Feb 26th: Life Events and Situations

Are we handling the events and situations in our lives appropriately?

We don't know how to react to situations in our lives. Instead of being thankful for what we have, we tend to deprive ourselves of the trivial.

Reflect on this story:

Once, a mother and a 5 year old girl went to a beach. They had so much fun in the water. When they were about to get out, a huge wave came unto them and swept the child away from the mother into the ocean. The mother was devastated. She prayed to god that her child is everything to her and that she is ready to fore-go anything and everything for her. She just wanted her girl back.

Another huge wave came unto the mother, but this time it brought her child back . Her prayers were heard. The child was in perfect health, so the mother was very happy and embraced the child with tears in her eyes. However, in the next minute, the mother looked very upset and was scolding the child.  It turned out that the child had lost those very expensive shoes bought the day before. She went home with a feeling that her day was ruined!

The moral of the story is, "learn to deal with the events and situations (good or bad) in your life in their REALITY without missing the OBVIOUS".

Hari Om

Feb 6th: The EYES!!

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her.

She told her boyfriend 'If I could only see the world, I will marry you'. One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.

He asked her,’ Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?'

The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.

Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear for before they were yours, they were mine.'

This is how the human brain often works when our status changes.

Only a very few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations.