Inspirational living

Danny Kaye had once said, “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” The poem I would be sharing today emphasizes on intrinsic human strengths. If any human wishes to excel in his or her chosen field, he or she can. Life is a thing to be lived fully. As it has been said “There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” So one should always strive to fulfill one’s capabilities. Lets enjoy this poem and start believing our capabilities.

Be The Best of Whatever You Are

If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,

Be a scrub in the valley-but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.

If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass,

And some highway happier make;

If you can’t be a muskie then just be a bass-

But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew,

There’s something for all of us here,

There’s big work to do, and there’s lesser to do,

And the task you must do is the near.

If you can’t be a highway then just be a trail,

If you can’t be the sun be a star;

It isn’t by size that you win or you fail-

Be the best of whatever you are!

By: - Douglas Malloch

This was one of those articles you come across once in a while and get hooked on to it. When you read articles like these, the first immediate reaction is you start thinking. You get immersed in the ocean of thoughts wondering about the relevance of the mindset and deep convictions lying within. We think of our values and wonder are we living our life the way always wished to? Sometimes it better to stop for a while, reflect on the things happening around us, happening to us and then moving on.

Today, I would be sharing one such thought pattern which we must think about and try to learn something. It has been said that, most difficult of the times can be more readily endured if we strive to retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. For the time being lets pursue that sculptor’s attitude.

Sculptor’s Attitude

I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight. I have responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important. My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.

Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free.

To Be Continued—

For the last one month, we have shared many wonderful poems. These poems manage to affect us in a positive way. Isn’t it surprising to find few well structured words managing to affect us in such a major way? Most of the times, these poems convey our innermost feelings of love, affection, strength, fear, longing ness amongst others. We almost, always, relate to a poem. It touches few chords here and there. Today I would be sharing a poem which is about “poem” itself.

Poems Are The Friends…

Poems are the Friends we make them

Expressing in words a thought

Of happiness, sadness, caring,

Experience dearly bought.

Poems have their own sweet language

That buds and comes to bloom,

Showing their many colours…

Light in a darkened room.

Poems let us say: “I love you…”

Poems let us say: “Goodbye…”

Poems can be strong, or gentle,

Raising a smile or sigh…

For poems are about our living

The road that we, daily, take,

Of Love and of selfless giving…

Poems are the Friends we make!

Internet can be called encyclopedia of knowledge. One comes across so many fascinating things which otherwise we would not have found. Few of the things manage in hang in there, in the back of your mind. And they stay that way because of their sheer quality and authenticity. There was this article called “We Learned It All in Kindergarten” by Robert Fulghum.

He mentioned it so correctly that most of the basic things we learn in kindergarten. Things like how to live, what to do and how to be are taught in kindergarten. The point is wisdom does not come out of doing graduation; rather it’s inherent in basics of childhood.

We need to remind ourselves of many of these basic learning at every phase of life. Some of them are:-

·        Save everything.

·        Play fair.

·        Put things back where you found them

·        Don’t hit people.

·        Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody

·        Clean up your own mess.

·        Don’t take things that aren’t yours.

·        Live a balanced life.

·        Wash your hands before you eat.

·        Learn some and think some, and draw and sing and dance and play and

·        work every day some

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17). It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

18). Love comes to those who still hope even though they’ve been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they’ve been betrayed, need to love those who still love, even though they’ve been hurt before.

19). It hurts to love someone, and not to be loved in return but what is most painful is to love someone and never finds the courage to let the person know how you feel.

20). Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and find out you still care for that person.

21). Never say goodbye when you still want to try;

Never give up when you still feel you can take it;

Never say you don’t love that person anymore when you can’t let go.

22). Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they’ll love you back. Don’t expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it doesn’t, be content it grew in yours.

23). There are things you love to hear but you would never hear it from the person whom you would like to hear it from, but don’t be deaf to hear it from the person who says it with his heart.

24). When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life to the fullest so that when you die, you’re smiling and everyone

around you is crying.

9). Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we should know how to be grateful for that gift

10). A sad thing about life is that when you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.

11). Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched and those who have tried. For only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

12). it’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.

13). Love starts with a smile, develops with a kiss and ends with a tear.

14). The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them with our own image, otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

15). The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along the way.

16). The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches

Recently came across this wonderful article. It was as simple as it could have been but extremely powerful. Just few learning which we tend to forget in the rush of life. Sometimes, it makes sense to take a pause and reflect on our lives. Call it introspection, reflection or simply going back to our basics! Thought of sharing this beautiful piece of write up. And surely, implementing even few of them will make life an enriching experience.

1). There are moments in life when you really miss someone that you want to pick them up from your dreams and hug them. Hope you dream of that someone.

2). When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But we often took so long at the closed door, that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.

3). Always put yourself in other’s shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably does hurt the person too.

4). Don’t go for looks, they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile.

5). Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want in life.

6). A careless word may kindle a strife;

A cruel word may wreck a life

A timely word may level stress

A lovely word may heal and bless.

7). The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch, swing with, never saying a word and then walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.

8). May you have…Enough happiness to make you sweet

Enough trials to make you strong

Enough sorrow to keep you human

Enough hope to make you happy