Life Journey

 You know why we love looking at old family photos ? Not necessarily to see how we looked and how we have changed in appearance but how bonded we looked and were then. When closeness and love shines through photos , we want to relive those moments, days, years.. and so on.

As adults, life changes. Each one’s journey becomes different and as the modern day world is, family members are scattered through the world. Times are very different. Only zoom shots can be shared and saved. The warmth of physical presence, that hug, that tangible energy of love felt in being in the same room is rare.

In any case, after a certain age, photos acquire a very huge emotional importance in the lives of senior citizens. Those are memories to hold onto in their lonely moments. A reason to smile, however wistfully, at the faces looking out from the photo frames, faces that are not within reach , to hold , to caress… children, grand children…. Miles away , for whom we dare not pine for rationally, for isn’t it time to gradually wind up ?

There will come a time for us too, to bid farewell to our loved ones and travel into an unknown space and into the unknown future of our soul whose journey continues … into unchartered waters !

Surekha Kothari

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Fragility of life

The fragility of life eludes many. Every night, we go to sleep, we don’t really know whether we are going to get up, get up healthy or with an ailment. Every day, we are so preoccupied with ourselves that we don’t focus on the fact that there is a larger machinery at work and we are merely small cogs in the wheel of life.

A dot on a large canvas is just that: a dot. Not the canvas. And we need to remember that each minute that the dot can be erased any time.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

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Issue of acceptance

There will always be this issue of acceptance from and by people. We must necessarily be controlled and circumspect, though we might be pining to be free like a bird and do exactly as we please.

The need of being accepted stems from the human angle only, because of dependency on each other, as the famous saying goes: no man is an island. So, we follow rules. Allow our hearts to sing but keep a befitting exterior. Allow our anger to kill someone in our thoughts but smile and shake hands. Have several issues within but on being asked if we are okay, pat comes the reply,” no problem”.

In a way, we are all split personalities, always living more than one role, within and without. And even those change into multiple roles depending on situations.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

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Ability to analyze

The capacity and the ability to understand depends on the calmness of mind which we possess or should possess. To think, to analyze, we need to keep a very peaceful mind. More often than not sometimes, the anger which sits ever ready on the tips of our noses activates immediately and puts an end to anything we might have been able to understand under normal circumstances.

But having said that when people live in a toxic environment from day to day with toxic people sanity can become a "has been". And calmness a distant dream. But people live like that. And if it doesn't kill them, it should make them stronger. As they say in Hindi, and I am translating here, that when pain transcends beyond a point, it actually becomes like medication. And at this point, calm should descend so that the ability to analyze should return.

If only....

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

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SpeakingtreeBlog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

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Process of learning

As young kids, apart from coloring books, we had books where we had to connect dots to make a picture. I never realized that it was one of the most profound exercises we did. Today, as an adult, I am connecting the dots of my life episodes and thinking about how meaningless it was to rave and rant and fret and fume about what I wanted and could not get or what I could have achieved but was blocked etc. I tend to smile now because the picture is clear after the dots are connected. And there was never any need to feel all that negativity.

I learnt that the process of learning starts when you stop the blame game and start understanding why things happened the way they did.

The Divine plan is perfect. We, as humans, are not, because we don't recognize our core strengths or the nature and quality of our source energy. What we are not meant for during any phase in our lives is because we are not ready for it or something else must be experienced. Like your parents telling you that you have to finish your homework before you can go out and play. But the child only wants to play.

When the fires of expectations from life are kind of quelled is when we are able to think clearly. When the clouds of discontent and disappointment disappear is when we can see the sunshine coming through.

And all this happens when we connect the dots and review our lives, so many blessings and so many phases of happiness and joy which, if not sustained, were so only because of our erratic attitudes.

Living and learning, maturing and becoming wiser and calmer... the journey of life goes on.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

SpeakingtreeBlog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari