Thursday, February 23, 2017

Tools and Life

Nearly 15 years ago, around 6am in the morning, my first karate Master Devaraj told me and my friend told that we are gifted to learn this martial art. He also told us that we might come across different life situations, people might come and go, money might come and go, but this art will always be there with you to keep you strong. It's still fresh in my mind. When he said it, it went straight into my heart. What a true and profound statement? I witnessed this in my life.

When I faced difficulties, nobody could do anything about it. Effect of Karma! Sometimes one has to go through what he/she has to go through because of the past choices and the way of thinking. There are days I felt deep emotional pain and felt like dying.  No matter how much philosophy we can speak, sometimes when the reality hits, it hits really. I was emotionally down for some days without getting noticed by anyone. But art helped me to endure it. Master Bell always tells us that anything that doesn't kill you will make you strong. He taught me how to shift the power from emotion to logic and life presented me real situations to test that. I developed a strong sense of resilience within me and I became quite sincere with life. Sometimes failures and learning lessons from them will make us very wise and will add beauty/stability to our character. I don't take anything for granted. I feel this very life is gifted.

I paid attention to people and world around me, I learnt to be real. Nobody has got time to listen to others, thanks to technology and innovation. I don't hesitate to help anyone if needed. Just asking someone sincerely "how are you?" and listening to them makes me feel humanly.  It's more beautiful to love someone than to be loved 😊. It's a freedom. I too had difficulty with my own expectations but at some point, I figured it out those are just expectations and nothing to do with reality. Whatever I expected someone to be for me, I decided to be that someone to anyone into my space.
As life unfolds, I'm learning to be more ease with life. Acceptance, patience and tolerance are key virtues 😊.

I would recommend any parent to offer their kids with profound tools than wealth. Life is to be lived, not just to be survived!

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Celebration of life

Somehow today while sipping a nice tea at Saravana bhavan and listening to 'ilaya nila pozhigirathu' (tamil song) at the background, I figured out that I'll also die someday. So I let myself to taste every bit of tea ☕️ . Then I strongly decided to thoroughly celebrate this life until I take a exit from this planet.  I'm thinking what else the best I can do in my life. I'm definitely not going to stress out, work hard or compete with people. Let the successful ppl do it. I don't need to prove to anyone who I am and smart ones will identify anyway 😎. Only one thing is more meaningful now.. Pay attention to smallest details of everyday life, learn joyfully, appreciate everything that I got and love everyone to the core. இசை பட வாà®´்தல்(Live life like music). It's like Raja's(Great composer) music 🎶 and life notes are in perfect rhythm 😊