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NOVEMBER 2003 EDITION


5 Ways To Turn Obstacles Into Blessings

  • Never dwell on the cause of the obstacle. Rise above it and change the way you respond to it. It only has as much power as you're willing to give it.
  • Check your attitude. Know that you have the ability to control the outcome, and/or to choose the answer that's right for you.
  • Think of an alternative. If one answer doesn't work, or if it doesn't feel right, try another way to get to the best solution.
  • Realize that your view of the obstacle is what may determine how much impact it has on your life.
  • Think about what you were doing just before the obstacle happened. Don't make excuses to yourself. Turn the obstacle into a positive motivator. Then find a way to move toward your goal.

From "Annonymous"

 

Love Your Life, Even If It Is Mean To You

Remember that life is a one-time show, a single show with no replays of it. So, you have to enjoy and live every event and moment to the fullest. Things may repeat with slight variations in life but nothing comes to you exactly the same as before.
Things go wrong in our lives but only those meet the merits who does not fall into “Perfection Paralysis”.

Perfection Paralysis is a state where an individual made his mind to the state of “no mistake”. He does not accept failure. He dreams to be a perfect superman who cannot do any mistake. His dreams are 0% flawless and he never expects any thing wrong with or from himself. This cannot be attained in normal life. Isn’t it? Here the person restricts himself to any action and with the passage of time he found himself falling far behind from leaders.

No one is perfect. Are you? I bet not. Not me, not you; actually not any one alive today is perfect with 0% flaws. So, assuming things to go always right for us would not help anyone. It would be a self-restriction to actions. Accept failures in life. You can do mistakes. Things may go wrong with you. There is nothing you get exactly the same as you dreamed of. Accept minor to major changes as to perceive things. And believe in one thing you are not the only one who is going through difficult time.

There are several hundred thousands other human beings who are in worse condition than you. Feel great when you are tested. Because you are been selected as you can pass that test. This is perhaps the best answer to the question “why only me?”

World or life is never cruel to us, we allow it to harm ourselves. Because we all respond to our over governed thoughts of that time not the reality. Things are far different what we perceive in times of pressure and difficulty. In relaxed state of mind we can understand far better than stress times. Things are not usually so big but we make them. It is just the angle from which we see things that make them big or small, easy or difficult.

When time or situation turns to the worse, thank God. Seem ridiculous but it’s worth. As there is always shiny sunny day at the end of each dark and scary night. When things go out of control, apply the basics. Stop the ball, which comes to you and leave the ball, which is delivered away from you. Time will roll on and there would a time when you will see that the sparkling sunshine is very near to you.

Love your life even it is mean to you. Luck favors the brave and you would be surprised with the results after practicing what has written above. I have tried many times this and have gained success. So, why don’t you.

by Haris Tabassum

 

The Blinking Light Of Humanity   

A candle in the windy night,
The sprinkle of its meager light,
Hold on tremulously to life.
The winds cut them through like a knife.

Gallows, graveyards, dungeons’ round.
Wheezing, scary spooks surround.
If ever the candle’s twinkle found,
They’ll come after, hunter bloodhounds!

Grayish clouds above, in meeting
Conspiring, a moment seeking
To part the curtains, let the rain
Crush the light, with its bullet train.

Why the candle lives, I wonder?
How is it, there’s no surrender?
Has its wick some link Divine
With God’s own eternal Shine?

by Sadat Jabeen

 

 

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