The Voice

#The #Voice  - A conversation and its aftermath ! 

It all started this morning when i did not want to get out of bed ! Just didnt feel like it.

The Voice said: "DONT keep lying there "

Me: (back up )" WHO is to stop me ?"

Rebellion and resistance 

The Voice : " Well you SHOULDNT be "

Reason crept in ( albeit slowly but it did ) 

Got me thinking ( for a change ) about operatives like #DON'T , #CAN'T, #SHOULD and of course #SHOULDNOT 

The design and structure of every Creation existing allows it the total and absolute freedom of action . There is no restriction to doing anything . No blockage from the Universe .

The #limitation -to do -comes from our own thinking or sometimes ' physical or mental handicaps '

 BUT

 the choice is freely available. 

Nothing blocks us from raising our hands , running , sitting , standing, speaking ......etc

We have TOTAL FREEDOM 

IF we are told or tell someone imperiously  ( colleagues , team members , children)  

Don't do it ,  resistance and rebellion is created 

Instead if we say or are told the same as SHOULDN'T do it there is a better chance of reasoning 

Ultimately we do as  we please and the only true Mentor and Guide is 

The Voice whose pitch and tone is perfect but our hearing can be sometimes flawed .

The Voice also has this irritating habit of saying , at every opportunity it gets  " I told you so " or " Did I not say so ?" 😊😊😊

The Role of seeming adversity

Have you ever passed the site of a horrendous road accident minutes after it has happened and realised you could have been part of it if it wasn't because of 

the jammed door lock 

or the phone call on your landline just as you were stepping out

 or that obstinate tie which was refusing to knot correctly 

or even that collar button that was being difficult 

or the neighbour who way laid you as you were going out of the building insisting on talking to you 

or the car ignition that refused to fire ( today of all days ) 

Do you then regret all the curses and abuses you rained down on these innocent events ?

They possibly saved your life and made it possible for you to help those involved in the accident !

In every event , the smallest of them , ( not just big ones like missing a flight  etc ) there is a purpose which we must learn to recognise and immediately we can think clearly .

That is the way of #mindfulness and mental peace which is propagated  by positive thinkers and wellness teachers

A funeral

I was at a funeral

It seemed like my own

People, faces milling around

Some familiar some unknown

They were talking in whispers

As if they were in dread

That they would be overheard

By the one who was dead!

I sensed every word that was said

The praise and the damning matter

Was happy to note that there was more

Of the first and less of the latter

They were not really shedding tears

As they did as they aught  

Completing the formalities

For their own peace that they sought

In my new-found silence and stillness

I rose from the congregation

And went along my merry way

To my new assignation

There was Light, the blowing of trumpets

A welcome with Divine Song

Not looking back to that house, I left

After staying there well and long

Here lies a man who loved to rhyme

Though he never saved a dime

All his time on words he spent

Then silently to this place he went

Desperate Times need desperate measures

When there is a glimmer of hope for someone who is under trying circumstances the surge of adrenaline is possibly unquantifiable and unimaginable ( unless you have undergone a similar experience.)
Just remembered some lines from " The Ancient Mariner " coming out of a long forgotten past .
Imagine a group of people afloat on the sea , adrift without water and food for several days ! Their throats are parched and their hearts in their feet . Just try and occupy their mind space for a moment.
Then , suddenly , one of them spots a sail in the distance ( glimmer ofhope ) but is unable to communicate this to his companions - his throat being too dry and so
" .....he bit any arm and sucked the blood / And Cried " A Sail , A Sail ! "

Desperate times need desperate measures !

Goals

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

Friendship

What a perfect relationship #God offers

 - #True #Friendship  is similar if you view the details 

Do as you want - we are always there for each other. 

Love each other without any compulsion of meeting or connecting every day

But when we do it will be a continuation as if there was no gap

Always there for each other and 

Either ones existence depends on the recognition by the other

The confidence that either one will respond when called on by the other

There is no criticism but only loving help whatever be the circumstances

There is always room for understanding and forgiveness

A poem I wrote on this subject - don't remember the impulse that caused it but wish to dedicate it to all my friends !
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Life was a barren desert
Till along came the Friend
That Oasis of cooling waters
Where every thirst could end

The One who listened
Shared all that was felt
In gratitude to whom
The very being knelt

When a friend leaves
And sails upon the Tide
There is an emptiness
Where only memories reside

Thoughts that haunt
Spectres of shared dreams
Reverberating in hollowness
Once the source of streams

Such is the mirage of life
That imagined future dear
Which fades into oblivion
As far as it is near

Vikaas Nafde  May 2017

Song and Dance of Life

Life is just
The March of Time ,
Sometimes Blank verse
Sometimes Rhyme

Rhythm and metre
Is within our choosing
Pacing it out well makes
For Winning or Losing !

Can go on till we are breathing
Filling out the history of ages
Only thing we can't control is
What will be the number of pages

So my friends Be quick to compose
Create , Daily ,  your 'top of the chart'
Dance to the  symphonies and the beat
Do everything with a Happy Heart !

Choreograph it for a group
Or for a solo dance
Make use of the Stage you are given
Till you physically have the chance.

This Daily soap is full of excitement
Highs and lows are all contained
In your strides they must be taken
Happiness , at all costs , must be  maintained

Vikaas Nafde 12th May 2018 
Kathmandu , Nepal