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LESSONS FROM 2020

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Hello folks, congratulations on surviving this year! I am so grateful to write this blog and share my knowledge with you. I wish, as we proceed you will realise that this year was not a waste and also, it came with lots of hidden lessons. I believe that nothing wrong happens without a purpose and everything that happens, happens for a reason.

We know how unfortunate this year was; not only for me and you but for the whole damn world! We have seen, heard and experienced everything bad this year, but what about the good? Let not the merits of this year go unnoticed. Focusing on the good is equally important because bad is always visible but goodness remains hidden; we have to search for it. So, let me help you with the same.

Here are some of the lessons which 2020 taught us secretly:

1. Life is unpredictable

No matter how hard you try to plan or foresee your future, life will surprise you eventually. None of us was aware of a year full of bad news, were we? We planned our new year so well while 2019 was ending but did we plan how to survive a lockdown? No, because we didn’t even see it coming. Planning your future is good but you should also have a plan for all those unplanned moments that might hit you.

2. Value your life and live it to the fullest.

This year took many lives and you are alive, Thank God. Lately, you should have realised that life is to be taken seriously. Don’t wait for a perfect time to fulfil your dreams and wishes because the perfect time will always be right now. Every day you wake up, be grateful for being alive and being able to breathe while so many others are on a ventilator.

3. Value your family

We all know that wherever we go and with whomever we linger, we always end up at our home, with our family. This pandemic and this year taught us to stay close to our family and enjoy our family-life more than our social or work-life. Spending time with one’s family is one of the best things you could seek from life. It is preferable to value your relationships now than to regret later.

4. Adapt to changes

You do not know what might change in your life or in this world, today or tomorrow or sometime later. Nothing lasts forever and that’s proven. So you need to learn to adapt to changes and get out of your comfort zone. You are not going to walk on a straight road all through your life, you will have to walk on platforms that are sloppy and slippery, and that’s how you reach your destiny. The world moves on and you will have to learn to change with every ticker of the clock.

5. Be grateful

You got something without asking, be grateful; you got something after demanding, be grateful. At least you have got something! There are so many people in the world who don’t have this ‘something’ and are still happy and content. The more grateful you are, the more reasons you get for being grateful.

6. Learn new things

As I mentioned earlier, life is not predictable. No one knows which of your learning will come to help in your difficult time. Never settle with what you know because your knowledge of surfing above the waves won’t help you rescue a man drowning in a well. It is perfectly said that “Live as if you are going to die tomorrow and learn as if you are going to live forever”. The day you stop learning, is the day you stop growing, remember that.

7. Rest is necessary to find out what you actually want

The days of quarantine helped so many of us find our true interests. People, who kept on running after a good job, good salary, good career and good everything, came on a halt for a few months and realised that they were not meant for what they were doing. Your true passion, your true purpose comes clear to you when you pause for a while. Maybe you will find a new hobby or a better career option or another interesting job or maybe you will have some time to go through your childhood bucket list and maybe you will find a new dream to work on!

8. Never take things for granted.

Never! Whatever you have, everything that completes your life, should not be taken for granted; your health, your relationships, your talent, your body, your mind, your wealth or any other materialistic/non-materialistic things. It is seen that whenever you take something for granted, you forget its value and the moment you forget its value, you no longer work in a way to keep that thing in your life and if you don’t work to keep it, you lose it and then you blame the universe for snatching away things from you! Value everything that you have and be grateful for them.

9. Expect the unexpected

Did you expect that a not-so-small virus will rule the world in 2020? No one did! We all expect our days to go like a boat on smooth water and never expect high tides. If you are on a journey in The Titanic, you can’t ignore the iceberg! Many people come and tell you that you should not expect anything from life but as humans, we are not going to stop expecting any sooner; better we start expecting the unexpected.

These are a small portion of life-lessons which these 366 days taught us. I wish we never forget the positivity that came with this year and remember all these lessons, because the more we learn, the better we become!

With this, I conclude my blog and wish you a fabulous year ahead. I pray that your 2021 goes better than 2020 and you learn more lessons this year. Kindly give a thumbs up to this blog if you liked reading it and do comment down your views in the comment section below. Please follow my Instagram handle and support my work.

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Your Health Versus Everything Else

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‘It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.’ –Mahatma Gandhi

I am writing this blog because I want you to reconsider your routine and change your lifestyle for your betterment. Hope, after reading this you shall rethink your priorities and improvise some aspects of your unhealthy life. I wish this blog brings your mind to the importance of a healthy body and a healthy mind.

From ancient times health is given a lot of attention but with time, we humans started to misunderstand the word and misunderstood it ‘wealth’. So as a result, most of us are giving a lot of attention on how to lead a wealthy life! Basically, it is meant to be like this – ‘Be healthy and grow rich’ but what this era thinks is – ‘Be rich, pay huge bills and buy good health’. Hospitals are more crowded than gyms and yoga centres, restaurants are getting populated while the fruit/vegetable vendor observes fewer customers and ‘how to become rich’ is scrutinized more than ‘how to remain healthy’. No! I am not saying that it is not important to get prosperous, it is. I, too feel that wealth is a part of successful life and its importance is showcased by many great leaders but the point is – it should not come prior to your health. You know even the dictionary has ‘health’ before ‘success’ and ‘wealth’.

Personal well-being should be a necessity and not a choice. Researchers say that without you being healthy, you cannot attract wealth, love, happiness, liveliness, friends and calmness. When you feel weak and tired all the time, you have no time to live the above attractions fully and properly. You gradually lose interest and fall into the pit of boredom. A weak body shows a weak mind and a weak mind shows a weak soul; no one prefers that, not even you!

The World Health Organisation once stated that ‘Better health is central to human happiness and well-being. It also makes an important contribution to economic progress, as healthy populations live longer, are more productive, and save more. Many factors influence health status and a country’s ability to provide quality health services for its people.’

Now, I would like to elaborate on this blog by trying to guide you more into the details and for that, I will be framing my thoughts with references to many official pieces of research made into the topic by various health institutes and professionals.

According to the sources, health is the measure of your energy, you utilize during a particular period. The healthier you get, the more energy comes your way and you get things done faster. In a span of the same 24 hours, you can get more things done then many lethargic people. So indirectly, the secret of successful people is not talent nor do they have more hours a day. They have a high level of energy (not by drinking Red Bull, but because of their practice and mastery of a healthy lifestyle!), unlike the people who lie in mediocrity.

Now just imagine, you are eager to participate in any life event and you fall sick suddenly and you start blaming your fate and luck. But it might not be a fate-based-illness, sometimes it might be the reflection of your unhealthy regime. An improper balanced diet, lack of exercise routine, lack of good sleep, lack of hygiene and so many other factors affect your health adversely. The virus-based diseases are a different aspect and it can be a result of your carelessness, but not always.

To preserve our good health, the following measures should be taken:

Follow a proper balanced diet. (Eat to live, not live to eat)
Exercise regularly.
Keep a track of optimism in your life
Surround yourself with a hygiene environment.
Try to live a stress-free and peaceful life.
Follow a proper sleep schedule.
Drink a lot of water.

Eventually, good health will lead you to

Better human-relations
Focused mind
Less risk of diseases and sickness
Improves metabolism
Fills you with extra energy
A happy life

Your body and mind are not trash cans. You are not allowed to put junk into it and then demand for a cleaner outcome. If you fill junk, you will be getting junk results; this is the truth. A healthy body, as well as a healthy mind, is the first pace to a better life. There are thousands of people talking about the importance of health but only some of us pay heed to it.

Okay so fundamentally, the word ‘health’ is related to many different areas but we shall talk about the main four of them:-

1) Physical Health – relates to the fitness and activeness of your body

2) Mental Health– relates to your psychological and mental well being

3) Emotional Health – relates to the control you have on your feelings.

4) Social Health – your ability to form healthy relations with other people in society.

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With this, I conclude this blog and wish that you have a healthy and happy life ahead. Hope this blog made you think twice about your current health decisions. Remember, it would not be “too late” until you are resting on the death bed.

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I would love to brief you on all the four parts of health in my upcoming blog. Comment below if you are interested to read further. Till then stay safe, stay healthy.

Advice To Teenagers.

It is important to mould a child in his/her early days so that he/she goes on to become a good human and we all know that a good human can make any organization a better place. Be it a family, a country or the whole world, teenagers are the future and when we talk about teens, we should take care about certain things that might ruin not only their teenage but also their future.

I have seen so many teenagers heading towards a wrong direction and when they realize their mistake, it’s already too late. At that time, the parents find themselves helpless while the child blames the parents for an improper upbringing. I want you to get familiar with some of the advices which the teens are requested to follow in order to train their brain for better coming days.

Here are 10 simple advices for all the teenagers out there:

1. Focus on your curricular and extracurricular activities.

This is the time when you are going to build pillars for the rest of your life. Make sure you build a strong one or else your life may collapse in coming years. Focus on studies and career; keep yourself busy in studies AS WELL AS extracurricular activities. Play more, dance more, and enjoy more (of course not by sacrificing your studies!).

2. Your parents are NOT your enemies.

Listen to them because they have experienced life more than you and your friends. They might seem rude and grumpy but at the end, they are your parents and they will never allow anything wrong to hit you. Share every single detail of your life with them and make them your best friends.

3. Your friends are humans and not God.

They will not be right, always. Do not follow them blindly. Listen to them but do what YOU feel is right. Introduce each of your friends to your family. Let your family know with whom you are spending your precious time.

4. This is not the age to run after “love”.

This is the phase where you will be attracted to every passing boy/girl. But, do not confuse it with true love and destroy your innocence.

5. You are NOT an adult and so, DO NOT behave like one.

Everything in life comes in stages. Your teens will be replaced by youth and then adulthood. You are supposed to enjoy where you are and act accordingly. No need to indulge in adult talks, youth-discussions and gossips. Let the time handle your maturity; do not spoil your days of innocence.

6. You are the best in your way!

Do not get carried away with the false belief of “looking perfect all the time”. Never compare your looks with celebrities, relatives, friends or anyone. You are perfect, just remember that. No one in the world looks same, someone is tall but thin, someone is fat but beautiful, someone is dark but smart, and someone is short but perfectly fit.

7. Good books will take you miles.

Read more books instead of watching movies. Reading books has its own, tons of advantages and you will know all of them only if you start reading. Make it a hobby. You can start reading books at any age, but the earlier you start, the better it shapes you.

8. There is a difference between reel and real.

Please do not consider reel life heros as actual heros. Idolize real life heros, who have achieved something in real life! Reel life heros take help of stunt-mans to perform stunts, real life heros do it independently; note the difference.

9. Avoid usage of mobile phones and social media.

They both are ruining the mind of teenagers and are playing an important role in making them mature-than-age. There is a reason why social medias are to be used by people who are more than 18 years of age. Even the government allows to vote only after 18! So, hold on to your curiosity for some years and avoid things having the “18+” tag. There is a reason behind it, do not question all these!

10. You are at a very awesome phase of life, live it fully.

Trust me, adulting is not so preferable; adults wish to return to their teen years if only they could! So, remember everything has a time and if you disrespect the rule of universe, life will disrespect you, sooner or later.

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We all are either done with our teens or are currently in it or are yet to enter this phase. No matter at whatever phase we are, we can always guide the misguided and provide better human resources for next generation.

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MENTAL HEALTH – YOUR TOPMOST PRIORITY!

Hellloooo my lovely readers, how are you? I assume that you are somewhere in between ‘great’ and ‘okay’. Now, you will ask me “But Krisha, what if I am NOT okay and what if I am feeling mentally sick? Why is everyone expected to be great and okay all the time?”

So, my dearest reader, it is completely fine if you do not fulfil society’s expectations. You can face mental problems and you are not “mad” if you are depressed. You do not need to visit a mental hospital if you are feeling low. You absolutely do not need to shy away or hide your current mental health.

With the education and awareness in today’s time, we all have become more conscious of the mental health problems and we are educated enough to talk about it. But still, we need to pay attention and talk more; not only talk but act and help people with weaker psychological health.

‘Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.’ -Diane Abbott

In my last blog, we talked about the importance of our overall well-being and I promised to bring upon a detailed blog, expressing precisely, the necessity of different types of health.

To start with, Mental Health depicts the degree of your psychological prosperity; how satisfied, happy and lively you are, mentally. Physical fitness is NOT the measurement of how mentally fit you are; you can be depressed but possess a muscular body, you can be joyful but might have crossed the line of obesity! To equalize physical fitness with psychological fitness is pure foolishness.

The culture has given birth to a stereotype – You are tagged as a ‘psycho’ if you suffer from any psychological disorder! But, that is not true. Just like some people suffer from any physical illness, some people suffer from mental illness. This thing is as normal as any person having a viral fever. When you will get yourself educated on this matter, you will be able to save a life, I bet!

Just like cold and cough, mental health can deteriorate for some days and just like cancer, weak mental health can harm you for a longer time and sometimes, can end your life also. Stress, tension, anxiety, etcetera are the conditions where you stay a victim to it for a shorter time. The examples of stress can vary from person to person and this condition can improve with time, as life goes on. But, depression is an acute disease. When stress, tension and anxiety worsen with time, it leads to depression and this needs medical attention; and to have a psychologist look after you is OKAY! You are not mad if you have a doctor treating you for mental illness; IT IS NORMAL, just like other diseases. (Depression is a wide topic which we cannot discuss in a few words. It needs attention and a proper, time-taking conversation. I wish to have a completely different blog written on this, anytime in the coming future.)

Does a mentally disturbed person show symptoms? Yes!

What are those? Let us find out!

Delusion sticks with him/her and he/she often hears or sees something which is not part of the real world, but his/her imagination.
Low energy and hopelessness lingers with him/her, wherever he/she goes.
His/her everyday activities occur weird to us.
Wants to harm oneself or others.
Experiences high mood-swings.
Laziness befriends him/her and he finds it challenging to complete his routine tasks.
Avoids people around him/her.
Stays confused and negative, 90% of the time.
Gets addicted to drugs. (in some cases)

If you face one of these, it does not mean you are mentally sick. But, if you possess many of these, you quickly need to get on your toes. If you ever sense these in any person, talk with them WITHOUT JUDGING. Give them love, care, time and make sure they feel better.

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Research shows that the rates of suicides are increasing minute by minute. People are getting to a height of mental sickness that only killing oneself seems easier to them than living. Imagine the mental pain he/she might be going through that the being is left with no other way than ending his life! It is impossible to imagine unless you are in his place. But, what in life is better than saving someone’s life and becoming their angel? (In case you need more help, please visit https://lbb.in/delhi/suicide-helplines-india/ or contact 91-9152987821 (official number of http://icallhelpline.org/).

All these illnesses are treatable, either with or without medical guidance. Many times the victims are not as much mentally stable as to treat oneself, all alone. They need support, which can be provided by his/her near ones. Whenever we sense a behavioural change in our closed ones, offer help and not taunts; offer support and not insults.

Every problem in the world comes with dozens of solutions. We just need the correct eye to look for it. We can either prevent the problem or cure it. Yes! Even the mental sickness. How? Let us see…

Practising meditation and mindfulness.
Encouraging proper sleep and a balanced diet.
Receiving therapies like exposure therapy, dialectical-behaviour therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy. You would strictly need a psychiatrist, psychologist or any expert therapist for the same.
Medications are another option, though it can’t cure you completely but can definitely make you feel better by lessening the symptoms.
Keep yourself away from high alcohol intake and negative network. This can help reduce your stress by 50%!
Find ways to love yourself and your life.

Life needs to be balanced. Bright days are replaced by dark nights and so on. We can be jubilant at one point and stressed at another. Just as happiness seems normal, sadness is normal, too! Normal are the good days and normal are the bad days! As soon as we start looking mental illness as a part of life, we will start possessing a broader mindset for the same.

With this, I conclude my blog and wish you a bright life ahead. Remember, you are not alone! The universe is with you and wishing good for you at every step. Work on your mental as well as your overall health; life is very short to be unhealthy. I mentioned in my last blog and am repeating that – A healthy body, as well as a healthy mind, is the first pace to a better life and it’s not “too late” until you are resting on death bed.

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Second Face of Coronavirus

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My greetings and goodwill to all my lovely readers. I hope you and your dear ones are safe during this time of crisis. Hope, you are reading this blog while “sitting at your home”. #STAYHOMESTAYSAFE.

I and so many of us have been sitting at our home since so many days. None of us had ever imagined that even something like this could happen. But, it did! We all wanted a vacation but none of us wanted a vacation like this, right? But this is what it is. You, I and billions of them are in the same situation dealing with the same thing.

Okay, leave that. Let us not get into the first face of this disease, the negative one. I am here to talk about the second face, the good face, the positive one. So to begin with, tell me the last time when you sat with your family for so long? When was the last time you felt the value of friends and relatives? Tell me when did you miss someone so badly, the last time? Tell me the time when you begged and prayed for the world or felt a deep sympathy for it? Lastly, tell me when was the last time when you DID NOT take life for granted?

You know what? Corona might be dangerous but, more dangerous are we, the humans! Don’t believe me? Then please go and Google the current images of air pollution taken from satellites and compare it with previous year. Go and find a clear and clean image of your city before COVID-19 happened. Surf through the images of nature and cities people are sharing during this lock down and see that they never seemed so beautiful and fresh ever before. This shall give answers to ‘how dangerous humans can be?’

After you finish that come and think for this another thing.

Talking about your family time. I have been spending a good quality time with my family which I think; I last spent when I was a kid. I have come to know how much the woman of the house has to work all day. I now come to know the value of loved ones and the importance of time spent with them. All these years most of us have prioritized one’s friends and have always taken out time to go and hang out with them. Did we ever think to do it with our family?

All thanks to this new virus which has brought us closer to our families. I just felt that you can get bad vibes with friends, you can sometimes feel unloved and bored with your friends, you can feel left out, insecure, ignored, insulted. But, you can never experience these negativity with you family. You will always feel supported, loved and motivated. So now you know, ‘Family over friends’.

We always take every relationship for granted, but now we realise its value, we realise that our life is incomplete without some good people. Those people are like an oasis in our deserted life. Do not know about you, but I have never missed anyone so badly. I have, in effect started valuing my relationships.

Now to talk about the next point, this is truly a good time to detox your body and increase your metabolism. The restaurants which have fed your small tummy with big junks are on a break now; and before your cravings get an adrenaline rush, follow a good diet and exercise often. Freshly home cooked food, green veggies, peaceful time eating all your three meals with your family, talking about life. So amazing!

Now tell me, isn’t this a good break for you? You can complete your half-written-then-kept-aside story. You can start making a world-builder day routine which you failed to do till now. It is your time, man. Stay with yourself. Think what your inner self wants; it’s a good time for self discovery. Plan your next months. Feel interested and enthused, not bored and lame. Love and support everyone not only when required, but also when everything is fine.

This virus has taught us to protect our nature, our relationships, our body and most importantly, our time.

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LOVE YOUR BODY (because if you don’t, then who will?)

Hey, you are looking nice today! Hope you have a good time reading this, as well. Actually, I had a chat with your mirror and I got disappointed by what it said. It said that you are not completely happy and satisfied with your body. There is something disappointing you regardless of your good looks.

Let me guess; is it…….your weight? Or, your skin tone or your height? Or the way your body shape is? Or the way your hair is? Your smile is not good or your teeth are less white? Your nose? Oh, is it your fat belly? You are not photogenic? Your fingers are awkward-looking? Your forehead is too big? You have cross eyes or big ears? A short neck, small torso, large feet? Or maybe something I can’t guess…?

Okay, whatever it may be I do not care, neither should you. YOU ARE PERFECT. Your round, non-curvy body is amazing. Your short height, long nose is cute. Your dark skin tone and curly hair are gorgeous. Your complete body is just so different but unique. It is your identity. It is you.

You ought to love those scars and embrace those wounds. The only way to be flawless is to accept all your flaws. You cannot be another Tom Cruise or Beyoncé but, you can be the first YOU.

So, now you would be thinking what if people tease you for that deformity. What if they make fun of you?

They will. We cannot stop them or change the way they look at us. We cannot go and tell everyone to stop and stare at their own flaws and not our’s. We cannot shut everyone up. You can just laugh with them, on yourself! Laugh because you are different, laugh because they are blind to the best things in you, laugh because they are immature, laugh at them because they don’t know how beautiful you are and their words are not letting your confidence go low!

Not a single cuisine tastes same. Likewise, no human being appears same, maybe from face but never from the body. I believe there is nothing like good looks or bad looks, it is the just that “beauty lies in the eyes of beholder.” You have a good face; the other might have a good height. You have a good figure; the other might have a good smile. You will not look bad with those flaws unless YOU choose to. Love your body. Love the way it is. Let people know how comfortable you are in your body. Carry yourself with grace and poise no matter how your body is. I bet you will shine nevertheless.

Dear mirror,

I will come to you when someone annoys me for my looks.

Please show me the truth, show me my imperfections.

We will cherish and accept them together.

When I cry in front of you,

Show me how blessed I am to have this pretty body!

If I come to you and complain,

Show me that I am luckier than so many.

And if I come in front of you and smile,

Let me do that till I am satisfied.

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HAPPY NEW DECADE!

So excited to step into fresh New Year, isn’t it? As we all believe that New Year brings new hope, new opportunity, new possibilities and new everything. As we dump the old calendar, we dump our old selves too! So excitedly we pen down our resolutions (which we fail to follow many times!) and open our hands to embrace the new freshness.

This 2020, it is more exciting as we stepped into a whole new decade also. Wow! We have come a long way in life. I feel so old, don’t you? Just a year ago, we entered a then new year with the same feeling. But with weeks, that freshness faded away. We skipped so many resolutions; we stopped being excited and let the time itself do whatever it wants, with us.

We, without visiting any amusement park, experienced the thrill of sitting in a roller coaster ride. Up, down, up, down, up….. a moment you were the happiest, the other moment you were the dullest. You failed first, you cried, you didn’t give up, you did again and you succeeded. Yayy, Congratulations! You survived 2019.

But, now it is time to live and not just survive. Live this year, live this decade. At the end of the year, you should not be ranting about it. The time is not going to mould you. The year doesn’t have plans for you. If anything you want doesn’t happen, you make it happen!

All the incomplete, piled up, in-waiting resolutions, goals, dreams, promises or whatever, fulfil them this year. Make a step nearer to you dream and don’t wait for 2020 to do it for you. Take a move, a jump or a leap. Improve your mental and physical health, sharpen your skills, make room for more knowledge, be a version 2020 of yourself.

Let this year be the best till now. What all you thought was impossible, make it happen. What all you wish, make it happen.

~~Have~~ “Make” a happy new year and also the happiest new decade!

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Failure is a stepping stone to success.

How many of you out there feel that failing means failure? How many of you feel that failing means the end of your life?

If you are one of them, then let me tell you that you are completely wrong! You are so wrong that nothing in this world can prove you right. Because, failure is a part of success and the beginning of growth. It is not the end.

You failed or are you afraid of failure? Ok, you don’t want to take risks or you take it and think what if you fail? Then, listen sweetheart, it’s ok to fall, to get hurt and to cry. But it’s not okay to try getting higher. Failures come and go, successes come and go, what remains is your attitude that you won’t stop by the problems you will face.

Failure comes to those who are determined to succeed so that they can know the value of success later on. Failure comes to those who are ready to fight no matter what. It comes to those who are willing to stand up every time they hit the ground.

Let me brief you with two examples.

1. After only 7 and half months, Oprah Winfrey was fired from her job co-anchoring the 6pm news at Baltimore’s WJZ. Something about not being the right fit.

About another news job Oprah said:
“I once went back … after covering a family that had been burned out and brought them some of my blankets and stuff. And the assistant news director … told me … that if I did that again and they found out about it, I could be fired, because I was involving myself in other people’s stories. Which is true, you’re there to cover the story, not get involved in it…”

Oprah became a media billionaire, hosted the highest ranked TV show of its kind in history, and is an incredible philanthropist – getting involved in other people’s stories to help them.

2. Speaking at Harvard’s graduation, J.K. Rowling spoke about failures:
“You might never fail on the scale I did,” Rowling told the new graduates. “But it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”

When Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book, she was divorced, bankrupt and on welfare.

After a dozen publishers rejected her manuscript one finally agreed to publish it. But the publisher told Rowling that she needed to get a job because there’s no money in children’s books.

She’s now a billionaire.

See? What is common between Oprah Winfrey and J.K. Rowling?

Geniuses got the answer, FAILURE. Yes! It is failure which made them successful. When failure knocks your door, calmly invite it and serve it with tea and cookies, embrace it with all your love and tell it that it may do whatever it wants but, you are not going to give up.

You will do anything or everything, you will swim while breathing or without taking breathes, and you will swim with either hands or legs or both, swim slow or fast or just find a log to hang on or a dolphin to ride on. But, simply you won’t give up!

You will use the pain as your strength and the stones thrown at you to build a castle. You need to transform your fear into faith, scars into strength, weaknesses into wilderness, hurdles into hope, failure into fire and your success will shine brighter than the sun!

Finally, I would like to add a poem as closure:

As I opened the door to my dreams,

I saw thorns and burning coals,

Problems and hurdles up to the rim,

In the between lay many black holes,

But at the end rested a hopeful beam,

Shining with success was my soul!

~Krisha Mehta

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IT’S ALL OKAY!

There are times when I feel satisfied, but the society demands more from me. There are times when I am okay but the public does not want me to be contended.

I ask, why? Why people want us to be perfect when they, themselves are not? Why do they want us to be an all-rounder in a field where all the players are just good in one thing?

But then, I feel, everything is fine if I want it to be.

It is okay to be a fatso, it is okay to be short heighted, and it’s okay to follow any religion or adopt any culture. It is okay to be a black lover or a white. It’s okay to be a foodie, it is okay to love anyone, it’s okay to dream, to lie, to disagree, to smile, to be shy, to cry and laugh and shout. It’s definitely okay to stand up for yourself. It is okay to switch careers; it is okay to choose your passion over your profession. It is okay to fight for what you want, it is okay to hate, to judge, to dislike. It’s all okay to be alone and cry the whole night. It’s okay to love yourself and be selfish. It’s okay to put yourself first. EVERYTHING YOU THINK IS MAKING YOU HAPPY, IS OKAY!

Oh c’mon! It’s okay to do everything YOU want; man it is your life. Please do not waste it on the thoughts of people who won’t even buy flowers for your funeral.

Yes that’s difficult, yes that’s tedious, and yes that will vacuum out all your confidence and trouble you for a long time. But, it’s all worth it. Your faith, your belief, your strength, your decisions will be all worth it. It’s just today which will make a better tomorrow.

People speak, because they have mouths. You act because you have brains! Follow your heart and not your neighbour’s tongue, please. No one is superior to you; no one is inferior to you. It’s just you versus the person in the mirror. Because at the end, there will be only the self which might feel satisfied, happy, fulfilled, sad, guilty or bad. You can forgive others for that bad decision but you won’t be able to forgive yourself for that.

My First Blog Post

DREAMS

This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

To start writing and get noticed, was my dream. To open a blog and an Instagram page was my dream. And besides that, I have so many more dreams to fulfil. I have always been following one motto throughout – Dream. Believe. Achieve.

So, I start my blog with the thing which makes me live, the thing which makes me have faith in the journey of life, the thing which keeps me going even in hard times – DREAMS.

Many of us sleep, dream, wake-up and forget what we dreamt of. But, there are more than many of us who wake-up, dream, go for it and never forget what we dream of. The universe prefers the latter kind of people. I strongly agree with Dr. Kalam’s words, “Dreams are not that which you see while sleeping, they are something that does not let you sleep.” Such a mighty sentence, isn’t it?

When you think life is going nowhere and feel like giving up on something then, just remember that your breaths are still normal because of a reason. You are alive for a reason. You overcame so many of drawbacks and are still brave to breath, for a reason.

And you just need to find out that “reason”. Once you find it out, you will never stop moving forward, I bet.

Dreams are not as discriminatory as the humans. They embrace anyone, with any complexion, with anybody structure, with any age or with any gender. Anyone can dream of anything and everything you can think is possible. If man had not dreamt to fly, the aeroplane was not to be invented, if the man had not dreamt to see what governs the Earth, no man would have seen the universe and the galaxies, remember that.

If you have no dreams, you are already a dead body with some physical motions. If you have not planned to achieve something, you are already living a life with no worth left. It does not matter if you have nothing to dream of right now, because you can do that anytime, anywhere and as much as you can! It only matters how fast you start dreaming and chasing it.

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. – Langston Hughes.