Your wonderful heavenly eyes
Your gaze makes me turn to ice
Befitting only for the dice
Enjoying every bit like rice.
The look, as it stares
Makes me look at the stars
As they beam so linear
In the heavenly arena.
Will I be able to cope?
For how long will I hope?
Maybe it's all a "scope"?
I thought as I answered, "nope".
The heavenly eyes
Makes me squint like mice
Though tiny like a host of lice
Indelible is its bliss.
My mom only had one eye. I hated her... she was such an embarrassment. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market. She collected little weeds and such to sell... anything for the money we needed she was such an embarrassment. There was this one day during elementary school.
I remember that it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed.
How could she do this to me? I threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school..."Your mom only has one eye?!" and they taunted me.
I wished that my mom would just disappear from this world so I said to my mom, "Mom, why don't you have the other eye?! You're only going to make me a laughingstock. Why don't you just die?" My mom did not respond. I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt good to think that I had said what I'd wanted to say all this time.
Maybe it was because my mom hadn't punished me, but I didn't think that I had hurt her feelings very badly.
That night...I woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. My mom was crying there, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might wake me. I took a look at her, and then turned away. Because of the thing I had said to her earlier, there was something pinching at me in the corner of my heart. Even so, I hated my mother who was crying out of her one eye. So I told myself that I would grow up and become successful, because I hated my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty.
Then I studied really hard. I left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, and got accepted in the Seoul University with all the confidence I had. Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I'm living happily as a successful man. I like it here because it's a place that doesn't remind me of my mom.
This happiness was getting bigger and bigger, when someone unexpected came to see me "What?! Who's this?!" ...It was my mother...Still with her one eye. It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little girl ran away, scared of my mom's eye.
And I asked her, "Who are you? I don't know you!!!" as if I tried to make that real. I screamed at her "How dare you come to my house and scare my daughter! GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!" And to this, my mother quietly answered, "oh, I'm so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address," and she disappeared. Thank good ness... she doesn't recognize me. I was quite relieved. I told myself that I wasn't going to care, or think about this for the rest of my life.
Then a wave of relief came upon me...one day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house. I lied to my wife saying that I was going on a business trip. After the reunion, I went down to the old shack, that I used to call a house...just out of curiosity there, I found my mother fallen on the cold ground. But I did not shed a single tear. She had a piece of paper in her hand.... it was a letter to me.
She wrote:
My son...
I think my life has been long enough now. And... I won't visit Seoul anymore... but would it be too much to ask if I wanted you to come visit me once in a while? I miss you so much. And I was so glad when I heard you were coming for the reunion. But I decided not to go to the school.... For you... I'm sorry that I only have one eye, and I was an embarrassment for you.
You see, when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. As a mother, I couldn't stand watching you having to grow up with only one eye... so I gave you mine...I was so proud of my son that was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with that eye. I was never upset at you for anything you did. The couple times that you were angry with me. I thought to myself, 'it's because he loves me.' I miss the times when you were still young around me.
I miss you so much. I love you. You mean the world to me.
My world shattered!!!
There were tears and tears in our eyes. One of these was mine and other was my mother's. and I cried alot for the person who lived for me... My Mother, The Great.
Everything that we see around us,
God made it for us.
God made the sky and the land,
God made the sea and the sand.
God made the plants and the trees,
God made the birds and the bees.
God made the hills and the rivers,
God made the beautiful flowers.
God made the sun to give us heat and light,
God made the moon to brighten the sky at night.
God made the twinkling stars,
God made us as we are.
With you, it's all about voiceless communication-
always knowing exactly what to say,
but never actually having to say it.
When no one seems to be listening,
you hear.
When I hurt but don't show it,
you know.
When I turn away to hide my tears,
you see.
When I feel like I can't get through to anyone,
you understand.
Your eyes glow just for me,
and I know you're proud.
You flash your magical, healing smile my way,
and I know everything will be all right.
You know everything there is to know about me.
You know what worries me,
what keeps me up at night,
and what shames me so badly
that I can't share it with anyone.
Most importantly, though,
none of those things bother you.
You've restored my faith in people
and proved that there is a thing
called true friendship.
When you like someone, you tend to be close, possessiveness grooms. Time flies. You smile when they are happy and cry when they are sad. Being with them is what we yearn for.
One day, when we find they were never meant for us, we are left with tear filled eyes and broken heart. Cherish it, because love isnt when you are happy, its when you accept
grief. Its a pleasure in pain !!!
The road to success is not straight... There is a curve called failure... A loop called confusion... Speed bumps called bad friends.. Red lights called
enemies... Caution lights called family... You will have flats called jobs. But, if you have a spare wheel called determination. .. An engine called
perseverance. .. Insurance called faith... A driver called GOD... You will make it to a place called SUCCESS!
School: 1 color dress for 100 days
College: 100 color dress for 1 day
School : 2 books for 1 subject
College: 1 book for all subjects
School: a white pipe (chalk) in teacher's hand
College: a white pipe (cigarate) in student's hand
School: Most frequent letter - Leave letter
College: Most frequent letter - Love letter
School: if we go its boring
College: if we dont go its boring..
1) I pray FOR YOU
a life that YOU truly deserve,
a life as good as YOUR heart,
a life as bright as YOUR smile,
& a life as wonderful as YOU..
Take care..
Good nite
2) Zakham + You =
MARHAM
Tanhayee + You =
MEHFIL
Tears + You =
SMILE
Raasta + You =
MANZIL
Nothing + You =
EVERYTHING
Me + You =
F.R.I.E.N.D. S.
3) Ice is a Cream, Luv is a Dream but our relationship is Evergreen. Don't make friends before Understanding & don't break friendship after Misundrstanding. .!!
4) Get up! Get up!
The world waiting
for you.,
Walk with aims!
Run with , confidence!!
Fly with your Achivements!
So,get up,
Early like a bird. GooD MorninG.
5) The four Blessed Looks:
Look back and get experience.
Look forward and see future.
Look around and find truth.
Look within & Know yourself!
6) A special smile, a special face,a special sum1 i can't replace , a special hi from me to u for the special frndship i hve found in u.
7) A friend is a sweet gift
An emotional lift
A heart healer
A mood chiller
A gem so rare
An answered prayer
A happy mate
A lucky fate
Like U...
8) Success is waiting for you.
Difficulties are blocking the path.
Take the weapon of confidence and reach your success every day!
Good Morning.
9) "Love ur self,
roam with ur understanding,
romance with dreams,
get engaged with simplicity,
marry genuineness,
divorce the ''ego''.Thats life with friendship.
10) Life is 2 short 2 be spent in fault finding Holding grudges or keeping memory of wrong done 2 us.....So...
Forgive before forgiveness is asked..
CAN YOU IMAGINE A DAY WHEN YOUR PARENTS GO OUT AND NEVER COME BACK !
CAN YOU IMAGINE A DAY WHEN YOU ARE TERRIBLY HUNGRY AND ALL YOUR FOODS AND MONEY IS GONE LEAVING YOU THE ONLY OPTION TO BEG !
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE DAY WHEN YOU SUDDENLY BECOME BLIND OR A DEAF OR YOUR MIND BLACKS OUT !
CAN YOU IMAGINE A DAY WHEN YOU COME TO KNOW YOUR BEST FRIEND YOUR EVERY THING WAS BETRAYING YOU ALL THESE YEARS !
LET THESE NOT BE A IMAGINATION BUT THESE ARE THE CRUEL REALITIES OF LIFE !
A REALITY A NAKED REALITY FROM WHICH WE HUMAN ARE HIDING OURSELVES !
THESE IMAGINATIONS ARE REALITIES OF MANY OF OUR FELLOW BEINGS !
BE THANKFUL TO YOUR CREATOR THAT HE HAS KEPT ALL THESE REALITIES A IMAGINATION FOR US !
BUT LET THIS THANKFULNESS DOESN'T MAKE YOU A BLIND RUNNING AWAY FROM REALITY !
SO COME NOW IS THE TIME TO LEND A HELPING HAND FULL OF LOVE AND CARE !
SO COME ..................
"I just want to say I love you,
In your words, and in your language.
I knew "I love you" in English was very meaningful,
My promise of "Main tumse pyar karta hoon" in Hindi
was relevant,
I tried to reach your heart with "Ami tomake bhalo
bashi" in Bengali,
I wished "Mujhe tumhare mohabbat ki arzoo hai" often
in Urdu.
Learning Bengali and Gujarati was a breeze,
Now I am stuck with Urdu and Punjabi learning books,
I am confused with similar alphabets in Punjabi,
Urdu sounds sweet, but all the alphabets seem so new.
I read all the books on national integration language
series,
I think I mastered the books with the bilingual help,
But still I can't convey my message, "Mai taunu pyar
karda" in Punjabi,
Still I wish I can write "Hoo thunay prem karoo choo"
to my heart throb in Gujarati.
I may not be good in conveying my loving message in
your language,
But I am enlightened with the deep meaning of love,
In the original works of Tagore, Faiz, Batalvi, Mirabai and Verma,
I guess real love does not require a language to
convey,
When we meet and when you smile, I think message has
been conveyed.
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Faithful
A friend is always faithful to you, even during the bad times.
Reliable
A friend is reliable..you can count on them to always be there.
In touch
A friend stays in touch, even though it may not be as often as you'd like!
Enduring
A true friendship is enduring, lasting even when friends lose touch for a while.
Needed
A friend is always there for you when you need someone to hug.
Devoted
A friend is devoted to your friendship and will never do anything to destroy it.
In this world you might be one person but for someone you may be the world.
Introspective Sensitive Reflective
You come to grips more frequently and thoroughly with yourself and your environment than do most people. You detest superficiality; you'd rather be alone than have to suffer through small talk. But your relationships with your friends are highly intensive, which gives you the inner tranquility and harmony that you need in order to feel good. However it is no problem for you to be alone for extended periods of time, without becoming bored.
Independent Unconventional Unfettered
You demand a free and unattached life for yourself that allows you to determine your own course. You have an artistic bent in your work or leisure activities. Your urge for freedom sometimes causes you to do exactly the opposite of what expected of you.
Your lifestyle is highly individualistic. You would never blindly imitate what is "in"; on the contrary, you seek to live according to your own ideas and convictions, even if this means swimming against the tide.
Dynamic Active Extroverted
You are quite willing to accept certain risks and to make a strong commitment in exchange for interesting and varied work. Routine, in contrast, tends to have a paralyzing effect on you.
What you like most is to be able to play an active role in events. In doing so, your initiative is highly pronounced.
Down to Earth Well-Balanced Harmonious
You value a natural style and love that which is uncomplicated. People admire you because you have both feet planted firmly on the ground and they can depend on you. You give those who are close to you security and space. You are perceived as being warm and human. You reject everything that is garish and trite. You tend to be skeptical toward the whims of fashion trends. For you, clothing has to be practical and unobtrusively elegant.
Professional Pragmatic Self-assured
You take charge of your life, and place less faith in your luck and more in your own deeds. You solve problems in a practical, uncomplicated manner. You take a realistic view of the things in your daily life and tackle them without wavering. You are given a great deal of responsibility at work, because people know that you can be depended upon.
Your pronounced strength of will projects your self-assurance to others. You are never fully satisfied until you have accomplished your ideas.
Peaceful Discreet Non-Aggressive
You are easy-going yet discreet. You make friends effortlessly, yet enjoy your privacy and independence. You like to get away from it all and be alone from time to time to contemplate the meaning of life and enjoy yourself. You need space, so you escape to beautiful hideaways, but you are not a loner. You are at peace with yourself and the world, and you appreciate life and what this world has to offer.
Carefree Playful Cheerful
You love a free and spontaneous life. And you attempt to enjoy it to the fullest, in accordance with the motto: "You only live once."
You are very curious and open about everything new; you thrive on change. Nothing is worse than when you feel tied down. You experience your environment as being versatile and always good for a surprise.
Romantic Dreamy Emotional
You are a very sensitive person. You refuse to view things only from a sober, rational standpoint. What your feelings tell you is just as important to you. In fact, you feel it is important to have dreams in life, too.
You reject people who scorn romanticism and are guided only by rationality. You refuse to let anything confine the rich variety of your moods and emotions.
Analytical Trustworthy Self-assured
Your momentary sensitivity represents that which is of high quality and durable. Consequently, you like to surround yourself with little "gems," which you discover wherever others overlook them.
Thus, culture plays a special role in your life. You have found your own personal style, which is elegant and exclusive, free from the whims of fashion. Your ideal, upon which you base your life, is cultured pleasure. You value a certain level of culture on the part of the people with whom you associate.
Husband & Wife - Why divorce?
In a divorce court a woman requested the judge: "Your honor, I want to
divorce my husband." "But why ?" asked the judge. She replied, "Because he
is not faithful to me." The judge asked, "How do you know ?" She replied,
"My lord, not a single child resembles him."
Husband & Wife - Love Your Enemy
From his death bed, the husband called his wife and said, "One month after I
die I want you to marry Samy." "Samy! But he is your enemy !" "Yes, I know
that ! I've suffered all these years so let him suffer now."
Husband & Wife - Wedding Ring
At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing your
wedding ring on the wrong finger? " The other replied, "Yes I am, I married
the wrong man."
Husband & Wife - Why?
" Dad, I was away for a week. Yesterday I sent a fax to my wife I'd be home
that night, and when I got into my room I found my wife in another man's
arms. " Why, Dad ? Tell me why!" Dad kept silent for a few minutes, then
coolly said, "Maybe, Son, she didn't get the fax."
Husband & Wife - Same Service
A husband visited a marriage counselor and said, "When we were first
married, I would come home from the office, my wife would bring my slippers
and our cute little dog would run around barking. Now after ten years it's
all different, I come home, the dog brings the slippers and my wife runs
around barking." "Why complain?" said the counselor. "You're still getting
the same service!"
Husband & Wife - Talk About Husband
One woman told another : "My neighbour is always speaking ill of her
husband, but look at me, my husband is foolish, lazy and a coward; but have
I ever said anything bad about him?"
Husband & Wife - Love To Do
A wife, one evening, drew her husband's attention to the couple next door
and said, "Do you see that couple? How devoted they are? He kisses her every
time they meet. Why don't you do that?" "I would love to." Replied the
husband. "But I don't know her well enough."
Husband & Wife - No Answer Back
A man was telling his friends, "When my wife is infuriated, she starts
shouting at me, my children and even at our dogs and nobody dares answer
her." One of his friends asked."And when you are angry, what do you do?" The
man replied, "I also shout angrily at the windows and doors of the house and
none of them dares to answer back.
Husband & Wife - Come Home Late
A woman was complaining to the neighbour that her husband always came home
late, no matter how she tried to stop him. "Take my advice," said the
neighbour, "and do what I did. Once my husband came home at three o'clock in
the morning, and from my bed I called out: "Is that you, Jim?" And that
cured him. "Cured him !" asked the woman, "but how?" The neighbour said,
"You see, his name is Bill."
Husband & Wife - Problem Father
"You looked troubled," I told my friend, "what's your problem?" He replied,
"I'm going to be a father." "But that's wonderful," I said. "What's
wonderful? My wife doesn't know about it yet.
Your Love is Ur Heart,
Your heart is Ur Spouse,
Your spouse is Ur Future,
Your future is Ur Destiny,
Your destiny is Ur Ambition,
Your ambition is Ur Aspiration,
Your aspiration is Ur Motivation,
Your motivation is Ur Belief,
Your belief is Ur Peace,
Your peace is Ur Target,
Your target is Heaven,
Heaven is no fun without FRIENDS.
1 - Live to relax!
2 - Love your bed, it is your temple!
3 - Relax in the day, so that you can sleep at night!
4 - Work is holy, so don't attack it!
5 - Don't do something tomorrow, that you can do the day afterwards!
6 - Work as little as possible. Let the others do what needs to be done!
7 - Don't worry, nobody died from doing nothing, but you could get hurt at work!
8 - If you feel like doing work, sit down and wait until that feeling goes away!
9 - Don't forget: working is healthy! So leave it for the sick people!
Trials keep You Strong,
Sorrows keep You Human,
Failures keeps You Humble,
Success keeps You Glowing,
But Only God keeps You Going!
When we come to the edge of the light we know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, of this we can be sure ... either God will provide something solid to stand on or ... .. we will be taught to fly
I asked God,"How do I get the best out of life?'God answered;'Face ur past without regret,handle with confidence prepare for the future without fear, Then He added."Keep the faith and drop the fear",Don't beleive ur doubts n never doubt ur beleifs Life is wonderful if u know how to have a great day!!!...God Bless.....
God determine who walk into ur life..........u decide who stays & who walks out........send to people u never want to lose i just did!!!!
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Here's the weather forcast around ur residence today...there shall be showers of blessings all over U and a heavy downpour of God's love all around U...
An inspring hope in the depth of your heart
Makes u more determine motivates you
A deep existing hope i like a sunshine
Which enligtens your heart's shine
If you wish to have a fortune and fame
"Hope"is the way to full fill your aim
When the forceful hope surrounds you
Take only few stept's more,to reach your destiny
If hope dosen't exist in your heart,in you
Only darkness,grief and misfortune are there to face
Believe in Allah,hope for His mercy
You will be granted love,peace and prosperity.
Friend: calls your parents by Mr. and Mrs.
Best friend: calls your parents dad and mom.
Friend: has never seen you cry
Best friend: has always had the best shoulder to cry on
Friend: never asks for anything to eat or drink
Best friend: opens the fridge and makes herself at home
Friend: asks you to write down your number.
Best friend: they ask you for their number
(cuz! ! they can't remember it)
Friend: borrows your stuff for a few days then gives it back.
Best friend: has a closet full of your stuff
Friend: only knows a few things about you
Best friend: could write a biography on your life story
Friend: will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing
Best friend: will always go with
The most destructive habit ................................Worry
The greatest joy ..........................Giving
The greatest loss ..........................Loss of self-respect
The most satisfying work .........Helping others
The ugliest personality trait.........................Selfishness
Our greatest natural resource ........Our youth
The greatest "shot in the arm"....................Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome......... Fear
The most effective sleeping pill .................. Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease......Excuses
The most powerful force in life ..........................Love
The most dangerous pariah ..........A gossiper
The worst thing to be without ........................... Hope
The deadliest weapon ...............The tongue
The two most power-filled words .................... "I Can"
The greatest asset ....................... Faith
The most worthless emotion ........................ Self-pity
The most beautiful attire ............... SMILE!
The most prized possession ........................... Self esteem
The most powerful channel of communication ...........Prayer
The most contagious spirit ........................ Enthusiasm
If love is to take a breath away
So I am in love
If love is to cry when remember
So I am in love
If love to miss and miss
So I am in love
If love to belong to
So I am in love
If love to die for
So I am in love
If love to dream of
So I am in love
If love to care about
So I am in love
If love to adore
So I am in love
If love to keep talking about
So I am in love
If love to be from and for
So I am in love
I admit.. I canʼt hide..
I am totally in love
The greatest Gift,
in the end
was a family
and a Friend.
An ear to lend
a hand to hold,
and you,
my Friend -
your heart of gold.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
A smile is a window on your face to show your heart is at home.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Never marry a software engineer. Just have a look at
This conversation and then decide Yourself Husband
Hey Dear, I am logged in.
Wife - would you like to have some snacks?
Husband - hard disk full.
Wife - have you brought the saree.
Husband - Bad command or file name.
Wife - but I told you about it in morning
Husband - erroneous syntax, abort, retry, cancel.
Wife - hae God !forget it where's your salary.
Husband - file in use, read only, try after some time.
Wife - at least give me your credit card,i can do some shopping.
Husband - sharing violation, access denied.
Wife - i made a mistake in marrying you.
Husband - data type mismatch.
Wife - you are useless.
Husband - by default.
Wife - who was there with you in the car this morning?
Husband - system unstable press ctrl, alt, del to Reboot.
Wife - what is the relation between you &; your Receptionist?
Husband - the only user with write permission.
Wife - what is my value in your life?
Husband - unknown virus detected.
Wife - do you love me or your computer?
Husband - Too many parameters.
Wife - i will go to my dad's house.
Husband - program performed illegal operation, it
will Close.
Wife - I will leave you forever.
Husband - close all programs and log out for another
User.
A 70-year-old man goes to the doctor's for a physical.
The doctor runs some tests and says to the man, ''Well, everything seems to be in top condition physically, but what about mentally? How is your connection with God?''
And the man says, ''Oh me and God? We're tight. We have a real bond, he's good to me. Every night when I have to get up to go to the bathroom, he turns on the light for me, and then, when I leave, he turns it back off.''
Well, upon hearing this the doctor was astonished.
He called the man's wife and said, ''I'd like to speak to you about your husband's connection with God. He claims that every night when he needs to use the restroom, God turns on the light for him and turns it off for him again when he leaves. Is this true?''
And she says, ''That idiot, he's been peeing in the refrigerator! ''
Is anybody happier
Because YOU passed this way?
Does anyone remember
That YOU spoke to them today?
------------ --------- --------- ----
The day is almost over,
And its toiling time is through,
Is there anyone to utter
Now a kindly word of
YOU?
------------ --------- ------
Can
YOU say tonight in parting
With the day that's slipping fast ...
That YOU helped a single person
Of the many that you passed?
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- -
Is a single heart rejoicing
Over what
YOU did or said?
Does the one whose hopes were fading
Now with courage look ahead?
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- -----
Did
YOU waste the day or use it?
Was it well or sorely spent?
Did YOU leave a trail of kindness,
Or a scar of discontent?
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- ------
As
YOU close your eyes in slumber,
Do you think that God will say ...
"YOU have earned one more tomorrow
By what you did today?"
Have more patience
Appreciate the small things
Practice putting others first
Put laughter in my life
Yell less
Never put anyone down
Eagerly do my chores
Willingly give
Yearn for knowledge
Elevate others
Assume responsibility for mistakes
Remember to smile a lot
Did you know that you can be as wealthy as the richest person alive? Right now, if you choose. Wealth is more than money and property. Wealth is what you don't need.
The less you need, the wealthier you are. The opposite of wealthy is what? Needy! So there are two ways to be wealthy. One is to accumulate more and more, to meet your ever increasing needs. This can be tricky, because usually as the means increase, so do the needs, even faster. The other way is to simply let go of your needs. And you can do that anytime you choose.
Ask yourself, what do you really NEED? Do you NEED 150 channels on your TV? Do you NEED a new car every two years? Do you NEED another drink or cigarette?
We're not really talking about money and material things here. We're talking about attitude. Money is a fine tool, one of the best. And material things can add beauty and richness to life. Work for them, treasure them, enjoy them, use them to enrich your life, without needing them.
Let go of your need to possess and you are free to enjoy the limitless abundance of life.
What would other people think?
How many things do you do, and how many things do you not do, just because you're worried about what other people would think? Other people's opinions of you, and your opinions of them, cause a great amount of completely unnecessary negative thinking. Not to mention a lot of silly activity. Of course you would like to make a good impression on people. So you do your best to be polite, honest and respectful. Beyond that it's useless to concern yourself with what others think of you, because they will probably think it in spite of anything you do. And what does it matter anyway?
Refuse to be imprisoned by the opinions of others. After all, what harm can someone's opinion do to you? What power does it have over you? Only the power that you give to it. Decide to live with the freedom of your own thoughts. Be confident of your own value and worth, and that you're doing the right thing. When you believe in yourself and in what you're doing, it won't matter what other people think. And while you're at it, remember not to waste your own time by placing judgments on others.
We're all different, thankfully. What a drab world it would be if we weren't. And we all think differently. Do what you will, with the best of intentions, a steadfastness of purpose, and let others think what they may.
Learn and grow
We've all made mistakes. We've all done things that we've been ashamed of. Life is a learning experience, and mistakes are the most effective teachers. Living successfully is not about avoiding mistakes, it is about learning from them. Making a mistake once is, in the long run, a blessing for what it teaches. Making the same mistake again and again -- now that's what you want to avoid.
To not learn from your mistakes is usually worse than to make them in the first place. And the learning starts with accepting responsibility for your errors. Laying the blame on others will serve no useful purpose.
From the moment you're born, life is a learning and growing experience. Today you are more intelligent than you were yesterday. Today you are more mature than yesterday. Today you are more caring, more loving, more effective than ever before. You have grown and you continue to grow every day. The poor judgment you exercised yesterday is in the past, and you are the wiser for it.
Take comfort and delight in the new person you are always becoming. Go forward knowing that you are worthy and capable of every success.
Hope
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. -- Francis Bacon We must live WITH hope, yet we cannot live BY hope. It is fine to hope for the best. That, however, is not enough. We cannot merely hope, we must take action.
It is sad how many things are tolerated in the hope that they will improve. Hoping for the best won't do anything. Working and taking action, with hope in your heart, will bring about results. That's a powerful combination. Hope works in your favor only as long as it is accompanied by action and commitment.
Hope cannot replace action. Do what needs to be done, hope or no hope. Hope for the best, and do everything in your power to make it happen. Yes, there is hope. Things will get better -- when you make them better.
Start each day with hope, and then get busy working. Let your hope inspire you, rather than console you. Hope for the best, and then do whatever it takes. Hope depends on you.
Failure
The surest recipe for failure, is to avoid failure. If you cannot accept the prospect that you might fail, then you will most certainly fail. To avoid failure, is to avoid even the possibility of success. Accomplishment requires effort and commitment. And it requires risk. Accomplishment requires that you make decisions, set priorities, make choices, and take action. Those things are all very risky. They can lead to failure just as surely as to success.
Yet what is failure? It is merely another step toward success. When you don't get the results you want, at least you've learned how not to act. So, is failure really so bad?
Without failure there would be no success. Make the effort. Expect the best, and accept that it may be necessary to adjust your approach to improve your results.
Be willing to fail as you take action, and you're on the road to success.
Are you willing to change?
Your life right now is the result of the things you have done up until this point in time. If you want your life to be different, you will need to make changes. Wishing for a better life won't make it so. In order for "things" to change, you must be willing to change. That means getting out of your comfort zone. It means facing your fears. It means you may need to change your career, your friends, the food you eat, the clothes you wear, where you live, your daily schedule.
You are remarkably adaptable. If you've made it this far, you have already gone through many major changes in all aspects of your life. From being an infant to a toddler to a child to a teen to an adult, the first few years of your life were filled with constant change. You are certainly up to the task.
Almost always, the fear of change, the fear of the unknown, is worse than the change itself. Once you understand this, then you realize that it is easier to change than to resist change.
There are things you need to do, changes you need to make. Go ahead with them. Don't waste your energy fearing them or resisting them. Dive right in and do what needs to be done. Change is a constant part of life. When you fear it, it will happen anyway, out of your control. When you embrace change, it will enable you to reach your goals.
Celebration means......
A winter evening.
Four friends.
One barsaat.
Four glasses of chai.
Celebration means......
Hundred bucks of petrol.
A rusty old bike.
And an open road.
Celebration means......
Maggi noodles.
A hostel room.
4.25 a.m.
Celebration means......
3 old friends.
3 separate cities.
3 coffee mugs.
1 internet messenger.
Celebration means......
Rain on a hot tin roof.
Pakoras deep-frying.
Neighbours dropping in.
A party.
Celebration means......
You and mom.
A summer night.
A bottle of coconut oil.
A head massage.
Gossiping about absent family members
Wish you Prosperous and Happy New Year !!!
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be happy and successful ...
Have a Successful Year ahead !!!
Its like a new Sunrise... of Hope, of Prosperity, of Happiness
Its like a new Begining... of Thoughts, of Words, of Actions
Its like a new Day... of Energy, of Strength, of Ideas
Its like a Bunch of whole New things... of Prayers, of Friends, and of Love
I wish you Health...
So you may enjoy each day in comfort.
I wish you the Love of friends and family...
And Peace within your heart.
I wish you the Beauty of nature...
That you may enjoy the work of God.
I wish you Wisdom to choose priorities...
For those things that really matter in life.
I wish you Generosity so you may share...
All good things that come to you.
I wish you Happiness and Joy...
And Blessings for the New Year.
I wish you the best of everything...
That you so well deserve.
HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR
The FBI had an opening for an assassin. After all the background checks,interviews and testing were done there were 3 finalists.
Two men and a woman.
For the final test, the FBI agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun.
"We must know that you will follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances. Inside the room you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Kill Her!!!"
"The man said, "You can't be serious, I could never shoot my wife" The agent said, "Then you're not the right man for this job. Take your wife and go home."
The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about 5 minutes. The man came out with tears in his eyes, "I tried, but I can't kill my wife." The agent said, "You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home."
Finally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the same instructions, to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one after another. They heard screaming, thrashing, banging on the walls.
After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman, She wiped the sweat from her brow. "This gun is loaded with blanks" she said. "I had to beat him to death with the chair."
MORAL : Women are evil
Don't mess with them !!!!!!!!
Jack decided to go skiing with his buddy, Bob. So they loaded up Jack's minivan and headed north. After driving for a few hours, they got caught in a terrible blizzard. So they pulled into a nearby farm and asked the attractive lady who answered the door if they could spend the night.
"I realize it's terrible weather out there and I have this huge house all to myself, but I'm recently widowed," she explained. "I'm afraid the neighbors will talk if I let you stay in my house"
"Don't worry," Jack said. "We'll be happy to sleep in the barn. And if the weather breaks, we'll be gone at first light." The lady agreed, and the two men found their way to the barn and settled in for the night.
Come morning, the weather had cleared, and they got on their way. They enjoyed a great weekend of skiing.
But about nine months later, Jack got an unexpected letter from an attorney. It took him a few minutes to figure it out, but he finally determined that it was from the attorney of that attractive widow he had met on the ski weekend.
He dropped in on his friend Bob and asked, "Bob, do you remember that good-looking widow from the farm we stayed at on our ski holiday up north about 9 months ago?"
"Yes, I do." said Bob
"Did you, er, happen to get up in the middle of the night, go up to the house and pay her a visit?"
"Well, um, yes," Bob said, a little embarrassed about being found out "I have to admit that I did."
"And did you happen to use my name instead of telling her your name?"
Bob's face turned beet red and he said, "Yeah, look, I'm sorry, buddy. I'm afraid I did." Why do you ask?"
"She just died and left me everything."
Warren Buffett is a man who has made millions but he also started working at his father's brokerage when he was 11 years old, that's an age when most other kids were playing hide-n-seek and didn't know how to spell 'brokerage'.
This?financial wizard is by recent estimates, worth $46 billion but how he got there is the?fascinating story.
It all began in the family grocery store back in Omaha. Buffett's great grandfather started the store in 1869 and it was in the Buffet family until 1969, till his uncle finally retired. But it's at this store, where he began going around his neighbourhood selling gum. This was before his stint at his father's firm.
Warren Buffett told CNBC's Liz Claman, "My grandfather would sell me Wrigley's chewing gum and I would go door to door around my neighbourhood selling it. He also sold me six Coca Cola for a quarter and I would sell it for a nickel each in the neighbourhood, so I made a small profit. I was always trying to do something like this."
From small beginnings come bigger things and so after selling gum, soft drinks and working with his father, by age 14, he had bought a 40 acres farm in Washington, Thurston County.
But he confesses that he never enjoyed the farm as much as he enjoyed investing in stocks. But the first stock he bought was "Citi Service preferred stock. I had three shares and made all of $5 on it. I had bought it at $38.25 and then I sold it around $40, it went down to $27 in between and after I sold it at $40, it went to $200!"
From that poorly timed stock sale in 1944, he learnt a lesson that became his legendary investment strategy - which is essentially - patience pays, so buy them and hold them. He figured out two other critical things about himself in the 1940s - what he is good at and what he likes to do.
This pivotal moment in his journey came in 1956, when he was just 25 years old. This man who was rejected by Harvard and now armed with contributions from family and friends and $100 of his own money starts a limited partnership with seven people.
Over the next nine years, Buffett turned a $105,000 into $26 million - a stunning 24,000 per cent increase! He had invested mostly in textile companies, farm equipment manufacturers and even a company making windmills.
Thirteen years later, Buffett forms another partnership that becomes one of the greatest teams in the history of investing. He convinces longtime friend Charlie Munger to quit his investment partnership to join Buffett as his Vice President of Berkshire Hathaway.
And now with the 82-year-old Munger, Buffett sits on top of the greatest holding companies ever.
So, it's understandable that this man is looked up to for investment and business advice all the time. But what's the secret gift he's got? How does he pick the right investments all the time? He explains, "I look for something that I can understand to start with, there are all kinds of businesses I don't understand."
"I don't understand what car companies are going to do 10 years from now, or what software or chemical companies are going to win/do ten years from now but I do understand that Snickers bars will be the number one candy company in the US - like its been for 40 years. So, I look for durable competitive advantage and that is hard to find. I look for an honest and able management and I look for the price I'm going to pay."
While Buffett's big acquisitions have made headlines; wise investments in companies like Coco Cola, the Washington Post and Gillette have provided the capital to make those acquisitions possible. Since taking control of Berkshire in 1964, the company has acquired 68 subsidiaries. In March of 1964, Berkshire acquired its first insurance company National Indemnity.
In 1972, See's Candies for?$25 million, in September of 1983, Nebraska Furniture Mart and Borhseim's in 1989. In 1998, Berkshire acquired Dairy Queen and Geico in January, Net Jets in August and General Re Corp in December. In April of 2002, Fruit of the Loom and most recently Buffett is looking abroad for new business.
Recently, he bought 80 per cent of the Israeli Metal Works Company and he did it without even seeing it. He was approached by the promoter via a letter and what was in that letter convinced him that 'this was the kind of the person I wanted to do business with and it is the kind of business we wanted to own.' How does this 'daring bit of investment fit in with his usual careful way of investing?
He explains, "I had to size up the business but that's a background of being in stocks. If you put your whole net worth in stocks when you are 20-21 years old - you have not visited the businesses but you are really analyzing their financials, you are trying to assess whether they have durable competitive advantage, assess the quality of the management and the integrity of the management and then you try to figure out whether you are buying it at a reasonable price and that's it, that is all we do."
He's never had anything lacking - his acute business brain has made him a lot of money. He also feels that the youth of today are living better than John D Rockefeller. His own style remains the same - he lives in the same house for 48 years, carries no cellphone, has no computer on his office desk, does not move around with an entourage.
As he puts it, "I have had everything I wanted all my life. At 20, I was having the time of my life doing what I did. Today, I'm eating the same things I always eat - burghers, fries and cherry coke. Only my clothes are more expensive now but they look cheap when I put them on!"
At 76, he married his long-time companion, Astrid Menks at a low-key ceremony at his daughter Susan's house. He is also amazingly healthy for someone on a burghers-coke diet. He's also surprisingly down to earth. He moves around freely unencumbered by a security detail. He does have a few guards with him during the annual shareholders meeting but he says he doesn't feel the need to put himself in a cocoon.
Which probably explains, why he wasn't nervous about visiting a factory in Israel, which is close to the Lebanese border. He says of that visit, "Our plant there is about 8-10 miles from the Lebanese border and there were maybe a rocket or two that hit the parking lot or something like that but it can be dangerous being in this (US) country as well."
Buffett is comfortable in Omaha in part because people leave him alone with the exception of a random fan or two. This billionaire doesn't even have a chauffeur - he drives himself around in a 2006 Cadillac DTS, recently purchased after he auctioned off his old Lincoln Town Car, which was famous for its Thrifty license plate. And no, he does not want a yacht or many mansions. He just wants to be left alone to enjoy a good football game in his?sweatsuit? on a big screen television - with popcorn.
It's really no surprise that America's most prominent investor chooses to live far from the nation's wealthy-elite in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. He says that when he was in New York, he had about a 100 ideas about where to invest but it was over-stimulation.
In Omaha, he needs one good idea in a year and he feels he can think better and with less distraction. He feels there is a sense of community in living there.
His investing theories have been talked about ad nauseum by almost every business/finance writer and is a cottage industry all by itself.
But one he finds closest to reflecting his views is a book written by Larry Cunningham - 'The Essays of Warren Buffett - Lessons for Corporate America' is required reading in a one of a kind course start at the University of Missouri School of Business.
The course is called Investment Strategies of Warren Buffett. It turns up Buffett is hot on campus too. The class now in its eighth year and is the brainchild of Buffett's friend Harvey Eisen.
Harvey Eisen recalls, "This course is a breakthrough in terms of reality meeting academics. I said why don't we have a course like this and the academics scratched their head and said 'well we don't' and I said 'why don't we' and then we got it done."
Dean of the University of Missouri School of Business Bruce Walker bought the idea. He says, "We want our students to be exposed to many different approaches to investing."
The Buffett playbook is taught, analysed and written about but it is best summed up like this.
Harvey Eisen explains it, "Number one - Don't lose the money and number two - don't forget rule number 1! Number three - look for unique companies that are hard to replicate - he calls that a moat around the business. Number four - he talks about the circle of competence, which means in simple English, do what you know.
"Everybody in the stock market knows about the economy or about the Federal Reserve. Warren focuses on what he knows and he has made enormous successes at that."
He does not want his managers to report in at any committee meeting of any kind and he lets them get on with the business of running their businesses. But there is one thing he requires of each CEO. Buffett says, "I asked them to send me a letter, that I would keep in a private place that will tell me what to do tomorrow morning, if they are not alive in terms of their successor."
But what about his own successor? He says, "The succession plan is very simple. Our board met a few days ago and we talked about that every in single meeting and we have at least three people inside Berkshire, who in many respects will do my job better than I do. I can't give you the names but the board knows which one of those three they would pick, if something happened to me."
Warren Buffett has also?given away $31 billion of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and he 'hopes it will accomplish just what they have set out to accomplish. I have observed their Foundation very carefully and Bill & Melinda decided initially they were spending about a billion a year. They have decided they were going to try and figure how they are going to save most lives, relieve the most human suffering.'
Ultimately, that's what money is really meant for, isn't it?
Don't laugh!" said the patient X.
"Of course I won't laugh," the doctor said. "I'm a professional. In over twenty years I've never laughed at a patient."
"Okay then," X said, and proceeded to drop his trousers, revealing the tiniest 'whoo-ha' the doctor had ever seen. It couldn't have been bigger than the size of a AAA battery.
Unable to control himself, the doctor started giggling, then fell laughing to the floor. Ten minutes later he was able to struggle to his feet and regain his composure.
"I'm so sorry," said the doctor. "I really am. I don't know what came over me. On my honor as a doctor and a gentleman, I promise it won't happen again. Now what seems to be the problem?"
"It's swollen," X replied.
