A Different View - One Burnt Light

On Christmas Eve, my wife and I were reflecting on the year that was nearly ending whilst dining at a restaurant. I started to complain about something that didn’t happen the way I wanted it to.

My wife focused her attention in a Christmas tree that embellished the place. I thought that she wasn’t interested in the conversation, so I changed the subject: “This tree has a beautiful illumination”, I said.

“Yes, but if you look carefully you can see one burnt light among dozens. ”

It seems to me that instead of thinking this year as dozens of enlightened blessings, you chose to look at the one light that did not glow.”

- Author of this story is Paulo Coelho in his blog:  Original Post Link

Wisdom of Day!

It requires courage to Stand-by a decision you know you will regret later,
But it requires far more courage to regret a decision you have Stood-by for long time...

- a thought on one of the sleepless night, just after watching 'd Rockstar'

Cold, Dark and Evil

 

Professor and Students

 

A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"

"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."

The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself,boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question,professor?"

"Of course", replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The other students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. 

 

How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain,the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

 

Story source - Unknown...

(Somewhere from world wide web...)

 

Wisdom of Day!

Love is fragile and we're not always its best caretakers. 

We just muddle through and do the best we can and hope this fragile thing survives against all odds. 

- Steve Miller in The Last Song 

 

આ સુરજ નથી, છે સમયની શિખામણ, ઉગાડી શકું છું, ડુબાડી શકું છું.

સમય જાત માટે ના પામી શકું છું.
ખુલીને હવે ક્યાં વિચારી શકું છું.

પડે એક સળ ને બધું વ્યક્ત કરતો,
એ ચહેરો હવે ક્યાં હું વાચી શકું છું.

આ મારી ખુમારીનો નક્કર પુરાવો,
અરીસામાં ખુદને નિહાળી શકું છું.

અરે! આ પ્રણયમાં છે કેવી સ્થિતિ જ્યાં,
ન પામી શકું છું, ન આપી શકું છું.

આ સુરજ નથી, છે સમયની શિખામણ,
ઉગાડી શકું છું, ડુબાડી શકું છું.

-ભાર્ગવ ઠાકર. (link to blog)

Wisdom of Day!

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end... 

if not always in the way we expect. 

- Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Curiosity of Bus Conductor for Knowledge...

 

I generally go to office in my two-wheeler but nowadays, for some reason I take a bus.  Most of the buses from my place are never empty but today, I was lucky to fine one good place to sit.  I was sitting at my place & as usual reading book I carry along with me, this time it was 'Connect the Dot' by Rashmi Bansal.

Few minutes after, I was surprised to see conductor coming to me and asking me to lift the book so that he can read the cover page of the book, probably interested in the title of the book.  Quite surprising, as in Bangalore I have not come across conductors who prefer English as language, they more resort to Kannada, local language of Karnataka. 

What was going to happen next was the thing which was going to take me to next step of my surprise and probably an important incident to motivate this post.

Conductor gave me a chit and a pen and humbly (they are not so often, this guy was surely different) asked me to write down the name of the book.  Surprised and happy to it, I wrote on chit and gave it to him.  Story doesn't end here... I observe him putting the chit into his personal pocket, giving me a feeling, he is going to get the book or read it somehow.

The passion of this guy to know and gain knowledge, reinstated my belief in phrase 'expect the unexpected', for whatever he is going to do with the chit or the book, he is more curious to going knowledge, which is very important. This guy will very well go down in my memory because this are those little pearls which is generally neglected in one's life.

Perception - Think Twice

Trees from Train Window

A 24 year boy seeing out from the train window, shouted,
"Dad, look the trees are going behind!". Dad smiled and a young couple... sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old`s childish behavior with pity.

 

Clouds running with Train

 

Suddenly he again exclaimed "Dad, look the clouds are running with us!" The couple couldn't resist and said to the old man, "why dont
you take ur son 2 a good doctor?"

 

Old man smiled and said "I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his EYES today".

This is probably the most apt example of why one should see the different views of the happening around ourselves.  Always remember before making perception, think twice.

(- somewhere from world wide web)