My Experience in SaReGaMaPa Forum - Page 47

Originally posted by: manjujain

Good ones Vinnie!!!

thanx manju di

CHOICES

"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows."

We all make CHOICES everyday.

We react and assert ourselves to everything that occurs to us....we then in turn, through our ACTIONS, express to the world WHO WE ARE, and WHAT WE WANT TO BE. It's kind of strange really, but in the short term many of us tend to focus on the NEGATIVE things that happen to us, but as we look back we start to understand why things happen the way they do.

It's important to LOOK UPON PROBLEMS AND MISTAKES AS A LEARNING PROCESS, SO WE CAN GROW AND TRY NOT TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE! Every one of us in one way or another is accountable for our actions... what you say, and what you do to others does have a cause and effect. Each one of us has not only the power to affect our own lives, but also the lives of others. We may not think it, but we do.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if each time somebody did something nice or kind to us we would automatically turn and do an act of kindness to another? Yes I know in this day and age in some corners kindness and consideration are looked upon as weakness....when in reality they are STRENGTH.

It's very easy to become enraged and inflict hurtful words and acts upon people. In these cases there is no need for CONTROL or RULES of life to acknowledge.

KINDNESS and LOVE, on the other hand, on a continuous basis, are much harder to accomplish because they involve a lot of THOUGHT and an overcoming of RAGE and uncontrollable ANGER.

Being kind to someone else has an interesting BENEFIT. It not only makes the other person feel good, but leaves a warm feeling in your own heart. It gives you a sense that YOUR LIFE MATTERS ... you have the ABILITY through your ACTIONS and THOUGHTS to help others...isn't that a wonderful thing?

I think all of us are in some strange way "ATHLETES OF THE HEART"....we are all relay runners. We start the race and somewhere along the line we have to pass the baton on to the next runner, and hope that they run their leg of the race as well or better than we ran ours. Why is this important?

Because the human race can only win if we perform well as a WHOLE. We are NOT SEPARATED here...we are all INTER-CONNECTED ....so an act of kindness to someone else, also benefits you and me. I believe God put each one of us here to find out WHO WE ARE and LEARN HOW TO LOVE OTHERS. If all we do is allow the ego to rule, we fail. BROTHERHOOD and SISTERHOOD are very important words. It's up to every one of us to let them live in our hearts.

NO ACT OF KINDNESS IS TOO SMALL. The next time somebody smiles or says hello don't be afraid to smile back. Lord knows, THIS WORLD NEEDS MORE SMILING FACES!

Take the time to love!

~Jennifer Avalon~

Originally posted by: charades

Optimist Creed

Promise yourself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet

To make all your friends fell that there is something in them

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expecet only the best

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future

To wear a sheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of the trouble.

too good VJ👏👏

Arre wah vijay bahu hee badhiya hai.
Vinnie really good one, Thanks for sharing.
Yeh sab padhkar man ko acha lagata hai. GG ji & Pari shared good ones too we do need to remind all these things all the time to live our life happily & keep ouselves on right track.

Originally posted by: charades

Thanks Vinnie & Manju ji..
actually I need to work on atleast couple of those for sure... 😆

U r already good at it VJ😊

Originally posted by: Dawn05

Thanks Vinnie for sharing great thoughts

thanx dawn and the credit goes to the authors😊

Originally posted by: charades

Thanks Vinnie and Dawn for your help in bringing out some good qualities in me 😆 😆

thats called being modest and giving credit to others😆

Gossip

A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbor. Within a few days the whole community knew the story. The person it concerned was deeply hurt and offended.

Later the woman responsible for spreading the rumor learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise old sage to find out what she could do to repair the damage.

"Go to the marketplace," he said, "and purchase a chicken, and have it killed. Then on your way home, pluck its feathers and drop them one by one along the road."

Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.

The next day the wise man said, "Now go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me."

The woman followed the same road, but to her dismay, the wind had blown the feathers all away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.

"You see," said the old sage, "it's easy to drop them, but it's impossible to get them back.

So it is with gossip. It doesn't take much to spread a rumor, but once you do, you can never completely undo the wrong."

So be very careful what we say!!!

NAIL IN THE FENCE

Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

he first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.

He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all.

He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.

When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there." A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us.

Please forgive me if I have ever left a hole in your fence.

Manju di both stories are great but liked second one better