No matter...

what situation you put a person in, the mind will find a way to deal with it. The whole body - in its totality - goes into emergency mode. Some systems shut down, and some go into overdrive, and eventually, not only does a way to cope appear, but the mind also makes it possible for you to turn it into as good a deal as is possible given the circumstances...

The mind actually never gives up.....we lose heart and stop the mind from functioning......but time and again people from ordinary walks of life have shown us the stuff heroes are made of.

The cricket IPL scam...

has again put into focus the fact that our actions cause a ripple effect.... the results of our actions affect us, yes, but also with equal force, if not greater intensity, they affect our immediate families, our extended families, our society, and on to the state to which we belong, and our country...

There is really no justifiable reason or excuse for wrong actions and words. For any one....big, small, rich, poor, famous or ordinary...

Agreed, very often we don't have time to think, or our thinking takes a wrong road, a wrong turning....but actions born out of insatiable greed? or out of wanting to harm someone? Where do these take us, and along with us a whole lot of innocent people too...

Whenever you have to do a lot of justifying, or reasoning, or rationalizing.....something must be wrong somewhere....

It is absolutely true...

It is only faith that can make you whole...

Faith in yourself would help you to look forward to waking up every morning...

Faith in your job would make you a better player and teammate...

Faith in family would bring meaning into every day of family life...and bring meaning into all the relationships a family brings with it...

Faith in your heritage would help you understand yourself better and remove all confusion...

Faith and only faith can make you a whole person...

Sharing something...

 that jumped out at me from an article sent to me by my DD.

The Julliard Effect

"I don't have to be real specific what my life has to look like."

Which by extension means that you should not take your successes or failures personally.........for then you will be defining your life, and you'll just end up getting stuck--and----- getting stuck either on a platform (from which you may fall, or desperately try to stay on, or unrealistically try to go up from) - or under it (from where you may go up, or worse, stay put, or even worse, go further down) will not in truth contribute either to your happiness or your peace of mind...

You have to create your own reality eventually and keep the doors and windows open so you can bring in freshness and change.....and constantly re-invent yourself...

I miss...

my Mom...........

Happy Mother's Day Mummy...

One thing...

that I'm really beginning to enjoy and even relish is the sense of freedom that is happening to me as I'm growing older....

So many things that I used to get hyper about or that seemed hugely important, now don't seem serious enough for me to get worked up about....

Strangely, very, very strangely, this change isn't easy---one would imagine that 'becoming easy' is the easiest thing to do...'letting go' is so simple...but fact is, it isn't...thoughts of 'what's happening' or 'am I losing it' or 'is the aging process kicking in too speedily' and others in a similar vein come pounding in. However, since this change is a persistent thing, if you give in and loosen up, the real feeling that permeates the heart and soul and body is, in fact, a very peaceful and soothing one...

................and I'm loving it.......growing older is turning out to be quite fun.....

Something I heard...

something to think about...

There is no digitized communication in the world which is a hundred percent secure...

(I heard this on a You-tube interview with a federal official on CNN)

WOW!!!