I don't know how familiar you are with this expression but I am more familiar with the expression, Eat to live and live to eat. I think this one sounds better and more tasteful because it is about FOOD. Anyway, on a more serious topic now, which is about learning and living.
I vision life as a learning process. Yes, I know it sounds boring. But not really, if you see the FUN in learning and turn it around and make learning FUN.
When we start seeing some sort of lessons in our daily life, we adopt it, adapt to it and this is when learning begins. We are not just closing our eyes and passing through the journey of life where nothing makes any difference to us. By our mere observation, we are learning, until and unless we are so thick skinned that we just overlook everything.
What I am trying to say is this, make learning a part of you. In a situation where you are neither learning or teaching, you are just wasting your precious time and effort. I would walk away from such an environment for I know I do not belong here.
Let us do a daily review of, "What have we learnt today?" Remember teaching is also part of learning because someone is 'learning' from you.
So what have you learnt today? Share with us, we want to know!!
Hi Readers,
Greetings! So what you want to hear from me today? I am not much in a mood to write today, so I thought let me have a little chat with you. Wow! That bounced me back to writing for that is my media of conversation with my, valuable readers. I feel we are bonding well. What do you think?
Here is what I want to tell you today......! When I write my post, I actually feel your presence, visualize your expression and hear your murmur. Everyday, through my blog posts, I take a walk around the blocks with you. It is fun and soothing.
So.............thanks for being there.
The other day as I opened my front door, a bee buzzed right in, uninvited. I chased the bee for a while and then gave up because it disappeared out of my sight. While waiting for it to emerge from its hiding a thought entered my head, just like the bee entered my house. Anyway!
I was actually curious as to why the bee entered my house. Was it looking for honey? Yes bees are very attracted to honey. With bees, it is all about honey. They live in the sweetest world of all. Gosh!
That is when I felt the contrast between honey and bee that I never thought of before. Well, it may sound weird but I just happen to think that how bees are attracted to honey. They make honey and they chase honey. They buzz all over the place to suck in the sweet nectar of the flowers and flop from flower to flower making a big, annoying noise. Besides, mind you, they sting as well.
Honey never goes after the bee, neither does the sweet nectar of the flowers. They just sit tight and the bees hover over it.
Given a choice what would we want to be. Bee or honey? An annoying person, who like a bee, keeps moving, constantly looking for a friend or a friendly affectionate person, sweet like honey who, everyone is looking for?
Be sweet like honey. Not noisy and annoying like a bee. Bee a sweet person. Yes honey!
Just like the letter "U" which stands between T (together) and V (WE), similarly the word You, that is you - our friend, You are not alone.
This is my today's message. We often feel so isolated, forgotten, invisible, discarded etc. But that is not so. You have friends you have given up, well-wishers who need you as much as you need them, supporters whom you never looked for and admirers who are watching you from afar.
You are constantly under watch, being envied, admired, sympathized, analyzed etc. for your outstanding attributes.
But you choose to look the other way. You gazed at the empty roads, deserted streets, dark sky, abandoned houses, barren lands etc. (especially at people who made you feel so unwanted).
If only, I repeat, if only we can focus on the good things, the right things, we will never see the bad things. We see the bad aspects because we choose to and that is when we compel ourselves to feel so alone.
When there are good people waiting to embrace us, we miss the ones who have discarded us. The ones who only criticized and judged us without understanding our difficulties, our shortcomings, our pain. We continue to grieve over them, miss them and mourn their loss.
Never feel alone for there are many who need you, needs a hug from you, some comforting words from you, desires you company. Just stretch your hands and you will see that while you were surrounded by happy faces, you felt alone for no reason.
Feeling silly, right!
As I just happen to write my 177th post today, I felt a great sense of gratitude and achievement. I started this blog with no plan of ever publishing or sharing and they were 'drafts' that I thought will remain so 'forever.' But here I am today, sharing all my posts with you. Let us just say, 'it happened.'
These are not just 'posts', at least I won't say so. They are my deep thoughts, real experiences and true feelings which you may agree with or disagree or may even find it weird or find a link with yourself. Whatever!
I just find joy in sharing with you because of the response I see. Anything I do, that makes others happy, is my happiness. I see it as my achievement and find contentment in it.
The only reason for my blog so far is to give the message that whatever we may be undergoing, experiencing or feeling, we are all having something in common with each other. We are sharing so much with each other across the globe.
This is an attempt to bring together people from different walks of life and different region of the world and to do away with all the differences we are living with.
The message is : we think alike, we feel alike, we are so alike. Do not ever think that you are alone, there is someone, somewhere undergoing the same experience. So let us link up and make each other feel better by saying, "We were there too, I know how it feels!!"
While everything else is gibberish to us, what do we really want to hear? An important and interesting question!
What we all want to hear, let me sum it up in just one sentence. We all want to hear our own opinion in another voice. There! I said it!
Isn't this what we unanimously want to hear. We will not compromise for anything less. "Yes I am always right and I want to hear this from you", is our constant effort.
Besides this, we want to hear our praises even if it does not apply to us. We want to hear our importance. We desperately want to hear that the world would not exist without us.
But have we ever wondered what others want to hear from us? No, definitely not. We just play one-sided game where we deserve all the chances. We live in a world where it is 'all about me.'
If we cannot hear what is agreeable to us, we do not want to hear anything at all.
Life is a short and sweet journey filled with large and numerous opportunities. Opportunities to grow, opportunities for good deeds, prosperity, earn a name and title, just name it. It is super packed with OPPORTUNITIES.
This gifts us with the chance to grow from NOTHING to SOMETHING, and from SOMETHING to EVERYTHING. A slow and ever going process of making something of yourself, no matter what. These opportunities exists from beginning to end and is not limited to age, gender, appearance, nationality etc.
Of course this is not about hoarding and being a miser when one starts accumulating from nothing to a whole junkyard of everything. It is not about materialism. It is about creativity and benevolence. It is about collective growing and giving back to the community.
It is just so inspiring when you start from nowhere, nothing, from scratch but with patience and hard work you start to see the fruit of your effort. Pretty soon, it spreads and becomes SOMETHING that amazes you. It keeps enhancing and with perseverance becomes EVERYTHING that makes a dream come true. AWESOME!!
NOTHING>>SOMETHING>>....................EVERYTHING.
"MAKE IT HAPPEN!"
