Live like a Banyan Tree

 I was walking with my friends the other day, when outside a timber merchant's shop, I came across this sliced trunk of a Huge Banyan tree. It looked like a circular frame, in which someone had somehow forcefully fitted a cluster of small rings.

I have always considered banyan trees as a synonym for Huge, Strong, and Unshakable beings. The sight of this slice of a banyan tree trunk suddenly reminded me how It eventually grew to be this synonym that I know Today.

It started as nothing more than a small seed, just like a delicate Daisy did, equally tender and prone to the harshities of nature like a Willow. However, it was Its choice of survival that made all the difference.

It worked slowly and calmly with each passing month, with each passing year, quietly shooting its tentacles toward the ground, penetrating the earth, and joining its roots, building a strong foundation for itself. And before even anybody realized its existence, it was grown into this muscular giant. So much so, that nobody now remembered it as a tender, weak or small plant, starting to grow to become a tree one day. All everybody remembers is, what it made out of Itself Today.

It appeared strong enough to shake anyone that so much even thinks of coming close to harming It, Yet, even with so much strength and power that It held within, It chose not to threaten anybody with its power but to become an identity of the word "Giving". It gave shelter in the rain, It gave shade in the strong sun, it gave place to the birds to breed and grow their children. This humbleness of its unselfish character drew not the fear but devotion and respect from one and all.

The growing up conditions that a Daisy or a Willow received were no different than what a Banyan tree got, but the way It wanted to grow had made all the difference. The way It chose to live Its life fills me with respect for It even when it has been sliced to death.

Hope

Hope is not just a four letter word. It is not just a feeling or an emotion or an expression. It is a saviour that one can hold on to. It is a teacher telling you never to give up. Coz IT never gives up itself. No matter what you do, what you go thru & what you are. You can never, will never ever give up hoping as long as you are alive. A hope never dies & hence it is an inspiration in itself to not give up. Ever.

A hope is that keeps the world going. A hope is what gives us a dream & a dream is what gives us motivation and that is what helps us to achieve our goals.

Live IN hope, WITH hope & FOR hope

Forgive & Forget

We humans always love to believe the best about ourselves & feel that we do not possess any thing in us that can be considered unacceptable in general or in our own view as well. Even if we do something like that, we always give OURSELVES (more than others) a reason to support our actions (which we may not accept for the others in the same situation)

Similarly, I too have been living with the kind of belief that I do not do anything bad/ wrong....I have always had & still have faith in the justice that God has always done for me. I know that I am God's beloved child & hence He always take care of my wishes & my happiness, but somewhere something was making me think today if I have started taking this for granted?

I always was aware that I can never forgive & forget but I have believed in God's justice. Me being his favorite kid, I never had to be worried about my revenge as God takes care of it... What I now have come to realize is that all that I have been doing is, still living for revenge. I am simply more than happy to let God take the revenge for me rather than me having to get my hands dirty in doing that. This awakening made me realize that I have been storing up all these negative feelings inside of me which I very ignorantly believed I do not possess. I have been storing up pain, hatred & revenge all through & that has been the reason I was happy with God punishing them.

What I want now is to be able to forgive. This feeling of hatred, which I THOUGHT, I do not possess, is not good for me. I do not care what it does to others but it for sure doesn't let me be happy & content. I want to be able to forget so that no thing and no one has the power to bother me anymore & want to be able to forgive so that I do not burn in my fury of revenge.

Positive Attitude

Positive attitude they say attracts the positive situations in our life, however, I have felt this positive frame of mind sometimes gets difficult to stick to….

What I want to tell myself at times is that "DIFFICULT" is one thing that is created by my mind. There is nothing that is Possible or Impossible, Difficult or Easy, Achievable or Non-Achievable in itself. It becomes that because of me. I am the one that makes It the way I see It…If I want to look at something as Possible, Easy, Achievable it becomes just that. And aren't’t all these what they say are the positive prefixes? Isn't this what they call the positive attitude? So is it not in my control? :)

Well the very thought of being able to control my positive thoughts makes me feel the One in control to turn things positive. The One with the ability to change & to make it look, feel good. The one who's Powerful :)
The thought of being in control of my thoughts & the thereby the situations makes me relax. Gives a kind of peace of mind which gives me happiness :) :)

And just imagine when I had started writing this paragraph I was feeling somewhat negative but by the time I reach to this point of the article I am miraculously feeling better. Feeling Positive & happy :):)

Well Positive attitude, as I now agree, is easy to manage & nothing but my state of mind which "I" can control & Direct :) :) 

WE decide our happiness

The person who is happy in the heart can only be happy on the surface too, and to be happy inside is something that one has to do it on its own. There can be no one else in the whole world that can decide whether or not WE be happy. Our happiness is always in our own hands. Even if for some time or reason our happiness is taken away by the others it is only because WE allow those OTHERS to take the control....