You

Osho asks "What's the most important thing that's happening to you right now??"
The answer - You are Alive!

Sounds good to hear but feels great to be...
Think of all the problems that you have to combat and then think what in the end is it all about?? Philosophical eh?? I'll explain what I'm thinking.

Remember my write up about "known strangers"?? If not, go back and read it. I happened to see the known stranger again and this time with my siblings, hubby and baby with me, he seemed so unimportant. As in after seeing him again, it really does not make any difference to  me if I do or do not encounter him anywhere else. After all, my life has changed, but more significantly I have understood that things that go by should be given back to time... Meaning just as you don't know a few things before they happen to you (They belong to time) they should be treated the same way once they seize to exist in your life.

Still too complicated?
I read these few words somewhere.
"Never beg someone to be in your life. if someone ignores you, walk away, its called self respect.
There is no need to chase people. Just be yourself. The ones who belong in your life will find you.
The people who stand by you, care for you, love you the way you are"

Tons of people die everyday. Millions are fighting for life everyday with new diseases. Ask them what's the most important thing in life and they will say "Being Alive".

So all in all, no people, no money, no status, no relationship, nothing can be, nothing is more powerful, more important than You..

This one is exclusively for the one who seems to have lost all interest in life just because of being treated badly by a few and someone has desired to end a partnership. Value your life, value yourself!

Cheers!!
God bless!


CHS

 

Cherith...

This chap is the world of mysteries... I recollect Osho's words when I see him "you give a thing to a child and he makes a universe out of it"

A few days back one of his cousins took him into his house and I stood at the door waving him bye and waiting for him to respond. He did not respond and did not give me even a look. There are so many times that his eyes and mind are focused on one particular thing at a time. He sees someone eating a chocolate or one of his cousins playing with something, you call him a hundred times and his ears are turned off. I really wish we could be focused on the good things in life and mute the useless stuff around, life would be bliss!!

I try and take a learning from him each day. He might have just banged his head somewhere or would have got a trashing from me but a few loving words and a hug will make him forget what just happened. I learn to forget and move on.

He would enter the kitchen and see a cucumber, tomato or banana and jump as if he's found a treasure. Cherish every little thing in life.

 

The sofa in the house is an adventure sport for him. He tries to climb it without caring if he'd make it or if he'd fall back. Its been a few days now and he gets some support and climbs it. He teaches to work hard to get what you want and you are sure of getting it someday (Why worry which day?)

His favourite song plays on TV and he gets up to dance moving his hands feet and waist.He plays indoors all day and when he gets to go out in the open its a festival! Live light, celebrate, Live carefree. (Why bother about how you look?)

His teaching and my learning will continue and I hope all of us to take life a little less seriously. We cannot get back our childhoods but we can sure be children all the time... Those were the golden days of life but this life as a whole is worth a lot too..

In fond memory of our childhoods, Jagjit singh's famous lines echo in my head "Ye daulat bhi le lo, Ye shoharat bhi le lo, bhale cheen lo mujhse meri jawani. magar mujhko lauta do bachpan ka saawan, wo kaagaz ki kashti, wo baarish ka paani"


Cheers!
God Bless!!


CHS

 

The Gesture

I had been home a few days back. When we left home it started raining and mom and dad asked us to wait since Cherith was with us. We left as soon the rain stopped but it was chilly all the way..

I covered him with a jacket and my stole and held him closely so he would not feel cold but after halfway hubby asked me to take a rick since Cherith had slept and it was getting difficult to hold him firm. I'll take 20 rupees extra said the rickshaw fellow. "Obviously will take advantage of the situation" I thought and sat in with Cherith.

"Baccha bheeg gaya kya?" he asked after a few seconds. "Nahi I said"
"So gaya?" he asked again "Why cant he just ride" I thought and kept my phone closer
"Mere paas ek bedsheet hai, aap leke bacche ko odha lo, thand nahi lagega"
This gesture was totally unexpected of him but I obliged and once I put it on Cherith, he slept peacefully.

The rickshaw fellow spoke all the way telling me about his family that he had 3 girls and a boy and that he had prayed for a boy all along. "Par ek hoke bhi ladka itna badmaash hai, meri kamai sab paani mein, padhai nahi karta. Abhi sochta hu allah mujhe aur do ladki deta toh acha hota"

We reached a few minutes later and hubby paid him and I thanked him for the blanket and he said "Bacche ke liye diya, thank you nako"

I learned not to be judgmental of people so quickly. After all, I misjudged him when he asked for extra money. He too had a family and earning for them was not wrong. Also I appreciated what he said about girls. So many people still long to have male children and ignore the importance of girl children but its good to know that girls have the ability to change people's opinions by means of their deeds.

I was somehow very happy, things like these have happened with sandy where strangers have helped her but with me its rare... This incident is a sweet memory now. However, strange but true that god has someone waiting to help you when you most need it.

Now sit back and recollect any such incident where someone completely strange has come up and helped you in a way that it has become a memory for life. The objective of this one was to take you back in time and make you smile....



Cheers!
God bless!!

CHS





 

The Presence and the Absence...

Mommy is going to turn one in a couple of days and the time that has passed between the previous post and this one has undoubtedly been the most challenging..

There was a newborn in my arms and an ailing person in the house. Both needed a lot of care, attention and patience to handle. All was going well but we were unaware that as we were seeing one grow the other was declining. As one was trying to leave my arms and rise to walk, the other was preparing to lay in the arms of peace forever. We lost Papa before a few weeks and things seem so drastically different all of a sudden.

While the presence of Cherith keeps me busy all day, the absence of Papa has made an empty place in our lives. The presence of one takes us through our childhoods again and the absence of the other has made us all more responsible. The presence of one always seeks support to move and the absence of the other has left us with no one to take guidance from. The Presence of one makes us feel how happy and beautiful life and its creations are and the absence of the other shows us the reality of  sorrow and hollow that death brings...

Soon little one will also grow to be independent and we will take the place of our elders in our children's lives, so on an so forth..

I have realized that Life is all about presence and absence.
Presence of people and absence of their importance,
Presence of moments and absence of awareness,
Presence of opportunities to live and absence of time to take them.

Amidst the responsibilities and the challenges precious moments are prone to take a backseat. The moment that has passed is gone forever and so will we. There are countless things to say but all we are left with are endless memories. Everything halts and comes to an end but the moments that give us small dozes of joy, live on in our hearts..


To Papa...
Bless us always..

                               To Cherith...
                               Love you always!!



CHS