my true friend

I touched it. It touched me back.
I smiled and it smiled too!!! It was imitating my every move. I was enjoying the attention. But soon was irritated. I didn't like this. I wanted something new from it. But no!!! It believes in copying my moves. I waited. Tired, i smiled again. And it smiled back. I hugged it. And finally was friends with it as now understood it to an extent.

The reason i address it as 'it' is that it is neither she or he. It is experience. It is happiness. In other words, it is life. How strange it seems!!! Life imitates your every move. You smile and it smiles back. And your frown is returned with the same. When i try to wait, then life waits for me. My life is my reflection. The way i behave, my life behaves the same. She looks ditto. As if it's my mirror. But the equation between me and my life changes when surroundings overcome us. Like true friends, we never doubt each other but the situations compels us to do otherwise.

How i wish, it were just me and my life. No boundaries, no people, no situations around us. In that manner, we would have never complained, never demanded anything from each other. We would just sit and relax. Watch each other move, help each other grow. And guide each other to what is best, without thinking of consequences. If i were wrong, she would have scolded him, and not let me do wrong. And when i did something good, she would have appreciated me, without being jealous and waiting for too long.

When life and me are good friends, then time too will join us. Time knows what is good for both of us. Time is like our father, who stands by us through thick and thin. And also love, our mother. Love has nurtured both me and life. So we consider love as our mother. Our siblings, happiness and dreams play with us and our favorite game is hide and seek. And this game sometimes create troubles. Happiness finds a tricky place to hide. She is just below our nose, and we try to find her in every lane. And when we finally find her out, we blame her for cheating. But thats not right, na? Dreams is always there with us, but as a silent observer. And I respect him for this.

I so much want other good friends to join us. So that we can turn the ones with bad feelings into good. O my my!!! I love my life and promise to nuture it with dreams and happiness, time and again. God bless!!!

Weight and watch

"But i had prayed you. I told you earlier only, that i will fast an entire week if you make me thin."
Above is a snippet from Conversations with God. People make foolish demands sometimes and the authenticity of God answering prayers is questioned. The girl in question here is Mahi. She is not overweight but she is somewhat healthy. Peer pressure requires her to loose weight. So that she can join the bandwagon of perfect slim girls, who don't have to think twice before buying a tee-shirt; who can fit in an auto where already three are seated, who don't get scoldings from Mom to loose weight (in fact, they are asked to gain some!!!). So my dear Mahi, tried some exercises and yoga and power yoga and gymming and dieting and what not. But each thing was tried just for two days. Which obviously didn't fulfill her incy wincy wish. So her last resort was praying to God. "if you make me thin in a month, i will fast for a week" Leaving everything to God, she forgot everything about loosing weight. In fact, she had three sweetmeats a day and never exercised. Oh yes, instead of loosing, she gained much in a month's duration.

"But i told you God"
How can God help Mahi now, when she didn't help herself? Yes, its true that one should never worry about future, and leave everything to almighty. But in the mean time, we should keep making efforts. So that God knows you want it desperately. And you are playing your part. I remember Bhagvad Gita: Karm Karo, fal ki iccha mat karo. Or for the newbies, its 3 idiots: Kabil bano, kamyabi jhak mar ke aayegi.

Only hard work doesn't help. What needed is ample amount of patience. Once you have asked God to help and you are doing your bit, then the next step will be leaving everything to God. Now you will have to wait and watch (in the mean time, work hard to reach your goal). I think this will work for Mahi too. Now that God has not helped her, she will do something on her own. She needs to keep patience and practice a form of exercise/ yoga for atleast a week to see the results. And after this, she will definitely loose and this time she needs to thank God.