The Art of Being Thankful

Karanvir — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 06:46:39 +0000

It is tough to get up every morning and feel absolutely happy for everything. Let me re-write this. It is tough to get up every morning and feel absolutely happy for nothing.

Nothing because you didn’t buy a new car, you didn’t start living in a new house. You didn’t plan for a new trip or your next vacation. You didn’t earn as you expected. You didn’t do something to “waow” yourself. And may be that is why you and I do not think it as important to be thankful for anything.

Strangely enough, we are so used to this idea of “newness”, “doing something fancy”, “owning something fancy and unique” – something which is not ordinary. Unknowingly we want our lives and our possessions to be unique from others. That satiates us. That makes us feel happy. Yet that doesn’t make us feel thankful. After all Thankful to whom? We do believe that all our accomplishments, achievements are our own and we owe 100% credit to ourselves rather than anyone else.

So, in this busy lives of ours – a life which is quite much about consuming as much as we can from food to drinks to clothes and you name a thing; we forget being thankful.

The very fact you are breathing, you get up every next morning; the sun didn’t forget to rise and the air promised oxygen – doesn’t move us. We take them for guaranteed. Our parents being there for us; our families being there to share our joys and sorrows; having our friends with who we create so many memories – they don’t move us either. We take them as well forever. However, as a matter of fact they are not. They too are our joys – ours for limited period of time.

The very fact that we exist and exist healthy is sufficient enough for us to be thankful enough but we are not. This lack of being thankful makes us devoid of compassion, humility. And it leads to a point where we are full of ourselves. Not with bad intention though but lack of mindfulness leads us to pay no heed to any person, place or situation around us that actually got us here where we are today.

The world is a beautiful place to be in. From the books we read to the stories that leave an imprint forever. The movies we watch and leave us nostalgic. The food we eat and keeps us healthy. The air we breathe that keeps us alive. Nothing beats the pleasure of listening to the trees flurry their leaves, the sun and the moon playing hide and seek, birds chirping outside the house. The sight of a river gushing by, and the mountains that standby. And us living a life between those 24hours every day till we are alive. Nothing is permanent and forever.

So yes, let’s pause for a while, take a minute or so every day – close our eyes and be thankful for all what we have. Let us be thankful to what all troubles we are thrown into and all that gives us happiness. All that keeps us going and all that keeps us afloat. That’s the best way we can feel absolutely happy for so many (yet unaccounted for) possessions we already have. And the art of being thankful lies in the fact of valuing all what you have got and not counting on what you couldn’t have.

Thank you for reading this. And if you feel thankful today, share this with your friends and family as well. A simple word of Thanks goes a long way into making this world a beautiful place.

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The Comforting Souls

Karanvir Gupta — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:21:00 +0000

It’s amazing to be here on earth as a human being as I always say. You get a family (by default) and friends (by choice) and out of all the people you meet in your lives, there are few you want them to be there forever, such is their aura and presence that 犀利士
they make you feel comfortable in your skin and your thoughts. I call them The Comforting Souls.

They make you feel you and give you the sense of happiness in being yourself. They give us the opportunity to be beyond what we are in front of everyone and open up ourselves in the darkest of times. They hold you when you are flying high and when low, they only tell you how to fly. These people are your saviours, these people are the ones we all need in our lives. And I feel there’s no specific day to say THANKS to them. So here is an ode to all such people in my life.

there are people you will come across

in the journey of life, at every toss

of all the mortals, there will be few

the ones with whom you will be you

in the vicinity of all noise and drama

when the sunken soul would need a lift

of peace that would be desperately needed

these chosen ones will be there to give a drift

of there will be you the world will greet

but there will be you only they will meet

for thousand such emotions you can’t express to everyone

they will stand there to listen to your stories like none

only if we could make out for ourselves who these souls are

probably much before life pauses and takes you afar

it is these people whose presence can silence your demons alone

at the end it will be they who, in the darkness too, would have made you shone!!

Love you for being there in my Life!!

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