Here it is!!!!

Have you lived today? @ http://justamotheroftwo.blogspot.com/2008/02/have-you-lived-today.html

I loved this picture also from there, borrowed it from her, will have to let PS know, soon.

Maa kuru dhana jana yauvana garvam

Harati nimeshaat kala sarvam

Maya-mayamidam Akhilam hitvaa

Brahma padam tvam pravisha vidhitva

-Sri Adi Sankarar

My friends and family are my biggest treasure, I have infintely re-iterated Emerson’s ‘Friends are the ornaments of a house.’

Secondly, I treasure my body and health.

But, I also COMPLETELY agree with Adi Sankarar in I should not be proud of myself due to the wealth/health/status in society I possess. All of this can be wiped away in a single second. What cannot be wiped away and will be the true treasure is our faith.

Without faith, plan, perseverence, persistence, and patience, the four virtues I believe in, will have no further progress. Also, faith acts as a glue to bring together these 4 habits, individually they are nothing more than silliness. Reverse is also true. Faith is not just a 5 letter word, to acheive it you need the 4Ps. I guess I have just discovered a spiritual theorem

As a kid, faith comes from outside in, parents and teachers begin to plant it in us. As we grow, we need to have faith in ourselves, and hence, stems from inside out.

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Asian parents are proud when their kids can calculate, read, and write well ahead of other kids. They ought to. But more importantly, look closely as to how that attribute was arrived at. If a child was taught mechanically to do these on rote memory, please stop. it shows that the child did not analyze and learn but was fed instructions expected to vomit it out at parents’s will. Isn’t that the saddest thing a parent can do to a child?

I guess a parent should NEVER measure a kid with another child.  After n number of examples we have from our own presidents and CEOs, it is time to realize ACADEMIC success doesn’t translate into life success.

I recently read another article in favor of late bloomers where the argument was late bloomers know the joy and secrets of achieving success on their own, which catapults them to top management jobs. A survey was done to prove that most people at the top rated jobs were late bloomers.

I encourage parents in teaching kids ahead of the school, but please have a sensor to realize when ENOUGH Is ENOUGH. Don’t push these cootie pies, believe me, not worth it.

Don’t believe me, chk out the below links:

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=2891

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/16/asian.suicides/index.html

"In the end the great tuth will have been learned, that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer than the prize, or rather that the effort is the prize, the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game."