Stagnation

These days, my Motto is “more hospitality, less hostility”! I am shocked when I see so much animosity in human beings. Where does it come from and why?

It is incredible how people are just not contented in their lives. Some of them have received mass adulation also. And yet, they have not learnt generosity, much less grace. It is a case of “the more you have, the more you want”. And the less you tolerate in others.

When you see a lotus smiling from stagnant water, you still admire its beauty. And you marvel at God’s creation!

It is a well-known example of purity rising from even stagnation. But most of the time, we just talk about it without learning from it and including this attitude in our lives. We would rather destroy the lotus than emulate it because we are threatened by its purity.

But the fact remains that we humans have a choice to select our path. The wiser path is always the more difficult one but the better one.

Surekha Kothari

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Generosity

 There is a debate out on for/ against generosity.

Generosity also comes with boundaries and calculations. We decide how much each one deserves or does not deserve.

But, it’s not that simple, is it? Much depends on what your mind will allow. And what kind of a nature you have. Also, what is the percentage of reciprocity you expect.

There are people who, if you ask for one, will give you three. And there are some who will avoid you and pretend to be too busy to talk as soon as they sense you are going to approach with a request.

Sometimes, I wish I was born now so that there would be no comparative yardstick available for what was and what is.

The whole imbalance started when we decided we wanted this and that from others without returning the energy. We became selfish in our wants to become rats in a rat race to supremacy, oblivious of any supreme power , ironically, the only power that can make or mar us.

There was a time when by and large, trust was returned with trust , generosity was reciprocated and service was without an agenda. Out of a goodness of the heart that was a pride for the folks at that time. I have seen those years and it is painful to see how consumed by avarice and greed people are today. And out to destroy other human beings. 

Sharing is out of vogue. Reciprocity is grudging because otherwise, a useful contact would be lost!

Let’s not even talk about the rare privilege of having genuinely caring friends, friendship without an agenda. Even one such friend can bring true joy and you have to be lucky to have a friend of that calibre!

Such is the world we live in!

Surekha Kothari

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