Shalini-The Ice Princess II

She was rushed to the hospital immediately.All Doctors could say, "We will try our best."And they did try their best and that is why she -the ice princess was alive......alive..although the reason for her living had gone...She was on wheelchair now, since both her legs had been amputated!

The world had come crashing on her...and may be on everyone around her....

Now she was alive and she had to be thankful for the fact that God was kind enough for her to be alive...but the truth was she wasn't! She wasn't thankful for this life..she wasn't thankful for not being able to achieve everything she had ever desired...but..in all her cribbing...in all tears...she couldn't refute the fact..that she was handicapped....forever may be..

Lost in her thoughts one day...she saw something that struck her fancy. right across the window, down on the street was a limbless child dancing away to glory to earn some money.What struck her was his face....She had seen many poor children perform all sort of gimmicks to get some money..but this one was different....this one wasn't dancing....at all..for everyone...yeasss..he wasn't dancing for everyone..he was dancing for himself...with whatever energy he could muster..he was dancing for himself..and in that display of passion....he reflected a deep sense of peace known only to a few...privileged few...!

"Wow", thought she to herself," Where does he find energy to do that? His peace is infectious.."

and then suddenly.....she stopped ....looked around...and went straight to her pink lappy lying right there on the side table.

A year Later....

SHALINI GRABS THE LIMELIGHT IN THE PARALYMPIC GAMES!

Triumphant and ecstatic, Shalini was asked..what gave her the zeal and the motivation to achieve this?

Shalini responded....with a smile of gratitude........."Infectious peace"!!

Shalini-The Ice Princess!

"Is this supposed to be a joke???" said Amit on hearing about Shalini's accident!" "You are kidding me1 Man! Shalini is the best ice skater in this college...how in the world can she get hurt?" Vani stood there shaking...not knowing how to respond to Amit! She too knew all this..however...She knew the truth too...which was that Shalini had lost both her legs ..!!

Shalini was a graceful Ice skater...She made everything around look so still when she took to the skating ring..it seemed as if Ice was her playground where she lost all her inhibitions and transformed into a beautiful diva...Every turn and twist would make the audiences' heart skip a beat!
nnnnnnnnnnnnn------sssssssssssssssss.......shuuuuuuuuu...up...up..up..round........up in the air ...and then ..thud.....perfect landing..and a perfect applause!

Shalini was used to this appreciation..this was her life..She loved this life more than anything else..She loved the attention, the perfection..just about everything..but most importantly she loved..herself in that state..purely amalagamated with herself..totally pure.....

But then one day, when she was rolling up in the air...something crossed her mind.." of course..you can't go to this college of skating..what do you think You are gonna do with this sort of degree..?? you are in India..and this skating n all is good for entertainment..not for a decent living here...prepare for MBA or something like that...make a living!We do not want you to be mocked at!have i made myself clear???".."Yes sir", said she lost in oblivion and then................................

thuddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd....................................
Gassssssppppppppppp!!
Silence!!!!!!!

Silence was broken by the sudden sound of a ambulance.She was lying there..right there...STIll....absolutely STILL!

To be Continued............

Learnings @ 19th July 2011

1)You can make the most of your dreams come true..you just need to believe that they will come true and look out for opportunities around u...i am amazed..at how..we tend to always...always...forget to look around us! answers r right there!

2) Never underestimate a person, situation or yourself...Being humble will always pay!

3) A friend is one who loves you inspite of differences,does not forget to call on your important occasions even if that means a text, somebody who always knows how to pick up the thread from it was last left.. and my blessed to have a few friends like that.

4)Be grateful for whatever you have...gratitude and gratitude alone can make more of such things come to you..the more genuinely thankful you are..the more you get..that's a basic law!

5)love is not about expectations..can never be..expectations happen to be burdens, obligations which can not ever be substituted for love...if u can truly be with somebody without any expectations..u r a true lover...and yes..this is damn difficult!haven't been able to achieve this so far...

6) God is all around us..in signs, in us, in just about everything...god is that perfect smile that u get when u just say a heartfelt thank you!However, u need to have eyes for seeing God around....

7)I am thankful for the life that i have,will always be..coz god has given me means to be somebody who can make a difference..small or big..whatever!

One tight slap!!

the scene had an old man walking upto a police commissioner and asking," are you the police commissioner?" yes, says the cop.SLAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP.............

Stunned...the place is quiet..the people are shocked..Did he actually hit the top honcho? Is he out of his mind??

"Pichle teen mahine se apni poti ko dhund rha hu..hazaro chakkar laga chuka hu..is police thane ke...koi kuch madad nhi krta...humari poti koi kisi amir ki beti toh thi nhi na..isiliye...koi madad nhi mili hume aapse!!"

Immediately the top cop ordered his officers to start looking for the girl.

Makes me think..i guess...it takes a thunderous slap right across the face to make things work here....to make government realise..that we are fed up of this bull shit of waiting till the terrorists strike and then behave as if this was the best they could have come up with!

may be....we all need to gear up for that thunderous slap!!
please note THUNDEROUS!!

The Block in the head!! KILL IT!

Well..well..well...Haven't we all heard this umpteen times in our lives? "I have a Mental Block....i seem to be going nowhere in life" " I know what my issues are, but, somehow, i just seem to be stuck..i can't move beyond it....
Well...for everyone who is experiencing the same...u deserve to know certain things...and what are these?
Follow this:
1) A lotta people are in the same boat, Even the super intelligent, super-wow ones..yes! They are sailing in the same boat! they have their share of BLOCKS and can't seem to be getting anywhere!( Well, doesn't that make u feel better??))

2) Divert your mind!! Why waste your time on cribbing and crying about this thing you are stuck in! Instead ..use your energies to focus on something else..something productive, something interesting, whacky! something that excites you...or simply keeps you happy!!

3) Remember! The mental block is just mental! and only way to get thru it is by denying it totally and believing otherwise..so to a sentence like..i have a mental block ..i can't do this..try something like" Hey i can do this..what's the big deal?" Keep on repeating that to you and check out for yourself..you will start feeling better!

4) Make an effort: Get out of that rut....Just stop thinking and get to work..whatever u like doing..whatever needs u..get to it..DO NOT THINK...just work and soon u would see the results..

Rome wasn't won in a day and may be this just takes more than a day..but give it your best shot...u know that..i do not need to repeat....We alone can make a difference in our lives!

So stay Alert and Alive!!

The Secret!

This book makes me go crazy....I love every aspect of it..most importantly, the fact that it tries to make: Your life is what you want it to be ...It is totally Your creation....Your baby!
I love the confidence and trust it builds ...and the perspective that it sets!
Initially, belief was kind of an issue...but when i look back..I realise....that my life actually has been...what i really and desperately wanted....some things that i kept on repeating to myself..actually happened to me.....in a very simple, unassuming manner...
Time....it took its own time..however..at the end of day..i got what i wanted...Imagine the power that we have....this book just set things into perspective...
Now i realised.. the age old " Think Positive" maxim makes a hell lot of sense...you think positive..you get positive....you can' be thinking negative and receiving positive...that's against the basic law of attraction of this universe!

Well.. this is what i have decided..i am gonna consciously try this out with something very strongly on my mind these days..and will share the results as well..soon!

Till then..take control...dream Big to achieve big..that's THE secret for you all!!

excerpt from OSHO!

If you can love, meditation will be very easy. The world will be more
religious if love is accepted, helped along, and love becomes a
natural milieu around you. Then meditation will be very easy because
you will know a taste through love of what it means to be dissolved,
even if only for a single moment. Then you can dare to be dissolved
for longer moments.

And if you can love, you will not be afraid of death. Lovers are
never afraid of death. And if a person is afraid of death, you can be
certain that he has not loved and he has not been loved. The fear of
love shows that the life has been without love. Lovers are ready to
die very easily. They can die for each other. They do not care much
about so-called life because they have known a higher quality of life;
they have known a higher life. They do not care about this life very
much.

But look at persons who have never loved. They will always be afraid
of death. Look at misers: they will always be afraid of death. And
misers are those persons who have not loved anyone because if you can
love a person you will never love money. Money is a substitute. When
you cannot love an individual, when you cannot love a live person, you
love dead money.

Misers, those who go on clinging to their possessions, are not even
acquainted with what love is. Their whole love has gone to dead money.
And why has it gone? There are deeper connections. A person who is too
much attached to money will be afraid of death. Really, a person who
is afraid of death will love money too much because money seems to be
a protection against death. If you have money you feel protected. If
you do not have any money you feel unprotected. Death can occur and
you cannot do anything. With money you feel that you can do something.
Money will be helpful.

A person who loves will not love money because a person who loves
will not be afraid of death. And if a person is not afraid of death,
there cannot be any clinging, attachment, mad obsession with money. It
is impossible. If you can love, then you will accept death very
easily. It will be a deep relaxation, a long sleep, a beautiful
dissolution into the existence. And if you can be receptive to death,
then meditation can be as easy as anything. The problem arises because
love is not there. When death has become a fear, then meditation will
be difficult because it is both love plus death. It is death as far as
your ego is concerned; it is love as far as the divine existence is
concerned.

I define meditation in a mathematical formula: meditation is equal to
love plus death – love to the existence, to the total, and death to
the ego. They are both two aspects of the same coin because you can
love the total only if you are ready to lose the individual. If you
are ready to die, only then can you be reborn as the existence, as the
Brahman.

Jesus says, ”Only if you lose can you survive. And those who try to
survive will be lost.” It is hard because you have not loved; it is
hard because you have not lived. It is not hard by itself. Meditation
by itself is very easy – a spontaneous phenomenon. If a human being
evolves naturally, falls into love, knows what love is, knows what
type of death and what type of life love is, comes out of it, knows
the taste of moving into and being in death, then he will love death
– not as being against life. Death changes the quality then. Then it
becomes the last point in life, the highest peak, the climax of life.
Then meditation is very easy.

Those of you who are ready to lose can understand it; it is very
easy. Those of you who are not ready to lose cannot understand it.

Source – Osho Book “The Supreme Doctrine”