Comparison between 2 generations

What a beautiful answer!
Comparison between two “Generations” ……. Everyone must read 👌👌

A youngster asked his father: “How did you people live before with-
No access to technology
No aeroplanes
No internet
No computers
No dramas
No TVs
No air cons
No cars
No mobile phones?”

His Dad replied:
“Just like how your generation lives today with –

No prayers
No compassion
No honor
No respect
No character
No shame
No modesty
No time planning
No sports
No reading”

“We, the people that were born between 1940-1985 are the blessed ones. Our life is a living proof:

👉 While playing and riding bicycles, we never wore helmets.
👉 After school, we played until dusk. We never watched TV.
👉 We played with real friends, not internet friends.
👉 If we ever felt thirsty, we drank tap water not bottled water.
👉 We never got ill although we used to share the same glass of juice with four friends.
👉 We never gained weight although we used to eat a lot of rice everyday.
👉 Nothing happened to our feet despite roaming bare-feet.
👉 our mother and father never used any supplements to keep us healthy.
👉 We used to create our own toys and play with them.
👉 Our parents were not rich. They gave us love, not worldly materials.
👉 We never had cellphones, DVDs, play station, XBox, video games, personal computers, internet chat – but we had real friends.
👉 We visited our friends’ homes uninvited and enjoyed food with them.
👉 unlike your world, we had relatives who lived close by so family time and ties were enjoyed together.
👉 We may have been in black and white photos but you will find colourful memories in those photos.
👉 We are a unique and, the most understanding generation, because we are the last generation who listened to their parents.
Also , the first who have had to listen to their children.
and we are the ones who are still smarter and helping you now to use the technology that never existed while we were your age!!!

We are a LIMITED edition!

So you better –
Enjoy us.
Learn from us.
Treasure us.
Before we disappear from Earth and your lives.”

Small Stories #34

Put a frog into a vessel fill with water and start heating the water.
As the temperature of the water begins to rise, the frog adjust its body temperature accordingly.
The frog keeps adjusting its body temperature with the increasing temperature of the water.
Just when the water is about to reach boiling point, the frog cannot adjust anymore.
At this point the frog decides to jump out.
The frog tries to jump but it is unable to do so because it has lost all its strength in adjusting with the rising water temperature.

Very soon the frog dies.
What killed the frog?
Think about it!

I know many of us will say the boiling water.

But the truth about what killed the frog was its own inability to decide when to jump out.

We all need to adjust with people & situations, but we need to be sure when we need to adjust & when we need to move on.
There are times when we need to face the situation and take appropriate actions.
If we allow people to exploit us physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually or mentally they will continue to do so.

Let us decide when to jump!

Let’s jump while we still have the strength.

Small Stories #34

I love this analogy!

You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.

Why did you spill the coffee?

“Because someone bumped into me!!!”

Wrong answer.

You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.

Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.

Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.

Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It’s easy to fake it, until you get rattled.

So we have to ask ourselves… “what’s in my cup?”

When life gets tough, what spills over?

Joy, gratefulness, peace and humility?

Anger, bitterness, harsh words and reactions?

Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.

Today let’s work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.

(Shared from a friend whose cup is full of goodness and inspiration.)

Steps to solve a Problem


*Steps to Solve any Problem.*

The more organized and systematically you deal with any problem, the more positive and creative you will be in solving it. Here is a step to step method you can use to think systematically. With this method, you develop your creativity to genius levels.

1. Change your language from negative to positive. Instead of using the word “problem,” use the word “situation,” or call it a challenge or an opportunity. If a sale falls through, you can say something like “This is an interesting challenge. It’s an opportunity for me to improve my sales effectiveness so this doesn’t happen again in the future.”

2. Define your situation or difficulty clearly. What exactly is the challenge you are facing? What is causing you the stress and anxiety? What is causing you to worry? Why are you unhappy? Write it out clearly in detail.

3. Ask, “What else is the problem?” Don’t be satisfied with a superficial answer. Look for the root cause of the problem, rather than getting sidetracked by the symptom. Approach the problem from several different directions.

4. Ask yourself, “What are my minimum boundary conditions?” What must the solution accomplish? What ingredients must the solution contain? What would your ideal solution to this problem look like? Define your parameters clearly.

5. Pick the best solution by comparing your various possible solutions against your problem, on one hand, and your ideal solution, on the other. What is the best thing to do at this time under the circumstances?

6. Before you implement your decision, ask, “What’s the worst possible thing that can happen if this decision doesn’t work?” Before you make any expenditure of money or effort in trying to achieve your goal, you should evaluate what would happen if your decision were a complete failure.

7. Set measures on your decision. How will you know you are making progress? How will you measure success? How will you compare the success of this solution against the success of another solution? How will you define a success? Make it measurable, and then monitor it on a regular basis.

8. Accept complete responsibility for implementing the decision. Many of the most creative ideas never materialize because no one is specifically assigned the responsibility for carrying out the decision.

9. Set a deadline. A decision without a deadline is just a meaningless discussion. If it’s a major decision and will take some time to implement, set a series of short-term deadlines and a schedule for reporting.

10. Take action. Get busy. Get going. Develop a sense of urgency. The faster you move in the direction of your clearly defined goals, the more creative you will be, the more energy you will have, the more you will learn and the faster you will develop your capacity to achieve even more in the future.

Small Stories #33

A young man saw his primary school teacher on a wedding.
He went to greet him with all the respect and admiration.
He said to him:
“Do you remember me, Teacher?”
The teacher said: “No, please introduce yourself.”
The student said: “I was your student in the 3rd Grade, I am the one who stole the watch of a child in the classroom. I will remind you but I am sure you remember the story.”

One of the boys in my class had a beautiful watch, so I decided to steal it.
He came to you crying that someone had stolen his watch.
You asked us to stand so as to search our pockets.
I realized that my action would be exposed in front of the Students and Teachers.
I will be called a thief, a liar and my character will be shattered forever.

You asked us to stand and face the wall and close our eyes completely.
You went searching from pocket to pocket, and when you reached my pocket you pulled the watch out of my pocket, and you continued until you searched the last student.

After you finished you asked us to open our eyes and to sit on our chairs.
I was afraid you will expose me in front of the students.

You showed the watch to the class, and gave it back to the boy, and you never mentioned the name of the one who stole the watch.
You never said a word to me, and you never mentioned the story to anyone.

Throughout my school life, none of the teachers nor the students talked about me stealing the watch.
I thought to myself you saved my dignity that day.

The teacher said: “I can’t remember who stole the watch that day, because I searched the pockets of all of you while my eyes were also closed.”

Education needs wisdom. As Teachers, Parents, Leaders, we should be able to understand the consequences of our actions. Protecting and reforming is tougher than exposing and expelling.

Small Stories #33

THE CRACKED POT

Once upon a time there was a water-bearer in India who had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master’s house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pot full of water in his master’s house.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water-bearer one day by the stream. “I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you.” “Why?” asked the bearer.

“What are you ashamed of ?”

“I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master’s house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work and you don’t get full value from your efforts, the pot said. The water-bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion he said, “As we return to the master’s house, I want you to notice the beautiful flowers along the path.”

Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path, and this cheered it some.

But at the end of the trail, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again it apologized to the bearer for its failure.

The bearer said to the pot, “Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path, but not on the other pot’s side?

That’s because have always known about your flaw, and I took advantage of it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you’ve watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my master’s table. Without you being just the way you are, he would not have this beauty to grace his house.”

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and warding. You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

Small Stories #32

Once there was a farmer who discovered that he had
lost his watch in the farm. It was not an ordinary watch
because it had
sentimental value for him.
After searching the hay for a long while, he gave up and call the help of a group of children playing outside the barn.
He promised them that, the person who found it, would be rewarded.

Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the hay but still could not find the watch.

Just when the farmer was about to give up looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance.

The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not.? After all, this kid looks sincere enough.”

So the farmer sent the little boy back in the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his
hand.

The farmer was happy and surprised and so he asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.

The boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of the
watch and just looked for it in that direction.”

MESSAGE : A Peaceful mind can think better than a Worked up mind. Allow a few minutes of Silence to your
mind every day, and see, how sharply it helps u to set your life the way you expect it to be.

MORAL : The soul always knows what to do to heal itself…

The challenge is to silence the mind…….

Small Stories #31

A teacher teaching math to seven-year-old Kazim asked him, “If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”

Within a few seconds Kazim replied confidently, “Four!”

The dismayed teacher was expecting an effortless correct answer (three). She was disappointed. “Maybe the child did not listen properly,” she thought.

She repeated, “Kazim, listen carefully. If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”

Kazim had seen the disappointment on his teacher’s face. He calculated again on his fingers. But within him he was also searching for the answer that will make the teacher happy. His search for the answer was not for the correct one, but the one that will make his teacher happy. This time hesitatingly he replied, “Four…”

The disappointment stayed on the teacher’s face. She remembered that Kazim liked strawberries. She thought maybe he doesn’t like apples and that is making him loose focus. This time with an exaggerated excitement and twinkling in her eyes she asked, “If I give you one strawberry and one strawberry and one strawberry, then how many you will have?”

Seeing the teacher happy, young Kazim calculated on his fingers again. There was no pressure on him, but a little on the teacher. She wanted her new approach to succeed. With a hesitating smile young Kazim enquired, “Three?”

The teacher now had a victorious smile. Her approach had succeeded. She wanted to congratulate herself. But one last thing remained. Once again she asked him, “Now if I give you one apple and one apple and one more apple how many will you have?”

Promptly Kazim answered, “Four!”

The teacher was aghast. “How Kazim, how?” she demanded in a little stern and irritated voice.

In a voice that was low and hesitating young Kazim replied, “Because I already have one apple in my bag.”

Message of the Story:

When someone gives us an answer that is different from what we expect don’t think they are wrong. There maybe something that we have not considered at all. To listen well we must be willing to release our assumptions.

Navarathiri

Wish you all a Happy Navarathri

SIGNIFICANCE OF NAVRATRI

Navratri means ‘nine auspicious nights’. During this period of nine nights, different forms of Goddess Durga, is worshipped. Ma Durga, as she is popularly referred to, is the amalgam of the effulgence of all the major gods, including the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwar. The Devi is beautiful, bountiful, terrifying, compassionate and ruthlessly righteous. She is Durga and Kali in Bengal, Ambika and Bhadrakali in Gujarat, Vaishnodevi in Jammu and Kashmir, Chamunda in Karnataka, Santoshi Ma and Bhavani in Maharashtra, and Kamakhya in Assam. To most of us, she is just ‘Ma’, the Universal Mother.

She is said to have all the three gunas of satva, rajas and tamas—purity, passion and inertia.

Why are these nights so special, the navratris? The reason is that they fall during the time when the astrological and astronomical position of our country in the Milky Way is such that it allows our prayers and sadhanas to reach astral regions faster and without being distorted.

The navratris occur twice in a year. The first is at the onset of the Vikrama era, in the month of
chaitra from the first day of the shukla paksha of the month up to navami, the ninth day. The second occurrence comes exactly six months later, just before the winter.

Spiritual practice during the navratris, when sincerely carried out, reach the desired destination faster. Observing fast during these periods keeps one healthy. The navratris provide people a religious reason to observe fast which helps one to gain at two levels: one at the physical level, and the other at the subtle spiritual level.

In South they celebrate first 3 days for Goddess Durga next 3 days for Goddess Lakshmi and final 3 days for Goddess Saraswathy . During these nine days they keep kolu steps containing dolls and idols of Gods .They keep kalash and make sundal made out of pulses each day for neivedhya and give thamboolam to those who come to visit the kolu . The final day is called Vijiyadasami. This day is considered auspicious to join schools dance and other arts and crafts . The day before Vijayadasami is called Saraswathi pooja or Ayudha pooja . Farmers and other department peoples keep their tools and worship .

This year its a different story.
Due to the pandemic and the social distancing norms we cannot celebrate the festival we used to earlier. So, let’s celebrate the festival virtually.
Sharing some pictures of kolu ,amman alangaram . Pic courtesy unknown.

Six Word Quotes

This is my attempt of “Saturday Six Word Story Prompt”, hosted by Shweta Suresh

https://thesoulsearchersite.wordpress.com

at My Random Ramblings. You can know more about this story prompt here.

Prompt for Week #61 (Oct 24, 2020 – Oct 31, 2020)

Emergency

He applied for emergency travel pass.

In case of emergency, call doctor.

Do have emergency first aid kit .

Hope you all like it .

Happy Blogging !

Small Stories #30

Feeling grateful to share this Beautiful explanation by Swami Vivekananda:

Explaining the meaning of ‘Association’. He said:

“The rain drop from the sky, if it is caught in hands is pure enough for drinking. If it falls in gutter, its value drops so much that it can’t be used for washing the feet. If it falls on hot surface, it perishes. If it falls on lotus leaf, it shines like a pearl and finally, if it falls on an oyster, it becomes a pearl. The drop is the same, but its existence & worth depend on with whom it associates.”

Always be associated with people who are good at heart….

GOD BLESS U!

Emotions

Listen to your emotions.

BITTERNESS: Shows you where you need to heal,where still you are holding judgements on others and yourself.

RESENTMENT: Shows you where you are living in the past and not allowing the present to be as it is.

DISCOMFORT: Shows you that you need to pay attention right now to what is happening, because you are being given the opportunity to change,to do something different than you typically do it.

ANGER: Shows you that you are passionate about,where your boundaries are, and what you believe needs to change about the world.

DISAPPOINTMENT: Shows you that you tried for something, that you didn’t give into apathy, that you still care.

GUILT: Shows you that you are still living life in other people’s expectations of what you should do.

SHAME: Shows you that you are internalising other people’s beliefs about who you should be (or who you are )and that you need to reconnect with yourself.

ANXIETY: Shows you that you need to wake up,right now, and that you need to be present, that you are stuck in the past and living in fear of the future.

SADNESS: Shows you the depth of your feeling, the depth of your care for others and this world.

This is what a life healing foundation.

God bless us.

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