The Story of Pain.

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The pain that you go through when you know you're gonna lose the person you love the most is indescribable.

You have to stay tough, you have to stay sharp, you have to stay alert each and everytime so that your loved ones don't suffer.

The nights and days don't feel any different. You lose the count of hours you sleep. The passage of time doesn't seem to affect you anymore cause all you care about is the one person who you know you are going to lose anyway.

And in the process, you forget who you are anymore. You stop thinking about yourselves, stop looking after yourselves, stop combing those hairs, stop choosing what to wear, stop wondering what to eat, stop talking to your friends and family and the list goes on and on. You literally stop everything else and focus on one thing only to give your loved one the best that you could.

And you take this process so seriously that you fail to do the one thing that your loved one needs the most at that time. Your love.

You delve yourselves too much in doing the best for them, you forget that they need you the most in their last times. You walk with them to the hospital, take them on a wheel chair, carry them across, change their clothes, you feed them, clean up their mess, time check their medicines, get them what they want to eat keeping in mind the precautions to take and all the other things that is necessary to keep them alive. But you don't have an answer when they ask you why are you not talking to them like you did before? Or why are you not sitting with them and being in the moment with them?

The affection that you know is inside of you somewhere but you cannot get it out cause if you do, you will freeze. It will break you then and there and you will be in tears in no time cause that's what you have been avoiding in order to save the person you love the most. It will stop you from doing what is necessary and that is something you cannot afford to do in such a situation. But it is something that is required too.

I still remember the day my father died. It was the last time he opened his eyes, saw me and cried. He reached out to me and I held his weakened and cold hand, kept it on my face and I cried with him. He couldn't speak because of the tube they had put in through his nose to his stomach to feed him but he wanted to speak, speak a lot. I couldn't do anything else at that moment so I told him that Paa, you're going to be okay, we are waiting for you outside, you are going to get through this one too and we will go back home together. Who knew it was something that will never happen again? 

Now that your loved one is gone, you do miss them cause all of that affection that you knew was inside of you for them is still there and you do not have them beside you to share it with them. But that is what keeps us alive doesn't it? And it's the same thing that will keep them alive too, even after they are gone. 

The love and affection that you share and spread throughout your lifetime to the people you love, to those in need of help, to the ones deprived, so that their pain gets converted to love is what living a life means. Cause going through pain is tough, but it gets easier with a little bit of love. 

To all of you reading this post and to all of you going through any sort of pain in their lives, I send you love and hope that you get through this one too! ❤️ 

Story of the Present.

Life is fair, to everyone, whether you're a good person who has done good the entire life or you're a bad person who has done bad the entire life. Life is fair to all.
If you do good you will get the goodness back that may be times one or maybe times ten it depends on how you see it. And if you do bad you will get back what you did, maybe not in the exact manner but in the exact genre. That's right. Let me share an experience with the reader here. Once upon a time there was a person. He was having dinner and was a bit fed up with the same old type of recipe that the food was prepared. Although he ate the food but with a very negative feedback for it. The person used to do good deeds all the time but out of his frustration for some reason he constantly kept stating that he disliked the food. The people who prepared the food simply listened to his remarks and kept on doing their thing because there was nothing that could be done at that moment. And after the dinner he drank a lot of water, more than what he usually drinks and the water suddenly went to his windpipe and he choked after which he vomit all the food he ate.
So it doesn't matter what you have done your entire life, be it good or bad, what matters the most is that what are you doing right now. Are you reacting on someone or hitting on someone just because you had a bad day or you are not getting a job or you are not able to do your thing? Or you are still able to remain calm after a long and frustrating day hoping for a better tomorrow. That is the test called LIFE. And LIFE is fair, to everyone.

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GST 01st July 2017

GST is not ease of doing business, it is a new way of doing business. It is not just a tax reform, it is not just an economic reform but it is a social reform which will enlighten all of us towards the future we all know as INDIA.

Here I would like to quote the honorable Prime Minister's words, "we shall not call this Goods and Service Tax, but rather call it Good and Simple Tax as it is going to ease out the complexities of taxes in our country."

Proud to witness the historic moment. Proud to be a part of a history in making.
Jai Hind. 

The Story of Peace

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Once upon a time there were two friends, Madhav and Parth. Out of the two, Madhav was very sentimental. The outside world meant a lot to him, which included all the people he knew and cared about be it his family, his friends, or his acquaintances. His friend Parth, on the other hand, was more of an analytical sort of a person who has seen Madhav go through the toughest of his times.

Madhav had an amazing day today. He went out and had achieved something very precious, he had made someone happy. So he comes back and shares his excitement with Parth. This made both of them share a common excitation following which Parth tells Madhav something very astounding, something which deals with the current situation Madhav is shackled in. He quotes;

"Good Madhav! Good! I am very happy for you! 

I just have one thing to say to you, stay at peace whenever you face a hysteria. 

Don't let any kind of emotions cloud your thoughts. 

If you ever feel like there is a force that is hindering your abilities to think clearly, 

or when you have no one to share your grief or loss, 

or if sometime you feel like there is no place on this massive world for you. 

Just remember one thing my friend, your peace is in your hands. 

It has always been since you were a small child trying hard to crawl, to walk, to run but failing and still not giving up. 

Because you hoped you will learn one day, and when you did you were at peace with it.

The spirit was there when you were a child but you eventually forgot. 

The spirit of never giving up, the hope that drove you unconsciously, the peace, it was there all the time. It still is and will always stay inside you. 

All you have to do is keep looking for it because your peace has always been and will always be in your hands."

Peace!

The Story of Human and the Role of Ego.

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Let me tell you a story. A story about Human. Who is he? What he seeks? How is he different from an animal? Let us learn about the Human through this story.

An animal hunts for food, and a human hunts for meaning. A human keeps on searching for "Artha" or "meaning" of his life. 

But the fact that he is living is what life means. The fact that he is alive, the fact that he lives and enjoys each and every moment in his life is the true meaning of life. But when the human starts looking at himself from other's eyes is when "Aham" or "Ego" is born. When he seeks popularity, fame, acceptance, adoration, is when he lets Ego take over. Ego, though a small word, but holds great significance. You might wonder what great amount of significance it might hold, but when it plays its role it only alleviates feelings like anger, hatred, arrogance. And when these feelings take hold it becomes really hard to survive. And consequently the meaning of life fades away, and the human now seems quite jumbled in his own thoughts. This makes the human constantly searching for the meaning of his life, which he already knows but is unaware of that. 

Our ego plays an immense role in creating emotional drama in our lives. I know a man who thought of himself as the most supreme. He considered everyone else beneath him, and considered his race to be the only one qualified to live. Every other race either dies or serves him as slaves. You want to know who that man was, he was Adolf Hitler. What happened to him is history. All his life he kept searching for the meaning of his life, which when he was unable to find, he had no other option than to surrender himself at the hands of life. 

Our ego shadows our wisdom. It makes our wisdom biased towards ourselves. When we behave badly towards someone, it then starts contradicting our own behaviour by telling us what we just did was bad. But not that way, rather saying the thing you just did was stupid, how can you do such a stupid thing? Suddenly the ego becomes the "righteous self", knowing everything. Rather than making you realize what is wrong and what is right, the voices in your head start making you feel guilty of what you have done. The person would definitely go and apologize for his mistreatment, but he won't understand the significance of that apology. 

The human somehow has managed to label his ego in terms of its nature. If his personality turns ugly, he calls it ego. If one sees himself as "I am ugly", one would not want to be that way anymore. But that should not be the way. Whatever is beautiful or ugly it is the in the same person as you are. If you create a difference between your personalities, then you would always be in control of the negative emotions. No transformation in your character will be possible. If the person starts believing that whatever nonsense he is, whether the beautiful or the ugly in him are both him, then what is ugly will start changing. 

There is a very famous personality who once said, "Today in the world people only have ego sense, they have no life sense. When you are like this, you only see yourself as life, no one else is life. But if you are life sensitive, everything is life in your experience, so you naturally behave very sensibly with every other life around you. The ego will no longer be a problem if you become life sensitive." Therefore in order to live in peace with yourself and in harmony with life and in order to understand the meaning of life, you will have to understand yourself and you will have to transform and become a true human.

The Story of Resilience.

Scientifically
"Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors."
Generally
"It means "bouncing back" from difficult experiences."

The death of a loved one, loss of a job, serious illness, terrorist attacks and other traumatic events: these are all examples of very challenging life experiences. Many people react to such circumstances with a flood of strong emotions and a sense of uncertainty. Emotional pain and sadness are common in people who have suffered major adversity or trauma in their lives. In fact, the road to resilience is likely to involve considerable emotional distress. Most of the people succumb to such pressures and hurt themselves and in some cases even kill themselves. This is not being resilient, this is failing in their attempts to be one.

Then how do people deal with difficult events that change their lives?
People do that, we all have done that in some or the other way. We just don't recognize that we are doing it, that we are getting stronger, that we are being resilient. Being resilient does not mean that a person doesn't experience difficulty or distress. He/She does experience deep distress. Its the way they deal with the surroundings during their period of distress. Resilience is not a trait that people either have or do not have. Its not a characteristic that will make others judge you. It involves behaviours, thoughts and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone. Resilience is an ongoing process that requires time and effort and engages people in taking a number of steps. Steps which seem very difficult at the beginning, but eventually change your perception into a very positive one.

A challenge or a loss tests people's behaviour towards life and that is what makes them resilient. Whatever may be the situation, however bad it may be. If one decides not to give up, if one decides to keep going, if one chooses to be resilient, nothing in this world can break Him/Her.

The Story of Hope.

Welcome to the brand new days of a cycle we repeat each year. Let us all explore ourselves each new day that passes through our life. Let us all hope that we will learn something new about ourselves and the people we care about. Hoping that we will take on challenges more effortlessly than the previous year. Hoping that we will prove to be better than we were in the previous year.

We all hope, that's why we make resolutions, hoping that we will fulfil them for sure. We all did that the previous year and before that too and will do that this year too. You know why we do this?

Why we hope?

Why we make countless resolutions knowing that only some of them are really going to sew up, and in some cases not even one?

We do so because when we hope, we start to believe in one thing, we start acknowledging that thing, we start doing the tid bits to accomplish that thing, and finally when we have achieved that thing, that's when we realize the importance of "HOPE".

Remember this, always hope for a better tomorrow, always hope for good things, always hope that even if something bad has happened there is something better waiting for you beyond the horizon, and have that courage so that you can walk till that point. Always hope, because when we hope it is going to happen for sure. Believe that.

Finally a very hopeful and joyous New Year to all the readers. Happy 2016.