"The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t. If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”

Stunning..! 

One of those moments when you read something and you get the feeling that it's just what you were wanted to read, to know and to read understand. 

All I did was say a silent prayer for 2012 to be great on all counts - Give me the strength to own my slippers. Discard the ones that are ugly or do not fit. Accept gracefully the fact that the ones I like but don't fit, aren't meant for me. Unconditionally love the slippers that are mine! In short, make the good, better. Make the bad, good. And make the ugly, beautiful!

The Time is 'Now'

Yesterday evening was beautiful.

Not because I had one free evening after days of stretched work. Not because I was feeling fresh after an evening shower or because the weather was perfect for a hazy wintery walk. Infact, the streets were crowded and horns were honking, people were hurrying to get home and rest seemed busy with their own lives. 

It was perfect because I could observe the bizzareness round. The breeze, the honking of cars, the whooshing of the wind in my ears, the way a dog scampered away across the walk, the chuckle of the kid when I smiled at him, maddening traffic, the cycle that went by, the playground and yellow lights.

There was no thought of what had gone by. There was no anxiety at what would be coming. There was this one thought-less, stretched out minute of bizarre happiness when I was in perfect harmony with the world and myself.

Not realizing the time, I asked an old man passing by, "What time is it?"

He smiled and said, "Time?! Why, it's Now! It's always the 'Now'!"

And so it always is, isn't it?