Nidhis.daily.blog

Category: self growth

  • Burden of memories

    For all the years past, all the love lost and all the silence borne. I wish I could cry in your arms until the tears stopped flowing. I wish I could erase the memories sparing just the laughs. I wish I could ease the pain until only love remained.

    I wish I could find words to express. Courage to ask forgiveness. Strength to meet you. Intellect to rein emotions. I want to keep the memories minus the aches, the experience without the trauma and the faces without the words that were exchanged.

    In forgiveness I seek freedom. Freedom from guilt, ache, painful memories and all the sufferings related to it. For in my mind I am still the wrong doer who is out free and hence doesn’t deserve to be happy.

  • Kindness – A universal language

    Are we being kind only when taking care of our family? Or also when we extend care-giving to our elders and sick ones? Or is kindness only reserved for our interactions outside our homes. Like when we hold the elevator for our neighbours? Or when we greet our friendly grocery guy?

    Or is it an act of kindness when a cabbie offers you extra tips and hacks in a new city? Or a stranger in the waiting queue guides you to the best dishes of the restaurant you are waiting to dine in?

    Kindness needs no language or religion. It’s the global unifying tie that can bind all humanity. Only if we remember that small acts of kindness can keep our earth flourishing with love and warmth for centuries to come

  • A culture of Busyness

    No it’s not a typo, no auto-correct here. I mean busyness – that state where one consciously keeps busy fluttering from one task to another. In short the opposite of stillness. Also not to be confused with the word business though I wonder if busyness & business share a common origin.

    So how does one master this art – practise my friend. Stay occupied all day, every day. At work, at play. Come rain, come shine. Turn into a bee worker, not pausing for a breather. And you would seemingly appear the most important person without whom the world would collapse.

    Or become a mindful zen, a practitioner of slow living. Give your mind, body and soul alternate spurts of intense productivity and ‘do nothing’ breaks. Try it, it is a game changer to being your best version. & yes I mean business here.

  • Older or bolder – Happy birthday to me!

    As I complete another year around the sun, I wonder if I am gaining years alone. Or am I also gaining the weight of life experiences, lessons from triumphs and failures and much more bodily fat than before!

    So yes I am older but also bolder in my thoughts, more comfortable in sharing my beliefs and  confident in standing by my life choices.

    Yes I may be a bit more cautious, slightly hesitant and taking longer than before in making decisions. But I take it as a sign of responsibility, to live and let live without the burden of judgement.

    So to all of us growing older, wiser and maybe slightly less lively than before – cheers to the new you. Your evolution path is unique to you so drown out the noise & don’t let anyone dim the shine you radiate.