On Light Houses

Lighthouses don't run around and give light ! They just stand and deliver ! 

What pleasure to stand on the shores of Life's Ocean and watch the passing people like ships floating along and offering the Light to whom you can and who want and generally have a useful existence !

All of us who offer guidance and help to others on the choppy seas of life are the Light Houses who offer clarity for a successful passage

Two Sides of a coin

In your case , your Karma is visiting you - now pay ! 

In my case - I am a victim of circumstances -sympathise 

In your case sympathy will only be a crutch - rise and be strong 

In my case - it's everyone's ethical duty to support 

Empathy

Just an observation :

Was standing in a crowd of people on the sidewalk when an ambulance raced by with siren screaming and lights flashing .

Just like when such a thing happened several times on different occasions in the past  I noticed quite a few faces around me looking concerned , their eyes following the vehicle racing away , and I thought they looked, for some moments ,  sad .

For an unknown person whose poor condition and possible suffering was only indicated by our association of ideas with a speeding ambulance .

Leads me to believe that #empathy is a natural human response but often it requires an ambulance to evoke it .

Does not happen , as such , if it's a silent hearse 

Nor a silent person in our life !

Poem on Gratitude

Thought #simply #stated on owing to the #unheard , #unsung , #unsaid 

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My blanket started somewhere on the back of a sheep 

My pencil in the Wood 

What riches would they claim from me 

If only they knew how , or could ! ?

My meals started with a seed on a farm

My water in a lake 

The nourishment that I gain from them 

They can never ask or of partake

Do I give back to all these things ?

Which my life a comfort make 

No I just take them for granted 

Continuing to take ! 

Connections abound in the Universe 

The tenuous strands to be found 

All people , places and things connected 

What goes out must come round ! 

Vikaas Nafde

On celebrating Birthdays and Anniversaries

On celebrating Birthdays and Anniversaries 

Life ! 

This progression of moments  strung together like a necklace of beads - connected - it starts from a clasp and having gone full circle returns to it 

Years are measured on every pass of the clasp till , due to a break somewhere , we don't return .

Every time we pass that point of connection we celebrate  and review the path trodden and the way ahead .   It's the date of commencement of yet another leg of the journey for which we are given a cheering start by well wishers and friends and the race recommences. 

It's the New Year ! 

Yes it is a special day  for rejoicing and offering Thanksgiving for renewed opportunity . 

It should always be made memorable !

Life is a jig saw puzzle

Just a thought - could imperfections be the spaces left in each one so that the pieces of the world's jig- saw puzzle can fit together to make the complete picture ?

The way for the gears of the Universe to mesh ?

When a desired goal is not obtained we start looking for errors and faults , mostly in " something or someone "  (including ourselves )

 forgetting the strong possibility that its no ones fault 

" it was MEANT to be so ! "

And in future will prove to be 

" the Best thing " . 

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change

Some lessons from Pets

Dogs are the only pets I know of, who ,on meeting again , even after a parting of half an hour ,  behave as if it's been YEARS since they last  saw you !

Silly emotional people with no control on their feelings and the display of it .

In all these centuries this is something they should have learned - or is it supposed to be the reverse - an example for humans to follow !!

- The Communicator