Does thinking of cool things in the severe heat of summer make life better?
The heat here in Mumbai is getting severe and is becoming intolerable. The humidity in the air adds to the discomfort. Getting out in the sun to commute to work or for other errands adds to your woes. Waiting for a train or a bus drains your energy. Imagine you've just showered, sprayed the best of deo's and Italian perfumes or Ether and the moment you step out of the house, you are drenched in sweat, starting to gradually stink for our underarms.
The objective here is not to get completely lost or get overwhelmed by the over-powering thought but to be realistic and accept things as they are. All seasons have their own benefits and nothing can be foregone for the other. While those living in the northern hemisphere crave for a streak of sunshine, people living in the equatorial region crave for relief from the scorching sunshine.
What one can do is to make the best of the available resources - if you are given an egg -make an omelet Don't try to make an ice-cream out of it. Judicious use of resources has two benefits - (1) you don't have to try hard finding them because they are right there in front of you; and (2) there is knowledge already available of what can be made it of it so use that to your advantage.
The world has progressed on this entire concept. Intellectuals have said - do not try to reinvent the wheel where the wheel has advanced so much that if you continue the pursuit of developing the wheel all over again, you will be left much behind while the world would have progressed by leaps and bounds.
It is important to keep up with the times and build on that. Not everybody is gifted with this advantage and on the other hand everyone is. The only difference is that while people with no such advantage go all out and convert their dismays and disappointments into their advantage, people with clear advantage and opportunities right in front of their eyes are not able to see them. Not many are able to see opportunities knock at their door-steps while others start looking at the backdoor where there isn't any opportunity.
God has gifted us with immense values and gifts. They are all inbuilt and have come as a package deal with we the mortals never introspect to evaluate our skills and resources. Some people don't learn after receiving major shocks and tragedies of their life. Others, and those are the intelligent ones are able to learn from other's failures and mistakes.
Opportunity and Failures are just perceptions and figments of imagination. Both are invisible and just state of a person's mind.
Our creator wants us to progress in life, use our intellectual capacity go make this life on earth a better place to live in. Are we playing our role effectively? Are we doing justice to our roles that has been given to us?
Get wiser, look harder, grow from what you were yesterday. If you are what you were yesterday, you have not learning anything, you have not attempted to fulfill your expectations.
The Sunday Truth!
The heat here in Mumbai is getting severe and is becoming intolerable. The humidity in the air adds to the discomfort. Getting out in the sun to commute to work or for other errands adds to your woes. Waiting for a train or a bus drains your energy. Imagine you've just showered, sprayed the best of deo's and Italian perfumes or Ether and the moment you step out of the house, you are drenched in sweat, starting to gradually stink for our underarms.
The objective here is not to get completely lost or get overwhelmed by the over-powering thought but to be realistic and accept things as they are. All seasons have their own benefits and nothing can be foregone for the other. While those living in the northern hemisphere crave for a streak of sunshine, people living in the equatorial region crave for relief from the scorching sunshine.
What one can do is to make the best of the available resources - if you are given an egg -make an omelet Don't try to make an ice-cream out of it. Judicious use of resources has two benefits - (1) you don't have to try hard finding them because they are right there in front of you; and (2) there is knowledge already available of what can be made it of it so use that to your advantage.
The world has progressed on this entire concept. Intellectuals have said - do not try to reinvent the wheel where the wheel has advanced so much that if you continue the pursuit of developing the wheel all over again, you will be left much behind while the world would have progressed by leaps and bounds.
It is important to keep up with the times and build on that. Not everybody is gifted with this advantage and on the other hand everyone is. The only difference is that while people with no such advantage go all out and convert their dismays and disappointments into their advantage, people with clear advantage and opportunities right in front of their eyes are not able to see them. Not many are able to see opportunities knock at their door-steps while others start looking at the backdoor where there isn't any opportunity.
God has gifted us with immense values and gifts. They are all inbuilt and have come as a package deal with we the mortals never introspect to evaluate our skills and resources. Some people don't learn after receiving major shocks and tragedies of their life. Others, and those are the intelligent ones are able to learn from other's failures and mistakes.
Opportunity and Failures are just perceptions and figments of imagination. Both are invisible and just state of a person's mind.
Our creator wants us to progress in life, use our intellectual capacity go make this life on earth a better place to live in. Are we playing our role effectively? Are we doing justice to our roles that has been given to us?
Get wiser, look harder, grow from what you were yesterday. If you are what you were yesterday, you have not learning anything, you have not attempted to fulfill your expectations.
The Sunday Truth!
