Someone is hearing my mind voice….
Last six months have been very testing…. For a person who is motivated, decisive and tough; it is very challenging as it is a time which tests that basic trait….
Yes I’m running thru the trauma of my dad’s health for six months now… Always my parents have given their best to my sister and me in spite of their middle class earnings… They are soo god-fearing, impractical & ordinary common people…
Have been struggling to bring back dad by making him mentally tough and help him win over tough times… Unfortunately I couldn’t push him and make him mentally tough….
Am standing helpless watching him being weak, indecisive and fragile… As am emotionally connected too him I had to bog down to his ordinary ways…
Now left the destiny to god and walking thru with blind hope… Wish god gives mental strength to my dad…
Something so obvious is so obviously forgotten…
Habits, karma and and relationships are just a few of the things that can entirely control us without being in our control……
The only way to bring sanity back into our existence is to be sane and do what we can to control our impulses, our emotions and our minds…… from reacting without due process……
The secret of sanity is to stop reacting….. Start acting…….
That is…….. you do not allow the conduct of others to define what you do….. You act in a manner that forces others to act the way you want them to act……
What I say here can be used to create heaven or hell for yourself and all others around you….. All I will say and caution you here is …. Remember that there are two kinds of error in tennis……
Unforced errors and forced errors…… Forced errors arise because we try and respond and react to everything that goes on around us…. You are therefore playing the game your opponent wants you to play and he/she already has a first mover advantage….. There is very little chance that you will win the round…..
The point is to play the game your way….. do not react to what the other person is saying, doing or acting….. Think through your mind/intellect/heart, decipher what you want out of the interaction and then just do what you want to get what you want…. make sure however that what you want should lead to a win win situation for all parties…….
If you always play your game such that a win win win situation gets created all the time, you get what you want, you get what they want to give you as a bonus plus you get to bask in love of all around you…..
Take control of your life by first identifying what you want out of life….. Life is far more than ending up being the richest person in the cemetery…… Now spend time in earning what you want in life….. How do we go about that ?
Let us say you want to earn money….. How do you do that ? In order to earn money, you need to invest money……
You want to earn happiness, you need to invest happiness….
You want fulfillment, you need to invest fulfilllment….
Just as if you want mangoes, you need to plant a mango seed….
Do not expect mangoes if you plant apple seeds……
So therefore if you want true control of your life, learn to plant your own trees, rather than live off the fruits of the trees of others…… What they give you, they control…. do not complain if they serve themselves first……
Trees take a long time to mature and give fruit…. plant your seeds now….. it will take time for them to grow…….
Courtesy: The HIYLife
It was 8 PM and called Karthick to check what was he upto… He just got up from his afternoon sleep… We were thinking a lot to engage into some fun activity… We thought of;
Finally decided to goto Moonrekers at Mahabalipuram for dinner and spend the night at Cafe Coffee Day the who night…
Wc called Sundar and he was ready to join us… But we got caught in the traffic near Kathipara and it was already 10 PM… Then we thought of going to Buhari for a Briyani… While crossing Velacherry I saw an Andra Hotel by name UGADI and was teasing Karthi that Telegu people have spread everywhere…
Karthi asked if we can try it out there and myself and Sundar seconded it…. As we came out we were delighted wonderful Andra food… We had Plain Rice, Steamed Rice, Chicken Briyani, Fish Curry, Chicken Curry and fried prawns… And yes now we found a place which we will be frequenting often…
From there we drove to Mahabalipuram CCD and it was a fun drive as it has been a while we have been out together… On reaching CCD we sat out and were cracking jokes and in came the manager telling that the joint is closed by 11 PM….
I was disappointed as I couldn’t get my cold coffee :((… Finally my friend Sundar Kumar a go getter went I side the shop and asked if they can give us a Cafe Frappe and he got me got me one…
Finally noting happened as we planned but we couldn’t complain as we enjoyed the day…
A 5 year old Girl -“Love is when he takes my chocolates and comes back with its wrapper
A 10 year old Girl -“Love is when we work for a project and he intentionally touch my hand trying to get a pen !”
A 15 year old Girl -” Love is when we get caught bunking and he takes the blame ”
An 18 year old Girl -” Love is when at farewell he hugs me saying ‘ keep in touch’ !”
A 21 year old Girl -” Love is when he runs from college with me just for a week long trip together !!”
A 26 year old -“Love is when he proposes me with a rose and makes a fool of himself, and says ‘U know i love You’ ”
A 35 year old woman -“love is when he cleans the house seeing me tired”
A 50 year old woman -” love is when he is ill and still cracks a joke just me laugh !
A 60 year old woman -‘love is when he is taking his last breath and saying, ‘ I am glad as you know what love is,,’and leaves me with a tear forever”
LOVE IS A SUPREME FEELING … ♥
“The Prince”, is a book written about politics in 1532 by Nicholas Machiavelli. Its from his name came the term “Machiavellian” which means”Cunning,deception,dishonest,cruel”. When Adolf Hitler was living in the streets it was this book that convinced him that even he can become a major politician. This same book convinced Benito Mussolini to dictate Italy. Frederick the Great, Henry VIII and the list goes on. This was considered the best book on politics until 1915.
Because it was in 1915 historians and archaeologists recovered and dissected a book written about 300 years before the birth of Christ, 1200 years before “The Prince”. They recovered Kautilya a.k.a Chanakya’s Arthasastram. The world’s first book in Economics & Politics and even Accounting. Many western economists have agreed that “compared to the cruelty and deception of the Arthasastram, the Prince is really harmless”.
Chanakya was a Brahmin who got cheated by King Nandha, He swore to the heavens that one day he will create a King to destroy the Nandha Dynasty. He raised Chandragupta Maurya, defeated the Nandha Dynasty and established the the Mauryan Empire, the most powerful empire in India which reached till Tamilnadu and extended till Pakistan. The Mauryan Empire was so powerful that when Changragupta wanted to invade the Greek occupied Afghanistan, The greeks got scared and signed a peace treaty with him and also gave away Greek’s Princess in marriage to Chandragupta to make him happy. All this was architected by one man, Chanakya – The KingMaker!
For almost six months I stayed disconnected from most of my friends….
Not sure what gave the energy I almost touch based with a lot of my friends…. A lot has happened over this six months of disconnect….
In one day I touch based with 9 friends of mine and it is time to catch up s’more to say I’m back to my routine…..
After a while it was a party time yesterday… Took a friend out to the streets and malls of Bangalore… After all fun we packed our bags to Chennai by around 11.30 PM… From there we drove to our favourite spot HP Petrol Bunk at Soolagiri which has McDonalds, Cafe Coffee Day and other food joints…
After fuelling the car we headed to Cafe Coffee Day to cool us with some COLD COFFEE… Joint was unusual less crowded and I placed my order;
Me: 2 cafe frappe please…
CCD folk: want extra ice-cream??
Me: No just frappe….
CCD folk: 174 rupees SIR!!!
Me: Handed over a Rs.500/- note…
CCD folk: no change SIR…
Me: me too don’t have change….
CCD folk: sorry sir no change SIR!!!
Me: What do you mean to say?? You can’t take this order without giving you exact change??
CCD folk: Yes SIR…
Me: YOU CAN’T TELL THAT TO A CUSTOMER…. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO HAVE CHANGE OR ARRANGE FOR CHANGE…
CCD folk: sorry SIR!!!
My anger shot to my head and my friends asked if we have to fight it out…. By this time I decided not to take anything from that guy…. Also creating a scene is not going to help it anyway as it will give the other guy an opportunity to justify his act….
I sat for a moment and posted following message in CCD FB Page and raised a complaint thru their Contact Us page;
mr.nayan refused to take my order for not tendering exact change of rs.174(I tendered rs.500)… Poor #customerservice….
Then as a solace someone called from their in the morning and apologised…. Also there was a reply in my post asking for the location… Not sure if any strict action was taken….
Those were times where Bangalore is known for its Climate, Garden, Pretty girls and the last one for its pubs… During my college days we use to travel to Bangalore just for Pub Hopping and the crazy thing is I was a teetotaller then…. We start from NASA and hop thru all the pubs at Residency, Brigade and MG Road…
But now I’m not longer a teetotaller and I’ve never thought of hopping pubs :)… We first went to a pub named DownTOWN at Residency Road… Those days this pub was one of our favourites… But this time around its standards have fallen drastically…
We didn’t like the place at all and we decided to move to some other pub and that is when I thou of hopping…. We went to couple of pubs and there was not much fun other than getting nostalgia and an opportunity to compare prices…
1) Heavy rains remind us of challenges in life. Never ask for a lighter rain. Just pray for a better umbrella. That is attitude.
2) When flood comes, fish eat ants & when flood recedes, ants eat fish. Only time matters. Just hold on, God gives opportunity to everyone!
3) Some people always throw stones in your path. It depends on you what you make with them,Wall or Bridge? Remember you are the architect of your life.
4) Every problem has (n+1) solutions, where n is the number of solutions that you have tried and 1 is that you have not tried. That’s life.
5) It’s not important to hold all the good cards in life. But it’s important how well you play with the cards which you hold.
6) Often when we lose all hope & think this is the end, God smiles from above and says, relax dear its just a bend. Not the end. Have Faith and have a successful life.
AnandNataraj 