This is one of my favorite stories. I had heard this in an ‘Art Of Living’ course for kids *(YES course). I was there to assist that course around an year back.

The story goes like this :-

There was a father and a son, they were walking on a beach. There were many star fishes on the beach which were dying because they were thrown out of sea due to tide, seeing this kid started to throw them back into the sea. Soon his father saw him doing this activity and he said, “Son, why are you throwing these fishes into sea, there are thousands of them, you can’t throw all of them so how does it even matter.?"

Listening to this kid took another fish and threw it back into the sea saying, ”It does matter to this fish.!”



So moral of the story is that we shouldn’t judge our efforts as insignificant, we just need to keep doing them.

For example, take resolution that I won’t waste electricity or water, I won’t eat non-veg because it fuels global warming, I won’t indulge in alcohol, smoke or drugs. Even if everyone around you doesn’t follow this then don’t get bogged down. Be wise enough and don’t leave your virtues in lieu of anything. 

Be good, do good.

Lots of love,
Mrinal

Well here is my first blog post and I am no exception to the fact that I have to brainstorm over the title to my first blog. Here is the word I narrowed down- ‘Radiance’ as the dictionary says it is state of being radiant. Radiance is about emission or rather glowing but I am more interested in its figurative meaning which implies teeming with joy, love and hope.

There are many times in life when we don’t look to outside world as our own, we lack belongingness. It may sound extremely justified to be self-centered at times, after all it’s a competitive world and we have full right to think about ourselves. But if we look at it closely, in this whole process we somehow get deviated from our nature. There are various tendencies that may slowly grip our mind like insecurities, anger and depression.

Our nature is to spread love and joy unconditionally. Infact, we should be emitting incessantly all these expressions. It creates an aura which not only uplifts your spirit but all the people around you feel good and to be a part of your company. We should be having no strings or inhibitions to our happiness because making it conditional we are merely postponing it.

By this instance I don’t mean you have to drop the idea of being competitive but all I want to convey is that we drop the conventional way of competing. We need to learn new way of moving ahead as a matter of fact we need move ahead ‘together’. Put in our sincere efforts, pray for a bigger cause and then see the results in our own life.

So learn to be happy, joyful and loving right now, let it flow gushingly, let it ornate you and if people around you are still in the web of conditional happiness then atleast allow yourself to be a reason for it in this way..

Lots of love,
Mrinal

PS- For all my hesitant and inquisitive friends.. advice is “fake it till you make it”.. ;)