Little things

Often we pray to God for any things in life. Many time materialist but sometimes eternal like mental strength, courage, happiness and so on..
I have observed in this short trip that God has been really generous with what he decides to give and how he decides to give. I am sure many before me have found this secret. When we ask God to provide mental strength and courage what he does instead is he gives to a live scenario where you can exhibit mental strength and courage. It might be your toughest situation in life but he gives you the courage to face it. When you ask for happiness in life he gives you a perfect situation where you can be happy or find happiness. Most of the time the difficulty is inability to find these small things in life and finding happiness in it. When you have arguments in life you learn how to handle about it and hence next time you know how to handle them better. Again for this we need to review each situations and take the positive and negatives.
I have often wondered why are people born with in-born disabilities. Looks really unfair and feel sympathetic. But often I have seen people with these disabilities outshine others and come forward in life. Nick Vujicic is a perfect example! I have seen in TV where a person has no arms and he writes and draws and does pretty much everything using his legs. They are the real heros of this world. We have an opportunity to utilize our gifts the proper way and also a chance to say Thankyou to almighty. A big thanks for making me born without any disabilities and with all senses. For giving this wonderful family and friends and life partner(if that applies).
But we often forget or rather under utilize our senses. We become so blind that we tend to blind ourselves from the needy ones. We tend not to see the little things in life. He become deaf to people who give advice and ask help. We apply conditional hearing and seeing only good things and words. We cant feel the happiness in others and many times happiness in yourself.

Everyone has a small element of God living in him so we got to respect other and try to find that goodness. We live a life of perceptions and judgments. Take a walk into a hospitals general ward. A days trip to an orphanage or oldage home. Look back towards your parents. Somebody said you wont understand your parent until you become one! I retaliate, isn't that a bit too late?! Go back hope and try to lay your heads on their laps and spend some time.. There is nothing more peaceful than your mothers lap to take a nap! Play with your dog(pet). Get wet in rain. Run behind a bus. Count the stars, watch the clouds and guess their figure. Give your waiter a tip. Pray a lot more and be a lot more grateful in life. Be happy for what you have and stop worrying about things you dont have. Because you already have the best and most it never late to be happy. Nobody can ready your palm and predict your future as you decide your future and thats why its in your hands!!

 

                                                             A Smile... so simple?

 
Smile might be the shortest distance between 2 people but sometimes it can be the hardest thing to do!! Especially for those can’t fake a smile. Its funny how people can fake a smile. It is an art though mastered by few.  I often end up in a confused expression while posing for a snap and when asked to smile! Can a Smile be asked?

Humans and Monkeys are the only 2 animals who can smile atleast scientifically. But I have seen my Julie(pet dog) often smiling at me. Which is one unique eternal feeling when seen! So what is a smile?. Is it simply a stretch of some facial muscles or is it connected to feelings and thoughts and nervous discharge of electric signals? Hmmm well its worth a thought.

You smile at different occasions and some times during your sleep or just a thought or a sweet funny memory makes you smile.  I always believe that a smile has to evolve from your heart to you lips and enlightened by your eyes. 

A small child smiles when u make different funny faces! Little did he/she know about feelings and emotions. May be that’s what we call innocence. As they grow up he turns intelligent and somewhere loses innocence.  Kids give good pose(smile) when asked to smile. Most of the time it’s an imitation of what they see and for rest of the life it remains in them.  So that becomes a “Standard Smile” expression for them when asked to smile thereafter.  Then until they grow up and start thinking about beauty and the way they look makes them adapt a better way to smile. Now ego and self-consciousness plays their part in manufacturing a smile.

As we grow up we learn {some do}. We do realize at some point that smiling and laughing a lot actually affects your life style and the way you look at it. We want to spend more time with our loved friends with whom we laugh without being self-conscious and without the ego cage! People make their judgment about you without any fact (perception) and they will judge you no matter what. How you respond to their judgment depends on what you are.  End of the day who cares about what they think about you because they don’t live your life but you actually do!

Ending on a note by some random stranger: “ You don’t know yourself unless something bad/hard happens to you ” ..  How you deal with pressure, stress, happiness, success and failure actually shapes you into YOU. So smile and make people smile. Don’t use your muscles instead use your heart and eyes..