The Safe Habit

The Safe Habit 

Six years of friendship, 4 years of love has come to a heavenly destination. Sundeep's marriage was fixed with Priyanka. Initially Sundeeps's love was not encouraged by Priyanka's parents. It took another 3 years for Sundeep to convince her parents to accept for their marriage.  Sundeep was holding Priyanka's hand. A cute Mehndi design was engraved on her hands that symbolized that their engagement was just over.

The clock struck 7 PM; Sundeep remembered his promise to treat his friends for their engagement. He always forgets the entire world, when her love Priyanka was nearby. He bided bye and zoomed to the party. The enjoyment roared high and everyone was fully drunk. His mind depicted “No drink and drive"

He ignored and kicked his bike. He was lost and could not sense the lorry coming opposite to him.

CRASH!!

Priyankana got a call from Sundeep's mobile. With love, she picked up the call. But just to hear the news from his friend that Sundeep died in an accident.

We have heard, number of stories like Sundeep. We knew drunk and drive will take our life. Still, we risk our life. We know wearing a Helmet would save us from accidents. Still we fee Helmet is heavy, uneasy and curse the people who makes it mandatory.

First of all I salute Nissan Motor Co., Ltd for opening up a contest for Safety Driving. I sincerely thank them for organizing Nissan Safety Driving Forum (NSDF) in India as part of its safety driving promotion activities.

When I joined driving school my instructor thought me only one valuable rule, while you are on road remember “All the other drivers and pedestrians on road are FOOLS. Its only you need to extra cautious while you drive." By experience I learned how true it was.

Below are the most common mistakes we do and generate trouble to other motorists. Let’s pledge not to repeat these in future for the safety of our own and our brothers and sisters.

Driving with a Head set and with full volume

Most of the hero introduction scenes are in bike with headset on. Drunk and drive scenes are easily seen in movies. Never saw a scene with helmet while driving. Their fans try to imitate the same in their life.

Like the smoking disclaimer that is shown in movies before it starts, for every wrong or dangerous driving a disclaimer “This could kill your life” has to be flashed during the entire duration of a wrong or dangerous driving.

  

Driving with a Dog on lap

I agree dogs are more intimate than humans, but any time it may go weird. If it sees another dog on road, they may bark and try to get into action. So avoid taking pets while driving.

Driving with a Child on lap: 

Most parents commit this mistake. They keep their child on lap, and make the baby to move the steering. How dangerous it is. Parents please think before you do it. You are a proud parent only when you teach driving after 18 years of age. Not before.

Texting while driving/Applying Make-up while driving

I agree you are multi-talented and can manage everything. But remember, if you are texting then it means you are directly texting to Hell. Then Yama, Dharma-raja will be replying to your text.

Fall in love with a girl and don’t chase and show off.

I agree, Love is blind and it can come at any moment. But please refrain yourself from falling in love while driving. You want a garland from her for your marriage or funeral? 

Dupatta/shawl is not your butterfly wings. 

You are not here to make an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for world's longest shawl. Please tie it properly before you drive. Chances of Shawl entangling in two-wheeler’s wheel are high.

Vehicle Mirrors are not meant to admire you:

I know you are handsome, good looking. But please don’t admire yourself when you drive.

Don’t perform break dance and confuse drivers.

Even your performance was up to the mark, Zee Tv will not book you for Dance India Dance show. But yes, police may book you for a fine. Please keep your lane and put indicator whenever you want to shift the lane.

Roads are not formula one Race track:

You can compete in race not on roads. If you are racing then its nothing but you are driving in your own graveyard. Don’t horn and scare other drivers.

Do not over load.

Joint Family? But yes, doing like this may make your nuclear family. Think twice.

Social Issue:

Women drivers are teased and for Men their Ego hurt.

Guys overtake Women drivers rashly, making scary noisy and zigzag moves. If a woman drives slowly, horns blare at her warning to drive fast. This has to be avoided

STEPS FOR SAFETY IN FUTURE:

1. Car Company should provision to start the car only when all the passengers in the car wear a seat beat.
2. A breathalyzer device should be installed in every car, and the person sitting in the driver's seat need to breathe. Only if the test is passed and confirmed that driver is not drunk, the car should start.
3. No provision to drive a car more than 100KMS speed.
4. Airbag was such an admiring invention. Why not invent something that could automatically sense if a vehicle is too close to another vehicle or about to crash into an object and give a warning sound or stop the car safely? 

I don’t know how far it’s possible. But I trust in a decade it would be possible

This post is written as a part of Nissan Safety Driving Forum contest organized by Indiblogger. 

Mountain Dew - Rise above Fear

Mountain Dew - Rise above Fear 

Fear should be a crucial element in everyone’s life.
Success: If a student does not have the fear of “Failing in a subject” he/she will not prepare hard for the examinations.
Sincerity: If an employee does not have the fear of Termination, they won’t be sincere in their job.
Punctuality: If a person does not have the fear of missing a Train or bus, then they won’t be on time to the spot.
Self-control: If a diabetes patients does not have the fear of “Sugar Level“, then they won’t limit themselves from taking sweets or taking medicine at proper time.
Discipline: If a men does not have the fear of getting Humpty- Dumpty, then he won’t hit the gym or exercise to keep him FIT.
If a driver does not have the fear of accident, then they won’t be wearing helmets or follow traffic rules.
If we don’t have the fear of break-up, then there won’t be any genuineness in love life.

So, Fear is very much needed in-order to keep us dynamic towards the positive traits of life. It’s in our control to decide whether we can seizure those fear to a constructive growth or use those deadly fear to destroy ourselves.

When we are a kid, we did fell down from bi-cycle numerous times. Though we had the fear of falling down again, every time we fall down we got up with the willpower. We are an excellent drives today because we were not scared of those hurt. If we are perfectionist in any field today, it means that we had once overcome those fear.

There was one incident - a turning point in my life;
I had been killing myself from NOT chasing my passion due to fear.

"One has to take risks in life to succeed", My dad keep repeating every second and I did overcome that fear and achieved that Passion.

That Passion was to publish my novel. I want to see me as an Author. But I had so many Fears

1. Fear or Rejection from Publishers
2. Fear of Critics
3. Fear of facing audience during book launch,
4. Fear of Appreciation
5. Fear of choosing cast and People for work
6. Fear of my English Language. 
7. Fear of Failure and the list goes on... 

Fear of Rejection from publishers:
This fear was my major road blocker that was stopping me from pursuing my dream. At one stage, I pushed myself hard to face any kind of rejection from publisher.

All I wanted was “at least” a reply from any publisher. Even if it is a rejection with harsh comments, I decided to work on those comments. JK Rowling and Chetan Bhagat had many rejections initially. My target was to make a publisher accept my manuscript at least in the 50th attempt. I started counting my rejection list First, second….third :) Hooray!!!, I was so lucky that, my novel was accepted by the third publisher “GoodTimes Reads” 

Fear of my English Language 
My manuscript was rejected by 2 publishers initially for my English language. They were afraid that my manuscript did not follow any rules that a novel should follow. At First, I was taken back. But, then I decided to improve my language.  I went for profession help. I did a proof read to gain my confidence. Now, I am actively participating in all Indiblogger contest, writing more post and short stories, reading more books to understand the language style used. Proof Read is must for any novel, but my motive is to reduce the number corrections in the future.

Fear of facing audience during book launch:
This fear stopped myself from having a book launch. I firmly said “No” to the publisher for book launch, dreading that I would not be able to face audience questions and my chief guest.. For me, that complete atmosphere would be an alien world. But after continuous request from my publisher and from my friends and family, I decided to prepare myself for book launch. I saw all the Book launch videos and prepared myself for the big day. I voluntarily participated in a “Speak-on” Forum (A forum that inspires people for public speaking), gave numerous guest lectures in non-profit organization and trainings in my organization to overcome the fear of public speaking.
I also had a fear whether someone would turn up for a debut author’s book launch. To make my book launch a hit, I launched photo contest competition and also give away contest in good reads.
My book launch went successful.

Fear of Appreciation: 
I get embarrassed when people talk something good about me. If someone says, my outfit is fabulous I don’t know how to react. When my book cover was released first, people cherished me in front of others. That was the most awkward moment. Later, to overcome this, I took the appreciation as it is for someone. In that way, I always reminded Miss. Cool.

Fear of choosing cast and People for work:  
As a part of my contract, I promised my publisher that I would be making a video (book Trailer) for book promotion. I was terrified to choose my cast, shooting location, cinematographer, Editor, back ground music. I was not confident to play a fair role in picking the best ones in all. Then I put so much time in researching. For choosing a cinematographer and Editor, I invested my time in reviewing their past works and collected the feedbacks. I googled and learned lot of things about Editing and photography.  It took a long duration, since I was an amateur in taking a video. Twice I failed in editing. But instead of screaming about it, I looked in for reasons and rectified. I keep a feather on my hat, whenever I see my debut video, because it taught me valuable lessons like confidence, approaching a stranger and appointing them for work, forming a team, creating a friendly atmosphere. For everything the base was to crack the Fear and get into action.

Fear of Critics:
Whenever a product is launched, a lot of people would be out there just to look the negative characteristic of it. It’s their money and it’s nothing wrong to expect it to be worthy enough.  I did had that fear.
People will not give another chance considering I am a debut author. If it goes to world, it will be compared against debut authors as well as top selling authors. But this fear, craved to standardize the content of my novel. Before my novel goes to the world, I took few professional critics help. I sent my manuscript for critics review and got mixture of both positive and negative remarks. This in fact boosted my confidence and decided to take each critics as a positive milestone in my author’s journey.
I requested few authors to review my book. Sincere Thanks to all the authors Prasanta Mahanta, Arjun Deep Singh Pahwa, Arpit Vageria, Mehek Bassi, Samarth Prakash and Robert L. (Rob) Bacon who invested their time and gave a wonderful review.

Fear of Failure:
It’s always the fear of failure push us to the next level and in fact teach us a valuable lesson. All I could recollect was, a decade ago I don’t know what is writing. If my dad request me to participate in a writing competition, I would just whizz off.

Before 6 years, starting a blog itself came with a package of surprise. I keep screaming that readers would post destructive commentaries. I postponed creating a blog. But yes, I quit that fear and created a blog one fine day. Thanks to my first post. Though it was damn, damn crap but that was definitely my base for my author building today.  My friends says my writing is getting matured day by day. So, Even if I fail today, after 5 years, I will be definitely a successful Author.

We can always find 1000 fears in life to reason for not doing something.  Take down a paper divide into 2 columns. Write down all your fears in one column and in the next column try to write down “The ways to overcome it” (Even Excel would do)
I am sure you will enter a new destiny, which will be FEAR FREE :)

P.S – This post is not for the girls who avoid junk and oily foods for the fear of “PIMPLES” and fear for the huge insect C….C…..CO….COCKROACH. (:P)

I recently saw this Mountain Dew ad in TV and simply loved it. The making was awesome. This video conveys Rise above Fear to achieve your desire. Its lovely. Click on the below video to watch in Tamil. Arya's Die hearted fans "Dont miss it". The back ground lyrics "Achamillai Achamillai" written by "Mahakavi Bharathiyar" gives goosebumps. Here is my Embedded Video for the same. 

Click here to watch in Telugu.

This post is written as a part of "Rise above Fear" organized by Mountain Dew in assocation with Indiblogger Happy Hours contest.

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Rise above fear! #IndiHappyHours @IndiBlogger @MountainDewIn

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