Hello dear ones...
I know i know... I took quite a long time to write this new post, apologies to all who have been waiting!!
Sometimes we don't keep quiet because we have nothing to say, but instead because we have too much to say but we don't know how exactly to articulate it in words... I was also going through some dilemma like that. There are so many things happening around us every single day, every single moment of the day that we don't remember most, and out of the little that our memories store somewhere at the back of our minds, we forget to even acknowledge them later. In times when we have more worries in our lives than happy things, it becomes difficult to share something that would be worth listening by others, or worse that would be more satisfying to our own ears.
People are struggling everyday, in many different ways, just to keep going, just to survive. But does that mean there is nothing good happening around us at all? Does that mean we really see and experience only difficult, bad things throughout our day? Well, I think NO!!
I go through a lot myself. All the incidents are not super nice or happy. There are a lot of fights, a lot of anger I deal with. There is sadness, hurt. There are tensions, worries. And there is WORK (can anything else beat that huh!!!). But you know what, I still experience a lot of beautiful things. Amongst all this chaos, there are moments of pure heavenly peaceful bliss. Hard to believe? I will give you an example today...
So, as I had mentioned earlier in my previous blog, I am a part of the Corporate Social Responsibility team at my office, and these days we were celebrating the "Joy of Giving Week". So what we do is collect wishes on chits from all the NGO kids and ask everyone at office to pick a wish chit and fulfill that wish for the kid. And there are so many wonderful people who actually pick up the wish chits and bring the gifts all wrapped up nicely in colorful papers.. :) And what me and my team does is - collect those gifts somewhere at office till the day we have to go to the NGO and distribute them to the cute little angels.
But this whole process is not what I really intended to share (though it's just nice that i could!).
I have been experiencing something beautiful and amazing during this whole process. Everyday people come and give the gifts to me, and at the end of every day I go and keep them at our office Club House. After the day's work, while leaving the office, I pick up my bag and all the gifts in my hands and walk towards the Club House. I work till late, so usually it gets dark by the time I'm leaving, and there are very less people around. The path to the Club House seems very serene at that hour, with soothing darkness with little and enough light from the surrounding buildings, and there's always cool breeze and the calm trees on the sides. It's a 5 minutes walk from my building, but these 5 minutes have become the most awaited, most relaxing 5 minutes of my routine these days. Because walking down that path, with my hands full with gifts from some good hearted people, for some very cute kids, makes me feel like I'm passing on the blessings I collected throughout the day and going to store them at the end of the day. It seems like I'm carrying all the love and all the good in the world in my hands. It feels like after my day, I'm just saying "Thanks" for all that is good in my life, and for all that I wish to be better. I feel truly amazing! All the while throughout those 5 minutes I walk smiling to myself (I'm sure many people seeing me would have wondered if I was a lunatic, but do I care!). This feeling wipes off the entire day's tiredness and worries and all bad that might have happened. Just this little thing etches in my brain what is good, and nice.
I take back at the end of every day happiness and pure tranquility and peace! I know what I'm doing is just a drop in the big ocean of the good that many people do. But this drop is enough to quench my thirst for peace and true joy.
Try it, give away a little of good, and you will get it back many folds in forms you may never expect. And at the same time, keep your eyes and your hearts open to all the nice things happening around you. Spread the joy, share all the wonderful experiences (however small they may seem), speak of good, because that's how it will grow, in our hearts, within us and all over around us!
Will come back again here, with something happy, something nice!! So keep reading!!
Keep Sparkling!!
Love,
Gazala
I know i know... I took quite a long time to write this new post, apologies to all who have been waiting!!
Sometimes we don't keep quiet because we have nothing to say, but instead because we have too much to say but we don't know how exactly to articulate it in words... I was also going through some dilemma like that. There are so many things happening around us every single day, every single moment of the day that we don't remember most, and out of the little that our memories store somewhere at the back of our minds, we forget to even acknowledge them later. In times when we have more worries in our lives than happy things, it becomes difficult to share something that would be worth listening by others, or worse that would be more satisfying to our own ears.
People are struggling everyday, in many different ways, just to keep going, just to survive. But does that mean there is nothing good happening around us at all? Does that mean we really see and experience only difficult, bad things throughout our day? Well, I think NO!!
I go through a lot myself. All the incidents are not super nice or happy. There are a lot of fights, a lot of anger I deal with. There is sadness, hurt. There are tensions, worries. And there is WORK (can anything else beat that huh!!!). But you know what, I still experience a lot of beautiful things. Amongst all this chaos, there are moments of pure heavenly peaceful bliss. Hard to believe? I will give you an example today...
So, as I had mentioned earlier in my previous blog, I am a part of the Corporate Social Responsibility team at my office, and these days we were celebrating the "Joy of Giving Week". So what we do is collect wishes on chits from all the NGO kids and ask everyone at office to pick a wish chit and fulfill that wish for the kid. And there are so many wonderful people who actually pick up the wish chits and bring the gifts all wrapped up nicely in colorful papers.. :) And what me and my team does is - collect those gifts somewhere at office till the day we have to go to the NGO and distribute them to the cute little angels.
But this whole process is not what I really intended to share (though it's just nice that i could!).
I have been experiencing something beautiful and amazing during this whole process. Everyday people come and give the gifts to me, and at the end of every day I go and keep them at our office Club House. After the day's work, while leaving the office, I pick up my bag and all the gifts in my hands and walk towards the Club House. I work till late, so usually it gets dark by the time I'm leaving, and there are very less people around. The path to the Club House seems very serene at that hour, with soothing darkness with little and enough light from the surrounding buildings, and there's always cool breeze and the calm trees on the sides. It's a 5 minutes walk from my building, but these 5 minutes have become the most awaited, most relaxing 5 minutes of my routine these days. Because walking down that path, with my hands full with gifts from some good hearted people, for some very cute kids, makes me feel like I'm passing on the blessings I collected throughout the day and going to store them at the end of the day. It seems like I'm carrying all the love and all the good in the world in my hands. It feels like after my day, I'm just saying "Thanks" for all that is good in my life, and for all that I wish to be better. I feel truly amazing! All the while throughout those 5 minutes I walk smiling to myself (I'm sure many people seeing me would have wondered if I was a lunatic, but do I care!). This feeling wipes off the entire day's tiredness and worries and all bad that might have happened. Just this little thing etches in my brain what is good, and nice.
I take back at the end of every day happiness and pure tranquility and peace! I know what I'm doing is just a drop in the big ocean of the good that many people do. But this drop is enough to quench my thirst for peace and true joy.
Try it, give away a little of good, and you will get it back many folds in forms you may never expect. And at the same time, keep your eyes and your hearts open to all the nice things happening around you. Spread the joy, share all the wonderful experiences (however small they may seem), speak of good, because that's how it will grow, in our hearts, within us and all over around us!
Will come back again here, with something happy, something nice!! So keep reading!!
Keep Sparkling!!
Love,
Gazala
