Forget not thy root

Forget not thy root

Who said these words?

I did.

However far above you get or ahead you trudge,

Forget not what you were and who pushed you along this path.

Forget not what you were back then, when you see men in trouble.

Forget not the lessons learnt along the way, the path stretches on much longer.

Forget not the roots that feed you, when tough questions ask themselves.

Learn what others did not.

Think how others did not.

Act as the people dared not.

Feel each one's heart.

Play with the youngest of them all.

Talk with the mightiest.

Enjoy the silliest.

Read the serious.

Throw away prejudices.

They are somebody else's mistakes.

Make up thy mind.

Forget not thy root.

A lot of advices!!!

Here's something that I received by mail from a dear friend of mine ;) . I thought I should publish it not because of the promises of great fortunes that it made(which I do not believe, by the way) but because of the great messages it conveys...

(The comments are mine)

1) Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully

As I've mentioned in many of my posts, do things not for the reward but for the satisfaction of doing it.

2) Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

Self explanatory!

3)Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

In short keep limits and keep your wits about!

4) When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.

Hmmm..... What can I say?

5) When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.

Look in the eye, you can only do that if you really mean it!!!

6) Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

Oops! !Not something that I'm experienced enough to comment on!!

7) Believe in love at first sight.

I leave that choice to you!

8) Don't laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

Dreams are way pointers. They are your destination. If you don't have a destination, where will you travel to?

9) Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.

As always, ENJOY LIFE!!

10) When in disagreement, fight fairly. No name calling.

Happens very rarely!

11)Don't judge people by their relatives.

Every man is unique. Your are not who your parents are or your relatives are. They were not your choice to make. But be sure to make the right one when you can. Friends for instance. They show who you are!

12) Talk slowly but think quickly.

Talk slowly so that you can think twice. Think quickly because too much thinking about a simple matter is sure to screw it up.This article by Steve Pavlina talks about thinking and acting quickly

13) When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'

A new tip to me too!!Wonder if it works!!

14) Know that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Its the effort and the risk you take that gives the return. The better calculated your risks are, the better your chances!

15) Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.

Personally, I never understood why we still do that even though I do know that it was done during the time of the Great Plague.

16)When you lose, don't lose the lesson

Something the winners have mastered and the losers have definitely forgotten
17) Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.

18) Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

Now, friendship is something so valuable but we dont recognize it until we lose them. So,enjoy their company while it lasts. And Keep in touch!

19) When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it

Sticking to the wrong path will only make it worse. Better late than never!

20)Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

Something that I realized over a very short time, something like over the past few months, A smile can tell you a lot!

21) Spend some time alone.

As important as spending time with friends. You need your attention. Listen to yourself. It cant each you a lot!

A day that taught me the greatest of things!!!

Today was our sports day at school. No, the results are not that good, but it taught me some of the most valuable lessons in life, which I applied today and found to be true.

1) Never change your plans at the last moment. I'm not going to explain the circumstances that taught me this but it is very true. The plan that you made before hand is the best bet you have for peak performance. Primarily because your mind is already tuned to do it as best as you can and secondly because the last minute change that you make cannot guarantee that you would perform any better or even that it is any better a plan than it was before.

2)Do things or compete not for the sake of winning but for the fun of it. Because you love to do.
Here's what happened. We had a 100m sprint, the first competition, and I completely ruined it because I really wanted to win it. The moment I stepped on, my heart started beating faster and the performance just went right down to hell. next, we had the long jump and high jump, both of which went bad, which after reflection, I found was due to the reason stated above. Now came the most awaited of the days events , the 4x100 relay and we had not much of a team at hand.
However, we came in 2nd! the remarkable thing is, following my principle mentioned in a post of mine, I reflected and got the right results. I found out that I was too much concerned with winning that I was completely blind of the reason I was there. Because I love to run. With this realization in mind, I went to the starting line and my heart was not frantic, I felt so happy and then I did what I liked to do, run, run with the wind in the hair, run leaving behind all worries, run to freedom, and thus victory. It paid off!!!

Well, that's it. No wonder it is said, "Failure is the stepping stone to success".
To sum up, Don't make last minute plan-changes.
Do things because like to do it and not because of the rewards.

Enjoy life..........

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Enjoy Life.........

That's all I had to say to my friend who used to complain (always) that "Its so boring!!!"
That's all he had to say,when eating or in class......... and today suddenly I told him "enjoy life"
Well, if you do something and enjoy doing it you wouldn't feel that it is boring. And so it is in life, at least I believe so.........

Anyway you have only one of it..... Have no regrets about it........ Don't regret the past..... Make sure you won't regret in the future due to your present actions........ And most importantly......

LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST.......

Exams Up and Disappointed.......

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Exams are up and I'm disappointed and No! ,its not about my studies its about THE system. Nowadays , education is not aimed at knowledge but rather marks, after all , who wants knowledge when you can have marks without it?

Teachers are frantic,parents are frantic and students are frantic, all to get good marks. Students are trained but only to answer particular types of questions that are EXPECTED. Nothing else matters as long as they are able to answer these questions. The concept may not be clear but the syllabus has to be stuck to so run along even if you have no idea what that last chapter was all about.

The question I ask "Is that enough?" To me ,NO.The world has grown so much that we do not give much thought to what is Happening to US. Most just go along with flow,the strong currents of the world grabbing everyone they see along the way and pulling them into the same huge river they are trapped in. The world prefers "conformity" as the movie Dead Poet's Society suggests.Rudyard Kiplings creation Mowgli was later introduced to the vilage and the people tried to make him civilised and the same we see in most stories of fiction and reallife. The ones who get sucked in stay unkown and the world ignorant of hteir talents.THe ones who dared to resist the flow and think beyond stay atop and We know them as the great ones..........

So THINK BEYOND ,DON'T FALL PREY TO THE WORLD.........

The vast open skies have always fascinated me and still does...... sometimes I become completely mesmerized and just sates at the stars for a long time especially the moon........ Its so magnificent ...so brilliant.......so bright .....so captivating...... The skies give me a new life whenever I look at them ........ None can truly capture its magic in words........ EXPERIENCE FOR YOURSELF
ENJOY LIFE.........

It feels so good..........

It feels so good to run out wild. It just helps to LET OUT all those anxieties and inhibitions.Just close your eyes , imagine a great forest or a vast plain, open the eyes and there before you is a world to enjoy. Let free your emotions, leave behind all those pains, RUN ,FEEL the wind on your face FEEL the exertion , ENJOY LIFE...........

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

A bit of a long thought but still very interesting and relevant.Especially to me these days.Life always seem to throw challenges at you and often these challenges are unpleasant than otherwise.Just a couple of really irritating guys are enough to ruin your day,it seems.But then that's what life is all about ,some joys and some sorrows.Talking about life reminds me another thing.

The other day I was watching Nat Geo and 4-5 cheetahs were attacking a wilder beast .The struggle went on for quite a while and seeing the bleeding creature my sisiter asked me not to watch such violence.I told her to just watch till the end and after a while a sudden burst of energy and the beast pulled away with amazing speed.

The message?

Strive till the end . There is always a chance. Keep the hope that took you so far. Struggle for the distant dream

The forgotten smile

Have you ever noticed children playing with their ever present smile and unwavering happiness?Their sweet smiles and sweeter merry?

So where did that smile that we all once wore gone now?
Buried within the depths of our hearts,that fire still exists as splinter,I believe.

But , now and then ,I do see a man or a woman ,here or there, with that sweet smile along the walks of life.Such a sighting prompted me to write this and think about the same.I also have noticed that such people keep the people around them at a much more elevated level than others.Their constant smiles helps others to relive their tensions and anxieties,have an open outlook ,ENJOY LIFE.

Isn't that what is important?

I wonder what their secret is ....................

Lets all hope to smile like them........

Dont just live LIFE ,ENJOY it

Missing something?

A comment by MeiYah set me thinking....

Do we really know the value of the things we have?
At first ,almost all of us would say,

"Of course ,I know the things that I own"

and some may even go as far as to say

"I'm grateful for them too"

But upon pondering,Most of would probably have to change that (of course,he ones who actually do reveal it would be only be a few)but in our minds we would.............

In fact,we really almost never realize the value of something or for that matter even someone until we actually miss them.........when we are no longer enjoy its comfort,company or convenience...........

So enjoy life.........