Inspiring Stories, Anecdote's..and Thoughts

Few hours before a surgery

2010-05-18T23:27:00.000-07:00

“After few hours is my operation”,

This might define the end of my entire mission
Heart is full of fright,

All alone, I m crying and holding my pillow tight.

I know what doctor uttered with hesitance and after reports review,

“He might sail thru, but chances r few”

Now every minute of this day, becomes precious that’s least I can say,

A thought pops up ,who knows my life will end with this day

I start to find the bag of past memories,

As I m digging the past, I come across that beautiful girl whom I loved a lot,

I come across the barking dog that I hated a lot,

I come across the compassionate friends and my lovely parents.

Then I see my present, a rich guy with a handful of servants around,

Searched for all loved ones couldn’t find anyone around,

Went for the money, cheated my wife

Yes now I realize I wasted my life

Money couldn’t pray for me till my surgery was done,

It couldn’t speak and say “don’t worry my son”,

It couldn’t give that soothing hug and a lovely smile,

I wanted all this badly ,used all the money to get it, but all efforts were futile.

I called up the best doctors and nurses using my money and fame,

But all their care appeared to be a professional game.

I cried with pain and realized what I had lost in life,

My parents , relatives, friends and a beautiful wife.

Till now my eyes were closed to see the beauty of life,

Didn’t waste a second more and called up my wife,

Walls of ego and money were diminished as soon as she picked up the phone,

Now I could see that love in her tone..

I said “sorry I was blind,

Love is something which money can’t find”

I said with guilt, “Please forgive me,

For every moment I live, do stay with me”

My heart was full of joy ,

When she said “I forgive you, because the fault was not in your heart but your eye

Now your eyes are fine, it reflects in your words they are pure and divine”

I kept the phone and smiled as I had just found a love that was mine.

I called up my parents and said the whole thing

When my mother addressed me as “bunty”(nickname) I felt like a king

When father said don’t worry dear, u r a strong boy

Suddenly I got all strength and a bag full of joy.

Now my mind was at peace,

but the clock was not at ease

Time to go inside the operation theatre had come

Now every breath was appearing a million sum

I prayed for my loved ones,”May they get all happiness to see”

And asked god to give wisdom to the other blind ones like me,

If I survive I vow I will live a life of truth and compassion

If I die, I have just few moments left so I say good bye to this world with affection.

Doctor calls “bring the patient in”………………………………………..

A small story

2009-12-29T02:27:00.001-08:00

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles.. The girl had some sweets with her. The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed.

The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and gave the rest to the girl. The girl gave him all her sweets as she had promised.

That night, the girl slept peacefully. But the boy couldn't sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some sweets from him the way he had hidden his best marble.

Moral of the story: If you don't give your hundred percent in a relationship, you'll always keep doubting if the other person has given his/her hundred percent.. This is applicable for any relationship like love, friends, employer-employee relationship etc.,

Give your hundred percent to everything you do and sleep peacefully..............

PRICELESS WORDS

2009-12-29T02:24:00.002-08:00

A husband wakes up at home with a huge hangover.

He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins and a glass of water on the side table.

He sits down and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotless, clean. So is the rest of the house.

He takes the aspirins and notices a note on the table.

"Honey, breakfast is on the table, I left early to go grocery shopping.

Love You!"

Totally shocked with the note, he goes to the kitchen and sure enough there is a hot breakfast and the morning newspaper.

His son is also at the table, eating. He asks, "Son, what happened last night?"
His son says, "Well, you came home around 3 AM, drunk and delirious.

Broke some crockery, puked in the hall, and gave yourself a black eye when you stumbled into the door". Confused, the man asks,"So, why is everything in order and so clean, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me?

I should expect a big quarrel with her!"

His son replies, "Oh, that! Mom dragged you to the bedroom,and when she tried to take your clothes n shoes off,you said,

"LADY LEAVE ME ALONE! I'M MARRIED!"

Moral

Self-induced hangover - $ 400.00
Broken crockery - $ 800.00
Breakfast - $ 10.00
Saying the Right Thing While Drunk “ "PRICELESS "

There are truly some things that both money and MasterCard can't buy

Remember this story whenever you are Angry

2009-12-29T02:24:00.000-08:00

While a man was polishing his new car, his 4 year old son picked up stone and scratched lines on the side of the car. In anger, the man took the child's hand and hit it many times; not realizing he was using a wrench.

At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple fractures.

When the child saw his father.....with painful eyes he asked, 'Dad when will my fingers grow back?' The man was so hurt and speechless; he went back to his car and kicked it a lot of times.

Devastated by his own actions..... sitting in front of that car he looked at the scratches; the child had written 'LOVE YOU DAD'.

The next day that man committed suicide. . .

Anger and Love have no limits,choose the latter to have a beautiful, lovely life.....

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

Watch your words, they become actions.

Watch your actions, they become habits.

Watch your habits they become character,

Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

The House of 1000 Mirrors (Japanese folktale)

2009-12-29T02:16:00.000-08:00

Long ago in a small, far away village, there was place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could.

To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the House, he thought to himself, "This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often."

In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, "That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again."

All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet?

Two Wolves

2009-12-14T05:43:00.000-08:00

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My child, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

2009-10-23T01:52:00.000-07:00

Degrees of Positive Thinking

A man was washing his car. His neighbour asked, "New car?" The man replied, "Yes, my brother gave it to me as a gift."
The neighbour said, "Wow! I wish I had a car like that."
The man suggested, "You should wish to have a brother like that."
The neighbour's wife, who was overhearing all this, remarked, "I wish I was a brother like that!"

2009-06-30T22:54:00.000-07:00

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.-Cicely Tyson

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn to use things and love peopleNot love things and use people!-Anon

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.-W. Edwards Deming

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.-Gilbert Highet

It seems in every interaction there is something to learn if we can only see ourselves as students. If we can humble ourselves, and allow ourselves to see the world without our own beliefs and dogmas, then we could see so much beauty awaiting us in each moment.-Sukh Chugh

Carrots, Eggs or Coffee?

2007-10-05T23:56:00.000-07:00

Carrots, Eggs or Coffee?
A daughter complained to her mother about her life, the things that were hard on her and her desire to give it all up. As one problem was solved a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high flame to boil. She added carrots to one, eggs in the second, and in the last she dropped in some ground coffee beans. She let them boil for about twenty minutes. She then fished the carrots and eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter she asked "Darling, what do you see?" "Carrots, eggs, and coffee." she replied. She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She noted they were soft. Then she broke an egg. The daughter observed the egg had been boiled well. Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
She asked in a humble voice, "What does it mean mother?" Her mother explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but had reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. But when dropped in the boiling water, it softened and became tender. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But when boiled for a while, its core hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique however. When added to the boiling water, they changed the nature of the water.
"Which one of these are you"? she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you react"?
How about you dear reader?
Are you the carrot that appears hard, but with pain and adversity do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength? Are you the egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were you a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a divorce, or a layoff have you hardened and become stiff? Your shell looks the same, but are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?
Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean adapts to the changes wrought by the hot water. Even when the water is very hot, it improves the taste.
If you are like the bean then, when things are at their worst, you get better and make things around you, better.

Triumph belongs to thought

2007-10-05T23:55:00.000-07:00

1-1. In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do we ever find them.-Dr. Joyce Brothers

#1-2. A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.-Edward Lytton

#1-3. Triumph belongs to thought. Change your thinking and you change your life.-J.P. Vaswani

_____It's a strange process, how we form a self-image, how sometimes events force us to transcend our perceived limits and help discover a newer "us". Of course, we might choose not to find all such limits.

As we grow into adults, a strong preference for logic, rationality and practicality is advisable. With age, hopefully accompanied by maturity, our wisdom should be tempered with care for other living beings. We tend to forget this in the heat of an argument.

From Richard Bach's writings:

#2-1 The best way to avoid responsibilities is to say, "I have got responsibilities."
#2-2 Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
#2-3 The simplest questions are the most profound. Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while, and watch your answers change.
_____Some people I meet, within minutes, we are chatting away comfortably as though we have known each other for years. And it is not just people who have similar interests or agree with my views, they could be different but we just... connect. I guess there are shared values somewhere. I find it difficult to connect with people of a suspicious nature.
The so-called simplest questions could be difficult to answer! Even if it sets you thinking, it is useful.

Inspiring thoughts

2007-10-05T23:50:00.000-07:00

The following are excerpted from Promod Batra's small booklet called, "Simplify Your Life to be Happy".

1. We cannot direct the wind...but we can adjust our sails.

2. You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

3. You don't have to be very clever to do simple things.

4. Don't worry about what others are thinking about you...
They are busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

5. Children (followers) need example more than criticism.

6. There are good people everywhere. I wish they had louder voices.

7. Never pay a compliment as if you expected a receipt.

The way you see things

One day a father and his rich family took his son to a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and a night in the farm of a very poor family. When they got back from their trip the father asked his son, "My dear son, how was the trip?"

"Very good, Dad!"

"Did you see how poor people can be?" the father asked.

"Yeah!"

"And what did you learn?"

The son answered, "I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden, they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lamps in the garden, they have the stars. Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have a whole horizon."

When the little boy was finishing, his father was speechless.

His son added, "Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are!"

Isn't it true that it all depends on the way you look at things?

If you have love, friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life you've got everything! You can't buy any of these things, but still you can have all the material possessions you can imagine, provisions for the future etc., but... if you are poor of spirit, you have nothing.

Attitude is everything! Make a decision to have a good, positive and productive attitude every day!