecologically sustainable model. 

So, what is a low-carbon economy? A Low-Carbon Economy (LCE) is an economy that adopts the Low Carbon Growth path and minimizes the release of greenhouse gases (GHG) without compromising on the development. But this transition to a low-carbon economy demands an economic and social transformation which is both exciting as well as challenging. This transition in turn would balance the three core dimensions of the energy trilemma (choosing between profit, people and planet) and forms a strong basis for prosperity and competitiveness of individual countries. But India too like other countries is facing this trilemma on the prioritization of energy goals which needs a path of low carbon economy. 

Governments and businesses have been making significant strides in this regard to research and develop a low carbon path driven by long term resource saving and immediate cost reduction. So what is creating the need for such attention?