The Mighty God/Allah! January 10, 2010

Helps us in our best and worst times.

Helps us to stand and holds us when we fall.

My 9th grade teacher, Miss Revathi L, addressed the students during Value Ed. Class, one time. We were talking about God. She said that we are always happy when things go our way. And we offer many prayers of thanks to Him, and sometimes in our happiness we forget the Thank You.

But what about, when things don’t go our way?

What when one or both of our parents die? Or we lose a sibling? Or a grandparent? Or when someone hurts us? Or when we’re facing severe problems in life? Do we Thank Him? We don’t.

We scream and blame and cry but we never say the Thank You to God, for being there and simply, invisibly holding our hand. We fail to thank him for the good times. We forget to thank him for our strength.

We never know what his purpose is when we are in pain, and we never thank Him for getting us through the day or for the chance we have to see another tomorrow and survive.

Surviving a Trial January 7, 2010

Trials are a part and parcel of life. How we choose to look at the trials in our life, is what really matters. And it is this attitude that changes our life. Makes  us happier people than hateful.

We have our best moments and our share of doomsday moments. But every trial is a long race. Surviving it is the goal. The Medallion. In the run for this medallion there will be hurdles, that’ll trip us over, scratch our knee, make our ankles bleed. But keeping in mind that no matter what, and even if things are moving slow, we will survive – is the indomitable spirit each of us have. This spirit, helps us undermine the hurdles.

With the passage of every trial in life, we sense the difference in us. People close to us also do. We all come out as stronger people. Better people. Mature people.

(But hey! people dont need to suffer trials to become nicer or more mature… thas not what i’m saying!! LOL! Some of us are born saints!)

To come up with this lengthy post, I’ve also had to suffer various trials of my own. None of them remotely bearable, but I kept my spirit alive thinking, ‘there will be a tomorrow’.  Yes, I’ve learned many things the hard way, but in the end I feel like a better person.

In No Need Of Pretense January 6, 2010

With people you love absolutely, there really isn’t any need for make-up. they see how beautiful you are anyway, they know your flaws, they know the real you, they know the scars and the cheek-bones, they know your nice qualities and they know when you can be a real asshole! They can see through the camouflage and the pretense and the blue lenses that make you look so good and they will always love you unconditionally.

I guess we always know this subconsciously. It all came to me when I was perusing through photographs of a very fashionable friend who won’t ever be seen without make up and perfect hair – at a grocery~! I saw her pictures with her family. She was plain, simple, sans make up and all the pretenses. She was looking beautiful and this time it was the beauty deeper than her skin, conveyed through the joy her eyes – the joy of always being surrounded by people she loved and those who loved her in return!

Cheers to the new year!