Life is better now....

Recently while reflecting as usual, I realised that 2 things have changed my life for better lately.
One is Accepting people as they are, and
Two is Forgiving others and yourself too!

Nothing new in those two things but I adopted them lately and saw the difference myself.

The irritation/annoyance I used to have with people (especially at home!) on so many things (not being as clean or systematic as I am, etc) has gone the moment I realised that I need to accept them as they are! Things have improved marginally. No annoyance so no repercussions! And Life is peaceful : ) Amen!

Same way, till I learnt to forgive people, I used to keep cribbing or having grudge even after a long time. Wasn’t gaining anything. Rather was loosing peace of mind and getting unnecessarily stressed. Now when I have learnt to forgive people (may not be instantly, may be to some in 3 days and to some in 3 weeks! ), I can smile to people even those who misbehaved/mistreated. And my smile fetches a smile back and makes them also feel comfortable ( I know my boss was feeling very guilty after shouting at me but couldn’t say sorry!).

Please note that I am not PREACHING anything here. Just sharing my experiences, in case anyone can be benefited – good!

Cheers!

What scares me most.... !

Death ? No... : ) (my profile intro tells that)

Lizards? Oh yes, I am scared of lizards since childhood!

Performing in public? Well.... like many others, used to be but thankfully not any more.

But what scares me most now is – “Loosing the purpose to live !”

Lately this emptiness in life led me to this question – “Why I am here?” After all, What is the purpose of having been given this human life which we say is the most superior kind? These questions are not the easy ones to find an answer quickly. They take the whole life time to realise -who I am? I am still wandering to find those answers for myself.

But meantime, the thought came out like this:-

So often I loose the purpose to live
What is Life? What I am to Give? (learnt that life is giving and not taking)

The day begins and the day ends
And Life goes on, without much plans..

Why I am here? What am I supposed to do?
Have I understood the meaning of Life?

It’s so easy to take things for granted,
Wasting time in things unwanted.

How precious life is, we realise it late
And then we blame everything to our fate!

Is that fate? Or is that the choices we made earlier in life
Which decide – whether we live or strife?


How's that ? : )

Pain - A Great Teacher...

Yes Friends, Pain is a great teacher and I am saying this from my own experience.

There's always something to learn in any difficult situation. We need to see/find that lesson and learn it. Yes LEARN IT, learn from it, else we are again and again put in such situations (or my be more tough ones), till we learn the lesson (which was the whole purpose of being in that situation) and grow and move on...

Move on.. to Greatness, to Humbleness, to Kindness, to Compassion, to see and understand the meaning/purpose of having this life.

Yes, it's a great journey and the earlier the lessons learnt, the pleasant the journey becomes.

The good out of my painful experience was that I turned out to be a Poet !
and today, I am past that pain but still feel satisfied with the creativity which is still continuing...

Before that, I could never imagine that I could be a poet !
Now it's a fulfilling process. Thanks to that pain!

and here's a sample...

Times were good, Times were bad...
Time is now to look ahead...

Forget what's gone, Forgive what's done
Remember the God, he's the one..

To listen, to care, to wipe your tears...
To hold and support, when no one's there...

: )

TIME is slipping...

This morning over the cup of tea, looking at another beautiful sunrise, thought came about “TIME and its value”. I know, nothing new there, we all know that time is precious and blah blah blah….

And that’s the point ! Why it becomes blah blah for most of us? That means we just read and understand but do not implement things always, what we learn !

We know time is valuable but still keep cribbing over lack of time as if someday somebody would grant me some more hours in the day !!! (Thank God there's no penalty for dreaming wild...!)

So wake up before its too late, wake up before things become irreversable, wake up before you are left to regret rest of your life !!!

Ask me! I have learnt it hard way!

Akele Hi Chalna Hoga...

Pondering over the events gone by in life, I learnt that ultimately it's you alone who has to walk your path of life. It's your life, it's your journey and it's you who has to travel constantly and reach the destination finally. People would come and go, good and bad times would come and go and you will have to learn to leave expectations behind and keep continuing your journey. There's no stop or wait time there.

and the same thoughts turned out this way in form of a poem:

Is raah par, is safar me
Ummeedon ke is bhawanr se
Ab to nikalna hoga
Akele hi chalna hoga

Rishte naate dost sab chhoot jaate hain
Itni bheed me bhi akele ho jaate hain
Andhere hon ya ujaale
Apni is dagar par
Akele hi chalna hoga

Saathi aayenge, saathi jaayenge
Kuchh door sath chal, alag ho jaayenge
Dhoop ho ya chhanv
Apne is jeevan path par
Akele hi chalna hoga

Dukh me akele, Sukh me akele
Hansi me, khushi me, aansoon me akele
Rukna nahi, ab chalna hi hoga
Koi ho ya na ho
Akele hi mujhko chalna hoga

Loner
July 15, 2003 10:10 pm