YOU CAN

ABE LINCOLN

"It comes with bittersweet agony . . .
I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress
Perfect relief is not possible, except with time.
You cannot realize that you will ever feel better.
And yet it is a mistake.
You are sure to be happy again.
To know this, which is certainly true,
Will make you some less miserable now.
I have had experience enough to know what I say."
--- Abraham Lincoln

Do any hearts beat faster

“Do any hearts beat faster,
Do any faces brighten,
To hear your footsteps on the stair,
To meet you, greet you, anywhere?
Are you so like you Master,
Dark shadows to enlighten?
Are any happier to-day
Through words they have heard you say?
Life were not worth the living
If no one were the better
For having met you on the way,
And known the sunshine of your stay.”

No Enemies?
You have no enemies you say ?
Alas! my friend the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
of duty , that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
small is the work you have done.
You ‘ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You ‘ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You ‘ve never turned the wrong to right,
You ‘ve been a coward in the fight.

[ Charles Mackey 747 ] {ed. now cry for justice 493(1996)}

newyork nagaram

one of my favorite songs...

The Noblest Fallen

The Noblest have fallen , they were buried
Obscurely in a deserted place.
No tears fell over them
Strange hands carried them to the grave
No cross , no enclouser , and no tomb stone tell
Their glorious names.

Grass grows over them , a feeble blade
bending low keeps the secret,
The sole witness were the surging waves ,
which furiously beat against the shore
But even they the mighty waves could
Not carry farewell greetings to
The distant home.

Random Musings

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love.

So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Don't be afraid that your life will end,Be afraid that it will never begin.

~anonymous~

One More Round

At the end of the 20th century, a boxer named James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett(1866-1933),held the heavyweight championship title of the world for five consecutive years (1892-1897)defeating the great John Sullivan who was undefeated till then.

When someone asked him what the key to it was, he answered with
these words:

"Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired that you
have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round. When
your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard,
fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black,
fight one more round. When you are so tired that you wish your opponent
would crack you on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round.
Always remembering that the man who fights one more round is never
whipped. . . . . He is always battling one more round."

love this quote

In the Arena

It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs,
comes up short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end
the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those
cold and timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble"
(Matthew 6:25-34).

SOME AMAZING PICTURES

An ethnic Albanian refugee from Selce, Macedonia, and her child look through the window of a bus as they arrive in Prizren in Kosovo on March 27, after fleeing the fighting in Macedonia two days earlier.

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A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to fire stones at Israeli soldiers from behind a barricade of burning tires May 23.

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An afternoon storm brought a double rainbow over downtown Chillicothe, Ohio, on May 27.

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Tanner Mann, 8, of Hortonville, Wis., gets a good seat on top of his mother's car July 4 for the fireworks show at Riverside Park in New London.

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A rainbow trout fingerling peers out from the gullet of a northern pike at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game aquarium in Anchorage.

Counting Crows - Rain King

In my opinion their best song till date...the lyrics..

When I think of heaven
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
I think of flying down in your sea of pens and feathers
And all other instruments of faith and sex and God
In the belly of a black-winged bird.
Don't try to feed me
'Cause I've been here before
And I deserve a little more


I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been crying and I've been thinking
And I am the Rain King


And I said mama, mama, mama, why am I so alone
I can't go outside
I'm scared I might not make it home
I'm alive, I'm alive
But I'm sinking in
If there's anyone at home at your place, darling
Why don't you invite me in?
Don't try to bleed me
'Cause I've been there before
And I deserve a little more


I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been lying and I've been sinking
And I am the Rain King


Hey, I only want the same as anyone
Henderson is waiting for the sun
Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends
After all the dreaming I come home again


When I think of heaven
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
I think of dying
Lay me down in a field of flame and heather
Render up my body into the burning heart of God
In the belly of a black-winged bird
Don't try to bleed me
'Cause I've been here before
And I deserve a little more


I belong in the service of the queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been dying and I've been drinking
And I am the Rain King

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then?
I cannot say.

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Regular naps prevent old age... especially if you take them while driving.
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Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.
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Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is husband!
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They said we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash
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A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school uniforms.
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Don't feel bad. A lot of people have no talent.
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Don't marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without... but whatever you do, you'll regret it later.
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You can't buy love . . . but you pay heavily for it
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True friends stab you in the front
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Forgiveness is giving up my right to hate you for hurting me.
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired
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My wife and I always compromise. I admit I'm wrong and she agrees with me.
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Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
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Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.
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It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.
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They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak
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Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something
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Real friends are the ones who survive transitions between address books.
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I LIVE ALONE

I live alone, dear Lord,
Stay by my side,
In all my daily needs
Be Thou my guide.
Grant me good health,
For that indeed, I pray,
To carry on my work
From day to day.
Keep pure my mind,
My thoughts, my every deed,
Let me be kind, unselfish
In my neighbour's need,
Spare me from fire, from flood
Malicious tongues,
From thieves, from fear,
And evil ones.
If sickness or an accident befall,
Then humbly, Lord, I pray,
Hear, Thou my call,
And when I'm feeling low,
Or in despair,
Lift up my heart
And help me in my prayer.
I live alone, dear Lord,
Yet have no fear,
Because I feel Your Presence
Ever near.


Published by Tim Tiley Ltd, 157 Cheltenham Rd, Bristol B56 5RR

"what a game"

I guess it has become very rare to be supporting our cricket team and then have the adrenaline pumping as high as it did whatching them playing against aussies.. i honestly did not give them much of a chance to come thru the game... i was kinda predciting a demolishing job from the aussie front... but the way indians played...simply mindblowing.... even after the 17th over australia had to get 30 odd runs from 3 overs which was very much possible... but the way harbhajan bowled that over and backed up by R.P. Singh in the next.. i simply could not believe the way the team was playing... absolutely amazing... having witnessed many a games slipping away when winning was a more likely result..coming back from difficult situations to win the game..1st against the pakis and then against the aussies it was simply superb to watch..hats off to the boys for playing and making me proud

P.S.---- inspite of all his eccentricites i just love sreesanth.. it takes some nerve to do what he did when he got hayden out..staring down that bear of a guy... man that was awesome...


good job MATES!!!!!!

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master
,If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,A
nd stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone
,And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

Vincent Lombardi

Most of you -- most everyone in this room, I dare say, have the qualities -- or possess the qualities -- to be successful. But, unfortunately, gentlemen, it rests not upon ability, not upon capacity, but upon our willingness to use those qualities. It also must be based upon truth and upon character, because there must be truth in its purpose and will power in its character.

Success rests not upon ability but upon commitment, upon loyalty, and upon pride. Not all educated men are successful. Going to college helps. But a man really can receive his inspiration from any place -- he can receive his inspiration from the Fulton Fish Market if he so desires. And if a man studies his past, and if he studies his country, and if he studies his ancestors, and if he studies the lessons of history, he is educated.

None of us is born equal, in spite of everything they say about it -- we are born only in certain inalienable rights. But we are born rather unequal. However, I want to say that the talented are no more responsible for their birthright than the underprivileged are and the measurement of each man should be what each does and I want to say that it is becoming increasingly difficult to be tolerant of a society who has sympathy only for the misfit, only for the maladjusted, only for the criminal, and only for the loser..

But the most important element in the character make-up of a man who is successful is that of mental toughness, and I might say the most difficult one to explain. Because mental toughness is so many things. For example, it is humility. Simplicity is a form of humility and simplicity is the sign of true greatness. Meekness is a sign of humility, and meekness is a sign of true strength.

Mental toughness is spartanism with its qualities of sacrifice and self-denial, also the qualities of dedication and fearlessness and love. Not the love that you have for your wife or your wife may have for you. The love I am speaking of is loyalty, which is the greatest of loves. Teamwork, which is a form of love, and the love that one man has for another is respecting the dignity of another man. The love I speak of is not detraction. You show me a man who speaks ill of another and I'll show you a man who is only temporarily successful. Or one who is not charitable. Or one who is not loyal.

Mental toughness is also the perfectly disciplined will and the will, gentleman, is the character in action. The great hope of society has to be the character in action and we are never going to create a good society, much less a great one, until we once more recognize and respect individual excellence. Because if we would create something, we must be something, because character is the direct result of mental attitude and you cannot copy someone else's particular character qualifications but must develop your own according to your own particular personality.

The difference between a successful man and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in lack of will because the character rather than the education is man's greatest need and man's greatest safeguard because the character is higher than the intellect. The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in a singleness of purpose and an invincible determination.

But the great difference is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in love and loyalty, in fearlessness and in humility, in the pursuit of excellence and in the perfectly disciplined will, because this is not only the difference between men, this is the difference between great men and little men.

Jim Valvano

Jim Valvano was a well known and respected college basketball coach. He was most known for leading NC State to the national title in 1983. After his retirement from coaching, he became an incredible sportscaster. He, teamed with Dick Vitale, made for some of the best color commentary during a basketball game

As Jim battled cancer, he attended the 1993 ESPY show to accept a lifetime acheivement award for his coaching and broadcasting career. This is where he made the famous “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up” speech. It’s truly one of the most touching speeches ever. Not only because he was so loved, but because he was losing his battle with cancer, and everyone in the room knew it. He passed away at the age of 47.

"Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left. And I have some things that I would like to say…
How do you get through life?

Each day it’s the same thing…

#1 is laugh. You should laugh every day.

#2 is think. You should spend some time in thought.

#3 you should have your emotions moved to tears….But think about it, if you laugh, you think, you cry - that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day…

Enjoy your life - the precious moments you have…

(Quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson) - “Nothing great can be accomplished without enthusiasm”…

Keep your dreams alive in spite of problems, whatever you have. Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I want to do. What I would like to be able to do is spend whatever time I have left, and to give maybe some hope to others.

the idea of hope - don’t ever quit. Don’t EVER give up!

…Never stop believing and loving in each other, and you can accomplish miracles.

Cancer has taken away a lot of my physical abilities…What cancer cannot touch is my mind, my heart, and my soul.
I have hope in God that things might get better for me.

…With hope, and faith, and belief, and what hard work and coaching can do"

GIBRAN

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing,
but to free the breath from its restless tides,
that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?


Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top,
then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs,
then shall you truly dance.

GOD BLESS

Life brings upon oneself stuff that we cannot fathom... i knew i shuld have gone back to kerala when i could and visit my grandmother..before it was too late...then i did not..only to realize now what a mistake it was.. that the hand that straddled me young..wont be around anymore...it is only when somebody goes away from ur life that the memories come back flooding...i wasn't the best of the grandsons... but i loved u. .. even worse is the fact that i am not there now..sitting some 1000 odd kms... molesting a keyboard

guess these lines from shantaram round it up for the day

"For this is what we do.Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequences to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With love: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps us waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on"

god bless your soul...

mazzy star- into the dust

Still falling
Breathless and on againI
nside today
Beside me today
Around broken in two
till you eyes shed


Into dust
Like two strangers
Turning into dust
till my hand shook with the way I fear


I could possibly be fading
Or have something more to gain
I could feel myself growing colder
I could feel myself under your fate
Under your fate


It was you breathless and tall
I could feel my eyes turning into dust
And two strangers turning into dust
Turning into dust

Ain't No Reason - Brett Dennen

There ain't no reason things are this way
It's how they always been and they intend to stay
I can't explain why we live this way, we do it everyday
Preachers on the podium speaking of saints
Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change
Old ladies laughing from the fire escape, cursing my name
I got a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same
A window and a pigeon with a broken wing
You can spend your whole life working for something,
Just to have it taken away
People walk around pushing back their debts
Wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets
Talking bout nothing, not thinking bout death
Every little heartbeat, every little breath
People walk a tight rope
On a razor's edge
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons
It could be a bomb or a bullet or a pen
Or a thought or a word or a sentence

There ain't no reason
Things are this way
It's how they've always been
and they intend to stay
I don't know why I say
The things that I say
But I say them anyway

Prison walls still standing tall
Some things never change at all
Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all
Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all
Working your fingers bare to the bone
Breaking your back make you sell your soul
Like a lung it's filled with coal, suffocating slow
The wind blows wild and I may move
The politicians lie and I am not fooled
You don't need no reason or a three piece suit
To argue the truth
The air on my skin and the world under my toes
Slavery is stitched into the fabric of my clothes
Chaos and commotion wherever I go
Love I try to follow

Love will come set me free
Love will come set me free, I do believe
Love will come set me free, I know it will
Love will come set me free, yes

There ain't no reason things are this way
It's how they always been and they intend to stay
I can't explain why we live this way,
We do it everyday

15th August

Today my country turns 60... happy independence day to one and all...this was the day scores of freedom fighters sacrificed everything they had... let us take a moment and remember the people who gave it all so that we live free life

“Freedom in the mind, faith in the words, pride in our hearts and memories in our souls...." this is some part of a message that I just received... I salute my nation on the 60th independence day.. Trust me I can’t be more proud of my country

15th august is the day we r exhorted to unite and redouble our efforts to take on the world... I mean with the qualities we have, the world is a sitting duck waiting for us to invade and make it our own.. today is the day that our wise old men address the nation and make big grand statements about how wonderfully our nation is doing... god handpicked them so that we always know that what we could probably have had, had they been not in the way

Yes the economy is booming, but what does it mean to guy who works his ass out everyday and comes back home leading a hand to mouth existence... does he get his share of the boom... hardly..rich people get richer, the poor poorer... and the divide increases... not that I am doing anything to change it... but the problem is that it is only on days like this that I even think about stuff and want to do something.. Don’t really know what I would but sure I do...

August 16th and I am running ... running behind my life desperately trying to catch on.. Not sparing a thought for the sacrifices that went in to shape the country.. Somebody dying on the border has become a commonplace.. Why should I be bothered.. I mean even the Times of India does not give it anymore space than a motley column in the backpage alley..but I..I rush not worrying whether the the small beggar kid would have his dinner.. I still don’t have my reservations for the swanky dinner place u see..i rush.. The multitude of people waiting ... the roads bumpy and sad... but how could I care.. I vote and my responsibility ends there... now I am free to blame remember whoever I want for whatever faults I let myself be bothered with... not one bit my responsibility

I still have to reach somewhere that I don’t know yet and I could not be bothered yet... make no mistake I wear my flag as proudly as any other Indian would... but as I rush..I hear someone call someone hurt.. but I move on...

As I rush I miss my nation calling out to me..bleeding.. calling out to me every time it gets cut ...don’t forget I still am wearing my flag as I pass with a deaf ear.... maybe the next 15th august I might hear..or maybe the next

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY

Awakening....

Awakening, dawn's chorus
Welcoming,
The day new, untouched
Waiting to be filled....

And will we paint a rainbow
With all its promise
Or dull the canvas
Sadly seen?

Each day brings its own colours
To be chosen, mixed,
Pigments of joy,
Happy moments,
Smiles and laughter....

And which will you choose?
For 'Life' is choice,
We are all painters In our own way,
All needing to create Something of worth,
Of lasting beauty,
Marking our journey....

Footprints in the sand...

By John Mcleod

Laws Of Life

1. Murphy's First Law for Wives
If you ask your husband to pick up five items from the shops and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.
2. Kauffman's Paradox of the Corporation
The less important you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is noted.
3. The Salary Axiom
The pay rise is just enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your take- home pay.
4. Miller's Law of Insurance
Insurance covers everything except what happens.
5. First Law of Living
As soon as you start doing what you always wanted to be doing, you'll want to be doing something else.
6. Weiner's Law of Libraries
There are no answers only cross-references.
7. Isaac's Strange Rule of Staleness
Any food that starts out hard will soften when stale. Any food that starts out soft will harden when stale.
8. The Carrier Bag Law
The chocolate bar you planned to eat on the way home from the supermarket is hidden at the bottom of the carrier bag.
9. Lampner's Law of Employment
When leaving work late, you will go unnnoticed. When you leave early, you will meet the boss in the car park.

RUN TO ME- PAUL BRANDT

Been listening to this song... somehow all of paul brandt songs manage to strike a chord within me ... these are the lyrics to one of his songs which i simply adore...love it

When you're all alone in the dark
And it's hard not to be afraid
When your candle's losing it's spark
And it seems that you can't find your way
Look straight ahead, don't cry and don't look back
Leave your regrets behind you in the past
Run to me

I will always be
The hand you can hold when you're lonely and cold
I will warm you I adore you
You're always in my heart
No matter where you are
When it's love you need (Come to me)
Baby you can run to me

Nothing you ever say
And nothing you could ever do
Is gonna change the way
That I'll always be loving you
I'll be your sky, I'll be a soft place to fall
Baby this love is unconditional

When it's midnight on a winding road
And you don't know where you are or where to go
Through the rain, call my name,
And I will run to you

The Madman

Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;
You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,
And sweeter to my heart than all worldglory.

Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance,
Through you I know that I am yet young and swift of foot
And not to be trapped by withering laurels.
And in you I have found aloneness
And the joy of being shunned and scorned.

Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,
In your eyes I have read
That to be enthroned is to be enslaved,
And to be understood is to be levelled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one's fulness
And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed.

Defeat, my Defeat, my bold companion,
You shall hear my songs and my cries and my silences,
And none but you shall speak to me of the beating of wings,
And urging of seas,
And of mountains that burn in the night,
And you alone shall climb my steep and rocky soul.

Defeat, my Defeat, my deathless courage,
You and I shall laugh together with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous.

- Khalil gibran

rudyard kipling

The Thousandth Man
One man in a thousand, Solomon says,
Will stick more close than a brother.
And it's worth while seeking him half your days
If you find him before the other.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine depend
On what the world sees in you,
But the Thousandth man will stand your friend
With the whole round world agin you.

'Tis neither promise nor prayer nor show
Will settle the finding for 'ee.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine of 'em go By your looks, or your acts, or your glory.
But if he finds you and you find him.
The rest of the world don't matter;
For the Thousandth Man will sink or swim
With you in any water.

You can use his purse with no more talk
Than he uses yours for his spendings,
And laugh and meet in your daily walk
As though there had been no lendings.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine of 'em cal
l For silver and gold in their dealings;
But the Thousandth Man h's worth 'em all,
Because you can show him your feelings.

His wrong's your wrong, and his right's your right,
In season or out of season.
Stand up and back it in all men's sight --
With that for your only reason!
Nine hundred and ninety-nine can't bide
The shame or mocking or laughter,
But the Thousandth Man will stand by your side
To the gallows-foot -- and after!---
Rudyard Kipling ---

Having To Pick One Only

A company was hiring new staff. One question in the written exam
was:
You are driving your car in a wild stormy night. You pass by a bus
station, and you see three people waiting for the bus: -

An old lady who looks as if she is about to die,
A doctor who had once saved your life,
A man/woman you have been dreaming to be with.

You can only take one passenger in your car. Which one will you
choose?
Please explain your answer
.
Think about it before you continue reading


This must be some kind of personality test. Every answer has its
reasoning.
You could pick up the old lady. She is going to die, and thus you
should save her first.
You could take the doctor, because he once
saved your life.
This will be the perfect chance to pay him back.
However, you could always pay the doctor back in the future, but you
may never be able to find the perfect lover once you pass this
chance.
The candidate who was eventually hired (out of 200 applicants) did
not have to explain his answer. WHAT DID HE SAY?


He simply answered: "Give the car key to the doctor. Let him take the
old lady to the hospital. I will stay and wait for the bus with the
man/woman of my dreams."
Sometimes, we would gain more if we were able to give up our
stubborn limitations.

NAGPUR-BHANDARA

the Indian Dental Association had organised a dental health care programme for the anganwadi healtcare workers.. i was asked whether i'd go for a week and lecture to these ppl ab8 taking care ab8 their teeth, thus i and a friend had to go to fringe villages close to nagpur-bhandara but with rains crashing down crazy the trip started on the wrong note
to make it worse i reached Nagpur on Tuesday after a 20 hour bus ride, 6 hours late and as such the first day lectures were postponed to a later date. i hoped things would ease out for me
but Mr Murphy was still in a benevolent mood , so the next day i had to lecture these 150 odd anganwadi ladies... and the slide projector refuses to cooperate ....somehow i managed to talk for 30 mins with out no visual aids...
the next day thankfully everything worked and i managed to talk for an hour without a hitch....
during the lecture i realized how the life out there in the villages is so many things that we take r for granted are prized out there
and as we were the for the dental awareness thing.. just realized that for a dentist these villagers had to travel at least 60kms...

somehow during the course of three days.. i developed a bond with the ppl who were helping me..harish, nagesh and atma kumar(pandit).. i was enamoured by pandit most of all... very straight guy from benaras out in mumbai to make a living...i was amazed to find innocence still alive...
on the last day we had to travel close to 160 kms away frm nagpur to lakhandur...3 hrs to and 3 hrs fro with a lecture of an hour and a half.. i was ready to leave for pune with all of them asking me and my friend to stay on and take care of the Nagpur leg too... i felt bad leaving but had to..
one week of crazy travel...loving and caring ppl all around... and two 20 hour bus ride.. and memories to remember... truly would remember the week for a lifetime-
life is not how many days we live... but how many days we make special for ourselves.. i had one special week

advice for the boss

Advise for the boss Advice to the Boss on How to Enhance Our Working Relationship

1. Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 5:00 and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing.
2. If it's really a 'rush job', run in and interrupt me every 10 minutes to inquire how it's going. That helps.
3. Always leave without telling anyone where your going. It gives me the chance to be creative when somebody asks me where you are.
4. If my arms are full of papers, boxes, books or supplies, don't open the door for me. I need to learn how to be more independent and do without any help, which is why I work here..
5. If you give me more than one job to do, don't tell me which is the priority. Let me guess. It builds management skills and my inate ability of mind reading.
6. Do your best to keep me late. I like the office and I really have nowhere to go and nothing else to do. My life is yours.
7. If a job pleases you, keep it a secret. Leaks like that could cost me a promotion.
8. If you don't like my work, tell everyone. I like my name to be popular in conversation.
9. If you have any special instructions for a job, don't write them down. In fact, save them until the job is almost done, or better yet until it is done, so I can learn repetitive perfection doing it your way.
10. Never introduce me to people you're with. When you refer to them later, my shrewd deductions will identify them.
11. Be nice to me only when the job I'm doing for you could really change your life.
12. Tell me all your little problems. No one else has any and it's nice to know someone else is less fortunate.

physics exam

The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen:

"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."

One student replied:"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."

This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed immediately. He appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case.

The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge of physics. To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics.

For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use. On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:

"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer.

"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work uut the height of the skyscraper.

"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqrroot (l/g).

"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up."If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building.

But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'.

"The student was Nils Bohr, the only Dane to win the Nobel prize for Physics.

one step at a time

funny how life suddnely throws u up one moment and then brings u crashing down... bet it really must have a crazy snse of humour to do what it does... well life for me looks on the up suddenly after a lil period of gloom and doom...

i seem to realize what i want from my life and will work hard towards getting it...
but the thing about my life is i reach cross-roads and then i wonder again whether i was following the right way...but things have a way of working.. always believed in it my entire life..if something happens it happens for good.. if it does not happen it is cos something better is waiting in the wings to come by

thats what we do.. we move one step ahead.. each of us have our lives marked by the choices we make.. we carry the scars showin the ones we r proud to have earned... hidin others

i have my scars...some i show off some i dont...as i move along the topsy turvy ways... knowin my destination.. not knowin what have in my way along.. i still move ahead... one step at a time

Leave Out All The Rest -Linkin Park

One of my favorite songs... just love the lyrics...read on

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I dreamed I was missing, you were so scared

But no one would listen, 'cause no one else cared

After my dreaming, I woke with this fear

What am I leaving when I'm done here?

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So if you're asking me, I want you to know

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When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done

Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed

Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty

Keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest

Leave out all the rest

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Don't be afraid

I've taken my beating, I've shared what I made

I'm strong on the surface, not all the way through

I've never been perfect, but neither have you

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So if you're asking me, I want you to know

REAL MADRID ARE THE CHAMPIONS

Final la liga game... as i write this real madrid just won the league after 4 years...cannot even express ma happiness... and if any1 has been followin the les merengues' season this year u'd know what i have been sayin... every single game they seem to have been knocked out just to come back... last game against zaragoza they seemed to have lost the title only for the last 20 seconds to change the whole spectre....

... even today they were a goal down and in a must win situation with barca up 3 goals... and as always madridistas delivered.. scorin three goals in the final 25 mins t win 3-1... capello delivers... fairy -tale ending for david beckham and roberto carlos... what better way to say goodbye... thank you both of yu.. especially beckham... cos his resurgence galvanized the whole team and they reached the title...it is his first title with madrid too... wish u culd stay further at the bernabeu...

As i said... we win the league from barca this year... next year who knows... but now lets celebrate and surrender to this sweet victory.....

"HALA MADRID"

SUN-DAY

Thank you lord for makin sundays.... slept like a log for most of the day... dunno what I'd do without Sundays

cartoon network was playing shrek... funny but love the ogre and the donkey..adorable the movie was....some of the animation movies are so profoundly entertaining....loved lion-king and it still is one of my favorite movies...nothing particular to do for the night an early dinner and back to sleep...aaahhh heaven....

interestin views with ignite and oliver on the concept of life... don't really know what my views are exactly... guess that is what we do as we live on, lead on..every step revealing something new that shapes our thought process so we move believing in something.... maybe right maybe wrong... the mysteries of life...dont think they'd be solved until we meet the one who created them

another week ends... getting ready for the battles lay ahead... hopin that sunday comes along sooner than later.... and then i get to do what i am gonna do now ...SLEEP....YIPPEEEE

jhoom barabar jhoom

Wanted to watch oceans 13 but somehow went in for jhoom... y'day.... first day last show... no clue how the movie wuld be... well this is what i thought about the movie

the first half does not make sense... the second does make sense a bit
lara dutta saved the movie for me.. man she is hot... p.zinta fizzles in front of her.. madam lara scores by leaps and bounds...
abhishek is OK... so is bobby deol...

guess who got the most whistles thruout the movie
SHEHNSHAH BACCHAN.. the soundtrack coupled with bacchan just about manages to move the movie forward... amitabh shows why the sun shall never set on him... even without a single dialogue... he raises the house every time he comes in

BOTTOM LINE: no story. lots of glitter, great soundtrack, hot lara... nothing much more than that.. and ya abhiskek's ring tone...loved it...
wont miss much if u miss this flick...

THE CIRCUS

Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to
buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between
the ticket counter and us. This family made a big impression on me.
There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could
tell they didn't have a lot of money. Their clothes were not expensive,
but they were clean. The children were well behaved, all of them
standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents, holding hands. They
were excitedly jabbering about the clowns, elephants and other acts
they would see that night. One could sense they had never been to
the circus before. It promised to be a highlight of their young lives.
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The father and mother were at the head of the pack standing proud
as could be. The mother was holding her husband's hand, looking up
at him as if to say, "You're my knight in shining armour." He was
smiling and basking in pride, looking at her as if to reply, "You got that
right."
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The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He
proudly responded, "Please let me buy eight children’s tickets and
two adult tickets so I can take my family to the circus."
The ticket lady quoted the price.
The man's wife let go of his hand, her head dropped; the man's lip
began to quiver. The father leaned a little closer and asked, "How
much did you say?"
The ticket lady again quoted the price.
The man didn't have enough money. How was he supposed to turn
and tell his eight kids that he didn't have enough money to take them
to the circus?
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Seeing what was going on, my dad put his hand into his pocket,
pulled out a $20 bill and dropped it on the ground. (We were not
wealthy in any sense of the word!) My father reached down, picked
up the bill, tapped the man on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me sir,
this fell out of your pocket."
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The man knew what was going on. He wasn't begging for a handout
but certainly appreciated the help in a desperate, heartbreaking,
embarrassing situation. He looked straight into my dad's eyes, took
my dad's hand in both of his, squeezed tightly onto the $20 bill, and
with his lip quivering and a tear streaming down his cheek, he replied,
"Thank you, thank you, sir. This really means a lot to me and my
family."
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My father and I went back to our car and drove home. We didn't go to
the circus that night, but we didn't go without.

LORDS CRAZY ABOUT YOU

A little boy is telling his Grandma how "everything" is going wrong.
School, family problems, severe health problems, etc.. Meanwhile, Grandma is baking a cake. She asks her grandson if he would like a snack, which of course he does.

"Here, have some cooking oil."
"Yuck" says the boy.

"How about a couple raw eggs? "
"Gross, Grandma!"

"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?"
"Grandma, those are all yucky!"

To which Grandma replies: "Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake!

God works the same way. Many times we wonder why he would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good ! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!"

God is Crazy About You. If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart. Face it, He's crazy about you.

GOD MOVES IN ...

God moves in a mysterious way,

His wonders to perform;

He plants his footsteps in the sea,

And rides upon the storm.

Deep in unfathomable mines

Of never failing skill,

He treasures up his bright designs,

And works his sovereign will.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take,

The clouds ye so much dread

are big with mercy,

and shall break In blessings on your head.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,

But trust him for his grace;

Behind a frowning providence,

He hides a smiling face.

His purposes will ripen fast,

Unfolding every hour;

The bud may have a better taste,

But sweet will be the flower.

Blind unbelief is sure to err,

And scan his work in vain;

God is his own interpreter,

And he will make it plain.

William Cowper

BOYLE'S LAWS

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1. The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.
2. When things are going well, someone will inevitably experiment detrimentally.
3. The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.
4. Information travels more surely to those with a lesser need to know.
5. An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.
6. When the product is destined to fail, the delivery system will perform perfectly.
7. The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper clip of the overlying correspondence and go to file.
8. Success can be insured only by devising a defense against failure of the contingency plan.
9. Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.
10. If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.
11. The lagging activity in a project will invariably be found in the area where the highest overtime rates lie waiting.
12. Talent in staff work or sales will recurringly be interpreted as managerial ability.
13. The "think positive" leader tends to listen to his subordinates' premonitions only during the postmortems.
14. Clearly stated instructions will consistently produce multiple interpretations.
15. On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

BERKELY'S LAWS

1. The world is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be.
2. Ignorance is no excuse.
3. Never decide to buy something while listening to the salesman.
4. Information which is true meets a great many different tests very well.
5. Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have a single answer.
6. An answer may be wrong, right, both, or neither. Most answers are partly right and partly wrong.
7. A chain of reasoning is no stronger than its weakest link.
8. A statement may be true independently of illogical reasoning.
9. Most general statements are false, including this one.
10. An exception TESTS a rule; it NEVER PROVES it.
11. The moment you have worked out an answer, start checking it -- it probably isn't right.
12. If there is an opportunity to make a mistake, sooner or later the mistake will be made.
13. Being sure mistakes will occur is a good frame of mind for catching them.
14. Check the answer you have worked out once more -- before you tell it to anybody.
15. Estimating a figure may be enough to catch an error.
16. Figures calculated in a rush are very hot; they should be allowed to cool off a little before being used; thus we will have a reasonable time to think about the figures and catch mistakes.
17. A great many problems do not have accurate answers, but do have approximate answers, from which sensible decisions can be made.

MY SUN-SIGN. THE BEST(or so i thought)

Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory.. The sign is linked with Mercury, When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless.To them life is a game which must always be full of fresh moves and continuous entertainment, free of labor and routine.

Changing horses in the middle of the stream is another small quirk in the Gemini personality Since they lack the quality of conscientiousness, they are apt to fight a losing battle in any attempts they make to be moral (in the widest sense of the word). They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts.

They quickly learn to use their outward attractiveness to gain their own ends, and when striving for these they will use any weapon in their armory - unscrupulous lying, and cunning evasiveness; escaping blame by contriving to put it on other people, wrapped up in all the charm they can turn on self-interest being almost always the victor. If things go against them, they sulk like children. Also like children, they demand attention, admiration, and the spending on them of time, energy and money, throwing tantrums if they don't get what they want.

They reflect every change in their surroundings, like chameleons, and can become pessimistic, sullen, peevish and materialistically self-centered if circumstances force them to struggle in any way. If the conditions of life become really adverse, their strength of will may desert them entirely. They can become uncertain of themselves, either withdrawn, or nervously excitable worriers, sullenly discontented, hard and irritable, with "Self" looming ever larger in their struggles.

Most Gemini have a keen, intuitive, sometimes brilliant intelligence and they love cerebral challenges. But their concentration, though intense for a while, does not last. Their mental agility and energy give them a voracious appetite for knowledge from youth onward, though they dislike the labor of learning. They easily grasp almost everything requiring intelligence and mental dexterity, and are often able to marry manual skills to their qualities of mind. Their intellect is strongly analytical and sometimes gives them so great an ability to see both sides of a question that they vacillate and find it hard to make decisions

Gemini subjects take nothing seriously. They like intrigue, the excitement of the chase, but once they have caught the prey, they lose interest and look around for the next creature to pursue. In less serious situations they make witty, entertaining companions, good acquaintances rather than friends. Even at their worst they are never dull - there is usually playfulness below the surface, and they can be brilliant conversationalists - but they can also be quarrelsome, prattlers, boasters, liars and cheats. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable.

They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers.

Because they are dispassionate, logical, rational and analytical they make good scientists, especially in the fields of medicine and astronomy. They can also make excellent members of the Armed Forces, for they take danger no more seriously than anything else and can earn themselves a reputation for devotion to duty and heroic acts. They make good psychic researchers of a sceptical kind. Negatively they can degenerate into confidence tricksters, thieves and even adepts in the black arts.

THE GEMINI REIGN BEGINS

THE LOVELIEST PROPOSAL OF THEM ALL

FRIENDSHIP

And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
-Khalil Gibran

The Most Caring Child

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he
was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most
caring child. The winner was a four-year-old child, whose next-door
neighbour was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's
yard, climbed onto his lap and just sat there. When his mother asked
him what he had said to the neighbour, the little boy said, "Nothing, I
just helped him cry."

THREE MEN IN A BOAT

"It is lumber, man - all lumber! Throw it overboard. It makes the boat so heavy to pull, you nearly faint at the oars. It makes it so cumbersome and dangerous to manage, you never know a moment's freedom from anxiety and care, never gain a moment's rest for dreamy laziness - no time to watch the windy shadows skimming lightly o'er the shallows, or the glittering sunbeams flitting in and out among the ripples, or the great trees by the margin looking down at their own image, or the woods all green and golden, or the lilies white and yellow, or the sombre-waving rushes, or the sedges, or the orchis, or the blue forget-me-nots.

Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

You will find the boat easier to pull then, and it will not be so liable to upset, and it will not matter so much if it does upset; good, plain merchandise will stand water. You will have time to think as well as to work. Time to drink in life's sunshine - time to listen to the Æolian music that the wind of God draws from the human heart-strings around us - time to - "

THREE MEN IN A BOAT-Jerome K. Jerome
( one of the funniest books ever written, funny this passage figures in this book)

When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking

When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you hang my first painting
on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint another one.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you feed a stray cat, and I
learned that it was good to be kind to animals.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you make my favorite cake
for me and I learned that the little things can be the special things in
life.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I heard you say a prayer, and I
knew there is a God I could always talk to and I learned to trust in
God.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you make a meal and take it
to a friend who was sick, and I learned that we all have to help take
care of each other.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you give of your time and
money to help people who had nothing and I learned that those who
have something should give to those who don’t.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you take care of your house
and everyone in it and I learned we have to take care of what we are
given.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw how you handled your
responsibilities, even when you didn’t feel good and I learned that I
would have to be responsible when I grow up.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw tears come from your eyes
and I learned that sometimes things hurt, but it is alright to cry.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw that you cared and I wanted
to be everything that I could be.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I learned most of life’s lessons
that I need to know to be a good and productive person when I grow
up.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I looked at you and wanted to
say, “Thanks for all the things I saw when you thought I wasn’t
looking”.

Run Through the Rain
She had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have
been 6 years old, this beautiful brown haired, freckle-faced image of
innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over
the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the Earth it has no
time to flow down the spout.
We all stood there under the awning and just inside the door of the
Wal-Mart. We waited, some patiently, others irritated because nature
messed up their hurried day. I am always mesmerized by rainfall. I
get lost in the sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt
and dust of the world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as
a child come pouring in as a welcome reprieve from the worries of my
day.
Her voice was so sweet as it broke the hypnotic trance we were all
caught in. “Mom, let's run through the rain," she said.
What?" Mom asked.
“Let’s run through the rain!" She repeated.
"No honey. We'll wait until it slows down a bit," Mom replied.
This young child waited about another minute and repeated: "Mom,
let's run through the rain."
"We'll get soaked if we do," Mom said.
"No, we won't, Mom. That's not what you said this morning," the
young girl said as she tugged at her Mom's arm.
“This morning when did I say we could run through the rain and not
get wet?"
"Don't you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his
cancer, you said, 'If God can get us through this, he can get us
through anything!”
The entire crowd stopped dead silent. I swear you couldn't hear
anything but the rain. We all stood silently. No one came or left in the
next few minutes. Mom paused and thought for a moment about
what she would say.
Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being silly. Some might
even ignore what was said. But this was a moment of affirmation in a
young child's life. Time, when innocent trust can be nurtured and
bloom into faith. ”Honey, you are absolutely right. Let's run through
the rain. If God let's us get wet, well maybe we just needed washing,"
Mom said. Then off they ran.
We all stood watching, smiling and laughing as they darted past the
cars and, yes, through the puddles. They held their shopping bags
over their heads just in case. They got soaked. But they were
followed by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the way
to their cars. And yes, I did. I ran. I got wet. I needed washing.
Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions,
they can take away your money, and they can take away your health.
But no one can ever take away your precious memories. So, don't
forget to make time and take the opportunities to make memories
every day!

To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under
heaven. I hope you still take the time to run through the rain.