The present…..

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Like in the mind how thoughts rot….

Deleting them one by one

Is half the battle won…..

The past is far behind

Keep it away from the mind….

The future is yet to unfold

Don’t fill your mind with that load….

All that we have is the present

Heavenly & God sent….

Don’t let it slip by

Lest you repent & sigh….

The ups & downs -Phases in one’s life…..

Sometimes ,it so happens that what we preach becomes our own guiding force…

It is always with a positive approach that I look at things…..But ,in some rare cases , I too fall into that trap ……..that trap of negative thinking……….It forces me to retrospect what I ve preached…..

Today, the day itself started on a negative note…..However hard I tried to erase the negativity out , it was rather very tough……

I tried to read all those wonderful quotes from my collection, but it still didn’t seem to work out……I went to the shopping mall , but everything seemed so distressing…..It happens sometimes, I thought to myself…….

When you are passing through that phase, nothing can help you come out of it…You need  to analyse the root cause of it & a strong will power to come out of it…….

I just sat quiet & tried to find out the reason of my disinterest in everything…….

I m not going to let this happen to me…….I just tried to divert my mind from that which was disturbing me…….It was a very difficult …….The more I went away, the closer I came to it…….I feared that I may lose out on a very good friendship due to a petty misunderstanding…….I wanted to clear all the doubts…..I was physically present in whatever I did, but mentally I was somewhere else……..

After a lot of courageous thinking, I decided, come what may, I m not going to let this turn my world topsy turvy……..When my thoughts went back, I just took my mind away from it….I did this repeatedly & eventually I just seemed to succeed………

Yes, these are trying times in one’s life………Ups & lows …….There can be absolute peace only if you are not affected by the petty things that happen around……..Just let them be till the heat subsides……then think about it with a cool mind……

Clean up

“Please throw away your unwanted things’……How many times have we heard this sentence? But we still cling on & on……

One day, I opened my cupboard & the things started just falling out…..This was expected…..Since a very long time ,I was just putting off the cleaning business ….Not because ,I didn’t wish to do it but just ’cause of time constraint….So today was the day…

The old clothes had heeped up, small accessories like combs,perfumes ,scarfs,gloves,had all piled up….& there was this lovely ,used up,twenty year old suitcase which was the apple of  my eye,for quite some time….It had served me for a very long time & I didn’t wish to part with it….. But ,today I wished to give it a new lease of life….

I put off ,all the things which I wished to discard into this faithful suitcase & packed it straight away to a children’s home & an old age home nearby……

My joy knew no bounds when I saw the happiness on their faces when the things were being distributed….They held my hand tight ,blessed me for no feat of mine…..I kissed them, tears trickled slowly…. How careless are we, I thought to myself……If only, I had done this earlier…..If only I had not kept on postponing it……

But this was a lesson to me…Now ,every six months , my cupboard gets a clean up….

Now this taught me a new lesson ,too…Our mind ,too is just like the cupboard…full of unnecessary thoughts…..If we just clean it up daily, how stress free our lives would be…..There would be less ailments & more of joy all around….Isn’t it ? Just give a thought to it, my dear friends……

The Wavering Mind

Persistence…….Affection
Consoling…….Cajoling
I gave away everything
That I could today.

I took ……IT……in my arms
I tried to converse with…….IT..
But without giving even a glimpse
IT…….escaped into its own world.

IT……..which had always been
My consort…….somewhat
The conscience of my feelings
Which had always stood by me
Thro’ all trials…
Today……preferred Loneliness……

Abandoning me
IT……preferred walking
Alone in the dark……

Very strange….incomprehensible….
And….uncontrollable…….I T…..is….

Yet ,sometimes it does so happen

That my MIND …..& ….I
Remain estranged
Traversing in different directions…..

Imprisoned
In this circle called
LIFE……