It's Raining in Love by Richard Brautigan

 

I don't know what it is,
 but I distrust myself
 when I start to like a girl
 a lot.

 It makes me nervous.
 I don't say the right things
 or perhaps I start
 to examine,
 evaluate,
 compute
 what I am saying.

 If I say, "Do you think it's going to rain?"
 and she says, "I don't know,"
 I start thinking: Does she really like me?

 In other words
 I get a little creepy.

 A friend of mine once said,
 "It's twenty times better to be friends
 with someone
 than it is to be in love with them."

 I think he's right and besides,
 it's raining somewhere, programming flowers
 and keeping snails happy.
 That's all taken care of.

 BUT

 if a girl likes me a lot
 and starts getting real nervous
 and suddenly begins asking me funny questions
 and looks sad if I give the wrong answers
 and she says things like,
 "Do you think it's going to rain?"
 and I say, "It beats me,"
 and she says, "Oh,"
 and looks a little sad
 at the clear blue California sky,
 I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time
 instead of me.

~someone shared this poem with me today..i fell in love with it ~

The Power of Words

The power of words so beautifully illustrated in this video. How many times do we think before we say some thing. Talking is such a natural thing for most of us. But do we really think about how our words would touch someone? Good or bad - words once out of your mouth cannot be taken back. They just go away. Words that you write, they float away too.  Words are so powerful.

So choose wisely. :)

A different kind of meeting

I left work a bit early that day as I was not feeling too well. I took the company 2 pm shuttle that drops me off near the University Main Gate. It was terribly hot and I got down from the cab and walked to the University wall shielding myself from the blazing sun. There was no one near just cars, buses and bikes zooming away. I look around for an auto but a few that came my way didn't stop. I was wondering how much longer I would have to stand in that unbearable heat. A thought came to my mind - what would happen if I fainted here. I always have my address and contact numbers in the purse. I wondered if I should call my brother as his office is not too far from the University. But i didn't call him as I knew he was busy with some client meetings that day. 

I look around as I heard some noise coming from the University Gate corner. There was a Policeman there waving a stick and saying something. I look around me - there was no one. He was calling me??? For a moment , I felt terrible fear in my heart. Was this a wrong place to wait for an auto?? Wow..what else could i have done wrong? Why was he calling me? That's when all those questions were zooming in my head I realised I am as scared of the Police as I am of say a Thief! I looked at him again. He was still calling me and was walking towards me. I walked towards him and kept wondering what does he want?


When we came near each other, he said ,'Madam , you need an auto?' I was shocked for a moment as all my thoughts came crashing down. I stammered out a 'Yes'. He smiled and said, 'Stand here near me and I will get you an auto!'  I didn't know what to think. He looked around, another bunch of cars, buses and bikes zoomed by.....no auto. And then we saw two empty autos coming down that road. Immediately he pulled out his whistle and directed them to stop near us. Both the auto people looked out and asked where I wanted to go. This was super! I mean they never ask you decently, most just bark at you. I am sure the Policeman near me gave them a feeling that I was some big personality in that place or something...lol... Anyway, I got into one of the autos, thanked our Police man for his help and started off on my way home.

This is the first time in my life I have spoken with a Police man. In the corner of my mind I guess I think of them to be corrupt and ruthless. Most stories in media just reinforces these thoughts. You need to stay away from that bunch of people (police) - we need them in the society to deal with the criminals but they are also another kind of criminals!

Did this incident change how I feel about the Police? Yes it did, because it made me realise how biased my mind had become towards them unknowingly.  I think of myself as a person who thinks rationally and yet there are so many biases inside my head. One such bias came out and hit me in my face that day. Many thanks to you , dear Police Man at the University Gate, for making me look inside my mind and understand that not all human beings are the same. It is stupid to generalize and even worse to let irrationals fears grow inside you.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Four Agreement

the four agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz's code for life

agreement 1

Be impeccable with your word - Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

agreement 2

Don’t take anything personally - Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

agreement 3

Don’t make assumptions - Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

agreement 4

Always do your best - Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Thought of You

Thought of You - by Ryan Woodward

Beautiful animation, choreography and song! Check it out. :)

Zumba!

I am so fascinated by this exercise form at the moment! I think it is fun and good work out for the whole body. Have you taken Zumba classes? How was your experience?

History of Zumba:

The Original "Fitness-Party"
As a fitness instructor in his native Cali, Colombia, Alberto "Beto" Perez's  life took an unexpected turn one fateful day in the mid-‘90s when he darted off to teach an aerobics class and forgot his traditional aerobics music. He improvised using his own mix of music from tapes he had in his backpack (salsa and merengue music he grew up with). Spontaneously, he created a new kind of dance-fitness, one that focused on letting the music move you (instead of counting reps over the music). Energy electrified the room; people couldn’t stop smiling. His class loved it! And on that day, a revolutionary new fitness concept was born – the Zumba Fitness-Party™.