Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got". -
Garth Brooks

Taking life as it comes:
All these days I was bieng 'told' or should I say 'preached' by people to 'take' life as it comes. Yesterday I met a person who was doing it. He was taking life as it has come, heartfully. He is a cook by profession and I met him in my aunt's place. This guy was so lively and bubbling with activity and so quick in his work. His involvement in his work is unexplainable. He was serving everyone, taking everyone's glasses and plates, offering coffee and drinks to everone at his/her place, I mean I was just wonderstruck. The best part is he was there only as a 'cook'. He could have just cooked delicious food and kept quiet. Thats his job but I was amazed at his involvement in serving, cleaning up, keeping the place neat and tidy as if it is his own house. At least I would never do such a kind of a job and I have not seen anyone doing it so heartfully. Even though his job does not call for him to be so good he is. He never scolds at anyone always has a smile on his face and keeps people entertained by his humour. 'Delicious' would be an understatement in describing the food he had cooked.
I just asked him how can he do such a monotonous job so happily. He gave a very modest reply that thats what he has to do to earn a living. I felt so ashamed of myself at that instant. Even I do a job for the sake of a living but not like him. I saw in him, a living example of a man who has taken life as it has come to him, heartfully. He is no less than a yogi. I hope one day I can overcome the limitations I have set upon myself ..I cant do this , I cant do that, Why should I do this, that.

Monotonous Entertainment:
"Some days I could'nt get up could''nt get down
Bored of Everything ....
Somehow the little black cloud rained over me ....... " - These days

Am listening to this song from the past half an hour continuously and will keep listening to it. I dont think I will ever get bored of the song. Can I call this 'monotonous entertainment' ????. If only all monotonous activities in life were this entertaining . A few more additions to the M.E list ....

High Hopes - Pink Floyd
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Hindu Times - Oasis
Dont Break My heart - UB40
Sagar jaise Aankhon wali - Kishore Kumar

Yes... I have restarted the blog with a new look and hopefully a better one :).
Sometimes I sit and ponder, y does my mind get refreshed with the memories of past ?? be it some of the happiest moments or some of the most sorrowful moments. Whenever the mind is idle it immediately delves into the past ( sometimes the mind starts thinking about the future ). The mind 'is' not in the present. Is this an intricate quality of the mind ??? I have been trying to understand this phenomenon and have not succeeded. Even now am thinking about it. It is said that mind needs to be controlled in order to keep it in the present. Meditation is considered as one of the best means of achieving this control over mind. Some learned men and women have also advocated 'freedom of mind' wherein u let go of the mind. Here comes duality and conflict. Which of these is the correct means? Should one be a slave of his/her mind or should the mind be the slave ??? well in the latter case ... what shall be the mind slave to ? Is it ones 'intellect' ? sm still pondering .........