tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213734703189346382024-03-13T12:00:46.287+09:00Priyanka PrabhuPriyanka Prabhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14432833371074992316noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2021373470318934638.post-31745366270562795922010-06-05T12:21:00.004+09:002010-06-05T14:55:55.300+09:00PEEP INTO "MY KITCHEN"......................<style>
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HELLO FRIENDS !!!!</div><u1:p></u1:p> <br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>A heartfelt welcome to all my dear friends into “MY KITCHEN”…..:):)Its my immense pleasure to take you through “MY KITCHEN” and share my lovely and best experiences with u all .I wanted to start a cookery blog from a long time but never did that happen…. :( Now that my Engineering is over and I m free until November, so I thought let me start my cookery blog……..Cooking is one of my hobby and my area of interest. I am not a perfect cook like my mom though will try to post my best recipes here…….<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6cLW699mp6N1Y8hf3BZ4SDJdDGnuHbmfOjeZ0im5R-SS8lHeV7s-7VcV5zCNZ7tDSA1Z3NjIAeD1LbnexLMWaLdLeatnMpfGaHIwyqAnD2FsDKZKs-DjJCFp82DjkH8r4SbE6jRpM9y2E/s1600/ScreenShot012.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6cLW699mp6N1Y8hf3BZ4SDJdDGnuHbmfOjeZ0im5R-SS8lHeV7s-7VcV5zCNZ7tDSA1Z3NjIAeD1LbnexLMWaLdLeatnMpfGaHIwyqAnD2FsDKZKs-DjJCFp82DjkH8r4SbE6jRpM9y2E/s400/ScreenShot012.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><o:p></o:p></div><div style="line-height: 200%; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.blogforfoodies.blogspot.com/">READ MORE..............</a></div>Priyanka Prabhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14432833371074992316noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2021373470318934638.post-70666908026459323632010-01-15T00:29:00.017+09:002010-01-15T12:23:25.352+09:00LIVE YOUR DREAMS & WISHES TO THE FULLEST …..<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hello Friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Firstly, let me wish everyone a very happy Makara Sankranthi. I hope that this festival of joy and happiness fulfills all your dreams and wishes. This time I wanted to write something that is very close to my heart .What I am about to share with you is about the best thing that happened in the year 2009, even though I still have trouble believing it myself. To be frank, the year 2009 wasn’t a pleasant one to me; I had to go through a lot of failures and tough times. But there is something that I did the best which i wanted to share it with you all. It gives me lot of happiness to share it with all my friends.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Everybody on this planet has a dream, a wish, certain things and situations that they strongly desire to be fulfilled someday. But we always believe that dream is just a dream which is beyond our reach and we keep wondering about the fact how is it going to get fulfilled. We don’t even have a slightest clue of how we can bring those dreams, wishes and our desires into a reality????? So let me guess now, you're curious to know what I am about to say. OK, let me be specific I am going to share one of my deepest desires and dreams which is now a reality. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I still remember that whenever I used to go with my dad to Shree Venkatramana temple at Car Street during the occasion of Car Festival, he would always say <span style="color: green;"><i>“Priyanka, today is the an auspicious day ask your best friend whatever you need and desire in your life and you will see them turn out to be a reality in no time”</i></span>. As a child I never really understood the actual meaning of it .What more can a child desire other than to play with the toys it has been ever denied, to be presented with goodies and new clothes. But last year I wanted to ask my best friend something very special and important in my life.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last year on February 1st, I had asked my best friend three wishes and I had not told my parents about it anything, it was supposed to be between my friend and me. The three wishes did mean a lot to me. On that day I went early with my dad to temple to make those three wishes. My first wish had to be with regard to<span style="color: red;"><i> my academics </i></span>which mean a lot to my parents. My fifth semester exams weren’t that good enough; I had found it very difficult since it had been only theory subjects. I didn’t want to disappoint my parents with my marks who have done a lot of sacrifices for me, I had tried my best but still my exams weren’t that pleasing. So I asked my best friend to do some miracle and make my parents happy with my marks. I asked him to grant me distinction tag even though I had not performed well in my exams. This was my first wish and to my surprise a week later this wish turns out to be a reality I get 80% in my fifth semester. My parents were so happy; I can’t express their happiness in just words. But I told my mom how I got 80%, I told her that it wasn’t my effort entirely it was one of my first wish that’s a reality now. She was very eager to know my other two wishes but I didn’t tell her because it was supposed to be a secret between me and my friend until it’s turned out to be a reality.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">After my first wish was granted I was pretty confident that my other two wishes will be granted someday. I never doubted whether it will be a fulfilled or not, I was fully confident that it will surely be fulfilled. My second wish was with regard to <span style="color: red;"><i>my career life</i></span>, I asked my friend that I need to get into some good reputed company by the next car festival (i.e. on 22nd January 2010) which will make my parents very happy. Because it was a recession time then companies rarely visited campus and selected students; I was scared whether I will get through some good company, because there were so many good students who had not been placed because of recession period. But on 7th January this wish also turns out to be a reality, I am finally placed. This was a last wish which was granted and it took an entire year to be fulfilled. I must admit that I lacked patience to see this wish turn out to be a reality. But I am very happy now and I should thank everyone who morally supported me when I lacked patience.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">OK coming to my third wish which I thought was a weirdest one to ask my best friend. Last year on this day (i.e. 14th January 2009) I had been through a tough time. It was a starting point for all my problems that particular year. My third wish was with regard to this <span style="color: red;"><i>problem</i></span>. I told my friend everything about my problems. You all may know how abhimanyu in Mahabharata entered the chakravyuha very easily but didn’t know a way out of it. I was in the similar situation were I entered a chakravyuha of problems very easily but didn’t find a way out of it. I was terribly stuck I asked my best friend to show me some light and help me to break myself free from that trap. Finally about four months ago I was able to be out of my problem. I was not completely happy about this wish being granted at first. It took me some months to accept it. As the human tendency we all look back at our life to see what happened in our life. But today I am happy that it’s all over and my life has taken a different turn. The year passed out very fast it helped me grow up, mature in many things and see that life is not very easy as I pictured it to be when I was a child.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Every year it comes with a new challenge and it’s like God is saying to his dearest children: “You need to go through this, so you can became stronger, wiser and more confident than ever”. This year started with a big bang and it’s a new start in my life. I don’t care how big are my problems, how difficult is the way, there is always a hope.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The three wishes are finally a reality in my life, as always had a hope that it will be a reality someday. And finally, when almost all your dreams come true, you spend a lot of time with tears in your eyes. As many great people have said “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe”. Every person is given some power to make his wishes come true but the first and the foremost thing for him to do is to believe in his dreams and live his dreams and wishes to the fullest.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><i>As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make our wishes and dreams come true, we must think over and over and be positive that it will be a reality very soon</i></span>.We need to be a little patient and believe that it will be fulfilled. Live your dream and wishes come true. At the same time transform your life into one of love, happiness, joy and success.<br />
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</div>Priyanka Prabhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14432833371074992316noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2021373470318934638.post-715219584198406682009-11-21T22:08:00.010+09:002009-11-21T22:16:16.156+09:00THE DARKEST PHASE IN A FRIENDSHIP<div style="text-align: justify;">Hello Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s been around 20 days since I haven’t written any new article…… I am feeling very happy to write my new article. I wanted to write this article long time back but because of some reason or the other this article went on delaying...I love to share my feelings and thoughts to all my readers .In my last post “DAYS OF INNOCENCE………”, I spoke to you about my childhood days and now its time for me to write about a beautiful relationship called Friendship that values a lot in my life. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I strongly believe that Friendship is one of the most beautiful and lovely relationship existing in today’s world. It’s a very precious bonding developed between at least two people. But to be frank , if 7 years back I was ever asked a question like <b><i><span style="color: red;">“Is friendship a beautiful relationship existing between two people?”</span></i></b> My reply would be no at that very moment. Nearly 7 years back, I was a person who always thought that friendship has lost its true value….there can be no one called true friend in our life. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You all may be wondering what is this girl talking about, but that’s a fact “I always had negative view towards friendship”... After my schooling when I started studying my 11th standard I realized that I m wrong with my perspective about friendship and was happy to be wrong with my thinking. I met a very special friend in my 11th who made me feel and believe that friendship is very essential in our life. She told me the actual definition of friendship. From then on my view towards friendship changed entirely. Thanks a lot to that special friend of my life who made me to realize my mistake.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3011/2586769157_98b55efa65.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3011/2586769157_98b55efa65.jpg" width="320" /></a>Now if I was asked the above question my answer is yes because friendship is really a valuable relation existing in the world. According to me, Friendship is all about sharing each other’s opinions, thoughts, dreams, fears, aspirations and hopes. You don’t mind to engage your all time in conversations with your friends. In Friendship we always feel happy to cherish old memories of togetherness and create new memories everyday. We love to spend our time with friends and always want to share our happy moments with them. Friendship requires a lot of mutual understanding, love, care and respect for each other.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The word which inspires me most about friendship is that<i><span style="color: red;"> “Friendship should always be like milk and water, even when we try to mix them together they remain inseparable…..that’s a stronger bond between them”</span></i>. Most of us are very familiar with the famous phrase from a Doha by Kabirdas where he tells <i.><span style="color: red;">“jal bin machli”</span>; here he tries to explain that a fish can’t survive if ever separated from water. It’s so friendly with water that it can’t live without water. So he expects everyone to have a true friendship like a fish and water. I have always been very inspired by both the above examples.<br />
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I feel bad when I see people around me who once were inseparable and together always, have spilt very badly and moved on to different ways and leading their life separately, and I cant stop myself from wondering what could’ve happened so wrong between them that they can’t even stand each other’s face? A friendship always begins with ‘no sorry no thank you’ and then later reaches the ‘best friends forever’ stage. Can it end with such a bitter note? Building up relationships is very necessary for fulfilling and leading our life happily. But every relation will have some problem. Even close friendships at times will have problems every now and then.<br />
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The reasons for a split in a friendship might be many in number. But very often people always regret their past broken friendships when they look back at the pages of their life. People tend to lose their relationships because of petty differences and misunderstandings. People lose their close relations because of their silly baseless doubts and suspicions .As <i><span style="color: green;">Lord Buddha says “There can be nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills “</span></i>. It’s very bad to lose our dear ones due to pointless doubts and misunderstandings. It mainly happens due to lack of trust and miscommunications.</i.><br />
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The darker side in a close relationship is mainly caused due to misunderstanding, which is a common problem in close relationships. At times people misinterpret their close ones this happens primely due to lack of communication between friends generally when busy in each other’s life and have no time for each other may eventually lead to misunderstanding. We tend to be more selfish and think only about our selves. Misunderstanding will lead to misinterpretation of positive as negative. This problem can be solved by spending time with our friends and close ones trying to communicate with them. Firstly we should understand each other very well and ready to do any help to the other. Rather than regretting later in our life for losing them in our life its better that we take a few steps towards them and try solving our differences.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Trust and mutual respect is very important in any relationship, when we start to trust our close ones the problem of misunderstanding doesn’t come into picture. It can be avoided to a greater extent. Spending time with your close ones will make the bonds of your relation to grow stronger .as the sun can make an iceberg to melt similarly closeness in a friendship can make the misunderstandings and mistrust to gradually evaporate.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the end I would like to tell everyone that I took few years to realize how important friendship in our life and value associated with it, I used to regret about it but not anymore because I realized that our close ones remain in our heart and they are never lost ever since I have started to believe that “even the lost find their way home when you leave the light on”. So if you have any friend of yours with whom you’ve fought for some silly reason or have lost touch due to your busy schedules, then its time to give them a call or meet up. Friends are always friends…Every friendship goes through its good and bad phases at some point of time, but we should always remember that we can make a difference by not giving a chance for such misunderstandings and mistrust. It depends only upon us to bridge the gap with our close ones.<br />
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</div>Priyanka Prabhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14432833371074992316noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2021373470318934638.post-70588086972244019762009-11-01T16:12:00.000+09:002009-11-02T22:45:02.671+09:00DAYS OF INNOCENCE………………………..<div style="text-align: justify;">Hi all!!!!! Firstly I want to wholeheartedly thank all my blog readers and a special thanks to all my followers. Its only through your precious and valuable comments that have helped me a lot to improve my writing and encouraged me to write more new articles…..<i><span style="color: green;">Thank you everyone:):):)</span></i>.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Secondly I want to apologize for writing my new post so late….. Sorry friends for making you all wait. I am very sure that everyone will agree that, the most beautiful and amazing book ever is our life itself. It contains a lot of colorful pages of our life. Every incident that happened in our life is captured and gets entered in the pages of this book. Among them there are many pages which will make us laugh and at the same time some will make us cry. It really helps us to remember and cherish unforgettable memories of our life. Truly <b><i><span style="color: red;">Memories is a best way of holding onto the things that we love the most, the things we have done, the things which we always want to remember</span></i><span style="color: red;"></span></b><span style="color: red;">.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Among all the pages of our life’s book, the wonderful and unforgettable of all our memories is the days filled with innocence-our childhood days. It is the fun filled and happy phase of our life. <i><span style="color: green;">Childhood is one of the most beautiful of all life's seasons</span></i>. The memories of our childhood are the only memories that most of us to revisit and live it all over again.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The best life ever to experience is the life as a child. Honestly when we were a child everything looked so dreamily perfect. Everything was intact. We got everything that we asked and craved for. Parents were ready to do anything that we asked them to do. The world looked so beautiful to a child’s eye because the child is not aware of the reality, how is the world in real????? Everything that was told was easily believed. A child would think all the relations around is so real and perfect. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Childhood days were filled with happiness and joy. These days of Innocence made us feel that everything around us is new, a complete mystery to us.......so as a kid we loved to learn many new things and <i><span style="color: green;">everything around us appeared splendidly beautiful!!!....</span></i> what we remember from our childhood days is what we wish to remember forever.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I miss those days so much……….. The only things I had to worry as a child was to find a new place every time, to hide after doing some mischief so that I won’t be caught by anyone. I used to get very scared of darkness. I rarely used to go out of home in the darkness. The best pass time as a child was to trouble my sister (who is a year and half younger to me). Many a times my teachers at school would complain about me to my parents that your daughter is being naughty day by day. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In spite of all these complaints by my teachers I was the favorite student of the headmistress of our school. She loved me a lot. She used to never complain about me to anyone. The day she got retired was one of my saddest days of my childhood. I still remember that day, I was in the first standard or so she told me to come and sit on her lap and she gave me a bag full of chocolates. She was the best headmistress ever I met in my school. Every student used to get scared of her because she was very strict and highly disciplined. Even to this day if we meet we talk about it. I really miss those happy days of my life.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">When we were children we were completely naive to believe the world around us and we found it so magnificent</span></i></b>. When we are a child our brain was more active and we were interested to many things. That’s the reason we find children always amazed with things around them, and trying out many different new things. There’s a kid in my neighborhood her name is Panchami. She is just 2 year old, very active and smart ready to try out new things which interests her. She is very sweet and has a sharp memory, she remembers everything in detail. You name a song to her and she is ever ready to recite that song to you with the very good melody. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Once when she had been to my home I had shown her a airplane flying in the far-off sky, to this day whenever I meet her the first thing she enacts looking at me is the way the airplane flies. She is very cute and very innocent. At times I do slightly envy her, when I see her running in their garden carefree, tension less behind the tiny butterflies. The smile of a child makes you forget all your sadness and worries in an instant. I have surely learnt a lot of things from her.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The innocence that we had when we were a child starts to fade as we start facing the hardships of life and become more familiar to the real world around us. We start realizing the harsh realities of the life. When we reach a stage of saturation where in we start feeling that we are lonely and sad but we want to ignore the bad memories and our sadness, the best way to come out of all this is cherish the memories of our childhood days. <br />
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Hello friends!!!!!! Firstly, let me wish everyone a very happy and a safe diwali. Hope this festival of light, lights up everyone’s life with happiness and joy. This time I have chosen a very interesting topic for my blog…..Any guesses?????? Ok let me just give you all a hint what is it all about. It’s a<i><span style="color: red;">very important and an essential quality in our life</span></i>. Haven’t guessed it yet!!!! Its ok friends let me tell you all what is it exactly…..<b><i><span style="color: green;">The very important essence in one’s life is TRUST:)</span></i></b>.Isn’t it true friends????? I’m very sure that everyone will agree with me that its 100% true.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Along with many other aspects of our life, building a strong foundation of trust is very important. First and the foremost thing is that we need to trust ourselves .Without trusting ourselves the question that will arise is how can we trust anybody or how can anyone trust us?????When we try to build the trust factor within us, we truly represent ourselves well in front of others. And also we develop self confidence which is also very important aspect in our life.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A person who always fears and feels insecure will obviously find it difficult to trust himself as well as others. It’s understandable if he is afraid of strangers, wicked, selfish and cruel people around him. But if he is not able to trust his own family and friends, he will be left alone. <i><span style="color: red;">Distrust will always lead to endless worries, unhappiness and tensions in life</span></i>. Individuals who don't trust themselves and others create a lot of unhappiness around them. It will make their life miserable and worrisome.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In simple terms, we can tell trust is something which helps us to maintain comfort level without feeling unease when we are surrounded by people. It also means that we let others know about our inner feelings, emotions and we having confidence in them and respect for them. We tend to share all our inner thoughts with others with the belief that they will keep that secret to themselves and not spread them around. We also tend to place confidence in others so that they will be support us, we don’t even mind to let them know about our weaknesses. It’s basically the trust on them that lets us do all this. Trust is the factor, which lets us have a belief that we can find them around us when we will need them.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How will we feel if no one trusts us??????? If people stand at a distance when we talk to them, we surely will feel bad. If I am in that situation I seriously get irritated. Trust is very very important in my life. I was a person who would trust anyone at any time but certain things made me feel that it’s wrong. My close friends told me that its foolishness, they said to me that never give your blind trust to anyone .Think many number of times before trusting anyone blindly.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The important thing that I learnt from my past mistakes and my true friends that<i><span style="color: blue;"> If you're naive enough to trust anyone you meet in the street, you're bound to get yourself into trouble</span></i>. But that doesn’t mean that we should not believe and trust anyone, in fact we should be very careful enough while trusting people around us. The best thing to do is let our common sense guide us through our life. We should learn to when to keep people at a distance and when it's safe to believe and trust them. The prime thing is we should learn to meet life with trust.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lack of trust always will lead to suspicion, suspicion will in turn generate anger, Anger will cause enmity to arouse and enmity will finally result in separation. Nowadays, this is the sole reason for the failure in most of the relationships. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When we have trust on our self and others, we can act as we want and as we wish. We can continue living our life peacefully because we will be surrounded by those who know you very well and trust you. We feel safer when we are surrounded by trustworthy people and focus our time and energy on living our life to the fullest. Enjoy every moment of our life with them. We can share our innermost desires and pains with the people whom we trust. To a greater extent, it helps us achieving our dreams. It also ease the pain that seemed so unbearable when were all alone.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In life, we will always get second chances. The only thing that should be remembered is that we should be open for it….At times when we think hard we will find that many of us find it very difficult to understand and learn simple things in life. <b><i><span style="color: green;">Why we find these simple stuffs difficult to follow? </span></i></b>The answer to this is merely very simple. The simple things which we find it hard to understand should be made enjoyable. What ever we do we need to enjoy the feel of doing it. When we enjoy the simple things that we make in our life it’s truly rewarding, the happiness that we get can’t be measured by any means.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Everyone, in this world are busy in their everyday life. They rarely get time to spend time with their dear ones. They all have very well learnt how to strive in this competing world. They have learnt all the tactics to compete, to win, to live their life .But having learnt all these tactics they have forgotten the simple things of life. They have lost the beauty of understanding the simple things of life. Many of them have forgotten how to smile, to enjoy the smell of fresh mud, the sound of chirping birds, the roar of water waves at oceans.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">People have become so busy with setting up their career and striving for success in life. They have forgotten their family and their dear ones. Many do regret later in their life that they have lost most precious moments of their life. If asked any top business tycoons of the world, they will surely regret that they have never been able to give time to their near and dear ones. They also regret that they were so busy in their business that they have missed to see the smiles of their children. If they were granted the second chance in their life they would surely want to enjoy these precious moments of their life.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many a times life will offer us second chance ….but are we aware of it?????No, most of us won’t be aware of it. It’s very difficult to tame our mind and control it as per our wish. One thing that we can certainly predict about our mind is that it is absolutely uncertain. It is a madhouse. Most of the time, our mind will be filled with random, unconnected and meaningless thoughts. Always there remains a constant chattering noise of our worries in our mind’s background. Life is very unpredictable at times and we truly have a little control over our life and mind. We should learn to curb our desires and expectations from life. This will 100% help to avoid major disappointment and unhappiness in our life.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We should learn to approach our thoughts and decisions positively in life. We should be grateful for the small happiness and simple pleasures in our life. The key source to success and happiness is what we do and act when life seems to blind side us. During that period of time, the action taken by us matters a lot. Great people have always said<b><i><span>”Use your past as a positive stepping stone, rather than an obstacle”</span></i></b>. Recently, I realized the truth in this statement when I was given second chance in my life. It was very hard for me to realize the second chance given by life to me. It was the sole support given by my parents and close friends that I was made to realize this fact. Thanks to them that I learnt a very important lesson in my life i.e. always remember the event occurred in your past and handle it with hope and courage. Never be disheartened and lose hope in your life.<br />
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We should Tune our current situation and also should move on from those old mistakes of our life. It’s not wise to repeat them again in our life. It’s misusing of the second chance given by life. Our mind may loiter with thoughts from past to present and present to past. We should come over all these and try to remind our self to let go of the past mistakes and focus on what’s currently going on. We should try to make a new start of living in the world of faith and optimism. We should expect that life will give us what we need and give when we need it. This is a long way process, we should be very patient and wait for best things in our life.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In fact, in Hindu mythology the word “second chance” is equivalent to <i><span style="color: green;">reincarnation</span></i>. Every life is a chance given to us, but chance for what????The choice of utilizing this chance is solely in our hands. It’s true that we really can’t control our life .But we should decide whether we want to utilize this second chance for our betterment and be our on best friend or just let go off that chance and be our own worst enemy.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is perhaps very true that we always get second chance in our life. The question is: do we have that courage, willingness and patience to accept this second chance. We should be able to make different choice the second time and there should be no regrets in our life. We should open our heart wide and accept the opportunity .The opportunity given is just like a blessing in disguise and we should make fruitful use of this opportunity.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Second chances allow people to make those vital corrections and also allow people to make the same mistakes, thus making the impact of those mistakes even harder. If we had not don’t that mistake in our life we would never have learnt the impact of our mistake and moved ahead in our life. We would have been stuck with our mistake and remain stagnant in our life. We would never have known the bright side of our life. The power lies with us to make a difference in our life and move ahead in our life. It’s incomplete with the support and encouragement of our near and dear ones.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thank God we all don’t get what we expect in our life. At times expecting a lot doesn’t seem to work out. Instead, God grants us with second chances. We all get his grace and he helps us to shape our future in a better way than we thought previously. Seriously the second chance in our life is god’s blessing in disguise. <br />
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The most precious thing in our life is Time. Everyone is familiar with a famous adage which states,<b><i><span style="color: red;"> "Time and tide wait for none."</span></i></b> If we fail to make the proper / wise use of time, later on for the rest of our life we will surely regret for wasting time. If a question is posed say” <i><span style="color: red;">Will we get back this time again in our life? </span></i>The answer would be: No, this passed time will never come back in our life. Once time is gone, it will never return . Whether everyone agree with me or not I feel that what we are today is basically because of our actions taken in the past and the actions that we will be taking today will help to change our life and our future. The actions taken by us to should be correct and wise enough. Therefore right from today we should act towards our life’s goals; otherwise the time which we would waste will never come back to us.<br />
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</div>If i was asked to choose between money and time. My choice would obviously be time. I feel time is more powerful than money in this world. Time is priceless and it never waits for anyone .The value of time is undoubtedly incredible. It is something that we cannot regain once it slips fro our hands. But it is impossible to get back that point of time that has slipped away from our hand. Therefore, one must be very careful about spending it. Whereas Money is something which most people crave in their life. They never get satisfied with the money they have, they long for more money in their life. The more money you get or earn, the more money you want. If we lose money we can gain it back, we can earn hard to get more money. The money is usually used to buy goods and other essential commodities of our life; it’s not everything because it can’t buy time. But once we lose time we will lose it forever. To state few examples about the importance of time are as follows: if a student doesn’t seem to care about his study time properly may fail in his exams, if a Patient not given medication on time may die due to his illness. How important even a single second is can be known from a person who has lost time. No person can defeat time.<br />
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</div>We hear most of them complaining (including me) saying that<b><i><span style="color: green;"> “I don’t have time” / “we don’t get enough time” / “where’s time to do all this!” / “how can we manage so many things at once” so on</span></i></b>. Everyone gets only 24 hrs in a day; no one will ever get a single second more than 24 hrs .Every morning we get precious 24 hrs of day with us. It’s up to us how we decide to utilize it. We need to prioritize by our self deciding what we want to do, to utilize this precious time. To take the maximum benefit of our time firstly we should organize our self very well or else we will regret later after some one takes away our precious time. Now the question lies is “How to manage time very well?”The answer to this question is not same for every person. It differs from person to person. It’s mainly because what is important for me may not be same for the other person. It’s very important that we assign priorities and then utilize the time very wisely. It’s important to understand our priority and our goals set in our life. No one can change our life unless we have an inner desire to bring changes in our life. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes many of us lack the ability to concentrate. If we think of the times when many of us get "lost" in something that we enjoy the most like: a sport, playing music, watching a movie. We give 100% Total concentration. When the topic of studying comes to picture most of us lack that 100% of our concentration. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many of us complain saying <b><i><span style="color: green;">“we are not able to concentrate or focus”</span></i></b>. Few reasons for making such a statement is: Firstly, the students may find study material boring if filled only with textual passages with no pictures or animations in them. If I m not wrong many will agree with me that these kinds of study materials make students feel very sleepy and lose their concentration. A simple solution to this problem would be to just modify the boring study material into something interesting that will fascinate everyone who will go through it. We should <i><span style="color: green;">convert the entire textual passages into a picture so that it will be easy to understand, remember and also no need of going through entire textual passages</span></i>. Just a glance on that picture will enable us to remember the whole study material. The other important reasons for lack of concentration has to be disturbing thoughts or worries in one’s mind .The worries which distracts us the most i.e. the outside distractions which takes us away before we know about it.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Humans mind is like a wild monkey which is not stable many a times. It gets very easily distracted to outer disturbances if not controlled. There are basically two kinds of concentration the <b><i><span style="color: red;">wrong concentration</span></i></b> and a<b><i><span style="color: red;"> right concentration </span></i></b>. Wrong concentration is a concentration of an uncontrolled mind. We all know very well that human needs and his wish list is unlimited and at times very selfish and mean. Concentration developed in the minds of such a human is termed as wrong concentration. This type of concentration is always accompanied by ill-will or hatred for others. If we do something good without any selfishness or without thinking ill-will of others, the concentration in doing that task is termed to be the right concentration. It accompanies a wholesome mind or wholesome mental states.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lord Buddha told once to his disciple that<b><i><span style="color: green;"> “Monks develop concentration A person whose Mind is concentrated understands things as they are”</span></i></b>. He actually meant that by practicing meditation we develop concentration. Wholeheartedly I agree to this statement its only through meditation we can achieve 100% of our concentration. When our mind is concentrated we can actually focus, penetrate and see the real understanding of nature of things around us. This means that it’s through meditation we are able to get total concentration and get the real knowledge.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To illustrate the above mentioned point, we shall consider a glass full of muddy water with small particles in it. We wont be able differentiate between the tiny mud stones and small particles. We only visualize it as a glass filled with muddy water. But when these mud stones and small particles gets settled down to the bottom of glass the water turns out to be clear and we can see any tiny particles put in this clear water through glass. Similarly when our mind is concentrated, all our mental disturbances are subdued or they settle down. When all these mental disturbances settle down, our mind becomes very clear and this mind is said to gain concentration. With the total concentration we see through the real nature of things happening. While practicing Meditation, Concentration is a very important without having true concentration we can’t understand the real nature of things. Understanding the real nature of things truly are means seeing things clearly and knowing what they are and what are their features and so on.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meditation is a best practice to get right concentration. Other than Meditation there are a few techniques which students can follow to attain concentration .I personally do follow these techniques they are very simple to be followed. While studying, one should firstly search a silent place and fix this very place for him to study daily. Avoid using mobiles and any external disturbances and distractions. Make a study timetable, fix some goals and follow them efficiently. Before we begin to study, take a few minutes to summarize what was studied on previous day. During my schooling I had attended a talk delivered by Mr. Amir Hassan. I still remember his words, it keeps echoing in my mind every time. He said it’s very important for a student to follow 3 R’s .<b><i><span style="color: red;">The 3 R’s are Read, Revise, and Recall</span></i></b>. He said that its doesn’t count how many times a student reads through the same topic ,the ultimate factor that counts is how well a student can recall what he has studied. He advised every student to recall what they studied on that day, every point that they had studied should be recalled before going to bed. The words told by him were so true .It really helps a lot to develop the right concentration among students.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Right Concentration is an important factor. When that concentration becomes very strong enough we will be able to can see the real nature of things. Perceive the real knowledge and peace in our minds. Our life will be filled with content and happiness.<br />
</div>Priyanka Prabhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14432833371074992316noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2021373470318934638.post-63055598788299090482009-09-30T16:24:00.002+09:002009-10-03T19:35:35.673+09:00THE BEST FRIEND IN OUR LIFE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdu35G0nNYDhp5uLkcLZiVHH8cyqWMGZB744wJNqrxud_nc93xOMncab0uXvz9zvhSSHMRuNGaFfSANLVmeqKU1VI1qAGACLtHTt1ifCa9NoGh3ANrFoxERx4b98GIAOCNe2BWUoChssZM/s1600-h/Picture1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Friend is life’s amazing blessing; a priceless gift that can never be bought, sold or forgotten in our lifetime. Every individual will have a best friend (sakhaa) in their life. If I was ever asked<b><i><span style="color: red;"> “who is my best friend?”</span></i></b> Instantly I would answer to their question saying<i><span style="color: green;"> “GOD is my best friend”</span></i>. If asked why so???? My answer to them would be because <b><i><span style="color: green;">“GOD is a true friend in everyone’s life, who is always with us, within us, around us”</span></i></b>. GOD is our true friend. All worldly pleasures and comforts are like passing clouds when he is with us. If we have GOD with us, we will have everything including happiness and peace of mind. We should always make an effort to pray and thank GOD for what he has given us in our lives at least few minutes in a day.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The government or any organization for that matter will have various departments like production, servicing, finance, manufacturing etc. Every department will have its own leader or chief who will take care of well functioning of his department. If we take the entire world as one single organization with different countries as various departments in it. The chief of this organization undoubtedly is GOD who has a control over every department. We should always remember, GOD is our true guardian our true mentor, when we are helpless, when we need him, when we sleep, even when we ignore and forget to thank him. He never forgets us. He is a sakhaa who does not require any kind of offering. He is always been helpful, merciful, blissful, full of content and ever free to guide and help us. Doing our duty is prime offering given by us to him.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In today’s world there are many people who claim themselves as our best friends but in reality they attach themselves to us only for some advantage or their selfish purpose, which we won’t be aware of. They try to can gain advantage of our kindness. When they realize that we are no longer helpful to them they show their true color and bid good-bye to us. Only GOD is our true friend who will rush toward his devotee/child faster than his own devotee/child rush towards HIM. If we take one step towards Him, He will take a thousand steps towards his children’s! Since he can’t be present everywhere at same time and take care of his dear children, he created most beautiful persons in our life “PARENTS”, who constantly take care of us, love us and guide us in every moment of life.Satya Sai Baba in his inimitable style says <b><i><span style="color: red;">“Parents are given that name because it is through them that we have wonderful chance of life on this earth. For the sacrifices that they have made for us we must PAY RENTS to them”</span></i></b>. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The world itself is a very vast Gurukul (place where teacher and student both learn and grow together) i.e. very great mentor and teacher of our life. We are students of this Gurukul from our birth to death. That’s why we are surrounded by the world which gives us a new experience every day. We can learn our lesson from animals, birds, other people; only thing is that we should will and have thirst to learn more from our life.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Faith in our best friend, GOD is the secure foundation on which our hope has to be built. The faith has to be stable and strong and not filled with any doubts. Thinking every time whether god will help me out or no? Most of us remember GOD only when we are in trouble, when we find no way out of that trouble, finally when our ends are at fire. We look only at one side and see all the disconnected and loose ends of our life, ignore to try out other options and say, 'What a mess my life is!’, whereas God sees on the other side and sighs, 'How beautiful you have become!’. Every incident that takes place in our life will bring some change in us. We should always have trust and faith in our best friend that he will come to our rescue one day. It should to be very clear and without any doubts in our mind.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The most famous adage in Sanskrit which says <b><i><span style="color: green;">“KARTHAVAYAM DAIVAMANIKYAM” </span></i></b>is so true. It means that doing our Karma (work /responsibility) assigned to us should be done and there should be no turning back. Each will have his allotted task it should be done deep from our heart. We should welcome both pain and grief; so that we get both success and failure as hammer-strokes to shape us into very good human beings filled with inner contentment ”Paramanada” which is very very important than the outer success and prosperity.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Only one GOD is present in everyone that should be a feeling within every individual with no differences in our mind. Our mind is like a wild monkey which is not very stable many a times. We should never follow our mind. We should always believe and follow our conscience. It’s only our conscience and confidence within us, which truly directs us towards the goals in our life.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Everyone on this world have equal right at GOD’s home irrespective of any differences. He gives us what we deserve in our life .We should never desire for anything. He surely knows what we deserve and gives us during the right time of our life, when it is truly deserved by us. To know divine we should develop pure divine thoughts. Everyone try to seek joy in far off places and peace in silent and quiet spots; but the spring of joy is in our own hearts. The heaven of peace is within us. GOD is present everywhere in everything around us. We should adore everyone as we adore our GOD. We should have a feeling that everyone is one. We should strengthen this real truth. The one who want to seek and know God from close proximity must steel themselves to bear insult, injury and torture, with a smile.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I would say everyone to welcome god as our best friend from our true heart. I would definitely say all to<b><i><span style="color: red;"> "Follow the Master"</span></i></b>. By 'Master' I mean the Conscience within us, the Voice of God. This will surely lead us to the fulfillment of goals in our life, which would finally help us to be successful both from within as well as in our life. It will make us the best individuals. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The world will be so beautiful place to live, filled with good and best people all around. I am very sure that everyone is very eagerly waiting for that particular time when we will be able to find so many good people around us. Seriously our world is going to be so beautiful!! And a safe place to live wherein we will be able to experience the true happiness and peace of mind.<br />
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