Roses in Diwali

Another diwali is on its way out and boy was this one good. Normally I have a rubbish time around diwali,I dont know why its like I'm cursed or something with this festival. But hey things were great this year. The night itself was spent on my terrace with a couple of friends, just chilling out and watching the crackers,mainly the rockets. Its amazing really that no matter how evil the creation of these things are and no matter how noisy and unforgivingly irritating they can be, fire-crackers are still awesome to watch.i can just remember it now,frozen in time. Rockets illuminating the night sky and the state i was in well it changed my perspective. Lets just say I was not very clear-headed at the time. There are so many things to life and keeping it all in your head is really tough. Thats why whe people say stop and smell the roses, you ought to stop and smell the roses. For me, well its the roses,the fire-crackers and almost everything else. Sometimes I think I probably stop and experience more than get on with my work!! I got home and watched champions league football. I watched my beloved Liverpool trounce Anderlecht 3-0 and the much despised Chelsea go down for the first time in months.Oh how i savoured that!!
Little did I know that was the beginning of my superb next day.Of course all that day i got a lot of money(how i love diwali). I just relaxed all day until the evening came and then it was party time. Couple of us guys got together(well lots of us) and met up at a friends place on juhu beach. There was beer, rum and music.Enough said. moving on it was the second night of champs league and i got to see Arsenal play well, that was nice. But what made my night was seeing Manchester United get embarrased by Lille!!! I m not gonna rub it in...well maybe just a little. Of course champs league ends at 3:30 so what to do? answer:playing football at 3:30 in the morning on an empty juhu beach. Could life get any better? I can hardly imagine how...Yep it was just a bunch of drunk kids trying to do set-plays( for those of you who are not the football kind, its a fancy way of saying trying to act like pro footballers).The energy and the effort were all there and once again it was like smelling the roses and watching the fire-crackers. Juhu beach is one of the main centres at which lots of people in the city like to relax,its incredibly crowded. Well except for 3:30 in the morning when you have the beach to yourself. Yes it was a no moon night, it was cool outside.I ended up sleeping at 6,but hell it doesnt get better than that. Times have been really hard on me lately, problems all around. No solutions in sight, maybe no happy endings. Pulling through hard times is never easy, even if it seems like its been really tough forever. Like I said in the beginning, stop and smell the roses, kick the ball on an empty beach with your best friends in the world or watch the fire-crackers in the night sky every diwali. If you still have the small stuff and if you still have those little things that make a moment so much better, you have a reason to believe all is right in the world. Its when you dont have the small stuff anymore, then you ve got a problem. Alls well in the world,now time to stop and smell the roses.

siddhant