A flight of stairs

Sometimes I look at life and I think it is so like a flight of stairs…

There are moments in you life when its all the way up… and it feels like an escalator where you go floating up - higher with every step of the way… where nothing but good happens to you… and you feel so nice and high… high on life.

And then there are these moments when you are at step one and u have a slump – and you go down one step… only to find that there are these series of steps that you must take down to eternity.

Why does life have to be so unidirectional… why cant it have a nice healthy mix of good and bad times, each balancing the other.(and these are thoughts only when you are trudging DOWN the steps, never when u are floating up on the escalator)

But then, on a serious note, look at it this way – the key word here is direction. If we did keep going one step up and then one step down again and again, we would, at the end of the day, have been stationary – we wouldn’t have moved/achieved anything, anywhere. One has to trudge those few steps – up or down – to reach that landing area, from which the steps start all over again – only, from the landing its can go either ways – up or down. One just has to wait and watch – wait to reach up to the landing – uncertain of what lies ahead.


Plus like one wise (?) one had once told me – it’s a matter of perspective – the sum total of the results of your actions – just a set of circumstances that are the reason why things are the way things are.

Lets walk together

Haath thaam chalna ho
To dono haath baayen sang kaise
Ek daayan hoga - ek baayan hoga
Thaam lo, haath thaam lo - chalna sang, thaam lo.

The first time..

Have you ever noticed that a lot of us, when we do something for the first time, we don't really DO it?

You spend all your energies trying to figure out what comes next that you forget to enjoy what's going on now - in the present. The first time you read a book, you meet a person, you sip a new flavour of coffee - it's all just so soulless. All you do is try to impress - impress the other person, impress yourself, your intelligence in having known more - seen more - to have anticipated all; and thereby re-emphasising your own superiority.

It's all a game - a game of guessing and winning by one of the parties involved.

I wonder why we do that. Why can't we just allow our soul to get more involved in the present that our ego does?

A short story

She was on the beach with her father, and he asked her to go and see what the temperature of the water was like. She was 5 years old and glad to be able to help. She went to the water's edge and dipped her toe.

"I put my feet in and it's cold, " she told him

Her father picked her up and carried her down to the water again, and without warning threw her in. She was shocked at first and then laughed out loud at the trick he played.

"How's the water?" asked her father.

"It's Lovely!" she replied.

"Right! From now on, whenever you want to find an out about something, plunge straight in".


(extracted from a Paulo Coelho book)

A well of affection

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection - not a fountain.....to show people we love them not when WE feel like it, but when THEY do.