Conversations with My God!!

At times, I keep thinking what is the essence of my existence and what are the pillars of my human mind. That’s when I start talking to the God inside me and it’s amazing how much clarity I have when I dig deep into myself, all the answers are lying there completely bare inside my core where my God lives!

Today I will be writing about how I think about diverse themes. The themes will cover the outcomes of my thought processes and inner realizations! The article is about my individual opinion – my only intention is to influence the good in everybody and if I can have a positive impact – on even a single person, I will be most glad that through writing, I am in a small way helping the society at large. My way of showing gratitude and giving back!

When we are born through our mother’s womb our heart and mind are crystal clear. Not a drop of social conditioning. We were all born free! No fear, no expectations, no attachments, we were born with love, truth, faith, innocence, kindness and free to act the way we wanted!! As a child, we are so innocent that we can catch a snake without any fear!! And that’s why it is said- children are God. Kids can say and do things with utterly pure minds without any fear – till a certain age I guess. Because after some time the whole social conditioning starts.  The hypnosis of social conditioning becomes so strong that our whole lives are torn between – what is right and what is wrong, society norms, rules and boundaries. At times, I feel like – we are ants, when you draw a circle around an ant somehow it goes round and round reaching nowhere rather than just crossing over…! It’s all a mind game!

 It took time to realize that nothing is intrinsically right or wrong, it’s all the choices that you make irrespective of the situation you are in; the most important thing is your intention. We always think situations lead to our choices but that’s not always true – we always do what we want to do at the end of the day. The man-made rules and society norms are good for sanity and processes that we follow for smooth functioning. But the truth is – all these relations and rules are bent as per circumstances and convenience, eventually every one of us breaks these rules or norms but we are scared to accept it!! I think more than these man-made laws – which are like mutual benefit schemes; the Universal Law is more profound and it prevails irrespective of any restraints; it is the same for everybody. For instance, the law of karma, you get served what you deserve, what you have sowed, irrespective of what strata and/or community of society you belong to, its identical for everyone.

Social Conditioning

It’s astonishing how deep this hypnosis of social conditioning is rooted within us, that has hampered our self-growth. If today I ask you – “Who are you”? the first thing we relate our self-identity is with our achievement’s, needs, wants, desires, past failures, how well we have managed our relationships and expectations, future plans. Honestly, all this is not you – it’s just your self-image that you are running to maintain – to become a benchmark for everybody else so that through others acceptance and happiness – you derive some kind of happiness, some kind of self-worth! But if you look closely, a layer deep, we are slaves – all living in a jail, mind is caged just like a trained Lion in a circus!! A circus Lion is trained that entertaining everyone is its motto in life and once it performs well, it will get good food and a decent living in the circus. Our lives a very similar and that’s why towards the fag end of our lives we are still soul searching, even after achieving everything, and trying to keep everyone happy, we are still not feeling completely satisfied or happy…!  the truth is we all have in some way given away the highest virtue gifted by God to us – and that is Freedom!!

Freedom and Self

Freedom is when – I am asked “who are you”? I should be able to describe myself, only the self, the self in that moment – that feels I am beautiful, I am love, I am compassion and kindness, I am a giver, I am passion, I am innocent, I am excitement, I am gratitude, I am humbleness! This is my self which is through my eyes, my self-worth – this is how god created me in the womb of my mother. Self is nothing that is perceived by others – the day we realize this truth we can live without fear. Because truth is a place where you find yourself and where there is true realization then the mind is beyond fear – truth and fearlessness are synonyms!! Just like love and doubt can never be together, if you love intensely there is no place for doubt and if you keep doubting your love, you will lose it sooner or later!!

Uncertainty is an Adventure – different perception!

We unnecessary keep planning about our future, our family’s future taking lessons from the past, our lives are caught between these past memories and future uncertainties, we forget to live in the present moment. But life is the present moment or in this very moment that we are breathing is life. How much ever we plan about our future the truth is life has other plans, our expectations and aspirations are going be challenged or broken many times because life can never be a straight line – straight line means we are dead – don’t you think! Life should be like an ECG graph full of curves and we should be open and accepting of all the uncertainties with a brave heart. The truth is as soon as you take uncertainty whole heartedly – life becomes an adventure!! Uncertainty and adventure are the same thing it’s just the way one sees it – half glass of water – few see it half empty and few see it half full! Honestly, very few people understand the difference between past – present and future, most of us live in past memories and think as if that’s the present and forget what in reality the present is and how should we work better to make the today worthwhile. Some people keep worrying about the future – how good or bad the future can be, keep making plans to secure the future, live in fear all along – in the end they are unhappy in every moment of their present lives. We need to understand a simple truth and that is – to learn to live in the moment…is this so difficult to understand. This is the only option that the universe gives us, to which we turn a blind eye, we need to embrace this moment which is a gift and make it worth living, make it so positive with your vibrations and energies that everyone around you feels more alive!!

Happiness and Security

Happiness and security –  we all run behind this for our kids/ families, but don’t you think like we just conversed. If we take care of the present moments, our interactions, our present behaviours towards everyone, putting our best foot forward in everything that we do, keeping our humility and gratitude intact – happiness will follow us, rather than we chase it. And security will be taken care by our good karma. The truth is once we consciously get aware to keep away our fake pride and ego, and start accepting the fact that we are not at all the doer of things, there is some great power sitting up there who has the best plans for us which life will slowly unfold, so the least we can do is just be humble and courteous with our daily dealings with others, keep our tongues and arrogance in control – that’s all – you have been a good student to the Almighty- he will take care of you. We all need to tone down that “I”. Happiness and security will be all yours!!

Relationships and Expectations

Our whole life is based on the various relationships that we have and therefore it’s safe to say that maximum of joys and most of the sorrows come from them. We all want a perfect family. We all want perfect parents, companions and children, we want best of friends, good jobs. These are all expectations. We always love people who fulfil our expectations. And to be honest the nature of expectation is to fail. That’s when the struggles in all our relationships start – or should I say struggles in life starts! What we do is along with expectations we start setting boundaries for other people, we want everyone to behave in a certain manner, we take away the freedom of choice and decision from the other person, there is no acceptance at all sometimes! Don’t you think without acceptance and freedom which are like the body and soul of any relationship – the relationship will burn out under the burden of expectations – it’s a matter of time. Because all expectations can never be fulfilled, expectations arise in a person’s mind and to know or read someone’s mind completely is impossible. So, to make the struggle in life a lot easier – we should be open to accepting the other person’s freedom of existence, trust me setting of boundaries will never be required. Once we respect the other person for what he or she is – that respect comes back! Similarly, we want our kids to listen to us always, play and study only with certain group of children, we want our children to take care of us. We teach them to take care of anyone who benefits them. We teach them to be selfish. Relationships have become like business, or rather like they say in the corporate world – you scratch my back and I scratch yours! Honestly with a lot of good values, we also teach children terrible things. That’s the reality. Then we all should be ready to go to old age homes later in lives, because our children are doing what we taught them. Let’s not cry then – on what went wrong. When we get old we do not satisfy their immediate needs, they don’t benefit from us anymore, they will take care of their immediate family from whom they benefit – isn’t it!! I am not saying that all kids will do that – not at all…all I am saying is we should teach our children to show compassion to other parents as if their own, love other children as their own siblings without any discrimination. This goes a long way in building character of our children. We try to build their future, their secured life, but if we infuse compassion, love and confidence in our children – we build their character. Their future will automatically get secured – make them capable!

Let’s talk about Domination in relationships, domination is influence and control over someone’s freedom of thought and actions this results in rebel and retaliation and remember where there is too much resistance there is persistence. Let’s not try to influence people around by domination rather influence everyone with love compassion, knowledge and wisdom. Life will be a lot easier. Faithfulness should not feel like a struggle, it should come naturally!

I want to talk about traditions in this segment because we follow a lot of rituals in our relationships. Traditions should be checked time to time like how sculptors drill through the unwanted parts of the rock to create a master piece.  Rituals should be followed but not blindly, we should be just like swans – it is said that swans have special intelligence therefore swans can differentiate milk from water and have the milk only!! Similarly, we should try to gain knowledge and higher wisdom to follow the right traditions. As responsible adults, we should make changes to the old rituals which hold no good for the present generation.

Let’s talk about decisions we make, honestly there are no right and wrong decisions. We make them right or wrong, any decision that we keep rolling back – is a wrong decision or at least you are made to believe that you are wrong. If we stand by our decisions those become right for us and everyone around. It’s just a matter of perception. At times, I feel the opposite can also be true – if you get what I mean! Another point I would like to speak about is decision making for the future – we try to do today. So, we take decisions for future today but, we do not know the future. Also, the future is not in our control, therefore all our decisions (future decisions) are useless!! The truth is we can never decide on something on which we have no control. Therefore, decision making should be done for present and that to we should try to make decisions without selfish motives only then will the future be a good one.

Fear does not Exist – Fragment of Imagination!

Fear of losing our loved ones, fear of not living up to expectations, fear of hurting someone with the truth. We all live in constant fear. But let me tell you – fear does not exist. Fear is “fragment of imagination of human mind”. And its proven that 99% what we all have feared will never happen in the future – Never Happens!! Then if we are sensible – and understand that fear is just an imagination shouldn’t we face it bravely and brush it off!! Now to be fearless one needs to be brave enough to accept the truth and should be able to explain the truth with conviction keeping all the fears at bay. Where there is conviction and integrity – acceptance will always follow! Another name for truth is fearlessness. And let me tell you there is no good time to be fearless because fearlessness is the nature of our souls – we were created that way!!

Flexibility and Struggles are Boons

Time and flexibility, we all should be ready to change with modern times – not necessary that a child should follow father’s footsteps, let the child understand his interest as he grows and then choose his faculty of study -this is just an example. We all should first concentrate to become good human beings and then pass on this value to our younger generations. And for becoming good at heart we need to become accepting and flexible or adaptable. Once we become adapting in all situations, we see positive even when the going gets tough. Struggles or tough times create strength, opportunity to learn something new, struggles help us become stronger in mind, body and soul, struggles increase our wisdom and knowledge, struggles change us into better human beings, a person who does not change with time and the struggles that life puts him or her into, they don’t grow in life and therefore they are the biggest troubles to the human race in general. 

Life – A Big Warehouse!

I would like to use a metaphor and explain how I see life. Imagine you are standing in a dark warehouse with a small torch light. Now wherever you flash the torch light, you see the various things in the warehouse through the small beam of the torch light. Similarly, we all are with our torch light, in other words limited vision. We see only what we want to see, and many a times we find people who show us only what they want us to see. Our vision is blurred following another person’s vision. We are generally fine and satisfied with the small beam of torch light flashing all over the warehouse. Just because we cannot see the other things stored in the big warehouse, we think those things do not exist. And what we can see through the small beam of light is the reality. Now one day the flood lights or big flash lights get switched on in this warehouse. Suddenly we are uneasy to accept the truth that this warehouse is so huge with so many beautiful things stored in this, some are good, some are small, some are huge, some are not so good. Anything out of our comfort zone (small beam of light) takes a lot of time to accept. But God always has an awesome plan. He switches on the flood lights when we least expect it!! Destiny always shakes you up. The day you get too complacent, there you go – something will happen to swipe you away!! Now you see the warehouse in a very different way because the flood lights are on – you have a more enlightened vision, everything that you thought never existed – now it’s reality. So, you get what I mean – this is what life is, a big warehouse – you find distinct size of things stored in here. Likewise, you find different type of people in your life at various stages. Always be open, you meet everyone for a reason, there is a purpose. There is no coincidence – I really believe in these things. Be good to everyone but at the same time surround yourself with sensible people who are wise and matured. With experience, you learn how to choose the right company. Try not to be a people pleaser – in the end you are going to be unhappy. Learn to be yourself – if you are emotional, accept it, no need to harden. You will get a hang of dealing with everyone in no time. Always try to do what you like for eg. A deep thinker or social cause oriented person should get into noble professions like teaching, doctorate or writing. A risk taker kind of person should get into entrepreneurship, stock market etc. Take time but try to do what you like and at times we all need to do jobs for fulfilling our duties – that’s fine, it helps bring smiles on the faces of our loved ones, so keep doing it. All I am trying to say is – try to find ways to earn through your passion, maybe later in life when you can take a few risks! Always try to first understand yourself that is the key to understanding this Big Warehouse called Life!!

Law of Attraction – Thoughts are very Important

You sow a thought, reap an action. You sow an action, you reap a habit. You sow a habit, you reap a character. You sow a character, you reap a Destiny. There is a small story that shows how important our thoughts are – once there was a lady who always thought that her house is going to be robbed. Every night she would wake her husband up and send him to check if a robber had broken into the kitchen. For many years this ritual went on but one day there was a real robber that broke into the kitchen, the husband instead of attacking the robber – thanked him for finally coming to their house!! Now the husband can sleep peacefully. Do you get the crux of the matter? It’s your thoughts that send vibrations into the universe, so the more good thoughts you think – good things will happen to you and the more negative you become, you only attract negative energy. Everything is energy. We all pick up good clothes to wear everyday – why can’t we pick up good thoughts every day for our self and others. Good positive thoughts lead to a good attitude and trust me a good attitude is the way to success in life. Thoughts are so powerful that if a doctor gives you a painkiller for your pain. Just by thinking that you are taking a medicine your pain subsides but the doctor had just given an ordinary pill – just an example. This is the placebo response – its proven in science that many patients are treated with milder medicines which are different from the real treatment of a disease, but patients thinking that they are on real medication get cured faster – this is called the placebo effect. My only purpose for mentioning this is we underestimate the power of our mind but our mind attracts everything that we wish for!

Self-Respect/ Love Yourself versus Selfishness/Arrogance – Diverse Personality Traits!

Self-esteem or self-respecting people love themselves and love and respect others. It’s simple – when you love yourself and respect yourself, you treat people the same because that’s what you want in return. These people are compassionate, warm and caring towards everyone. They respect everyone’s opinions and believe in co-existence. I strive to be on this side. This makes me big hearted, selfless, forgiving and fair towards everyone.

Now selfish or self-centred people are slightly different. Most of the people you come across will be of this kind. Well, selfish does not mean a bad person. But the level of selfishness surely matters a lot in the long run. Let’s see a small story – there was a lady who drank tea sitting near a window daily, and every day she criticized her neighbour’s clothes washing ability. Her partner heard this every day that the neighbour washed clothes but the clothes still look dirty. One fine day suddenly while having tea she was surprised, the neighbours clothes were so clean. The partner said he wiped the windows of the house – clean! So, you get it. The lady’s windows were dirty and stained hence she thought bad/ looked down on others. Selfish and arrogant people will always find faults in others because they are very insecure about themselves. They are like the frog of the well – closed minded, low acceptance level, low confidence and hence they seldom take risks in life until they know what they will get in return. Their pride is fake and mostly such people haven’t achieved much in life and even if they have, it will go away sooner or later. Such people are attention seekers, we meet several such people in our course of life…we need to carefully understand them, keep them at bay and focus on our goal. It’s funny but I have seen people questioning good things about a person but believe terrible things. It’s kind of upsetting. It makes me wonder how can anyone speak terrible things about someone and feel safe, because one must pay back every deed. Life will be so much better if we get responsible and accountable with our tongue and words that we speak. Another sad thing I have noticed is everyone is fine with bad gossip and inappropriate behaviour, its normal because everyone does it. We all have become herd mentality, no one is brave to face and rectify those people. Everyone wants to go with the flow like dead fish. Sensitivity is lost. We don’t understand that we all have become enemies of each rather than being a good friend. Everyone thinks each one is right, and if someone corrects you or rectifies – those people are very interfering. No one appreciates a positive advice; free advice is no advise! It’s sad but everyone is busy digging their own grave! All this makes me so uncomfortable sometimes. I am still sensitive towards the feelings of others. Till date I could not become thick skin. I really cannot bow down to arrogance and I stand up for my right beliefs – even if that means to stand alone! I do scold people (who I know) to correct them but later feel bad myself, thinking I could have said it lovingly. Somethings just upsets me at times. I like to apologize soon for my mistakes. At times, we do feel that after doing or being so good, we don’t prosper at the same rate as selfish people but don’t get disheartened …in the long run good behaviour will always give happiness and selfish behaviour only leads to sadness – that’s the rule of destiny. Good behaviour is happiness and bad behaviour is sadness. So always be open minded, have a giving attitude and accept your today and hope towards a better tomorrow, show gratitude. Hope is a good thing and no good thing ever dies!!

Marriage and Virginity

Marriage is people management – it’s a big package! Marriage has many sides to it, in olden times early marriage was more prevalent, later even if the boy or girl were well educated marriages happened early because the mindset was that everything must happen at the right time be it marriage, babies, job, etc. Nowadays the mindset is changing and late marriages do happen and it’s not so looked down upon. Marriage is the union of two families, two people, lots of love, celebrations, rituals and start of a new journey. Sounds fun rite!! Well, all the fun disappears when reality strikes. Marriages will be effortless when two people are best friends more than husband and wife. I feel later on many marriages become a powerplay show, where there is no 50-50 partnership rather 80-20 and so forth. Dominance, insecurities seep in when deepest vulnerabilities are exposed. Compromises, adjustments and sacrifices make it a learning as well as at times demanding experience. There is no one rule to a good marriage – but I feel the thumb rule is acceptance, openness, understanding and forgiveness. These are the essence of a sincere union – more of a mental and emotional union rather than anything else. Love that is need based and leads to marriage, the charms fades away after some time. To keep the lamp burning you must be selfless in more than one way. Else in no time it becomes more of a duty rather than a lovely relationship. Being a woman, I stand by my breed in full support on the adjustments we do in a new home but I would like not to be biased and say a few words for the men here – men too make a lot of compromises and adjustments in accepting us plus somehow our culture does not encourage men to express themselves or cry when things are tough. I am against this. I have two boys, God’s blessings, I encourage them to express and cry. I feel men don’t cry is absolutely crap! The past generation of men have so much of suppressed feelings, it’s like torture not to be able to express or even shed tears when all this is completely natural and normal behaviour. As mothers, we need to change this pattern, its unhealthy. Motherhood is another boon – though I feel being a mother is more of an internal feeling irrespective whether you give birth physically or not. I love children, somehow, I can never discriminate between kids, my love for them is unconditional!

I am really amused with the virginity and hymen connection. I feel this is too over rated because hymen and virginity is no way related. I am writing about this is because I personally feel girls are put under too much pressure on stupid matters which are mostly myths. This is for all my siblings and daughters out there – hymen can never be intact, if intact it’s a serious medical condition that needs to be operated. Thank God, it’s not intact! If every month cycles are on that means hymen is not intact – this is biology. Yes, inexperience can be the cause of first time inconveniences. Also, a girl’s physical activities like sports and activeness (extra-curricular activities) makes her body more flexible which is a good thing rather than being inactive in the growing up years which leads to more problems/ rough times later. All I am trying to say that there is no measurement for virginity, not the hymen for sure. Virginity for me is through the heart and mind, through the thoughts, how she manages herself and the people around. Purity of a person is seen through the soul, from her behaviour – a real man will never judge a girl on this. Never judge a book by its cover!! 

Love and Ecstasy

“Among the things that I have lost as part of growing up – My innocence, I miss the most”. This sentence speaks a lot about me because for me simplicity, innocence, spontaneity all fall into the same bucket. For me love has no limitations, it asks nothing in return. I genuinely like people for who they are, for their true and honest selves. Love must be raw and unfiltered for me, that kind of love is magical. This love runs deep through every waking moment of my life. Love is when you look into his eyes and can see through his soul. Selflessness is very attractive to me. Selflessness shows how innocent and clear hearted one is. Simplicity and vulnerability are my love potions! Love believes in giving more than receiving, it makes you courageous! Ecstasy is a state where you are always joyful and in a positive trance. Love keeps you in ecstasy! This kind of love is not only for a person, it’s for whatever I do like cooking, studying, my work, travelling or even cleaning my house. I am always excited about what I do, I give more than my 100 percent into it, which takes it to another level. I try to be best in what I do – and its natures law – survival of the fittest! I love to create a benchmark and try to keep raising the bar. It keeps me active, makes me creative and gives me an internal glow!! This is my self-confidence, I love being competitive, complacency is like death. I am always thinking on how to do things in innovative ways. I love spontaneity because that brings out the innocence in you where you do things with good intentions and those around you are happier. I love to boost people around me, make them laugh, pump more life into them, make them confident and positive, energetic, influence everyone for the good. Though I have learnt that not all people understand your goodness. it’s sad but after some time you must treat people the way they treat you. However good you are you can be misunderstood, quoted wrongly and many can think you have ulterior motives. I have been through this to make me even stronger and more geared up and positive about myself. Because I fear nothing when my intentions are right. It’s like a fragrance of a flower, fragrance spreads in all directions you cannot stop it, if you are good everyone will love you and admire you that is taken. A butterfly cannot see its beautiful colourful wings it’s the world that appreciates it. It is the same for the good people around. I was taught – if there is one single good person around that person can bring a positive change in many. It’s very important we surround ourselves with right kind of people. You start understanding positive and negative vibes as you mature so we attract the right energies gradually. The positive people get the best out of you even in stressful situations. Love gets the best out of you always, but the love must be selfless!!

Love is never lost with age or distance – love is lost when doubted and with bitter behaviour. Infact love deepens with age …you realize the real meaning of love as you mature. It’s not the looks, body or anything. It’s the heart and soul of a person. Love for me is when I can give more than I take …I can take any risks, because love must be crazy! God has given us 2 hands for a reason – one is enough for us the other hand is for giving and taking care of others. Money and socio-economic status, its important and we all work towards achieving it. We should also appreciate everyone who gives us unconditional love, care, compassion, understanding and forgiveness. These qualities matter a lot in the long run. These are unsaid ways of showing pure love!

We are just dust particles in this universe, it’s too vast and we are just miniscule in the whole scheme of things, this creation of God is mind boggling!! Never get too serious about life or the work you do or think how important you are, trust me one morning if you are gone, everything will continue in the same fashion in this universe. Humble down, have gratitude towards everyone who has helped you in your worst and help anyone who needs you in tough times. Perceptions of love can be many, we all are different, so we love differently – but awareness is one, so I am aware that I am in love with love! Some people fall in love to take care of their needs and wants, and some people fall in love because they are love themselves!!

Legacy

Legacy means inheritance, I really want my children and grandchildren to know that their mom/ grand mom left a legacy for them and those are – her thoughts her writings and her teachings that will help them in setting up strong fundamentals in life. Whatever you need must be earned – respect, fame, love, money, everything. You name it. Therefore, anything that comes from outside does not belong to you. One day all this will go and you will return empty handed. Because the ultimate truth is there is God, there is Karma, and there is Life and Death. Everything in between is temporary, so change is the only thing permanent! Even your name is given by your parents, nothing is ours except our self, therefore shed your ego. I want to leave a legacy where simplicity innocence and spontaneity is admired and valued. Where charity is done not only for family members but for the real underprivileged people whom you don’t know and can never expect anything in return. Real charity is helping the unknown. I want to leave a legacy where we pray for every helpless soul because the truth is even if one soul remains unhappy none of us can be happy. These things are easier said than done, but I try to do these things and so most of us can. Where there is a will there is a way!! Many times, we cannot help in monetary ways or physically but prayers are daily miracles – I pray for every soul who are helpless. God give them strength to move forward, my daily prayers surely helps in some ways, this is my belief. These things make me feel very happy internally. I feel very rich!! It makes me feel so good when I can do something for others even if that means if I need to go out of my way!! I just need strength to manage my karma, everything else my God takes care!! My body is the temple where my soul lives so I try to take care of that. It’s the clothing for the soul. I still feel I am stupid in many ways…but I also feel that if someone knows everything he is a fool, because no one can know everything. I would love to stay stupid and stay hungry – it keeps me grounded!

I strongly belief – even a leaf does not sway without God’s wish, always remember no one can make you happy and no one can cause you sorrow …it’s your own creation. So, if you think you are causing anyone pain just remember that the person has attracted this pain towards him/her. I would not talk about happiness because we all are happy when we are the reason for others happiness. But when we are the cause of pain we feel guilty as if we are responsible for everything. But each person is responsible for their karma and what and whom they attract into their life, its science/ physics. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So, the energies that you send out will come back to you. If you shed your ego, become humble, show gratitude, control your tongue, control your anger, become accepting, be open to change and improvement, become sensitive to other’s situations and feelings. All the good things come back and in forms and times you least expect it – returns are countless. Similarly, arrogance, fake pride, selfishness, bitter tongue, closed mindset, stubbornness, being inflexible – “I am happy the way I am” kind of attitude, I don’t need to change or improve are statements of cowards, who are scared and insecure about themselves. These guys are doomed in the long run and all these energies come back to their lives in ways they don’t expect, returns are 1000 times more challenging because they must face their destiny and karma. Such people create their own storms and then cry and blame others for their pain which solely they are responsible for. So, remain calm, be positive, accept that everything happens for a reason, be original, be unique, nothing is coincidence, the present is what life is all about!! Give your best shot in everything you do, Inspire. A calm sea never made a skilled sailor!! Life is the best dish one can create with all the ingredients of love and spices called karma – the dish will finally turn out tasty!! Always try to be the best version of yourself for yourself and for everyone around. Trust me it works wonders!!

Richness does not mean how deep pockets you have it’s the attitude you carry when you have nothing and how you treat people when you have everything. People who only think about themselves are very poor. Operate from your strengths, and this inner strength comes from sincere study, being consistent, firm conviction, missionary zeal/ passion/ enthusiasm and deep devotion to what you undertake to achieve!!

Let me leave you with this last quote from Rabindranath Tagore:

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from the dangers but to be fearless in facing them, let me not beg for the stilling pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not carve in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.”

This article took the longest time to complete – hope it was worthwhile reading it!! Thanks for hanging on!

Keep Smiling – Molly😊