Life Is About Creating Yourself

I am probably not what I seem to be; I know not what I should be, I am definitely not what I want to be, but I am not what I used to be.

Changes are bound to take place, situation change too, but sometimes we fail to identify the moments that are possibly not the way we want them to be. we keep on hankering for the wishes that we might have made few years ago and in pursuit of the wishes that are old we fail to notice the glory, beauty and vibes of the present. Past is but a chunk of memory that engages our mind to a time that would never come. We linger in the moments that seem beautiful and enticing only because we could never gain over it. A question bangs my mind that why people really go after wishes and make them lust that make a firm residence in our heart and in turn toe the mind.

For someone you have lost you must spend the precious time in getting, exploring or in making a earnest effort in looking for other who is even more beautiful, pure and captivating. Life, sometimes, I wonder, earn the tapered off edge in quest of someone or something, ironically not in discovering which is yet unexplored. We generally tend to 'look for' not to discover. Discovery is essence of life, yes, life is the greates discovery that renders its bearer enlightened. Life is 'not suffering', however, what is enlightenment varies person to person. Lord buddha who quoated the above statement wanted somehow to make us wonder the sap of enlightenment not by gaining it but by discovering it. He wanted each individual to discover the element of bliss. To me gaining bliss is impossible, but to make a pursuit of it is even more enlightening.

We involve in the heinous act of abusing, scolding and sometimes quarreling over the issues that eat away our time which if was used would have gifted the happiness of gaining something positive. People get frustrated, irritated when they get trapped in traffic jam, when train arrives late or our beloved refuses for a date, but have we ever tried to gain the positivity of such moments. We hardly do it as we don't want to. Well, it is perhaps rightly said that we do what we want to do, our mind is nothing but instrument and sometimes the spinning cog of the mechanical mind needs lubricant of motivation, preaching or experience. We can think, judge and implement, but the sequence gets shuffled up in many mind and most of us land up for implementation without having thought or judged. Shear picture of immaturity...


Hold you emotions, direct them so that it gets channelized to a big and bright world. Lead your mind by the power of your 'being'... BEING a big word- Contemplate over it.

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To think or not?

The god created us and we in due course proved to be species having unprecedented wisdom. Yes, we possess a mind that is capable of comprehending even the most intricate puzzles and we have heart which can feel even the most subtle emotion. In fact, human mind is a versatile instrument that can be deployed to do whatever its bearer want to.

Life is all about moving on, I remember a line which is quoted as "life is a like a riding bicycle; you fall of the moment you stop peddling", but what keeps us moving? Have we ever pondered over it? Well, to me it seems that HOPE is the greatest stimulant of life and we just move on hoping what we judge. Mind when rules the deceptive heart we feel resisted and when the heart rules our mind we might, possibly, have a fear of falling in abyss of sorrow. Well, in nut shell it can be infered that mind and heart are always at war.

We are different from animals because we have a unmatchable capability of thinking. The action of thinking is the most pondered over entity according to me. We can't proceed if we fail to think, and when we think we get baffled, we imagine, and sometimes get scared. Does not all this brings about a trail of confusion?...For me it does.

Mind is a great instrument, it behaves in a way you want it to. The greatest problem arises when the useless thoughts having a heretic link with past echoes the mind and renders us lost in it. We think, imagine and then lie down in dumps judging it in the way we want to. In fact we do what we wanted to, however, we baffle ourselves at the fag end. Many people does this and forget to live in the moment they are in.

Live in now and it will, certainly, make the mind noiseless and would make every forth coming second joyous and liveable. Life is a box which contain ample of surprises and delusions. Future is greatest delusion and past is but memory. A child forgets its past in no time and giggles with the toy he gets. Why can't we matured people be so? If we really can't be so then are we authorized to blame our mind because it can think and recollect? Fight against and give a hard push and snap out of the thorny and barbed trail of past that intrigues us.

Experiences in life are but surprises which sometimes make us happy and sometimes pushes us to groan...We are no different from a mad person who keeps saying aloud what he feels and we just do it silently inside us. We are creatures who can think and surprisingly this differentiating quality of us make us analyze it the way I did..

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Changes

Changes
Landslide by Stevie Nicks

One of the lyrics in this song sets me to thinking about my life. She sings "I'm getting older too"

I know what she means. I feel some days like I have lived a long time. Well, 63 years is a long time, especially for a 5 year old. For my granddaughter, that makes me very, very old! To my mother-in-law, that is not so long. She is 87. She feels old too. But then, talking to the last remaining veteran of World War I a year ago, 87 is not old. He was 104.

We all get older. Some days I feel young. Playing with my grandchildren makes me feel young again. I remember when my own children were that young and wanted to play all day with Mom. I remember all the fun we had and try to re-create this fun for my grandchildren. The world is different, toys are different, life is different. Fun never seems to change. Kids still enjoy a romp in the park. Moms still enjoy a coffee with a friend. Grandparents still enjoy looking at and bragging about their grandchildren.

So what does it mean to say we are getting older? It can mean many things. It means we have done some learning about relationships and no longer expect everyone to treat us with love like Mom did. It means we have many life experiences and now know so many more things than we did before. It means we have looked at people from many opportunities and learned what makes people tick. We have also learned that we cannot expect all people to tick the same way all the time. Now we can stop learning and be old, or we can do something new.

I believe we are as old as we want to be. I choose to be a lifelong learner. I choose to keep my brain always learning more new things. At least one new thing every day! To me that keeps me young. I do not choose to sit in a chair and watch the world go past. I do not choose to let the rest of my life be one of sitting and thinking about what might have been. I do not choose to allow myself the sadness of constantly wondering what else I might have done with my lifetime. I choose to continue to accomplish whatever I can with whatever time I have left. I choose to behave as if this is not the last day of my life, but the first of many more learning experiences I have yet to do.

I know that someday I will die. I choose to make death come running after me as long as I can keep going. I will not lie down and will myself to die because I am old in some people's opinion. I will keep chasing life's experiences for as long as I have breath in my body, for as long as my heart will beat, for as long as I choose to keep running forward towards more and better knowledge.

I am afraid of change, but not abandoning my search for it. Through change, even fearful change, there is knowledge and life. Live each day as deeply as you can. I will see you in our future.

Elouise

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LOVE or INFATUATION

You meet HIM/HER. You know what I mean, THE ONE.You have been waiting for the person who made your heart pound, made the stars bright, and taken over all reasonable thought processes with ideas of making love on every beach from here to Tahiti.You have a weird expression on your face, food suddenly seems like a mere inconvenience and sleep is just something you used to do. Your friends tease you about being in love. Your mother WARNS you about being in love.

Love is a dynamic process, which means that there is a relationship that flexes, changes and grows as people mature, experience happens upon them, priorities and dreams are built and goals are met. Love brings out the best in people as individuals. The relationship between them becomes the way they define their lives. As jobs, careers, and family concerns change, people are able to work as a team to be understanding and flexible so the relationship (their lives) will flourish.


What if it is infatuation? That's when you think of someone all the time, you go out of your way to be around him/her, and you begin to center your priorities around him/her as well.You daydream about him/her. There is a feeling of insecurity. You are excited and eager, but not genuinely happy.There are nagging doubts, unanswered questions, little bits and pieces about your beloved that you would just as soon not examine too closely. It might spoil the dream.It has an element of sexual excitement. Whenever you are together, you hope it will end in intimacy.

have you ever seen a girl who was so beautiful that you thought you'd faint?
This is infatuation! It is based totally on physical attraction.Most people are infatuated with their love partners to a certain degree.

What is the difference between love and infatuation? The first difference is that infatuation is short lived. It disappears soon.While infatuation limits your feelings to attraction, love will make you grow in every way and it brings a feeling of comfort when you think of the other person and that feeling will make you stronger as it increases your confidence in yourself to be the person that you want to be.


Maybe infatuation is brain based, and love is heart based?


True love is considered to last a lifetime while infatuation is considered to last only for a few weeks or at the most few months. This difference may actually not be true because a person marries another because of the love shared between them, but after a few years of marriage, they break up because they find that they do not love each other. This does not make their relationship into an infatuation. This is because there was love shared between them, but it is just that the love has soured.

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Who Is The Best ?

Sometimes I feel that why man is called the best creature of world?

what is really the criteria to be best?

what does one have to have to be best?

Well, today the human being has progressed in all fields. Every comfort which one could have just imagined is at arms length to some people in today’s era. It sounds so great, does it not? If there is so much of comfort all over then why is it concentrated to some people. Why there is no Equilibrium? ….

Doesn’t the scenario of a destitute, wandering cloth-less, shabby, and Hungry look sets one’s heart to rapid palpitation. Is it not a raw story of misery in the era of comfort and achievement? A small helpless and alone child being pressurized by the social calamity when stands demanding a piece of bread makes one feel rather to echo a question within —-why??


Synchronization is the law of nature. Perhaps the man of this era have forgotten and made the mother nature suffer even. Deforestation is the burning instance to back my logic up. When the human didn't even bother to break the synchronization within the nature to keep him alive then how can it be expected that a similar balance will prevail all around regarding poverty and monetary comfort.

To cite an example I would like to state a incident which one have might have beheld now and then—– a helpless, hungry, thirsty, half naked, itching the scars of poverty standing in front of a affluent, happy and a rich guy expecting something from him, gets a harsh and hard arrogance. Had that man offered him some help then it would have been a better and appreciable job.

But the question is that if he would have helped that destitute then would it have helped. The answer is no. But if everyone thinks so then the world will become a exhibition of arrogance towards the needies……hah!!!!! So, what one can do to eradicate this show?

Can we say that Knowledge is a two edged sword? Yes we can say it. “Less knowledge is dangerous thing”…I have something to say about it. Do more knowledge imparts a positive consequence. What is Nuclear Bomb product of, it got its existence on the ground of wisdom and knowledge. What rubbish?? What a use of wisdom?? I wonder. Is destruction an effect of knowledge….I deal it in this way, what do you think. It may be that you have a different Ideas, but I am not wrong I know it.

HUMAN BEING IS THE BEST CREATURE OF UNIVERSE……!! is it??

Imported from my blog "Musing of a Bleeding Heart"

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Perception matters

I Love photography. I just can't afford to miss any moment or object that could catch my eye ball and make my imagination toss high. Recently I uploaded a photo in Face book, and wrote something what I observed from it. The photo along with what I felt about is as under:

I don't know what fascinated me but I couldn't resist myself capturing it... If observed closely it can be noted that there is a reflection of the top fringe of a building in the water. The scene that is within the end of the narrow tunnel is nothing but the outer world but in somewhat deceptive form...

To some distance we can see green grasses signifying life, growth, renewal, health, and environment. On the flip side, green is jealousy or envy (green-eyed monster) and inexperience....

If we go bit further we see water, the essence of life... water has a natural symbolism. It can be seen as beginning and end of them too: womb and Tomb. Water can be a place of protection of life and danger too.

Well, how deceptive the things of this earth are if seen narrowly. The inverted reflection does signifies our perception that leads to situation that is beyond salvage.

I have many rattling ideas that has crept my mind after observing this photo... I have just left it expecting some more refinement of thoughts that I possess about it..

You can see this particular material in Face Book too.. Just click HERE

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Reply to Entertainment.

I agree with the premise that entertainment can be used as a tool to impart knowledge, or propaganda. I wonder sometimes though if we humans have a tendency to read far too much into the twists and plots of a movie.

We watch a movie and then stop to think about the scenes and what they might mean. Like Anand did in his blog post. The post is a good one and makes the movie seem much more important than it was set up to be. While I mostly agree with the points brought up, I have some difficulty with a couple of them.

Never try to be successful is one I have difficulty with. You failed to define success. I am sure we could come up with several definitions of success. For example, would you classify success as having the largest house in town?, Or could it be the bank account with the most money?, Or, could it be as simple as having helped the most people in some way?. Or is it just having enough to live the kind of life you want? For me, success can be defined as accomplishing something that is important to me. Like the book I am writing detailing my family tree. When that project is complete, then I will be successful. It won't make me famous, it won't make me rich, it won't even affect more than a few hundred people, but it will be the largest project that I have completed.

Anand, you say strive for excellence and success will follow. I am striving for a very excellent book. My concern is that if I keep trying for perfection, the book may never be completed! In that case, I would not consider myself successful at all.

I like to live life to the fullest. Although I am fearful of new experiences and new things, I do not avoid them, but carry on searching for more knowledge. I love to learn. I consider myself to be a life long learner. That will only change when I leave this life. This week I am learning about enlightenment. I am adding exercise to my daily routine to improve my health. I am seeking new ideas all the time for improving my health. Some work, some don't. It is part of your life experience to learn what you can and apply the knowledge in a way that helps not only you, but others around you too. Selfishness is not an option.

I have limited faith in the leadership of industry. Money is what makes industry work. I prefer to barter when I can and share. I send my homemade jams out and receive a lot of love and advice back. I love to make the jams and jellies. I make way more than my family can eat, but I don't sell them. I trade them. I get vegetables, meals, other fruits to make more with, companionship, treats, rides to places I need to go, advice, love and appreciation.

I love life. I live to love. I live to be happy by doing what I love to do. Life is really wonderful.

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Life And Emotions

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it”.

I would like to state a fact which many don’t realize that how you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game... whether you are a loser or winner. Everyday one has a choice to make. The choice is to rule or get ruled by the day. True courage, success and happiness are all matter of choice. If one says I can’t get a good sleep because of worries I have. I would say him not to hanker for a good sleep but to do something constructive at that time. Being worried is a state of mind that phase out with the use of correct action.

Yes, action is what I mean. Action is the word which kindles the dead spirit. It lets one rise high with positive vibration to the limit of sky. The action need not be a massive one. It can be a call which you can make to your loved one, it can be listening of music, it can even be a gossip with friends. The focus of mine is to exaggerate the real meaning of action. Action is obviously judged and conducted by matter of priority one has. Actions are determined by choice and choice brings about decisive changes in one's life.


Chance and choice are different entity. Choice is what you make with your senses where chance is the product of coincidence. A gambler wins lump sum of money by chance but it was the choice he made of gambling. Fear, lust, over sexual indulgence is all result of choice one make. The transmutation of these negative emotions to positive emotions is matter of choice too.

Infamous personalities like Edison, Henry Ford, bill gates and many others achieved their goal as they made a choice to overpower negative emotions-- fear, jealousy, hatred, revenge, greed, superstition and anger with the positive emotions --- Desire, faith, Love, enthusiasm, and romance. Among the enlisted positive emotions SEX is strongest and most effective stimuli. However, this energy when transmuted to another channels brings about success and peace.

The most common reason of failure is Procrastination. It’s a habit which caries one steps ahead towards failure. This has been the most prominent reason of failure of which one become aware when he has reached on the porch of failure. Well, some will in my opinion believe that thoughts, be it negative or positive gets transmitted through the ethereal medium and has an impact of it on the people around. The notable agenda is that before a thought being broadcasted it makes a safe place in the subconscious mind of its bearer. Negative thoughts can be given another form by tremendous will power and a positive attitude. I must let you know that before really affecting someone by your thoughts, its you who gets first affected

In a summing up sense, I in nutshell would like to squeeze the real sense of the article you read. The article laid emphasis on breeding of Positive emotions like:

Desire
Faith
Love
Enthusiasm
And romance

and completely discarding of the negative emotions like:

Fear
Jealousy
Hatred
Revenge
Greed
Superstition
And anger

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