STOP CHASING PEOPLE IN LIFE
Chasing people has been one of the most difficult tasks throughout. People enjoy being chased and they relish every moment of this success. Remember, whenever we wanted to find a particular book and we searched whole of the book-shelf, yet we could never find it. That one untraceable book became reason for acute stress and […]
SELF OBSESSION ‘WHO AM I’ OR ‘HOW AM I’
When you say – ‘Who am I’ it is more of self-finding. But when you say – ‘How am I’, this is assessment or comparison. Self-obsession is like seeing yourself too closely. You neither see the actual personality, nor you are able to see other aspects of the personality. Your focus is too much on […]
REACTIONS HAVE COUNTER REACTIONS TOO
I was travelling in a flight from Jaipur to Mumbai. As the flight was completely packed, and was getting undue delayed, people had started gathering near the boarding counter to know the reasons. In such situations, as always, you would find few aggressive people, who would take this delay to another level of confrontation with the […]
PRISONERS OF THE NEGATIVE ENERGY
Have you ever experienced a wave of negative energy when someone, you do not like, crosses you? There may be times, even though the person who crossed you, is unknown to you – yet you experience a storm of negative energy and you start feeling suffocating and your heart-beats become uneven. What remains is an […]
POWER TO IGNORE
In this world of existence, survival, and insecurity, how would the power to ignore work – is a valid question. In all these struggles and firefighting, the best advice given by people world-wide is to learn the “Power to Ignore”. Ignore people and ignore circumstances that defy you. When the feeling is of helplessness, and […]
NOT EVERY EMPTY VESSEL MAKES NOISE; SOME KEEP SECRETS TOO
There is an old saying that ‘empty vessels make a lot of noise’. But not every empty vessel makes noise, some are good in keeping secrets too. I had two unique friends. One, who spoke a lot and would often end up saying – “Just keep everything that I said to yourself.” And another friend, […]
MY SON STOLE MY SHOES
Like daughters, the sons also grow faster and some become even taller than you in no time. This is where you start missing your belongings and you feel extremely happy about it. My teenage son had to go for a friend’s party, and he was getting ready for the same. He asked me how he […]
MY LAST CONVERSATION WITH MY FATHER-IN-LAW
I left Delhi in 2007 for Udaipur for my new job. Many members of my family came to drop me at the airport. My father-in-law, who I called Pitaji, did not come to the airport as he was very upset with this shift, since I was his only son-in-law. My wife was the only daughter […]
MY DESIRE TO BECOME A MONK
In my childhood, I admired the calmness of Monks and Sadhus and that made me a follower of Buddhism. I had seen many Monks and was incredibly fascinated to see their calmness and control on their emotions. So, one fine day, I also got this thought of becoming a Monk. There have been many reasons […]
MEN DO NOT CRY
This is a very old incident. One day I saw my father sitting quietly outside in our lawn. He was silent and lost in some thoughts. I was hardly 10-12 years old that time. I noticed that my father’s eyes had few tears. I asked him – “Papa, are you ok?” And he immediately wiped […]