Here it is!!!!

Parties of last year’s end bring warm memories.

New year resolutions have been upheld successfully so far.

Friends have been kind enough to drag me out of career routine.

Picnics, art museums, boating, cricket, just sweet nothing hangouts…

TRULY BLESSED I AM…Thank you for sharing your lives with me.

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Somehow, I have learnt to accept life as it is.

And thankful too, to the past.

Yes, I desired to excel in school, but was lazy.

Wish I could go back to advice

But what a lot of lies

will I say to the dreamy me?

You have to be number 1

for life to be easy?

Nah, that is not true,

I have seen to date.

So, what life is, is mostly random.

Make a healthy attitude towards life.

Life could be worse than what it is today,

And remember, Happiness is a state of mind.

Just Do Your Best!!!

And prepare for worst.

There is no way I can travel forward in time to see

what will become of me.

There are n decisions to be made,

each with 1000 alternatives.

Then, there need to be n raised n futures to see all the possibilities.

Duh, too lazy to visit them all,

let it be…

All that I need is to use my pea brain

to figure what I have to do now

to have the tomorrow I want today.

My entry to http://writersisland.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/prompt-link-time-travel/

As I opened the window blinds,

I could hear the soft fall of pure, crisp snow.

As I walked on, it crushed.

When Sun shone on it slightly,

it became hard ice.

Later, it melted into water streams and

flowed into the nearby pond.

During summer, surface water-line decreased in the pond,

acknowledging natural water cycle.

Yes, Water, the elixir of life, keeps changing its shape and form.

Change it does.

But, WATER IT IS!!!

My friend, I hope we too change as life goes on, still retaining the inner beauty that makes us.

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What is it in us that makes us all propel forward?

Why do worldly attachments bring pain and sorrow as much as the comfort? CUTTING OUR HEART IN 2 AND BACK INTO PERFECT SHAPE.

Coming to think of it, none of us know what is going to happen tomorrow, if we are granted one.

It could be a result of all the random acts in past or just PURE MAGIC!

One moment we are here, next moment we are not - DISAPPEARING ACT?

Or just a TRANSFORMATION of mental attitude - rabbit to dove?

…only the MAGICIAN knows the answers to his TRICKS!

My entry to http://writersisland.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/prompt-link-magic/

If there were no desires in great minds, there would be no inventions or discoveries. There will be no miracles to feel grateful for. There is no growth.

There is no life…!!!

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Know not why,

but for sure alive.

What can be done while still here,

is more important than why.

So many equally wonderful options to choose from, too!

No matter what the path is,

a clear mind, and a pure heart -

filled with grace and faith,

are all that is needed

to make this life and the next - meaningful.

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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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I close my eyes,

Breathe deeply,

Follow the inhaled air to my heart.