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Wednesday, December 28

Cross the Stream Where It Is Shallowest

We all face problems in life. Some of them are long-lasting or difficult to tackle. How to handle them successfully becomes a concern. This is felt all the more if you try to overcome the difficulty in at one go or in haste. On the contrary, if you analyze the issue, watch out for a more appropriate time and place to tackle it and then act quickly, you are likely to succeed. If you want to cross a running stream on foot what do you do? You search for a shallow strip. The risk of drowning or being carried away by current will be minimal in the shallowest part. Such an attitude should be maintained when faced with difficult situations in life. What is needed is alertness and patience to identify the most ideal time and place for successfully carrying out your plans.

Thursday, December 22

Cut Your Cloth According To the Cloth

Everybody has needs, but there is hardly anyone who can satisfy all of them. The earlier we understand this truth, the better it is. What we can do is to fix priorities and limit our needs as per our resources. If you spend beyond your means you will end up in debt and unhappiness. This is a lesson to be learned particularly by a fixed income group. Since your normal income has limits, you have to shape your life style in such a way that your expenses never exceed your income. In fact, the former should be smaller than the latter, so that some reserve is built up to meet emergencies. If others say you are miserly it matters little. Your real dignity depends upon your freedom which is the capability to live within one’s means.

Wednesday, December 21

Curses Are Like Chickens Come Home to Roost


When somebody gives you too much trouble or torments you without reason, you become so angry that you cry curses on him. Rational thinking tells us that curses are futile oral bursts never reaching its targets. When you fume with anger and emit curses against a person, it is your mind that gets poisoned. The targeted person may not be aware of it. Even if he hears the curses, he may ignore it or shout back in similar words. Like the homing instinct of birds, our hostile feelings and frustrations come back to us as long as we think of our adversary in cursing terms. The best policy in provoking situations will be to pursue your own activities undisturbed and with positive attitude. That will be the best answer to tormentors and trouble-makers

Thursday, December 15

Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before


Significant events are often preceded by signs that they are about to happen. In the past, people believed in good and bad happenings which preceded events to come. If you pay attention to these, you can generally tell when something momentous is about to happen. There are usually warnings or signals when an important event approaches in your life. At times certain events are indications that are believed to foretell things that may occur in future, often signifying the advent of change. It is usually seen and warning to the change of events that is to come. It may be either "good" or "bad". Small events can be a guide to momentous happenings. If the Foreign Secretary tells a taxi-driver at two o’clock in the morning to take him to the Prime Minister’s residence and drive like the devil, we can suppose that an international crisis is looming. Certain signs precede certain events.’ For example, the widening by the Germans of the Kiel Canal in 1909 to admit the passage of modern battleships was a sign preceding the outbreak of World War I in 1914. As history points out political instability and dissatisfaction among people have been culminated in riots later. Coming events cast their shadows before. Similar proverb is “A straw will show which way the wind blows”.

Wednesday, December 7

Clothes Do Not Make The Man


Some people are fond of wearing gaudy clothes. But it is not wise to judge a man just by the clothes he wears. There are crooks who dress well and cheat others. They create an impression on the public by wearing trendy clothes. Such crooks also have the ability to speak sweetly and convincingly. But they do all this with a single purpose of cheating. Just because somebody looks attractive in appearance does not mean he is pious. So taking a man into confidence by his external appearance only, will be dangerous. A pious man will be usually plainly dressed. He has no need to impress others with gaudy clothes. He impresses others simply by his greatness. The imposter impresses quickly. Also, a gaudily dressed man need not be eminently qualified. He may be out-worldly attractive and tawdry. But on a deeper analysis he will be found to have no inherent quality of greatness. In fact, only an imperfect man needs make-up or superficial appearance. So, one has to be careful and cautious in judging values. The proverb simply means that appearance is often deceptive

Tuesday, December 6

Cleanliness is Next to Godliness


Cleanliness is the cornerstone of discipline and a trademark of success. Cleanliness is an important trait and character for many reasons that it helps to prevent illnesses. It involves hygiene and it also make to know people to perceive one’s character. If someone says that cleanliness is next to godliness, it means that we have a moral duty to keep themselves and their homes clean. One has to keep his body and mind hygienic and clean in all respects. If someone shows up to work dirty and filthy, you would not like them. People may keep far because if a person cannot keep themselves clean and neat, people may not trust and like to work with them. Without cleanliness one may not go long in life. Cleanliness and hygiene should go hand in hand and this trait must be taught right from childhood. It must be further nurtured in schools. It is one of those traits, by which people judge one. The very first appearance impresses and judges everything. If a personal space can’t be cleaned, one cannot maintain a healthy relationship with outside world. It may be an embarrassment to show, a filthy unkempt house, or wherever a person is to stay. Cleanliness is one of the good qualities. It is a part of our civilization. A man of dirty habits is far from civilization. So, with the progress of civilization man cleans himself more and more. He cleans his body. He cleans his mind and heart. He cleans all his action and manners. He cleans his soul. This will lead him to the highest form of civilization. By cleanliness of body and limbs, cleanliness of all our articles of use, cleanliness of our dwellings and soul, we gradually move towards divinity. Hence, we say- "Cleanliness is next to Godliness".

Sunday, December 4

Charity Begins At Home


Charity means willingness to help others. Helping those who are really in need is a rare and good quality. There are certain people who spend huge sums of money on charitable institutions or on religious functions. One should be generous to ones own family before helping others. For example, certain people spend hours and hours on volunteer work and neglect their helpless dear and near. People generally do such act for gaining fame and name or to impress others. This is highly selfish. One's own family (or country, etc.) comes before any other responsibilities. A person's first obligation should be to help the member of his own family before he can begin thinking of talking about helping others. The right way to cultivate the charitable habit is to start loving one’s kith and kin and gradually extend that love to those outside the family. Such a person can love and sympathise with all those who deserve it. Only that sort of mentality can be called really charitable.

Friday, December 2

Call No Man Happy Till He is Dead


A wealthy and healthy man is often considered as a fortunate person. In the eyes of others he is a happy man. They envy him for his wealth, social status etc. To them it is enough to make a happy. But misfortune can always befall a man; he may lose his wealth power and most of all his health. Without them he will be a burden to others. Those people who have envied him before will start to sympathise or hate him. The respect they have shown to him will be replaced by scorn; and envy by pity. Fate always plays an important role in everybody’s life. A poor person can turn rich overnight by a single stroke of fortune. Therefore no man can be called completely happy or sad till he is dead. Death puts an end to all the good and bad things in life. So if a man is rich and happy till he is dead, he can be called a truly rich and happy man. History tells us stories of many who have enjoyed immense power and wealth but lost it in the end to die miserably. Others had considered them to be happy and fortunate. But they proved to be otherwise in the long run making the proverb ‘no man happy till he is dead’ absolutely right.