opportunity to worry

Just the other day I noticed how we ignore the opportunities to be happy, and drag our self down with worries for trivial things.

My wife is pregnant; she went to see the doctor for her monthly checkup. I am sitting out side in the car and waiting for her to come back. Thinking all kind of thoughts, she was not doing very well for some time. We were worried; what if the medicines she is taking will adversely affect the child. What if there is a problem with the baby? Or what if she is not delivering a normal baby? Our whole life will be up side down; all our life dreams will be shattered in a minute. There can be huge ramifications, this thing can alter all of ours life’s as we wouldn’t have imagined in our wildest dream.

She comes back shrugs her shoulder and tells me every thing is normal. I took a breath of relieve and said that’s a good news and start my car. She tells me she wants to be dropped to this shop so she can change her shoes which she bought yesterday, and she started talking about her problem of finding a proper shoe. Next second, I started worrying about the traffic, my commute, will I be late for meeting, my project, the un-replied emails etc.

And then I suddenly realize, I just got this big huge life altering good news but I am not taking a moment to rejoice life. We don’t have time to even notice the blessings of god and feel happy about it or be thankful to god, We did not spend a single moment to appreciate life, but jumped right back into our trivial daily problems and started worrying. And then we wonder why life is not good, why there are so many worries? Why I am not happy? Why his skin has fewer wrinkles then mine?

How many times in day you miss the opportunity to be happy?

Time is money

Time is very expensive thing, people don’t have much time. They have to do so much in this world, so much to achieve and so less time. I see some of my rich friends don’t have time for any thing, always busy, postponing life for tommrow. Time is money.

I was lying down on my swing this afternoon listening to music, smelling beautiful flowers, looking at trees, seeing how wind makes them swing in ecstasy and their leaves flutter with sheer excitement. How butterfly’s happily running from flower to flower and birds glide in carefree abundance in sky. My rich friend comes and asks me – How come you are so poor? Why don’t you have money like I do? I answer him – I was very rich too, I made lot of money, but I paid lot of that money to buy some time for my leisure, you know how expensive it is, and he nods his head in agreement.

Honesty and Integrity

4th july, holiday season in USA and I am in for a house search; Now days I am meeting too many new people. I noticed, like dog smells the fear in humans, same way human smells integrity, honesty, intelligence and kindness in other humans. You don’t have to show it, don’t fake it, people know it, feel it intuitively.