believe in yourself

An accident deprived the village headman of the use of his legs , he took to walking on crutches. He gradually developed the ability to move with speed -- even to dance and execute little pirouettes for the entertainment of his neighbors. It soon became a status symbol in the village to walk on crutches, and before long everyone was doing so.By the fourth generation everyone walked with crutches. The village craftsmen became famous for the quality of the crutches they produced.

One day a young boy presented himself before the village elders and demanded to know why everyone had to walk on crutches since they had been provided with legs to walk on.

The village elders were amused that this upstart should think himself wiser than they so they decided to teach him a lesson. "Why don't you show us how?" they said. A demonstration was fixed for the following day. Everyone was there when the young man hobbled on his crutches to the middle of the square, stood upright, and dropped his crutches. A hush fell on the crowd as he took a bold step forward -- and fell flat on his face. ith that everyone was confirmed in their belief that it was quite impossible to walk without the help of crutches.

The boy got up again , dusted himself, and after a few stumbles started to hobble and walk …the villagers thought it was a miracle !!

Message: Never lose faith in your ability to ask questions and move ahead when you know the answers ,even if he others are not trusting .Avoid the company of people who are unable to think beyond; the mercurial world teaches people to be followers and not use their minds.Do not doubt yourself because others could not understand ...

adapted from :the prayer of the frog

i want to be happy

Once, a young lonely  boy, despondent and lonely, walked through a meadow and saw a small butterfly caught in a thorn bush.  The more the butterfly struggled to free itself, the deeper the thorns cut into its fragile body.
   

 Filled with compassion, the boy released the butterfly. But, instead of flying away, the butterfly transformed into an angel and said gently, "To reward you for your kindness, I will do whatever you like.”The boy thought for a moment, and then replied, "I want to be happy!"
   

 "Very well," the angel said. Then the heavenly creature leaned close to the boy and whispered something in his ear.

 Many years later, as the boy lay on his deathbed after a full and happy life, his friends gathered around him. "Won't you tell us your secret now," they pleaded. With a labored smile, the man answered,"An angel told me that no matter where I went in life, I would find people who needed me-- people rich or poor, young or old, meek or self assured-- and helping those people SMILE would bring me happiness and satisfaction."

Somewhere in your life there is someone who needs your smile. Are you willing to be an angel  ? Share a smile, for it goes a long mile, fill someone’s day with happiness, each day is a gift, that is why it is called a present...give someone a present today …share this secret …I hope I did 

Waiting for the Right Choice ?

People spend a lifetime trying to find a right choice...some people get stuck without the right choice .some people change their selves –their conversation , their looks , their being to be part of a crowd to find the right choice …But hey is that the right choice ..That is because we want people to conform

• To being there continuously
• To love us unceasingly
• To become trophies because the society wanted so, the parents wanted so...because time is passing by ..not because we wanted so...

Hence at times people are pressured to feel the absence of someone permanent, the pain of not having to say...i own him, her …This pressure makes them become what they are not ,but they clone other s who they thought were better at this ,,but they were not ..they or their circumstances forced them to comply .In a college we want company as it is out of fashion to be alone, when of marriageable age parents and peers force people to get hitched...for that is natural...but not doing so, does not mean that they were correct.So there must be someone who is ok to every-one and fits your picture ...but hey fingers of the hand were never equal.

So when you choose to look for a soul-mate do you put up conditions unending? The concept of soul mates is so much heard of, very difficult to experience...but as is written

• A soul mate is somebody with whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, love, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality, and/or compatibility. A related concept is that of the twin flame or twin soul – which is thought to be the ultimate soul mate, the one and only other half of one's soul, for which all souls are driven to find and join.
• This feeling is automatic

A soul-mate is one where you can feel the pain , you can feel the pleasure , where you can be your self and not have to put up a pretence .The gaze they have is honest , the conversation the truth ..you can be your self..

 So why do we search so much .at times when we find someone who we felt was a soul mate ..why do we test it continuously??. so come-on  let us connect with who we felt were our soul-mates..made us happy ,sad and we felt wee could conquer the world.. and then feel a little better , rather than feel unhappy..

Life will find its own meaning...for unknown are the reasons people and hearts come together...they met for some reason …maybe your soul-mate was not the traditional definition this world had…but if you felt comfortable...let the connect remain..kal ho na ho.

The little butterfly

A girl butterfly sat on the sidewalk watching the other butterflies play. They were laughing and swinging, taking turns pushing each other. She watched them whisper secrets to each other. She had tried to be friends with them, but they told her they didn't like the way she looked. To play with them, she had to speak like them, behave like them, laugh like them, and appear to be part of the crowd like them her parents worked hard to make her like the other butterflies. They bought her what they could, but she had siblings that needed things too. She loved her parents. She didn't blame them. She couldn't figure out why everyone wanted her to change She was nice. She knew how to act right. Yet every day she sat and watched everyone play.

She would get lonely, she would get angry, and she even tried to make friends with bad butterflies from old times, so that they play with her. But at the end when they played a little , she knew they were not good and she really did not want to be with them.

She also wrote little poems to god

If you only knew my pain, then maybe you would understand.
If you could only see the, tears that I have cried.
If you could only hear, that agony that I've gone through. Maybe then you'd understand.
If you could only feel, my hopes and dreams disintegrate.
If only you knew, maybe then you'd understand my pain. The hurt that I've gone through, seems too great for me.
If only you could feel my pain, hear my hopes fall to the ground, see my dreams crushed beneath you feet. Can you hear my faint cry for help?
I have hurt more than you can imagine,

If you only knew my pain, then maybe you would see ,My soul broke into tiny shards of broken glass ,my heart to stone and then broke it into tiny pebbles.

How can you not see the pain, how can you not understand?

God heard her and sent her a boy butterfly, they both became friends, flew from flower to flower, garden to garden and were happy, gathering honey   and maybe were in love

Her old butterflies from the past saw her happy and constantly tried to get back to her for whatever reasons and tempted her .She used to get tempted of and on and felt they would want to be with them as well.

Now that her world seemed different, she wanted to still test the boy butterfly   

One day, they decided to play a game and the girl butterfly said “one who sits in this flower tomorrow first in the morning loves the other one more....." .The boy butterfly agreed .Next morning, the girl butterfly waits for the flower to open so that she can sit first . Finally, the flower opened .And what did she see? The buy butterfly had died inside the flower. He stayed there all night ,so that early in the morning as soon as she sees him he can fly and tell her how much he loved her.

Message : In a youthful world  where we are mechanically working morning to night ,are living in a nuclear family ,far away from our homes – the desire of pleasure , companionship , the mercurial world , loneliness , make us speak , act in a certain way .

Very often we forget to count our blessings, question our relationships, our companions, we forget living might mean taking chances, but they are worth taking, loving might be a mistake, but it’s worth making. May we all get what we want, but more importantly learn to love what we have.
I've observed and learnt that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The monkey's paw

The Monkey's Paw" is a story   by author W. W. Jacobs.

The story involves Mr. & Mrs. White and their grown-up son, A friend gives them a monkey's paw, telling of its mysterious powers to grant three wishes, and tells the family of its journey from an old fakir to his comrade.

Mr. White greedily wishes for 200 pounds. Suddenly there is a knock on the door and they get a message that their son is killed by machinery at his company, and they will get the insurance amount of 200 pounds.

Days after they bury Herbert, Mrs. White, almost mad with grief, asks her husband to wish Herbert back to life with the paw. Mr. White is very reluctant, scared but does so. After few moments there are rapid knocking sounds on their door. Mrs. White already mad with grief, shrieks, fumbles at the locks in an attempt to open the door. Mr. White goes white with fear and thinks that if it is his son, he cannot be allowed inside the house, as his appearance will be too horrific; since his son was mutilated by the accident and was buried for more than a week.

Mr. White shaking with fear wishes his third wish; that Herbert be dead again. The knocking stops. Mrs. White already mad opens the door to find no one there and runs out of the house with grief

Later when Mr. White saw, the description of the paw was: '"It has a spell put on it by an old holy man. He wanted to show that if fate ruled people's lives, and those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow"'.

 Moral of the story  : Always be thankful for what you have and careful of what  you wish for , god might fulfill some of these wishes and at times they might come at a huge cost . 

care for your loved ones

A story given by a smart brain , with a cute head... a story that happened  somewhere. In order to renovate the house, a man breaks open the wall. There was  a  hollow space between the wooden walls. When tearing down the walls, he  found that there was a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside  hammered into one of its feet.   He sees this, feels pity, and at the same time curious, as when he checked  the nail, it was nailed 5 years ago when the house was first built!!! What happened? The lizard has survived in such position for 5 years . In a dark wall partition for 5 years without moving, it is impossible and  mind-boggling. Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 5  years! without moving a single step--since its foot was nailed! So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing,  and what and how it has been eating. Later, not knowing from where it came,  appears another lizard,with food in its mouth.Ah! He was stunned and   touched deeply.   For the lizard that was stuck by nail, another lizard has been feeding it  for the past 5 years... Imagine? It has been doing that untiringly for 5 long years, without giving up  hope on its partner. Imagine what a small creature can do that a creature blessed with a brilliant mind  can't. Please never abandon your loved ones   message ...Never Say you are Busy When They Really Need You ...You  May Have The Entire World At Your Feet.But You Might Be The Only  World To Them.. A Moment of negligence might break the very heart which  loves you through all odds.. Before you say something just remember..it takes  a moment to break but an entire lifetime to make...

When everything is all right

This hope was for someone who has been and shall be  very deAR to me  ... 

When the Idea is not right God says No

When the idea is not the best God says NO

When the idea is absolutely wrong , even though it may help you , it could create problems for someone else , God says NO

When the time is not right , god says “Slow”

What a catastrophe it would be if god answered every prayer at the snap of fingers .Do you know what would happen ?God would become your servant , not your master

Suddenly god would be working for you , instead of you working for God.

Remember :

God’s delays are not God’s denials .

God’s timing is perfect .Patience is what we need in prayer.

When you are not right god says grow

            A selfish person has to grow in unselfishness

            A timid person has to grow in courage

            A dominating person has to grow in confidence

            A critical person has to grow in sensitivity

            A negative person has to grow in positive attitudes

            A pleasure seeking person has to grow in compassion for suffering people

Do not do wrong , or wrong others , willfully or by mistake , for god is watching and you will repent

When everything’s all right , god says GO & miracles happen

The door to your dream suddenly swings open & there stands God saying “GO”