The Gift- Part II

Gabe was referring to people like Lou who were competitive. Ambitious people, with their eyes on the prize instead of the task at hand. People who wanted to be the best for all the wrong reasons and who'd take almost any path to get to that place. Being the best was equal as being in the middle, which was equal as being the worst. All were mere a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

Gabe wanted explain to Lou that people like him were constantly looking over their shoulders, always looking at what the next person was doing, comparing themselves, looking to achieve greater things, always wanting to be better. And the entire point of telling all this was to warn him that people who constantly looked over their shoulders bumped into things.

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.

The Gift

One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening- big or small- can affect an entire string of people. Occurrences can join us all together. You see, we're all made up of the same stuff. When something happens, it triggers something inside us that connects us to a situation, connects us to other people, lighting us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected on a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we're all on the same line.

A lesson finds the common denominator and links us all together, like a chain. At the end of that chain dangles a clock, and on the face of the clock the passing of time is registered. We hear t, the hushed tick-tock sound breaks any silence, and we see it, but often we don't feel it. Each second makes ts mark on every single person's life; comes and then goes, quietly disappearing without fanfare, evaporating into air like steam from a piping hot Christmas pudding. Enough time leaves us warm; when our time is gone, it too leaves us cold. Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within out hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning.

Time can't be given. But it can be shared.

My mantra in life..

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls.The balls are called work, family, health, friends and integrity and you are keeping all of them in the air. But one day, you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it'll bounce back. The other four balls- family, health, friends and integrity are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it'll be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. And once you truly understand the lesson of the Five balls, you'll have the beginning of balance in your life!

Continuation to - A place called here

About two months ago i had posted something i had come across.. A Place Called here..
Recently, i made someone read it..they came up with a continuation to it.. I thought it to be quiet good .. and so here it goes.. the same post.. with an added version.. and it gives a very different touch to the whole thing! I love it.

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.... Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we were not paying enough attention.. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time..


Thank you for these beautiful lines.. though you tried to fool me by telling me this was the portion i dint have.. they seemed disjointed in the context in which i had written it.. but this makes sense too..

End of the year

its that time of the year again..where i get all nostalgic and remember the time gone by.. this year has its ups and downs too.. its moments .. and a lot of life defining moments.. more than any previous year gone by..
end of an era.. a life.. graduating from law school..
the beginning of a new life.. stepping into the "big bad world" called work..
end of friendships.. and a beginning to some new one's..
loving each and every moment of work.. discovering new things about myself.. learning the ropes..and finally doing something i love..
this is to a good year.. personally.. and professionally!
keeping fingers crossed all goes as planned!