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Blessed!
“Count your blessings” is a timeless adage that somehow never seems relevant until we go through a crisis. Right now, I feel immensely blessed. My blessings have arrived in an assortment of odd shapes and sizes. Here are a few: My mother is a rare blessing. I wonder how she can tolerate me and stand by me through my most difficult times. I sometimes take her rock-steady support for granted. She is “unconditional acceptance” personified. She has taught me how …
Birthday Pledge
On my 25th birthday, I solemnly pledge that I shall resist judging sleep enough meditate write more cultivate empathy accumulate friends eat right keep fit act spontaneously spread joy defy guilt continue dreaming appreciate nature smile often be childlike maintain faith elude hatred stand firm trust intuition promote peace see faraway remain authentic stay on path love unconditionally serve others
25 till I choose
My lifespan is not eighty or ninety …but eternity ‘Cos I am an aspect of God’s beauty …and infinity Today is my birthday and I turn 25 yet again. When I tell people that I stopped growing at 25, they think I am either joking or have lost my marbles. Neither is true. The truth is I choose to be 25 and I know I can. The great advantage of such a choice is because our bodies are subservient to …
Humility versus modesty
Oliver Herford said: “Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.” I have always believed that modesty is pretentious. Acting modest is like pretending to be less than what you really are. However, I do believe in humility, which should not be confused with modesty. Modesty consists of belittling one’s own talents and accomplishments for the sake of receiving praise or adulation from others. Modesty often poses as humility. But such …
Writer’s block
Words are absent Doubts are present Ideas disappear Thoughts interfere Pages remain blank Feelings play a prank Mind is confused Actions are refused Soul’s lost its voice Left with no choice Life seems locked I’m positively blocked! ~© Manoj Khatri~
Eccentric Me
My strange eccentricities and weird idiosyncrasies Leave others bewildered and cause me to ponder Am I really strange? Or it’s the others, I wonder My values seem outdated And my ethics, underrated Honesty and loyalty Are they obsolete? True love is so rare Am I enclosed by conceit? My love, it’s no-holds-barred My feelings, they die-hard Waiting and anticipating Like I face life’s checkmate Sometimes I feel beset Can I influence my fate? My thoughts are bizarre Seem unrealistic and …
Visit to paradise
I am back after a gap of 11 days. It feels like such a long time…I missed writing. But the time I spent away was in Switzerland, so no complains I feel like writing about my experiences in paradise…and maybe I will, someday soon. But I also know that words cannot describe the beauty of the Alps — an endless string of lakes, mountains and green pastures, so beautifully maintained that it’s difficult to believe your eyes. Across the length …
Subtly Significant
Last night was one of those eventful nights when nothing spectacular happened but it still caused a transformation — a good one, I believe. The transformation is ever so subtle. But subtlety can be significant, I have read. The slightest variation can have such all-encompassing impact. Just as in physics, the mechanical advantage we get from “leverage” is a good example of how a small force can create a big effect, we have many fulcrums in our emotional and mental …
Back to childhood
My childhood was a time of reckless abandon When life was a package of frolic and fun When I spent my afternoons in aimless wandering Walking in the hot sun, veering, never tiring When I studied for exams just a day before And surprised everyone later with the score When I dreamed countless innocent dreams And believed in them to absolute extremes When I found enormous joy in crossing streams And I expressed my happiness in loud screams When I …
I wonder why?
You are someone I may never meet Then why do I care for you, feel for you, think of you? You are someone I may never see Then why do I search for you, look for you, dream of you? You are someone I may never desire Then why do I wish to be with you, walk with you, talk with you? You are someone I may never know Then why do I want to bless you, help you, pray …