Greetings from The Yellow Spot! Yesterday I went to a nearby restaurant with my friend. While the waiter was guiding us to our table, I noticed that they were putting up these screens at various places in the restaurant. I was wondering what it was all about, when suddenly it clicked to me. Oh! It’s time for the Indian Premier League again. The IPL has become like some kind of a festival in India now! Everybody is so excited and busy with preparations year on year. Crazy isn’t it? How a simple game can become so important to so many people. As a matter of fact, we Indians love cricket. It’s like a religion for us. A religion that only seems to be getting stronger in the hearts of its followers! IPL is definitely one of the most interesting concepts that has come up in any game so far. So much so; that even with all the controversies and issues it keeps getting into, its popularity doesn’t go down no matter what! I too love cricket. And yes, I love IPL too. I have had the opportunity to watch a couple of IPL matches live in the stadium. Trust me guys, it’s an amazing experience. It’s not just the game; it’s the vibe you get. It’s superb. If you have been to one you will know what I am talking about and if you haven’t, you should go for one. Well I don’t promise you will be able to watch the whole game as every ball hit looks like a 4 or 6 and every ball feels like a wicket. So eventually you do land up looking at the screen in the stadium to know what is actually happening. But it’s a crazy experience especially with the unanimous “ooooohhhhh” or “yeeeeeeeyyyy” or when MS Dhoni walks in “Dhoni Dhoni Dhoni” coming from the crowd. It’s amazing! You must be wondering why I’m asking you to go watch an IPL match in the stadium, right? No, I don’t get any commission coming in from the IPL organisers as may have crossed your mind! Then why am I telling you all this? In fact, IPL isn’t the central topic to my writing at all. It’s the spirit I want to talk to you about. Yes, the same spirit and passion you see in an IPL match. A spirit that is so powerful that it can keep an entire nation together, or should I say state in this case! One that makes people excited even before it comes and gives them an immense amount of happiness once it has arrived. Hasn’t positivity become a rare commodity in today’s world? All around; whether you see the idiot box, read the newspaper or overhear people talking on the road; there’s negativity everywhere. Even behind the fake happiness you see on social media sites and apps there’s actually a lot of sadness. It’s just that people have learned how to cover it up well and only disclose it to a handful, l those they consider very close. So when you see something shining that bright, with all its positivity and might; generating so much enthusiasm, it feels good. In fact I was having a bad day yesterday. Just seeing those preparations in the restaurant reminded me of some of the matches I had been for and made me feel so happy. So here’s to IPL, its spirit and the happiness it generates in so many hearts! You know, I am realizing how easy it to find happiness and positivity in small things like these. The problem with most of us is that we keep waiting for bigger ones. A car, house, vacation, mobile phone, children, marriage, etc. Happiness is in fact just around the corner in the things you never imagined! How do you find it? Just change your lens and it will be right in front of you. So I’ve decided I’m going to focus on things that make me happy. IPL does. Not just watching matches in the stadium but watching it on the TV with my family. It really does. Are you an IPL fan too? Or let me change the question for you. Are you a fan of happiness too? For Reading more such articles log on to www.theyellowspot.com and go through our Good Reads section. We are sure you'll enjoy it!
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‘Game of Thrones’ is my most favourite series ever! Yeah right, it’s everybody’s favourite series. What makes ‘Game of Thrones’ the best show is that it’s incredibly unpredictable. We all know how we should never start liking a character on GoT. Why? It might end up dying sooner or later! We don’t really like it when that happens but we still enjoy it none the less. Well, apart from the unpredictable storyline what really impresses me are the GoT quotes. They’re inspiring in their own way. What do you think? Makes you think doesn’t it! Today I am going to list out some of my most favourite ‘Game of Thrones’ quotes so far. Ready? 1. “Once you’ve accepted your flaws. No one can use them against you.” Coming from a superbly confident and kickass dwarf, it makes complete sense. Tyrion Lannister is my favourite GoT character. Almost anything he says is kickass to me. Also most of the best GoT quotes come from him. Don’t they? Each one of us have some or the other flaws. It depends on us whether we want to crib about them all our life or embrace them. In fact it’s when you accept and allow yourself to pass through your flaws that you unleash immense strength! That one was from me, inspired by Tyrion! 2.“A very small man can cast a very large shadow” Looking at his character we know how true that is! With all his size issues and daddy issues, he has survived till the end only to be one of the strongest characters so far. Most of us tend to believe that our physical appearance determines our value or ability. It’s really just a self-limiting ‘belief’ that prevents us from being who we want to be and who we can be. We all somewhere know that, but do we take the efforts to do anything about it? 3. “Syrio says every hurt is a lesson and every lesson makes you better” This is a thought that Arya Stark keeps reiterating to herself. She thinks that everything that happens to us serves us in a way. Every hurt is like a lesson, teaching us something valuable and making us stronger and better. This is not something that is new or we don’t know, but we still tend to forget. We often get caught up with pain that the hurt causes and miss out on what it’s trying to show us. 4.“It doesn’t matter what we want, once we get it, then we want something else.” Petyr Bealish aka Lord Bealish was one of the most hated characters in the series, but also one of the smartest. That we can definitely make out from this saying of his! He inevitably points out one of bitter facts of human life. No matter how much you have and how much you get, you will always look for more. Material goods never satisfy a human permanently. It may make the person feel good for some time but will leave him looking for better stuff the next moment. 5.“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge.” This is the last one on my list and my personal favourite. It comes again from the guy himself - ‘Tyrion Lannister’. Whatever he says just has to be amazing! Tyrion is smart and what makes him so smart is ‘reading’. If you love reading you will most definitely relate to this quote. And even if you don’t, you know it – reading keeps your mind sharp. So start reading now!!! Do write to me if you love these quotes too. In fact I would love to hear the ones that you love too. Also for some really interesting articles you can visit www.theyellowspot.com They have some really interesting articles on their 'Good Reads' page. |
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