DAY ZERO

I have heard the statement –  ‘Well begun is half done’ many times. But I don’t think it’s always true. Take for example, my previously penned down Plan. I began with so much of good will. I almost promised that I will put my daily life lesson or my experiences and then what happened? It ended just as it started. I don’t know if there is anyone who can relate with the same experiences.

It’s been more than a month since the Lockdown due to Corona virus was announced. I had great plans to learn, grow and cultivate skill with the time I have in mind. I counted my days left for my exam, they were around 100+ days. So I drew a chart, made a timetable for myself and was all pumped up ready for action. But alas! Those plans remained on paper itself. I didn’t breathe life into it. I binge watched some series. Reached almost God level on mobile games. But in regards for my personal growth…….. I didn’t do anything at all. When I looked back later just to take a stock of where I am, I had only 55 days left. Then I drew another chart. Gave it a name PROJECT NEO. Again, the same effect…………. I just felt non-motivated, lazy to take some action.

Now, when I look forward, I have just 30 days left. I have only a month from now. Today, I don’t just plan instead I promise and I COMMIT to grow. This hero had no particular reason to grow. I realised that was my problem. This hero had no enemy or rather this hero was blind to his enemy. The enemy lurked within the hero, stopping him from taking action, blocking him whenever he risked to grow. Imagine, when I wanted to exercise, so many thoughts ran through my head… and in the end, I was just too lazy to get up and do something. I preferred watching a movie or some video on the internet.

I call out my enemy now. I have recognised him. I accept that I have been secretly feeding him and allowing him to grow and thus block my real self – the hero within to shine. If I don’t take action today, I will become a fat person, a

lazy man moreover I won’t have anything to contribute to the society. Therefore I am calling out the enemy. And I COMMIT myself to win over my enemy with sheer hardwork.



Persistence in all fields planned - is my key. That is my watch word.

Today is Day Zero, and the game has begun...

PROJECT NEO is on, finally !!!!

The Powerfilled - CHOICE (clarified)

 “CHOICE” – such a powerful word!!!

(Just a little upgrading of the thought that I typed in the previous blog.)

 

     It sounds so nice and it indeed is: choice – where I value the different options I have, give them the attention that is due and then I choose one which gives meaning to my life. Oh!, but stopping there, will not get me anywhere.

     The choice has to be made. Yes! And that too a wise one. We have got that part right. The most important part after making a proper choice is to be committed to it. Choice without a proper commitment is just a preference. Today, I choose this and tomorrow whoa, I choose that. But life isn’t lived this way. Moreover, when I choose to respond to God’s call; I choose to live it every day. I don’t intend to take a holiday from that choice. And what will really help me out there, is COMMITMENT. When I commit myself for that choice, all the other options just fade away. Now, you may say, “That goes bang opposite to what I wrote in the previous blog.” And that is where I received clarification. (Thanks to Fr. Vinod) 

     Let me explain, when you commit myself to the choice you make, all the other options that you have had fade away with proper attention having been given to them. Since you have already given them the attention that is due, and have chosen another over them, you have disempowered them. You have chosen something that is of meaning to you. You empower yourself because the choice resides in you. You will be free then. It is you who have made the choice. You can then create your future freely with a proper sense of responsibility. You thus become a creator.

     To cap it off: Choice without commitment is just dillydallying around. Be powerful. Commit yourself to the choice you make and live life to the full. 

 

 

Remember you are here for a purpose.

Find it.

Know it.

Realize it in your life.

Be committed to it.

And live it. 

ANGEL...............Waiting for one

                                                    Hiiiiiiiiiii !!!!!!! It’s nice to see YOU here….

I had written this poem when I was at a stage where I had to make a firm decision. I was a little bit confused. Writing your feelings do help, so I did the same. I am posting this poem, because it makes me look back on life and sets me thinking and thus renews my life. It can help someone………
Who knows how God works!!!!  So here is the poem for you………

    Angel....... waiting for one

To come into my life

And lighten it with all that she has

The Power, the Smile,

And most of all – Love

That only She can provide.

 Love and not lust, that I seek,

To express

And in this beautiful process

Bare out my heart, my feelings,

My whole self, all that I am.

I know, somehow I just know

That there is THE ONE waiting for me

Is it a game?

Do I have two lives?

Commitment !!! This word loaded with meanings

Haunts me, for I have already given

Myself to THE GREATEST ONE

Yet I believe that HE knows my heart

That I want to spread HIS love

To the whole world.

To see the radiating happiness in people’s faces

Is my wish. I hope that will be

My battery to continue HIS work.

But I long to experience love, first.

I know that THE GREATEST ONE  loves me

But I – a normal human being

Want to feel it in a tangible way.

Could it be possible that I am

Mixing up the two?

Immature though my wish be

I am happy that I could atleast bring it out.

Words!!! Can you do this for me?

To express what I really feel?

Religious Life, so holy, so family like

This was my previous presumption

I guess that no one can escape the jungle.

Man is an animal, the intelligent animal

But yet an animal after all

You fend for yourself,

Remember your stomach is yours,

Your life is yours,

Your heart is yours, not someone else’s.

Happiness, like a magnet, attracts many.

Am I a tissue paper? Use and Throw?

Where and how doesn’t matter.

You have value only when you are of use.

‘We don’t need a human being,’

That’s the feeling I receive.

 A human being who has feelings, emotions

Who can spread happiness by simply being.

But what People need

Is not a ‘Being’ but a ‘Doer.’

They seem to give worth or rather weigh

A person by the many things he can DO.

God, my Love, THE GREATEST ONE,

Send down your Angel

Or teach me to look into the Heart

And help many to do the same.

I’ll wait, till I die,

Atleast then will I be assured of meeting YOU,

My GF......

MY GREATEST FRIEND,

THE ONE,

THE GREATEST ONE.