Why it is important to develop an attitude of gratitude

My personal experience is that how much ever we do for others, they will always find something amiss. People find reasons and shortcomings in whatever others do. I sitting at my computer; there are sounds falling on my ears. A close relative is cribbing and finding fault in something around. I am surprised and slightly hurt, because I always thought this person is not capable of cribbing. We all keep hearing such things around us all the time...at home...at work...in the train...in the bus.....

Parents get upset with children
Children find excuses to crib about their parents
Husbands find reasons to wish they had married someone else
And wives are always working to mend their husbands ways!!!
Bosses are unhappy with subordinates and
Subordinates keep changing jobs to find better bosses!
Houses are not good
Cities are bad and polluted
The government is bad and so are ministers....it is a non ending vicious cycle of cribbing!!!!

Human nature has undergone such a drastic transformation. We have become constant cribbers. While the fact remains that form morning to night, day after day, year after year....we are all working for our families! Families make the society and all the good or the bad we do is going back to the society. The what are we cribbing about...

Parents have no time for children
Children miss out on parental love
Husbands are busy increasing bank balances
Wives are busy blowing away the money
Bosses want quick results
Subordinates want quick growth
There is no time to spend at home
We litter our cities and spread pollution
Educated people do not vote and bad governments are brought to power by the illiterate....so whom are we blaming?

We are all 'giving' and we are all 'receiving' from morning to night.....day after day...week after week...year after year of our lives.....why cribbing? Why not express our gratitude to everyone who is working to sustain our life in his world?

If only ......

Parents praise their children more often and encourage them
Children are more grateful to their parents for giving them life and living
Husbands thank their wives for feeding them and taking care of their overall well being and loving
Wives start praising their husbands more often and thanking them for all that they do for the family
Bosses praise their subordinates and encourage and motivate them to do better
Subordinates respect their bosses and try to learn from them
Houses are treated as homes where the heart is
Cities are treated as our own home and kept clean and green.
The government is appreciated because it is trying to do its best....
Well the corrupt minister's must be however be sacked!!!

If only we all develop and attitude of gratitude...life will be so much lighter and brighter

Is India a soft target for terrorism? Why only India?

They say behind every action of a human being, there has to be a motive. Good or bad; there is always a desire for something in return. Understanding the motive explains the action. It is the motive that labels the action as good or bad.

Recently there were a series of Blasts in the Pink city, Jaipur. A lovely, serene and colorful evening was turned into hapless mass of flesh and blood. So meaningless. A shame onto religions and so called civilized societies. Every Indian today has many questions. To which there are no answers:

• Who are the people behind this act of terrorism?
  
• What is their motive?
  
• Why are they targeting the Indian cities?
  
• Is India emerging as the the new terrorism brain-center in the world?
  
• Are they so strong that all Intelligence agencies have failed to nail them down?
  
• Why has terrorism become so easy in India in the past decade? When our own defense spend has only gone up?
  
• My ultimate question is why India??????

I believe terrorism without a dialog is so meaningless. Killing innocent people without establishing a cause for it is nothing but fanaticism. Why don't these people who call themselves the freedom fighters come out in the open and emphatically establish their demands? In the first place who are they to make any demand of this nation?

While it may sound clichéd, no religion preaches killing innocent people. I strongly condemn this act of terrorism in India and across the World. Let us come out in the open and strongly stand against this act of cowardice.

My message to these nameless, faceless people who call themselves the freedom fighters .....Brave people fight hard and they fight fair. Using religion as a smoke screen to kill innocent people is not brave. Let not your actions bringing shame and criticism to you religion and community. Please, let not the World hate Islam and the Muslims because of your actions. It is not glory...but gory!!!!!

Whose thought is it anyways?

Thoughts are like colorful Kites flying in the clear blue skies.

Some of them are interesting, colorful, vibrant, soaring. They challenge me, fill me with an energy. I want to fly them higher and higher. Take them to a level where no one has reached before. These thoughts elevate me as a human being. They take me to greater and new dimensions of existence.

Others are dull and boring. They fail to take off. I am not excited about them. Don't feel like putting an effort to catch them. Leave them alone....gradually they disappear in the far away horizon, never to be found again.