The Seeker

Ways to Achieve success; Power of now; Law of Attraction;

Spiritual enlightening books. How do they motivate us? Do they?

I have been reading quite a few ones, like Alchemist, Tuesdays with Morrie, Fish, and some ways to achieve success etc. Most of them carry a single message and keep repeating it through every sequences/scenarios.

People are mostly composed of oscillating thoughts comprised of their dreams and practicality. They do have so many options of living life, the various established (un)realistical myths of right and wrong. The difficult part is to choose to follow. We do accept or hear various views, keeping apart our opinions and views in backend. We sometimes criticize or are empathetic to them, with profound established view point to various matters. There are matters of heart, relationships, money, ambitions, studies, love, family, and many others and innumerous diverse scenarios as much as a writer can be deeply immersed in.

How to accept yourself to follow and choose the selected path is quite easy, once you have selected the factors. They keep juggling inorder to form a balance in life, but there would be some ethics based on which we select the path. To frame the ethics, both material and immaterial ones, is of utmost importance rather than selecting the path or goals. Don’t you think so?

For example, everyone loves their family and their self. They are one of the top priorities along with money. Being selfish is humane, but it need not be purely opposite of selfless.

I don’t deny the definitions, and the established rules of life, they may have some experience – biased reasoning which is high above our understanding. But until we are able to interpret the course of life fully enough to understand its depth, we do can, rather we do alter its basic definitions. That’s just a phase of life when we question and find their answers. The phase when we start framing the ethics. Does that mean, we need to get all the answers to our questions to frame our ethics and thereby select the path to live? Need not be, and I am sure we won’t be getting the answers, we do get, but unsatisfactory. Its just that this is the phase we need to mould more, to create a more happy life. But then why no books available pertaining to this point?
Or is it that I missed some of them?

Fast track…

It was over 7.45pm. The last bus to my home will start within 15 minutes. I swiftly closed all windows, logged off my machine, and closed my drawer. Taking the bag onto my shoulder, I moved out of my desk, walking towards the corridor swiping out my id card. At the corridor, he joined me, with a blank face. He too maybe going home, in his bike.

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11 months ago:

It was over 5.30pm. The first bus was at 6.30pm. The new mail notification was smiling at me at the system tray. It was the mail from him.
Hello, when leaving?
“Not decided. What about you?”
Not much work today. I may leave by 6.30
“Hmm..Ok, catch a seat for me too”.. “if possible..”
If possible huh??? I will think about it..
“Keep thinking.. But inform me before the bus goes.. 😛 , I wonder what is there to think!!”
Like whether I need to bear your chitchat whole while in bus n all…
“..What!!…”
..hehe…
“……”
“…”

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Book Review – Tuesdays with Morrie!!!

I just finished “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Alboom. The book is all about conversations between a student and a Coach, who is about to succumb to ALS disease. You can find instant similarity with the student, Mitch, if you are questioning the meaning of life. They talk about death, money, love, marriage, aging, emotions, family and friends, forgiveness and their essence in our lives. The Coach, Morrie Shwartz, is a teacher in sociology, and his interpretations of human relations and needs is very much true. It also talks abstractly about souls and life after death, and speaks along the borders of life and death.

Every human being is in search of love, and craves for attention. People are different, and hence all need not accept it publicly, the universal truth. We keep expecting more, and end up immersed in material needs like money, things, places, houses, cars, etc. As Morrie says, there is a clear line of distinction in what we need and what we want. But only when we realize that its our last day, we get to the essentials. Relationships and love only survive till our end. His famous aphorism was “Love each other or perish“. True indeed, thats the only one which can give you internal satisfaction, rather than the immaterial ones, which have an expiry date. “Death kills life, not the relationships“.

This book has similarities in ideas referenced by other books like “The Present” or the “LOA”(law of attraction). There are good days and bad days, and there would be times, when we cannot live our life fully as we expected. But we just need to live through the emotion, to experience it fully, and then move on to experience other emotions of life. Its easy to move on, once you grasped the idea of forgiveness. But how many of us do that in our day-to-day life? Maybe thats where people become unique. Every one has their own way of living life and thinking ways.

I would rate the book an 8.5/10 for its excellent message and impact on me. The marks lost in the descriptions of ALS disease, which lefts the strong realization of life in us, that everything is impermanent. But nevertheless, this book has brightened my mood, and I am sure, it can affect you too.

Happy reading.

The last leaf

Its raining heavily in Chennai. And that too in summer. Totally unexpected. But I guess, in life, the only thing that should be expected is the unexpected. Thats the only thing that sustains. Seasons do change. But how and when, is unpredictable. Does Man knows about these?? Do they care about the climate? Whether it rains or not? Whether its sunny or not??? They just complain. “Oh its so hot”. “What a stupid rain”. “What a gloomy day” blah blah… But after all, they are not at fault. When someone says, “its so hot”, its crazy to say “hey no, its sunny but its a beautiful day”. Strange!

Is it so hard to be different?? People say those are some hard core facts of life which we need to accept and move on. True indeed, there are some situations which is out of our control, but chasing our dreams is always in our hand. The dreams need to be flexible indeed as per the situations, and in some cases, its upto us, to find out the fulfillment of our dreams in what is happening around us.

The leaves have worn off now due to the climate change. And what is left are the dropped off leaves and their memories. Some people are busy cleaning up the dry leaves and clearing the mess. But then what will be left out? Isn’t life beautiful with the dry leaves filled on the ground, with some few leaves left on the rusted tree??? Isn’t the last leaf always beautiful???

A to Z Tag!!

Experiencing writer’s block. When people have nothing to write about, some gain knowledge, and some others enjoys doing time pass. I am doing the latter now, by taking along a tag!
Read about this here and here.

A -Available? Yup. But always as a friend. 😉
B-Best friend: One or Two.. All are busy these days.. 🙁
C-Cake or Pie? Cake. Had an apple pie once. I don’t want to lose its taste. 😛
D-Drink of choice: Coffee. Usual ones are tea, water n all. I dont mind squash juice too, and flavours should be the usual ones, like pineapple, mango etc.
E-Essential thing used everyday: Ehem… 😀 Pass
F-Favourite colour: Blue. Sometimes I do like green or pink or black, depending on the mood.
G-Gummi bears or worms: What are those????
H-Hometown: Trivandrum, Kerala
I-Indulgence: blogging, reading blog posts, or chatting with friends
J-January or February: Both. Memories cannot be confined for one month!
K-Kids and names: Not yet!!
L-Life is incomplete without: friends, love and trust!!
M-Marriage date: May 25, 2008( It will be!)
N-Number of siblings: 1, Elder sister, married.
O-Oranges or apples: Again both, but mostly i prefer sweet oranges!
P-Phobias: So many. Heights, Darkness, Deep water etc etc
Q-Quote:Do onto others as you want them to do onto you” and “Everything will be OK at the end. If its not, its not the end
R-Reason to smile: Amma. I am sure, she would be happy if I am smiling.
S-Season: Spring
T-Tag three people: Ashwin, Deep, and whoever wants to take the tag!
U-Unknown fact about me: Find for yourself!! 😛
V-Vegetable you do not like: So many again!! Bitter guard and brinjal to name two.
W-Worst habit: Gets fooled or dependant easily.
X-x-rays you have had: Dental! Don’t remember any other as of now.
Y-Your favorite food: Pizza, sandwiches, red-colored rice
Z-Zodiac: Libra