Showing posts with label Realistic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Realistic. Show all posts
Monday, 24 May 2021
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Realistic
The popular slogan is never being
unrealistic in your expectations. But, sometimes, we realize that what was
normal interaction between two family members or friends for one person were
unrealistic expectations for the other.
So, coming to understand what
is realistic and what is unrealistic takes a few experiences with a person.
Then, finally, a bulb lights up in your head and you rebuke yourself for not
understanding sooner.
So, you take it with a smile
and carry on... that’s life for all of us. It’s happened at one time or another
to all of us.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Thursday, 15 October 2020
Understanding
Sometimes, life gives you a rap on your
knuckles. Many a time, our impatience with people leads to complete intolerance
and you just go away from that to look for new people. Another chance to
breathe, you tell yourself.
And then comes the funny bit! When you find
that the earlier people were angels compared to the new ones in your life.
There is always a plus and a minus.
Moral of the story: there will always be
someone better and someone worse than us, if our expectations of them are
unrealistic and not based on a proper understanding.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
SpeakingtreeBlog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Thursday, 19 December 2019
Monday, 2 September 2019
Monday, 4 February 2019
Peaceful moments
At the end of the day, there is only one
main question that leads towards peace. "Am I ready to accept?" Also,
am I able to step aside to avoid catastrophe and collusion, conflict and strife?
Someone very fiery once told me this was no
way out; Seemed perturbed that I could advocate this "cowardly" path.
How can you accept everything?
I don't think it is so much a question of
accepting "everything" as of being unrealistic enough not to know what
is within our control and what is not. You really have no choice but to accept
what is beyond your control right?
Forget huge phenomena like birth and death,
even some results of your efforts are out of your hands. But what makes a
positive difference is how we feel instinctively about things. What makes us
uncomfortable is to be avoided because generally, it is a premonition or a
warning that it may not be the wise thing to do; Feeling it in our bones, as it
were.
And in such cases, it is better to avert an
incoming crisis and upheaval.
But I don't want anyone to mistake inertia
for peace either. Peace may definitely be given up if it is for obtaining
justice for someone. But if inertia sets in, there is no effort made and you
exist like a vegetable.
These decisions of creating your own peace
are also choices you make . And one of them is in favor of peace that is,
accepting what you cannot change. For a huge chunk of peace, not pieces of
peaceful moments.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
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