When a person is born, he has breath but no name
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One day a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor handed out the question paper, with the text facing down as usual. Once he handed them all out, he asked his students to turn the page and begin. To everyone’s surprise, there were no questions….just a black dot in the
center of the page. The professor seeing the expression on
everyone’s face, told them the
following:
“I want you to write what you see there.”
The students confused, got started on the inexplicable task.
At the end of the class, the professor took all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them with no exceptions, described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet, etc. etc. etc. After all had been read, the classroom silent, the professor began to explain:
“I am not going to grade on you this, I just wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the white part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot – and the same happens in our lives. We have a white paper to observe and enjoy, but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a gift given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate – nature renewing itself everyday, our friends around us, the job that provides our livelihood, the miracles we see everyday…….
However we insist on focusing only on the dark spots – the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the complicated relationship with a family member, the disappointment with a friend, a.s.o.
The dark spots are very small compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds.
Take your eyes away from the black spots in your life. Enjoy each one of your blessings, each moment that life gives you. Be happy and live a life filled with LOVE," .
A beautiful question. What is the meaning of life?
A beautiful answer to it: When a person is born, he has breath but no name and when he dies, he has name but no breath. The gap between this breath and name is life!….
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
‘Drifting kites’ by Twinkle Khanna
10 am: I’m enjoying Sundaybreakfast with the whole family. My in-laws always put enough foodon the table to feed half of Amritsar. We’re digging into aloo parathas with home-made ghee and as I am despairing at the horrific number of calories being consumed, the phone rings and we get some terrible news. A family friend has lost her young son. The young man, in his early 20s, went to America to attend a friend’s wedding, left a suicide note on Facebook and killed himself before anyone could reach him.
I cannot even begin to imagine what his mother is going through. There is no pain greater than losing a child. You start worrying about these tiny beings — from the time they are in your stomach; from hearing their heartbeats on the sonogram and counting kicks in your last trimester — you begin your journey of worry. You worry about their health, their education, their careers, their spouses, their children… Worrying, but not really believing that one unlucky day your greatest fear may actually come true.
You lose a child to an accident or an illness and with a broken heart. You console yourself that you did your best, it’s perhaps God’s will, he has gone to a better place; but when your child decides that the life he has been given, the life where everything he knows is what you have taught him, is not worth living, how do you live with that? How do you stop blaming yourself? How do you go on?
We teach our children to study hard, to strive to succeed but do we teach them that it’s okay to fail? That life is about accepting yourself? That there is no stigma in seeking help? Our Indian culture is based on worshipping our parents. We grow up listening to words like respect, obedience and tradition. Can we not add the words communication, unconditional love and support to this list?
I look at the WHO research. The highest rate of suicide in India is among the age group of 15 to 29. Do we even talk to our teens about this?
2 pm: We normally spend our Sunday by the poolside or going to the cinema, but today we just get a few groceries and spend time quietly in our kitchen, putting a small meal together.
6.30 pm: I am standing in the balcony, sipping some coffee and looking at the sunset. The children have taken the dogs and gone down to play on the beach. I spot my son. He is standing on the sand, right at the edge of the ocean and is flying a blue kite.
The kite goes high and then swings low till it almost seems to fall into the water and all I want to say to him is that soon he will see that life is just like flying a kite. Sometimes you have to leave it loose, sometimes you have to hold on tight, sometimes your kite will fly effortlessly, sometimes you will not be able to control it and even when you are struggling to keep it afloat and the string is cutting into your hand, don’t let go.
The wind will change in your favour once again, my son. Just don’t let go…
@B@R_0_0_D wrote:
@asoka same happens with dd,
thanksfully @Nigel allows only change of heart (mind) once, unless you are* Captain Plz*
True to its core. KP
Who you are is related to where you came from
When God created man He spoke to Himself…
‘Let Us make man in our image, in Our likeness….’
*
WHEN GOD LOOKS AT YOU, HE SEES THINGS THAT EVERYBODY ELSE IGNORES.
How you feel or what others say about you is not important.
You are what God says you are!.
He sees in you more than you can possibly imagine. Your potential is limited only by God, not others.
Coward or Warrior?
God came to a frightened young man named Gideon, God announced what He saw, a great warrior.
Think about that!. A great Warrior?.
Gideon was hiding from the enemy trying to separate some wheat from the chaff so he wouldn’t starve.
Gideon thought he was a coward. God knew him to be a great warrior and pronounced what He saw.
Stop Believing What Others Say About You!
God always sees what we don’t.
In a manger, God saw a Kng, ….. in a Servant, Saviour….. in a Sacrifice, Salvation…..in a Crucifixion, a Resurrection.
How to identify a liar:
scientists point key signs that the body is when we lie
To train the observation, anyone can easily detect lies. So says a pair of American scientists, which listed the most common signs that our body makes when we are lying.
Experts say the face and smile are the most important aspects.
“It’s a matter of observing carefully,” he told the “Daily Mail” Pamela Meyer, author of “flagrant Liars” and CEO Calibrate company that trains people and companies to identify fraud.
“There’s no magic trick, is a skill that can be developed with practice,” says DavidMatsumoto, professor of psychology at the University of San Francisco (USA) and police trainer.
They call attention to an important factor: the method works best if we know the person off guard, telling the truth, and compare the way it is expressed in different situations.
“There is a myth that restlessness and nervousness are signs of lying, but some people naturally freeze when they are facing with the police, even if they are telling the truth. The key is to make a neutral question, it is absolutely true (a question of opinion, for example) and compare the changes in the expression of the person, "says Meyer.
Description: Scientists give tips to catch liars
Scientists give tips to catch liars – Disney
Another tip is to look at the grammar and vocabulary of the investigation. When we lie, our language is more “spacer” says Meyer, as in the famous phrase uttered by Bill Clinton: “I had sex with ‘that woman’ [Monica Lewinsky].”
“Liars tend to cling to irrelevant details, avoiding the main issue, refusing to directly answer the question that was asked, changing the subject or tone, answering a question with another question and to put his hands up in protest ", lists the author.
Mastumoto says the police often ask the interrogated tell the story backwards, or random excerpts. False memories are built in chronological order, so they are harder to count backwards.
“Look at the face. Change can appear anywhere on the face,” says Matsumoto. “Research shows that most of the messages are communicated nonverbally.”
Already Meyer recommends looking at the smile. According to her, a real smile is perceived in the eyes, as a fake smile appears only in the mouth. Watch out also contained smiles, with only one corner of the curved lip, as the liar think you’re getting away.
The US Academy of Sciences made a delicate analysis of the usefulness of the polygraph as a screening potential threats. In 2003, a study said that if the person being examined is not trained in defensive measures to fool the machine, the polygraph test can discriminate lying from truth with good proportions, although far from perfect.
@B@R_0_0_D wrote:
even i give food to anyone who comes to my house.
#CharityStartsAtHome
@vishusgh @no fpd @Cross