Are we contented with our life?

I usually go for a walk in the afternoons, in the office at about 3 pm most of the days. Just to relax from the hectic day at work and go around the buildings with greens on its sides and take a fresh breath, to get back to work and be more productive. And while I walk I use to just think about something which I wanted to and couldn’t get time for me the rest of the day and you know, just to have some time alone. Once in a while you need to have some time alone... it’s true or not, I feel that.

Today also I left and when I opened the building door to go outside, I can see one more lady coming from inside the building, ready to leave home. So I just hold the door for her until she gets out and she said "Thanks!” Guess What? She is physically challenged. Yes! Both her legs are slightly bent and she is trying to manage her walking with out a stick and she is doing pretty well. She cannot walk like how we do but she was doing great. I kind of got pitied her. To my surprise, she was walking in the same path I take to go for a walk and her parking lot was some where around that area. She was going in front of me and when I was just putting my head and down and walking , suddenly I heard a "thud" sound, when I looked up, there she is ... she fell down right in front of me. I was shocked and ran to help her lift. She said "that's ok. This is what happens every time.” I asked her "R u Ok?” she said "I am. It’s the problem I have." and started to walk towards her car. I felt bad at heart, I again asked her, "do you need any help?", she said, "I am fine”.

OMG! What is happening with most of us? She has more confidence what we have. Kudos! To her. She takes life as it is. But we try to always get not satisfied with what ever we have. One should think, what do we don’t have? Instead of thinking what should I still need to have me satisfied? Be contented with what ever you have and try the next level. But for the sake of trying the next level, don't loose your today's happiness.

Yesterday is History
Tomorrow is Mystery
Only Today is real.... live it!

God has given us everything for leading a good life, more than anything he has given a good health, which many people don’t have. I really felt bad many times, when people compare them with those who are much more than them and loose their happiness and not comparing them to those who are much less than them and be happy.

What ever you have is the best you can get for this life. It’s like a chain....
If you have a good health, with all the parts of the body, good family, blessed to get 3 meals a day, have clothes to wear and protect you according to climatic changes...... then comes the next level of expectations... good job, good car, good house..... are we satisfied even then... NO. Then comes the next level of comparison and go in search of even better job which will pay you more, nice hike every year, you are ready even to travel long distances and spend 2 hours in the morning and 2 hrs in the evening in just driving and forget to spend time with the kids and the family.

What do you gain at the end? NOTHING except for money. With too much of that no one is going to be happy, neither you not the people around you. So at the end, just for nothing you stressed out a lot at work and spoiled your health in many ways (stress, not eating properly, going late to bed, waking up early without getting a proper 8 hour sleep), loose the good happy days with the kids and your family. Can you see this to be a fake life?

God has given only one life and we have to enjoy it to our best, enjoy each and every day, every minute... we should try to be happy with what we have.

My husband gave me my first valentine gift after our engagement and before our marriage. Guess what? Some ornament? Some dress? Something flashy? No... It was a book, can you believe? The book is "The Present". It was really good, it insists that the present (today) is a present (gift) to you, so make use of it. I realized these only after my marriage and still trying to put everything into action, didn’t achieve it yet.