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The days I workout the best, meditate the best, am working as per schedule, eating less, walking more are the days when there are challenges.
On the days things are going okay, life also gets average.
So don’t pray for more “settled” or okay days.
Wish for more strength and you will see yourself impersonating calm in every situation of life.
Try to karke dekho 🙂
Speak less.
And when you do, let your two words make the mark of a lifetime.
Work more on yourself.
It would make the work of working on others easier.
Sleep early.
The next day would be brighter.
Have a great week.
Your life matters.
Sometimes we will never know why.
Sometimes we will never know why.
That is the explanation I have for you.
What I do know is: When things don’t happen as we wanted them to, always something great comes out of them. Always.
Have faith in yourself.
If you won’t, who will?
Some life lessons that helped me today, might do that to you as well:
When I had initially come home during lockdown, I had thought I would finally be happy when I will go back to Delhi.
I had thought I will be happy when I get my freedom, but it isn’t denied to me here either.
I had thought I would have good places to shop, but life is anyway being lived in the same pyjama since eternity:)
I had thought my parents wanted to stop me here forever, but they don’t, which makes me live here happily.
Don’t know when going to Delhi will be possible like before, but I am now starting to be happy with my dysfunctional family. Especially since opportunities to work and make money are infinite with zero compromise on my daily power naps and evening walks and morning workouts and what not!!!
We wait for an idea of the future hoping for things to get better, not realising it is getting created here and now – with what we think and what we do.
When we love someone, we don’t want to cry for them.
Because had they been around, they wouldn’t have liked seeing us cry.
Go live your life in the happiest version possible, in a manner had they been around.
Not because you are rejoicing that they went, rather because we want to let them know that in order to keep them happy, we will stay happy.
Our happiness is a token to tell them back, that we love them
I want to say something to you:
Always be nice.
Even with the ones who are playing and plotting against you.
Because everyone is an irreplaceable parent or son or daughter of someone.
Everyone is fighting a battle we don’t know of.
And, we don’t know which one will be our last one.
Today there’s nothing much to say.
Lost a close Uncle. Had met him two days after Diwali, last month. Little did anyone of us know that this was the last one.
While we were cordial and cool in our last meeting, I do realise that we don’t know which one is going to be our last meeting.
Lesson: Treat every meeting with people like the last one. We never know.
These life lessons are deep, and never shared.
Here you go:
PS: Number 6 — Diamonds are formed under pressure 🙂
Negative things about getting a positive life
1. Honesty is an expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.
– Warren Buffet
2. When people show you who they are, believe them.
– Maya Angelou
3. The best way to deal with corporate politics is to live by and speak your truth. It will make you undefeatable.
4. People will play games against you. Worry not, for they not know against whom are they playing the real game.
5. Don’t trust your extremely good or bad moods. What happens in the middle – your intuitions, people’s behaviours, what you want to do – that is the real stuff.
Some small reflections about life, that were sadly not as positive, however, very important to inch towards positivity and not being affected by the negativity of others.
A friend asked me about a book recommendation on mental health.
I was soooo soooo happy!
Gave her my favourite one, along with a few that could rank after it.
But you know what, the feeling was epic.
Which brings me to…ahem ahem!
I will start writing book summaries soon. Even the thought is good enough to keep me up at night. However, when you sleep well, you create well.
So, see you all soon with consistent book reviews. Whoa, I could die in a library 🙂
PS: When my friend asked for book reccos, I didn’t tell her the names or Amazon links, I clicked pictures of the books I love and sent those. Totally loved it!!!
The past was horrible.
How could they do it to you?
How could you do it to yourself?
Do these thoughts sometimes encircle your mind? Like if that person from the past came back to you right now, you would hit them and vent out all your frustration?
Here’s the catch baby: Even if you did that, that won’t take away the past and its bruises.
To heal yourself, you have to heal yourself.
That is difficult.
That is the real hard work.
That will break you down into pieces several times before it actually makes you.
That will make you question yourself over and over again.
However, that will also be the right thing for you.
What’s the point of being behind those prison bars when on the sides of those bars is open space to run anywhere you need to?
The state with which you enter your home.
The way you walk from the parking entrance to your vehicle.
How much are you ready to ignore to make your happiness a priority.
How much you’re ready to endure to make others are happy
How to look at the person in the mirror – smiling or critical
The sigh or the joy on waking up.
Water bottle kept next to your laptop.
Not using phone because you want to read.
The general convo drifting around how bad your luck was, or how hopeful life is!
Small things that define our life in biggest ways.
Have a pattern.
They will be unkind to you 10 times, and kind to you once. So that they can lean into that kindness and make you feel worthless 10 more times.
It happens in so many relationships of all kinds that it isn’t funny.
Here is my advice: Go build yourself. Go surround yourself with right people. Run away from wrong people. Even though they will always make you feel you are wrong, and spineless. Even if they call you names and question your character.
The safest people will always love you like a human being and not like vending machine, even if (especially if) you have made a massive error
Having some weird ideas, don’t know when (or if) I’ll be executing on them, but let’s see:
Let’s see where things go:)
Btw, 1, 2, 6 and 7 are in progress – which may even lead to 5 getting somewhere in place. Let’s see!
The world thinks you’re winning.
But deep down, you are crying.
The world thinks they are jealous of you.
Deep down, you just wish you could not be you.
The world thinks you are a butterfly
While you are simply getting out of cocoons everyday
The world thinks your life is sorted
Well, that’s what you think of the world…
If you win according to the world but not you
Is that really a win?
The win that you are looking for
Is the win that is hidden within
In a corner of your heart that is silent and loud
Lies cuddled up the win that you went looking far for
If you really work hard and get better, you will get where you want to.
If you keep forgiving people, you will get lighter.
If you keep eating a bit lesser, soon you will get to your desired destination.
If you keep persisting when you are supposed to give up, you will get great rewards instantly over a period of time.
If you be there for yourself, you will be able to be there for others as well. Not vice versa.
It turns out, we already know all the answers. We just need to decide, as Seth Godin says.
2. Party is a very very tiny slice of multiple multi-layered thing called life. Take care of your life and the party takes care of itself.
3. Do yourself a favour. And read more books and hang around less people who are hurt.
Today I met a team with whom I’ve been working on for quite some time now.
We met. Had a lot of fun. Clicked a lot more of pictures. And right now our IG is filled with pictures of the celebrations. (PS: You can check it out on @nishthagehija26 on IG if you read this within 24 hours of posting :D)
But that’s not the point. The point is, that real life happens outside of the social media. And that is a truth not to escape from.
Everything on the phone is a delusion, what you create in silence is what you will be created of. Everything else, will eventually fade away.
When you speak your truth, you live an authentic life.
No one would understand it. No one.
But you will.
And that will be more than enough.