You may find it difficult to digest!!!

There is a very subtle observation I have made through my experiences. It is about hiding your secrets without lying.

You must be agreeing with the thought that we all love to speak truth. But there are few instances in life when one cannot speak the truth. In these situations one finds himself in a very critical stage. Either one has to lie and break his oath or else one has to speak the truth which is anyways not possible for him. So what should one do under these states of affairs? Should one lie and come under the category of people where most of the population is, or one should hold on to his position and raise himself above the bars?

Well the observation is that when a person is interrogating you for knowing the truth, he develops a frame of mind such that his thought process gets defined and he cannot think out of that. This happens with most of the people. So when an interrogator asks you some question he is expecting an answer for it. But your answer is something which you cannot tell. So if you are aware of his expectation and you know that your true answer is not what he is expecting then you can easily say the truth. He will keep asking you the same question in order to push you to give the answer he wants from you ignoring the true answer you have given. But your job is done as you have spoken the truth and it is not your mistake if the other person does not believe you. The important thing here is the style in which you deliver the truth. It should be on a funny node so that the other person should not have slightest of the idea that the statement you have given can even be true.

For example, your friends at office ask you to come for the lunch during the break. But you cannot go because you have some personal appointment regarding a business meeting. And you cannot tell this because your friends don’t know your personal business. You also know that they have an expectation from you that you must be going out with a gorgeous girl for lunch. So in this case how should you speak the truth?

Friends : Hey!!! Let’s go for Lunch.

You : No dude! Little Busy.

Friends : Come on!!! We know that you will be going out with her. But you cannot ignore us. Come now…let’s go.

You : It’s not that. I am seriously busy.

Friends : Ok!!! Can you tell that why are you busy? After all friends should know!!!

You : (With smile) I have a personal business meeting

(wink).

Friends : ooooooov!!!! OK OK that’s fine. Carry on. Smile.

They left.

So by this way you have spoken the truth without actually giving them the impression of it.

So keep saying truth!!! ;)

Alibag Trip

It was Sunday and I got up from sleep at around 12:30 in the afternoon. This was something usual on weekends. But this weekend was not just the same. I was feeling to go out somewhere to have an adventurous trip. And this is when the idea of going to Alibag came. I asked my roommate Ashwin, and Rohit about the plan. Initially there were few ifs and buts because it was too unplanned and we were not aware about the place and transport facilities but later they both agreed. Quickly we took shower and had lunch and began our journey. It was 3:30 PM when we left the home and took a fast local to CST. We got 5’O clock ferry from Gateway of India.

The ferry ride was little boring initially but later in the middle of the sea, few birds made it interesting by playing their show. People were feeding them “Kurkure” and we were analyzing their fast reflexes.

We reached to a port at 6 PM from where the bus took us to Alibag beach. And finally we reached to our destination at 7 PM but to our surprise the beach was not very good and we did not stay there for more than 5 minutes. We again took a bus for Kashid Beach which was supposed to be the most beautiful and clean white sand beach. We reached there at 9 and it was very beautiful full moon night. The beach was really very clean and the moonlight was making it still more exquisite. Though it was night but there were enough people to make the place lively. We changed our clothes and moved into the water to enjoy the high tides. The fun was unimaginable and the few girls around playing “kabaddi” made it more interesting ;). We left the beach at 11 and walked on the empty streets to look for a dhaba. Ate food at one of the road side dhabas and took the bus back to Mumbai and reached at 3:30 in the morning. This was our short and sweet 12 hours trip.