Meena Mangalathil:

Yesterday, while I was walking with my cousin,she was speaking about an incident which made her heart skip a bit. The incident was like this, two parents were taking their kids aged 5 and 7 yrs old to school.The parents were talking shop and deeply engrossed in it and the children were walking before them on the pedestrian street for sure, but there was a difference, the pedestrian street was the dumping yard of big fiber hoses of the telephone exchange. The hose was so smooth that even cats could slip and fall, on that these children were walking easily. When she said it, the first thing that came to my mind was, the children live the moment, whatever comes to mind, they do. They do not look at the consequences of their actions. The wise would say, think twice before you act. It is good, but if our whole life, the moment, the day, the months and years,then there would be time only for thinking and no actions. So let loose your fear once in a while and take the risk, but don&

Today I met a lady, who has a husband as well as another man to keep her fulfilled. The funny thing is the fulfilling man is of the same status, married. But the sad part is, both have children. They are still in the state of education. I do not know why, seeing the lady with that man made me sad. Companion is good, but if the one you are legally bound doesn't get to fulfill your inner cravings, then what is the guarantee that the next one could pacify your cravings? No guarantee. Its a risk, but if the risk backfires, would you risk for another person? What is this cravings? Cravings is something which comes from the very inside of us. But we cannot explain it because its an unexplainable phenomenon. But there is nothing unexplainable. There is an answer for every question. So cravings is the inner quest for love. First and foremost know that no human can fulfill that quest for love. They have their limitation. Don't blame them. You too are in the same boat. Some p

Today I watched a Cindrella movie, not the fairy tale one but another one. As a romantic, I love that story. But I was thinking, what made it tick? But one thing I learned from this story Everyone has a good phase and bad phase in life, fairness and unfairness in life. And fairness or good phase of life is a happy moment. But the bad phase and unfairness is a sad one, we all know that. But as we watch this movie we find that bad phase don't stay for long. Even if we are against the most powerful person in life, the bad phase is short lived. Its great to know, right? If you want an example, take a wave, sea wave or an ocean wave. How long will the crest stay on high position, which means, in the raised position? Mere seconds or a minute and a half. Its the same for the lowest part of the wave too. That is what nature teaches you. Don't stay too depressed when you are at your lowest level because its just for mere minutes or an hour and a half, not more. And that

I do not know how it is for you. But for me, I love surprises, not the bad ones eh. But how can we give surprises to our dear ones is a thinking matter. Yesterday was my mom's birthday. You know, mom's are not that easy to get surprised. But my gift for her simply dumbfounded her. Don't ask what gift I gave. But I loved that moment of her surprise. Now, why do we get surprised, have you thought about it? we think, the sun rises, goes around the whole place from morn to night and then the moon would make his appearance, etc...etc... Its the usual and one fine morning, if we get to find the moon instead of the sun, we are surprised. Its the same for people too, father, mother, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, children, etc..etc.... behave as they should, either strict or beautiful or naughty or whatever but one fine day when they change their route map of behaviour we all get surprised. But why do we change our route map? For others to see us? recognize us?

Today, I met a Swiss architect who created the place, where I was working. So I just wowed to my colleague, saying , "He is a genius" The reply shocked me. "Genius!!! Bull Shit. I can never tolerate him." "But why?" "He build, demolishes.....builds demolishes, minimum three time he does it in order to get the perfection. Where would we accommodate the cost? Now do you feel to wow him?" "At that time I just sat there dumbstruck and open mouthed. If the architect had accidentally become a doctor or a chef or an astronaut or whatever, what would have been the situation?" Dead man. Why does this happen? Because he is not doing his home work. When we do the home work, we get a chance to think about the pros and cons of the work planned, our past experiences on that type of work and even if we have experience we also try to get some extra advices on it. Then we could avoid wastage and make our work successful Whatever profess

I am always of the belief that the dead is gone forever, never to meet again. But certain incidents of my life proves otherwise. My dad was my best friend and confidante. He helped me out in all my stick situation. But it was until college and after that I was totally alone. So after my marriage, I had to face a very sticky situation, which I couldn't handle on my own and there was no one to confide other than God. That night, I dreamed my father, helping me out of this situation. Waking up, I thought, my sub conscious was acting up. So I just let it pass. But the miraculous part was,the problem got solved, so smoothly, that it was not my doing. Then years later, I was in search of a place to stay and knew no one nor the place. But that night I dreamed my father and the next day, I got a very beautiful, affordable and safe place to stay. So what does that mean? The dead lives or dies? I would say live. So don't feel sad, when they go from us physically. You can also r

Patience is one thing, which every person needs, but for parents, the most. Not because the children are naughty. They are the cutest things in our life, but they are not the only cutest things, do remember. Every parent has lots of other cute factors, which can really put us in boiling point on a daily basis. But unfortunately it bursts in front of the child, because, they unsuspectingly fall cutely in front of us, unchaining the devil within us. And not only that, the child becomes the Judas of the day and eventually, makes him for the rest of his life. Oh!! you didn't get it? Its simple, we always blame the child for the said outburst, but in real, the child was just a scape goat. There is no use blaming your kid. They are here and they face their own problems. But is it fare to add our problems, to them with all the fan fare? You can share your problems with your children, but don't burst on them and slander them with blame. Usually the outburst happens, when