tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87102212195320123022024-03-05T19:09:45.987-08:00Wandering Thoughts..Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-41409817993649603022018-07-04T21:42:00.000-07:002018-07-04T21:58:38.100-07:00A Life Well Spent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What does it really mean to have a well-spent life? We spend our whole lives in trying to decipher the meaning behind our simple yet complex lives and even then, are left with unanswered questions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We're always trying to define our lives in heavy terminologies like passion, meaning, quest, essence etc and yet, are not quite able to.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For me, all these big terms are contained within three essentials of life-</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.Being good to one's own self</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2.Being good to others</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. Balancing 1 & 2</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That's all that there is to life..isn't it? and many battles are lost because we couldn't decide which essential to fight for and when and most importantly, how.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Essential number 3 is ideally what we all keep striving for. This essential is what makes the journey that much more difficult. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At different times one essential will take precedence over the other. Sometimes, you have to give yourself up for the sake of 'your' others. And at times, you will have to put yourself forward -at the risk of being called selfish.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Winning one battle will most definitely entail losing another one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That's where we begin to lose the plot.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The human mind is so designed, to constantly focus on what is lost than to see what it has gained.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This automatic focus on the loss is what takes away the meaning, purpose, quest, and passion from winning at a time when you most certainly needed to win.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes, we all wait for a time when both the parties at war would simply call it a truce or arrive at a settlement that they both can be happy about. But this is an ideal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the real world, a battle mostly ends with one side winning. Survival of the fittest.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That's what happens in the emotional world too. At a point in time, one emotion or set of emotions will supersede the others and we must understand that that's what makes that moment meaningful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thus, we create our lives by creating such small moments of meaning.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the end of the day, we know that we've lived a well-spent life when we are able to look back and see that we were able to create a million moments of meaning for each of the essentials.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The battle of life is not as straightforward as we would like it to be. Sometimes, winning can be as painful as losing. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But as long as we know, that we were able to fulfill a greater meaning or purpose behind choosing to fulfill an essential, it would all make perfect sense.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-10358834831034823972018-01-03T22:15:00.000-08:002018-01-03T22:15:02.143-08:00Journey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your soul is on a journey and so is mine</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">At some point, their paths will intertwine<br />Under the shade of the banyan tree<br />We will sit and wonder<br />If from the clutches of time<br />We'll ever be free</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><br />Will we ever chase the rainbows in the vast sky<br />Or melt in the raindrops as the rains go by<br />Wrap ourselves in the gushing wind<br />And kiss in the moonlight<br />And brighten the darkness within</span></h3>
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<br />And look into each other's eyes<br />Tell stories without words<br />That our hearts in love can understand</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><br />If time is eternal, then why aren't we<br />Bound by love. Just you and me<br />Someday.. May be someday</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><br />The sun will shine bright.. Brighter than everyday<br />Someday, sometime will be ours<br />More than what it is.. Everyday</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><br />Perhaps in my dream<br />Perhaps in yours too..</span></h3>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-61328799461061077662017-08-27T08:09:00.002-07:002017-08-27T08:11:22.467-07:00Hey you..listen to me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>I've known you forever,</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>for as long as I've known myself</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>You are a part of me and I am yours</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>I've seen you go through more than your share</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>and I wish I was there...</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>To tell you that it's ok to cry</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>and ask why</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>it's ok to shout and open your heart</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>and let your feelings rip you apart</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>for there will always be a chance for you</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>to put yourself back together</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>tomorrow may be far</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>but close enough for you to hope for a fresh start</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>I wish I could tell you then</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>that life goes on..</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>with or without you</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>and that time flies</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>taking away all you once had</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>but you will always have me with you and beside you</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>to hold your hand and walk you through</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>for what is gone,may not come back ever..</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>but once the wounds heal and your heart has mended itself</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>life comes in a new format</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>so you can again get in touch with yourself</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>I know we were young and immature</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>and afraid to take some chances then</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>and we did take some,that didn't turn out so great</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>we made mistakes and weren't ready to wait</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>but that's how we learn and are mature now</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>ready to understand 'what','why and 'how'.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>I wish I could tell you then</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>that no one loves you more than me</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>for I can see your soul and know how you feel</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>but i was caught up then..</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>but as you've grown in me and so have I</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>All i want you to know </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>is that life has it's twists and turns</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>and you may not always be prepared</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>but i'll always be with you..every now and then.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">#This post is a part of <a href="http://blog.blogadda.com/category/write-over-the-weekend-wow" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Write Over the Weekend">Write Over the Weekend</a>, an initiative for <a href="http://www.blogadda.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Indian Bloggers">Indian Bloggers</a> by BlogAdda#</i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-58397317137584350262017-07-15T01:49:00.002-07:002017-07-25T04:29:54.764-07:00Set me free<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;">May be It's not the time</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>May be not the moment</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>May be It's not right</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>But just for the moment</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Let's forget what ought to be</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>And just let things be</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Just for the moment</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Hold my hand and set me free</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I know deep down you feel it too</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>And it's not the thing to say</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>But life didn't promise us roses</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>It wasn't fair anyway </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Put your feet on the ground </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Smile at me like you smile from within</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>All you need to do is hold my hand</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Right from the day we are born, it is the world around us that tells us what attributes we have. What's good, what's bad, what needs improvement etc, is decided by other people around us,including our parents. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>All throughout our lives,our thoughts, feelings and beliefs are governed by these individuals, who by some power have the authority to determine who we are. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Oh! She doesn't talk too much but he talks a lot! He isn't as fair as him but he's not as intelligent as him. You should be more outgoing, while you should be a little less and so on and so forth. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>By the time we grow up and embrace our reality, we realise that we haven't really grown up as fully functional beings. Rather, we are fragmented versions of ourselves;waiting for the world to put the pieces together so that we can make sense of ourselves. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Constantly basing our judgments about our own sleeves, on the basis of those very people who are nothing more than fragments themselves.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Then how does their world view come to encompass our very own? Despite having our own language, why do we hang on to their every word and wish to speak the same like a parrot? </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>At the heart of every human being lies one simple wish - to be loved and accepted by the ones around us so that we can feel safe and secure in that very world, that fragmented our souls and left us to find the pieces and join them in some disconnected manner. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>And in the end, when half of our lives have gone by, we realize that we did everything except love ourselves. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>We ran behind everyone except ourselves. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>We were so busy making others happy, trying to live up to their utopian ideals of perfection, that we lost track of who we wanted to be. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>After feeling apologetic for simply being the way we were designed from the start, we didn't know who we were</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>What was left behind ,was just a fragmented version of ourselves where parts of us started seeming like wholes.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Only if we could learn in time that the only love we need is the love that we have for ourselves, we wouldn't be the fragments we realise we are. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Only if we could learn,that what we feel for ourselves is also an art.We can decide what we want to paint,the colors we want to use and whether to cherish what we have made of ourselves or simply start again.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>We would still be flawed but at least we would be complete and in love with ourselves. And only then, we would truly embark on a journey taking us closer and closer to who we are truly meant to be - flawed and in love. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>She sat next to her phone, waiting for it to beep.. Like every other day.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b><br />Waiting for that one message, that one 'hi' that would put a smile on her face for the whole day.. Sometimes the whole week.. or may be the month..</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>Her friends wondered what's wrong with her. Why does she always obsess about this one message? Agreed, she liked him. May be, he liked her too. Well, he never said it openly. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>Perhaps, she just assumed he did.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>But she knew better. She didn't just like him;she loved him. It was that always, forever, eternal sort of love. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>A love, often seen in the movies, written about in books. A love, where there is a happy ever after, in its most absolute sense.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>And she knew, he only liked her. He loved her as a friend.. or so he would say. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>He loved everything about her and would notice even the slightest change in her voice.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b><br />She would just sit by her phone and wait for time to fly by..</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>And then came those messages and that one call which was enough to send her heart racing to the mountains. It would give a purpose, a meaning to her existence.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>And sometimes, she longed to know if that's how he felt too..</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>He would never say anything. Yet, they would talk for hours and hours together.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>They shared their dreams and desires. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b><br />What love meant to them, what they meant to each other. And with every passing day, her longing for him just grew..</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>She wished that one day, she would finally get her happily ever after...with him.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>He never told her, how her strong and intense feelings for him, were making him feel edgy.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>Did he actually, truly love her?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>They had been together for years.. They had grown together and so had the demons within him.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>Every time he told her, he loved her,in ways that only he could feel.. the demons grew stronger. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>He, who was incapable of love;was sharing a lie with her.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>He was making her live that lie everyday. He gave her an unspoken promise about a happily ever after, everyday.. It pinched him.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>And then the voices in his head grew louder and louder and began to drown his own voice, which said that he actually, truly, loved her..</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>How could he make a commitment? How could he have a happy ending? He shared his dreams and desires.. All right.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>Wasn't that enough? And why was he doing that anyway?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>He was happy and lost in his own world, before she came along. And then, he was at his happiest best. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>This scared him. His demons rose.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>He wasn't meant for love. He was broken. He would break her too.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>But he knew, her love was so powerful, that he wouldn't be able to break free.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>But he had to.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>The day went by, the night crawled.. Her phone beeped many times.. But she knew it wasn't him.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>When the dawn came, she knew what she feared the most, had finally come to life.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>She had her fairy tale.. Without her happily ever after.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>She had her <span class="il">story</span>... That never ended.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>She had her love, that never got fulfilled.</b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-52841456417718651682016-05-03T00:30:00.002-07:002016-05-06T09:25:19.997-07:00The Simplicity of Relationships<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I don't know why,but we all like to believe (consciously or subconsciously) that relationships are difficult.It is this belief,that translates into our actions and ends up making relationships complicated as hell!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sounds weird? May be.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Over the years,I have realized that we as humans have developed and nurtured this tendency to complicate and magnify things in our minds.With so much happening around us,so many demands to fulfill,so many personas to attend to; we cannot keep things simple.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unfortunately, one of the things that is essential for our existence, our relationships,end up suffering.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When we have a train of thoughts running in our minds,when we are busy building up scenarios in our heads,how many times do we actually communicate properly as to what's happening?</span></span><br />
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</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh09dMHmSz_upx2vLijtRFPaI9-im5-CcGpH1cEXsboEQUSXShwJQQwkqV-ublafutCqmwJIiHOzK7xHBOCP8NcxLAqCWxQrzIfyENVnZx_ZDLMdNMF-apU6wsTT2JY-5W0rPgRICYwvwfP/s1600/images+%25284%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh09dMHmSz_upx2vLijtRFPaI9-im5-CcGpH1cEXsboEQUSXShwJQQwkqV-ublafutCqmwJIiHOzK7xHBOCP8NcxLAqCWxQrzIfyENVnZx_ZDLMdNMF-apU6wsTT2JY-5W0rPgRICYwvwfP/s1600/images+%25284%2529.jpg" /></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Instead,we put our guards up-scream,shout,hurt the other person and then assume that he/she will understand.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Really? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Does it sound fair? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet,we still do it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How many times do we make the effort of expressing what we truly feel about something, before we blow up our fuse?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We base our relationships on the assumption that our partners (can be anyone-parents,siblings,spouse,friend,girlfriend,boyfriend) will understand everything that we do and will stand by us.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The only flaw in this assumption is,that we don't create room for what needs to be understood.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Relationships to be begin with,demand open channels of communication.You may trust someone,understand them,depend on them,love them to death.Yet,all this renders itself meaningless the minute communication becomes flawed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Relationships are not about complains,arguments,sacrifices,name calling,demands etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They are about sharing.We are together because we would like to share our lives,experiences,memories,concerns,dreams with each other.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They are about growth-that we as individuals decide to grow together with each other and become the best that we can be.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They are about commitment-that no matter what,I'll be with you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They are about emotions-that I understand what you're going through and I know,you do the same.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And more often than not,we don't communicate this to our loved ones at all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why guard yourself from the ones you think love you? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Simply because,it may not turn out the way you would want it to?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, if that's the ultimate destination we create in our minds; we eventually lead ourselves there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If two people cannot receive and understand the other person's views,the it's about time they start working on it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Relationships are built on feelings.Yes,love is a feeling and equally important are many other feelings that we experience every day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We all want to be heard and empathized with.But it's not possible if we don't communicate what we are feeling.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If I am irritated with something,it's much easier to just say what's bugging me ,rather than letting my partner continue with it and then flaring up later.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Focusing on what I am feeling at the present moment ,is a lot easier than hurting someone and then expecting them to understand.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We muddle things up.Work issues get mixed up with in-laws,kids get mixed up with wives or husbands,parents get mixed up with siblings etc. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In essence,things are not that complicated.One person is not the source of all problems!We tend to generalize and multiply things.Why not focus on specifics?</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We love to live in the past.Yes,what happened 10 years ago makes for a good story.But is it always limited to a story? Doesn't it find a way to corrupt our present?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Is it really that hard to focus on what's happening now and to deal with it effectively so as to create a better past for the future?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What we have understood needs to be communicated back because relationships and communication cannot be one-sided.Yet,many times we choose to ignore or take the route of silence as a temporary resort to the problem.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">However,we end up losing the track of time which makes this ignorance or silence persist for long.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thus,adding more issues to the already existing ones.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes,there is a certain level of complexity attached to every relationship and it will always be.But is there a need for us to add some of our own?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Times have changed.We as humans ,are traversing different paths and with time,doing it alone is just getting more and more difficult.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps,some small efforts can make our relationships go a long way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It takes time.It takes patience and lots of conscious effort.But in the end,it's all worth it...isn't it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me be alone,</span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't know how to be with you. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can't darken my world, that's filled with my light. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You want me to walk but I know how to run. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't know how to listen to you for you don't know how to talk.. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can't listen to me because to myself.. I talk.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can't catch me for I am the wind.. I blow, I flow and wrap everything around me in my own air.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">I don't know if there are some more people like me ,who are perpetually embroiled in an existential quest to find the meaning of their lives.People who often wake up with thousands of questions, </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">about where their life is heading,where would they want to go,what would they like to be...</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">People who experience a sense of vacuum in their lives along with the never ending struggle to fill that vacuum.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">People like me,whose lives are filled with dozens of 'I don't know' responses..</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">And sometimes this state of not knowing feels like a thousand daggers across the heart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">I mean how can you not know?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">It's your life,your space,your dreams and hopes and all you can say is 'I don't know'.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">What do you want? Why do you want it?Why don't you want it?What do you want to do ?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">And so many more questions with just one answer...I Don't know.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">How long will this not knowing last? And to that also,you get an 'I don't know'.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">So then how will you become what you need to be? Where will life take you?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Isn't it better to just give up?</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX-sQcXkhfwMNhOab65YwST3_FbJxckLKBITqkNRCRVYjVCSDsBZeVrv1-r8R1D1Tenmw-iIXtCKA1eg_pPaPYjCQmXKHdMxJbXn3ulUaHtuM8eeuZkgijVKrPcnN8RF1ZA1EyU8mbCQh-/s1600/images+%25286%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX-sQcXkhfwMNhOab65YwST3_FbJxckLKBITqkNRCRVYjVCSDsBZeVrv1-r8R1D1Tenmw-iIXtCKA1eg_pPaPYjCQmXKHdMxJbXn3ulUaHtuM8eeuZkgijVKrPcnN8RF1ZA1EyU8mbCQh-/s200/images+%25286%2529.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: red;">You can't go with the flow because that's not something you want.You can't direct your life anywhere in particular because you don't know..</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> How about giving up?Give up the struggle to do everything,to be everything you ought to be?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Simply quit everything.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">That should do the trick right?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">May be yes,may be no.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">How about changing this quitting and giving up to letting go?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Letting go of this struggle so that you can enjoy this state of not knowing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Letting go of this desire to know everything; because if all mysteries are disclosed to us,where's the fun in life?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Letting go of this holding on to memories,emotions,events..</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Letting go of this need to be everything because we are not meant to be everything.We are meant to be what we choose to be.And if we keep holding on to so many things and identities, that we think we 'ought to be';there won't be any room left for us to be what we choose to be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">So why not let go of this desire to struggle and win? Because when we let go of this constant struggle to become,to choose,to reach,to acquire;we breathe a little more.And with every breath,we come closer to our own selves. We start enjoying this state of not knowing and before we know,our answer to most questions turn into 'I know...'</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-13697992219863435212016-03-08T08:58:00.004-08:002016-03-08T08:58:46.918-08:00Women and Weight!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Have you ever stopped and wondered about what all you have to do each and every day? When was the last time you did something that you enjoy and actually enjoyed it? Don't you also think about the time when you used to be fit, active, slim, used to exercise, look good and feel good about yourself?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Often when you look at yourself now,you are clouded with negative thoughts about yourself. You wonder, "Where has all the time gone? Will it ever come back? Have I become less attractive than before? Why am I putting on weight? What can I do about it? Will I be able to do something about it?" or perhaps, you have just one thought," let it be..who cares".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Women are increasingly becoming more and more susceptible to hormonal imbalances and weight issues. Being overweight not only impacts their physical appearance, but psychological and emotional well-being as well. At some point or the other, all women have gone through this feeling of low self-esteem and a certain amount of dislike for themselves because of how they look. This is becoming increasingly common with married women. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Responsibilities</b> : We are modern, but not modern enough to understand that taking care of the house is not a woman's job only! The age old belief that women have to don multiple hats and discharge their duties as mothers, wives, daughter, daughters-in-law is still largely prevalent. Thus, leaving women with lesser and lesser time for themselves. With the advancement in age and the roles that women have to play, their 'me time' is heavily compromised. Many times, even if alternatives are available, women are left with little or no motivation to make that extra effort for themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Neglecting the self:</b> Due to the above mentioned situations, it is obvious that women end up neglecting themselves so much that they don't even realise that their bodies are getting affected. By the time they realise,their weight is through the roof,their self-image and self esteem takes a hit and a strong feeling of helplessness and depression sets in.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>But not everyone is lucky in love. Not everyone meets their idea of perfection in the first go.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Sometimes, the ideals of perfection are shattered. The exhilarating world ceases to exist. The cloud of emotions bursts on your head and hits you hard.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>And that's the end of life. The end of letting yourself experience through world the way you want to. The end of believing in love. The end of believing that you can find love again. Because the love that you wanted, was just so perfect. Nothing will ever match up to it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>But not the complete truth.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>The truth is, that all relationships come to us with a learning.When a relationship is fulfilled, it's not that the learning ends. Fulfillment of a relationship is not the learning. Rather, many, many small and big learnings and lessons lead to the fulfillment of a relationship.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Failure on the other hand, is not the end. It's also a lesson for fulfillment-for the soul.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>First, it shatters the idea of perfection in our head. And that is good. Because in reality, perfection doesn't exist. It's just a standard that we set. It's a standard that can always be reworked and modified and updated.<br />And the best part is, that once this ideal is shattered,we learn to break out of our confines and look at ourselves and people for what they really are. Not what we assume, imagine or want them to be.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Broken or unfulfilled love teaches us to be patient. It leads us a little closer to ourselves. It shows us those facts of ourselves that would not have come out otherwise. Therefore, it makes us grow.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>We all need that one jolt in life that forces us to evaluate our beliefs, values, thought processes, desires objectively.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>And it's not just love for humans,but love in general is meant to complete the incomplete aspects of our existence.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>It may sound absurd, but objectively this consumption is also good in a way, because it teaches us to fight and come out stronger. We become like caterpillars waiting to become butterflies.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b> We replay the incidents, the memories in our mind and hold on tightly to those emotions which were so right for that time. Not realizing, that what happened, happened for a reason. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>For once keep quiet!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>And then she walked away..<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Left me in a trance,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>I closed my eyes and gave myself a chance..<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>A burning flame, a beating heart and a tiny voice<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>A song that my voice sings<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-38556573585599522762015-12-02T08:55:00.001-08:002015-12-02T08:55:02.342-08:00Wordless Emotion <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Sometimes</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"> I ramble,</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like a baby I babble.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Sometimes I make sense,<br />Sometimes everything is blurry,<br />My emotions raging, in a hurry.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Sometimes I just lie flat on my back, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Wondering what to wonder about..?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Sometimes I ponder<br />Over everything worth pondering on,<br />For nights, leaving the switch on..</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes I stay silent,<br />For days and weeks to come.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes I'm.a bag full.of emotions,<br />Sometimes just a few,may be one,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />I like to be a wordless emotion.</span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-33471271850825956632015-10-28T21:59:00.000-07:002015-10-28T22:05:17.954-07:00The power of suppression<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>A few days ago,I was talking to one of my friends, who was quite irritated.I asked him about the cause of his irritation and he said, that things with his wife were not going well.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>They were experiencing a sort of a communication break down, where the only things they were uttering to each other were-'kuch nahin' and 'chhodo'.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>He said that every time they would say something to each other, one of them would flare up and the conversation would go on a world tour!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>But isn't this normal? Happens with all of us at some point or the other.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>And it's not just with conversations,but emotions in general.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>We all have certain emotions that seek instinctual expression, at a given moment in time.And this is more so with emotions like anger,frustration,irritation etc.The power that these emotions have, is immense.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>There is an immediate relief when they are expressed as instinctively as they arise. But with that relief,there are certain consequences attached as well.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Getting angry at a loved one and saying things that we might end up regretting later,is pretty common. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>And because we don't know what else to do to avoid such situations,we resort to 'chhodo','let it be','rehne do'.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>In effect,we suppress our instinctive emotions.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>So does that really work?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Actually no.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>It's just a temporary escape from the situation and it keeps building up inside. Eventually,there comes a point,where we burst out.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>The 'break down' point.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>You tried avoiding screaming,shouting,crying,or saying the correct but hurtful thing for sometime and threw up everything at once!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Yep,things do get messy and that's the true power of suppression.You cannot hold everything in permanently.Every thought,emotion,desire constantly seeks expression.We may delay the expression for a while,but cannot completely negate it's existence.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>But the true problem arises because we don't know how to express our instincts.When we are angry,we try to 'control' the anger.The more you resist,the more it persists and that's why, more problems arise after an uncontrolled outburst.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>You try to hold on to your tears and there comes a point,when your emotional tank begins to overflow and you find yourself crying for almost everything or nothing.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>You keep ignoring the irritating or annoying habits or actions of someone.You don't want to hurt them or be rude.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>But after a point,you end up doing the only thing that you were trying to avoid.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>What's the solution then?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>The solution lies in being aware of how you are currently expressing your emotions and finding an appropriate way of expressing them. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>For instance,it took me a long time to understand that when I'm angry,I need to vent out.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Initially,I would utter a lot of rubbish to anyone who crossed my path during my angry phase.Once I realized what I was doing,I went into 'I will not talk when I'm angry' phase.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>The result was,that I used to hang around the house sulking and uttering mono syllables.The constant worry of those around me,began to fuel my irritation even more.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>So,I had more reasons to be mad at everyone!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>After I grew up a little and became 'mature',I realized that there was an easy way out.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Whenever i found myself in a foul mood,I would just tell people that 'I'm in a bad mood,please leave me alone for a while'.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Once I found myself to be a little calm (I would listen to music,doodle on books,write my feelings down etc),I would then address the pressing issue.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Gradually things and people around me settled down.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>The period between experiencing the emotion and the consequences of expressing the same,is the one that needs to be worked upon.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Before we resort to screaming,shouting or simply walking away and harboring the emotion within,we need to take a break.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>The reason why I started telling people to leave me alone was,to be able to figure out the best way to put my point forward in an appropriate way.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Activities like listening to music,writing,doodling or sometimes talking to my close friends,helped me calm down and think about the issue rationally.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Once my mental balance was back,I was able to talk and bring up my concerns in an acceptable manner.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>That's why phrases like 'let it be','rehne do','chhod do','jane do' are pretty useless.They lead us to the path of suppression.A path that is so powerful,it can blow up everything because we end up doing too much of it.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>It would be so much better if, along with these phrases,we actually make an effort, to use that interim period in looking for an appropriate way to express our deepest concerns,emotions and thoughts.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>After all,ignorance may not always be bliss :p</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She worries a lot about everything,gets stressed at the drop of a hat.People say she takes things too seriously and that she should learn to relax.She tries, but fails to understand, how this whole relaxation actually works.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Their child has nightmares every night.He's scared to sleep alone.He's 14-not a child anymore.Yet,not big enough to understand what's happening.At school he finds himself getting into fights and arguments unintentionally.He feels lonely because he has no friends.He tries to tell his parents but they blame him.Is there actually something wrong with him?Is he a bad boy?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She cries herself to sleep on most days.Sometimes she finds herself so overwhelmed with her thoughts and emotions ,that tears start flowing even during the day..she's lost and gloomy...</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some of us can handle our thoughts and emotions better than others.Some can't.So, is that a crime?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">All of us have a twisted state of mind..and emotions are exhibited strongly by others, than the rest of us.We all go through so much in our lives, that bogs us down at some point or the other.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The one thing that keeps us going..alive and kicking,is not allowed complete expression.The mind-the software that keeps the body's machinery going, is supposed to be tucked inside somewhere in our head, and not allowed even a whimper.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is stigma,there is taboo,there are labels attached to anything related to the mind..Why?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Being depressed,anxious,stressed,compulsive,lonely,aggressive etc is not a disease.It's a state of mind and states are transitional.We keep shifting from one mental state to another, right from the time we open our eyes early in the morning.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And yes,sometimes we get stuck on one state..because at that time,that state serves a purpose.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some people are blessed with a mind that needs to be programmed and used differently.No matter what names we give to them-autistic,dyslexic,mentally challenged,obsessive,compulsive,schizophrenic etc; the fact is,that they are human.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are just not the same as the rest of us.And that's fine!No two people are the same any way.But it's just human to attach a name,a label to anything that is not 'regular' or 'like us'.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And that doesn't help.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's high time that we all decided to take ourselves, a little more seriously and break out of these limiting notions about mental health,mental illnesses and psychological and psychiatric help available at our disposal.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Because it's not that we are not aware of the concept of mental illness,counseling,psychology etc., but it's convenient to be rooted in redundant beliefs.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">And all my discoveries made me realize how perfectly imperfect we all are.And we are all embroiled in this quest to hide those... To look our best,to behave in the most acceptable way possible,to do things that people would take notice of.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not a <b>writer</b> per se, but I am in a way.I write only for myself.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mind races..races like a horse..like the thoughts are in a Derby race of their own and the one that wins,is the one that comes out on paper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Usually my thoughts are absurd,random,confusing, metaphorical... That's why they make sense.But it's a long process before the sense part actually comes in.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A process that me and my partners in crime(pencil and paper), explore for hours and hours or sometimes days together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So just like my usual Derby days, I set out to let my winning thought take it's shape through words.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Those words that I love to scribble onto my favorite diary with my favorite pencil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every time</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> I sit down to write, I spend a few seconds feeling happy about my diary..the fragrance of paper,the smoothness of the sheets and the symmetrical lines...I love it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">And then a few more seconds are gone, in looking at my favorite pencil...a blue colored pencil..smooth as ever..just broken..</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just like me...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a gift from someone I loved..loved too much.That someone, knew how much I loved to write..and that too with pencils.Someone with whom I had spent my evenings just doodling on paper...scribbling our names..drawing our dream house..flowers..our caricatures..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Someone..who broke my pencil in a fit of rage...and my heart..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">We were in our favorite <b>coffee shop</b> that evening when we fought. When an innocent question,a casual discussion went out of hand.I don't even remember what happened.. Why did it happen.. All I know and remember is that he broke my pencil and my heart. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now,I roam around with a <b>broken pencil</b> in my hand and a broken heart within.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />And I write..write all my broken and scattered thoughts in my diary..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started writing..but I couldn't. It was too distracting.My mind wasn't comfortable. It kept going back to that day.. that coffee shop..and I had this urge to go there.My instincts,kicking me from within to just go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I decided to finish up my pending work and head to my once favorite <b>coffee shop</b> "Yours truly".</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was evening by the time I finished work.I packed up my diary and pencil and left.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even though, the travel to the coffee shop was just about half an hour,it felt like an eternity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was restless..I don't know why.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I parked my car and walked up to the cafe. It had been nearly a year since I had even seen this place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">As I stepped in,I was engulfed by the fragrance of coffee,the familiar graffiti on the walls, the music and my favorite seat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">It was automatic. I just had to walk up to it,sit,order my coffee and start my scribbling. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">After a while,my coffee came. But I hadn't scribbled.. I was blank. It was strange.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br />I had all these thoughts and now I just couldn't write!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to leave. As I was packing up,I heard a familiar voice from behind me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My heart raced. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could it be possible?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I turned around to see who was sounding so familiar. It was him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our eyes locked.The world around buzzed out.The Derby race in my head started again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">And then he smiled.I was puzzled. He reached into his pocket and took out something.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The other half of my favorite broken pencil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I smiled at him..a relieved smile..extended my hand and he placed the other half of my pencil on it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I enclosed it my palm.It felt wonderful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">And then she walked up to him.He turned away from me instantly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After all,I was broken no more.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-61818676809872360482015-08-12T05:03:00.004-07:002015-08-12T05:03:43.509-07:00Dear me,I appreciate you!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>How many times has it happened,that you do something and wait for someone to appreciate you? Wait for the little pat on the back or a "good job!"or "nice!"?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Appreciation is a very powerful tool in the hands of people, for whom we are trying to do things.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">The kind of appreciation, the amount and the way it comes to us,serves as a very important benchmark that directs all our future efforts.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Picture this-a child makes a birthday card for his parent and gives it to him/her,expecting words of love and appreciation like " thank you",'"this is so nice "," I'm so happy" and instead gets a reply like "it's nice but you should make it better next time".</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>What happens to the poor child? His mind automatically thinks " Papa/Mummy didn't like it..It wasn't so nice.." And it demoralizes him/her.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">So the next time,the child may end up doing better and may also begin to hold this 'better' a bit too tightly or the child may stop trying to do 'better'.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">But is there anything wrong in letting someone know that they can or need to improve?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">There isn't. However, there is a way and time to convey such information.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">May be next time,the parent can actually start by telling the child how much they appreciate the effort, how good their child has made them feel and then gently slide in any suggestion that they want to convey.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>And not only with children,it happens with each one of us, at some point or the other where we feel,we are not being recognized for our work.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">And appreciation for adults is a far more complex emotion that kids.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Yet,before we turn to others for appreciation and end ourselves up in this whirlpool of doing things and getting desperate for appreciation;we need to look inwards.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;"><br />Are we actually giving ourselves the credit and the feedback that we should be?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">When we ask someone for their opinion,we open ourselves to different perspectives.To be able to actually choose the one that resonates with our bent of mind,we need to know which side we are actually on!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">I have been anti-cooking for as long as I can remember. My mother is an awesome cook and somehow,it's just an unsaid assumption that I will or should be as good as her.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Perhaps, due to this reason,I never liked entering the kitchen!I used to feel awkward when people asked me about my culinary skills.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>But now,I realize that I used to feel awkward because I didn't really know if I liked cooking at all or not!how would I? I never tried!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b><br />And now that I have,I know what all I like to cook and how.My style is not like my mother's and it doesn't have to be!I learn from her and add my own twist to it!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b><br />As long as I keep trying to cook exactly like her,I will not be able to develop my own style.And same is the case with appreciation. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>If my mother is my bench mark,then obviously everyone will compare me to her!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">That's why,I don't have a preset bench mark.I cook like how I want to which makes it easier for me to evaluate my own efforts and explain my goals to those around me.So the guidance and feedback that I receive, becomes much more acceptable.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">The perennial mistake that we all make,is to do something and run for someone to tell us how it is.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Why not ask ourselves first?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">How do we know what we receive is not fair if we are unable to decide for ourselves? And the minute we do,we also learn different ways of filtering unwanted information out.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">To gain appreciation, we need to be appreciated by ourselves.Else, the world is nothing but a big ball of information hitting us all the time!</b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-56678503475216433032015-08-11T02:50:00.000-07:002015-08-11T02:50:15.229-07:00The joy of being broken<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Meeting and getting to know people, is a very good thing.Not only because it expands your social circle,but it also expands your thinking prowess.It's an unconscious time travel taking you from who you were,who you are now and who you wish to be with the time to come.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Kaun kab aur kahan mil jaye,kya keh jaye,suna jaye...kya pata.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>And even more powerful,is the impact that all that talking, listening and discussing makes.Sometimes,the best learning is the one which we never intended to do.The best realizations are the ones,we never intended to realize..</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>So just like all other random ramblings of mine,this one also, is a result of one such interaction that I had with a new found friend.While we were chit-chatting about the different kind of books that we both like to read; he sent me one picture that had a few lines written on it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The one line that immediately got stuck in my head was -"I'm broken.Not out of order".</b></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQZbySePjhimFuFi2T4-ibaQoAdd951n_X7FEFGFt8JDYAV4c3DGRb6oU_n0tZy_hPvRuw9dTf7iYQRtGB5Zn4Z7Im-Qt-VPfdto7ESl8bsqSlOQK7z2n_NOTZHxRHhOCAONn1UbrBA38/s1600/download+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><b><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQZbySePjhimFuFi2T4-ibaQoAdd951n_X7FEFGFt8JDYAV4c3DGRb6oU_n0tZy_hPvRuw9dTf7iYQRtGB5Zn4Z7Im-Qt-VPfdto7ESl8bsqSlOQK7z2n_NOTZHxRHhOCAONn1UbrBA38/s1600/download+%25281%2529.jpg" /></span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">At that time, it was just a fancy line with a deep meaning, that I didn't understand completely. But now,sitting and watching the rain drops seep into different areas, switched my light bulb (read mind) on!</span><span style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Am I broken? Yes.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>How? In more than one way..in more ways that I can ever realize.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm glad that I am ...because I know, I have a long road ahead of me...a journey that I am going to enjoy...a journey of building and rebuilding myself..</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>We all are broken in some ways or another. And we shall always be..because being broken means,that we have the option to rebuild.. Fill those little cracks in our mind, with whatever we want and continue molding</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>So how do you define being broken?Well.. that's the best part...you don't!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Because as time passes,you realize that there are certain cracks,crevices,bumpy spaces in your mind that you keep stumbling upon with time.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Being broken doesn't mean you're weak.It simply means you have the chance to grow..to explore..to get hurt..take chances...to observe...to work more..to ignore..to protect..to preserve..</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br />To just do whatever it takes for you to come a little closer to who you want to be and how you choose to be,at a point in time.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>And yes,broken doesn't mean not functional or out of order.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>And that's the beauty of being.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>That's the power of being broken...the power to rebuild.</b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705279723825372570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710221219532012302.post-60891324114265568052015-08-04T09:41:00.001-07:002015-08-04T09:41:26.723-07:00Finding words<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>You don't look at me like you used to</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>You don't touch me like you used to..</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><br />Sometimes when you do,<br />I can feel those empty stares<br />Burning through me<br />As though you have a lot to say<br />But your words fail you..and me..</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Sometimes your touch feels cold and aloof<br />You hold me like you know me<br />But have forgotten<br />And then you rummage through the likes of me,<br />Looking for proof.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>It's been long since you held me softly and wrote words of love,laughter or sadness..<br />I know I'm just a paper<br />But I feel you, like no one else does<br />I feel your joy,confusion and sometimes.. the emptiness...</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>I know you miss me<br />As I miss your words on me</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>But I will wait,<br />Till the words come to you</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><br />The words..you want to find....</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One
of my closest friends,has been avoiding me for quite a while. Not because we
had a tiff.But,she has been very distressed lately.She went through a bad
break-up and is finding it difficult to get back on track.To her, the world
seems the worst place to be in right now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But
she isn’t talking to anyone.She has become very cranky and irritable. The days
when she finds herself amidst broken sleep,she just takes some medicine and
gets by the night.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadly,those nights are increasing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes,she starts crying
for no apparent reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
I am worried. I am worried for many more such people,who get bogged down by
life and find it difficult to get back up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is moving so fast that we don't even realize that we are getting caught up in a web.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
web consisting of demands, commitments, responsibilities; and a multitude of
events that constitute our daily routine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQws1L64_LObJehq9z_MHxGzlmogDPO2C9qIL9cLiX2yCMU7yjL0KTCMhhyABnO9lqmrkxOMKYNyAodtD6CRRk5sE4VTSBkDzJ4zq2MgtME7IPQ2iKbbduksGGAeXoNyIW0Nh3K4KzyNHZ/s1600/sailks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQws1L64_LObJehq9z_MHxGzlmogDPO2C9qIL9cLiX2yCMU7yjL0KTCMhhyABnO9lqmrkxOMKYNyAodtD6CRRk5sE4VTSBkDzJ4zq2MgtME7IPQ2iKbbduksGGAeXoNyIW0Nh3K4KzyNHZ/s1600/sailks.jpg" /></span></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without
any conscious effort, we start hoarding of a lot of unwanted and unwelcome thoughts,
emotions and actions. These in turn, give rise to many pertinent issues like
stress, anxiety, sleeplessness and mood swings, aches and pains and many other
health issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These
days, health issues are almost becoming our second nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We
all are aware of this fact.Yet, reluctant to change it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">And
for some strange reason, we find it easier to take medicines than to actually
make the effort of solving our problems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes,
times have changed and more and more we are realising the importance of this
profession called ‘Counselling’. However,we all still operate under some
fundamental misconceptions about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here
are some things about Counselling that we all must know.So that, if and when
the need arises, we can make an informed choice of approaching a counselor and seeking help.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRLRJyo4P5PCyPFYkz4uEksBcrWX0K6J2GkwVUhghnuRNqkCk9BVSXCAHGJxKjJ408z6sAtIREXmq6U8y_dhRzoimVzIBKOcgf0nN3fnENz2ooHp3_msZfCx-uSfPsq5eC4HZXFPmTWdL/s1600/changecounsel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRLRJyo4P5PCyPFYkz4uEksBcrWX0K6J2GkwVUhghnuRNqkCk9BVSXCAHGJxKjJ408z6sAtIREXmq6U8y_dhRzoimVzIBKOcgf0nN3fnENz2ooHp3_msZfCx-uSfPsq5eC4HZXFPmTWdL/s200/changecounsel.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Mental health is as important as physical health for our
well-being</span></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"> <b>:</b></span> <span style="color: #660000;">When things don’t go our way,
it’s very natural to go through a gamut of negative emotions.However,a healthy
mental condition allows us to evaluate our situations and problems objectively
and enables effective problem-solving and decision making. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">Sometimes, prolonged
or severe acute stressors can create a whirlpool within us. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">Thus, giving rise
to sleep difficulty, anxiety, excessive anger, irritation etc.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #660000;">When we find ourselves unable to handle our daily
functioning effectively, it is an indication that we need help. It is the same
as going to a doctor when we experience some physical symptoms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #351c75;"> </span><span style="color: purple;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Contrary
to popular belief, you don’t have to be ‘mad’ to seek counselling or therapy</span><b> </b><b>:</b></span><b> </b><span style="color: #660000;">Counselors function much like doctors-they listen to your symptoms,diagnose what the problem and the source is.But instead of giving medicines,they help us to explore the issues from different perspectives,until we arrive at a feasible solution.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #660000;"> You can be stressed or anxious over your job,family issues,relationship problems,emotional set backs etc. and you can still seek the help of a counselor,who is trained to help you cope better.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jraNiY0Uao6g4uFbkwKN7F7rHvNv6-XWpSm6i1M5GV5DHGvuTGMlrqFZIQXin0kbGNYWiyXy7bAxnrJanw9Cdi4o9t8-MqVFWivW_6LUumkejDmxEVAyXrmZ1oLlk5LkaJwnDBo7ytS-/s1600/facr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jraNiY0Uao6g4uFbkwKN7F7rHvNv6-XWpSm6i1M5GV5DHGvuTGMlrqFZIQXin0kbGNYWiyXy7bAxnrJanw9Cdi4o9t8-MqVFWivW_6LUumkejDmxEVAyXrmZ1oLlk5LkaJwnDBo7ytS-/s1600/facr.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><b style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;">Counselling does not make you ‘weak’</b><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;"><b>: </b></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;">Going to a Counselor,discussing your issues and inner
most feelings does not certify one as ‘weak’!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white;">If anything it does, is widen our thought process to
include different understandings of a particular event. It enables us to vent
out our emotions. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white;">This is can be termed as ‘emotional cleansing’ or ‘catharsis’
which makes us feel relaxed.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white;">But,the most important thing it does, is to ‘empower’ us
so that we can handle our thoughts, emotions and actions better.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;">Talking to friends and family members is not a substitute
to Counselling</b></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"> <b>:</b></span><span style="color: #351c75;"> </span><span style="color: #660000;">Yes, we must share our
thoughts and emotions with our loved ones. We all have that one person who is
our best friend, our confidante.Yet,when going through a difficult
phase(internally or externally),sometimes it’s not enough.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">Simply,because when
we talk to people close to us, we are listening to their opinions, ideas and judgments.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sometimes, a situation demands much more than just an
opinion. What works for one person, may not work for someone else.</span><span style="background-color: white;">Situations and problems require an objective, unbiased
view of what’s going on and the possible solutions available. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Someone may be
losing sleep over an irrational fear of something, while someone may be anxious
about a future occurrence. A counselor is a trained professional, who helps
you to objectively evaluate and solve an issue because the solution lies within
us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;">What if other people find out!:</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;">Well, Counselling is based on mutual trust and confidentiality.
As an ethical practice, counsellors do not discuss client’s information with
other people. It is only in special cases where there is a potential risk involved,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;">How can I talk to a stranger! :</span></b><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"> </span><span style="color: #660000;">Wasn't your best friend initially a stranger? The fact is,
that most of our relations outside of our families, started off with a level of
unfamiliarity.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">It is the unfamiliarity that creates space for objectivity and
facilitates free-flow of thought. Doesn't it feel nice to just let your heart
do the talking, without worrying about what the other person is thinking about
us?</span></span></span><br />
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times like now, don’t we just want to be heard and not talked to all the time?
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with! It may seem like the counselor does nothing except listen to our rants.But
that is his /her actual job! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">He/She listens so that he can get an in-depth
understanding of what’s going on within us. A counselor invests a lot of time
and energy on every individual client.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Thus,he/she charges the amount that
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Counselor only talks or listens and does nothing! :</span><span style="color: lime;"> </span></b><span style="color: #660000; text-indent: -18pt;"> The fact of the matter is,that Counselors and therapists invest a lot of time and money in getting trained.It's a profession that requires interaction! </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And not just that,it employs many kinds of therapies and techniques.It's all about finding yourself,placing the pieces of this puzzle called life- together!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; text-indent: -18pt;">And yes,he/she does listen!That's one of the ways to know what's going on inside us! And then,there are those times when always crib that 'we have no one who listens to us!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="color: purple;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><b style="text-indent: -18pt;">Counselling
is life-long :</b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Well, if you end up establishing a good rapport, then why not! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">After all, we all have people whom we call our ‘guides’ or ‘mentors’ and they
are there to guide us all along! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">But, Counseling involves a lot of time and
effort from the Client and the </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Counselor. Depending
on the nature of the issue and the need of the client, Counseling can be long
term or short term.</span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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solutions or fixes</span></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;">!</span><b><span style="color: purple;">:</span><span style="color: lime;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #351c75; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">It is a guided
self-exploration process. And we all know, how complicated our inner and outer
lives are! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">Just like we can get stressed over many things; there are many
solutions to problems.Sometimes, it takes a long time to find the
solution.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">Sometimes,it comes to us in a flash! The idea behind counselling is,
to keep exploring, till we find the solution that fits best without losing our
mind!</span></span></span></div>
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<b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Counselling is
magic!:</span></b><span style="color: purple; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Yes, it is! If, we have the will
to work for our own </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">betterment. Just by sitting in a Counselling session, our
problems won’t vanish. It requires focus and commitment to our own self. Only
then will the sessions be effective.Counselors, therapists can only guide us to
a better life. They cannot live our lives for us.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The harsh reality is,that stress,anxiety,worry etc have all become intricately tied to our lives.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> We do manage to lead our versions of a normal life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However,when these issues begin to interfere in our daily functioning(unable to sleep well,anger,aggression,feeling low etc);when we are no longer able to cope with life's challenges and demands and need a reorientation; that's when we should seek help.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #660000;">A little patient and lengthy process in comparison.But,with long-term benefits!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almost every magazine, internet website,television channel, is buzzing with ways and ideas of 'how to lead a healthy' life.Cities are bustling with yoga,dance,fitness and meditation classes.Spirituality is the new king.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With all these avenues aiding us,we might and are able to lead a physically healthy life and they do put the mind at ease.Yet,this isn't long-lasting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Convenience, doesn't have a soul. It's just a plain simple cardboard box,in which we go on stuffing the inner most parts of our life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am the one living my own life.Therefore, my ideas and beliefs about my own self are very important.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">But,we find it much easier to get ourselves validated by people around us. For us to believe we are smart,talented, beautiful etc, we need someone to tell us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well,the human soul wasn't meant to be adorned with ornaments. It was and is,meant to experience. For that,it needs to be nurtured and cared for.We may have a palatial house,swanky cars,a high positioned job. But if those were the true parameters for a happy life; depression, anxiety,anger,broken relationships wouldn't have found a way into our lifestyle. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The more we compare our lives with that of others,we disrespect ourselves more.As they say,different strokes for different folks!Everyone has a different purpose and path in life.People may be better,richer,smarter etc,but they can never be you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some choices are tough,some are easy,some are unwanted and some are delayed.But,they are there. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For every given situation,we can only choose what fits best!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Healthy external relationships are vital for the feeling of fulfillment to settle in.In essence,our lives are inter-twined.We are together for a reason.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And attaining that reason requires time and nurturing.The value of passing 'I love you','I miss you,' surprises,gifts etc. are far deeper than what we can see. Just being together in all times,makes life so much worthwhile!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Happiness is a state.It's an outlook.But more than that,we should try and be content,satisfied with who we are,where we are and what we have.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">That's what 'being' 'well' is all about.<b>It just means "I am satisfied with what I am and the things around me".</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“Hey!Hey!what are you doing? Do I look like</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">a beach or waterfall to you that you’re
conveniently taking pictures?”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oops! Sorry buddy!I didn’t mean to offend you. But you
were so engrossed in your task,that I didn’t want to disturb you either.By the
way, I’m ME and you are...?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sisyphus looked at me quizzically.He must be thinking I’m
crazy or something.”I’m Sisyphus”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Nice to meet you Sir.That’s a pretty tough job you
have there.” I pointed to the big boulder that was lying beside him.”So,what
exactly do you do?”I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I guess,I had offended him quite a bit with that
question.He just stood there with his hands crossed in front of his chest and
stared at me with narrowed eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Nothing of consequence to you.Now, if you’re done with
your sight-seeing,I’d like to go back to relive my curse.” He was agitated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Curse?” I was puzzled.”What do you mean?”,I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Do you mind leaving me alone Mister? As you can see,I
don’t have all the time in the world that I can spend frolicking around! I have
to push this damn boulder up this hill until it rolls back down again.” The
agitation was building up in his voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“And what do you have to do after that?” I asked
innocently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sisyphus had just begun to push the boulder up,when he
stopped all his efforts mid-way to glare at me.For a second,I was scared.I
stepped back.May be I had stepped on an unchartered territory.I mean,what did I
know? I was just a tourist. I was just trying to help...I had all these thoughts
running through my mind,when he started screaming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“After that??After that..you ask?Well,nothing!It will
come down and I,like an idiot,will gather all my courage,my senses,my strength
and start pushing it back again.Again it will reach the top,and then roll
down..and I will keep doing this till I die! And you know why will I do
this?Because I’m cursed!Because,the mighty Gods couldn't find any other way to
punish me...”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Sisyphus broke down.His body just collapsed on the
ground.There he was tired,exhausted,frustrated,angry,on his knees,on the
ground.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Here,have some water,” I offered.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Thank you Mister.You are very kind and I’m sorry to
have acted out like this. It’s been long since someone came my way and actually
spoke to me.Mostly,humans come,look at me,show some sympathy and walk away.”Sisyphus
spoke in the saddest voice I had ever heard.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Can I sit beside you for a while? If you don’t mind..?” I
asked.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He smiled.I sat down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was something about him,that didn’t allow me to
leave him like this.I wanted to know more.Did I want to help him? I don’t
know.I don’t even know if he needed help.May be,just someone to talk to.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“So,you said you are cursed.Is that true?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes.I am.It is true.I did some things for which I was
punished.This is my punishment.”He replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“So,what is the end state? When does it get over? How
do you know that it’s the time to stop? That you have served your sentence?”I shot
these questions all at once.My mind was racing with so many of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sisyphus laughed.”There is no end to it Mister.That is
my life. It’s like someone pushed you onto a buzzing race track and told you to
run. Everyone is running.There is madness,chaos and just running.But there is no
finish line.No one is sitting there to tell you who won,who lost,who is
cheating.You just go on and on till you realize, you can no longer do it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't make sense of what he was saying. How does his
punishment not have an end?Why would there be a race,if there is no finish
line, no judges,no parameters? This was all absurd.How can someone say such
absurd things?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But,you always have choices..don’t you?,” What did I
just say?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What choice do I have Mister?” He asked as if I could
offer some divine insights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What are you doing now Sisyphus?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Why,I am talking to you!”He looked at me as if I was insane
for asking such an obvious question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“So....isn't that a choice that you made? To take a break
from your monotonous job,let out your frustration,have a conversation with
someone?,” I had no clue of what I was saying.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“So,will this conversation end my sorrows? End my
punishment?”,the agitation was building up again in him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No.I didn't say that. But,what I am saying is,that you’re
not alone in this absurdity.What is a punishment for you,is life for everyone
else.We too,work hard,aspire to reach the top and one day,everything comes spiraling down.We pick up and start again,”I said.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“At least you know what you have to do!What about me? Can
you even begin to imagine how hard this task is for me? And every time this damn
boulder rolls down, it breaks my soul.”He was in tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I can’t even get out of it-this meaningless task and
existence”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But it does have meaning!May be less but certainly
non-existent!</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Everyone feels sad and distraught,when things don't go our way.But,that's what life is all about..”, I said and I was blabbering.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Meaningless means there is no meaning Mister!Just like
a race with no finish line! You would never know when to stop,whom to take
over,when to take a break..”Sisyphus argued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But may be ,that is the point.We are all thrown into
existence.Just like you were thrown into this punishment or the race that we
are told to run!And we know what we have to do!Yet, we like to imagine contrary
states of existence and like to feel miserable.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we have choices.May be, they aren't exactly to our
heart’s desire. But... they are there. We just need to find that one or those,that
resonate with us,our existence.” I wondered if was I making any sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Your job is,to roll this boulder up again and
again.Your actions led to this punishment. But do you accept this fact? No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Punishment wasn't random.It was a consequence of your
action.So,you had a choice of accepting responsibility.You can’t have the
freedom to commit and the choice to turn away from its responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then,you had the choice of accepting the fact,that
there is no end.But there are breaks; like the one you’re taking now-sitting
and talking to me.You could talk to those many others who sympathize with
you,make some friends who could keep you company. Admire the sunset and the
sunrise. Most people don’t even know what dusk and dawn is...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You could brainstorm and come up with different
strategies to keep the boulder on top!Ask for help and someone will come!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or....you could have run away.... and then could have born the
consequences for that as well...” I rambled on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You know,everyone is
another ‘You’-engrossed in their own struggles.Running their own
race.And it’s just very convenient to have someone validate our efforts and
existence.Like in a race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, a race without a finish line would’t be devoid of
meaning.May be,less meaningful.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I know,I just have to run and never to finish;I will
live.”Was I making sense to myself?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“So,you will keep running? Without a goal?”,Sisyphus
was deeply puzzled by now.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Who said without a goal? For once,can I not use my own
mind and heart to make my own goals? I may not win the entire race.But I can
choose to over-take the racer right ahead of me or I can slow down if I’m
tired.I can rest for as long as I want.I can give up and then get back again or wait for someone to bail me out.Then I need to be patient as well!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can observe and learn from all the
other racers around me.I can befriend some of them and share little anecdotes
on life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don’t think The Supreme Power(if there is),gave all of us a mind,just
so we could lock it away.It’s my race,my life,my choice-isn't it? Yes, what I
am thrown into,at times,may not be my choice.But,I can always choose to be here
and now and do whatever best I can.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I may not win the race.But it doesn't mean I can’t be
my own winner. And sooner or later,we all will die.That,is the ultimate finish line and no one can erase that.No one can judge your death.People may sit on the periphery of the race track and have their opinions.But,they can't change the ultimate.But,the racer has the choice of how he wants to run” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sisyphus got up and started looking around for
something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Hey,what are you looking for?”,I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Tools”,he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“My punishment was to make this boulder stay on top.I
think,with some tools,I might be able to...someday.”,He said with a tiny smile
spreading across his face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I think I might have something in my bag that can help
you”, And i took out a hammer and a few nails and handed them to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Hey,something’s written on the hammer,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once or twice doesn't even count.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every time it hurt more than the last time</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still, I chose to wear it on my sleeve,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To stop those,who were eager to leave.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But left they still,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were here to leave;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just tossed my heart back to me,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I put it back on my sleeve;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just in case I met someone,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Years came and went by,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All I heard was an empty good bye..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And my heart turned more and more sad</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bruises and the incisions,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hurt so bad..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And every time they hurt more than the last time,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those thousands of moments,I can't even recount,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once or twice doesn't even count.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But,was I a fool to get the hurt?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I even tried changing my shirt!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps, with a shorter sleeve,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To let my heart peek out,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I still got fooled</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not once, not twice</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More times,than I ever could realize..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now I've grown-smart and wise,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I have my own theories,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now,I love to theorize.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I know,that the fool I thought,I was..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wasn't..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To hold onto someone who could never fit into my life,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And stopping them from taking a leave,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By wearing my little heart on my sleeve..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well,I turned out to be a bigger fool!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">And all this while,I never realized..</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now I have grown-smart and wise</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I have my own theories and I love to theorize.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now I know</span></div>
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