Expressions

‘Share your happiness and it will multiply. Share your sadness and it will decrease’ is a famous and true saying. But most of us perceive the word ‘share’ in a very narrow manner. Sharing is not only about telling someone, something, verbally. Sharing is about expressions. To share means to express, then may it be through some written work, a gesture or just a facial expression. All of these count as sharing and have the same effect of multiplying happiness and decreasing sadness.

When you are happy, laugh out loud, not getting bothered of what the people around may think of you. If you are sad, cry out loud, shed tears, and do not worry whether anyone is giving you a sympathetic look or not. The sharing is being done even if no one is at the receiving end. Just let it out and you will feel great. If its joy that you are letting out you would feel more joyful, if its pain, then you will feel relieved and the burden will be gone.

Just remember to express and believe that you are sharing, free up your inhibitions, forget the people around and then see what magic waits for you.

Trust And The Monster Within

“I have been hurt so bad, so many times, that I may never trust anyone again.” This statement has been a part of lives of many of us. I feel that no human being is ever spared from betrayal. In fact betrayal makes us more sensitive towards trust and makes us realize the value of truly trusting someone.

In the past few years I have trusted many people and I have been betrayed many times. So much so that at a certain point I had lost hope that I would ever find someone truly trustworthy. But then again I started trusting when I was out of the grief of betrayal and yet I was betrayed again.

This must be the story of almost all of us. We trust, we are betrayed, we loose hope and we trust again within no time as if nothing had happened ever and we are betrayed again. But though we blame our fate or the person we trusted for such a bitter experience, in my opinion all of these experiences that we go through are the outcome of our personal actions. Or should I say the outcome of the actions of the monster within.

There is a monster within all of us, which is hidden deep beneath the faith that we show at the time of trusting someone, but it surfaces to the top as soon as we start to have the fear of loosing the person that we have. It resurfaces in the form of doubts. Doubt that our trust may fail again, doubt that the person is not worth it, doubt that the person may not return as much love as we are giving him/her, doubt that the other person does not need us in his/her life.

Such doubts not only destroy human relationships but also limit us from exercising some of the best powers i.e. love and trust bestowed upon us by God. This monster within in the form of doubts always creates an image as if trust is a battle and we are sure to loose it, whatever we do. And that provokes us to act in an even worse manner, creating greater problems.

So just let go all fear, let go the doubts, bury the monster deep again beneath the powerful force of unwavering faith, let the monster know that you are aware of the fact that trust isn’t a battle but a sweet path to be trodden with peace, and see the miracles that follow in this path of love and trust.

Living in the moment

I just finished reading Paulo Coelho’s book ‘By The River Piedra I sat down and wept’ and one of the important messages that the book gives is not just living in the moment, but ceasing it and cherishing it for its beauty and the joy it gives us.

It happens so at times to all of us that when we are having a great time with someone and our mind starts wandering away to the times in future when we would not be with them or to the past when we have lost such dear ones. The same happened to me when I was with my newfound friends, having a great time dining with them. But as the moments passed, my mind started drifting to the future when I would not be with them and when I would miss this time that I was spending with them. That was when I realized that I was completely missing on the beauty of the moments that were passing by and which I will never get back in thinking about what will happen in a time that I have seen nothing of. In short I was missing on my present in thinking of my future. Instantly I shifted my attention to the ongoing moments and that was when I actually felt the joy and cherished the beauty of those moments.

As Paulo suggests in his book, we all should try to seize the magic of such joyful moments in life without thinking whether it will hurt us in future if the moments cease to be a part of our life. In thinking of the future u loose your present and the present is the greatest gift that God bestowed upon us. So live in the wonderful moments and live life happily always.