SQUABBLE WITH THOUGHT

WHY ME? WHY ME ONLY? IS I A SCAPEGOAT chosen by GOD?  Have you ever asked these questions to yourself? Sure in this uncertain life one faces situations where these questions pop up. Same happened with me. I was wondering why it was going wrong. Loads of thinking bore no result. Many of us believe in the omnipotent that controls us like puppet. We question him for showing apathy towards us. Is he wrongly scripting our life or is he not in good mood while scripting it. Well, here lies the answer to all our questions.

A small exercise will help us find answer to these questions. Go in flashback mode, think of the happiest things happened to you. It could be as small as joy of cherishing an ice cream or as big as getting through IIMs or getting married to person whom you love. Now notice a common factor here, the STRUGGLE and PAIN you had to go through to achieve it – when as a small kid, you cried vociferously for an ice cream, the way you worked harder like an ASS to get into IIMs. What made these happiest moments “THE HAPPIEST MOMENTS” is the struggle, will power and pain associated with them. Here is the answer to all our questions. Our life is scripted in a way, to make us struggle to achieve our goal and ambition so that we can cherish the happiest moments which are hard earned and fought.

Don’t be disheartened or depressed by failures, it’s just that success needs little more hard work. Life throw many surprises, don’t give up on failures, success may be just round the corner. The Happiest moments are destined for you, you just have to be determined, focussed and patient. It’s just that the door to the wealth of happiness requires just an extra push. String of failures means something much better is destined for you what you had never imagined.

Ending it with a famous proverb by me:

You don’t get a happiest moment by luck, you earn it.

Cherish The Uncertainty

I wanna b lawyer! I wanna b doctor! I wanna b Pilot! I wanna give my parents so much happiness! I wanna make my parents proud! I wanna marry that girl! One has so many dreams and desires – some professional and some personal! Why one do not get everything one dream of? Why one is so much unhappy with his or her life? Why one’s dreams are meant to be broken? Why one has to suffer so much? So many questions running in my mind and I am wondering what I did wrong? Why it is happening with me? Why I am the only one who is unhappy? I have been good to everyone whole of my life, then why Me? Why me? Why am I being singled out by God?

So many questions to ponder? My mind is not stable. It is wandering in forest like a deer who lost his path. What to do? How to go to my destination, my aim, my goal? We regret for all this happening to us. Deer did not lose his hope and by his will power he overcame all obstacles to reach his path and he did it. If he hadn't lost path how would he got to know about his abilities, about his courage, about his will power, how would he have learnt so many valuable experiences. Same way, if there are no roadblocks, no failures how we will cherish our struggle, our will power, our dedication, our courage, our abilities. With each failure come a new experience, stronger will power, our hidden abilities and at last resulting in much more fruitful goal. Life is a learning process. Each new thing make you learn and teach you better way of achieving something. Just learn it, don’t regret and enjoy the journey of learning experience. One thing is certain in life and that is uncertainty. 

This uncertainty makes life enjoyable, challenging. Just cherish this uncertainty and learn from it.

Only one thing is important and that leads you to the path – Will Power

Ending with a very good saying-

Willpower is like a muscle, the more you use it, the larger it grows.

BURNING DESIRE - LET THE DESIRE BURN YOU OR YOU WILL GET BURNED

Desire – Not talking about swift desire but about the desire that we have in our heart. 
 Just as candle cannot burn without fire, a man cannot live without desire.

 Every one of us has some desires, wishes, aspirations, longings for something which is so dear to our heart.  Our dreams become our desire. But just desiring or dreaming or craving for something leads to what we want. Answer is Perfect NO. It is burning desire that matters. We say we failed but is that the end? No, it is one step closer to success. As we fail, our knack for “right actions” and good “judgement blossoms”. Each failure adds more fuel to your burning desire. Unless and until you don’t have burning desire you won’t succeed and even though if you succeed it will be a fake success. Burning desire has the will to overcome all the stumbling blocks, it shows you the path untraveled, it gives you courage you never dreamed of and it will ultimately lead you to success.

if everything is so easy, what is that stops us from converting our desire to burning desire. It can be one of these – our actions, our decisions or our fear – “Fear of failure” and one can overcome this fear by his/her beliefs. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you. Get your beliefs and priorities right; actions will take care of other things. To keep yourself focus, just visualise one thing daily every morning – You have succeeded in your desire after working very hard and how it feels. Just let the feeling of success sink in for some time. This will keep you focussed.

Finishing with 2 finest quotes that perfectly fit in here:

Eleanor Roosevelt: It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Here candle symbolises desire, light the candle to get a burning desire and remove the darkness of your thoughts.

Napoleon Hill: When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Catch the drop or Drop the catch

At the age of 25, sitting in lush green lawn, relaxing, a cool gentle breeze making me more immobile. Someone whispered - Hey! I am here. I mystically asked- Who? Reply came - Opportunity! In no mood to leave the exquisite place I replied harshly - Sorry I am preoccupied. "Catch me or grab me, I will bring more joy and and delight than what you are experiencing now. I come only once, the one who grabs me, bear good fruits and one who loses me is left with arid and barren land to noodle around. Implant seeds now and enjoy shadow of trees in future." I just nodded and ignored. I kept on enjoying the weather and saw a rabbit doing the same. Next day, there was thunderstorm, sitting beside the closed window I saw the same rabbit running hither and thither looking for shelter. It was like an omen to me, making me realize if he had searched some shelter yesterday he would not have been in problem today. Its hard work of today that will bear fruits tom. I decided not to drop the catch but to catch every drop by both hands in future.

Today at the age of 70, sitting in lush green lawn, enjoying the shadow of trees and feeling the cool gentle breeze on my face as if taking away and evaporating all the sweat and pain that I bore. It was a feeling I never experienced before. It was the result of all the drops I caught, all the opportunities I grabbed, all the hard work I done. I was enjoying Sweetest fruits I bore in my whole life.On  this note ending it with a line from Hindi song-

Ek Baar Waqt Se Lamha Gira Kahin
Wahaan Dastan Mili Lamha Kahin Nahin
Thoda Sa Hasaake Thoda Sa Rulaake Pal Ye Bhi Jaanewala Hai

Dont let the Lamha fall nahin to bas dastan ban kar rah jayegi.