Seeing Things

Life comes with its sets of ups and downs. For example I am listening to sexy Cohen ( Dance me to the end of love ) right now. But, for some reason, the left ear of my head phone is defective. So I am hearing the serenade through just one ear and its diluting the experience a bit. See? Ups and down to the same situation right there! (and in case you are worried...my left ear is fine. I checked. It IS the headphone thats defective) So, the learning that's working for me these days is that you need to always celebrate your blessings while accepting your share of the 'downs' gracefully. And also that you must not get carried away by either happiness or sorrow. Because they follow each other in an eternal cycle. Nothing is forever except this circle. I just look at every situation under the "control" lens. (An old friend told me about this many years ago, but I am truely being able to put it in practice only now) Either things are in your control or they are not. If t...

Able to Dream The thing with dreams, I have come to learn, is that even if you know they may not come true, It is a solace to still be able to dream. But, when your dreams no longer realize - even in your dreams, thats when it means that something has gone wrong. I dream my dreams in my dreams sometimes and wake up feeling dreamily happy. Cheers to that! eh? :)

So far, I had seen 'complaining' as a good outlet. I thought you feel better about a situation once you have complained about it. But an interview I stumbled upon recently has made me decide to re-engineer myself a bit. Turns out I was wrong. When complaining becomes a habit, you end up becoming a sad person since you only see the worst side of everything. The surprising thing is that if you conciously make an effort to stop articulating your complaints, your mind stops creating them. You end up being happier - no matter what your circumstances are. You will be happier just the way things are . Don't believe it? Well, there's only one way to find out. Try it. Pastor Will Bowen, the man behind the idea, found that it takes 21 days to form a habit. So if you can hold-up not complaining for 21 days you get hooked to it! To make things easier he deviced the purple bracelet method . You could try it out with any bracelet, I'm sure. I am giving it a shot without any b...