Travelling in Rain
It’s rain rain and more rain. But enjoying it. Thanks to Microsoft Vistas, I am totally cut off with all connectivity solutions – Reliance network, Airtel, BSNL – all are yet to come up with patch files to connect to the internet using Vistas on laptop. But it’s good fun, and some rest away from mails. Till I get hooked on to the net again, enjoy some rain with me.
"I Want Patience And I Want It Now!"
“I Want Patience And I Want It Now!”
Patience has never been one of my virtues, although I have become more so as I grow older. I recently experienced a surge of impatience as I waited for an event to occur. I kept repeating my usual affirmative statement, but I found myself in a battle to let things go and allow them to unfold as they should. Another opportunity to practice patience.
Stimulated by my irritation stemming from impatience, I began to think about how impatience affects our sense of well-being and peace. In my archive of information,
I found the following thought on patience.
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The Greek word for patience, makrothymia, suggests having a large capacity for absorbing irritants without letting them paralyze you. Here’s one way to think about it: Patience is like good motor oil, which doesn’t remove all of the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don’t get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.
Suppose the person behind you keeps cracking his knuckles. You put your annoyance into suspension. Suppose you can’t find your keys and you feel a little scuffed up. Put it into suspension. Suppose somebody is late for your meeting and you feel your anger start to rise. Into the crankcase it goes. Patient people have makrothymia. They’ve got a big capacity for absorbing irritants without seizing up. They get annoyed, but they have a place to put their annoyance.
Author: Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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It is not just situations that can result in our impatience; it is also our impatience with others at home and at work that can arouse the sleeping giant of irritability. We may find ourselves becoming irritated over small, insignificant behaviors or habits of others that have the same effect upon us as the sound of fingernails raking down a chalkboard.
C. S. Lewis says, “When two humans live together for a while, it usually happens that each has facial expressions and tones of voice that are almost unendurable to the other.” With all due respect to C.S. Lewis, I would suggest that people with whom we work could have the same effect upon us when we are under stress on the job.
Patience with ourselves, with others and with our situations is an important component of our happiness. It is through our patience that grander things can come to and through us. As an old Chinese proverb reminds us, “Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.”
Affirmation for your coming days:
“I am growing patience in my garden of life. I can’t wait to see what fruit it bears.”
Have patience-filled days ahead!
Every Day is an Opportunity
Every Day is an opportunity to find something new in our life and also attempt for and achieve old or new objectives which come across our way as it progress. Utilise it to the best way so that when you finish, you are able to pat yourself with a “Well Done – You have done a great job” remark and a small and short thanks to God for giving an opportunity to do so.
I am posting some of the things that came in this morning and thought they deserve to be here.
We saw the retirement of two major infrastructures from the lifeline of Abu Dhabi this week. The first one was the closure of India Social Centre – ISC – which was etablished in 1967 in this building. It has temporarily closed down its old facilities, after 40 years of service to the Indian Community. A totally new facility is getting ready and will be ready for its members very soon.
Once up on a time!!! The second one was the demolition of the Gray Mackenzie – now ADMMI – building situated in Khalifa street after serving almost 40+ years.
Many old Abu Dhabi’ites will have golden memories connected to both these places.
Considering the pace of demolition and development that is happening here, these two longstanding achievers really showed their prominence and value to remain there to serve the community.
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Sreesanth syndrome – the continuation
I don’t know why, he is one player, who comes into my column very often. A few weeks ago I had mentioned about this player of our Indian Cricket team and his style of taking God and rituals into the playing field when he is required to perform. I bring this point again looking at the news space he is getting once again – somehow or other. When Indian Cricket Team has been selected for playing in Ireland, it should have had made a simple logic – that any normal person would have taken – to take precautions about the Irish Weather and playing conditions and keep the players fit enough to go out and play while in Ireland. 6 or 7 players out of the 15 member squad is out of action for the 2nd One day international shows the amount of preparation our Team Management and Cricket Board does with these high profile players. I know it is easy to criticise than make things happen. But how many times we see this situation when teams like Australia, England or West Indies come out to play in India during extreme summer? Coming back again and continuing what I wrote about Sreesanth last time – one more country stamp in his passport, without playing in full. BRAVO. I know he will get to read this column and hence it’s an open challenge to perform and prove otherwise.
The Economic Times Knowledge Forum
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Everyone Works Hard For a Living !!!
This was a one liner gem from my CEO friend this morning….. I told him, good, I have an opportunity to portray some of the actions I captured during my journey around.
A lesson for the aged
A lesson for the aged
Seema Burman
June 27, 2007
Older people grumble that nobody pays attention to them. A mind that is not trained to be spiritual feels lonely in old age. But those who develop affinity with live souls, love to feed them and look after them. This gives us a happy connection with existence.
Those who build up their love for God or a guru establish a relationship with their favourite deity The satisfaction of such a relationship is soothing for the mind, body and spirit.
With changing times, rules too are changing. Children find elders a nuisance and neglect or abuse them. Gurus now advise the old not to relinquish their property to their children as long as they are alive.
In a true case, a retired man distributed his three floors to his three sons after his wife died and lived with the eldest son. One day the son complained that his brothers were not contributing to the father’s food and an arrangement reached that each son’s family would cook food by turn. The arrangement soon fell apart. The father started going to a nearby dhaba. His friends got together and hatched a plan. One day he gathered his sons and gave them tickets for a vacation. When they returned, a builder was waiting for them to take away their belongings as the house had been sold and their father had left without leaving behind any address.
The biggest mistake we all commit is of getting attached to people and possessions. When discarded by our loved ones, we are saddened. That is why saints ask us to devote more time to spiritual attainment.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa said that the best way to live life is like a caretaker A caretaker is not attached to possessions. When worldly things are snatched from him, the caretaker remains calm and unconcerned.
Rain rain go away
It’s rain, rain and more rain every where. Here are some photos.
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