The Non-Facebook Post #41

It's the sort of start to your day when you wake up, quite dreamily, and plunge into daydreaming right away. Daydreaming so intense, that you are barely conscious of the ticking time that's silently exhorting you to be ready for yet another day at the workplace. But the daydreams, as you go through the motions of brushing your teeth, showering, all of that - well, there they are showing you the path to your life's dreams, once again.

'Accha sochne se accha hota hai.' You attract the kind of energy you radiate.

Miraculously though, your daydreaming doesn't interfere with the pace of you readying yourself for the day. In fact, it speeds up the process. There you are, lost in moments cooked up by your abstractions that are pure joy and pure happiness because that's how you're envisioning your future. And you have a song on your lips too as you let the hot shower and your warm reveries relax your slightly strained mind and body because you plodded on through the yesterday - you decided to move forward, even if it was just inching ahead. The tortoise-walk onwards, gathering speed to become a hectic busyness by the end of the day that unravels into a heavy, dreamy sleep and which slowly blossoms into a musing-filled morning - you can say it's a good life. 

The Non-Facebook Post #40

I love this life advice! (Thanks to my Mom for sharing that HuffPost article with me.)

And this - "Be kind. Always and no matter what."

The Non-Facebook Post #39

Oh, come on! It's snowing!
Well, this was yesterday. It was a gloomy weather forecast showing snow on the radar. But you know how it is sometimes when you don't want to believe something even in the face of facts and evidence? So, I drive in to the Honda showroom to get my car serviced in a cold, cloudy and windy atmosphere. I spend about two and a half hours dozing out my wait with Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse's hefty tome in my hand, my finger bookmarking the page I was reading where I gave in to the waves of sleep washing over me. Mercifully, I managed to wake up before the Service Agent walked in to tell me that the car was finally serviced. I walk out from the waiting lounge to his desk area to clear my dues only to get a glimpse of a white world from the large automatic glass door that lets cars into the service center. That's when I exclaimed, in amused exasperation. The Service Agent had this to add, "yeah Indiana weather is great that way in setting up the party mood!" And sprinkling salt on a fresh wound he responds to my statement of having fallen asleep instead of reading, "you didn't go around the back of the waiting lounge and check out the showroom? It's really cool. There're free cookies."
Oh, come on! Free cookies that I miss!

(This is today's delightful temperature.)

The Non-Facebook Post #38

"You have to combine business needs with technical expertise, and the people who are interested in both areas often come up with the most creative solutions."

 - A.J.Shankar, CEO, Everlaw, Inc.

The Non-Facebook Post #37

So it comes to pass that you and you alone have to bear your cross. You're in the midst of milling crowds, yet you're alone. You see supportive faces and hear encouraging words, but it doesn't help because what you have to face, is all alone, all by yourself. You begin to look inward then, to find strength in a dignity that will carry you through the fire. You're scared - but they say, the bravest are those that persist through, even as they feel the fear deep down to their bones.
Fighting, sometimes, is not so much a motivationally-charged progress as it is a quiet, sombre trudge onwards.

The Non-Facebook Post #36

"Har cheez mein masl-e-hat-e khudaavandi hai."

The Non-Facebook Post #35

Here's clutching at more of those ephemeral wisps of thought - ephemeral to me and my 'pea' brain at least. 'Do unto others as you would have done unto you'. This is an idea that has been repeatedly coming back to me these past few days. And it's tying in with ideas of being empathetic to people you meet, of being kind, non-judgmental, and being good and doing good. Because isn't that how most of us would like to be treated? So, the first step then becomes treating other people in the way we desire being treated.
In some situations though, it's just accepting the behaviour of other people by putting yourself in their shoes and trying to understand why they're reacting the way they're reacting. Maybe, if we were walking in their shoes, our reactions would be similar too. Well, so, what this is leading to is shifting the focus from yourself, and putting the focus on others. Or is it really? At some level, isn't this whole exercise of focusing outside of oneself a way of trying to protect yourself from getting hurt? A manner of cocooning yourself?

Ok, other threads of thought - to be that person who lights up the room with contagious, uplifting, elevating positivism and brilliant smile. Because, 'your vibe attracts your tribe.'