NARA'S POSTCARD

§         The Rich’s table scraps are often the Poor’s daily meal.

§         There are some things that can only be experienced.

§         Green Revolution became a victim of its own success.

§         If we can help countries become more productive for themselves, then they will be in a better position to feed their own people.

§         There is no body else blame, but ourselves.

§         More choices mean you give up something and you gain something.

§         We are slaves to routine.

§         We feel happy because we aren’t sad.

§         It is men, not weapons that win wars.

§         Experiment is a better route to knowledge than sentiments.

§         We cannot give what we don’t have.

MERRY X'MAS TO ALL

NARA

I was seriously thinking of finding an answer for the tricky question: Who is the best? Interestingly I posed this question to my friend one day to get an instant answer. I did get one. He said everyone. I wondered how can it be? If everyone is the best, then who is good and better and even down to bad? While discussing with my friend again, we came to the conclusion that each one of us, as human beings irrespective of age, caste, creed, gender, nationality, language, region etc. are having different skills and talents. Some are inborn ones whereas some are acquired ones. We gather knowledge from our teachers in schools and colleges and later from books and life experience itself. The beauty of being human being is that each person is different not only in size and shape but also in intelligence and behavior. The way each person performs a certain activity is quite different. It is a great thing. A child wants to do certain things himself or herself. The child thus learns by doing it wrongly or rightly. They have certain talents. They have the right to laugh to make others happy or cry to show this displeasure. It is our duty to appreciate such actions rather than getting angry and beat them. Similarly everyone is best in one’s way. Some do get Nobel Prizes for their life-long contributions in their own field of study. They are the best. Some win the international games like tennis, football, cricket, golf defeating others and they are the best. Appreciations are offered to those best persons.

If we think deeply ‘Who is the best?’ we admit that we are all the best in our own field. It is not that easy to become the best. It needs hard work and perseverance to pursue. There are innumerable fields of work on earth. People can choose one or two to excel and become the best. Indeed, a set of people do not want to be best, still they are considered the best because of their modesty. Therefore, we need not worry that only certain people are the best and the others are not. Opportunities pave the way for everyone to become the best. Hence one should have the vision to excel in a particular field like medicine, engineering, law, politics, education, agriculture – and turn to be the good or better if not the best. Gook luck. You are the best in your own way, I admit and accept.

§         Negative thinking is one of the most contagious diseases around.

§         What we do we become stronger in.

§         Humans have a natural ability to want desire, aspire, yearn, and long for.

§         Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble.

§         Love yourself, others and everything around you more and more each day.

§         Acceptance is such an important part of happiness, contentment, health and growth that some people have called it “the first law of personal growth.”

§         Nature goes on being nature in its own natural way.

§         Accept everything around you, everything inside you, everything about you.

THE REASONABLE MAN ADAPTS HIMSELF TO THE WORLD; THE REASONABLE ONE PERSISTS IN TRYING TO ADAPT THE WORLD TO HIMSELF. - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“Don’t impose on me what you know,

I want to explore the unknown

And be the source of my own discoveries.

Let the known be my liberation, not my slavery.

The world of your truth can be my limitation;

Your wisdom my negation.

Don’t instruct me; let’s walk together.

Let my richness begin where yours ends.

Show me so that I can stand

On your shoulders.

Reveal yourself so that I can be

Something different.

 You believe that every human being

Can love and create.

I understand, then, your fear

When I ask you to live according to your wisdom.

You will not know who I am

By listening to yourself.

Don’t instruct me; let me be.

Your failure is that I be identical to you.”

By Umberto Maturana, Chilean Biologist.