I own a car now. A 2000 Chevy Malibu LS. One most important, must-have entity for life in the United States. I didn’t visit the regular KBB or Car Dealers to buy my first car. It was a good feel that I did not have to hunt for cars. Looking at VIN, vehicle history. Probably I will do all these for my next car.

I bought it from my friend, Abhilash Nair. He is a friend since undergrad days. He studied Aeronautical while I was in Instrumentation. But he was always welcomed as a Instrumentation senior by all our juniors in college. A happy going, cool dude, and the only person from Kerala who calls an auto an ‘auto’ instead of ‘otto’ (This is meant just as a joke… Please don’t take this seriously as I believe firmly in democracy…)

The moment I announced that I bought a car, my mom wanted me to perform a ‘Vahana Pooja – a ceremony of bestowing goodness and blessing to the person owning the car and the car’. I was asked to get a coconut and four lemons for the ceremony and I did get it from an Indian Grocery Store. The pooja was performed last sunday.

Now I am ready to drive the car! A way of attaining independence in United States! Here I come!

There was this tweet from Mobands, “Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.” today. Don’t know whose quote it is, but it is true.

Most people out there just live a life, they just want to pass away all their time, just like sitting in a bus and sleeping till the destination is reached, on the way to a beautiful hill station. There are lot of things to enjoy in the journey, sceneries, flora and people. The entire thing that renders the beauty of the landscape. 

Shall we call it Fear of Failure, that keeps one away from trying. Most of us want to lead a life, just like others. We forget, one is a individual, who can play a part in changing. I am reminded of Robert Frost’s, ‘The Road Not Taken’, poem. He concludes it by saying, “I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference…”. 

Play the music, Live life…

I have the habit of saying, I am going to do this, I am going to do that! But really I start it very late or never. So the problem with me is beginning. If I start, then I will complete. Also If I have to do something, then I will surely do it.

Well begun is half done

Though it conveys a wonderful meaning, and something I need to keep in mind, it fails to impress me. As I was travelling home yesterday, I noticed a hoarding on Mount Road which read To begin, begin. And that is an inspiring quote.

It directs one to start or begin. I am beginning today.