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Things Happier People Do!

Apparently, following are the common things which happier people do on a consistent basis.

1. Express gratitude
2. Cultivate optimism
3. Avoid over-thinking and social comparison
4. Practice act of kindness
5. Nurture social relationship
6. Develop strategies for coping
7. Learn to forgive
8. Increase flow experiences
9. Savor life's joy
10. Commit to their goals
11. Practice spirituality
12. Take care of their body

A Life Without Challenges!

"A life without challenge, a life without hardship, a life without purpose, seems pale and pointless. With challenge come perseverance and gumption. With hardship come resilience and resolve. With purpose come strength and understanding." - Terry Fallis, The High Road 

Has any one in this whole wide world be spared of difficulties or challenges during his/her life time? At least I havent seen any one who has been. But still we see people with different emotions all around us.  Some who are always laughing, smiling, enjoying their moments of life. At the same time there are some who are equally opposite! crying over small things, always brooding and complaining. Having seen such contradictions I always felt that life is really partial.  Some are having happiness in abundance and for some its a distant dream.  But when I closely looked at few of such cases I realised its not that life is partial but its our view which surely is.  We see only the smile on the face of people and deduce that there lives are free from worries but we do not try to understand the way in which they handle their challenges and problems and I guess that's where the difference lies.  A person minus problem is not possible but a person minus negativity is definitely possible and that makes all the difference.

Imagine a life with out a problem.  Its like going to school but not learning a lesson, eating food with out actually cooking (well actually its possible e.g. eating in a hotel but eventually someone will need to cook so that you can eat!).  It is said that the life is a big tutor and the challenges are lessons which we need to learn. These lessons learnt through out our journey are nothing but the opportunities.  Opportunities to grow, to learn and to be wise.  Each lesson unless learnt will keep repeating its self so that we can learn and master it.  The people whom we often see happy are the bunch who acknowledge their problems, face them and eventually learn from these problems. Life will always present us with difficulties but that will become less difficult when we start acknowledging that fact and instead of running away from it, start facing them. When we stop running from the challenges, they become less challenging.

If you have seen the caption of the advertisement for 'chrome browser' it says 'web is what we make of it!'  I guess the same can be said for our lives and its challenges.  'Life is indeed what we make of it!' Isn't it?

Ru(ai)n down the memory lane!!!

As the drops fell on the window pane..
I went down to memory lane.
When I was a cavalier guy..
though quite bold but little shy.
How I used to enjoy this rainy season..
as it was joy for thousand reasons.
Those moments of walking in the water logged street..
sometime wearing slippers or sometimes empty feet.
Those errands with friends up to college..
though it was closed was within our knowledge.
Those moments of fun while getting wet..
and munching those snacks and tea without regret.
I know those moments have passed and will never come back..
but I am happy that this shower has made me live them again!!!


Dubai had a first taste of proper monsoon for the year, this weekend. It was drizzling over the weekend but post midnight it started raining like how it rains back home. It was a nice site to see people on the streets carrying their umbrellas and wearing their jackets in a country when most of the part of the year you can see only sun soaking the streets. However, the rainfall took toll on the traffic in the city. I enjoyed every bit driving in the morning to office taking these pictures and reliving those memories of past, thinking how, back home, people used to make way to their offices in the heavy rains. I really wish that Dubai also should have its share of monsoon. Though not as heavy as we get in India but a small fraction of it is definitely welcome!!!

Is winter approaching??

Though its already December so it would be a foolish question to ask but here in Dubai, weather has not cooled down as much as it used to during past years. Today morning was some indication that though late the winter is approaching. They say here that whenever there is a dust storm ..its an indication that weather is changing. I hope that this turns out to be a weather changing storm!!! Thanks to the technology, I could click these photographs on my way to office today morning...And mind well these have been taken at 10 in the morning though it looks as if they have been taken quite early at dawn.

Destiny

Destiny...Guess everyone believes in this word to a certain extent. I am the one who believes in this to a very great extent. Since the day I started reading, I have read one thing quite repeatedly which says, either in exact phrases or indirectly, that a person's destiny is written the day he/she is born. Though I am a big believer, I, sometimes,really think 'can this be true?' Does this mean that our life path already exists when we are born and we are bound to follow that path living our lives and are destined to meet all those people with whose path our paths are intersecting!!!
This sounds amazing isn't it? ..That also means that what ever we have been doing right now is all part of a bigger plan of our life...All those people we are meeting during our life are those who while following their life paths are unknowingly intersecting our life path!!! If this is true then I really wonder how many more people would be intersecting my life path while I am walking mine?? Its strange as well as wonderful. As they say that 'we are just puppets whose strings are in hands of the God what ever we do and behave is according to the way our strings are being pulled by him' Does this mean that all those great inventors invented things not cos they decided to do it but cos they were destined?? Does this also mean that all those great rags to riches story are mere the work of destiny?

In that case what about the other thing which I have heard often...'our destiny is in our own hands. We are the creators of our own destiny' Isn't it quite puzzling??

Honestly, I started thinking about this 'funda' quite deeply when I heard about an ex colleague of mine reaching a new height in his professional life. At the same time when I was quite happy for him, I was also thinking that how we both started our career together almost at the same time and how my career got diverted and due to turn of event I had to relocate myself at a distance from my family. Not that I regret the step I had to take but I try to analyse what is there in store for me in future. If they say that I am merely acting my part in life as scripted by the God then I fail to wonder why has it been scripted this way? and why am I supposed to play this part being away from my two small ones who may be needing me at this very moment? Though I know the thing I am doing now or my present situation can not be seen in isolation and its just a small part of greater good of my life, I am in a constant search for that greater good of my life that main purpose of my life which I am fulfilling by playing my present part.....

(to be continued)

Rejuvinated me....

I haven't posted for a long time. Truely speaking didnot get any ideas worth writing about. On a more honest note it was also partially due to some sort of complex. It was a complex of not considering my writing skills as good as of those few authors whose blogs I came across recently. It was a complex of considering myself an amaturish writer as compared to others. But today as I am standing on the street (!!! understandable as I am blogging using my new toy) and as the cool breeze of December is blowing across my face some blocks in my mind are vanishing. Some doors are unlocking.....

I am thinking why should I stop writing? The reason why I had started posting was not for anyone else. It was supposed to be a pure exercise for myself.. For my mind... The day when I started posting, I had decided that this was supposed to be a tool for me to talk to myself....to my inner voice. Then why this comparision should arise in first place. This is not supposed to be any sort of competition. If it is competition then it's only a matter of competing with myself. It's a competetion with my self-beliefs about myself. It's a matter of judging whether I really know myself as good as I thought so. I have always heard people saying that the way five fingures in your hand are not alike... In the same way no two persons can be similar. A strength of one can be a weakness of other... Similarly it would be fair to say as of now I am a smaller fingure as far as writing is concerned and I should move on with out bothering much about the same.... And Its certain that this writing skill will also improve after my regular blogging ...

So here I am with a rejuvinated enthusiasam to blog... To know muself and as they used ti say in a well known TV series ' To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before!!'. So my one and a half followers watch out Here I go again !!!!!!!

(Forgive the spell errors as spell chk nt activated)

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